No, but good guess. It's actually a reference to the "home automation system gone bad" in a very early Dean Koontz novel, "Demon Seed". The HA system in that house was the bomb (if people are still saying that:). Cameras with machine vision everywhere. Complete voice control for appliances, temperature, blinds, door locks, the works. The house owner's ex-husband works nearby at a research place with the "world's most powerful computer", which ends up invading the innocent HA system and does some very bad things with his new "senses".
It became a movie in 1974, and Dean rewrote it in 99 or 2000 to bring all the tech stuff up to date. Great book. Awesome HA manual:)
'mon, dudes, anything plays VBR these days (even my crappy kenwood in-dash car player). Am I missing some wonderful CBR advantage here?!?!
I've had a friend tell me that you can't stream VBR with icecast or shoutcast or something. He said it gets all choppy and sounds like total crap. He had to rerip his entire collection (and 5GB I gave him) to CBR so he could stream it.
You come out saying that its a "waste of time and resources to develop multimedia applications for a server OS" even though you don't grasp the concept that there are millions of **desktop** Linux users out there.. and then you waste your mod points on calling ME flamebait? YOU do not decide what applications should be developed for desktop users. In our environment, the DEVELOPERS do.
Reread what you wrote and how you came across. If someone wants to develop multimedia apps, I'm not going to submit a bug-buddy that says "why aren't you working to improve MySQL? THAT'S what we need."
It's a client/server app designed for an office setting where many people can hear the music playing from the mp3 music server -- like overhead speakers or with shoutcast. The client runs in Windows and puts a treble clef in the taskbar tray. Users sign into the app and rate songs as needed while they're playing from "hate it" to "love it". Admins can stop/start the player and skip tracks.
As you could guess, the server keeps track of who's logged in and modifies the playlist on-the-fly so as to avoid playing songs signed-in listeners have said they don't like and focus on songs the signed-in listeners are either neutral about or have said they liked. It's actually a very cool app.
I was foolish enough to buy the X10 wireless audio extender, and used this app to adjust playlists for when either I, my wife, or both of us are home. If I can figure out how to "sign in" users without having them actually start windows anywhere, I would be able to make Misterhouse take voice commands like, "Alfred, please play some music for Steve", or "Jess", or "a party", or "dinner".
* Bonus points on why I would call my home automation system "Alfred"
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What if the developers' strengths are in developing multimedia applications? Or GUIs? Do you want them to develop MySQL until *you're* ready to use Linux as a desktop? Not me. What about the StarOffice, AbiWord and Ximian developers? Do you want them to abandon their projects so they can work on something you approve of?
I for one use Linux as my desktop for 70 hours a week rebooting to Windows only when I need to check my email in Lotus Notes (and that's only because I haven't loaded the RPM yet).
Its not up to you to decide how the rest of us use Linux. It already is a desktop-suitable OS.
I'm sure you've been caught up by now, but it's actually at least three.. American Media in Florida, NBC News, and Microsoft Licensing in Reno, Nevada.
I hope the FBI sets up a website much like the "Y2k incidents" page where we can track in real time the reported suspicious events and the results of testing, if any. I'll never forget the one Y2K listing from Texas where, when the lights didn't go out at midnight, some drunk (guy) went out with his shotgun and started shooting out the street lights. Now THAT'S funny!
More people have received attempted anthrax infections in weeks than the unabomber hit in 10 years. And this is a general public thing.. not just Computer Science professors.
Same here. For the last few cars I bought, I would literally go home and setup automatic payments to go out for the life of the loan. (wiping hands) Done. I love it, too, because the loans all picked up on the fact that I pay the bill on the same exact day with a cashier's check (or electronically - I let the bank work it out) and I *never* include the payment coupon. After even just one payment, the never send me a bill.
Now if my freaking mortgage could conceive of that concept, I'd have a little less paper coming in. Hell it would help greatly if I could get the supermarkets to stop sending me the crap that goes right in the can. Anyone know how to do that?
I never really thought about it, but imagine a business sending a package and printing out a barcode to digitally sign the package with an MD5 of the source and destination addresses. Then when the post office recieves the package, a laser scan of the barcode and visual inspection of the sending and destination address will allow them to accept or reject packages.
