In 1605, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido - yes, really) and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had had a rough time under her reign had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Alas, he was not, and this angered a number of young men who decided that violent action was the answer.
One young man in particular, Robert Catesby suggested to some close friends that the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored it in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.
But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that some innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?
The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed - some people think the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and his colleagues got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.
These days, Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government.
I wonder what effect this will have in DTV equipment between now and 2005? Will the devices made today have good resale value after that time due to the larger set of capabilities? Will they make it illegal to retail this equipment, or just illegal to mfgr (DNRTFA)?
How long after 2005 until they change the format just enough so that it is no longer compatible with pre-2005 equipment?
A great idea, except what happens when a human creates the account and then a script uses that account to send thousands of spam comments?
For that matter, wouldn't be difficult to write a script which simultaneously signed up for 50 accounts, showing all the mangled images and text boxes on a single page for a human to type in. They can hire some kid to 'translate' at a few bucks an hour, creating hundreds of accounts a day....
I have a pacifist friend whom I'd like to introduce to spammers, see how quick he switches sides...
Preemption-equipped traffic signals that are programmed to only respond to custom-encoded preemption transmitters will not work with any MIRT product at this time. However, the actual percentage of preemption-equipped intersections that only respond to custom-encoded transmitters is very small.
If this becomes more common, how long do you think it will take cities to custom encode their receivers?
I wonder what this "encoding" is. Since the car is described as transmitting an IR strobe, I assume it's a simple pattern or a specific frequency...?
I've worked for several ambulance companies and spent a good amount of times in cities on the east coast, and I have never seen an ambulance with this device installed.
On top of that, traffic regulations technically require ambulances to stop at red lights and proceed through after the've verified that traffic is stopped. I think the siren would be more effective than a sudden red light.
Maybe I can see a use for turning it green, as it would help get the traffic in front out of the way, give them space to pull over, but for this to work, they'd have to activate it from a distance. Since IR isn't focused like a laser, I doubt it would work from a great distance.
How exactly is this a problem? Are privacy advocates upset about teachers taking attendance at the begining of class? I'd rather have an RFID-based system take attendance automatically then waste the first ten minutes of every class throughout the day.
Tracking who goes where in the bulding? I've had to work at several places where I had to swipe my badge to unlock the door, how is this different?
Speeding up the lines when checking out at the cafeteria through RFID, more time to eat and relax during lunch.
If the serial numbers of the tags was distributed outside of the school, I could see a privacy concern, but as long as they're only used internally, I don't see the privacy violation. Seriously, how much do you do in high school that you want to do anonymously?
What about all the windows drivers which have a 'light' NDIS layer solely to establish a communications channel with the hardware and assignment of resources. They then rely on more complex programs to do what should happen in the driver.
I'm thinking of several printers, including the new MFDs, not to mention the separate mess called 'WinModems'.
Hmm... don't most employers do background checks nowadays? I've had to sign agreements to allow them to include a credit check, which included a list of previous employers (no idea how that even go there...?).
Does this make it illegal to agree to credit checks at future employers (if indeed the name of the company is included in the NDA)?
My Dell is a 1 GHz unit with 512mb ram but I didn't like running more than three or four apps at once because the performance became sluggish
Gotta wonder if there's something shady about the way their IT department configured the Dells. This hardware should be more than enough to run a dozens apps, even if some are outlook, project, etc. Makes me wonder how things would look with a clean install of 2K or XP for comparison.
So what exactly is ICANN going to do if they do not comply? The threat of legal action doesn't mean too much, as it can take years to resolve and based on the legal system's understanding of current technology, the outcome is completely up in the air.
Could ICANN actually transfer everything to another company? How long would this take? Is anybody set up to handle this? Think of all the little registrars which exist today, would this be a huge job?
Fantastic, so to meet the demands of a bunch of lawsuit-happy schmucks, they'll offer all future segway's with the "feature" that at at 20% charge, the system shuts down. Never mind that I could get another few miles out of it, wouldn't want me to bump my poor noggin out of sheer stupidity.
Kind of makes you wonder... they might want to quietly pre-release the movie to create a buzz, but they wouldn't want it to get out of hand (thereby lowering the number of people who go to the theatre).
One way to do this would be to release the movies via P2P and then complain about it. If it ever gets out of hand, they can still take legal action, whereas if they had publicly pre-released it, they would be SOL.
Darwinism isn't quite appropriate here, as you are not the only one to get shafted when a system is compromised. Now if the other people affected could punish you in some way, it would be, which gets back to the original post.
As for logistics, considering that the majority of internet sites are located in a handful of countries and the backbones are (mostly) a handful of companies/institutions, it would not be difficult to put pressure on countries which failed to comply.
The Internet is just another public good and needs to be treated as such.
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I wonder how far from the truth this is?
"Well, we were sued for having plugins, so we removed them. By the way, we conveniently have a replacement...."
Why don't they offer the $250k for a copy of a successful windows virus prior to public release using a previously unknown/unused exploit?
How many virus writers would prefer the cash over the fame? I'm assuming you can't be sued for creating a virus, only for releasing one....
A "model" of the internet? Are they referring to an electronic model of the physical structure? A very large LAN? $5.5 mil will buy a lot of hardware.
Me thinks this will pay for $500k worth of cisco gear and workstations for the modem, and $5 mil worth of 'testing labor'?
Argh, forgot to put the link/credits on the bottom. Thanks!
In 1605, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido - yes, really) and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had had a rough time under her reign had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Alas, he was not, and this angered a number of young men who decided that violent action was the answer.
