Use whatever as an 'access' device, and stick something stronger between the 'net and the home LAN.
Could've bought a Cisco (actually there are Cisco routers rotting here) but a linux box between the router and the house LAN is easier and more secure.
There's a suggestion on AvHerald and PPRUNE that the problem was caused by a coffee heater in the galley; probably boiled dry, and the safety circuit failed.
Also well worth watching - and learning from - is the talk by Nicholas Merrill at 27C3 (it's the tale of how he received a National Security Letter, and fought it - he's the "John Doe" in the ACLU vs.Ashcroftcase
Shame on the 200,000+ recipients of these letters who just bowed down.
Some of us don't see Snowden as a malicious insider, some of us don't see people like him as something to be guarded against.
Indeed, some of us see people who expose criminal behaviour as people to be celebrated, to fight for, and to protect.
Ok, the well-connected people don't see it that way (being guided by their pocket). And let's face it, the law is on their side (well, according to their interpretation anyway.).
I wonder what they're going to do, in their gated communities, when the tech who needs to tweak the settings on their artificial hearts decides not to turn up?
>Stallman had this to say upon his induction: 'Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy.'"
In retrospect, it would have been neat to have written that kind of thing into the GPL (the spooks would have run Windows servers instead, and our privacy would be safe if we used anything more complex than ROT13).
As the OP, I posted this as soon as I saw it. AFAIK (I did try) it isn't possible to edit the entry while it's in the submission queue; I do agree with a fast-moving story like this it would have been nice to be able to update it right up to the moment of publication.
One of the coolest things I wanted to add was a link to FlightRadar, where it was possible to watch Ed Snowden's flight in real time on its way to Moscow.
Should be interesting tomorrow; will Aeroflot pass through US airspace on the way to Cuba? (anyone found a link to a live feed of Ed Snowden's heart rate?)
>The use case is "we're using this binary in production, which we didn't build ourselves" ... >Isn't that the strongest practical use case for Open Source in the business world? Sure, you don't plan on maintaining it yourself but you could if you have to.
Bzzzt. You can't be sure you can maintain it if you didn't compile it yourself in the first place (the binary you have may not have been built from the available source).
I've never seem a PDP-11 power supply fail (probably worked on around a hundred in total). The units I still have must all be over 30-years old, and all working perfectly (some of them do whine a bit, which seems really weird for linear supplies but there you go). In fact, the only dead DEC I ever experienced was hit by lightning.
Yeah, that was the biggest culture shock when PC's came out (and made loads of us think they'd never catch on). We were used to getting snail-mail circulars about bugs that had been found in the OS, along with the consequences, the source code, and the fix or workaround.
The place I was working that used PDP-11's had analogue computers too; they had lamps in the cabinets (to keep the temperate constant), and opening a door made you seriously unpopular due to the drift caused by the air currents.
>Mov @offset(r5),pc Ah, the calling convention for Fortran. I spent a while recoding the hotspots in a Fortran program into Macro 11 - the runtime dropped from several minutes to a few seconds.
I still have a bunch of them; every so often I fire them up and program them in ODT. After programming them in assembler (or raw octal), every other instruction set seems irregular. Putting MOV -(PC), -(PC) at the top of memory and executing it was always fun....
The force due to gravity is the same, however on impact the forces will be different (or would you argue the force would be zero in space, since a=0?).
If I was the bump in the way, I would far sooner be hit by a 342kg mass than a 900kg one - and similarly the damage I'd inflict on the mass would be less.
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Use whatever as an 'access' device, and stick something stronger between the 'net and the home LAN.
Could've bought a Cisco (actually there are Cisco routers rotting here) but a linux box between the router and the house LAN is easier and more secure.
There's a suggestion on AvHerald and PPRUNE that the problem was caused by a coffee heater in the galley; probably boiled dry, and the safety circuit failed.
Also well worth watching - and learning from - is the talk by Nicholas Merrill at 27C3 (it's the tale of how he received a National Security Letter, and fought it - he's the "John Doe" in the ACLU vs.Ashcroftcase
Shame on the 200,000+ recipients of these letters who just bowed down.
Kinda surprised this isn't linked yet (as all you need to do is paste the string into Google)
Make of this what you will.
