If anyone is interested in helping out, there is the talklock project. I started it a little over a year ago to do voice encryption for Blackberries, and as many mobile Java devices as possible.
Most of the pieces are there now, but it is not complete. There are screenshots available and it is GPL.
It can record audio and play audio, and send and receive audio from a web server. I even hacked together a shell script on my Mac to listen to the audio so I could test the code with only one phone:)
I agree, this technology is too important to wait for, we should develop it ourselves! Then it can't be taken away from us.
And yet, you come across as nerdier than the nerds. Comic book guy from the Simpsons.
I don't care for martial arts, but I do enjoy marital arts.
Also I have guns. They work well for slow-moving lazy bastards like me, without all that exercise nonsense involved with martial arts.
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So while you are all jerking yourselves off, I actually "thought" when reading this review. Two thoughts boiled to the top. First, the reviewer needs to get over the randomly ordered tip thing. They did it on purpose, it's random. Next. Second, when you rm a file in Ubuntu now, it goes to the trash can? Is that right? Because if that's true, that is like the horror, the horror. Making Linux do brain-dead shit like that will kill it. Third, I'm not sure how useful the part of the book about gconf would be. In reality, the desktop folks need to get over themselves. NetworkManager is a broken piece of shit, network connectivity has nothing to do with runlevel 5. A box is a box, you can do everything you need to do without GNOME or KDE. Personally, I'm glad Red Hat still has linuxconf. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
Maybe they won't get to build it, but it will be totally entertwined with Telstra's existing network. Lots of last mile hops will be Telstra, and many of the backbone fibers will be leased from Telstra, or bought from them.
We did the same thing in Ohio, and AT&T wasn't allowed to build it, but we are totally intertwined with them anyway. We don't even peer with them, it's all layer 1 or 2 service.
Yeah, the Blackberry does J2ME. Of course there are the usual platform oddities. I have been writing a voice encryption app for J2ME and testing on the Blackberry. The RIM SDK might make things easier to run on Blackberrys (Blackberries?) but sticking with the J2ME libraries makes for better compatibility.
I am using the Netbeans + Mobility Pack IDE. Totally free, and I can publish Over The Air using a webserver. No wierd restrictions like the RIM stuff.
So, uh, no one here is talking about network monitoring or control, which is the whole issue of this story... I am an engineer at an ISP, and I can tell you that we are not doing anything like this. I haven't even heard of this issue. We are just trying to keep our clients' dns servers running (they keep patching them and breaking them), and upgrading our fiber capacity (OC12 to gige, OC48 to 10gige). Having said that, we use ssh and a web browser (Nagios) to control and monitor, so not sure what you would do to make that "pandemic proof". Of course, if the Nagios box can't talk to stuff, it can't monitor it, which is a weakness.
I myself went through a similar thing. After 7 years in IT, I ended up making good money, but really disliking my job. Long story short, I went back to college for a couple of years. While there, besides my studies I took a low-paying student job doing IT work. With my student loans and the job I kept afloat. The commute was cheaper ( 20 minute bike ride each way on my $50 bike ). While there I also did my usual hobbyist tinkering with Unix, programming, and networking. After a year I got recruited by the networking department. Talking about my hobbyist projects around the coffee maker and taking cig breaks at the loading dock, turned out my interests were a perfect match for the network group. In the network department I got to develop a lot of new skills, but it was in a spirit of fun. Through contacts I made there, I now spend most of my time working on Juniper routers, in more of a telecom position. What I do is NOT IT, but rather I make a statewide network go flickety-flock. I make a lot more money than I did at the job I hated. A couple of times a week I get in the truck or van and drive 5 or 6 hours to do remote work. Beats being in a cube, and I don't have that "computer janitor" feeling any more. What do I do when this has run its course? I don't know. Maybe I'll open a guitar shop in the desert or something.
Have you read Joe? I won't start a personal attack or anything, but I've long since stopped reading his articles. I can't decide if he has trouble verbalizing things he knows, or if he just doesn't know them.
I still like CRTs too. My new LCD display at work only does 1280x1024. My ancient Apple monitor at my old job did 1450xsomething, and it was great.
Now I have a MacBook with the glossy 1280x800. I don't like the widescreen display, but the glossiness doesn't bother me, our office is very dark. They did a measurement and our office is like half the recommended number of lumens for overhead office lighting.
I just would like to have the extra couple hundred vertical pixels I had on my ThinkPad T43. And I miss my nipple mouse too.
Anyway I don't understand why everybody is excited about these widescreen displays. Normal width + shorter height != better display technology.
"of course since epic is built into the original chip blue print, just 'masking off that part' renders in a cpu that only spits out 'error, epic not found, halt now' that locks the chip from running."
If you have the chip blueprint, what is the problem? Cut out the "somehow use ip network to authenticate" part. Then start the fab.
My momma always used to say, EPIC is is EPIC does.
If you want to be a programmer, but don't want to read and understand how programs work? Fuck off and get a job in copier repair or something.
BTW - Thanks Slashdot! You Michigan fucking Ass-hats have moved the "Reply" link off to the side in some floating javascript piece of shit instead of where I have found it for the last 9 years. Eat shit and die.
