I've always wondered what the process would be to redress the actions of a politically motivated DA. Could the Los Angeles DA's office be charged with abuse of process or malfeasance?
OS/2 has precious little to do with NT. The networking, which is a separate subsystem under OS/2, was developed by the joint team from Microsoft and IBM at the time when Microsoft was developing Windows 3.x (Windows for Workgroups). Even that has changed quite a bit since then.
The OS/2 kernel was a new system designed from the bottom up. Windows NT was redesigned by Dave Cutler from DEC. The moniker "Windows New Technology" was derived from the flagship DEC product: WNT = VMS by adding one to each letter. The first versions of OS/2 were capable of running on a 286 processor and was used for many years to run Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Windows NT never ran on the 286 architecture.
The problem is that most people have been worn down by 200+ line "End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs). Most of it is legalese gibberish and often a substantial part of it is in a language the end user does not understand.
Microsoft is largely responsible for beating the public down in the computer arena until they just click OK or I Agree and be done with it. Microsoft is also responsible for establishing legal precedent that assenting to such an agreement is legal and binding regardless of whether you read it or are capable of understanding it.
But Microsoft is hardly the first entity to beat the public down until they sign a document without reading it. If you've ever used a parking garage, you have tacitly agreed to the contract written in microfiche on the reverse side of the ticket you are given as you enter the garage - this contract has also been tested in court and is legal and binding.
Does a standard Windows installation usually work on Dell? I thought everything had to be custom for Dell computers. Times that I've needed to re-install windows on a Dell machine, I've needed to download special drivers first.
In my experience, Routers and hubs are most likely to lock up in some odd state and/or get very slow when they are translating speeds. If you have some 10 MBit devices (typical of DSL and cable modems) and some 100 Mbit devices (typical in any modern computer), then the hub or router will have to buffer the information for the slower device. I always have much better luck when all devices on a hub operate at the same speed.
IMHO, it was 20 years ahead of it's time and BB is the corporation rather than the government. That is, the scenario played out a lot more like the original Rollerball movie.
It may be a bit of a "nuclear option", but you could always code addresses for google, yahoo, imdb, etc. sites which receive a lot of traffic in a HOSTS file. This can be especially useful for sites where you are especially concerned...the address of your online banking for instance.
One downside is that you can only associate one IP address to a name in a HOSTS file as far as I know and a site like google will have several. Then there is the obvious potential problem of the site changing it's IP (although I doubt google does it very often).
I've never heard of this being done, but it sounds like this exploit could be used to remove most banner ads for everyone. There is software which does this for your local machine, but this would have a global effect. It seems like someone could really hurt the purveyors of spyware and other things which require the machine to "phone home".
I'm not a ham, but the synchronization of the microwaves allows the cycles required to get to Voyager and back to be counted. After factoring in doppler shift, this allows the precise position of the spacecraft to be determined. The synthesizers which allow for this are accurate to within less than one cycle per second over a 137 year period.
The DSN (Deep Space Network) antennas and receivers do take a bit of time to synchronize with spacecraft that far away. It is also somewhat tricky since the link must be "passed" between multiple antennas as the communication takes longer than the approximately 8 hours any one antenna will be able to "see" the spacecraft before the Earth's rotation points the antenna away from the target.
But these antennas are for spacecraft. They are too large and move too slowly to effectively track anything in orbit. The large antennas were upgraded from 64 to 70 meters specifically for Voyager. The point being, there are not that many things to use the DSN for.
As far as the "old tech", yes it was designed that long ago. But the technology was quite specialized and can't really be compared to a 286. Specialized electronics like that do not change at nearly the same rate as commercially built personal computers. Some of the old ground-based receivers build in the 80s actually did have 286 processors, but I'm fairly certain those have been replaced.
FAX was what she said. I suspect it was a type of slang for which our language could use a word. An "intellectual euphemism" where a simpler concept is substituted for the more complex reality to reach a wider audience while sacrificing accuracy. Like "nuking" your food in a microwave oven or having your computer "crash".
