If you smash it you have just screwed your opportunity to have a jolly time at The Man's expense.
My suggestion: Take a sensor from the trailhead and move it to a location with much different traffic demographics like the main entrance of your local mall.
The tin foil hat brigade is the least of your worries bub, I think you'll find a much greater level of animosity from two other groups:
1. Sierra Club lovin Tree Hugging Hippies looking for a PHD will most likely prove the radio waves your sensors emit interrupt every twelfth breeding season of some endangered moth or other woodland.
2. The small time marijuana growers will object to this as a police tactic to track their comings and goings from the best marijuana patches.
There was something intresting about sensor nets in MIT tech review about six months ago for things like this. (Yes, the hippies and pot growers protested)
Is SCO still attempting to scare businesses into buying licenses? Even if they are I believe they are taking an egregious chance by attempting to fight on far too many fronts simultaneously. The gambit could be lucrative if (and only if I believe) Autozone and Chrylser settle out of court. Is this thinking completely incorrect? If the Chinese have a hell devoted to legal suberfuge, obfuscation, and litigation we're in it....
Other Chinese hells: (unrelated but intresting) http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolo fdesign/MA.CO URSE/09/LCH.html http://www.wingkong.net/files/bt lc-faq.htm#2.10
Will the German ownership (and subsequent court actions in Germany against SCO) of Chrysler play a part stateside?
I'm smart as a showbox, (empty one at that) so can someone please explain (and have relevant linkage to support said explainations)?
True, IPX/SPX was efficient on SMALL networks not the juggernauts of distributed infrastructure we find today. My argument was stated incorrectly attempting to cite the point that Novell (at one point and time) was not scaling to the future of the enterprise.
Chronology: 1995+ Novell acquires AT&T UNIX source code. Novell rewrites NetWare. Novell sells UNIX source code to SCO. NetWare customer base shrinks to increasing Windows NT marketshare. Novell changes CEO's (Schmidt, etc.) like new parents change diapers. Novell acquires Ximian and SuSE Linux. SCO announces intentions to sue everyone with derivative UNIX technologies.
Oh if only we knew then what we know now.....
Hopefully Novell will be more forward thinking than it has demonstrated in the past, one notable indcident being it's slow process to adopt TCP/IP as a 'core' protocol over the inefficient IPX/SPX suite. Other incidences like the acquisition of the Word Perfect office suite (around 1994) and the subsequent lack of execution for this acquisition have often been the downfall of Novell. I would really like to think that Jack Messman (he whom called GNU/Linux immature) is going to change all that but alas only time will tell. Novell has had more than their share of talent that failed to materialize profit, Peter Schmidt (Java kingpin) among others have made contributions but never brought the cash cow home to graze.
C'mon Novell don't fail us this time....
But I have the IQ (and spelling ability) of an emtpy shoebox so what the hell do I know.
Red Hat is moving away from community releases and moving toward enterprise level releases not only for servers but workstations as well.
To view information about SUPPORTED workstation offerings goto: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/
From the website: (http://fedora.redhat.com)
The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!
It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production enviroment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!
Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.
You could... (in theory) clone your linux box with the windows partition intact, set your grub.conf to boot windows automatically postinstall. Whereby you update your 'gold image' and redeploy it with patches, etc. Rsync works on win32 but I'm not sure if daemon mode works, this could be alleviated by running a scheduler but alas you would have to script (not completely recommended for security purposes) the patches or software to run/install.
I admit that this would be more overhead for DNS administration but the capability resides within DNS to effectively tag sites (even on thousands of virtual servers in an apache farm) using LOC records. Maybe I'm totally wrong but wouldn't it just be easier to do a reverse lookup of the user (getting the LOC for the ISP IP pool) and matching it to a corresponding LOC record from a pool of service types?
So what happens if I lose the key? So what happens if the mobo goes bad? So what happens if an individual component on the mobo goes bad causing the replacement of the board?
Hmmmmm....
If ABIT can get these to catch on they could make a bundle off support. However, while you (argumentatively) have some level of security you loose the ability to swap the drives if that board fails. Couldn't this be painting yourself into a proverbial corner?
