Two 5.25" single-sided (180K) floppies, 64K, boots OS off floppy. Original Wordstar 1.0. I use conversion software to transfer to DOS. 300-baud model for serial port, print on Brother HR-1 Daisy wheel printer.
Works great.
Bought another unit at a garage sale for $15 a couple of years ago to use for spares.
We're seeing a high degree of non-linear behavior here, as befits a system that has reached this degree of complexity.
Given this nonlinearity, the grid -- like the weather -- will probably resist conventional mathematics. This makes it likely to remain relatively but not absolutely predictable.
The proper application of chaos theory, identifying the systems strange attractors could allow a better ability to predict behavior and possibly to allow some sort of alerts akin to hurricane warnings... which, as we know, are pretty good but not perfect.
Back when television and direct -ial long-distance were the highest tech that most people came in contact with, futuristic science was a niche genre for a very few people with imaginations to see what might be.
Because book editors pretty well reflect the trailing edge of technology, they were quick to pigeon-hole anything to do with science.
Now that people are surrounded by technology and its consequences, from GPS, cellphones, and genetically-modified corn in the nacho chips, science is a mainstream thing.
I've written 19 published books and the degree to which they deal with technology would have put me in the science fiction genre 30 years ago. Now my stuff is in mainstream fiction, although I still do a fair number of signings from fantasy and science fiction specialty bookstores.
Shortly after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the U.S. Congress required all U.S. ships to use Morse code for all distress communications.
In 1979, the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue called for development of a global search and rescue plan. This group also passed a resolution calling for development by IMO of a Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
US ships were allowed to fit GMDSS in lieu of Morse telegraphy equipment by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
As a result, the Coast Guard has stopped monitoring the airwaves for Morse code distress signals.
So, Morse Code's primary reason for being is gone. So should the dits and dahs.
yes, I know you are right and I agree. I was using the same units as the original piece from Nature... I would guess that Nature was going for the largest possible comprehension level -- aka "dumbing it down."
It raises issues of journalistic judgement. I assume that slashdotters will all understand micro- nano- and pico- but what happens when we get into femto- and atto-? Likewise, we know mega- giga- and tera-, but what about peta- and exa-?
Again, you're correct but I think that Nature opted for maximum comprehension.
I've been teaching my son, William, HTML. The shreds thumbnail page, and all the rest of the lewisperdue.com pages are his. He's 10.
Been there, Done that: Here are the Pictures
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I led a team of investigative reporters in 1977 who reconstituted a ton of shredded documents and used them to spur on a Congressional investigation into payoffs from wealthy South Korean businessman Tongsun Park who was the main conduit for his country's efforts to buy influence.
We wrote a book called, The Washington Connection and the resulting scandal was called Koreagate.
The processing power for our operation came from open-source wetware running on carbs and adrenaline supplemented by adequate doses of ethanol. We experienced frequent meatware crashes as the result of overloaded I/O handlers.
Yeah, Wordstar=good WP program. I still have 1.0 running on CP/M on my Kaypro II... I use it sometimes for my book writing...CTRL codes a LOT better/faster than mouse.
Using mostly stuff I have lying around in my garage workshop this weekend, I can fry most of the chips in the average server farm, telephone switching facility or the radios used by police, fire and emergency services. If I did it right, I can 86 all of the above at the same time.
Indeed, I can zap all the control circuits in a modern fly-by-wire jumbo aircraft and make it do a ballistic imitation of a large brick. If I time things right, I can bring a fully fueled jet down right in the middle of San Francisco.
Can you say "9/11?" Sure you can. So here we are, nine months along, and those who are supposed to protect us are as clueless as ever.
I could create total electronic chaos and another 9/11 with a homemade, explosively pumped, flux compression generator, and I can do it with data I found on the Internet, including some very helpful stuff from the Los Alamos nuclear lab web site.
We're talking here about an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon, the neutron bomb of electronic circuits. A garage EMP bomb is amazingly easy to build, especially with a 15-minute Google search.