You forgot to mention the medical profession.
I was just in the hospital visiting a sick aunt. It was about 10pm and they were taking a chest X-ray. Then they told me that they needed to fax the X-ray out so that it could be analyzed and they would know what to do next when the analysis came back.
Given the late hour (10pm Pacific coast time), I asked if the X-ray was being faxed to Bangalore. The nurse smiled, commented it was a cogent question, and suggested I take it up with the hospital administration because she was not allowed to discuss it.
There is no security without physical security. Leave me alone with a working device long enough and I can get the data out of it. From a certain point of view, DRM software is a system administrator. This feature will be more effective for controlling what the lightweight user does than at preventing corporate theft by a computer professional.
I like the idea of adding a cost to e-mail, but only for people sending UCE (unsolicited commercial email). The annoying cousin who relays every joke he can find is best dealt with by a filter.
If the charge were to take the form of a tax, then government would have a motivation to find out who was sending the garbage.
It has never struck me that it is impossible to find out where the nonsense is coming from, just that it would take effort which has so far only been rewarding to those of us who get angry watching our electronic clubhouse get vandalized.
Making my problem become somebody else's problem has always been a satisfying experience.
Does anyone else know that little green men was not the entire point of the project? A lot of science is seredipitous and SETI looks for patterns (yes with FFTs) which *could* indicate some sort of intelligent life, but which much more likely will indicate interesting space phenomenon. Looking for little green men was a marketing ploy to get the public enthused about the boring task of grinding through a bunch of data in a very methodical fashion for no express purpose. And future scientists will likely do masters work grinding through the "candidates" to explain which ones are pulsars and which ones are possible black holes (or the rhythmic burst of gamma radiation as small bits of proto-matter is sucked through an event horizon which leads us to believe we have found black holes), which ones are the death throws of a giant blue star heating and cooling and throwing off seas of it's radiant atmosphere as the changes within the doomed star begin to lock the heat of the solar furnace within it's core and prepare for the surreal explosion of a super-nova (someone could get published if they found one of those in the data). And something which is not readily explained? That is the chance of a lifetime.
Forget a cosmic "message in a bottle". We could not possibly determine any content from that far away unless the little green men figured out a way to put a huge shutter nearby their sun and used it as a giant semaphore. If your are doing science for science sake you are taking measurements and expecting to find only mundane results. The really exciting thing about SETI is that it is has never been possible to throw this much data through such an effective sieve.
If you have reason to expect the unexpected, little green men are certainly an unexpected thing; little green men are also an unfortunate legacy of marketing decision made early on in SETI which cost it funding and nearly killed the project entirely. Clever renaming to the High Resolution Microwave Survey (a better description of how the project was expected to serve the science community) got funding for another year and was able to pass the technology on to the public where it partly lives on with SETI@home. This renaming also left politicians feeling betrayed (the joke was that HRMS stood for "He Really Means SETI") and there was so be no more funding to "look for little green men".
If you were a corporate officer today you would most likely be outsourcing everything you could to the lowest bidder you saw advertised in an airline magazine. That is you would not know or care what was inside the program as long as it improved your bottom line within the 3 years you anticipated working at that job.
There are a couple of less than obvious ways one gets Spam, in my opinion.
If you have DSL or Cable, someone on your local hub can troll IP addresses which are logged on then use NetBIOS to get additional information.
Some ISPs put the Spam directly into your INBOX; that is they have worked out an "arrangement" with the Spammers and save themselves the extra network traffic and make a little money by accepting a single incoming Spam and dropping it as incoming mail on all of their users.
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I've always wondered what the process would be to redress the actions of a politically motivated DA. Could the Los Angeles DA's office be charged with abuse of process or malfeasance?
OS/2 has precious little to do with NT. The networking, which is a separate subsystem under OS/2, was developed by the joint team from Microsoft and IBM at the time when Microsoft was developing Windows 3.x (Windows for Workgroups). Even that has changed quite a bit since then.
