Yes. With a GPS locator and a "homing" mode, if they get blown out of the area and can't be controlled by the remote. At a preset time, they go "home".
Imagine the tabloids getting ahold of these things. Already stars have people climbing fences and using telephoto lenses.
Now, just pop a drone in the air and overfly the target. How about flying up to the window of a high rise building?
Add a microphone, instead of video camera, for a twist.
Once they get these babies to HOVER, they will be fantastic. Not that they aren't now.
Imagine automatically dispatching a micro drone to check out a disturbance/noise from the safety of security central? Your camera can't see behind the tree? Fly around it.
Add a little radar and do some 3D terrain mapping...
How would this increase the complexity of the Linux installer? My current system uses an LS-120 drive, USB keyboard, mouse, all-in-one (printer/scanner/fax) and webcam. No serial, floppy, parallel necessary at all. It installed (Red Hat 7.3 then later Gentoo 1.2a) fine.
As for an emergency backup modem, get a USB one. Most printers and scanners today are USB/Parallel if not USB only. Check out a CompUSA or Best Buy -- 10 scanners and 9 of them are USB only.
By the time this type of system is phased in, your old printer will most likely be dead anyway.
I'm not saying make legacy-free MANDATORY, just sell me a motherboard without all the crap if I want one.
In all honesty, if on a second and third look the scientists all determined it was about 1:1 odds of hitting the Earth in 2017 (or whatever) do you REALLY think they would tell everyone?
Imagine the headlines after all of that "we are looking further...preliminary estimates...yada yada".
Scientist: After further study we have determined that it is a near certainty that the Northern Hemisphere will be vaporized in 2019.
Walk into a CompUSA or something and purchase StarOffice. Basically a branded, marketed version of OpenOffice.
Sun, who sells StarOffice, helps support OpenOffice -- so your purchase would assist. Star Office also comes with some licensed fonts, Sun tech support and a few other goodies.
I'll suggest that WalMart has a wall full of PC software that isn't going to run on the box, and that will confuse the average Walmart customer/associate.
Walmart usually carries ONE Linux title -- Linux (Mandrake or RedHat), no applications. Same basic problem with CompUSA.
YES, Wine will handle much of the software, and the GAMING version of Mandrake might soften things, but they are still going to have problems.
More power to them. I hope they can make it work, and start carrying Linux software.
The author of the article complained that the majority of the systems reported results by IP and not domain name.
This statement alone gives me reason to doubt their abilities. Combine this large amounts of traffic they have with a reverse-DNS lookup for each and you would have crippled your DNS servers.
This is configurable in Snort, and mentioned in detail in the Snort docs.
A good solution is to either dedicate a DNS server to the IDS box, or use a script/utility to do reverse-lookups on the items you are interested in. Not live, but when a human is looking at things.
They are right about one regard -- IDS configuration, monitoring and maintenance isn't for non-professionals. You *need* to know what you are doing.
I wonder exactly how "export" is defined. If it means "sell/give to any other individual/corporation/company" that is one thing -- specifically that US military can still place them where they want. Or does it mean they won't be used outside U.S. borders? I have a feeling it is the former.
I also wonder about how many mines the U.S. has stockpiled. Sort of like the Taliban, when they said they would stop the cultivation of poppies for opium. They did, but they kept the warehouses full to the rafters with what would have been a multi-year supply. The U.S. could have enough mines to cover Texas, making a 6-year stop in production meaningless.
Finally, I think the ban treaty also had a clean up clause -- the the U.S. has NO interest in cleaning up the Korean DMZ right now.
Alaska wouldn't work. Desolate it is, but the waste would have to be either shipped thru Canada or to the coast (California, Washington, Oregon) then on a barge -- thru either Canadian or International waters.
NEVER happen. You think it is political NOW, try dealing with foreign nations.
They advertise a 3 ms ping time to London, so latency should be quite a bit better, now. I believe somewhere I read about a sat link for backup.
The courts of England once ruled that Sealand was out of their jurisdiction for a potential criminal case. Weapons violation, I think. It should make things interesting in the future.
WinZIP can handle.gz files, and I think PKZIP can as well.
As far as.ps goes, if you have a PostScript printer then dump it straight to that. If not, Adobe Acrobat (full version, not the reader) has a utility that convers.ps to.pdf.
Last I checked, PostgreSQL didn't support raw partitions which can be a critical sticking point. Other than that, it compares very favorably to Sybase ASE, which is what I am familiar with.
Hancom is based in Korea and has what is supposed to be an excellent office suite that does Korean, Japanese, Chinese (simplified & traditional) and Arabic. The also sell Hancom Linux, which is Red Hat 7.1 w/KDE all configed to one of the above languages.
They are also into Zarus PDA software and at one time were discussing partnership with The Kompany.