Undoubtedly you have read about the EMP weapons we used in the Gulf War and Yugoslavia to take out air defense electronics. What you may not have read about is a 1995 incident when Chechnyan rebels used one to fry security circuits in 1995 to gain access to a Soviet facility.
Yeah, I've tried for months now to get anyone in power to care. Local law enforcement said it was not their table and to call the Feds. The FBI agent on duty in San Francisco was totally clueless... said someone would call me back. Not.
I used to work for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran. So I called one of the staffers I knew, and she referred me to the White House Liaison for Home Security. No call back there, either.
But maybe an EMP weapon sounds too much like anti-gravity boots and close encounters with Airstream trailer communities in the Mojave and that's why nobody returns calls and nothing gets done.
But realize this: the NATO document mentions the use of an EMP weapon by Chechnyan rebels. Al-Qaida includes many Chechnyans among the hard-core fighters, thus the usefulness of EMP weapons has surely been transferred to the bad guys still out there looking for an opportunity to make another big splash.
So, I couldn't just let the non-responses from the FBI and Homeland Defense be the end of the matter. With a little more digging on the Web, I located a DOE phone directory last week and called the folks who are head of security for the national nuclear labs. I actually got a call back and forwarded the information (below) via e-mail. I got a form e-mail reply, but the Los Alamos page (http://www.lanl.gov/dirac/) is still up there.
Why is the Los Alamos page important? Because it gives me a good look at an actual physical configuration of a real bomb that works. Taken together with the other web pages, it gives me an excellent chance to build a bomb that works.
Perhaps having the data out there for anyone is a victory for open info on the net, but then how easy DO we want to make it for terrorists? Where is the line between the free flow of information and discussion and giving folks easy access on how to build weapons?
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>Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:15:26 -0800 >To: marc.hollander@nnsa.doe.gov >From: Lewis Perdue >Subject: links > >Very nice chatting with you. Below are the major links I mentioned. > >Some detailed background on the threat can be found in a NATO Parliamentary Assembly report at: > >http://www.nato-pa.int/publications/comre p/2001/a u-221-e.html > >I quoted from this report at the end of this e-mail. But particularly relevant is the following from that NATO report: > >"38.The possibility of terrorists using EMP weapons has been raising alarm for at least a decade among defence analysts. According to Winn Schwartau, an information warfare specialist, rudimentary EMP devices have been assembled by US Department of Defense consultants within two weeks at the cost of $500. Such devices, capable of disrupting computers, medical equipment and cars, could be placed in a van or even reduced to fit into a suitcase. Criminal organisations in Russia have been accused of using EMP devices to bypass alarm systems. According to the Russian Armed Forces, Chechen rebels might have used similar technology to disrupt Russian electronic communication equipment." > >As I mentioned to you, I can describe how such a device could be used to cause another 9/11-type disaster. > >links: > >THIS IS A KEY ONE: http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i8.html-ssi >
>THE FOLLOWING may seem harmless, but the principles for forming metal, apply directly to an EMP weapon, both in learning how to acquire the capacitors for the construction, and because the electromagnetic pulse formation is very nearly the same. > >http://www.mse.eng.ohio-state.edu/~daeh n/metalfor minghb/tabofcont/index.html > >THE FOLLOWING ARE SOURCES FOR THE PULSE POWER CAPACITORS NEEDED... and monitoring sales could be an early warning. If you can get the manufacturers to look for suspicious purchases it could be a good tripwire. > >http://www.nwl.com/ >http://www.ae rovox.com/ >http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~wiley/ ppti2.htm l > > >YOU'LL WANT TO FOLLOW LINKS FROM THIS PAGE: >http://er6s1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~daehn/hyp erplast icity.html > >SOME OF THOSE LINKS INCLUDE: > >Manufacturers of Pulse Power Equipment > Maxwell-Magneform > IAP Research > Elmag, Inc. > Pulsar Technologies (welding / crimping) > Manget-Physik (German Mfr. of