Re:Hm. I still have no idea what I want for Christ
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Gifts For Geeks
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How about the ultimate geek gift? Space travel pre-book here its £100K = ~$160K deposit, and they don't guarentee it will happen or that you won't have to cough up even more money, but its still the coolest present I have seen.
I don't believe that because I think government organizations have better things to do than worry about what some joe schmoe is reading about.
Ok what about the Uk governments RIP Act and other assorted snooping laws? Try here and here and here and here for the latest insanity brought to you by our esteemed leaders.
From my understanding of the proposed monitoring system in Britain, all electronic communications travelling across the Internet will be archived. I don't think the intention was for the government to read messages sent to my girlfriend. The goal of this project is to help prevent terrorism and provide evidence needed to convict hackers/criminals.
Given that ~10% of police officers at any one time are corrupt do you really want them to have access to an archive of you Net banking, CC details used for e-commerce transactions, etc? Imagibe whats going to happen if some corrupt officer collects 10,000 CC numbers and maxes them out at say £1000 ($1500) a time, thats a nice little earner, and who is going to come after them? You thing gov.uk wants to admit they made a law that allowed such a massive crime to happen? The worst case scenario is that they snarfed a large number of stockmarket trading account logins, sold all the stocks, and transfered the money, possibly causing a market crash, now would you trust them?
Gov.uk can still take it over if they wanted, no one is going to make a fuss, just like when the US invaded Grenada, no one cares whether its actually legal or not, the best way I have found so far of defeating the RIP Act is Rubberhose, the website is here and if you're too lazy to click the link heres the synopsis -
Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation. Rubberhose differs from conventional disk encryption systems in that it has an advanced modular architecture, self-test suite, is more secure, portable, utilises information hiding (steganography / deniable cryptography), works with any file system and has source freely available. Currently supported ciphers are DES, 3DES, IDEA, RC5, RC6, Blowfish, Twofish and CAST.
The Forbes article is about Steven Wolfram, creator of Mathmatica and general genius, whos now been using CA to model all aspects of reality, physics, biology etc, I suggest you check out his homepage I would recommend someone on/. review his upcoming book "A New Kind of Science" when it appears in 2001, should be an interesting read all about his ideas.
It seems to me that as WIPO has been ordering people to hand over domain names to pre-existing owners of "registered" names that these alternative registrars have a very good case for getting ICANN to hand over.biz, I mean if Madonna can get "her" domain handed over then they should be able to retain.biz.
You forgot about the two most hideous tags, SCRIPT and APPLET... IMG tags lead to SCRIPT tags, SCRIPT tags lead to APPLET tags, APPLET tags lead to suffering...
Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and multimedia to clients. Keeping documents "link clean", making
linking a function of the server info-tree and not in the doc
Now think of having the links related to a realtime search rather than the server.. ooops I already coded that, guess you'll all have to wait for its release then...
Luckily the people who own the patent are trying to sue "the Internet", unfortunately their lawyers have not been able to find exactly who owns the Internet and therefore have been so far unable so sue anyone.
I've seen that so many times, the biggest was a couple of years ago when a telecoms company wanted me to come in and run a project for them, they had hired a few guys that knew the system they were using and had let them loose without real co-ordination or leadership and they ended up with a really unstable system that they were actually using in their business, needless to say I would not even touch it with a bargepole, I told them it would need a complete redesign and rewrite, but they didnt like that, so I said no thanks and walked away.
2) Academic CS curriculums are typically behind the curve - after all, the professors are teaching what they learned 5-10 years ago, and most of them don't keep up with new technology (with some few exceptions, where they're involved). If you're not at the top half-dozen schools, then it's likely you're not cutting-edge in computing.
This is true, however if you're smart you'll hang -
a) with the PhD crowd
b) with Profs and others who do outside consulting so you get to see the skills that are really needed in the outside world
c) online here and elsewhere noting what skills people are really using so you can investigate stuff for yourself
Old joke you've probably heard but what the heck -
A science graduate asks "Why does this work?"
An engineering graduate asks "How do I build this?"
A social science graduate asks "Do you want fries with that?"
Re:Tidal generators are the stuff dreams are made
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Wave Driven Generators
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Yes, it's possible (and perhaps preferable), but unfortunately, it was killed during the 1980s when its cost was overcalculated and the project was shelved.
The cost was overcalculated by people who were on the side of the oil companies and presented to the government, no its not a conspiracy theory, it was well documented, so well in fact that it was the subject of a BBC TV documentary over here in the UK back in the 90s, and those responible got away scot free.