But what do I know I have the IQ of an empty shoebox.
about a year and a half ago Richard Stallman came out to speak at Northern Arizona University and we took him to the Grand Canyon, painted desert, Sunset Crater (extinct volcano) He found everything somewhat intresting thus we can qualify some of these as geek locations.
Does anyone remember Assassination Politics by Jim Bell?
A few months ago, I had a truly and quite literally "revolutionary" idea, and I jokingly called it "Assassination Politics": I speculated on the question of whether an organization could be set up to legally announce that it would be awarding a cash prize to somebody who correctly "predicted" the death of one of a list of violators of rights, usually either government employees, officeholders, or appointees. It could ask for anonymous contributions from the public, and individuals would be able send those contributions using digital cash.
I also speculated that using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous "digital cash," it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given. Even the organization itself would have no information that could help the authorities find the person responsible for the prediction, let alone the one who caused the death.
"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.
RIGHT!
The elimination of all innovation that small minded/sighted fools and archaic organizations cannot compete with is surely the only way to reestablish our utopian society. (because we know that child explotation NEVER happened before the internet!). While international boundaries can complicate investigation I find it difficult to believe that it makes it impossible. There is always the question that the case for the investigation is not substancial enough but thats something for another day. Perhaps the solution lies not in the elimination of service but in the responsability of parents to their children.
"Microsoft and others who provide these services have to be brought to heel."
Free things are bad! Nothing should be free, all you free software users are going to hell and sending the rest of the world to hell with you!
Ok, enough venomous humor. Is it me or does this whole thing sound like something Ashcroft would do/say? I'm truly concerned about protecting children online as well as in the real world, but I don't believe that our technology has surpassed our ability to protect without stripping away our global commons. But I have the IQ of an empty shoebox, so what do I know....
The public opposition which TIA has invoked only means that the project is going "under the public radar." There are a variety of ways that TIA (or whatever it will be called next) can still get funding. The biggest issue IMHO is that the initiative has been pushed into a realm where watchdog groups can no longer monitor it. It would be easy for the project to get bits and pieces of funding from elsewhere like here. There is also decentralized funding, (i.e. - the program is broken up into numerous parts (gathering units) which are all individually funded in their respective areas and can still report to a centralized operations unit (analysis unit) which ties all the intelligence data together, therefore no one area could be an intelligence risk or have a complete picture of what is going on. NEED TO KNOW
"If you are a law-enforcement officer, all you have to do is send us a fax with a request for information, and ask about the person behind the seller's identity number, and we will provide you with his name, address, sales history and other details--all without having to produce a court order."
What other details are we talking about?
Besides the obvious credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc. (all transaction data from PayPal) EBay also (if you set it up to do) watches certain types of items which your intrested in (but you know this already) thus we find yet another method of profiling for law enforcement personnel. The Patriot Act bespoke of data mining in public databases (all in the name of Total Information Awareness) thus is it reasonable to assume since EBay gives open access without court orders to law enforcement, that they are also regularly 'mined' for data by goverment?
Located in the northwest corner of the New Headquarters Building courtyard is a sculpture by artist James Sanborn entitled "Kryptos." Dedicated on November 3, 1990, the theme of this sculpture is "intelligence gathering." "Kryptos" incorporates native American materials such as wood and metal. A piece of petrified wood supports a large S-shaped copper screen that looks like a piece of paper coming out of a computer printer. On the "paper" are inscribed several enigmatic messages, each written in a different code.
It's nice to see that Sony is establishing some harsh ground rules, hopefully they have much of the same across the board. Being a former counselor/volunteer (>1 year) in another MMORPG, I've seen the lions share of rampant abuse of the system because the rules were too flexible or largely unenforced from the beginning.
SWG might have great potential but like every MMORPG or even roll the dice style RPG the dev dept has a mountain of work. Balance is always a key issue and most importantly the ability to inspire player drive and vision. Some of the greatest moments in online gaming argumentatively have largely been due to a players desire to leave their own mark so to speak (thedeacon in AO is an excellent example). All the nifty graphics are for naught if your just one of a herd of Pitfall Harrys dodging allies and grabbing loot with little hope of anything else.