Electromagnetic Forming Hardware & MagnetoPulS® Technology) > Kharkov Polytechnic University, Ukraine (research and equipment) > >Other sites related to high velocity deformation and/or hardware >Pulse Power Equipment > Richardson Electric (ingitrons) > Maxwell Technologies > Pulsed Power Technologies, Inc. > Pulse Power Switching Overview > Fantastically Dangerous Cap. Bank Experiments > Aerovox Corp. (capacitor mfgr. ) > Darrah Electronics (solid state switching) > Contents of IEEE Pulsed Power Conferences > >High Velocity Forming and Pulse Power Applications > EMF Industries, Inc. (assembly with EMF is highlighted) > Sparktec Environ mental Corp (uses sparks for water purification) > Dana Corporation Develops Improved Magnetic -Pulse Process > Electroimpact Home Page (mfr. of electromagnetic dent removers etc.) > CONTENTS PAGE - RESEARCH AT SSAU (1997) (Russian welding, etc.) > Simple Analysis from J. Krauss Electromagnetics Book > Robert Hahn at IWF, Technical Univ. of Berlin (in German) > >IF YOU WERE DESPERATE FOR C-4 or Semtex for your EMP device, and didn't have a source for the ready-made stuff, you could try here: > >http://www.phreak.org/archives/The_Hack er_Chronic les_II/pyro/miss2.txt >http://www.strange-days.de mon.co.uk/anarchy/bomb/ bombs-1.html > >FINALLY.... > >New material continues to be posted on the Web. If you do a search for "flux compression generator" you will find more listings than just the ones above. > > >NATO Parliamentary Assembly >http://www.nato-pa.int/publications/comrep/2001 /a u-221-e.html > >37.Yet another threat seems more imminent. As Ehlers indicated in his report, computer systems and all electronic devices can be seriously damaged by weapons producing electro-magnetic pulses (EMP). High Power Microwaves (HPM) or EMP bombs and High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) guns can radiate intense pulses of electro-magnetic energy capable of severely damaging computers, radar and all electronic equipment. They can even destroy circuits, microprocessors and other components. These weapons are well-known in Russia, where extensive studies were conducted during the Cold War. The US Air Force used EMP and HERF weapons successfully in 1991 against Iraqi radar installations, and in 1999 against Yugoslav electronic infrastructure. > >38.The possibility of terrorists using EMP weapons has been raising alarm for at least a decade among defence analysts. According to Winn Schwartau, an information warfare specialist, rudimentary EMP devices have been assembled by US Department of Defense consultants within two weeks at the cost of $500.
Such devices, capable of disrupting computers, medical equipment and cars, could be placed in a van or even reduced to fit into a suitcase. Criminal organisations in Russia have been accused of using EMP devices to bypass alarm systems. According to the Russian Armed Forces, Chechen rebels might have used similar technology to disrupt Russian electronic communication equipment. > > 39.In his book Cybershock, Schwartau considers some possible effects of a well-orchestrated EMP attack upon Western infrastructure: > > Wall Street or other banking systems can be attacked, causing repetitive failures resulting in financial losses. Also past records can be wiped out by onslaughts of electromagnetic pulses; aircraft avionics and guidance systems can be overloaded by targeted HERF, causing potentially deadly conditions; medical equipment can fail under the attack of intense energy spikes, putting human lives in danger; communication nodes can be burned out by intense microwave radiation; municipal emergency services can be made inoperable by debilitating wide-band microwave jamming; power lines and transformers may serve as efficient conductors to transmit huge current to victim businesses and sub-stations, causing regional black-outs. > >40.The ability to build EMP weapons is apparently quite widespread, yet there are no international controls over the import and export of the related technologies. Defensive techniques, although in some cases expensive, have been partially deployed in the public sector (especially to protect military assets), but remain extremely rare in the private sector.
Tacoma Narrows/Millennium Bridge Disasters
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In 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed" because insufficient stiffening allowed the wind to create oscillations that destroyed it.
Fast forward 61 years to London and the Millennium Bridge near-disaster where insufficient stiffening... well, you get the picture.
