I have not read the book, but I have looked at the table of contents and the index. The book looks to be a designed to answer many of the questions that you have asked. Hopefully someone on Slashdot has read the book and can tell you if it will help you in your effort to set up a wireless network at your local coffee shop.
What are you preferred sources for technical information? What mailing lists, newsgroups, web sites, magazines and etc. do you read on a regular basis to stay current with computer technology?
National Public Radio had a 1 hour show about the history of Parker Brothers. Your suggestion sounds very similar to how Parker Brothers was started. "Parker Brothers got its start in the 1880s, when a 16-year-old George Parker, who loved playing games and had a knack for selling, tried to earn a few bucks on a card game he created called Banking. That was the start of Parker Brothers, which gave us Ping Pong, Sorry and Monopoly. Tonight, On Point: How Parker Brothers rose to the top of the game board." The show is available on-line. The guest was "Philip Orbanes, President of Winning Moves Games in Danvers, Massachusetts and author of "The Monopoly Companion." His newest book is "The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit.""
There was no lottery on the first person through. However, Ravi Jain and Stefan Economou were the last people to drive over the old elevated central artery. Ravi Jain and Stefan Economu are self-described transportation pioneers. You can find out more about this at Ravi Jain's web site. There is also quite a bit of Big Dig coverage at Boston.com.
I really enjoyed the Robert Love Q&A because I learned about a new device status:
"We need a simple, low overhead, fast communication channel from the kernel out to user-space, to communicate everything from device status ("your processor is overeating")..."
I finally know why I am never satisfied with the performance of any computer that I have ever used. I used to think that operating systems and applications grew increasingly bloated in order to encourage me to buy a new computer. Now I know that computers perform poorly because the process or is overeating!
The Boston Globe also cover this story. I think it extremely likely that both MacWorld and LinuxWorld will be held in Boston for the forseeable future.
I am a native New Yorker who moved to Boston in 1984. I've never been to the Javits convention center in New York. I have been to several convetions at the Hines convention center in Boston. The Hines is great place to hold a convention. It's also a nice location for people from out of town because it is in the middle of the Back Bay neighborhood.
I suspect that your uncle's remark may have been based upon Ansel Adams' use of Polaroid products.
According to some exhibition notes on the Polaroid web site:
"In 1948, Adams became a consultant to Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant photography system, for whom he rigorously tested new films and products. Throughout the ensuing 35 years, Adams took hundreds of instant photographs and wrote thousands of letters and memoranda to report his findings and recommendations to Polaroid. The photographs that are presented in this exhibition, many of which have never before been shown in Europe, are culled from this extensive body of work housed at the Polaroid Collections and Archives in Massachusetts."
"The only result of this kind of attack will be tarnishing of the image of Open source developers."
Are you making an assumption that an open source developer is responsible for the DOS attack against SCO? Should the open source community be viewed as guilty until proven innocent?
Hopefully no one in the open source community is involved in the most recent DOS attack against SCO or any other attacks against SCO's network infrastructure. Let's think of the open source community as innocent until proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt.
I don't see anything in the coverage of the bill that suggests that closed source software can not be procured and used if support or maintenance can be sourced from more than one vendor. In other words, closed source software is fine provided that a third party can provide support for this product.
Predictability is very useful, but I prefer more frequent updates than what Microsoft is proposing.
Symantec usually issues new Anti-Virus defintions every Wednesday. Symantec also seems to tie software patches to the anti-virus update release schedule. I like this approach because it allows me to check for all Symantec updates once a week. The Symantec update schedule provides me with a reasonable degree of confidence that I am running the latest anti-virus and personal firewall software to protect my PC.
I've also made it a habit to check Windows Update on the same day that I check for Symantec updates. I'd prefer Microsoft to have a predictable weekly or biweekly security patch release schedule. I'd be very happy with a monthly schedule for bug fixes that do not affect operating system security. However, I feel uncomfortable if a security vulnerability is left open for more than a week.
The Ansel Adams series is a great series. However, the Ansel Adams series may be a bit advanced for a beginning photographer. Henry Horenstein's "Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual" ISBN: 0316373141 and "Color Photography: A Working Manual" ISBN: 0316373168 are better starting points for beginning photographers. Henry Horenstein's "Beyond Basic Photography: A Technical Manual" ISBN: 0316373125 is a good intermediate step before the Ansel Adams series.
An important caveat when purchasing used cameras is the type of battery that the cameras built-in light meter is designed to use. I love my Olympus OM-1n, but I can't buy mercury cells for the light meter. This leaves me with three choices:
Using an alakline battery, which will not produce consistent output and an accurate light meter reading.