[IMHO] It's an unfortunate reality within most enterprise settings that large scale software demos are *almost* impossible.
Take for example any system which requires your company to move to a new database to actually use the software. Most vendors would scoff (unfortunately) at loaning you adequate equipment to even run the database, let alone the staff to migrate even a trivial sample of your current data to their system. Additionally, real testing would require a mock production roll out and user training as well. Most IT departments can barely keep their heads above water with upgrades on production enviroment systems (patching, client upgrades, database upgrades, etc.) let alone running one production system and another full evaluation system. Not to even consider that most user populations would not support the testing phase. 'I don't have time to do all my work/data entry on both systems!'
I think the general problem is long term vision over short term vision. Companies want a faster buck and vendors promise a faster buck (for a bucket of bucks). In business utopia, software would be fully evaluated (hell it might work too) to ensure that the shoe fit. Unfortunately we find that everyone is either wearing shoes that are too small (you need an upgrade!) or shoes that are too big (it's scaleable...). Gotta love those software/show salesmen/women.
Really, not enforcement of course but monitoring. Imagine the ultrasecretive group the RIAA uses getting their hands on this one. In a post-911 world the only abundance we have is that of resource shortfalls. If the F.B.I. is forced to take on yet another infrastructure duty wouldn't it be simpler to subcontract a facet or two, after all IP addresses are anonymous till you get court orders to track them to people (generalization.... exceptions do exist).
Kary Mullis (whom developed Polymerase Chain Reaction Technology - PCR) wrote an excellent book (Dancing Naked in the Mind Field) several years ago. While the primary focus of the book was biographical he made some intresting claims about the power of the human mind. In one experiment he claimed to have been able to turn on a neighbors table lamp from across the street. While Mullis is considered fringe in some circles (especially since he cops to LSD usage in times past) he is still considered a brilliant scientist.
Wasn't this theory widely in use by a certain coyote?
If memory serves (which it usually does just for someone else) he used the rubber bands first and rockets second, we seem to be at odds with the Acme Lab theories on propulsion.
Everything you need to know you learned from Looney Toons (even that crossdressing habit you try to hide)
Slashdot Mirror
If you smash it you have just screwed your opportunity to have a jolly time at The Man's expense.
My suggestion:
Take a sensor from the trailhead and move it to a location with much different traffic demographics like the main entrance of your local mall.
The tin foil hat brigade is the least of your worries bub, I think you'll find a much greater level of animosity from two other groups:
1. Sierra Club lovin Tree Hugging Hippies looking for a PHD will most likely prove the radio waves your sensors emit interrupt every twelfth breeding season of some endangered moth or other woodland.
2. The small time marijuana growers will object to this as a police tactic to track their comings and goings from the best marijuana patches.
There was something intresting about sensor nets in MIT tech review about six months ago for things like this. (Yes, the hippies and pot growers protested)
I'm baffled...
o fdesign/MA.CO URSE/09/LCH.htmlt lc-faq.htm#2.10
Is SCO still attempting to scare businesses into buying licenses? Even if they are I believe they are taking an egregious chance by attempting to fight on far too many fronts simultaneously. The gambit could be lucrative if (and only if I believe) Autozone and Chrylser settle out of court. Is this thinking completely incorrect? If the Chinese have a hell devoted to legal suberfuge, obfuscation, and litigation we're in it....
Other Chinese hells: (unrelated but intresting)
http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/school
http://www.wingkong.net/files/b
Will the German ownership (and subsequent court actions in Germany against SCO) of Chrysler play a part stateside?
I'm smart as a showbox, (empty one at that) so can someone please explain (and have relevant linkage to support said explainations)?
True, IPX/SPX was efficient on SMALL networks not the juggernauts of distributed infrastructure we find today. My argument was stated incorrectly attempting to cite the point that Novell (at one point and time) was not scaling to the future of the enterprise.
Many thanks for pointing out my oversite.
Chronology: 1995+
Novell acquires AT&T UNIX source code.
Novell rewrites NetWare.