Point is, a list such as this one is valuable ONLY if we remember and learn from it. Those who forget history are doomed...
So where is the AFFILIATE program???
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Sun has got to take a page out of the Amazon book and create an affiliate program for StarOffice purchases... we can all post the link/promo on our web sites and get $5 or something per copy sold... $5 that would have gone to Microsoft!
This is closer to reality than you think. I wrote a fact-based novel about this in 1996, <i>SlateWiper</i> (http://www.slatewiper.com), in which a gene weapon could be quickly engineered to target specific ethnic groups and even micro-populations of people in small areas who have intermarried and thus share some of the repeat marker genes... Slatewiper was recently bought by St. Martins Press and optioned for a movie by Carlsbad Pictures... I am re-writing to update things given the past five years of genome and proteome research... BTW, preventing a global disaster depends on the integrity of a dossier of high-ranking people compiled by the hero who has salted the data all over the web, encoded in.jpg files on porn sites and sex newsgroups... arrayed against him is a virus 'bot that spiders the web, looking for digital profiles of the dossier and deleting the files where it finds them.
read the log: Screwups "with help from NT"
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The day really gets off to a bad start. The server connection to the net is down hard. We worked on it last night until 0100 and could not bring it up. We were doing the file server part of network
reconfiguration yesterday. This moved the FS to the lab-we also extended the Ethernet lan from the
Node into the lab (not part of the procedure). This allowed the server to rejoin the network without delay, rather than waiting much later when the RF access points are set up. The plan was working well, and the server was online from mid afternoon. At about 2200, we were reconfiguring some mail files which, with a lot of help from Windows NT, got put in the wrong place during the backup procedure. When we finished restoring the files, the network was down and would not come back up. We worked this for several hours. Finally, jiggling some cables brings just a part of the net back.
(that really instills confidence in the stability of your network).
So as of 0700, we have to use the OCA machine for daily planning. Fortunately, ground has uplinked
everything to the OCA's directories, so at least we have what we need onboard. But when we try and
print, the printer locks up. It is not happy with the net now either. So Shep and Sergei start trying to figure out what is going on. After trying lots of other computer tricks that don't work, we put another network card in the server and that seems to fix the server problem. We power cycle the printer and that comes back. We are having a hard time understanding the how and why, but everything is working.
Indeed, sex is keeping Exodus and other hosters are staying alive because of porn sites... further, any crackdown on porn by the Religious Right would make the tech slump a LOT worse...
I wrote a piece on this for the Wall Street Journal Online. If you have an account at wsj.com, you can find the piece at:
you can get a longer, uncut piece at http://www.eroticabiz.com/.
consider:
-- 13 of the top 20 adult web sites are hosted by a handful of large, well-known public companies whose SEC filings never mention their adult clients: AboveNet, Digex (part of MCI), Exodus, Level3, UUNet (part of MCI), and Verio (owned by Japanese telecom
giant, NTT).
-- 19 of the top 20 run on Linux or some variant or precursor.
-- "Two years ago, our money came from e-commerce companies, ASPs [Application Service
Providers], ISPs, and portals", said Hall. "Today companies in those sectors are struggling and
mostly unable to pay their bills. Probably 20% of our mainstream customers have gone out of
business over the last six months, while only 2-3% of our adult customers have gone out of
business." Other hosting and backbone sources confirmed Nash's statistics with some saying that
non-adult customer loss was between 10 and 25% including those officially still on the books, but
not paying their bills.
What's more adult sites are also the most profitable. "An average mainstream customer at our
company spends $5,000 per month," said Hall. "An average adult customer spends around
$20,000 per month."
-- "I'd say that about 65% of the data transferred through the data center I work in is porn," said a
network engineer with Exodus. Other estimates of how much of the Web's total bandwidth that porn
consumes ranges as high as 80% but none put it lower than 40%.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35752&cid=3870 691
and
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/11/045123 6&tid=137
Two 5.25" single-sided (180K) floppies, 64K, boots OS off floppy. Original Wordstar 1.0. I use conversion software to transfer to DOS. 300-baud model for serial port, print on Brother HR-1 Daisy wheel printer.
