What I find to be odd, is that snopes lists the claim as "false" but the text following the claim indicates that it actually did happen. What's the deal?
I had an efficient networks speedstream 5260. I ran the manufacturer-discouraged firmware upgrade to make it into a 5660. This worked, mostly, but because I used the wrong revision, the upgrade introduced a two bugs: the modem locked up occasionally under high load, and could not be upgraded a second time.
So I bought a different modem on Ebay. Most DSL services these days use standard protocols, so the modems will work happily with other services. Many services charge users $300 for the modem when they sign up. If you have your own, you save that money. If you buy one from Ebay for $50, you save the remaining $250. Many ISPs toss in the modem, but not all.
Also, the speedstream is a 50 MHz PPC, and both the system firmware and "boot firmware" is upgradeable. Now that I've finally replaced mine, I want to try using the Embedded Linux PPC boot project to try to install linux on my modem.
I set up X10 motion sensors and a perl script that acts as an alarm system. The alarm is activated and deactivated via a RF remote, or from the prompt. When the alarm is active and the sensors are tripped, it turns the volume on my stereo up to full, and plays a WAV file of a booming voice saying "MOTION DETECTED IN ZONE TWO" (or zone one, depending on which sensor was triggered). It also pages me with the time and zone, with some heuristics to reduce frequent redundant pages when I set it off myself or the cats set it off.
It also turns a fan on in the kitchen when zone one is tripped to deter the cats from jumping on the counter. The sensor is positioned so that it doesn't detect them, unless they jump on the counter. (Bad kitty!)
The next phase of the plan was to add a cheap webcam, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
Yes. It was the D-21. The "mothership" was called the M-12, which was a modified version of the A-12, which was an attack aircraft similar to the SR-71. There's actually a D-21 sitting out on the ramp at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in a disused area full of other mothballed junk. (Or at least there was in 1994.) The program was very secretive, the aircraft was very fast. Rumor has it that there were incidents of the drone striking the mothership on seperation, resulting in loss of both aircraft and ultimately program cancellation.
(But that last bit is just a rumor.)
It had some fancy composite skin over a titanium honeycomb structure, interesting largely in that nobody seems to know how to make titanium honeycomb anymore.
Yes, I've tried the 7.1 ODBC driver, and it works great. It's even been updated in the 7.1 source. (With minor tweaks.) That said, when I checked, (7.1 was still in beta, then) to build the Win32 ODBC driver, you still had to use MSVC, rather than Cygnus GCC. And the instructions for how to do that were not terribly well publicized. I'm sure the updated binaries of the driver will be available soon. (If not already.)
Well, numerous people have posted various ways how to read NYT articles without registering. The one I use is to log in as user/pass = slash2000/slash2000, which someone was kind enough to register. Don't forget to tell it to remember that login in a cookie. Never need to be bothered by NYT registration again.
A few people have made some suggestions, but I'd like to hear some others. What's the coolest geek bar in Boston? DC? San Jose? Insert-your-hometown-here?
In these days, people expect that all networks are connected somehow, because the Internet is so ubiquitous. But this wasn't always true. I'll lay down good money that the CIA's internal network isn't connected to anything else. The people on the network all have clearances. The connections on the network are all encrypted.
Now, I don't know how strict the CIA is about their policies... but consider: Suppose there are 200 computers networked together inside the CIA headquarters in a secure area (accredited for open-storage of classified information). Those computers aren't connected to anything else. The hard drives are removed from the computers and locked in safes when not in use. There are alarm systems with motion sensors and armed guards. To get an account on the network requires having a clearance on file. What is the great danger of running a chat server again? Who was it that was going to 'root' their box?
I don't work for the CIA, but I do work in an environment similar to this. Don't make assumptions about their security by comparing it to something you're familiar with.
I work for a directorate of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. We have three networks, one unclass, one connected to the SIPRNET, and our private intranet, which is also cleared for materials up to SECRET. The intranet is not connected to any other network. There are no uncleared accounts on our classified networks. The very idea fills me with horror. You have uncleared people with accounts on your classified network!?! What contractor did you say you work for?
Anyway, no one gets an account on our network without a clearance. It's not a big deal to install software on the intranet because you can't unknowingly open a hole to the Internet or SIPRNET -- they're not connected. And there's no uncleared personnel with accounts. (shudder.) The network links cannot be monitored without breaking the military-grade encryption.
I would assume that the CIA likewise does not have any uncleared personnel on their network, so the scenario you propose does not apply.
Am I the only person who noted that some of the news outlets (cnn.com, msnbc.com) don't even put Browne on the list? CNN at least covers him in the state-by-state list, where he beat Buchannan in all the states that interested me, but they don't put his national total anywhere. MSNBC doesn't even put Browne in the state-by-state results for the states where he did beat Buchanan, but they do list Buchannan's results. WTF?