Novell sells UNIX source code to SCO.
NetWare customer base shrinks to increasing Windows NT marketshare.
Novell changes CEO's (Schmidt, etc.) like new parents change diapers.
Novell acquires Ximian and SuSE Linux.
SCO announces intentions to sue everyone with derivative UNIX technologies.
Oh if only we knew then what we know now.....
Hopefully Novell will be more forward thinking than it has demonstrated in the past, one notable indcident being it's slow process to adopt TCP/IP as a 'core' protocol over the inefficient IPX/SPX suite. Other incidences like the acquisition of the Word Perfect office suite (around 1994) and the subsequent lack of execution for this acquisition have often been the downfall of Novell. I would really like to think that Jack Messman (he whom called GNU/Linux immature) is going to change all that but alas only time will tell. Novell has had more than their share of talent that failed to materialize profit, Peter Schmidt (Java kingpin) among others have made contributions but never brought the cash cow home to graze.
C'mon Novell don't fail us this time....
But I have the IQ (and spelling ability) of an emtpy shoebox so what the hell do I know.
Red Hat is moving away from community releases and moving toward enterprise level releases not only for servers but workstations as well.
To view information about SUPPORTED workstation offerings goto:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/
From the website: (http://fedora.redhat.com)
The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
http://www.systemimager.org/
SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!
It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production enviroment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!
Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.
You could... (in theory) clone your linux box with the windows partition intact, set your grub.conf to boot windows automatically postinstall. Whereby you update your 'gold image' and redeploy it with patches, etc. Rsync works on win32 but I'm not sure if daemon mode works, this could be alleviated by running a scheduler but alas you would have to script (not completely recommended for security purposes) the patches or software to run/install.
I admit that this would be more overhead for DNS administration but the capability resides within DNS to effectively tag sites (even on thousands of virtual servers in an apache farm) using LOC records. Maybe I'm totally wrong but wouldn't it just be easier to do a reverse lookup of the user (getting the LOC for the ISP IP pool) and matching it to a corresponding LOC record from a pool of service types?
Of course LOC records are not widely used.
So what happens if I lose the key?
So what happens if the mobo goes bad?
So what happens if an individual component on the mobo goes bad causing the replacement of the board?
Hmmmmm....
If ABIT can get these to catch on they could make a bundle off support. However, while you (argumentatively) have some level of security you loose the ability to swap the drives if that board fails. Couldn't this be painting yourself into a proverbial corner?
But what do I know I have the IQ of an empty shoebox.
The Grand Staircase:
Bryce National Park (Southern Utah)
Zion National Park (Southern Utah)
Grand Canyon (Northern Arizona)
about a year and a half ago Richard Stallman came out to speak at Northern Arizona University and we took him to the Grand Canyon, painted desert, Sunset Crater (extinct volcano) He found everything somewhat intresting thus we can qualify some of these as geek locations.
Does anyone remember Assassination Politics by Jim Bell?
Read more
RIGHT! The elimination of all innovation that small minded/sighted fools and archaic organizations cannot compete with is surely the only way to reestablish our utopian society. (because we know that child explotation NEVER happened before the internet!). While international boundaries can complicate investigation I find it difficult to believe that it makes it impossible. There is always the question that the case for the investigation is not substancial enough but thats something for another day. Perhaps the solution lies not in the elimination of service but in the responsability of parents to their children.
Free things are bad! Nothing should be free, all you free software users are going to hell and sending the rest of the world to hell with you!
Ok, enough venomous humor. Is it me or does this whole thing sound like something Ashcroft would do/say? I'm truly concerned about protecting children online as well as in the real world, but I don't believe that our technology has surpassed our ability to protect without stripping away our global commons. But I have the IQ of an empty shoebox, so what do I know....
Get real....
The public opposition which TIA has invoked only means that the project is going "under the public radar." There are a variety of ways that TIA (or whatever it will be called next) can still get funding. The biggest issue IMHO is that the initiative has been pushed into a realm where watchdog groups can no longer monitor it. It would be easy for the project to get bits and pieces of funding from elsewhere like here. There is also decentralized funding, (i.e. - the program is broken up into numerous parts (gathering units) which are all individually funded in their respective areas and can still report to a centralized operations unit (analysis unit) which ties all the intelligence data together, therefore no one area could be an intelligence risk or have a complete picture of what is going on. NEED TO KNOW
But what the hell do I know....
