The wall has nothing to do with it. Nor does the graffiti.
If someone circumvents your wall to get inside to do anything (regardless of the activity) it is breaking and entering. If someone does not have a legal means (hold the keys or expressed permission to 'jump the fence') then they have no right being there. Regardless of 'how high' and 'how wide' the wall may or may not be.
If you were to erect a wall and someone uses a bulldozer or stick of dynamite to circumvent the structure, then they have in fact damaged your property. No matter how strong (or week)your wall was.
The fact of the matter is that, the digital domain is being viewed upon as property. That is protected by the laws that protect real property.
Hmmmmm, I wonder if I catch a hacker on my site/server, that I cannot effectively 'kill' him (say by disabling his computer OS from loading again. Even if only for a short while.) just as I could if I caught him in my house, after he climbed through a window in the middle of the night....
"Or we will be forced to fire upon you with this HellFire missile (which was designed for attacking battle armour, but we found it very effective against automobiles)."
Littering, speeding, high speed chases, running red lights (among other things) would be a thing of the past.
Re:requisite paranoid response
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Droning On
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To make a satellite 'stationary' above a single geographical point, it would have to be in geo-sync orbit of roughly 22,000 miles. One, I don't think that spy optics are that strong to support such distances in any real-time capacity. Plus, the costs alone to reposition the bird to cover a specific area, makes it financially futile.
Aircraft will always be more 'affordable' than satellites.
Pro: Excellent theft deterrent. "Warning, you have entered the wrong password. 2 more incorrect tries will result in Nuclear Self Destruction!"
Con: Sterilization, testicular/colon/prostate cancer, or even deformed geek offspring. Unless they drop so much lead in the case that it becomes impractical to utilize as designed.
I comparing a 'comparable' build of a Sun workstation (memory, hard drive, single CPU, etc), the Tadpole is very nicely priced. Coupled with the fact that it is portable just adds to the appeal to anyone who has such a need.
Personally, I would rather shell out less for a 30% slower CPU and have the portability, and do the work I needed where I am, than to have to fight with everyone on a VPN and ssh to my workstation when I am not in the office.
As a person who supports midrange to high end Solaris platforms and applications; I would find it benificial to have a mobile platform solution at hand.
Thus enabling folks like myself to be able to display, troubleshoot and (if necessary) develop on the same platform as I am supporting at a client site. Reducing the overall need to make that call back to the service centre or development team working on the particular piece that I am on the client site to support.
As the old saw goes: There is a solution for every technical question. Linux isn't always right and MS isn't always wrong. In this instance, I am very happy to see a Sun/Solaris solution considering that, that is the platform that I dedicate a majority of my professional attention to.
Too bad they didn't post their pricing model with the products. I hate having to call or request information from such vendors. Dealing with a salesperson trying to make the sale is not how I wish to be spending my time. Just give me the info and the price and let me decide on my own!
We was able to triangulate a suicidal PCS user at the MTA by following the signal strength between the three cell sectors he was in. Each time he traveled, the phone would have to tell each sector that it was entering its zone so the switch itself would 'hand-off' to the next cell sector. Thus leading us within a few hundred feet of his actual location. Granted, it took at least one set of eyes to watch the phone terminate to each new cell that he entered, but it was done. However timely.
In another case, the switch in another location was able to triangulate the location of a kidnapped victim that had been locked in the trunk of a car. The victim called the support line and they in turn called the local MTA and fed the information to the police. Who caught the perp on the highway!
This really isn't new, but now some govt Big Brothers seemed to have caught on to the tricks of triangulation.
I wonder how long it will be before they catch on that they can track stolen vehicles with the On Star system or some other GPS receiver...
Sun could create a desktop platform that could be as good at OS X. But the #1 reason that they have Solaris for the x86 platform at all is for the server market. In comparison to native Sun hardware, x86 is still by far cheaper. Thus giving some bean counter a corner to cut, as most of the popular server applications for Sparc are also developed for x86 running Solaris.
Another reason why there isn't a big push to try to make a desktop platform is the development cost. Because it is generaly a cheap 32bit server platform, they don't have to generate as many drivers for hardware as they would if they 'wanted' to make a true desktop environment. The consumer cost alone would rank such an OS up there (maybe more than) what MS puts out.
