I designed a similar system several years ago. Basically, it was a client server system where the server has a udp port that listens on a port determined by an algorithm based on the current time. The client sends a hello packet to the UDP port (knowing the same algorithm), the server looks to see if the ip/hostname is in its database and if so responds to the client with a randomly selected port number it opens up. If any machine but the one expected tries to connect a bogus QPOP message is displayed, otherwise the client connects happily and goes about its business. On top of that i had implemented a proprietary encryption key exchange with some algorithms based on time as well so the connection started off completely encrypted, and then with every sever client exchange, the algorithm/key shifted to one of several encryption methods and a the keys the client and server agree on. It worked happily, and the system is basically undectible to a port sweep though sniffing would discover something was there, but wouldnt be able to connect.
I'm not sure I can top the original poster, and I know there are people with more dangerous jobs than I had too.
That being said, I used to work at a steel processing plant, though as a technical personel. In the plant area there are several huge cutting machines that cut the sheet steel as it rolls down the line. The presses make very loud noise when they cut steel up to 1/2 an inch thick. I'm not sure how loud in decibels, but several of those machines running and cutting makes for an extremly loud work environment. Imagine 1/2 inch thick steel on a coil rolling off and bending up into the air off the conveyer as it is being cut since it cannot roll and be cut at the same time, but the machine keeps feeding so the steel bows. When the steel flops back down it makes quite a ruckuss too. It was the loudest thing I'd heard short of working on pulse jets and tesla coils with a friend.
Now for the danger part, you know you're in big-boy land because instead of the usual pictures with a hand and a NO circle around it, you have a picture of a hand with the fingers severed and blood drops between! Those presses would cut through any part of your body like butter!
While filming safety videos, we sent bananas through the pinch points on the machine, it was funny, but scary all the same as you watch mush come out that could just as easily have been a hand, arm, etc.
During the same shooting, a guy was leaning over the tin cutting line (which runs very fast since the tin is so lightweight) to show what not to do, and at the same time a sheet was ejected from the cutting die at quite a high speed and just barely cleared his head. We were a few millimeters from a funeral.
Steel workers have some of the most dangerous jobs, working near multi thousand degree blast furnaces, pouring molten steel, rolling multi-ton coils and beams around, etc etc. A run-away coil could easily flatten a man.
I was lucky enough to be a tech worker and not out in the plant area every day, but I appreciate the work they do!
It also seems unlikely that recruiting would occur on something that simply requires a lot of hardware. Recruiting usually takes place on simpler tasks that require a lot of thinking to see that it is simple.. The GCHQ (british intelligence agency) did a recruiting test quite a while ago that involved noticing various symbolic representations of binary within web pages. The simplest ones even I spotted without seeing the solutions, some were things like underlined letters with bold were a 1 and bold letters without the underline were a 0... there was actually a morse code image hidden on the page with some transparency.. There were some other symbols hidden in images.. Things like that. I don't remember 100%, but that was the general concept, to use your brain, not your bucks. Recruiting someone based on the fact they can buy and set up a cluster is a little impractical.
Me too, and still nobody knows that i have a telnet account at foobar.com or that my user name is bob, so they could never have found the system to try and guess my password! Its ingenious!
Mostly because homebrew ability wasnt available on gamecube until recently when the phantasy star online thing opened up a bunch of opportunities, not to mention some bios tweaks and action replay card hacks.. When the platform is new, there is nothing known about it for the most part, obtaining an SDK is hard to begin with, but it would be next to impossible for a 'nobody' (as far as the gaming industry is concerned) to get an SDK, especially to develop Linux with. It's a very closed world.
Most people developing GNU/Free software would not be able to obtain licensing to be to get the SDK, nor even if so would they be able to get it published by anyone. Most of the -real- development occurs with homebrew equipment.
Wonder why MS doesnt just design a patch that will block the creation of any new window at the os level without explicit authorization, either by always allowing particular applications, or by prompting. It could only apply to IE just as likely.. what if the OS didnt let more IE processes execute unless some other condition occurred first like when you click the link it allows that page to start an IE process. Or just something more intensive than trying to use 3rd party things without os level access.
Well, the only sites i heavily use are SourceForge, Slashdot, and Google (granted I link off google for research now and then).. As long as those sites don't do it, ill keep using the net. But as soon as I have to start waiting for ads to play, ill be using lynx, and that wont get me very far a lot of the time. Bring back Gopher!
I've still got some WYSE green screen and amber screen terminals lying around, and a few TI ones.
I also still have several "Gateway 2000" Vivitron monitors lying around from the mid 90's. They were just sony rebranded monitors, but theyre still nice flat screens despite being 15" and 14".