Works great.
Bought another unit at a garage sale for $15 a couple of years ago to use for spares.
Rarely gives a BDOS error.
We're seeing a high degree of non-linear behavior here, as befits a system that has reached this degree of complexity.
... which, as we know, are pretty good but not perfect.
Given this nonlinearity, the grid -- like the weather -- will probably resist conventional mathematics. This makes it likely to remain relatively but not absolutely predictable.
The proper application of chaos theory, identifying the systems strange attractors could allow a better ability to predict behavior and possibly to allow some sort of alerts akin to hurricane warnings
Back when television and direct -ial long-distance were the highest tech that most people came in contact with, futuristic science was a niche genre for a very few people with imaginations to see what might be.
Because book editors pretty well reflect the trailing edge of technology, they were quick to pigeon-hole anything to do with science.
Now that people are surrounded by technology and its consequences, from GPS, cellphones, and genetically-modified corn in the nacho chips, science is a mainstream thing.
I've written 19 published books and the degree to which they deal with technology would have put me in the science fiction genre 30 years ago. Now my stuff is in mainstream fiction, although I still do a fair number of signings from fantasy and science fiction specialty bookstores.
In 1979, the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue called for development of a global search and rescue plan. This group also passed a resolution calling for development by IMO of a Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
US ships were allowed to fit GMDSS in lieu of Morse telegraphy equipment by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
As a result, the Coast Guard has stopped monitoring the airwaves for Morse code distress signals. So, Morse Code's primary reason for being is gone. So should the dits and dahs.
If you REALLY want a lot more, check out: http://www.maredunet.com/nl/other/gmdss.htm
yes, I know you are right and I agree. I was using the same units as the original piece from Nature ... I would guess that Nature was going for the largest possible comprehension level -- aka "dumbing it down."
It raises issues of journalistic judgement. I assume that slashdotters will all understand micro- nano- and pico- but what happens when we get into femto- and atto-? Likewise, we know mega- giga- and tera-, but what about peta- and exa-?
Again, you're correct but I think that Nature opted for maximum comprehension.
I've been teaching my son, William, HTML. The shreds thumbnail page, and all the rest of the lewisperdue.com pages are his. He's 10.
We wrote a book called, The Washington Connection and the resulting scandal was called Koreagate.
I've scanned the shreds-related photos from "The Washington Connection" for Slashdot users. The link to a thumbnail page of those photos is at: lewisperdue.com/book-covers/washington-conection.s html
The processing power for our operation came from open-source wetware running on carbs and adrenaline supplemented by adequate doses of ethanol. We experienced frequent meatware crashes as the result of overloaded I/O handlers.
Yeah, Wordstar=good WP program. I still have 1.0 running on CP/M on my Kaypro II ... I use it sometimes for my book writing...CTRL codes a LOT better/faster than mouse.
Using mostly stuff I have lying around in my garage workshop this weekend, I can fry most of the chips in the average server farm, telephone switching facility or the radios used by police, fire and emergency services. If I did it right, I can 86 all of the above at the same time.
... said someone would call me back. Not.
e p/2001/a u-221-e.html
>
h n/metalfor minghb/tabofcont/index.html ... and monitoring sales could be an early warning. If you can get the manufacturers to look for suspicious purchases it could be a good tripwire.e rovox.com// ppti2.htm lp erplast icity.htmlk er_Chronic les_II/pyro/miss2.txte mon.co.uk/anarchy/bomb/ bombs-1.html ....1 /a u-221-e.html
Indeed, I can zap all the control circuits in a modern fly-by-wire jumbo aircraft and make it do a ballistic imitation of a large brick. If I time things right, I can bring a fully fueled jet down right in the middle of San Francisco.
Can you say "9/11?" Sure you can. So here we are, nine months along, and those who are supposed to protect us are as clueless as ever.
I could create total electronic chaos and another 9/11 with a homemade, explosively pumped, flux compression generator, and I can do it with data I found on the Internet, including some very helpful stuff from the Los Alamos nuclear lab web site.