Paying to have the camera modified to provide a correct light meter reading when using an alakaline battery.
Paying a few dollars more than I would for an alkaline battery to buy a Wein Zinc/Air battery that is specifically designed as a mercury battery replacement.
I choose to buy Wein batteries. However, Wein batteries are typically not available at your local photo shop.
You have an excellent point about considering the future when buying a first 35mm SLR camera. Canon and Nikon seem to be the brands with the greatest range of bodies and lenses. Starting with a low end new or used Canon or Nikon provides plenty of room for future growth. Your caveat about the lens mount is also a good point.
I think the most important thing is to find a reputable camera story that can assist in the choice of a new camera. Another consideration is finding a store that carries both the amateur and professional lines. Nikon now divides stores into amateur stores and professional stores. If you think you may want to buy the top of the line sometime in the future, you may be better off starting at a store that carries a complete range of cameras instead of just the bottom and middle of the range.
The December issue of Popular Photography and Imaging magazine covers 80 cameras in the "Pop Photo Buyer's Guide 2004".Popular Photography recommends the Pentax ZX-M for people who don't want auto-focus but who might want auto-exposure. The street price for a ZX-M with a 50mm f2.0 lens is $190. The street price for a ZX-M with a 35-80mm f4-5.6 zoom lens is $210.
Popular Photography recommends the Nikon FM-10 for people who want an all manual camera.
Many modern 35mm SLRs cameras materials that are much stronger and more durable than the early plastic bodies. This is especially true for cameras that are designed for serious amateurs. I suspect these bodies are more durable than many digital camera bodies.
Another option is a new Nikon FM-10. The FM-10 is a completely manual camera that accepts a wide range of Nikon lenses. A Nikon FM-10 body with a Nikon 35-70mm f3.5-4.8 is about $210 street price.
Does anyone know the link to the article by Dr. Robert M. Sauer that is mentioned in the story?
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The system you describe sounds exactly like the one that is used where I vote. The key lessong to be applied to all voting systems is "Don't expect what you don't inspect." If you can't or don't inspect the system, then you can't expect any particular outcome from the system. Any voting system should produce a locked box paper trail that allows voting results to be manually compiled and compared to the automated results.
I was less concerned about the money issues and more concerned about the lack of clear testable requirements. There is no way to judge the success or failure of electronic voting systems if there the requirments are unclear. I am looking forward to Cringley's next column where he proposes to answer the question of why auditing capabilities were not inlcuded in the touch screen voting machines.
Another concern that I have is the desire of government to jump from the trailing edge of voting technology to the bleeding edge of voting technology. The Florida election results clearly showed the problems with punch card voting. However, many of these problems were due to poor ballot design, poor maintenance of voting equipment, or poor training or poll workers and voters. (A large number of hanging chad problems were caused by the simple failure to clean out the chads from previous elections.) Boston, Massachusetts switched from lever driven mechanical voting machines to paper ballots and optical scanners. There were problems with the transition, but most of the problems were procedural in nature and not technical in nature. The combination of paper ballots and optical scanning has a very good track record. The paper ballots provide a nice audit trail that can be used to verify the results of the optical scanning and computer tabulation.
I live in Somverille, Massachusetts where paper ballots and optical scanners have been used for years. The systems is backed up by experienced poll workers. I've never heard of any problem, let alone a serious problem, with this system as it is implemented in my city.
Congress should have proposed moving to the best voting technology available that has a proven track record. This would avoid the issue of bleeding edge technology that has an unproven track record. The biggest problem with computer based systems that have closed source code and no paper trail is the inability to properly inspect and test these systems to make sure that they are as good or better than the technology that they seek to replace.
Ooops. The second to last sentence should read: "The centripital force of cornering left the fuel level sensor high and dry." There's still too much tryptophan in my system from turkey during my American Thanksgiving day feast. I think it's time to break out the Mountain Dew before I do any more proofreading of my own writing.
Alan Cooper's book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity" has a great story about a Porsche that required a factory reset if the fuel level was too low. This feature was designed to protect the fuel injectors from running on empty. Unfortunately, the engine could shut down if the tank was close to empty and the car went around a corner. The centripital force of cornering left the fuel level center high and dry. The car could only be restarted at a Porsche dealer.
An implanted RFID chip is not better than biometrics. It is an alternative to biometrics that has some of the same security concerns as biometrics. There is no reason why a determined thief would prefer to remove an implanted RFID chip instead of removing an eyeball, a finger or a hand.