Hell, I think they should already reject packages that have way too much postage and weren't dropped off at a post office, especially those without a return address.
All this makes me glad that Comcast is taking over their own network. I use Yahoo and CNN all the time for my content. I just want to pay for a pipe, that's all. Don't roll in some charges to cover some "content provider" I'll never use.
Even more so than content surfing I telework 40+ hrs a week, so again.. I JUST NEED A FAST CONSUMER-GRADE PIPE.
When will the cable companies do video-on-demand by putting hard drives in the digital cable boxes? How long can it take to xfer a 1GB movie to your cable box over the LOCAL LAN? It can't take all that long. Download it for $3, watch it an unlimited number of times for 3 days, and its automatically deleted. It just doesn't seem that hard to me.
First I can't get over the naivete of some people in here. I was trying to read through all the comments before posting, but I hit a trough of posts indicating that people want to select *precisely* what is listed on their report, *precisely* who can access the report, and other crap. I know that there are people here who have had to deal with identity theft, and that shit must be pretty sobering. But seriously people, you need to let go of your pipe dreams.
I recently picked up several prescriptions for recovering from surgery, and when I logged into Eckerd.com (a pharmacy), my "customized" home page featured a section on how much I could have saved if I had purchased my recent prescriptions from them. WHAT??!?! How the FRIG did you get that info, and what the hell are you doing displaying it on an unencrypted web page? Boy was I pissed about that. But WTF can I do? By the time I was pissed it was already done. And what am I going to do? Write my fucking CONGRESSMAN? Please. Arlen Fucking Specter is my asshole in Washington.
Anyway, my thought on how to make the ID card uncrackable would be to use a biometric as an encryption key against the owner's SSN. How many unique points can you get off an iris? I know thumbprints may occasionally be unavailable, but how many people have had *both* eyes removed? I'm guessing far fewer. Even with only 512 bits generated by an iris, that would never be stored anywhere.
I can see imaging units the size of today's supermarket debit/credit card scanners with a card slot. Insert your ID card, put your chin in the dimple, and the reader certifies your identity by decrypting a GPG'd copy of your SSN on the card using your iris as the key. I would think that would be pretty impossible to fake.
n NJ (and most, if not all, other states) if you are 18 or older, you're required to obtain an ID card from the Dept Motor Vehicles regardless of if you drive or not.
What??? I lived in NJ for 3 years. I'd never heard of such a law. Is it new? Can you provide a reference?
I lived there for 24 years and never heard of any such thing either.
P.S. Hey New Jerseyans, when you get tired of living in a police state, move to PA. It's actually *legal* to drive in the middle of the night, and the local PD is not *allowed* to have radar. I moved across the Delaware 7 years ago, and now I truly hate going back.
EXACTLY. I won't feel safe until I get one of those palm/cellphone combinations and it's running WinCE that can be replaced with Linux. Of course, it's all for naught if my friends don't use encryption, too.
It used to be great, 95% of my email to my friends stayed within the same BOX for years. We would all SSH in and use GnuPG only when we wanted lasting security. Now my friends are losers and pop their email into Outlook. Now *they're* whining to me that I can't keep up with *them* and get OpenSSL to sign/encrypt email to them in Outlook. Now I feel like I can't talk to them about *anything*!
I bought an Addtron AP and PC Card in February because of the well publicized Linux support. I was getting dropouts literally about 18 feet away in my condo. But my condo is small, and the card worked fine at the office.. until the end of March. I gave my father-in-law an in-house demo of the setup at his place, and it never worked since. I returned the AP thinking it was dead and swapped it for a Linksys wireless cable/dsl/wireless. Card still didn't work. A friend gave me some Orinoco silver cards, and nirvana at last (once 2.4.5 was released). Popped in the Addtron card, and oddly enough it too now works fine under Linux. The card indicates it has lost the signal, but where pings die under Windows, they kick, scratch and bite their way through under Linux.
"All Addtron all the time" - no workie.. you don't have to buy that crap now. Most anything works nowadays.