But IMHO, for the desktop, you still cannot beat Linux on x86. For supported hardware and performance reasons alone. But don't think that I will give up my Sparc 5 desktop at home anytime soon!
Right next to the coin actuator for the vibrating bed at a seedy 'pay-by-the-hour' hotel where I took my..... Ummmmm.... date.
Actually, there is one sitting right under my coffee cup on my desk. Makes for a nice coaster. I only wished that they distributed the media on CD-RW, so I could burn my own data on the disk. Much like when I needed a blank floppy...
I saw these thing pop up in major metropolitan areas in Germany over 10 years ago. Funny how the beer and wine shelves were always empty at 4am on a Saturday morning.
I am all for these actually. Everything is priced right. You don't have to repeat yourself to someone who's native language isn't your own.
I would love to see a supermarket setup like this. Just drive up after the order you submitted online is complete, insert your ID card and out comes your goods. Already bagged and good to go.
How I would like to fight spam
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Meet the Spammers
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Considering that the home addresses of spammers are now published, I have a novel idea for making them feel how we do.
Have everyone snail mail them one bag of kitchen garbage. 4th class mail. Once a month.
Yes, but be forwarned that if you wish to email the server running the JAVA interface on the coffee pot's controling server from an Yahoo email account, you cannot send a MOCHA command argument. This gets striped and replaced with 'coffee'. Thus suprising the user when they get to the machine.
This perversion of Moore's Law was a fault (in part by the telecom industry for believing the hype that the rest of the money grubbing industries where touting. Movies over the Net. Everyone telecommuting. Attend college classes from home. More retail content than you can choke on. Plus a bevy of other "wouldn't it be cool" party line hype that drove the bubble.
Me? I blame it on the GUI and Mouse. If it wasn't for those things, the Net would still be a usefull place (tool, etc).
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The wall has nothing to do with it. Nor does the graffiti.
If someone circumvents your wall to get inside to do anything (regardless of the activity) it is breaking and entering. If someone does not have a legal means (hold the keys or expressed permission to 'jump the fence') then they have no right being there. Regardless of 'how high' and 'how wide' the wall may or may not be.
If you were to erect a wall and someone uses a bulldozer or stick of dynamite to circumvent the structure, then they have in fact damaged your property. No matter how strong (or week)your wall was.
The fact of the matter is that, the digital domain is being viewed upon as property. That is protected by the laws that protect real property.
Hmmmmm, I wonder if I catch a hacker on my site/server, that I cannot effectively 'kill' him (say by disabling his computer OS from loading again. Even if only for a short while.) just as I could if I caught him in my house, after he climbed through a window in the middle of the night....
"Or we will be forced to fire upon you with this HellFire missile (which was designed for attacking battle armour, but we found it very effective against automobiles)."
Littering, speeding, high speed chases, running red lights (among other things) would be a thing of the past.
To make a satellite 'stationary' above a single geographical point, it would have to be in geo-sync orbit of roughly 22,000 miles. One, I don't think that spy optics are that strong to support such distances in any real-time capacity. Plus, the costs alone to reposition the bird to cover a specific area, makes it financially futile.
Aircraft will always be more 'affordable' than satellites.
Pro: Excellent theft deterrent. "Warning, you have entered the wrong password. 2 more incorrect tries will result in Nuclear Self Destruction!"
Con: Sterilization, testicular/colon/prostate cancer, or even deformed geek offspring. Unless they drop so much lead in the case that it becomes impractical to utilize as designed.
I comparing a 'comparable' build of a Sun workstation (memory, hard drive, single CPU, etc), the Tadpole is very nicely priced. Coupled with the fact that it is portable just adds to the appeal to anyone who has such a need.
Personally, I would rather shell out less for a 30% slower CPU and have the portability, and do the work I needed where I am, than to have to fight with everyone on a VPN and ssh to my workstation when I am not in the office.
As a person who supports midrange to high end Solaris platforms and applications; I would find it benificial to have a mobile platform solution at hand.
