So, just put the sticker in the corner of the glass of your door and your set.
Ultimately, I believe the proliferation of web connected handheld devices is going to cause law enforcement officials to be on their best behavior.
If only it's because they have the fear that they're going to go home and find their face on the television and a rather ominious message on their answering machine something to the effect of:
"Hello, this is X from internal affairs, we need to talk about incident Y"
The library I live near has something on the order of 10,000 SF books in their collection and is always adding them. Not to mention any book they don't have, but is located at some other library, I can request and get in under a week.
Also, the library system I use has a rating/commenting system that I've found very helpful. In general, you don't have to worry about astroturfing and the like.
Companies like EMC^2 even make products like email extender that'll pull your email into an archive and do auto deduping and the works.
This my friends is an utter act of bullshit. Unless I didn't make myself clear, those lying fucks are covering their tracks by claiming IT incompetence.
I think it was more like "Make sure every email pertaining to unauthorized wiretaps gets put into that PST. Then make sure that's one of files that gets lost"
At this point, it's too late to impeach them, but I think charges of treason should be brought up...
Let the fuckers steal our backup tapes... good luck it's encrypted with AES256... that should keep them busy for a couple billion years. And yes, we do recall random tapes to ensure that we can restore from the encrypted volumes.
In this day and age of "Information Warfare" you should consider every system for moving data vulnerable and take measures to ensure that attempting to steal that data would be more work than what it's worth.
The problem I have with these electronic voting machines is that their internals are completely closed! Understand that the state of Nevada has more strigent controls over it's slot machines than it's voting machines...
Note, I'm taking this content from an awesome graphic I found on the internet... Thanks to whomever came up with it!!!
Software: Slot Machine: State of Nevada has access to all software. Illegal to use software that is not on file Voting Machine: Software is a trade secret.
Spot Checking: Slot Machine: State gaming inspectors show up unannounced at casinos to compare computer chips with those on file. If there is a discrepancy, the machien is shut down and investigated. Voting Machine: No checks are required. Election officals have no "known good" to compare against.
Background Security: Slot Machine: Manufacturers subjected to backgroundchecks. Employees are investigated for criminal records. Voting Machine: Citizens have no way of knowing, for example, whether programmers have been confvicted of fraud or have conflict of interest issues.
Equipment Certification: Slot Machine: By a public agency at arm's length from manufacturers. Public questions invited. Voting Machine: By for-profit commpanies chosen adn paid by the manufacturers. No public information on how the testing is done.
Dispute Handling: Slot Machine: Casino must contact the Gaming Control Board, which has investigators on call around the clock. They can open up machines to inspect internal mechanisms and records of recent gambling outcomes. Voting Machine: In most cases, a voter's only recourse is to call a number at the board of elections and lodge a complaint.
I do understand that a slot machine and an ATM works in a much more hostile environment where people are constantly working to break the system.
However, our Democracy is more important than some ATM and thus any system that's put in place that becomes an arbitrator of our Democracy's citizens to choose their elected officals should be held to even a higher standard.
Here's the thing though... you can boil the ocean with a magnifying glass, it's all about the size of the magnifying glass.
I'm sure this already exists, but what there needs to be is a site that would let you discover music based on genre and then would let you sample the music and if you like it, buy the whole album for some price chosen by the artist. Some percentage of that price would go into paying for the site (say 5% or something)
Offer streams off the site for specific genres so people could just subscribe...
The biggest issue is finding these bands and getting all the other bits organized.
Your first point is well taken... I'm not sure some obscure indy band could get the pull that say a NIN could get... However, NIN and other bands with clout work really hard promoting smaller bands
I wouldn't be surprised to see Trent using his audience to introduce them into other music from up and coming bands... What a better way to smash the system then to send out an email saying "Hey, this is Trent, I've found an amazing band, why don't you stop by the site, grab a couple free tracks and if you like it, download the whole album".
Trent could even to a "Trent's band of the week" sort of thing.
Then he could just work something out with the artist so if the album costs 5 bucks, trent would get 50 cents to pay for the bandwidth with the rest going to the band.
Have the entire motherboard embedded in 5" thick block of acrylic. laced throughout this block would wires running in every direction and layered such that there's no gap larger than 2mm. Then have these wires wired such that breaking anyone of them would cause the system to immediately dump high voltage current across the motherboard, thus rendering it dead.
