Get a thin client such as an HP t610 and use Enhanced Write Filtering to protect from any changes.
You can set a system baseline and lock it down with EWF. Once locked down, any file calls from the operating system or software are intercepted and redirected to RAM. No changes are made to non-volatile memory. Once powered down, the system expunges all changes and reverts to the baseline you set.
>>"So let me get this straight: Individual citizens armed with handguns and rifles and shotguns are going to go up against government forces, who have artillery, cruise missiles, and attack helicopters?"
Yes. As an unfortunate example, look what is occuring in Iraq right now. The average citizen cannot withstand a toe-to-toe battle with an overpowering occupying army and they don't need to either. History has shown time and time again that a large army is incredibly susceptible to being stalled out or ground away by guerilla warefare.
Further, understand that many governments have been overthrown by people armed with handguns and rifles and shotguns. Armies show a reluctance to kill their brothers and countrymen, especially when thousands and thousands of them congregate, united in a common cause against a tyrannical government.
I administer on a MUD called Shadows of Isildur http://middle-earth.us/ that is geared around role playing in Middle Earth some 500 years before the Fellowship of the Ring events occurred. One thing that is particularly fascinating about this MUD is its robust crafting system that allows one to do anything from mining, to jewelry making, armor smithing, gardening, apothecary work and so on. As of right now, there are over 3000 crafts on this MUD based on real life methods and techniques.
The techniques used and displayed within this scripted crafting system are the same that are used in real life. Interestingly, I've heard reports back from players who have described applying the gardening or cooking techniques in-game to real life applications with strong results. One player has described having prettier roses after applying the pruning techniques in-game. Others have tryed out the cooking methods with similar results. The same goes for wood carving and metal work. Personally, I've learned tons about herbology and jewelry work.
This kind of comment typically falls underneath Article 88 of the UCMJ which states the following:
Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
There are also long-standing precedents within the military to not speak out in public forums against your commanding officers or members of the government, with discpline applied against both trangresssing officers and enlisted personnel.
This is also simply not true. The allegations that the majority of the troops on the ground and the contractors supporting the war effort are mostly conservatives that voted for Bush is baseless.
Most of the time when you visit a site like that that has pages broken up into multiple segments, there is a "Print This Article" button somewhere on the page.
Should you choose to select that, usually the pages are condensed onto a new browser window, with little or no extraneous navigation or advertisements present.
What a great way to visualize approaches to airports you haven't been to before. Just go to the airport you want, tilt the view angle and line up on the runway and you've got a perfect perspective of what the surrounding environs look like. No more trying to blindly search for the airport as you go to a new one. You can research ahead of time and get all your landmarks down pat!
On a side note, for those of you who don't have a DB9 connector, I have successfully used a Keyspan Serial PDA Adapter in interfacing my Garmin GPS with a Mac or PC.
I don't want to torpedo the purpose of this whole article, but Linux isn't as far out in the cold as you might think. Most GPS programs out there use the NMEA protocol which is handled over a common serial port. The article poster seems to imply that Linux is left out in terms of drivers, but the fact is that most GPS units support the NMEA protocol. That includes Garmin, Magellan and others. If you have a common DB9 serial connector and the right cable, you can get any number of GPS units to work with any number of programs.
That being said, what is troubling is the "any number of programs" that I mentioned above. There really is not a large community of developers working on consumer mapping applications. If you look hard enough, you may stumble across some gems here and there, but for the most part the Linux scene is noticably lacking.
Tuxmobil's Page is a good place to start looking at different apps.
1. He was flying in a plane over LA. -For simplicity's sake when flying under Class B Airspace, many pilots on VFR flights tend to stick to flying over interstates - its easy and keeps you out of trouble.
2. He had a laptop with only one 802.11 card and only one antenna for reception. The necessarily rules out any radio direction finding for accurate plotting of the access points. Instead what you see is what he picked up as he flew and the exact lat / long the plane was at at the time of the signal hit. If he could do some RDF by maybe having antennas in an array attached to the plane at say the wingtips he could with the right software plot out where each possible transmitter was. But he would need to know what altitude the plane was at, what the heading was and the different signal strengths received at each antenna as well as the distance between the antennas in his array. I don't know of any software out there that does this but the information to do this is readily available.
If he had that setup you would see a map with the projected location of each access point arrayed around the path of the aircraft.
You ever see a Desktop folder with several hundred files on it? Its called "incentive" and it isn't pretty. By the way, the real world kin of the Desktop Stuff folders is called sweeping it under the rug. Sure it is out of sight, but it's a pain in the ass to walk on.
Exactly how can they regulate this? While it may be true that most offices have a LAN, what about the average home? "What LAN? I don't have a LAN? Honey, have you seen the LAN..? Nope, no LANs around here - I think Bob down the street has one." Additionally, how are they going to audit wireless networks? Ad-hoc ones? Do you get taxed when you go stumbling on your neighbors?
He's not a robot - he's a puppet. Why do you think you never see Cheney anywhere? The Veep's behind the curtains in the press room, pulling the strings!
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Get a thin client such as an HP t610 and use Enhanced Write Filtering to protect from any changes.
You can set a system baseline and lock it down with EWF. Once locked down, any file calls from the operating system or software are intercepted and redirected to RAM. No changes are made to non-volatile memory. Once powered down, the system expunges all changes and reverts to the baseline you set.
>>"So let me get this straight: Individual citizens armed with handguns and rifles and shotguns are going to go up against government forces, who have artillery, cruise missiles, and attack helicopters?"
