What's the difference between some space based platform that launches a missle from LEO and a huge spy glass that directs a stealth plane to fire a missle on an enemy target?
Nothing. Space got militerized years and years ago. The moment governments started lauching satelites with visual and sigint capability, space became militerized.
Do you really think Boeing / UT whove been spending billions developing heavy lift booster technology is so Hughes can put a couple more DirecTV satelites in orbit?
The hardware has probably already been built, been shake and baked and is crated ready to go.
What is surpising is that mass media is only figuring it out now.
I guess that dibert comic about the PHB shaking his "laptop" because it was hung will come true, though instead of rebooting the laptop it'll just format the harddrive...
It's cool that an agency with the worlds best IT infrastructure has the gumption to spend it's tax money and help bring the industry forward to solve practical problems.
Tragically none of the other government agencies will read your paper and the next worm will take down a half dozen of them...
Oh yeah, while were at it, we'd like to apologize for Jake 2.0...
The parent poster was just being a bit zealous in regards to how he/she feels spammers should be treated.
In America, once you've been sentenced, it's over. It can be shorted but never lengenthed, unless you do something stupid like make a shiv out of a toothbrush and kill your cellmate.
I use rdesktop on a daily basis and it's awesome. My only bitch is that cut and paste between rdesktop and my gnome desktop flakes out sometimes...
However, since it sounds like this person is setting up kiosk type machines, they won't need to run a window manager, etc. You could just setup the.xinitrc to just do something like:
rdesktop -f theserver.ip.address
The -f is for fullscreen...
If this was setup right, you could even train the users to just do a ctrl-alt-backspace if they're session gets hung up.
And that's a bad thing???? Though I'm suspecting that Al Jezzera is suddenly going be having a problem getting their Al Queda tapes aired all over the world...
I think you'll want to take a look at openmosix. http://www.openmosix.org/ Instead of writing your app to be cluster aware, it hides all that good stuff in the kernel. All you need todo is have an app that'll fork/pthread appropiately and mosix takes care of all the messiness behind the scenes.
The Department of Homeland Security zeros in some some dude selling knockoff rubix cubes, but fails to notice every mall has one of those carts where people selling those cheap plastic video game controllers stuff fulled on unlicenced roms???
That "Windows may have more virii because it is more popular" myth is bunk.
If you check netcraft, you'll see that currently Apache is more popular a webserver than IIS. So, shouldn't Apache have more vulnerabilites issues that IIS?
However, I do agree with you on the group issue. However, I wonder if this is something that might be addressed with SElinux.
I know this puts me in the minority of slashdot linux zealots, but I actually use linux. Hence clicking on those banners does me no harm.
One day, I clicked on one just to see what would happen and Mozilla popped up a download dialog for some windows executable with a name like "Quick Web Searcher.exe". Needless to say, I smugly chuckled and then realized that more than likely this was probably installed on several of my realatives PC's... And that It would be me that would be reinstalling their systems...
I guess I could write a diatribe about how vigilante justice doesn't solve anything, but I won't.
These FUCKERS deserve everything they've got coming to them. In my eyes they occupy the same rung on the internet food chain ladder as spammers, 2nd world extorionists and those people who create those fake popus telling you machine has a virus, but when clicked on attempt to install CWS...
We watch the incoming traffic. If we see X number of hits over Y period (usually 5 seconds) we drop all the traffic from them for a 1/2 hour. After a half our if we're their still sending, they get put on a 24hr block list.
what you could go is write a program that would do this on a linux box that would have an out of band connection to the router at the head of the network and configure the acls to drop the IP at that level. Granted this isn't going to get any of your bandwidth back, but it'll give you a good list of IP's.
I think the easy solution to this is to get working on using the ISS as a space dock. Lift the engine into orbit using convential (i.e. chemical) methods and build the mars ship in orbit.
Yeah, Boston Massachusetts is one of those cities. They installed a whole bunch of cameras, etc for the DNC (That's the "Demoncratic National Convention" for you none Americans out there).
However, I haven't heard of an instance where these cameras have been used to prevent/solve a crime. Maybe they are and it isn't being publicized, but I doubt it.