I think that any biometric or RFID authentication technology should be combined with a PIN. It's just common sense to combine a secuity token that you posses with a PIN that you must memorize. This doesn't lead to perfect security, but it wraps the physical posession of an authentication token in another layer of security.
The best argument that I can see for requiring a PIN is the ability to assign a "duress PIN" to users. A duress pin enables the security token holder to signal their distress when they are being forced to use their PIN under duress. For example, if someone held up at gunpoint and forced to use an ATM, they can enter the duress PIN. Use of the duress pin would signal the bank to notify the authorities that a robbery is in progress at a particular location. In a computer security environment, a duress PIN could be used to provide access to a honeypot network instead of the production network.
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The BBC News web site has a story with a picture of the crater.
I have not read the book, but I have looked at the table of contents and the index. The book looks to be a designed to answer many of the questions that you have asked. Hopefully someone on Slashdot has read the book and can tell you if it will help you in your effort to set up a wireless network at your local coffee shop.
What are you preferred sources for technical information? What mailing lists, newsgroups, web sites, magazines and etc. do you read on a regular basis to stay current with computer technology?
National Public Radio had a 1 hour show about the history of Parker Brothers. Your suggestion sounds very similar to how Parker Brothers was started. "Parker Brothers got its start in the 1880s, when a 16-year-old George Parker, who loved playing games and had a knack for selling, tried to earn a few bucks on a card game he created called Banking. That was the start of Parker Brothers, which gave us Ping Pong, Sorry and Monopoly. Tonight, On Point: How Parker Brothers rose to the top of the game board." The show is available on-line. The guest was "Philip Orbanes, President of Winning Moves Games in Danvers, Massachusetts and author of "The Monopoly Companion." His newest book is "The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit.""
There was no lottery on the first person through. However, Ravi Jain and Stefan Economou were the last people to drive over the old elevated central artery. Ravi Jain and Stefan Economu are self-described transportation pioneers. You can find out more about this at Ravi Jain's web site. There is also quite a bit of Big Dig coverage at Boston.com.
"We need a simple, low overhead, fast communication channel from the kernel out to user-space, to communicate everything from device status ("your processor is overeating")..."
I finally know why I am never satisfied with the performance of any computer that I have ever used. I used to think that operating systems and applications grew increasingly bloated in order to encourage me to buy a new computer. Now I know that computers perform poorly because the process or is overeating!
I am a native New Yorker who moved to Boston in 1984. I've never been to the Javits convention center in New York. I have been to several convetions at the Hines convention center in Boston. The Hines is great place to hold a convention. It's also a nice location for people from out of town because it is in the middle of the Back Bay neighborhood.
For those of you who are experiencing the sensation of "deja vu all over again" please see WSIS Physical Security Cracked.
"In 1948, Adams became a consultant to Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid instant photography system, for whom he rigorously tested new films and products. Throughout the ensuing 35 years, Adams took hundreds of instant photographs and wrote thousands of letters and memoranda to report his findings and recommendations to Polaroid. The photographs that are presented in this exhibition, many of which have never before been shown in Europe, are culled from this extensive body of work housed at the Polaroid Collections and Archives in Massachusetts."
Are you making an assumption that an open source developer is responsible for the DOS attack against SCO? Should the open source community be viewed as guilty until proven innocent?
Hopefully no one in the open source community is involved in the most recent DOS attack against SCO or any other attacks against SCO's network infrastructure. Let's think of the open source community as innocent until proven guilty beyond a resonable doubt.
I don't see anything in the coverage of the bill that suggests that closed source software can not be procured and used if support or maintenance can be sourced from more than one vendor. In other words, closed source software is fine provided that a third party can provide support for this product.
Symantec usually issues new Anti-Virus defintions every Wednesday. Symantec also seems to tie software patches to the anti-virus update release schedule. I like this approach because it allows me to check for all Symantec updates once a week. The Symantec update schedule provides me with a reasonable degree of confidence that I am running the latest anti-virus and personal firewall software to protect my PC.
I've also made it a habit to check Windows Update on the same day that I check for Symantec updates. I'd prefer Microsoft to have a predictable weekly or biweekly security patch release schedule. I'd be very happy with a monthly schedule for bug fixes that do not affect operating system security. However, I feel uncomfortable if a security vulnerability is left open for more than a week.
The Ansel Adams series is a great series. However, the Ansel Adams series may be a bit advanced for a beginning photographer. Henry Horenstein's "Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual" ISBN: 0316373141 and "Color Photography: A Working Manual" ISBN: 0316373168 are better starting points for beginning photographers. Henry Horenstein's "Beyond Basic Photography: A Technical Manual" ISBN: 0316373125 is a good intermediate step before the Ansel Adams series.