I have to say I have been feeling the same way for a few years. It seems kind of wierd that I'm having this kind of reaction, as I'm in my, uhm, mid-thirties. When I was in my early 20's, living the "A young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days" lifestyle, I didn't really think it was wierd to have rebellious feelings against the government. But the more I hear the more I'm thinking that I need to be somewhere else.
My biggest issue is with Hollywood, or "The World Computer Network Police". But what is happening in government is the same thing - a huge shift in power to corporate interests, companies that view humans as Duracells, powering their world by being "good consumers".
No one has mentioned the first thing I thought - why are we busting all these people without thinking of fixing the problem - the problem being people running software on their computers that allows them to be very easily hacked.
Sigh. No one blames Microsoft for releasing proven insecure software, even on machines that have No eXecute bits. Shit.
I've been using *nix or MacOS since 2000. I haven't even had to think about being hacked. The worst thing that happened was that I had an ftp server running that allowed anonymous uploads, so some scripts left little "kilroy was here" files there.
Yes what this guy did is immoral and he should get in trouble. But it sucks that we are in a technical environment that makes such things so tempting to begin with.
May I be the first to say, "What the fuck are you all talking about? You can't use an orange box that you bought to use on your steam valve? What The Fuck?!
Absolutely says nothing. Cowboy Neal has had way, way too many cokes today.
Although I've noticed that for the last year or so, I haven't known what about 80% of the stories were talking about. But then again, I have a job, and a girlfriend...
..."less than 1/10 of a millimeter thick"... ..."fitted inside each drive a 0.6 millimeter-thick piece of glass"... So they invented a way to put 10 gallons of shit in a 5 gallon bucket? How do you put something over half a millimeter thick *inside* something a tenth of a millimeter thick? Walk away from Slashdot, and read a book.
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For the record, I don't give a shit.
If anyone is interested in helping out, there is the talklock project. I started it a little over a year ago to do voice encryption for Blackberries, and as many mobile Java devices as possible.
Most of the pieces are there now, but it is not complete. There are screenshots available and it is GPL.
It can record audio and play audio, and send and receive audio from a web server. I even hacked together a shell script on my Mac to listen to the audio so I could test the code with only one phone :)
I agree, this technology is too important to wait for, we should develop it ourselves! Then it can't be taken away from us.
And yet, you come across as nerdier than the nerds. Comic book guy from the Simpsons.
I don't care for martial arts, but I do enjoy marital arts.
Also I have guns. They work well for slow-moving lazy bastards like me, without all that exercise nonsense involved with martial arts.
So while you are all jerking yourselves off, I actually "thought" when reading this review. Two thoughts boiled to the top.
First, the reviewer needs to get over the randomly ordered tip thing. They did it on purpose, it's random. Next.
Second, when you rm a file in Ubuntu now, it goes to the trash can? Is that right? Because if that's true, that is like the horror, the horror. Making Linux do brain-dead shit like that will kill it.
Third, I'm not sure how useful the part of the book about gconf would be. In reality, the desktop folks need to get over themselves. NetworkManager is a broken piece of shit, network connectivity has nothing to do with runlevel 5. A box is a box, you can do everything you need to do without GNOME or KDE. Personally, I'm glad Red Hat still has linuxconf.
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
Maybe they won't get to build it, but it will be totally entertwined with Telstra's existing network. Lots of last mile hops will be Telstra, and many of the backbone fibers will be leased from Telstra, or bought from them.
We did the same thing in Ohio, and AT&T wasn't allowed to build it, but we are totally intertwined with them anyway. We don't even peer with them, it's all layer 1 or 2 service.
Yeah, the Blackberry does J2ME. Of course there are the usual platform oddities. I have been writing a voice encryption app for J2ME and testing on the Blackberry. The RIM SDK might make things easier to run on Blackberrys (Blackberries?) but sticking with the J2ME libraries makes for better compatibility.
I am using the Netbeans + Mobility Pack IDE. Totally free, and I can publish Over The Air using a webserver. No wierd restrictions like the RIM stuff.
So, uh, no one here is talking about network monitoring or control, which is the whole issue of this story...
I am an engineer at an ISP, and I can tell you that we are not doing anything like this. I haven't even heard of this issue. We are just trying to keep our clients' dns servers running (they keep patching them and breaking them), and upgrading our fiber capacity (OC12 to gige, OC48 to 10gige).
Having said that, we use ssh and a web browser (Nagios) to control and monitor, so not sure what you would do to make that "pandemic proof". Of course, if the Nagios box can't talk to stuff, it can't monitor it, which is a weakness.
Many, many fscking years of therapy.
I myself went through a similar thing. After 7 years in IT, I ended up making good money, but really disliking my job. Long story short, I went back to college for a couple of years. While there, besides my studies I took a low-paying student job doing IT work. With my student loans and the job I kept afloat. The commute was cheaper ( 20 minute bike ride each way on my $50 bike ).