The OS/2 kernel was a new system designed from the bottom up. Windows NT was redesigned by Dave Cutler from DEC. The moniker "Windows New Technology" was derived from the flagship DEC product: WNT = VMS by adding one to each letter. The first versions of OS/2 were capable of running on a 286 processor and was used for many years to run Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Windows NT never ran on the 286 architecture.
The problem is that most people have been worn down by 200+ line "End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs). Most of it is legalese gibberish and often a substantial part of it is in a language the end user does not understand.
Microsoft is largely responsible for beating the public down in the computer arena until they just click OK or I Agree and be done with it. Microsoft is also responsible for establishing legal precedent that assenting to such an agreement is legal and binding regardless of whether you read it or are capable of understanding it.
But Microsoft is hardly the first entity to beat the public down until they sign a document without reading it. If you've ever used a parking garage, you have tacitly agreed to the contract written in microfiche on the reverse side of the ticket you are given as you enter the garage - this contract has also been tested in court and is legal and binding.
I suspect people wondered the same thing about Antony van Leeuwenhoek. Why would anyone care about things too small to see? What a collosal waste of time. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.h tml
Does a standard Windows installation usually work on Dell? I thought everything had to be custom for Dell computers. Times that I've needed to re-install windows on a Dell machine, I've needed to download special drivers first.
Wow! That's great news. I ran several fetches and all of the categories show that life is completely rosy.
</Sarcasm>
Seriously, it is a great form and the system behind it works like a champ. Thank you for the link.
I still don't believe the numbers.
Wouldn't decentralization of the DNS root also make DNS poisoning easier?
In my experience, Routers and hubs are most likely to lock up in some odd state and/or get very slow when they are translating speeds. If you have some 10 MBit devices (typical of DSL and cable modems) and some 100 Mbit devices (typical in any modern computer), then the hub or router will have to buffer the information for the slower device. I always have much better luck when all devices on a hub operate at the same speed.
IMHO, it was 20 years ahead of it's time and BB is the corporation rather than the government. That is, the scenario played out a lot more like the original Rollerball movie.
It may be a bit of a "nuclear option", but you could always code addresses for google, yahoo, imdb, etc. sites which receive a lot of traffic in a HOSTS file. This can be especially useful for sites where you are especially concerned...the address of your online banking for instance. One downside is that you can only associate one IP address to a name in a HOSTS file as far as I know and a site like google will have several. Then there is the obvious potential problem of the site changing it's IP (although I doubt google does it very often).
I've never heard of this being done, but it sounds like this exploit could be used to remove most banner ads for everyone. There is software which does this for your local machine, but this would have a global effect. It seems like someone could really hurt the purveyors of spyware and other things which require the machine to "phone home".
I'm not a ham, but the synchronization of the microwaves allows the cycles required to get to Voyager and back to be counted. After factoring in doppler shift, this allows the precise position of the spacecraft to be determined. The synthesizers which allow for this are accurate to within less than one cycle per second over a 137 year period.
The DSN (Deep Space Network) antennas and receivers do take a bit of time to synchronize with spacecraft that far away. It is also somewhat tricky since the link must be "passed" between multiple antennas as the communication takes longer than the approximately 8 hours any one antenna will be able to "see" the spacecraft before the Earth's rotation points the antenna away from the target.
But these antennas are for spacecraft. They are too large and move too slowly to effectively track anything in orbit. The large antennas were upgraded from 64 to 70 meters specifically for Voyager. The point being, there are not that many things to use the DSN for.
As far as the "old tech", yes it was designed that long ago. But the technology was quite specialized and can't really be compared to a 286. Specialized electronics like that do not change at nearly the same rate as commercially built personal computers. Some of the old ground-based receivers build in the 80s actually did have 286 processors, but I'm fairly certain those have been replaced.