In the US Air Force, the acronym FAIP stands for "First-Assignment Instructor Pilot" - someone whose first assignment after undergraduate pilot training is to go back and be an instructor. As a former student who didn't always get along with the FAIPs, your comment cracked me up.
I thought of this also. I started as a freshman at MIT in 1991, and Zephyr was already very widespread. As far as database use, it used both Hesiod and Kerberos.
Hesiod, according to this, is: The Hesiod name service allows an application to retrieve associations
between a name, a particular type of service, and information about
that named service. Some examples of this are course locker names and
system libraries, other RVD or NFS lockers, usernames and passwd
entries as found in/etc/passwd, printer information, such as might be
found in/etc/printcap, service and mailbox locations, and
service-to-port mappings, such as are found in/etc/services.
No, jackass, apparently you've forgotten that JK's stories hellmouth center around people coming out and telling stories about how they
IDENTIFY WITH THE KILLERS.
Blue, I beg to differ. The stories I read when the original series ran, were about people who WERE IDENTIFIED WITH THE KILLERS. That change to passive voice is important. I can't remember a single story where someone said they understood or really empathasized with the killers. People said they were suspended, harassed, beaten up, and otherwise scapegoated, because some third party decided that there was a resemblence to the killers.
Did you read the same series of posts that the rest of us did? Or are you just assuming you know what they probably said?
I can (apparently) post non-anonymously by entering my nick/pass when I post, but if I try to log in normally, it doesn't take. i.e. I get redirected from the login page to wherever I was, but I'm still not logged in.
I've got a $150 GPS reciever that estimates its own error in the horizontal plane. At rest it usually estimated that it was about 35ft off - and the vertical error is something like 3 times that. I never really tried to verify this rigorously.
The error goes up if you are moving rapidly, or if there isn't a good view of the sky - such as in a canyon or in a big city. But for hiking, I think it would be plenty useful as it is/was before they turn/turned off SA.
Still, I'm pretty psyched that my toy just became more useful. It's mildly tempting to stay up and see if the estimated error drops right at midnight (I assume that Clinton meant Eastern Daylight Time), but I don't really care that much.
Slashdot Mirror
Because some of us are interested in things outside the US. In particular, Anime DVDs are often region-coded for Japan....
What I find to be odd, is that snopes lists the claim as "false" but the text following the claim indicates that it actually did happen. What's the deal?
Mainly, I just wish this guy would stop using my name.
-Dan Risacher
I had an efficient networks speedstream 5260. I ran the manufacturer-discouraged firmware upgrade to make it into a 5660. This worked, mostly, but because I used the wrong revision, the upgrade introduced a two bugs: the modem locked up occasionally under high load, and could not be upgraded a second time.
So I bought a different modem on Ebay. Most DSL services these days use standard protocols, so the modems will work happily with other services. Many services charge users $300 for the modem when they sign up. If you have your own, you save that money. If you buy one from Ebay for $50, you save the remaining $250. Many ISPs toss in the modem, but not all.
Also, the speedstream is a 50 MHz PPC, and both the system firmware and "boot firmware" is upgradeable. Now that I've finally replaced mine, I want to try using the Embedded Linux PPC boot project to try to install linux on my modem.
I set up X10 motion sensors and a perl script that acts as an alarm system. The alarm is activated and deactivated via a RF remote, or from the prompt. When the alarm is active and the sensors are tripped, it turns the volume on my stereo up to full, and plays a WAV file of a booming voice saying "MOTION DETECTED IN ZONE TWO" (or zone one, depending on which sensor was triggered). It also pages me with the time and zone, with some heuristics to reduce frequent redundant pages when I set it off myself or the cats set it off.
It also turns a fan on in the kitchen when zone one is tripped to deter the cats from jumping on the counter. The sensor is positioned so that it doesn't detect them, unless they jump on the counter. (Bad kitty!)
The next phase of the plan was to add a cheap webcam, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
In flight
Yes. It was the D-21. The "mothership" was called the M-12, which was a modified version of the A-12, which was an attack aircraft similar to the SR-71. There's actually a D-21 sitting out on the ramp at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in a disused area full of other mothballed junk. (Or at least there was in 1994.) The program was very secretive, the aircraft was very fast. Rumor has it that there were incidents of the drone striking the mothership on seperation, resulting in loss of both aircraft and ultimately program cancellation.
(But that last bit is just a rumor.)
It had some fancy composite skin over a titanium honeycomb structure, interesting largely in that nobody seems to know how to make titanium honeycomb anymore.