Orinoco Silver and Linksys Wireless/Cable/DSL router - Three of us are using this exact config very happily. I bought the AP well ahead of the cable modem, so I have a tight Linux firewall in front of it.. oddly I have caught some non-NAT'ed packets coming out of the front side of the Linksys, but no major problems otherwise.
I joined IBM e-business July '00 b/c I wanted to go to the forefront of Linux development and deployment. I was recently told to study so I can join up to 7 Beowulf cluster deployments. Then I learned of an upcoming hands-on Linux zSeries class in Poughkeepsie. And now this! Man, this has been a great day.
Hey has anyone generated any key counts for Beowulf clusters? I was told to study my materials b/c I should expect to get tapped to deploy 7 clusters soon. I can't imagine how many keys a 128-node cluster can churn out!:)
It's the only way I can get friends and family to stop forwarding their junk mail to me. I tell them as soon as they see "please send to as many people as you know" that's a sign to delete it. If they continue to send their crap to me, I track down the urban legends link to their bullshit story and sent it back to them. It usually takes just 2 or 3 mailings before they stop forwarding me garbage.
Most of the time they just take me off their spam list, so I'm not helping the Internet as a whole, just cleaning up my little corner of it.
(much less calculate) a position when the reciever is moving thousands of miles an hour. GPS literature refers to this as 'high dynamic' situations, a typical limit I've seen is around 950 MPH.
Think about AO-40 as its heading towards apogee. This is a high earth orbit satellite, peaking at 30,000km away from earth. I'm sure the 950mph was a speed rating in a flat plane. Lots of x and/or y, but very little z.
Rotate the frame of reference from a Concorde trying to get a GPS fix over the Atlantic at mach 2.0 to a Delta rocket lifting off from Kennedy trying to get one (pretending that liftoff is straight up from the ground with no arcing). My bet is the Delta rocket would get one while the Concorde would fail the 950mph limit you mention.
Just extend that Delta theory to 30,000km out and that's where AO-40 got its fix. I don't care how fast its going, in a straight line, the GPS sats see it as not changing x or y, just z. Track AO-40 on some sat tracking software sometime and you'll see that the orbit is so far out and so "vertical" to the earth at some points that the sat often appears to nearly stop right in its place on the map. That's when its moving directly away from or towards the surface of the earth.
Of course, I'm always willing to be wrong. It just seems like 17,000mph purely in the z direction would get the same sat exposure as a car sitting at a red light.
I've been bombarded with evil packets that [fortunately] have bounced off my firewall. Even still, I'm convinced it's slowed my connection down.
If only LaBrea could be ported to run *on* a firewall and protect all unopen ports as opposed to just unused IP addresses. Unless of course you run an http server at home, then that's just the cost of running a web server. Block port 80, and move your server to ssl on 443.
And SpongeBob is the *man*:) Although Nickelodeon was really screwing up this morning.. breaking into commercials mid-sentence. Once they even broke mid-sentence into the closing credits, only to pick up where it left off after a couple commercials. Must be take our children to work day today.
Yes, and you also see people running Linux, some as their primary OS. It just depends on what division you're in.
Yes indeed. I/T Architect, e-business. 6 year Linux fiend, and I boot my Thinkpad to Windows just to check Notes a couple times a day.
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I gotta tell you, I like the editor wars because we finally get to see the *low* Slashdot UIDs come out of the woodwork. Just in a quick run-through, the lowest I've spotted was about 2100. I know someone with a UID around 16k (k = 1000 here, not 1024), but to see a 2k poster, that's a real treat! No joke.
To save the "ontopicness" of this post, I agree wholeheartedly with those who remind us that you should learn vi just in case you have to run a VERY minimal machine. If it has *anything*, it'll have vi.
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That is funny.. like your own personal version of LaBrea..
No, but good guess. It's actually a reference to the "home automation system gone bad" in a very early Dean Koontz novel, "Demon Seed". The HA system in that house was the bomb (if people are still saying that :). Cameras with machine vision everywhere. Complete voice control for appliances, temperature, blinds, door locks, the works. The house owner's ex-husband works nearby at a research place with the "world's most powerful computer", which ends up invading the innocent HA system and does some very bad things with his new "senses".