While there I also did my usual hobbyist tinkering with Unix, programming, and networking. After a year I got recruited by the networking department. Talking about my hobbyist projects around the coffee maker and taking cig breaks at the loading dock, turned out my interests were a perfect match for the network group.
In the network department I got to develop a lot of new skills, but it was in a spirit of fun. Through contacts I made there, I now spend most of my time working on Juniper routers, in more of a telecom position. What I do is NOT IT, but rather I make a statewide network go flickety-flock. I make a lot more money than I did at the job I hated. A couple of times a week I get in the truck or van and drive 5 or 6 hours to do remote work. Beats being in a cube, and I don't have that "computer janitor" feeling any more.
What do I do when this has run its course? I don't know. Maybe I'll open a guitar shop in the desert or something.
Hmm. "While I respect Joe, "...
Have you read Joe? I won't start a personal attack or anything, but I've long since stopped reading his articles. I can't decide if he has trouble verbalizing things he knows, or if he just doesn't know them.
I still like CRTs too. My new LCD display at work only does 1280x1024. My ancient Apple monitor at my old job did 1450xsomething, and it was great.
Now I have a MacBook with the glossy 1280x800. I don't like the widescreen display, but the glossiness doesn't bother me, our office is very dark. They did a measurement and our office is like half the recommended number of lumens for overhead office lighting.
I just would like to have the extra couple hundred vertical pixels I had on my ThinkPad T43. And I miss my nipple mouse too.
Anyway I don't understand why everybody is excited about these widescreen displays. Normal width + shorter height != better display technology.
"of course since epic is built into the original chip blue print, just 'masking off that part' renders in a cpu that only spits out 'error, epic not found, halt now' that locks the chip from running."
If you have the chip blueprint, what is the problem? Cut out the "somehow use ip network to authenticate" part. Then start the fab.
My momma always used to say, EPIC is is EPIC does.
Why do we care about some dude's fungus? I guess he's going to have some mushrooms then or something?
OCB - Other Careers Beckon.
If you want to be a programmer, but don't want to read and understand how programs work? Fuck off and get a job in copier repair or something.
BTW - Thanks Slashdot! You Michigan fucking Ass-hats have moved the "Reply" link off to the side in some floating javascript piece of shit instead of where I have found it for the last 9 years. Eat shit and die.
hehe well done Li'l Orphan Annie.
Ron Paul says, "Abortion is a crime, and the states should decide how to punish women who get abortions."
He also says, "Get the government out of my wallet and my life", but it's okay for it to decide what women do with their bodies? Family planning?
The guy just has it too wrong.
Ron Paul is not going to be the Republican nominee anyway.
I have to say I have been feeling the same way for a few years. It seems kind of wierd that I'm having this kind of reaction, as I'm in my, uhm, mid-thirties. When I was in my early 20's, living the "A young man ain't got nothin' in the world these days" lifestyle, I didn't really think it was wierd to have rebellious feelings against the government. But the more I hear the more I'm thinking that I need to be somewhere else.
My biggest issue is with Hollywood, or "The World Computer Network Police". But what is happening in government is the same thing - a huge shift in power to corporate interests, companies that view humans as Duracells, powering their world by being "good consumers".
"No future, No future, No future for YOU"
No one has mentioned the first thing I thought - why are we busting all these people without thinking of fixing the problem - the problem being people running software on their computers that allows them to be very easily hacked.
Sigh. No one blames Microsoft for releasing proven insecure software, even on machines that have No eXecute bits. Shit.
I've been using *nix or MacOS since 2000. I haven't even had to think about being hacked. The worst thing that happened was that I had an ftp server running that allowed anonymous uploads, so some scripts left little "kilroy was here" files there.
Yes what this guy did is immoral and he should get in trouble. But it sucks that we are in a technical environment that makes such things so tempting to begin with.
May I be the first to say, "What the fuck are you all talking about? You can't use an orange box that you bought to use on your steam valve? What The Fuck?!
Absolutely says nothing. Cowboy Neal has had way, way too many cokes today.
Although I've noticed that for the last year or so, I haven't known what about 80% of the stories were talking about. But then again, I have a job, and a girlfriend...
"The problem with newspapers is that the actual process of creating and delivering the paper is a huge time and money sink."
Hmm, I'm confused. The problem with Oscar Meyer is that in order to sell hot dogs, you have to make and deliver the hot dogs, which is expensive.
I know! Let's sell a product that doesn't exist! Think how much we would profit if it didn't cost anything to make the product.
But then why would anyone pay for nothing?
Sigh. My head hurts I'm going outside.
I'm the guy that hacked the ubuntu servers, and yes, I put in a glibc update that hoses /boot... now Here's your sign.
I liked it better the first time, when it was called Tk.
The Firefox numbers are probably a little inflated, since scripts using curl and wget are probably using agent strings saying Mozilla 6.0.
..."less than 1/10 of a millimeter thick"...
..."fitted inside each drive a 0.6 millimeter-thick piece of glass"...
So they invented a way to put 10 gallons of shit in a 5 gallon bucket? How do you put something over half a millimeter thick *inside* something a tenth of a millimeter thick?
Walk away from Slashdot, and read a book.