Yeah, it would mean any single component failure would mean replacing the entire setup, but if your willing to go to these extremes, you can afford a forklift replacement.
In our group of us who played RPG games, we had one guy who was always like "I should run a GURPS game!" So, one day, he did. We went through all the rules, etc so everybody was square on how to play and we decided to do 4 sessions (we played every Saturday night).
After a month, we decided to switch back to AD&D. While GURPS was okay, we found the mechanics of the game hard to get our heads around. Maybe it was that we'd just played too much D&D and that was where our heads were.
With that all said, I ran a HOL campaign for a good 3 months which everybody enjoyed. HOL being the antithesis of D&D... i.e. complete and utter lack of rules.
How hard would it be to merely configure your firewall to just drop TCP Reset packets? Yeah, I know you'd end up with stall TCP connections, but those would close after some specified timeout.
Seagate makes a storage product that works on top of DFS called "Storage X" that lets you do this... you can take a whole bunch of servers and combine them.
Well, that's what their literature says... I have no idea about the real product.
I think he should bring a Nokia 810 Internet tablet... I'm not sure that the DVD burning makes any sense.
I think he'd be much better off buying a whole bunch of 8GB or smaller SD cards. Then all he needs to do is write his pictures to the SD cards, put them in something like a 35mm film canister and mail them home (or to a friend back in the states).
1. an SD card in a film canister is much more rugged then a flexible DVD 2. a dvd burner is going to get dirty, has all kinds of delicate parts and uses a TON of power. 3. There are zillions of camera places in the world... you can go anywhere and buy memory for cameras. You might be able to buy DVD media, but if your external burner breaks down (which it will... moving parts, sand... not a good combo) good luck finding a replacement...
Here's why he should bring a Nokia 810 (or whatever is the lastest version) Internet tablet)
1. Rugged as all get up. 2. Built in keyboard, touchpad, wireless, GPS 3. USB port that can be used as both a host and client ports. 4. Mini-SD slot 5. The thing can be put in your pocket and well hidden. It won't stick out like a laptop...
I was just thinking the same thing... once the stockpile is depleted and helium goes (some price way higher than it currently costs) some refiner will look at one of their waste product pipes labeled "Helium" and well... they'll get really happy and call a company about a cryopump and some storage tanks... shortage solved...
The bigger issue is that it's not hard to tie all of this data together to get a picture of a persons live, less their privacy. Lets just say the RIAA pumps an extra million bucks into some senators reelection fund and manages to get a bill passed that makes it a crime to purchase more than 500 pieces of recordable media a year (without some sort of license).
It would be very easy for the government to subpoena the records of all the major chain stores and very quickly have a list of people who broke this law. They could even write it into the law that it's retroactive to some date. Or how about people who also have netflix accounts and own a DVD writer and have purchased DVD-R media in the last year... Even if it's not a technical "crime" they could probably sue you in civil court with a "Pay us 5k and we'll go away" shake down game.
I'm sure this has some sort of funny/tragic coding bug right in the middle...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use Net::Whois::Raw qw(whois);
my @silly_list = load_dictonary('/usr/share/dict/words'); my @tld_domains = ('.com','.org','.net');
my $domain; my $num = $ARGV[0]; # Number of junk domains to create. for(;$num >= 0; $num--) {
$domain = return_domain(@silly_list);
$domain.= '.com'; # $tld_domains[rand(4)];
print "Checking: $domain\n";
my $result = whois($domain);
if($result)
{
print "Result: $result\n";
} }
sub return_domain {
my (@list) = @_;
my $count = @list;
my $dom_length = int(rand(8)+1);
my $domain_name;
for(;$dom_length > 0;$dom_length--)
{
$domain_name.= $list[rand($count)];
chomp($domain_name);
}
return $domain_name; }
sub load_dictonary {
my ($dict_file) = @_;
open(FP,"< $dict_file") or die "Unable to load file: $dict_file ($!)\n";
my @words = <FP>;
close(FP);
return @words; }
A bunch of STUPID people lost their money on the internet?!? SHOCKING!!! For some reason, my compassion meter must be broken or something, because I'm having a rather hard time giving a shit.
If it's too good to be true, that's because it is.
I'm sure you know that woman who walked up to in the bar and said "Hey, I'm just looking for a good time?!?" And how 6 hours later you found yourself in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney...
The internet is just like that... a kidney stealing bitch... only she'll take both kidneys...
