From the article, all of the data he compiled was obtained from public sources. If anybody else wanted to replicate the work, it would only take their time. I'd imagine that you could get all the information you need through public records for building permits and right of way use. I mean, squelching the person who took the time to compile it all isn't going to do much good unless you classify every public record the US has for infrastructure.
Try doing this when you are expected to pay for your tuition. For my university, tuition alone is roughly $4,800/year (excluding housing). Now, making $6.00/hour should give you $12k gross for a full time job. You try to finance your way through college on $12k/ year. It doesn't work.
If the software insdustry is dead, this would be quite odd. Perhaps certain portions of the industry are getting saturated, but there apparently still are some developing markets.
Now if developing market out there is looking for a summer geek, I have a resume waiting for them...
According to the figure in the article, the keyboard is wireless and "can be used on lap." I don't know, but I don't think I really want to be using a keyboard that was on somebody else's naked lap.
This also calls to question the types of sites people will be visiting in a public john with internet access. (This is one case where I'd hope they have a content filter.)
Unlike the the terrorist threat index, this is more a measure of what's acutally happening.
Perhaps they should really be calling this the Privacy Removal Index or something of the like.
Recently, there has been a large amount of hype for hybrid networks that use a combination of free space optics and WiFi. Basically the free space optical heads provide a high speed mesh @ 1.25GB/s or so, and the WiFi provides the breakout links. There is a paper up on IEEE eXplore by Jinlong Zhang: "A Proposal of Free Space Optical Network for Broadband Access" that comes to mind as being useful.
All of these technologies are emerging to try to link the last mile to the high speed backbone as the cost of fiber is prohibitive (~$325/m) and the majority of the US doesn't live on top of a fiber backbone.
In a school situation, I'd imagine it wouldn't be that hard to guesstimate the first six digits of a SSN. Remember that the first six digits would inculde the geography identifier (first 3 digits of the number), the group number (assigned chronologically), and one digit of the serial number.
Assuming most kids in the school are born in Florida and about the same time, you have a reasonable set to search.
Info on SSN number formatting
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"You've got fired!"
Perhaps the Cult of the Dead Cow is trying to ensure a stable userbase for their next version of Back Orrifice?
What's a pice?
From the article, all of the data he compiled was obtained from public sources. If anybody else wanted to replicate the work, it would only take their time. I'd imagine that you could get all the information you need through public records for building permits and right of way use. I mean, squelching the person who took the time to compile it all isn't going to do much good unless you classify every public record the US has for infrastructure.
I'd like to think this isn't the way the world is headed. This seems like it is really from the big-brother-is-watching-you dept.
Try doing this when you are expected to pay for your tuition. For my university, tuition alone is roughly $4,800/year (excluding housing). Now, making $6.00/hour should give you $12k gross for a full time job. You try to finance your way through college on $12k/ year. It doesn't work.
If the software insdustry is dead, this would be quite odd. Perhaps certain portions of the industry are getting saturated, but there apparently still are some developing markets. Now if developing market out there is looking for a summer geek, I have a resume waiting for them...
According to the figure in the article, the keyboard is wireless and "can be used on lap." I don't know, but I don't think I really want to be using a keyboard that was on somebody else's naked lap.
This also calls to question the types of sites people will be visiting in a public john with internet access. (This is one case where I'd hope they have a content filter.)
THAT would be music to my ears.
Are you a neurosurgeon looking for business here?
/. don't think ThinkGeek T-shirts are cool?
Seriously, how many people reading
I mean seriously here. If they could make data entry more efficeint, it's pretty difficult to use for a left handed person, and slow for righties.
Instead of just improving specifications, why not improve the product design itself?
Well, I heard the policy is that stories will only get posted three times or more on April first.
Is that the politically correct way of saying muscle massager, or vibrating stimulator?
Unlike the the terrorist threat index, this is more a measure of what's acutally happening. Perhaps they should really be calling this the Privacy Removal Index or something of the like.
Recently, there has been a large amount of hype for hybrid networks that use a combination of free space optics and WiFi. Basically the free space optical heads provide a high speed mesh @ 1.25GB/s or so, and the WiFi provides the breakout links. There is a paper up on IEEE eXplore by Jinlong Zhang: "A Proposal of Free Space Optical Network for Broadband Access" that comes to mind as being useful.
From the article, this technology is meant to link 802.11 hotspots, not as a replacement to 802.11.
Free space optics is another interesting field that will give you upwards of 1Gb/s over 2km. More info on free space optics.
All of these technologies are emerging to try to link the last mile to the high speed backbone as the cost of fiber is prohibitive (~$325/m) and the majority of the US doesn't live on top of a fiber backbone.
a CD-ROM that doubles as a coffee cup holder!
In a school situation, I'd imagine it wouldn't be that hard to guesstimate the first six digits of a SSN. Remember that the first six digits would inculde the geography identifier (first 3 digits of the number), the group number (assigned chronologically), and one digit of the serial number. Assuming most kids in the school are born in Florida and about the same time, you have a reasonable set to search. Info on SSN number formatting