FAX was what she said. I suspect it was a type of slang for which our language could use a word. An "intellectual euphemism" where a simpler concept is substituted for the more complex reality to reach a wider audience while sacrificing accuracy. Like "nuking" your food in a microwave oven or having your computer "crash".
You forgot to mention the medical profession. I was just in the hospital visiting a sick aunt. It was about 10pm and they were taking a chest X-ray. Then they told me that they needed to fax the X-ray out so that it could be analyzed and they would know what to do next when the analysis came back. Given the late hour (10pm Pacific coast time), I asked if the X-ray was being faxed to Bangalore. The nurse smiled, commented it was a cogent question, and suggested I take it up with the hospital administration because she was not allowed to discuss it.
There is no security without physical security. Leave me alone with a working device long enough and I can get the data out of it. From a certain point of view, DRM software is a system administrator. This feature will be more effective for controlling what the lightweight user does than at preventing corporate theft by a computer professional.
I like the idea of adding a cost to e-mail, but only for people sending UCE (unsolicited commercial email). The annoying cousin who relays every joke he can find is best dealt with by a filter.
If the charge were to take the form of a tax, then government would have a motivation to find out who was sending the garbage.
It has never struck me that it is impossible to find out where the nonsense is coming from, just that it would take effort which has so far only been rewarding to those of us who get angry watching our electronic clubhouse get vandalized.
Making my problem become somebody else's problem has always been a satisfying experience.
You must love the "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper stickers. I understand our Aussie friends enjoy seeing Roto-rooter drive down the road.
Does anyone else know that little green men was not the entire point of the project? A lot of science is seredipitous and SETI looks for patterns (yes with FFTs) which *could* indicate some sort of intelligent life, but which much more likely will indicate interesting space phenomenon. Looking for little green men was a marketing ploy to get the public enthused about the boring task of grinding through a bunch of data in a very methodical fashion for no express purpose. And future scientists will likely do masters work grinding through the "candidates" to explain which ones are pulsars and which ones are possible black holes (or the rhythmic burst of gamma radiation as small bits of proto-matter is sucked through an event horizon which leads us to believe we have found black holes), which ones are the death throws of a giant blue star heating and cooling and throwing off seas of it's radiant atmosphere as the changes within the doomed star begin to lock the heat of the solar furnace within it's core and prepare for the surreal explosion of a super-nova (someone could get published if they found one of those in the data). And something which is not readily explained? That is the chance of a lifetime.
Forget a cosmic "message in a bottle". We could not possibly determine any content from that far away unless the little green men figured out a way to put a huge shutter nearby their sun and used it as a giant semaphore. If your are doing science for science sake you are taking measurements and expecting to find only mundane results. The really exciting thing about SETI is that it is has never been possible to throw this much data through such an effective sieve.
If you have reason to expect the unexpected, little green men are certainly an unexpected thing; little green men are also an unfortunate legacy of marketing decision made early on in SETI which cost it funding and nearly killed the project entirely. Clever renaming to the High Resolution Microwave Survey (a better description of how the project was expected to serve the science community) got funding for another year and was able to pass the technology on to the public where it partly lives on with SETI@home. This renaming also left politicians feeling betrayed (the joke was that HRMS stood for "He Really Means SETI") and there was so be no more funding to "look for little green men".
SETI is a *really* good thing.
If you were a corporate officer today you would most likely be outsourcing everything you could to the lowest bidder you saw advertised in an airline magazine. That is you would not know or care what was inside the program as long as it improved your bottom line within the 3 years you anticipated working at that job.
There are a couple of less than obvious ways one gets Spam, in my opinion. If you have DSL or Cable, someone on your local hub can troll IP addresses which are logged on then use NetBIOS to get additional information. Some ISPs put the Spam directly into your INBOX; that is they have worked out an "arrangement" with the Spammers and save themselves the extra network traffic and make a little money by accepting a single incoming Spam and dropping it as incoming mail on all of their users.