What it comes down to is the fact that the (RI|MP)AA is running scared at this point. Instead of investing in technology and getting ahead of the curve, they dug their heels in. What digging in their heels didn't work they went crying to their representatives. Now as we all know, these guys don't have a fucking clue which end is up, let alone what's reasonable. All they know is that they want to stay in office and some guy just showed up and said "These pirates, they're killing us!!! If you don't do something we'll lose BILLIONS of dollars... you know BILLIONS of dollars that could be used to keep you guys in office...".
Hence, here we are.
Now, my only hope is that the courts take one look at this and say "What?!? Are you out of your unconstitutional minds!?!?!" and invalid the whole mess.
Unfortunately, there is one issue... bureaucracy. Lets just say a whole bunch of people get their computers seized and the courts come along and invalidate the portion of the law where things get auctioned... It'll still take years for them to ever get their stuff back... even if they're never charged with a crime.
It's good to see competition actually work. For everbodys sake, the gphone only has to be a marginal success before owners of iphones will demand that apple add features like IM.
What will be interesting, once the iphone SDK comes up, what you'll actually be able to do. I'm suspecting that every application that goes on the iPhone will have to be signed by apple, etc... Thus, getting mame on your iphone without voiding your warrenty will be out of the question.
Make sure you go out and rent/buy the first four Ratchet & Clank games for the PS2 and play them to completition. They are by far some of the best games for the PS2 platform. While your at it, pick up the game for the PSP and play through it as well.
That was simcity2000. Simcity is perfect for these kids.
What I like about putting simcity on the OLPC is that a game like that teaches practical problem solving. When it's all said and done, education is about giving people mental tools to solve problems.
I think this is a great idea, my only fear is that teachers receiving these OLPC's won't grasp what skills this game helps nurture and will see it as a distraction.
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There's a lot of unknowns...
1. Were they running fault tolerant hardware? i.e. Like Stratus ftServer's or was it some cluster setup?
2. Was it the OS/Database/.Net app?
I'm sure all the details will come out.
So, just put the sticker in the corner of the glass of your door and your set.
Ultimately, I believe the proliferation of web connected handheld devices is going to cause law enforcement officials to be on their best behavior.
If only it's because they have the fear that they're going to go home and find their face on the television and a rather ominious message on their answering machine something to the effect of:
"Hello, this is X from internal affairs, we need to talk about incident Y"
I second this comment... Get a library card!
The library I live near has something on the order of 10,000 SF books in their collection and is always adding them. Not to mention any book they don't have, but is located at some other library, I can request and get in under a week.
Also, the library system I use has a rating/commenting system that I've found very helpful. In general, you don't have to worry about astroturfing and the like.
Zeinfeld, I agree with you 100%
Companies like EMC^2 even make products like email extender that'll pull your email into an archive and do auto deduping and the works.
This my friends is an utter act of bullshit. Unless I didn't make myself clear, those lying fucks are covering their tracks by claiming IT incompetence.
I think it was more like "Make sure every email pertaining to unauthorized wiretaps gets put into that PST. Then make sure that's one of files that gets lost"
At this point, it's too late to impeach them, but I think charges of treason should be brought up...
Let the fuckers steal our backup tapes... good luck it's encrypted with AES256... that should keep them busy for a couple billion years.
And yes, we do recall random tapes to ensure that we can restore from the encrypted volumes.
In this day and age of "Information Warfare" you should consider every system for moving data vulnerable and take measures to ensure that attempting to steal that data would be more work than what it's worth.
You have hit the name on the head!
The problem I have with these electronic voting machines is that their internals are completely closed! Understand that the state of Nevada has more strigent controls over it's slot machines than it's voting machines...
Note, I'm taking this content from an awesome graphic I found on the internet... Thanks to whomever came up with it!!!
Software:
Slot Machine: State of Nevada has access to all software. Illegal to use software that is not on file
Voting Machine: Software is a trade secret.
Spot Checking:
Slot Machine: State gaming inspectors show up unannounced at casinos to compare computer chips with those on file. If there is a discrepancy, the machien is shut down and investigated.
Voting Machine: No checks are required. Election officals have no "known good" to compare against.
Background Security:
Slot Machine: Manufacturers subjected to backgroundchecks. Employees are investigated for criminal records.
Voting Machine: Citizens have no way of knowing, for example, whether programmers have been confvicted of fraud or have conflict of interest issues.