Yes.
Look on the bright side, if they can screw up simple projects like this how far do you really think TIA (Total Infomation Awareness) is gonna get?
TIA Alias Search: Commander Taco
Output: Mexican terrorist. Leader of collbration site for social dissidents.
Just far enough from the truth to get somebody sued....
What other details are we talking about?
Besides the obvious credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc. (all transaction data from PayPal) EBay also (if you set it up to do) watches certain types of items which your intrested in (but you know this already) thus we find yet another method of profiling for law enforcement personnel. The Patriot Act bespoke of data mining in public databases (all in the name of Total Information Awareness) thus is it reasonable to assume since EBay gives open access without court orders to law enforcement, that they are also regularly 'mined' for data by goverment?
CIA Kryptos Sculpture
CIA Website
ABC News Article
[IMHO]
Sounds like Stalin penned the rules himself.
It's nice to see that Sony is establishing some harsh ground rules, hopefully they have much of the same across the board. Being a former counselor/volunteer (>1 year) in another MMORPG, I've seen the lions share of rampant abuse of the system because the rules were too flexible or largely unenforced from the beginning.
SWG might have great potential but like every MMORPG or even roll the dice style RPG the dev dept has a mountain of work. Balance is always a key issue and most importantly the ability to inspire player drive and vision. Some of the greatest moments in online gaming argumentatively have largely been due to a players desire to leave their own mark so to speak (thedeacon in AO is an excellent example). All the nifty graphics are for naught if your just one of a herd of Pitfall Harrys dodging allies and grabbing loot with little hope of anything else.
But what the hell do I know....
[IMHO] It's an unfortunate reality within most enterprise settings that large scale software demos are *almost* impossible.
Take for example any system which requires your company to move to a new database to actually use the software. Most vendors would scoff (unfortunately) at loaning you adequate equipment to even run the database, let alone the staff to migrate even a trivial sample of your current data to their system. Additionally, real testing would require a mock production roll out and user training as well. Most IT departments can barely keep their heads above water with upgrades on production enviroment systems (patching, client upgrades, database upgrades, etc.) let alone running one production system and another full evaluation system. Not to even consider that most user populations would not support the testing phase. 'I don't have time to do all my work/data entry on both systems!'
I think the general problem is long term vision over short term vision. Companies want a faster buck and vendors promise a faster buck (for a bucket of bucks). In business utopia, software would be fully evaluated (hell it might work too) to ensure that the shoe fit. Unfortunately we find that everyone is either wearing shoes that are too small (you need an upgrade!) or shoes that are too big (it's scaleable...). Gotta love those software/show salesmen/women.
It's egregiously pathetic.
What if this was subcontracted?
Really, not enforcement of course but monitoring. Imagine the ultrasecretive group the RIAA uses getting their hands on this one. In a post-911 world the only abundance we have is that of resource shortfalls. If the F.B.I. is forced to take on yet another infrastructure duty wouldn't it be simpler to subcontract a facet or two, after all IP addresses are anonymous till you get court orders to track them to people (generalization.... exceptions do exist).
Kary Mullis (whom developed Polymerase Chain Reaction Technology - PCR) wrote an excellent book (Dancing Naked in the Mind Field) several years ago. While the primary focus of the book was biographical he made some intresting claims about the power of the human mind. In one experiment he claimed to have been able to turn on a neighbors table lamp from across the street. While Mullis is considered fringe in some circles (especially since he cops to LSD usage in times past) he is still considered a brilliant scientist.
WOW!
Wasn't this theory widely in use by a certain coyote?
If memory serves (which it usually does just for someone else) he used the rubber bands first and rockets second, we seem to be at odds with the Acme Lab theories on propulsion.
Everything you need to know you learned from Looney Toons (even that crossdressing habit you try to hide)