As for the privacy aspect, when your in a public place isn't it assumed that specifically that isn't a private place and you can be videotaped without your permission?
Also, the author talks about how in the future they'll be cameras that'll send the footage off over some wireless network. I suspect that riot police will start deploying jammers as standard practice on the premise that they're preventing rioters from calling in support, etc. Check out DARPA's wolfpack devices.
One main reason people will pour 30 dollars a week worth of gas into their SUV is the percieved safety of it.
Even though it's been proven that statistically speaking your just as likely to be killed in an SUV as any other type of car. Also, the occupants of an SUV are equally or more liking to be injured in minor accidents than those in smaller cars.
Exactly. Everybody in 2000 made a big deal about the butterfly ballots in FL.
What the media forgot to mention was that 96% of the people who used the butterfly ballot were able to figure it out just fine.
The reason the other 4% couldn't figure out the ballot was because they were stupid. Yet the media make it sound like the populace at large was dumbfounded by these "freakish" ballots. They also forgot to mention that these ballots had been in use for years.
The bigger issue is that in presidential elections in the past, it's generally a landslide, so having ~5% of the votes going uncounted for technical reasons (i.e. voter stupidity) really didn't impact the election.
I suspect, as with 2000, this election will be so close that 5% margin really will matter. Especially in a winner takes all type of electoral college system. Which further underscores why I think we should dump the electoral college system and go with straight representative elections.
Well, you have to pass the air through a regulator anyway, you might as well just put a filter cartridge in there as well that would filter out stuff like dirt / cigarette smoke that would destroy a turbine. Depending on the materials, I wouldn't think humidity would be such an issue.
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Check this out. It uses a camera to track its targets. http://jpbrown.i8.com/aegis.html
All this arguing is mute...
What's the difference between some space based platform that launches a missle from LEO and a huge spy glass that directs a stealth plane to fire a missle on an enemy target?
Nothing. Space got militerized years and years ago. The moment governments started lauching satelites with visual and sigint capability, space became militerized.
Do you really think Boeing / UT whove been spending billions developing heavy lift booster technology is so Hughes can put a couple more DirecTV satelites in orbit?
The hardware has probably already been built, been shake and baked and is crated ready to go.
What is surpising is that mass media is only figuring it out now.
I guess that dibert comic about the PHB shaking his "laptop" because it was hung will come true, though instead of rebooting the laptop it'll just format the harddrive...
I know you guys/gals will see this, so thanks!
It's cool that an agency with the worlds best IT infrastructure has the gumption to spend it's tax money and help bring the industry forward to solve practical problems.
Tragically none of the other government agencies will read your paper and the next worm will take down a half dozen of them...
Oh yeah, while were at it, we'd like to apologize for Jake 2.0...
The parent poster was just being a bit zealous in regards to how he/she feels spammers should be treated.
In America, once you've been sentenced, it's over. It can be shorted but never lengenthed, unless you do something stupid like make a shiv out of a toothbrush and kill your cellmate.
I use rdesktop on a daily basis and it's awesome. My only bitch is that cut and paste between rdesktop and my gnome desktop flakes out sometimes...
.xinitrc to just do something like:
However, since it sounds like this person is setting up kiosk type machines, they won't need to run a window manager, etc.
You could just setup the
rdesktop -f theserver.ip.address
The -f is for fullscreen...
If this was setup right, you could even train the users to just do a ctrl-alt-backspace if they're session gets hung up.
And that's a bad thing???? Though I'm suspecting that Al Jezzera is suddenly going be having a problem getting their Al Queda tapes aired all over the world...
I think you'll want to take a look at openmosix. http://www.openmosix.org/ Instead of writing your app to be cluster aware, it hides all that good stuff in the kernel. All you need todo is have an app that'll fork/pthread appropiately and mosix takes care of all the messiness behind the scenes.
Here's what I don't understand...
The Department of Homeland Security zeros in some some dude selling knockoff rubix cubes, but fails to notice every mall has one of those carts where people selling those cheap plastic video game controllers stuff fulled on unlicenced roms???
WTF is up with that?
Microsoft is selling garages?
