Bruce Schneier has, as a security wonk, recommended the "open" router; If someone cracks your key (or pass-phrase) the cops will assume (yes, ASS-U-ME) that you provided it and approve of how access was used.
An open WiFi router should, in any rational analysis, disclaim responsibility for other's use of the router so you are NOT the "gate-keeper".
The hell of this is that laws can be made to make open routers "illegal" but, absent "real" security...
The only way to guarantee security is to turn off router-level wifi and force wired connections for all client systems w/i your house-hold.
I'd like to see a non-technical cop set up router security and have a competition for cracking his pass-phrase and/or key.
Blogs are so very different from the "true" community builder: UseNet.
While UseNet is subject to spam, it's "many to many" nature allows for communities to form and maintain themselves. Unfortunately NO OTHER INTERNET structure supports the same "many to many" connectivity that allows the formation of a community. A blog-- or facebook, gather, linkedin, etc-- assumes a pre-existing connection BEFORE enabling communication.
UseNet is as good as dead and the communities-- like "Callahan's"-- are hanging on by their fingernails as more and more ISPs drop UseNet connectivity. Google is not helping, either, since you need to use their we interface rather than, say, pointing nn/trn/etc at google's server pool.
(shrugs)
Web-resident "social networking" (what a laugh!) services are just using that as a draw to bring advertising to the eyes of the people seduced into using the "network".
I see no way to bring back UseNet... because there is not enough money to be made by providing the connectivity. I miss it and will be mourning it for a long time.
With the migration towards a non-PC-centric world of handsets and tablets under a corporation's control of apps you are "allowed" to download, it reminds me of Brian Stableford's story "The Florians".
When does "approved censorship" expand in scope to hide information from us?
The first amendment to the US Constitution (FWIW these days) was to ensure an unencumbered ability to not merely express opinions, but, really to ensure that we can hear as many voices as we want to.
"Political correctness is an effort to abrogate the First Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to not be offended and that it has priority." - The Toberman
Is that why "In & Out", set in Indiana, was filmed in Northern New Jersey? (My wife attended attended Pompton Lakes High School where it was filmed and was rather... surprised. She even knows some folks who were extras.)
One wonders if there are so many hedges to source viewing to make sure no one who is used to looking at GPL'd source can participate; what is the probability that M$ code has "millions of lines" infringing on Linux?
Shooting film has the advantage that the negatives can be re-scanned.
I still use film; I can't afford (at this time) the jump to a digital camera that can adequately compete w/ my 35mm SLR... and now I'm reading that a digital SLR will be hard to amortize for me.
The advantage, now, seems to be with film; assuming the right choice of film (i.e. film speed vs grain size) film can be scanned now at over 6MP (which is how my photo CDs come) and someday re-scanned at a higher resolution should I need that.
Admittedly, I'd *love* to be able to afford a *nice* medium format camera instead of the 35mm digital... along with lenses.
I'm not a professional, of course... but it's nice to dream.
Remington RAND's UNIVAC 1108 computer was expected to sell less than (x) units and so the development was amortized for that volume. Somewhere around 2x - 3x they got the idea that a cheaper version of the 1108 would sell well too, so the first cut at an 1106 had an different set of crystals giving it a lower clock rate but, other than some cosmetic issues, was an 1108 with a slower clock.
Not quite the "wire snipping" one would expect, of course, but close. It took a fair amount of effort for the UNIVAC 1106 to be re-engineered as a slowed computer that couldn't be sped up like the 1108.
I would suspect that these card-makers and the like will be scrambling to work around the Seattle Computer Products FileSystem the M$ bought. Someone's comment about NTFS seemed rather inane to me, too.
So perhaps we need to have an easily supported format, say, like ext2 (or some reasonable facsimile thereof) and ensure that the appropriate navigation tools are available. (Actually, having a way to get MacOS or Windows to work with a filesystem originally written for Linux would not hurt; imagine JFS, Reiser, etc, being available to such systems.)
The whole idea, of course, is to raise the price of the products by making royalties from them. While the idea of making money this way through licensing is one that makes _some_ sense, I'd assume M$ will be selling such products themselves... and will use high license fees to kick everybody else out of the market. Well... not before they cough up the money.
It's like drugs: with all of these devices we're all now addicted to IP that M$ owns and they can now start charging us for it. (I suspect BG has watched "Live and Let Die" for marketing concepts...)
It would make much more sense to move the humans where the resources are; over time, the greater population should be spread across the solar system and not on earth.
Consider, for instance, ECAs (Earth Crossing Asteroids); if these rocks got turned into homes then, over time, there would be a motivation by the residents of that rock to not collide with earth. This was you don't have to go through deflection efforts.