My primary desktop monitor is a Mag 720V2 which seems to only do 59/60hz on any resolution, but does up to 1600x1200x32... Its maybe a 1997 or 1998 monitor. *shrugs*
Another major issue, is that the big players seem to have a lot of sway (for obvious reasons) with Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/etc, enough that new developers really can't get into the market unless you've been making pc games for half a century first. Microsoft is the only one that I've found so far who even has a program for 'the little guy' which is the "Incubator Program", but it's still not easy to get into and you better plan on having the game running as a prototype in 6 months. My biggest frustration is trying to find licensing for my BZFlag Console Edition project. I've sent off a hundred emails to licensed developers hoping to establish a partnership that will get my project on its feet. I'm very frustrated with the manufacturers at the moment, and it seems no wonder why there aren't more games on the market and likewise that costs havent been driven down by more games coming out. There is, and always will be far less games and innovation on gaming console systems unless the manufacturers take a chance on the little guy and someone spots them some hardware. Would it really kill microsoft to give out a few hundred development kit xbox's if they get a chance to draw more products to their platform? They have the law behind them if people break contracts and want to release NDA'd material. There isn't a discernable reason other than peer pressure from licensed developers. If they want innovation, someone needs to help the ComSci major who's in love with his XBox to make the games he dreams of. What are dreams without a canvas to paint them on. Lots of fabulous ideas are lost to the winds and not enough winds of change are blowing.
My favorite thing about 2600 was their use of bart system, put in bart ticket, meet in the station underground, go back home, and go out the same terminal you came in, pay no fare total because you "travelled no distance". I thought that was slick.
Just make sure not to bring any credit cards when you're on board.. Also, don't wear anything metallic if you dont want to be stuck to the floor all day. =)
What a bummer, 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is really only about 931GB, before formatting. This is where I hate that difference between 1024 and 1000 being defined as a megabyte
I guess what I was getting to is that cringely is suggesting all kinds of new firmware (albeit on existing 802.11 technology) which basically would not adhere to the standard for what goes over the physical wireless link. It seemed that you were implying that Fleishman thinks Cringely was talking about a whole new technology all together (not 802.11). Based on all that, my reply was trying to say that i thought fleishman was saying that with existing firmware, standards, technology, etc (not changing anything about the hardware or the link layer) would suffice to accomplish the things that WhyFi proposed.
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I designed a similar system several years ago. Basically, it was a client server system where the server has a udp port that listens on a port determined by an algorithm based on the current time. The client sends a hello packet to the UDP port (knowing the same algorithm), the server looks to see if the ip/hostname is in its database and if so responds to the client with a randomly selected port number it opens up. If any machine but the one expected tries to connect a bogus QPOP message is displayed, otherwise the client connects happily and goes about its business. On top of that i had implemented a proprietary encryption key exchange with some algorithms based on time as well so the connection started off completely encrypted, and then with every sever client exchange, the algorithm/key shifted to one of several encryption methods and a the keys the client and server agree on. It worked happily, and the system is basically undectible to a port sweep though sniffing would discover something was there, but wouldnt be able to connect.
Next in line, Pella Windows http://www.pella.com/ for having Windows in their company name.
I'm not sure I can top the original poster, and I know there are people with more dangerous jobs than I had too.
That being said, I used to work at a steel processing plant, though as a technical personel. In the plant area there are several huge cutting machines that cut the sheet steel as it rolls down the line. The presses make very loud noise when they cut steel up to 1/2 an inch thick. I'm not sure how loud in decibels, but several of those machines running and cutting makes for an extremly loud work environment. Imagine 1/2 inch thick steel on a coil rolling off and bending up into the air off the conveyer as it is being cut since it cannot roll and be cut at the same time, but the machine keeps feeding so the steel bows. When the steel flops back down it makes quite a ruckuss too. It was the loudest thing I'd heard short of working on pulse jets and tesla coils with a friend.
Now for the danger part, you know you're in big-boy land because instead of the usual pictures with a hand and a NO circle around it, you have a picture of a hand with the fingers severed and blood drops between! Those presses would cut through any part of your body like butter!
While filming safety videos, we sent bananas through the pinch points on the machine, it was funny, but scary all the same as you watch mush come out that could just as easily have been a hand, arm, etc.
During the same shooting, a guy was leaning over the tin cutting line (which runs very fast since the tin is so lightweight) to show what not to do, and at the same time a sheet was ejected from the cutting die at quite a high speed and just barely cleared his head. We were a few millimeters from a funeral.
Steel workers have some of the most dangerous jobs, working near multi thousand degree blast furnaces, pouring molten steel, rolling multi-ton coils and beams around, etc etc. A run-away coil could easily flatten a man.
I was lucky enough to be a tech worker and not out in the plant area every day, but I appreciate the work they do!
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It also seems unlikely that recruiting would occur on something that simply requires a lot of hardware. Recruiting usually takes place on simpler tasks that require a lot of thinking to see that it is simple.. The GCHQ (british intelligence agency) did a recruiting test quite a while ago that involved noticing various symbolic representations of binary within web pages. The simplest ones even I spotted without seeing the solutions, some were things like underlined letters with bold were a 1 and bold letters without the underline were a 0... there was actually a morse code image hidden on the page with some transparency.. There were some other symbols hidden in images.. Things like that. I don't remember 100%, but that was the general concept, to use your brain, not your bucks. Recruiting someone based on the fact they can buy and set up a cluster is a little impractical.