We're talking here about an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon, the neutron bomb of electronic circuits. A garage EMP bomb is amazingly easy to build, especially with a 15-minute Google search.
Undoubtedly you have read about the EMP weapons we used in the Gulf War and Yugoslavia to take out air defense electronics. What you may not have read about is a 1995 incident when Chechnyan rebels used one to fry security circuits in 1995 to gain access to a Soviet facility.
Yeah, I've tried for months now to get anyone in power to care. Local law enforcement said it was not their table and to call the Feds. The FBI agent on duty in San Francisco was totally clueless
I used to work for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran. So I called one of the staffers I knew, and she referred me to the White House Liaison for Home Security. No call back there, either.
But maybe an EMP weapon sounds too much like anti-gravity boots and close encounters with Airstream trailer communities in the Mojave and that's why nobody returns calls and nothing gets done.
But realize this: the NATO document mentions the use of an EMP weapon by Chechnyan rebels. Al-Qaida includes many Chechnyans among the hard-core fighters, thus the usefulness of EMP weapons has surely been transferred to the bad guys still out there looking for an opportunity to make another big splash.
So, I couldn't just let the non-responses from the FBI and Homeland Defense be the end of the matter. With a little more digging on the Web, I located a DOE phone directory last week and called the folks who are head of security for the national nuclear labs. I actually got a call back and forwarded the information (below) via e-mail. I got a form e-mail reply, but the Los Alamos page (http://www.lanl.gov/dirac/) is still up there.
Why is the Los Alamos page important? Because it gives me a good look at an actual physical configuration of a real bomb that works. Taken together with the other web pages, it gives me an excellent chance to build a bomb that works.
Perhaps having the data out there for anyone is a victory for open info on the net, but then how easy DO we want to make it for terrorists? Where is the line between the free flow of information and discussion and giving folks easy access on how to build weapons?
EMAIL TO NATIONAL LABS SECURITY FOLLOWS
>Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:15:26 -0800
>To: marc.hollander@nnsa.doe.gov
>From: Lewis Perdue
>Subject: links
>
>Very nice chatting with you. Below are the major links I mentioned.
>
>Some detailed background on the threat can be found in a NATO Parliamentary Assembly report at:
>
>http://www.nato-pa.int/publications/comr
>
>I quoted from this report at the end of this e-mail. But particularly relevant is the following from that NATO report:
>
>"38.The possibility of terrorists using EMP weapons has been raising alarm for at least a decade among defence analysts. According to Winn Schwartau, an information warfare specialist, rudimentary EMP devices have been assembled by US Department of Defense consultants within two weeks at the cost of $500. Such devices, capable of disrupting computers, medical equipment and cars, could be placed in a van or even reduced to fit into a suitcase. Criminal organisations in Russia have been accused of using EMP devices to bypass alarm systems. According to the Russian Armed Forces, Chechen rebels might have used similar technology to disrupt Russian electronic communication equipment."
>
>As I mentioned to you, I can describe how such a device could be used to cause another 9/11-type disaster.
>
>links:
>
>THIS IS A KEY ONE: http://www.infowar.com/mil_c4i/mil_c4i8.html-ssi
>THE FOLLOWING may seem harmless, but the principles for forming metal, apply directly to an EMP weapon, both in learning how to acquire the capacitors for the construction, and because the electromagnetic pulse formation is very nearly the same.
>
>http://www.mse.eng.ohio-state.edu/~dae
>
>THE FOLLOWING ARE SOURCES FOR THE PULSE POWER CAPACITORS NEEDED
>
>http://www.nwl.com/
>http://www.a
>http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~wiley
>
>
>YOU'LL WANT TO FOLLOW LINKS FROM THIS PAGE:
>http://er6s1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~daehn/hy
>
>SOME OF THOSE LINKS INCLUDE:
>
>Manufacturers of Pulse Power Equipment
> Maxwell-Magneform
> IAP Research
> Elmag, Inc.