:)
It became a movie in 1974, and Dean rewrote it in 99 or 2000 to bring all the tech stuff up to date. Great book. Awesome HA manual
'mon, dudes, anything plays VBR these days (even my crappy kenwood in-dash car player). Am I missing some wonderful CBR advantage here?!?!
I've had a friend tell me that you can't stream VBR with icecast or shoutcast or something. He said it gets all choppy and sounds like total crap. He had to rerip his entire collection (and 5GB I gave him) to CBR so he could stream it.
Flamebait?? Man what a waste of your mod points.
You come out saying that its a "waste of time and resources to develop multimedia applications for a server OS" even though you don't grasp the concept that there are millions of **desktop** Linux users out there.. and then you waste your mod points on calling ME flamebait? YOU do not decide what applications should be developed for desktop users. In our environment, the DEVELOPERS do.
Reread what you wrote and how you came across. If someone wants to develop multimedia apps, I'm not going to submit a bug-buddy that says "why aren't you working to improve MySQL? THAT'S what we need."
Realplayer - Mac and Win32 versions
Just FYI, RP has been on Linux for well over a year now.
Tivos have a "thumbs up" and a "thumbs down" function to allow you to give feedback to it about what you like.
check out Mserv.
It's a client/server app designed for an office setting where many people can hear the music playing from the mp3 music server -- like overhead speakers or with shoutcast. The client runs in Windows and puts a treble clef in the taskbar tray. Users sign into the app and rate songs as needed while they're playing from "hate it" to "love it". Admins can stop/start the player and skip tracks.
As you could guess, the server keeps track of who's logged in and modifies the playlist on-the-fly so as to avoid playing songs signed-in listeners have said they don't like and focus on songs the signed-in listeners are either neutral about or have said they liked. It's actually a very cool app.
I was foolish enough to buy the X10 wireless audio extender, and used this app to adjust playlists for when either I, my wife, or both of us are home. If I can figure out how to "sign in" users without having them actually start windows anywhere, I would be able to make Misterhouse take voice commands like, "Alfred, please play some music for Steve", or "Jess", or "a party", or "dinner".
* Bonus points on why I would call my home automation system "Alfred"
What if the developers' strengths are in developing multimedia applications? Or GUIs? Do you want them to develop MySQL until *you're* ready to use Linux as a desktop? Not me. What about the StarOffice, AbiWord and Ximian developers? Do you want them to abandon their projects so they can work on something you approve of?
I for one use Linux as my desktop for 70 hours a week rebooting to Windows only when I need to check my email in Lotus Notes (and that's only because I haven't loaded the RPM yet).
Its not up to you to decide how the rest of us use Linux. It already is a desktop-suitable OS.
I'm sure you've been caught up by now, but it's actually at least three.. American Media in Florida, NBC News, and Microsoft Licensing in Reno, Nevada.
I hope the FBI sets up a website much like the "Y2k incidents" page where we can track in real time the reported suspicious events and the results of testing, if any. I'll never forget the one Y2K listing from Texas where, when the lights didn't go out at midnight, some drunk (guy) went out with his shotgun and started shooting out the street lights. Now THAT'S funny!
More people have received attempted anthrax infections in weeks than the unabomber hit in 10 years. And this is a general public thing.. not just Computer Science professors.
Same here. For the last few cars I bought, I would literally go home and setup automatic payments to go out for the life of the loan. (wiping hands) Done. I love it, too, because the loans all picked up on the fact that I pay the bill on the same exact day with a cashier's check (or electronically - I let the bank work it out) and I *never* include the payment coupon. After even just one payment, the never send me a bill.
Now if my freaking mortgage could conceive of that concept, I'd have a little less paper coming in. Hell it would help greatly if I could get the supermarkets to stop sending me the crap that goes right in the can. Anyone know how to do that?
+1, Insightful if I had it.
I never really thought about it, but imagine a business sending a package and printing out a barcode to digitally sign the package with an MD5 of the source and destination addresses. Then when the post office recieves the package, a laser scan of the barcode and visual inspection of the sending and destination address will allow them to accept or reject packages.