Using an alakline battery, which will not produce consistent output and an accurate light meter reading.
Paying to have the camera modified to provide a correct light meter reading when using an alakaline battery.
Paying a few dollars more than I would for an alkaline battery to buy a Wein Zinc/Air battery that is specifically designed as a mercury battery replacement.
I choose to buy Wein batteries. However, Wein batteries are typically not available at your local photo shop.
I think the most important thing is to find a reputable camera story that can assist in the choice of a new camera. Another consideration is finding a store that carries both the amateur and professional lines. Nikon now divides stores into amateur stores and professional stores. If you think you may want to buy the top of the line sometime in the future, you may be better off starting at a store that carries a complete range of cameras instead of just the bottom and middle of the range.
The December issue of Popular Photography and Imaging magazine covers 80 cameras in the "Pop Photo Buyer's Guide 2004".Popular Photography recommends the Pentax ZX-M for people who don't want auto-focus but who might want auto-exposure. The street price for a ZX-M with a 50mm f2.0 lens is $190. The street price for a ZX-M with a 35-80mm f4-5.6 zoom lens is $210. Popular Photography recommends the Nikon FM-10 for people who want an all manual camera.
Many modern 35mm SLRs cameras materials that are much stronger and more durable than the early plastic bodies. This is especially true for cameras that are designed for serious amateurs. I suspect these bodies are more durable than many digital camera bodies.
Another option is a new Nikon FM-10. The FM-10 is a completely manual camera that accepts a wide range of Nikon lenses. A Nikon FM-10 body with a Nikon 35-70mm f3.5-4.8 is about $210 street price.
The article in question is Open question. The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It doesn't add up. Dr. Robert M. Sauer has a homepage if you are interested in finding out more about his other work.
Does anyone know the link to the article by Dr. Robert M. Sauer that is mentioned in the story?
The system you describe sounds exactly like the one that is used where I vote. The key lessong to be applied to all voting systems is "Don't expect what you don't inspect." If you can't or don't inspect the system, then you can't expect any particular outcome from the system. Any voting system should produce a locked box paper trail that allows voting results to be manually compiled and compared to the automated results.
Another concern that I have is the desire of government to jump from the trailing edge of voting technology to the bleeding edge of voting technology. The Florida election results clearly showed the problems with punch card voting. However, many of these problems were due to poor ballot design, poor maintenance of voting equipment, or poor training or poll workers and voters. (A large number of hanging chad problems were caused by the simple failure to clean out the chads from previous elections.) Boston, Massachusetts switched from lever driven mechanical voting machines to paper ballots and optical scanners. There were problems with the transition, but most of the problems were procedural in nature and not technical in nature. The combination of paper ballots and optical scanning has a very good track record. The paper ballots provide a nice audit trail that can be used to verify the results of the optical scanning and computer tabulation.
I live in Somverille, Massachusetts where paper ballots and optical scanners have been used for years. The systems is backed up by experienced poll workers. I've never heard of any problem, let alone a serious problem, with this system as it is implemented in my city.
Congress should have proposed moving to the best voting technology available that has a proven track record. This would avoid the issue of bleeding edge technology that has an unproven track record. The biggest problem with computer based systems that have closed source code and no paper trail is the inability to properly inspect and test these systems to make sure that they are as good or better than the technology that they seek to replace.
Ooops. The second to last sentence should read: "The centripital force of cornering left the fuel level sensor high and dry." There's still too much tryptophan in my system from turkey during my American Thanksgiving day feast. I think it's time to break out the Mountain Dew before I do any more proofreading of my own writing.
Alan Cooper's book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity" has a great story about a Porsche that required a factory reset if the fuel level was too low. This feature was designed to protect the fuel injectors from running on empty. Unfortunately, the engine could shut down if the tank was close to empty and the car went around a corner. The centripital force of cornering left the fuel level center high and dry. The car could only be restarted at a Porsche dealer.
I think that any biometric or RFID authentication technology should be combined with a PIN. It's just common sense to combine a secuity token that you posses with a PIN that you must memorize. This doesn't lead to perfect security, but it wraps the physical posession of an authentication token in another layer of security.
The best argument that I can see for requiring a PIN is the ability to assign a "duress PIN" to users. A duress pin enables the security token holder to signal their distress when they are being forced to use their PIN under duress. For example, if someone held up at gunpoint and forced to use an ATM, they can enter the duress PIN. Use of the duress pin would signal the bank to notify the authorities that a robbery is in progress at a particular location. In a computer security environment, a duress PIN could be used to provide access to a honeypot network instead of the production network.