Me too, and still nobody knows that i have a telnet account at foobar.com or that my user name is bob, so they could never have found the system to try and guess my password! Its ingenious!
Mostly because homebrew ability wasnt available on gamecube until recently when the phantasy star online thing opened up a bunch of opportunities, not to mention some bios tweaks and action replay card hacks.. When the platform is new, there is nothing known about it for the most part, obtaining an SDK is hard to begin with, but it would be next to impossible for a 'nobody' (as far as the gaming industry is concerned) to get an SDK, especially to develop Linux with. It's a very closed world.
Most people developing GNU/Free software would not be able to obtain licensing to be to get the SDK, nor even if so would they be able to get it published by anyone. Most of the -real- development occurs with homebrew equipment.
I thought I'd heard that regardless of physical spin direction, it -read- backwards.. from the outside in?
Similarly, there is a BZFlag GameCube port in the works. http://www.webtrotter.com/bzflag
Wonder why MS doesnt just design a patch that will block the creation of any new window at the os level without explicit authorization, either by always allowing particular applications, or by prompting. It could only apply to IE just as likely.. what if the OS didnt let more IE processes execute unless some other condition occurred first like when you click the link it allows that page to start an IE process. Or just something more intensive than trying to use 3rd party things without os level access.
Well, the only sites i heavily use are SourceForge, Slashdot, and Google (granted I link off google for research now and then).. As long as those sites don't do it, ill keep using the net. But as soon as I have to start waiting for ads to play, ill be using lynx, and that wont get me very far a lot of the time. Bring back Gopher!
I've still got some WYSE green screen and amber screen terminals lying around, and a few TI ones.
I also still have several "Gateway 2000" Vivitron monitors lying around from the mid 90's. They were just sony rebranded monitors, but theyre still nice flat screens despite being 15" and 14".
My primary desktop monitor is a Mag 720V2 which seems to only do 59/60hz on any resolution, but does up to 1600x1200x32... Its maybe a 1997 or 1998 monitor. *shrugs*
Another major issue, is that the big players seem to have a lot of sway (for obvious reasons) with Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/etc, enough that new developers really can't get into the market unless you've been making pc games for half a century first. Microsoft is the only one that I've found so far who even has a program for 'the little guy' which is the "Incubator Program", but it's still not easy to get into and you better plan on having the game running as a prototype in 6 months. My biggest frustration is trying to find licensing for my BZFlag Console Edition project. I've sent off a hundred emails to licensed developers hoping to establish a partnership that will get my project on its feet. I'm very frustrated with the manufacturers at the moment, and it seems no wonder why there aren't more games on the market and likewise that costs havent been driven down by more games coming out. There is, and always will be far less games and innovation on gaming console systems unless the manufacturers take a chance on the little guy and someone spots them some hardware. Would it really kill microsoft to give out a few hundred development kit xbox's if they get a chance to draw more products to their platform? They have the law behind them if people break contracts and want to release NDA'd material. There isn't a discernable reason other than peer pressure from licensed developers. If they want innovation, someone needs to help the ComSci major who's in love with his XBox to make the games he dreams of. What are dreams without a canvas to paint them on. Lots of fabulous ideas are lost to the winds and not enough winds of change are blowing.
In reply to you and the fellow above, this was indeed a long time ago, perhaps 10 years?
I wonder if you can make free phone calls with an atari?
My favorite thing about 2600 was their use of bart system, put in bart ticket, meet in the station underground, go back home, and go out the same terminal you came in, pay no fare total because you "travelled no distance". I thought that was slick.
oops, i should read the rest of the nested comments before replying =)
Funny enough inflammable means flammable. Haven't you seen the Simpsons?
Trilogy Of Errors episode, Dr Nick's office burns down due to ether catching on fire and Dr Nick Says: "Flammable means inflammable?! What a country!"
Remove head from sphincter, then post. Did you completely miss the sarcasm or what?
its not a solid, its a super-solid. and not super like super man, but super like the root from supervisor, sort of like above-solid.
Just make sure not to bring any credit cards when you're on board.. Also, don't wear anything metallic if you dont want to be stuck to the floor all day. =)
But realisticly, how do they avoid this problem?
What a bummer, 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is really only about 931GB, before formatting. This is where I hate that difference between 1024 and 1000 being defined as a megabyte
I present to the court exhibit A:
Line 1,131,232 on page 22 reads:
i++;
Now reference our proprietary code in exhibit B and you see the line has been copied verbatim!
I guess what I was getting to is that cringely is suggesting all kinds of new firmware (albeit on existing 802.11 technology) which basically would not adhere to the standard for what goes over the physical wireless link. It seemed that you were implying that Fleishman thinks Cringely was talking about a whole new technology all together (not 802.11). Based on all that, my reply was trying to say that i thought fleishman was saying that with existing firmware, standards, technology, etc (not changing anything about the hardware or the link layer) would suffice to accomplish the things that WhyFi proposed.