Is that it does chop up the files and distribute them.How many people and I'm not talking about freedom loving geeks here really want to be having 1/4 of some data that they cannot access themselves on their HD? Yes I know there is the concept of getting paid the Mojo for doing that, but do you really think that your average user is going to concern themselves with that? Surely it would be easier and more "user freindly" to have the software recognise when there are multiple copies of the same data (e.g. using an MD5 hash of the file) and pull off the data from different machines with offsets so you might pull half from one machine and half from another if there are two machines with the same data. That way the users have the data, and know they have it, and at the same time you share the bandwidth out and if one machine goes down you pull the remaining data off another so you have the redundancy.
It might have something to do with bandwidth, for example in the UK most users are on dial ups, whereas in Germany ISDN is widespread, Germany is also ahead in terms of DSL deployment, would you be more likely to use Gnutella with 56K dial up connection or 128K ISDN or 768K DSL? I've tried Gnutella using a modem that refuses to connect at more than 33K on my line and the connect gets swamped, when I use my ADSL (I was a trialist for BT here in the UK for the last 2 years) its much more usable. I think you'll find that the countries with high speed cheap access via cable or DSL will always come up higher on usage stats for p2p products just because of the bandwidth.
Don't forget that the P4 systems use RAMBUS as well, making the system even more expensive than the Athlon PC133 systems, and Athlon DDR is a big question mark as PC2600 seem even thinner on the ground than RAMBUS right now, hopefully the manufacturers will start to ramp up production soon, then we might see PC2600 on Pricewatch etc.
Ooops, I was just going to point out the link goes to some page about someone wife not a mirror of the article, sorry for the blank comment everyone, mouse slipped:)
Just put a nice document together outlining the initial cost, plus the extra running costs, add in X extra admins+recruitment costs to deal with patching insecurities, keeping the system up, etc. If you're supposed to be deploying other business systems show how this additional work will delay those projects etc. PHBs have to think it was their idea to say no, oh and remember when they turn it down, recommend that you review the situation in a couple of years, that will ensure that those that were pushing for Exchange will have something to console themselves with. PS this was all Dilbert inspired.
On more technically grounds you may also be able to get around the AUP, by the fact that many clients are also servers and many servers are also clients.
If we take the definition of "server" to be any system for the transmission of data to someone requesting it i.e. a "client" then when a webserver looks at your cookie that it planted there you are being a server and the webserver is the cleint in the transaction, so if they put a "no servers" clause in the AUP I suggest you mail them about this, it might send their lawyers into an infinately recursive loop.
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How about the ultimate geek gift? Space travel pre-book here its £100K = ~$160K deposit, and they don't guarentee it will happen or that you won't have to cough up even more money, but its still the coolest present I have seen.
I don't believe that because I think government organizations have better things to do than worry about what some joe schmoe is reading about.
Ok what about the Uk governments RIP Act and other assorted snooping laws? Try here and here and here and here for the latest insanity brought to you by our esteemed leaders.
From my understanding of the proposed monitoring system in Britain, all electronic communications travelling across the Internet will be archived. I don't think the intention was for the government to read messages sent to my girlfriend. The goal of this project is to help prevent terrorism and provide evidence needed to convict hackers/criminals.
Given that ~10% of police officers at any one time are corrupt do you really want them to have access to an archive of you Net banking, CC details used for e-commerce transactions, etc? Imagibe whats going to happen if some corrupt officer collects 10,000 CC numbers and maxes them out at say £1000 ($1500) a time, thats a nice little earner, and who is going to come after them? You thing gov.uk wants to admit they made a law that allowed such a massive crime to happen? The worst case scenario is that they snarfed a large number of stockmarket trading account logins, sold all the stocks, and transfered the money, possibly causing a market crash, now would you trust them?
Gov.uk can still take it over if they wanted, no one is going to make a fuss, just like when the US invaded Grenada, no one cares whether its actually legal or not, the best way I have found so far of defeating the RIP Act is Rubberhose, the website is here and if you're too lazy to click the link heres the synopsis -
Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation. Rubberhose differs from conventional disk encryption systems in that it has an advanced modular architecture, self-test suite, is more secure, portable, utilises information hiding (steganography / deniable cryptography), works with any file system and has source freely available. Currently supported ciphers are DES, 3DES, IDEA, RC5, RC6, Blowfish, Twofish and CAST.
Also www.alanturing.net and also super Turing (its in PDF)
The Forbes article is about Steven Wolfram, creator of Mathmatica and general genius, whos now been using CA to model all aspects of reality, physics, biology etc, I suggest you check out his homepage I would recommend someone on /. review his upcoming book "A New Kind of Science" when it appears in 2001, should be an interesting read all about his ideas.
It seems to me that as WIPO has been ordering people to hand over domain names to pre-existing owners of "registered" names that these alternative registrars have a very good case for getting ICANN to hand over .biz, I mean if Madonna can get "her" domain handed over then they should be able to retain .biz.
You forgot about the two most hideous tags, SCRIPT and APPLET... IMG tags lead to SCRIPT tags, SCRIPT tags lead to APPLET tags, APPLET tags lead to suffering...