Thus enabling folks like myself to be able to display, troubleshoot and (if necessary) develop on the same platform as I am supporting at a client site. Reducing the overall need to make that call back to the service centre or development team working on the particular piece that I am on the client site to support.
As the old saw goes: There is a solution for every technical question. Linux isn't always right and MS isn't always wrong. In this instance, I am very happy to see a Sun/Solaris solution considering that, that is the platform that I dedicate a majority of my professional attention to.
Too bad they didn't post their pricing model with the products. I hate having to call or request information from such vendors. Dealing with a salesperson trying to make the sale is not how I wish to be spending my time. Just give me the info and the price and let me decide on my own!
Castigate? I take it that Ballmer has been beta testing MS Thesaurus recently.
I wonder if the dancing monkey knows the difference between a dissertation and a soliloquy.
We was able to triangulate a suicidal PCS user at the MTA by following the signal strength between the three cell sectors he was in. Each time he traveled, the phone would have to tell each sector that it was entering its zone so the switch itself would 'hand-off' to the next cell sector. Thus leading us within a few hundred feet of his actual location. Granted, it took at least one set of eyes to watch the phone terminate to each new cell that he entered, but it was done. However timely.
In another case, the switch in another location was able to triangulate the location of a kidnapped victim that had been locked in the trunk of a car. The victim called the support line and they in turn called the local MTA and fed the information to the police. Who caught the perp on the highway!
This really isn't new, but now some govt Big Brothers seemed to have caught on to the tricks of triangulation.
I wonder how long it will be before they catch on that they can track stolen vehicles with the On Star system or some other GPS receiver...
My vote goes for Lars Ulrich.
Sun could create a desktop platform that could be as good at OS X. But the #1 reason that they have Solaris for the x86 platform at all is for the server market. In comparison to native Sun hardware, x86 is still by far cheaper. Thus giving some bean counter a corner to cut, as most of the popular server applications for Sparc are also developed for x86 running Solaris.
Another reason why there isn't a big push to try to make a desktop platform is the development cost. Because it is generaly a cheap 32bit server platform, they don't have to generate as many drivers for hardware as they would if they 'wanted' to make a true desktop environment. The consumer cost alone would rank such an OS up there (maybe more than) what MS puts out.
But IMHO, for the desktop, you still cannot beat Linux on x86. For supported hardware and performance reasons alone. But don't think that I will give up my Sparc 5 desktop at home anytime soon!
Right next to the coin actuator for the vibrating bed at a seedy 'pay-by-the-hour' hotel where I took my..... Ummmmm.... date. Actually, there is one sitting right under my coffee cup on my desk. Makes for a nice coaster. I only wished that they distributed the media on CD-RW, so I could burn my own data on the disk. Much like when I needed a blank floppy...
My money is on that the body of Jimmy Hoffa lays beyond that second door.
I saw these thing pop up in major metropolitan areas in Germany over 10 years ago. Funny how the beer and wine shelves were always empty at 4am on a Saturday morning.
I am all for these actually. Everything is priced right. You don't have to repeat yourself to someone who's native language isn't your own.
I would love to see a supermarket setup like this. Just drive up after the order you submitted online is complete, insert your ID card and out comes your goods. Already bagged and good to go.
Considering that the home addresses of spammers are now published, I have a novel idea for making them feel how we do.
Have everyone snail mail them one bag of kitchen garbage. 4th class mail. Once a month.
Yes, but be forwarned that if you wish to email the server running the JAVA interface on the coffee pot's controling server from an Yahoo email account, you cannot send a MOCHA command argument. This gets striped and replaced with 'coffee'. Thus suprising the user when they get to the machine.
This perversion of Moore's Law was a fault (in part by the telecom industry for believing the hype that the rest of the money grubbing industries where touting. Movies over the Net. Everyone telecommuting. Attend college classes from home. More retail content than you can choke on. Plus a bevy of other "wouldn't it be cool" party line hype that drove the bubble. Me? I blame it on the GUI and Mouse. If it wasn't for those things, the Net would still be a usefull place (tool, etc).
Too late. There are more slashdot geeks at hallmark than you may care to guess.
We are working on it. Check your favorite Hallmark distribution point this time next year.