One young man in particular, Robert Catesby suggested to some close friends that the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.
To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored it in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.
But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that some innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?
The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.
Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed - some people think the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and his colleagues got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.
These days, Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government.
Heh. See what happens when you're a subscriber?
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I wonder what effect this will have in DTV equipment between now and 2005? Will the devices made today have good resale value after that time due to the larger set of capabilities? Will they make it illegal to retail this equipment, or just illegal to mfgr (DNRTFA)?
How long after 2005 until they change the format just enough so that it is no longer compatible with pre-2005 equipment?
Forget viruses, what if someone discovers a way to send a malformed message which crashes the phone?
Even worse, some of the new phones offer 'over the air' programming updates. The right bug, and someone could render your phone useless....
These are recycled PCs? They all look identical
A great idea, except what happens when a human creates the account and then a script uses that account to send thousands of spam comments?
For that matter, wouldn't be difficult to write a script which simultaneously signed up for 50 accounts, showing all the mangled images and text boxes on a single page for a human to type in. They can hire some kid to 'translate' at a few bucks an hour, creating hundreds of accounts a day....
I have a pacifist friend whom I'd like to introduce to spammers, see how quick he switches sides...
Preemption-equipped traffic signals that are programmed to only respond to custom-encoded preemption transmitters will not work with any MIRT product at this time. However, the actual percentage of preemption-equipped intersections that only respond to custom-encoded transmitters is very small.
If this becomes more common, how long do you think it will take cities to custom encode their receivers?
I wonder what this "encoding" is. Since the car is described as transmitting an IR strobe, I assume it's a simple pattern or a specific frequency...?
I've worked for several ambulance companies and spent a good amount of times in cities on the east coast, and I have never seen an ambulance with this device installed.
On top of that, traffic regulations technically require ambulances to stop at red lights and proceed through after the've verified that traffic is stopped. I think the siren would be more effective than a sudden red light.
Maybe I can see a use for turning it green, as it would help get the traffic in front out of the way, give them space to pull over, but for this to work, they'd have to activate it from a distance. Since IR isn't focused like a laser, I doubt it would work from a great distance.
How exactly is this a problem? Are privacy advocates upset about teachers taking attendance at the begining of class? I'd rather have an RFID-based system take attendance automatically then waste the first ten minutes of every class throughout the day.
Tracking who goes where in the bulding? I've had to work at several places where I had to swipe my badge to unlock the door, how is this different?
Speeding up the lines when checking out at the cafeteria through RFID, more time to eat and relax during lunch.
If the serial numbers of the tags was distributed outside of the school, I could see a privacy concern, but as long as they're only used internally, I don't see the privacy violation. Seriously, how much do you do in high school that you want to do anonymously?
What about all the windows drivers which have a 'light' NDIS layer solely to establish a communications channel with the hardware and assignment of resources. They then rely on more complex programs to do what should happen in the driver.
I'm thinking of several printers, including the new MFDs, not to mention the separate mess called 'WinModems'.
Hmm... don't most employers do background checks nowadays? I've had to sign agreements to allow them to include a credit check, which included a list of previous employers (no idea how that even go there...?). Does this make it illegal to agree to credit checks at future employers (if indeed the name of the company is included in the NDA)?
My Dell is a 1 GHz unit with 512mb ram but I didn't like running more than three or four apps at once because the performance became sluggish
Gotta wonder if there's something shady about the way their IT department configured the Dells. This hardware should be more than enough to run a dozens apps, even if some are outlook, project, etc. Makes me wonder how things would look with a clean install of 2K or XP for comparison.
So what exactly is ICANN going to do if they do not comply? The threat of legal action doesn't mean too much, as it can take years to resolve and based on the legal system's understanding of current technology, the outcome is completely up in the air.
Could ICANN actually transfer everything to another company? How long would this take? Is anybody set up to handle this? Think of all the little registrars which exist today, would this be a huge job?
How long until info:isbn:0465026567 points to Amazon.com due to copyright infringement?
Fantastic, so to meet the demands of a bunch of lawsuit-happy schmucks, they'll offer all future segway's with the "feature" that at at 20% charge, the system shuts down. Never mind that I could get another few miles out of it, wouldn't want me to bump my poor noggin out of sheer stupidity.
Can I sue someone if I bump my head in the dark after my flashlight batteries die?
Ah, the great american dream....
How is it a private business organization can have this kind of influence in public schools, especially young children?
What's next, Nike kids about the evils of Rebok?
I wonder what would happen if they had redirected the user to a Google query, rather than their proprietary site.
Would the majority of the tech community still gripe about the broken RFC, or would they applaud the benefits of the new service?
Kind of makes you wonder... they might want to quietly pre-release the movie to create a buzz, but they wouldn't want it to get out of hand (thereby lowering the number of people who go to the theatre).
One way to do this would be to release the movies via P2P and then complain about it. If it ever gets out of hand, they can still take legal action, whereas if they had publicly pre-released it, they would be SOL.
Sure there is. The dollar. Simply tax any software/services/consulting provided by foreign organizations to US organizations.
Aren't existing tarrifs based on the value of the good in the US? How would this be different...?
Darwinism isn't quite appropriate here, as you are not the only one to get shafted when a system is compromised. Now if the other people affected could punish you in some way, it would be, which gets back to the original post.
As for logistics, considering that the majority of internet sites are located in a handful of countries and the backbones are (mostly) a handful of companies/institutions, it would not be difficult to put pressure on countries which failed to comply.
The Internet is just another public good and needs to be treated as such.