From the manefesto -
Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and multimedia to clients. Keeping documents "link clean", making linking a function of the server info-tree and not in the doc
Now think of having the links related to a realtime search rather than the server.. ooops I already coded that, guess you'll all have to wait for its release then...
Luckily the people who own the patent are trying to sue "the Internet", unfortunately their lawyers have not been able to find exactly who owns the Internet and therefore have been so far unable so sue anyone.
The root of social science -
People want to be "happy"
People want to be "in control"
everything else can be extrapolated from there.
I've seen that so many times, the biggest was a couple of years ago when a telecoms company wanted me to come in and run a project for them, they had hired a few guys that knew the system they were using and had let them loose without real co-ordination or leadership and they ended up with a really unstable system that they were actually using in their business, needless to say I would not even touch it with a bargepole, I told them it would need a complete redesign and rewrite, but they didnt like that, so I said no thanks and walked away.
2) Academic CS curriculums are typically behind the curve - after all, the professors are teaching what they learned 5-10 years ago, and most of them don't keep up with new technology (with some few exceptions, where they're involved). If you're not at the top half-dozen schools, then it's likely you're not cutting-edge in computing.
This is true, however if you're smart you'll hang -
a) with the PhD crowd
b) with Profs and others who do outside consulting so you get to see the skills that are really needed in the outside world
c) online here and elsewhere noting what skills people are really using so you can investigate stuff for yourself
Old joke you've probably heard but what the heck -
A science graduate asks "Why does this work?"
An engineering graduate asks "How do I build this?"
A social science graduate asks "Do you want fries with that?"
Yes, it's possible (and perhaps preferable), but unfortunately, it was killed during the 1980s when its cost was overcalculated and the project was shelved.
The cost was overcalculated by people who were on the side of the oil companies and presented to the government, no its not a conspiracy theory, it was well documented, so well in fact that it was the subject of a BBC TV documentary over here in the UK back in the 90s, and those responible got away scot free.
Is that it does chop up the files and distribute them.How many people and I'm not talking about freedom loving geeks here really want to be having 1/4 of some data that they cannot access themselves on their HD? Yes I know there is the concept of getting paid the Mojo for doing that, but do you really think that your average user is going to concern themselves with that? Surely it would be easier and more "user freindly" to have the software recognise when there are multiple copies of the same data (e.g. using an MD5 hash of the file) and pull off the data from different machines with offsets so you might pull half from one machine and half from another if there are two machines with the same data. That way the users have the data, and know they have it, and at the same time you share the bandwidth out and if one machine goes down you pull the remaining data off another so you have the redundancy.
Perhaps the Frech should think about making every peice of memrobilia come with a copy of "The diary of Anne Frank"?
It might have something to do with bandwidth, for example in the UK most users are on dial ups, whereas in Germany ISDN is widespread, Germany is also ahead in terms of DSL deployment, would you be more likely to use Gnutella with 56K dial up connection or 128K ISDN or 768K DSL? I've tried Gnutella using a modem that refuses to connect at more than 33K on my line and the connect gets swamped, when I use my ADSL (I was a trialist for BT here in the UK for the last 2 years) its much more usable. I think you'll find that the countries with high speed cheap access via cable or DSL will always come up higher on usage stats for p2p products just because of the bandwidth.
Don't forget that the P4 systems use RAMBUS as well, making the system even more expensive than the Athlon PC133 systems, and Athlon DDR is a big question mark as PC2600 seem even thinner on the ground than RAMBUS right now, hopefully the manufacturers will start to ramp up production soon, then we might see PC2600 on Pricewatch etc.
Go eat a poisoned apple then...
Ooops, I was just going to point out the link goes to some page about someone wife not a mirror of the article, sorry for the blank comment everyone, mouse slipped :)
Interesting to check out the H2K panel on DeCSS and the DMCA - Hackers vs. Corporate America with Emmanuel Goldstein, Jon Johansen, and Macki.
Just put a nice document together outlining the initial cost, plus the extra running costs, add in X extra admins+recruitment costs to deal with patching insecurities, keeping the system up, etc. If you're supposed to be deploying other business systems show how this additional work will delay those projects etc. PHBs have to think it was their idea to say no, oh and remember when they turn it down, recommend that you review the situation in a couple of years, that will ensure that those that were pushing for Exchange will have something to console themselves with. PS this was all Dilbert inspired.
On more technically grounds you may also be able to get around the AUP, by the fact that many clients are also servers and many servers are also clients.
If we take the definition of "server" to be any system for the transmission of data to someone requesting it i.e. a "client" then when a webserver looks at your cookie that it planted there you are being a server and the webserver is the cleint in the transaction, so if they put a "no servers" clause in the AUP I suggest you mail them about this, it might send their lawyers into an infinately recursive loop.