Check out http://www.hancom.com/ for more details. You might also want to check out TurboLinux, which is supposed to be big in Asia-Pacific.
The idea is that there will be centrally located Simputers, like kiosks or at markets. Individuals plug in personal storage cards and use the public system -- taking their storage with them when they leave.
Storage cards and lots cheaper than the unit.
Sort of like library computers and solid-state floppy disks for users.
And for the fool who is getting ready to scream about viruses -- the Simputer is flash based, so you power it off/on and it resets to a virgin (non-virus) state before inserting a card.
Funny, I just walk in to any urgent care clinic and show them my insurance card. Paperwork was filled out ONCE, the first time I went there. After that, just show them the card.
Same for any appointments with my preferred doc, or any specialist referred to. All specialists bill thru the referring physician -- who has all the info. No excess paperwork, no problems.
Just public schools. Don't like it? Send your kids to private schools.
The Supreme Court just today upheld Ohio's voucher program, even though 95%+ of the schools that accepted them were religious based. Already a California State Rep has announced his intention to introduce a voucher bill similar to Ohio's -- one that has already passed Consitutional muster. Expect more to follow.
To all those wondering how auction sellers qualify as employees -- a quick "find text" in the article doesn't turn up any form of the word "employ".
This is simply a group policy, like those you can get thru the National Association of the Self-Employed, or dozens of other small-business and "group" organizations.
All you need for group discounts is a large group -- they don't have to be co-workers. E-Bay isn't contributing to the funds.
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Yes. With a GPS locator and a "homing" mode, if they get blown out of the area and can't be controlled by the remote. At a preset time, they go "home".
Imagine the tabloids getting ahold of these things. Already stars have people climbing fences and using telephoto lenses.
Now, just pop a drone in the air and overfly the target. How about flying up to the window of a high rise building?
Add a microphone, instead of video camera, for a twist.
Once they get these babies to HOVER, they will be fantastic. Not that they aren't now.
Imagine automatically dispatching a micro drone to check out a disturbance/noise from the safety of security central? Your camera can't see behind the tree? Fly around it.
Add a little radar and do some 3D terrain mapping...
ad infinitum
Actually, they also have PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse. Still, it is a good start.
I know, and prior to the they were all ADB. NeXT was the first major to try and get rid of the floppy, with their "floptical" drive way back when.
I recommend Macs to people who do video or just want a simple "plug and surf/email" box.
I do NOT like being locked to one vendor (Apple) for hardware.
How would this increase the complexity of the Linux installer? My current system uses an LS-120 drive, USB keyboard, mouse, all-in-one (printer/scanner/fax) and webcam. No serial, floppy, parallel necessary at all. It installed (Red Hat 7.3 then later Gentoo 1.2a) fine.
As for an emergency backup modem, get a USB one. Most printers and scanners today are USB/Parallel if not USB only. Check out a CompUSA or Best Buy -- 10 scanners and 9 of them are USB only.
By the time this type of system is phased in, your old printer will most likely be dead anyway.
I'm not saying make legacy-free MANDATORY, just sell me a motherboard without all the crap if I want one.
I'd like to see the serial port, parallel port, PS/2 mouse & keyboard port all go away.
Firewire and USB can replace that and more. IDE and SCSI could also go away and be replaced by a Firewire or USB 2.0 bus.
Worst comes to worst, use and adaptor for the USB port to make that must-have serial/parallel device work.
For an interim, an IDE superfloppy, like the LS-120 is a nice way to wean off.
In all honesty, if on a second and third look the scientists all determined it was about 1:1 odds of hitting the Earth in 2017 (or whatever) do you REALLY think they would tell everyone?
Imagine the headlines after all of that "we are looking further...preliminary estimates...yada yada".
Scientist: After further study we have determined that it is a near certainty that the Northern Hemisphere will be vaporized in 2019.
Yeah, right.
Walk into a CompUSA or something and purchase StarOffice. Basically a branded, marketed version of OpenOffice.
Sun, who sells StarOffice, helps support OpenOffice -- so your purchase would assist. Star Office also comes with some licensed fonts, Sun tech support and a few other goodies.
Sun also sells it online.
I'll suggest that WalMart has a wall full of PC software that isn't going to run on the box, and that will confuse the average Walmart customer/associate.
Walmart usually carries ONE Linux title -- Linux (Mandrake or RedHat), no applications. Same basic problem with CompUSA.
YES, Wine will handle much of the software, and the GAMING version of Mandrake might soften things, but they are still going to have problems.
More power to them. I hope they can make it work, and start carrying Linux software.
The author of the article complained that the majority of the systems reported results by IP and not domain name.
This statement alone gives me reason to doubt their abilities. Combine this large amounts of traffic they have with a reverse-DNS lookup for each and you would have crippled your DNS servers.