Hell, I think they should already reject packages that have way too much postage and weren't dropped off at a post office, especially those without a return address.
All this makes me glad that Comcast is taking over their own network. I use Yahoo and CNN all the time for my content. I just want to pay for a pipe, that's all. Don't roll in some charges to cover some "content provider" I'll never use.
Even more so than content surfing I telework 40+ hrs a week, so again.. I JUST NEED A FAST CONSUMER-GRADE PIPE.
When will the cable companies do video-on-demand by putting hard drives in the digital cable boxes? How long can it take to xfer a 1GB movie to your cable box over the LOCAL LAN? It can't take all that long. Download it for $3, watch it an unlimited number of times for 3 days, and its automatically deleted. It just doesn't seem that hard to me.
First I can't get over the naivete of some people in here. I was trying to read through all the comments before posting, but I hit a trough of posts indicating that people want to select *precisely* what is listed on their report, *precisely* who can access the report, and other crap. I know that there are people here who have had to deal with identity theft, and that shit must be pretty sobering. But seriously people, you need to let go of your pipe dreams.
I recently picked up several prescriptions for recovering from surgery, and when I logged into Eckerd.com (a pharmacy), my "customized" home page featured a section on how much I could have saved if I had purchased my recent prescriptions from them. WHAT??!?! How the FRIG did you get that info, and what the hell are you doing displaying it on an unencrypted web page? Boy was I pissed about that. But WTF can I do? By the time I was pissed it was already done. And what am I going to do? Write my fucking CONGRESSMAN? Please. Arlen Fucking Specter is my asshole in Washington.
Anyway, my thought on how to make the ID card uncrackable would be to use a biometric as an encryption key against the owner's SSN. How many unique points can you get off an iris? I know thumbprints may occasionally be unavailable, but how many people have had *both* eyes removed? I'm guessing far fewer. Even with only 512 bits generated by an iris, that would never be stored anywhere.
I can see imaging units the size of today's supermarket debit/credit card scanners with a card slot. Insert your ID card, put your chin in the dimple, and the reader certifies your identity by decrypting a GPG'd copy of your SSN on the card using your iris as the key. I would think that would be pretty impossible to fake.
n PA, OTOH, they store your pic in a DB. If you lose your license there, they can send you a new one that reuses the photo off the original.
And the photo kiosks were running OS/2 at my last visit! (kinda like ATMs) And since IBM had a big contract with PASP, none of that surprises me.
n NJ (and most, if not all, other states) if you are 18 or older, you're required to obtain an ID card from the Dept Motor Vehicles regardless of if you drive or not.
What??? I lived in NJ for 3 years. I'd never heard of such a law. Is it new? Can you provide a reference?
I lived there for 24 years and never heard of any such thing either.
P.S. Hey New Jerseyans, when you get tired of living in a police state, move to PA. It's actually *legal* to drive in the middle of the night, and the local PD is not *allowed* to have radar. I moved across the Delaware 7 years ago, and now I truly hate going back.
EXACTLY. I won't feel safe until I get one of those palm/cellphone combinations and it's running WinCE that can be replaced with Linux. Of course, it's all for naught if my friends don't use encryption, too.
It used to be great, 95% of my email to my friends stayed within the same BOX for years. We would all SSH in and use GnuPG only when we wanted lasting security. Now my friends are losers and pop their email into Outlook. Now *they're* whining to me that I can't keep up with *them* and get OpenSSL to sign/encrypt email to them in Outlook. Now I feel like I can't talk to them about *anything*!
AAARRRGGHHH!!
DO NOT use Intel's APs.. they are crap
I bought an Addtron AP and PC Card in February because of the well publicized Linux support. I was getting dropouts literally about 18 feet away in my condo. But my condo is small, and the card worked fine at the office.. until the end of March. I gave my father-in-law an in-house demo of the setup at his place, and it never worked since. I returned the AP thinking it was dead and swapped it for a Linksys wireless cable/dsl/wireless. Card still didn't work. A friend gave me some Orinoco silver cards, and nirvana at last (once 2.4.5 was released). Popped in the Addtron card, and oddly enough it too now works fine under Linux. The card indicates it has lost the signal, but where pings die under Windows, they kick, scratch and bite their way through under Linux.