Yes, I've tried the 7.1 ODBC driver, and it works great. It's even been updated in the 7.1 source. (With minor tweaks.) That said, when I checked, (7.1 was still in beta, then) to build the Win32 ODBC driver, you still had to use MSVC, rather than Cygnus GCC. And the instructions for how to do that were not terribly well publicized. I'm sure the updated binaries of the driver will be available soon. (If not already.)
Well, numerous people have posted various ways how to read NYT articles without registering. The one I use is to log in as user/pass = slash2000/slash2000, which someone was kind enough to register. Don't forget to tell it to remember that login in a cookie. Never need to be bothered by NYT registration again.
All I need is a gps reciever, a set of gyroscopes, and a servo-stabilized platform to mount the dish onto...
Oh, and a yacht.
A few people have made some suggestions, but I'd like to hear some others. What's the coolest geek bar in Boston? DC? San Jose? Insert-your-hometown-here?
In these days, people expect that all networks are connected somehow, because the Internet is so ubiquitous. But this wasn't always true. I'll lay down good money that the CIA's internal network isn't connected to anything else. The people on the network all have clearances. The connections on the network are all encrypted.
Now, I don't know how strict the CIA is about their policies... but consider: Suppose there are 200 computers networked together inside the CIA headquarters in a secure area (accredited for open-storage of classified information). Those computers aren't connected to anything else. The hard drives are removed from the computers and locked in safes when not in use. There are alarm systems with motion sensors and armed guards. To get an account on the network requires having a clearance on file. What is the great danger of running a chat server again? Who was it that was going to 'root' their box?
I don't work for the CIA, but I do work in an environment similar to this. Don't make assumptions about their security by comparing it to something you're familiar with.
Anyway, no one gets an account on our network without a clearance. It's not a big deal to install software on the intranet because you can't unknowingly open a hole to the Internet or SIPRNET -- they're not connected. And there's no uncleared personnel with accounts. (shudder.) The network links cannot be monitored without breaking the military-grade encryption.
I would assume that the CIA likewise does not have any uncleared personnel on their network, so the scenario you propose does not apply.
Am I the only person who noted that some of the news outlets (cnn.com, msnbc.com) don't even put Browne on the list? CNN at least covers him in the state-by-state list, where he beat Buchannan in all the states that interested me, but they don't put his national total anywhere. MSNBC doesn't even put Browne in the state-by-state results for the states where he did beat Buchanan, but they do list Buchannan's results. WTF?
In the US Air Force, the acronym FAIP stands for "First-Assignment Instructor Pilot" - someone whose first assignment after undergraduate pilot training is to go back and be an instructor. As a former student who didn't always get along with the FAIPs, your comment cracked me up.
Radioisotope Thermal Generators
Take some low grade radioactive waste, and bury it a few meters under your driveway. It puts off a slow steady heat for a few hundred years.
Never shovel again!
I didn't see WINS resolution in the new feature list for the resolver. Does anyone know of patches to do this?
Hesiod, according to this, is: The Hesiod name service allows an application to retrieve associations between a name, a particular type of service, and information about that named service. Some examples of this are course locker names and system libraries, other RVD or NFS lockers, usernames and passwd entries as found in /etc/passwd, printer information, such as might be
found in /etc/printcap, service and mailbox locations, and
service-to-port mappings, such as are found in /etc/services.
Another petition also supports opening up the debates.
Has anyone mapped/sequenced the Mitochondrial DNA?
IDENTIFY WITH THE KILLERS.
Blue, I beg to differ. The stories I read when the original series ran, were about people who WERE IDENTIFIED WITH THE KILLERS. That change to passive voice is important. I can't remember a single story where someone said they understood or really empathasized with the killers. People said they were suspended, harassed, beaten up, and otherwise scapegoated, because some third party decided that there was a resemblence to the killers.
Did you read the same series of posts that the rest of us did? Or are you just assuming you know what they probably said?
Disregard. I'm an ijit, and forgot that I disabled cookies yesterday, for reasons I've already forgotten.
I can (apparently) post non-anonymously by entering my nick/pass when I post, but if I try to log in normally, it doesn't take. i.e. I get redirected from the login page to wherever I was, but I'm still not logged in.
I've got a $150 GPS reciever that estimates its own error in the horizontal plane. At rest it usually estimated that it was about 35ft off - and the vertical error is something like 3 times that. I never really tried to verify this rigorously.
The error goes up if you are moving rapidly, or if there isn't a good view of the sky - such as in a canyon or in a big city. But for hiking, I think it would be plenty useful as it is/was before they turn/turned off SA.
Still, I'm pretty psyched that my toy just became more useful. It's mildly tempting to stay up and see if the estimated error drops right at midnight (I assume that Clinton meant Eastern Daylight Time), but I don't really care that much.