I always wondered what they used all those copies of microsoft Bob for... I always thought they were in a pit somewhere...
that probably depends on which "port" Bubba uses for input/output and at what baud rate...
That "Windows may have more virii because it is more popular" myth is bunk.
If you check netcraft, you'll see that currently Apache is more popular a webserver than IIS. So, shouldn't Apache have more vulnerabilites issues that IIS?
However, I do agree with you on the group issue. However, I wonder if this is something that might be addressed with SElinux.
I know this puts me in the minority of slashdot linux zealots, but I actually use linux. Hence clicking on those banners does me no harm.
One day, I clicked on one just to see what would happen and Mozilla popped up a download dialog for some windows executable with a name like "Quick Web Searcher.exe". Needless to say, I smugly chuckled and then realized that more than likely this was probably installed on several of my realatives PC's... And that It would be me that would be reinstalling their systems...
I guess I could write a diatribe about how vigilante justice doesn't solve anything, but I won't.
These FUCKERS deserve everything they've got coming to them. In my eyes they occupy the same rung on the internet food chain ladder as spammers, 2nd world extorionists and those people who create those fake popus telling you machine has a virus, but when clicked on attempt to install CWS...
Hey! Don't forget us Pagans!
Here's an idea.
We watch the incoming traffic. If we see X number of hits over Y period (usually 5 seconds) we drop all the traffic from them for a 1/2 hour. After a half our if we're their still sending, they get put on a 24hr block list.
what you could go is write a program that would do this on a linux box that would have an out of band connection to the router at the head of the network and configure the acls to drop the IP at that level. Granted this isn't going to get any of your bandwidth back, but it'll give you a good list of IP's.
We'll have the puppet master, but it'll be contained to only a couple computers in the whole world (until you can get 100tflops on your desktop)...
I think the easy solution to this is to get working on using the ISS as a space dock. Lift the engine into orbit using convential (i.e. chemical) methods and build the mars ship in orbit.
I just checked the hurd webpage and it the softwares last release was in 1997...
Yeah, Boston Massachusetts is one of those cities. They installed a whole bunch of cameras, etc for the DNC (That's the "Demoncratic National Convention" for you none Americans out there).
However, I haven't heard of an instance where these cameras have been used to prevent/solve a crime. Maybe they are and it isn't being publicized, but I doubt it.
As for the privacy aspect, when your in a public place isn't it assumed that specifically that isn't a private place and you can be videotaped without your permission?
Also, the author talks about how in the future they'll be cameras that'll send the footage off over some wireless network. I suspect that riot police will start deploying jammers as standard practice on the premise that they're preventing rioters from calling in support, etc. Check out DARPA's wolfpack devices.
I'm sure there's a state where a farmer has registered all of his sheep to vote...
I guess it's my perspective. I drive a very efficient car, so anything greater than $20 as week is nuts in my book for gas.
Currently in Massachusetts the going price for a regular unleaded is ~2.00 a gallon.
One main reason people will pour 30 dollars a week worth of gas into their SUV is the percieved safety of it.
Even though it's been proven that statistically speaking your just as likely to be killed in an SUV as any other type of car. Also, the occupants of an SUV are equally or more liking to be injured in minor accidents than those in smaller cars.
Exactly. Everybody in 2000 made a big deal about the butterfly ballots in FL.
What the media forgot to mention was that 96% of the people who used the butterfly ballot were able to figure it out just fine.
The reason the other 4% couldn't figure out the ballot was because they were stupid. Yet the media make it sound like the populace at large was dumbfounded by these "freakish" ballots.
They also forgot to mention that these ballots had been in use for years.
The bigger issue is that in presidential elections in the past, it's generally a landslide, so having ~5% of the votes going uncounted for technical reasons (i.e. voter stupidity) really didn't impact the election.
I suspect, as with 2000, this election will be so close that 5% margin really will matter. Especially in a winner takes all type of electoral college system. Which further underscores why I think we should dump the electoral college system and go with straight representative elections.
Well, you have to pass the air through a regulator anyway, you might as well just put a filter cartridge in there as well that would filter out stuff like dirt / cigarette smoke that would destroy a turbine. Depending on the materials, I wouldn't think humidity would be such an issue.