(Do I worry about being woken at 3 in the morning with a gun in my face? Well, yes, I do).
Kinda surprised this isn't linked yet (as all you need to do is paste the string into Google)
Make of thiswhat you will.
(Do I worry about being woken at 3 in the morning with a gun in my face? Well, yes, I do).
>You are obliged to be deferential toward your elders and superiors in a way that would be unimaginable in the U.S
Bzzt - out of date (see what happens if you blow a whistle on your 'elders and superiors' in the US - or indeed in most western governments).
Some of us don't see Snowden as a malicious insider, some of us don't see people like him as something to be guarded against.
Indeed, some of us see people who expose criminal behaviour as people to be celebrated, to fight for, and to protect.
Ok, the well-connected people don't see it that way (being guided by their pocket). And let's face it, the law is on their side (well, according to their interpretation anyway.).
I wonder what they're going to do, in their gated communities, when the tech who needs to tweak the settings on their artificial hearts decides not to turn up?
According to this article, Britain and Sweden have vetoed EU plans to launch two working groups to look into the 'espionage debacle'.
If 'they' consider us a threat (or potential future threat), they might take us out with no more thought than we'd give to swatting a fly.
"Radio emissions detected from Earth, Honey!"
"Oh, just noodle an appendage on the fusion laser, dear, they won't even see the sterilisation beam coming."
That's not what I was implying.
>Stallman had this to say upon his induction: 'Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy.'"
In retrospect, it would have been neat to have written that kind of thing into the GPL (the spooks would have run Windows servers instead, and our privacy would be safe if we used anything more complex than ROT13).
As the OP, I posted this as soon as I saw it. AFAIK (I did try) it isn't possible to edit the entry while it's in the submission queue; I do agree with a fast-moving story like this it would have been nice to be able to update it right up to the moment of publication.
One of the coolest things I wanted to add was a link to FlightRadar, where it was possible to watch Ed Snowden's flight in real time on its way to Moscow.
Should be interesting tomorrow; will Aeroflot pass through US airspace on the way to Cuba? (anyone found a link to a live feed of Ed Snowden's heart rate?)
>The use case is "we're using this binary in production, which we didn't build ourselves"
...
>Isn't that the strongest practical use case for Open Source in the business world? Sure, you don't plan on maintaining it yourself but you could if you have to.
Bzzzt. You can't be sure you can maintain it if you didn't compile it yourself in the first place (the binary you have may not have been built from the available source).
True - but then I've always seen fans as limited-life replaceable items
DEC J-11 was about as integrated as it got.
I've never seem a PDP-11 power supply fail (probably worked on around a hundred in total). The units I still have must all be over 30-years old, and all working perfectly (some of them do whine a bit, which seems really weird for linear supplies but there you go). In fact, the only dead DEC I ever experienced was hit by lightning.
PC's, on the other hand....
Yeah, that was the biggest culture shock when PC's came out (and made loads of us think they'd never catch on). We were used to getting snail-mail circulars about bugs that had been found in the OS, along with the consequences, the source code, and the fix or workaround.
Ever walked down a corridor carrying one that was still spinning down, and tried to turn the corner? :)
The place I was working that used PDP-11's had analogue computers too; they had lamps in the cabinets (to keep the temperate constant), and opening a door made you seriously unpopular due to the drift caused by the air currents.
See this comment for an explanation.
>Mov @offset(r5),pc
Ah, the calling convention for Fortran. I spent a while recoding the hotspots in a Fortran program into Macro 11 - the runtime dropped from several minutes to a few seconds.
I still have a bunch of them; every so often I fire them up and program them in ODT. After programming them in assembler (or raw octal), every other instruction set seems irregular. Putting MOV -(PC), -(PC) at the top of memory and executing it was always fun....
Not what happens in practice in the UK - over here, we keep an illegal DNA database of innocent people.
The force due to gravity is the same, however on impact the forces will be different (or would you argue the force would be zero in space, since a=0?).
If I was the bump in the way, I would far sooner be hit by a 342kg mass than a 900kg one - and similarly the damage I'd inflict on the mass would be less.
Something much weirder was seen over Norway when a Russian launch went wrong.