So how many gigatonnes of refined metals and the like will be be adding to the earth's mass?
I recall that this very "problem" is one Clifford Stoll expected all those years ago when he wrote "Silicon Snake Oil".
The ability to revise history on the 'Net is far too easy since there are so few copies of any particular piece of content... and, despite the ability to make copies, the ability to distribute them relies on an infrastructure that cannot always be trusted.
So now history may be revised. What happens when we have no foundation to build upon?
(Wondering whether Lysenko's biology better fits the 'Net than it did... biology.)
Actually, it can be argued that any form of zealotry, carried too far, is a disruptive influence on others who do not subscribe to the same point of view.
Consider Bush's zealotry. Ashcroft is a zealot as well.
They are no less extremists than Osama and buddies.
(Somehow the plot of the movie "Dragnet" comes up, thinking that Osama dropped a whole bunch of "cool powers" into Dubya's lap.)
But... zealots are only considered terrorists when they are not in leadership positions. We don't have a good name for people like this when they are "the leaders".
(Though the word fuehrer comes to mind.)
The biggest problem with extreme zealotry/prejudice/bigotry is that they feel justified in their actions... Be it taking down SCO, disfiguring a webpage, crashing systems... or taking down a nation's leadership.
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Would this be another way to manage blood sugar for diabetics?
I was surprised a few months ago when I found a comment I'd made a couple of years back used here: Whait is a Mainframe
This doesn't seem to stray far from that.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmmm...
Privatizing brings in Privateers carrying Letters of Marque (unless someone patents the process) to enforce rules or even laws...
(shakes head)
Sadly, he didn't mark out the huge Caldera on the ocean floor...
All right, so they'll encrypt it...
Who gets the keys?
Who would *you* trust with the keys?
Bruce Schneier has, as a security wonk, recommended the "open" router; If someone cracks your key (or pass-phrase) the cops will assume (yes, ASS-U-ME) that you provided it and approve of how access was used.
An open WiFi router should, in any rational analysis, disclaim responsibility for other's use of the router so you are NOT the "gate-keeper".
The hell of this is that laws can be made to make open routers "illegal" but, absent "real" security...
The only way to guarantee security is to turn off router-level wifi and force wired connections for all client systems w/i your house-hold.
I'd like to see a non-technical cop set up router security and have a competition for cracking his pass-phrase and/or key.
Blogs are so very different from the "true" community builder: UseNet.
While UseNet is subject to spam, it's "many to many" nature allows for communities to form and maintain themselves. Unfortunately NO OTHER INTERNET structure supports the same "many to many" connectivity that allows the formation of a community. A blog-- or facebook, gather, linkedin, etc-- assumes a pre-existing connection BEFORE enabling communication.
UseNet is as good as dead and the communities-- like "Callahan's"-- are hanging on by their fingernails as more and more ISPs drop UseNet connectivity. Google is not helping, either, since you need to use their we interface rather than, say, pointing nn/trn/etc at google's server pool.
(shrugs)
Web-resident "social networking" (what a laugh!) services are just using that as a draw to bring advertising to the eyes of the people seduced into using the "network".
I see no way to bring back UseNet... because there is not enough money to be made by providing the connectivity. I miss it and will be mourning it for a long time.
This, I think, would implement a Distributed Denial Of Sanity attack.
How typical, France re-invents the Maginot firewall. Churchill: "Where are your anti-circumvention procedures?" French high command: "Aucune..."
With the migration towards a non-PC-centric world of handsets and tablets under a corporation's control of apps you are "allowed" to download, it reminds me of Brian Stableford's story "The Florians". When does "approved censorship" expand in scope to hide information from us? The first amendment to the US Constitution (FWIW these days) was to ensure an unencumbered ability to not merely express opinions, but, really to ensure that we can hear as many voices as we want to. "Political correctness is an effort to abrogate the First Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to not be offended and that it has priority." - The Toberman
There are no import tariffs
I think the US Govt will probably need to look at this as a new opportunity to tax goods and services crossing the border.
Of course one wonders how much of a hit those missing jobs have been having on tax collections...
You know, I bet that most of these people would have been seriously considered for parts IF THEY WEREN'T DEAD!!
Don't laugh, what do you think CGI is good for?
Is that why "In & Out", set in Indiana, was filmed in Northern New Jersey? (My wife attended attended Pompton Lakes High School where it was filmed and was rather ... surprised. She even knows some folks who were extras.)
One wonders if there are so many hedges to source viewing to make sure no one who is used to looking at GPL'd source can participate; what is the probability that M$ code has "millions of lines" infringing on Linux?