Yes. As an unfortunate example, look what is occuring in Iraq right now. The average citizen cannot withstand a toe-to-toe battle with an overpowering occupying army and they don't need to either. History has shown time and time again that a large army is incredibly susceptible to being stalled out or ground away by guerilla warefare.
Further, understand that many governments have been overthrown by people armed with handguns and rifles and shotguns. Armies show a reluctance to kill their brothers and countrymen, especially when thousands and thousands of them congregate, united in a common cause against a tyrannical government.
I administer on a MUD called Shadows of Isildur http://middle-earth.us/ that is geared around role playing in Middle Earth some 500 years before the Fellowship of the Ring events occurred. One thing that is particularly fascinating about this MUD is its robust crafting system that allows one to do anything from mining, to jewelry making, armor smithing, gardening, apothecary work and so on. As of right now, there are over 3000 crafts on this MUD based on real life methods and techniques.
The techniques used and displayed within this scripted crafting system are the same that are used in real life. Interestingly, I've heard reports back from players who have described applying the gardening or cooking techniques in-game to real life applications with strong results. One player has described having prettier roses after applying the pruning techniques in-game. Others have tryed out the cooking methods with similar results. The same goes for wood carving and metal work. Personally, I've learned tons about herbology and jewelry work.
The UCMJ
There are also long-standing precedents within the military to not speak out in public forums against your commanding officers or members of the government, with discpline applied against both trangresssing officers and enlisted personnel.
What makes me qualified to state this?
I'm a commissioned officer in the USAF.
This is also simply not true. The allegations that the majority of the troops on the ground and the contractors supporting the war effort are mostly conservatives that voted for Bush is baseless.
Most of the time when you visit a site like that that has pages broken up into multiple segments, there is a "Print This Article" button somewhere on the page.
Should you choose to select that, usually the pages are condensed onto a new browser window, with little or no extraneous navigation or advertisements present.
Enjoy!
Regarding eBay sniping...
LAST POST!!!
What do you mean, someone posted after me?
Damn.
I don't think that JP-7 jet fuel is going to be any cheaper than today's current cost for high octane unleaded.
:)
But still, it could be fun
Wow,
What a great way to visualize approaches to airports you haven't been to before. Just go to the airport you want, tilt the view angle and line up on the runway and you've got a perfect perspective of what the surrounding environs look like. No more trying to blindly search for the airport as you go to a new one. You can research ahead of time and get all your landmarks down pat!
On a side note, for those of you who don't have a DB9 connector, I have successfully used a Keyspan Serial PDA Adapter in interfacing my Garmin GPS with a Mac or PC.
I don't want to torpedo the purpose of this whole article, but Linux isn't as far out in the cold as you might think. Most GPS programs out there use the NMEA protocol which is handled over a common serial port. The article poster seems to imply that Linux is left out in terms of drivers, but the fact is that most GPS units support the NMEA protocol. That includes Garmin, Magellan and others. If you have a common DB9 serial connector and the right cable, you can get any number of GPS units to work with any number of programs.
That being said, what is troubling is the "any number of programs" that I mentioned above. There really is not a large community of developers working on consumer mapping applications. If you look hard enough, you may stumble across some gems here and there, but for the most part the Linux scene is noticably lacking.
Tuxmobil's Page is a good place to start looking at different apps.
And cricket is played with...?
Aaahh!!! My eyes! The goggles - they do nothing!!!
1. He was flying in a plane over LA. -For simplicity's sake when flying under Class B Airspace, many pilots on VFR flights tend to stick to flying over interstates - its easy and keeps you out of trouble.
2. He had a laptop with only one 802.11 card and only one antenna for reception. The necessarily rules out any radio direction finding for accurate plotting of the access points. Instead what you see is what he picked up as he flew and the exact lat / long the plane was at at the time of the signal hit. If he could do some RDF by maybe having antennas in an array attached to the plane at say the wingtips he could with the right software plot out where each possible transmitter was. But he would need to know what altitude the plane was at, what the heading was and the different signal strengths received at each antenna as well as the distance between the antennas in his array. I don't know of any software out there that does this but the information to do this is readily available.
If he had that setup you would see a map with the projected location of each access point arrayed around the path of the aircraft.
And cache. Girls like to hear about lots and lots of cache.
So you can geo-stamp your pictures.
Duh!
Mmmm.... Burning fruitfly maggots...
Ve vill use "J". Any more janges?
MARCO!!!
This shouldn't have been posted on Slashdot... It should have been posted on The Onion...
Hear Hear!!!
You ever see a Desktop folder with several hundred files on it? Its called "incentive" and it isn't pretty. By the way, the real world kin of the Desktop Stuff folders is called sweeping it under the rug. Sure it is out of sight, but it's a pain in the ass to walk on.
After one business refused to pay: ...Come out with your WANS up!!!
Ok, so it wasn't that funny...
Exactly how can they regulate this? While it may be true that most offices have a LAN, what about the average home? "What LAN? I don't have a LAN? Honey, have you seen the LAN..? Nope, no LANs around here - I think Bob down the street has one." Additionally, how are they going to audit wireless networks? Ad-hoc ones? Do you get taxed when you go stumbling on your neighbors?
Windows users are insecure as well
He's not a robot - he's a puppet. Why do you think you never see Cheney anywhere? The Veep's behind the curtains in the press room, pulling the strings!