> Pulsar Technologies (welding / crimping)
> Manget-Physik (German Mfr. of Electromagnetic Forming Hardware & MagnetoPulS® Technology)
> Kharkov Polytechnic University, Ukraine (research and equipment)
>
>Other sites related to high velocity deformation and/or hardware
>Pulse Power Equipment
> Richardson Electric (ingitrons)
> Maxwell Technologies
> Pulsed Power Technologies, Inc.
> Pulse Power Switching Overview
> Fantastically Dangerous Cap. Bank Experiments
> Aerovox Corp. (capacitor mfgr. )
> Darrah Electronics (solid state switching)
> Contents of IEEE Pulsed Power Conferences
>
>High Velocity Forming and Pulse Power Applications
> EMF Industries, Inc. (assembly with EMF is highlighted)
> Sparktec Environ mental Corp (uses sparks for water purification)
> Dana Corporation Develops Improved Magnetic -Pulse Process
> Electroimpact Home Page (mfr. of electromagnetic dent removers etc.)
> CONTENTS PAGE - RESEARCH AT SSAU (1997) (Russian welding, etc.)
> Simple Analysis from J. Krauss Electromagnetics Book
> Robert Hahn at IWF, Technical Univ. of Berlin (in German)
>
>IF YOU WERE DESPERATE FOR C-4 or Semtex for your EMP device, and didn't have a source for the ready-made stuff, you could try here:
>
>http://www.phreak.org/archives/The_Hac
>http://www.strange-days.d
>
>FINALLY
>
>New material continues to be posted on the Web. If you do a search for "flux compression generator" you will find more listings than just the ones above.
>
>
>NATO Parliamentary Assembly
>http://www.nato-pa.int/publications/comrep/200
>
>37.Yet another threat seems more imminent. As Ehlers indicated in his report, computer systems and all electronic devices can be seriously damaged by weapons producing electro-magnetic pulses (EMP). High Power Microwaves (HPM) or EMP bombs and High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) guns can radiate intense pulses of electro-magnetic energy capable of severely damaging computers, radar and all electronic equipment. They can even destroy circuits, microprocessors and other components. These weapons are well-known in Russia, where extensive studies were conducted during the Cold War. The US Air Force used EMP and HERF weapons successfully in 1991 against Iraqi radar installations, and in 1999 against Yugoslav electronic infrastructure.
>
>38.The possibility of terrorists using EMP weapons has been raising alarm for at least a decade among defence analysts. According to Winn Schwartau, an information warfare specialist, rudimentary EMP devices have been assembled by US Department of Defense consultants within two weeks at the cost of $500.
Such devices, capable of disrupting computers, medical equipment and cars, could be placed in a van or even reduced to fit into a suitcase. Criminal organisations in Russia have been accused of using EMP devices to bypass alarm systems. According to the Russian Armed Forces, Chechen rebels might have used similar technology to disrupt Russian electronic communication equipment.
>
> 39.In his book Cybershock, Schwartau considers some possible effects of a well-orchestrated EMP attack upon Western infrastructure:
>
> Wall Street or other banking systems can be attacked, causing repetitive failures resulting in financial losses. Also past records can be wiped out by onslaughts of electromagnetic pulses; aircraft avionics and guidance systems can be overloaded by targeted HERF, causing potentially deadly conditions; medical equipment can fail under the attack of intense energy spikes, putting human lives in danger; communication nodes can be burned out by intense microwave radiation; municipal emergency services can be made inoperable by debilitating wide-band microwave jamming; power lines and transformers may serve as efficient conductors to transmit huge current to victim businesses and sub-stations, causing regional black-outs.
>
>40.The ability to build EMP weapons is apparently quite widespread, yet there are no international controls over the import and export of the related technologies. Defensive techniques, although in some cases expensive, have been partially deployed in the public sector (especially to protect military assets), but remain extremely rare in the private sector.
In 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed" because insufficient stiffening allowed the wind to create oscillations that destroyed it.
... well, you get the picture.
...