This is configurable in Snort, and mentioned in detail in the Snort docs.
A good solution is to either dedicate a DNS server to the IDS box, or use a script/utility to do reverse-lookups on the items you are interested in. Not live, but when a human is looking at things.
They are right about one regard -- IDS configuration, monitoring and maintenance isn't for non-professionals. You *need* to know what you are doing.
Okay, I read further into the documents.
11.2 million stockpiled anti-personnel mines, plus 970,000 claymores.
12 millions land mines. Yowza!
I wonder exactly how "export" is defined. If it means "sell/give to any other individual/corporation/company" that is one thing -- specifically that US military can still place them where they want. Or does it mean they won't be used outside U.S. borders? I have a feeling it is the former.
I also wonder about how many mines the U.S. has stockpiled. Sort of like the Taliban, when they said they would stop the cultivation of poppies for opium. They did, but they kept the warehouses full to the rafters with what would have been a multi-year supply. The U.S. could have enough mines to cover Texas, making a 6-year stop in production meaningless.
Finally, I think the ban treaty also had a clean up clause -- the the U.S. has NO interest in cleaning up the Korean DMZ right now.
Alaska wouldn't work. Desolate it is, but the waste would have to be either shipped thru Canada or to the coast (California, Washington, Oregon) then on a barge -- thru either Canadian or International waters.
NEVER happen. You think it is political NOW, try dealing with foreign nations.
Sounds like they were trying out the IP Over Avian Carrier backup system. :-)
They advertise a 3 ms ping time to London, so latency should be quite a bit better, now. I believe somewhere I read about a sat link for backup.
The courts of England once ruled that Sealand was out of their jurisdiction for a potential criminal case. Weapons violation, I think. It should make things interesting in the future.
Check out the auto part of Ebay. Just last month I saw a CNG converted 2000 Ford Aerostar with 10,000 miles sell for $6,500. Sale was in California.
Just make sure you can get CNG where you are going. Other than that, BioDiesel is a good alternative.
WinZIP can handle .gz files, and I think PKZIP can as well.
.ps goes, if you have a PostScript printer then dump it straight to that. If not, Adobe Acrobat (full version, not the reader) has a utility that convers .ps to .pdf.
As far as
Last I checked, PostgreSQL didn't support raw partitions which can be a critical sticking point. Other than that, it compares very favorably to Sybase ASE, which is what I am familiar with.
Hancom is based in Korea and has what is supposed to be an excellent office suite that does Korean, Japanese, Chinese (simplified & traditional) and Arabic. The also sell Hancom Linux, which is Red Hat 7.1 w/KDE all configed to one of the above languages.
They are also into Zarus PDA software and at one time were discussing partnership with The Kompany.
Check out http://www.hancom.com/ for more details. You might also want to check out TurboLinux, which is supposed to be big in Asia-Pacific.
The idea is that there will be centrally located Simputers, like kiosks or at markets. Individuals plug in personal storage cards and use the public system -- taking their storage with them when they leave.
Storage cards and lots cheaper than the unit.
Sort of like library computers and solid-state floppy disks for users.
And for the fool who is getting ready to scream about viruses -- the Simputer is flash based, so you power it off/on and it resets to a virgin (non-virus) state before inserting a card.
Funny, I just walk in to any urgent care clinic and show them my insurance card. Paperwork was filled out ONCE, the first time I went there. After that, just show them the card.
Same for any appointments with my preferred doc, or any specialist referred to. All specialists bill thru the referring physician -- who has all the info. No excess paperwork, no problems.
Just public schools. Don't like it? Send your kids to private schools.
The Supreme Court just today upheld Ohio's voucher program, even though 95%+ of the schools that accepted them were religious based. Already a California State Rep has announced his intention to introduce a voucher bill similar to Ohio's -- one that has already passed Consitutional muster. Expect more to follow.
To all those wondering how auction sellers qualify as employees -- a quick "find text" in the article doesn't turn up any form of the word "employ".
This is simply a group policy, like those you can get thru the National Association of the Self-Employed, or dozens of other small-business and "group" organizations.
All you need for group discounts is a large group -- they don't have to be co-workers. E-Bay isn't contributing to the funds.
Just in case you want to play with toys like these, the ARSC is looking for an admin.
A mini-OS on a chip, where have I seen that before? (Amiga Kickstart?)
While the modularity and flexibility of certain OSes make for lovely exhibits of creativity, this makes me wonder.
The article mentioned Java and Flash abilities, also. Can you imagine a remote root exploit in your Internet-connected BIOS?
How about a nice Flash/Java app that embeds SMTP commands to turn your BIOS into a high-speed spam machine?
My crystal ball shows an ever-brightening future for Internet security consultants.