Equipment Certification:
Slot Machine: By a public agency at arm's length from manufacturers. Public questions invited.
Voting Machine: By for-profit commpanies chosen adn paid by the manufacturers. No public information on how the testing is done.
Dispute Handling:
Slot Machine: Casino must contact the Gaming Control Board, which has investigators on call around the clock. They can open up machines to inspect internal mechanisms and records of recent gambling outcomes.
Voting Machine: In most cases, a voter's only recourse is to call a number at the board of elections and lodge a complaint.
I do understand that a slot machine and an ATM works in a much more hostile environment where people are constantly working to break the system.
However, our Democracy is more important than some ATM and thus any system that's put in place that becomes an arbitrator of our Democracy's citizens to choose their elected officals should be held to even a higher standard.
What are you talking about? These things will probably be made in Taiwan!
Here's the thing though... you can boil the ocean with a magnifying glass, it's all about the size of the magnifying glass.
I'm sure this already exists, but what there needs to be is a site that would let you discover music based on genre and then would let you sample the music and if you like it, buy the whole album for some price chosen by the artist. Some percentage of that price would go into paying for the site (say 5% or something)
Offer streams off the site for specific genres so people could just subscribe...
The biggest issue is finding these bands and getting all the other bits organized.
Your first point is well taken... I'm not sure some obscure indy band could get the pull that say a NIN could get... However, NIN and other bands with clout work really hard promoting smaller bands
I wouldn't be surprised to see Trent using his audience to introduce them into other music from up and coming bands... What a better way to smash the system then to send out an email saying "Hey, this is Trent, I've found an amazing band, why don't you stop by the site, grab a couple free tracks and if you like it, download the whole album".
Trent could even to a "Trent's band of the week" sort of thing.
Then he could just work something out with the artist so if the album costs 5 bucks, trent would get 50 cents to pay for the bandwidth with the rest going to the band.
Here's my idea...
Have the entire motherboard embedded in 5" thick block of acrylic. laced throughout this block would wires running in every direction and layered such that there's no gap larger than 2mm. Then have these wires wired such that breaking anyone of them would cause the system to immediately dump high voltage current across the motherboard, thus rendering it dead.
Yeah, it would mean any single component failure would mean replacing the entire setup, but if your willing to go to these extremes, you can afford a forklift replacement.
In our group of us who played RPG games, we had one guy who was always like "I should run a GURPS game!" So, one day, he did. We went through all the rules, etc so everybody was square on how to play and we decided to do 4 sessions (we played every Saturday night).
After a month, we decided to switch back to AD&D. While GURPS was okay, we found the mechanics of the game hard to get our heads around. Maybe it was that we'd just played too much D&D and that was where our heads were.
With that all said, I ran a HOL campaign for a good 3 months which everybody enjoyed. HOL being the antithesis of D&D... i.e. complete and utter lack of rules.
How hard would it be to merely configure your firewall to just drop TCP Reset packets? Yeah, I know you'd end up with stall TCP connections, but those would close after some specified timeout.
I've found that going out into the woods with a pack on my back and wandering has helped me solve more coding problems then I can admit...
Seagate makes a storage product that works on top of DFS called "Storage X" that lets you do this... you can take a whole bunch of servers and combine them.
Well, that's what their literature says... I have no idea about the real product.
I think he should bring a Nokia 810 Internet tablet... I'm not sure that the DVD burning makes any sense.
I think he'd be much better off buying a whole bunch of 8GB or smaller SD cards. Then all he needs to do is write his pictures to the SD cards, put them in something like a 35mm film canister and mail them home (or to a friend back in the states).
1. an SD card in a film canister is much more rugged then a flexible DVD
2. a dvd burner is going to get dirty, has all kinds of delicate parts and uses a TON of power.
3. There are zillions of camera places in the world... you can go anywhere and buy memory for cameras. You might be able to buy DVD media, but if your external burner breaks down (which it will... moving parts, sand... not a good combo) good luck finding a replacement...
Here's why he should bring a Nokia 810 (or whatever is the lastest version) Internet tablet)
1. Rugged as all get up.
2. Built in keyboard, touchpad, wireless, GPS
3. USB port that can be used as both a host and client ports.
4. Mini-SD slot
5. The thing can be put in your pocket and well hidden. It won't stick out like a laptop...
I was just thinking the same thing... once the stockpile is depleted and helium goes (some price way higher than it currently costs) some refiner will look at one of their waste product pipes labeled "Helium" and well... they'll get really happy and call a company about a cryopump and some storage tanks... shortage solved...