I'd have to second that.
Shooting film has the advantage that the negatives can be re-scanned.
I still use film; I can't afford (at this time) the jump to a digital camera that can adequately compete w/ my 35mm SLR... and now I'm reading that a digital SLR will be hard to amortize for me.
The advantage, now, seems to be with film; assuming the right choice of film (i.e. film speed vs grain size) film can be scanned now at over 6MP (which is how my photo CDs come) and someday re-scanned at a higher resolution should I need that.
Admittedly, I'd *love* to be able to afford a *nice* medium format camera instead of the 35mm digital... along with lenses.
I'm not a professional, of course... but it's nice to dream.
Actually, this is more-or-less for real.
Remington RAND's UNIVAC 1108 computer was expected to sell less than (x) units and so the development was amortized for that volume. Somewhere around 2x - 3x they got the idea that a cheaper version of the 1108 would sell well too, so the first cut at an 1106 had an different set of crystals giving it a lower clock rate but, other than some cosmetic issues, was an 1108 with a slower clock.
Not quite the "wire snipping" one would expect, of course, but close. It took a fair amount of effort for the UNIVAC 1106 to be re-engineered as a slowed computer that couldn't be sped up like the 1108.
Wow... the utter crap I remember.
So, would a less aggressive form of thermal regulation result in tepid-blooded lifeforms?
Perhaps this can be used as an example of a "Deadly Embrace"...
I would suspect that these card-makers and the like will be scrambling to work around the Seattle Computer Products FileSystem the M$ bought. Someone's comment about NTFS seemed rather inane to me, too.
So perhaps we need to have an easily supported format, say, like ext2 (or some reasonable facsimile thereof) and ensure that the appropriate navigation tools are available. (Actually, having a way to get MacOS or Windows to work with a filesystem originally written for Linux would not hurt; imagine JFS, Reiser, etc, being available to such systems.)
The whole idea, of course, is to raise the price of the products by making royalties from them. While the idea of making money this way through licensing is one that makes _some_ sense, I'd assume M$ will be selling such products themselves... and will use high license fees to kick everybody else out of the market. Well... not before they cough up the money.
It's like drugs: with all of these devices we're all now addicted to IP that M$ owns and they can now start charging us for it. (I suspect BG has watched "Live and Let Die" for marketing concepts...)
It would make much more sense to move the humans where the resources are; over time, the greater population should be spread across the solar system and not on earth.
Consider, for instance, ECAs (Earth Crossing Asteroids); if these rocks got turned into homes then, over time, there would be a motivation by the residents of that rock to not collide with earth. This was you don't have to go through deflection efforts.
So how many gigatonnes of refined metals and the like will be be adding to the earth's mass?
I recall that this very "problem" is one Clifford Stoll expected all those years ago when he wrote "Silicon Snake Oil".
The ability to revise history on the 'Net is far too easy since there are so few copies of any particular piece of content... and, despite the ability to make copies, the ability to distribute them relies on an infrastructure that cannot always be trusted.
So now history may be revised. What happens when we have no foundation to build upon?
(Wondering whether Lysenko's biology better fits the 'Net than it did... biology.)
Consider Bush's zealotry. Ashcroft is a zealot as well. They are no less extremists than Osama and buddies. (Somehow the plot of the movie "Dragnet" comes up, thinking that Osama dropped a whole bunch of "cool powers" into Dubya's lap.)
But ... zealots are only considered terrorists when they are not in leadership positions. We don't have a good name for people like this when they are "the leaders".
(Though the word fuehrer comes to mind.)
The biggest problem with extreme zealotry/prejudice/bigotry is that they feel justified in their actions... Be it taking down SCO, disfiguring a webpage, crashing systems... or taking down a nation's leadership.
Would this be another way to manage blood sugar for diabetics?
Three Patches
A plaque with three patches
reminders of days we've lost
to live seeking the light
yet crying in the dark
hopes and dreams fly yet
held only in courageous hearts
for the multitudes fear the future
and few are those with sight
life is not for faint of heart
nor death a threat to life
for a life lived safe is sterile
courage makes our death defied
a life you'd gladly give
is never taken that is true
for charity is how the race lives
and fights extinction time anew
This showed up often enough w/ H. Beam Piper as "carniculture" for food production. Bujold's future history also covers this.
I was surprised a few months ago when I found a comment I'd made a couple of years back used here:
Whait is a Mainframe
This doesn't seem to stray far from that.
Over 25 years ago, in a magazine named "Compute!", there was an article about tactile feedback mechanisms and referred to as "telegrasping".