"All Addtron all the time" - no workie.. you don't have to buy that crap now. Most anything works nowadays.
Orinoco Silver and Linksys Wireless/Cable/DSL router - Three of us are using this exact config very happily. I bought the AP well ahead of the cable modem, so I have a tight Linux firewall in front of it.. oddly I have caught some non-NAT'ed packets coming out of the front side of the Linksys, but no major problems otherwise.
I joined IBM e-business July '00 b/c I wanted to go to the forefront of Linux development and deployment. I was recently told to study so I can join up to 7 Beowulf cluster deployments. Then I learned of an upcoming hands-on Linux zSeries class in Poughkeepsie. And now this! Man, this has been a great day.
check the NUMA-Q line for huge boxes you can run multiple OS'es on with simultaneous access to memory and disk
Hey has anyone generated any key counts for Beowulf clusters? I was told to study my materials b/c I should expect to get tapped to deploy 7 clusters soon. I can't imagine how many keys a 128-node cluster can churn out! :)
And don't even get me started about Hanta virus....
Allow me.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/xraturine.html
It's the only way I can get friends and family to stop forwarding their junk mail to me. I tell them as soon as they see "please send to as many people as you know" that's a sign to delete it. If they continue to send their crap to me, I track down the urban legends link to their bullshit story and sent it back to them. It usually takes just 2 or 3 mailings before they stop forwarding me garbage.
Most of the time they just take me off their spam list, so I'm not helping the Internet as a whole, just cleaning up my little corner of it.
(much less calculate) a position when the reciever is moving thousands of miles an hour. GPS literature refers to this as 'high dynamic' situations, a typical limit I've seen is around 950 MPH.
Think about AO-40 as its heading towards apogee. This is a high earth orbit satellite, peaking at 30,000km away from earth. I'm sure the 950mph was a speed rating in a flat plane. Lots of x and/or y, but very little z.
Rotate the frame of reference from a Concorde trying to get a GPS fix over the Atlantic at mach 2.0 to a Delta rocket lifting off from Kennedy trying to get one (pretending that liftoff is straight up from the ground with no arcing). My bet is the Delta rocket would get one while the Concorde would fail the 950mph limit you mention.
Just extend that Delta theory to 30,000km out and that's where AO-40 got its fix. I don't care how fast its going, in a straight line, the GPS sats see it as not changing x or y, just z. Track AO-40 on some sat tracking software sometime and you'll see that the orbit is so far out and so "vertical" to the earth at some points that the sat often appears to nearly stop right in its place on the map. That's when its moving directly away from or towards the surface of the earth.
Of course, I'm always willing to be wrong. It just seems like 17,000mph purely in the z direction would get the same sat exposure as a car sitting at a red light.
I've been bombarded with evil packets that [fortunately] have bounced off my firewall. Even still, I'm convinced it's slowed my connection down.
:) Although Nickelodeon was really screwing up this morning.. breaking into commercials mid-sentence. Once they even broke mid-sentence into the closing credits, only to pick up where it left off after a couple commercials. Must be take our children to work day today.
If only LaBrea could be ported to run *on* a firewall and protect all unopen ports as opposed to just unused IP addresses. Unless of course you run an http server at home, then that's just the cost of running a web server. Block port 80, and move your server to ssl on 443.
And SpongeBob is the *man*
Yes, and you also see people running Linux, some as their primary OS. It just depends on what division you're in.
Yes indeed. I/T Architect, e-business. 6 year Linux fiend, and I boot my Thinkpad to Windows just to check Notes a couple times a day.
I gotta tell you, I like the editor wars because we finally get to see the *low* Slashdot UIDs come out of the woodwork. Just in a quick run-through, the lowest I've spotted was about 2100. I know someone with a UID around 16k (k = 1000 here, not 1024), but to see a 2k poster, that's a real treat! No joke.
To save the "ontopicness" of this post, I agree wholeheartedly with those who remind us that you should learn vi just in case you have to run a VERY minimal machine. If it has *anything*, it'll have vi.