The bigger issue is that it's not hard to tie all of this data together to get a picture of a persons live, less their privacy. Lets just say the RIAA pumps an extra million bucks into some senators reelection fund and manages to get a bill passed that makes it a crime to purchase more than 500 pieces of recordable media a year (without some sort of license).
It would be very easy for the government to subpoena the records of all the major chain stores and very quickly have a list of people who broke this law. They could even write it into the law that it's retroactive to some date. Or how about people who also have netflix accounts and own a DVD writer and have purchased DVD-R media in the last year... Even if it's not a technical "crime" they could probably sue you in civil court with a "Pay us 5k and we'll go away" shake down game.
I'm sure this has some sort of funny/tragic coding bug right in the middle...
.= '.com'; # $tld_domains[rand(4)];
.= $list[rand($count)];
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::Whois::Raw qw(whois);
my @silly_list = load_dictonary('/usr/share/dict/words');
my @tld_domains = ('.com','.org','.net');
my $domain;
my $num = $ARGV[0]; # Number of junk domains to create.
for(;$num >= 0; $num--)
{
$domain = return_domain(@silly_list);
$domain
print "Checking: $domain\n";
my $result = whois($domain);
if($result)
{
print "Result: $result\n";
}
}
sub return_domain
{
my (@list) = @_;
my $count = @list;
my $dom_length = int(rand(8)+1);
my $domain_name;
for(;$dom_length > 0;$dom_length--)
{
$domain_name
chomp($domain_name);
}
return $domain_name;
}
sub load_dictonary
{
my ($dict_file) = @_;
open(FP,"< $dict_file") or die "Unable to load file: $dict_file ($!)\n";
my @words = <FP>;
close(FP);
return @words;
}
A bunch of STUPID people lost their money on the internet?!? SHOCKING!!! For some reason, my compassion meter must be broken or something, because I'm having a rather hard time giving a shit.
If it's too good to be true, that's because it is.
I'm sure you know that woman who walked up to in the bar and said "Hey, I'm just looking for a good time?!?" And how 6 hours later you found yourself in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney...
The internet is just like that... a kidney stealing bitch... only she'll take both kidneys...
Much like Duke Nukem... by the time Chinese Democracy comes out... China will be a democracy...
What it comes down to is the fact that the (RI|MP)AA is running scared at this point. Instead of investing in technology and getting ahead of the curve, they dug their heels in. What digging in their heels didn't work they went crying to their representatives. Now as we all know, these guys don't have a fucking clue which end is up, let alone what's reasonable. All they know is that they want to stay in office and some guy just showed up and said "These pirates, they're killing us!!! If you don't do something we'll lose BILLIONS of dollars... you know BILLIONS of dollars that could be used to keep you guys in office...".
Hence, here we are.
Now, my only hope is that the courts take one look at this and say "What?!? Are you out of your unconstitutional minds!?!?!" and invalid the whole mess.
Unfortunately, there is one issue... bureaucracy. Lets just say a whole bunch of people get their computers seized and the courts come along and invalidate the portion of the law where things get auctioned... It'll still take years for them to ever get their stuff back... even if they're never charged with a crime.
It's good to see competition actually work. For everbodys sake, the gphone only has to be a marginal success before owners of iphones will demand that apple add features like IM.
What will be interesting, once the iphone SDK comes up, what you'll actually be able to do. I'm suspecting that every application that goes on the iPhone will have to be signed by apple, etc... Thus, getting mame on your iphone without voiding your warrenty will be out of the question.
Make sure you go out and rent/buy the first four Ratchet & Clank games for the PS2 and play them to completition. They are by far some of the best games for the PS2 platform. While your at it, pick up the game for the PSP and play through it as well.
That was simcity2000. Simcity is perfect for these kids.
What I like about putting simcity on the OLPC is that a game like that teaches practical problem solving. When it's all said and done, education is about giving people mental tools to solve problems.
I think this is a great idea, my only fear is that teachers receiving these OLPC's won't grasp what skills this game helps nurture and will see it as a distraction.
They looked like really slick pieces of technology. Though, if I ever got one, I'd be too tempted to program it to act like Gir...