Fast forward 61 years to London and the Millennium Bridge near-disaster where insufficient stiffening
Point is, a list such as this one is valuable ONLY if we remember and learn from it. Those who forget history are doomed
Sun has got to take a page out of the Amazon book and create an affiliate program for StarOffice purchases ... we can all post the link/promo on our web sites and get $5 or something per copy sold ... $5 that would have gone to Microsoft!
The best weapon for this are ethnically targeted gene weapons.
My K&E Decilon is still slip sliding along.
This is closer to reality than you think. I wrote a fact-based novel about this in 1996, <i>SlateWiper</i> (http://www.slatewiper.com), in which a gene weapon could be quickly engineered to target specific ethnic groups and even micro-populations of people in small areas who have intermarried and thus share some of the repeat marker genes ... Slatewiper was recently bought by St. Martins Press and optioned for a movie by Carlsbad Pictures ... I am re-writing to update things given the past five years of genome and proteome research ... BTW, preventing a global disaster depends on the integrity of a dossier of high-ranking people compiled by the hero who has salted the data all over the web, encoded in .jpg files on porn sites and sex newsgroups... arrayed against him is a virus 'bot that spiders the web, looking for digital profiles of the dossier and deleting the files where it finds them.
FROM:
x p1 shepmarfeb.html
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/e
SHIP'S LOG 22 FEB
The day really gets off to a bad start. The server connection to the net is down hard. We worked on it last night until 0100 and could not bring it up. We were doing the file server part of network
reconfiguration yesterday. This moved the FS to the lab-we also extended the Ethernet lan from the
Node into the lab (not part of the procedure). This allowed the server to rejoin the network without delay, rather than waiting much later when the RF access points are set up. The plan was working well, and the server was online from mid afternoon. At about 2200, we were reconfiguring some mail files which, with a lot of help from Windows NT, got put in the wrong place during the backup procedure. When we finished restoring the files, the network was down and would not come back up. We worked this for several hours. Finally, jiggling some cables brings just a part of the net back.
(that really instills confidence in the stability of your network).
So as of 0700, we have to use the OCA machine for daily planning. Fortunately, ground has uplinked
everything to the OCA's directories, so at least we have what we need onboard. But when we try and
print, the printer locks up. It is not happy with the net now either. So Shep and Sergei start trying to figure out what is going on. After trying lots of other computer tricks that don't work, we put another network card in the server and that seems to fix the server problem. We power cycle the printer and that comes back. We are having a hard time understanding the how and why, but everything is working.
Indeed, sex is keeping Exodus and other hosters are staying alive because of porn sites ... further, any crackdown on porn by the Religious Right would make the tech slump a LOT worse ...
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I wrote a piece on this for the Wall Street Journal Online. If you have an account at wsj.com, you can find the piece at:
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve@6.c
OR
you can get a longer, uncut piece at http://www.eroticabiz.com/.
consider:
-- 13 of the top 20 adult web sites are hosted by a handful of large, well-known public companies whose SEC filings never mention their adult clients: AboveNet, Digex (part of MCI), Exodus, Level3, UUNet (part of MCI), and Verio (owned by Japanese telecom
giant, NTT).
-- 19 of the top 20 run on Linux or some variant or precursor.
-- "Two years ago, our money came from e-commerce companies, ASPs [Application Service
Providers], ISPs, and portals", said Hall. "Today companies in those sectors are struggling and
mostly unable to pay their bills. Probably 20% of our mainstream customers have gone out of
business over the last six months, while only 2-3% of our adult customers have gone out of
business." Other hosting and backbone sources confirmed Nash's statistics with some saying that
non-adult customer loss was between 10 and 25% including those officially still on the books, but
not paying their bills.
What's more adult sites are also the most profitable. "An average mainstream customer at our
company spends $5,000 per month," said Hall. "An average adult customer spends around
$20,000 per month."
-- "I'd say that about 65% of the data transferred through the data center I work in is porn," said a
network engineer with Exodus. Other estimates of how much of the Web's total bandwidth that porn
consumes ranges as high as 80% but none put it lower than 40%.