The government spooks intercept, decode and conclude ' another happy tourist spending dollars '. You receive the message, reverse the process and learn that the attack is being launched at dawn.
Traffic analysis will get you every time.
If it's really sensitive, encode it and broadcast it, like the "numbers" stations or the BBC broadcasts to French partisans during WWII.
"The carrot awakens at dusk. The carrot awakens at dusk."
Of course, there's the non-trivial exercise of setting up the one-time pad or whatever beforehand, but that's a one-time risk (as opposed to the ongoing threat of traffic analysis).
If this sounds like Spy vs. Spy, it is. Anything that threatens $REGIME is viewed as treason by $REGIME and gets you the same attention that an embassy's "military attache" would get. A lot.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Etherpeek is the name of a commercial packet sniffer/network analysis tool.
I sense a lack of imagination where the naming of secrets is concerned. What's next: Operation Trashpicker or Operation Hold-your-ear-against-the-wall-Here-use-this-drink ing-glass-you'll-hear-better?
I guess even spies get bored.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
While this idea has merit logistically speaking, legally speaking copyright law is not an opt-in system. Copyrights should be enforced without the copyright holder being required to request it or do anything more than create their original art. That's why there is no copyright registration office, opt-in is not the point of copyright.
Huh? There's no copyright registration office? So I've been sending those forms, checks, and copies of work to the Library of Congress for nothing? Damn.
Seriously, though a work is covered by a statutory copyright the moment it is created, there is a distinction made when that work is published. The author's rights under 17 USC 107-118 are affected if a work is published without registration.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
But I understand that even professional studio tapes used by radio stations and recording studios in the 70's and 80's are becoming unreadable because the oxide binder (read: glue) used in the tapes at the time is deteriorating and the tapes are literally falling apart.
I can confirm this. A couple of different brands and formulations are affected, Scotch [3M] 226 being the most common. Note that it can be avoided with proper storage and damaged tapes can actually be (temporarily) repaired by slowly baking them in a convection oven (how's that for counterintuitive?).
Nothing like rewinding a tails-out reel of 2" and filling the control room with expensive rust-colored snow flakes.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
It's just an aberration, a temporary backslide on the path of Progress. Soon enough our robot masters^W servants will perform all necessary tasks, leaving us humans free to do the one thing we never seem to tire of:
Breed.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Not a single story on the failed ballistic missile defense test this morning?
I know Slashdot != Janes, but this is hi-tech and hi-mech and certainly qualifies as newsworthy, considering that NASA's every fart warrants mention on Slashdot.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot's political content wasn't so Katz-o-centric. A $60,000,000,000 weapon system and the subsequent arms race is going to have more societal impact than a Doom clone or the profiling of adolescent misfits.
k., wondering where the hate went. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Okay, they list Amtrak as an offender. It just so happens that I need to look up a schedule, so I check it out.
This is what it says on the timetable:
Please press the back button on your browser.
Not quite the "back-button disabled" site top9 makes them out to be. And yet I couldn't view top9's site because I didn't have the right flavor of plug-in.
Who are these guys?
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
It's called a Torx bit, size 10 or 15, IIRC. And there's a tool called a "case cracker", but you can substitute a screwdriver or knife blade.
If you do open an old Mac (128, 512, 512kE), you'll see the signatures of everyone at Apple who helped create it, embossed on the inside of the cover. I always thought that was pretty cool.
Really, you don't have to be McGuyver to open up an old Mac.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Actually, in this case, the authorization for the wiretap does not come from themselves, they have to get a court order from a judge. They can't just randomly wiretap people's communications without a reason. It is similiar to getting a search warrant, you have to get a court order for that. Are you suggesting that we should stop allowing "lawfully-authorized" searches as well?
Of course not. That would be naive, to say the least.
But it's also naive to ignore the fact that LEA have access to "tame" judges at all levels: local, state, and Federal. These are judges that ignore patently fabricated testimony by officers under oath, that allow tainted evidence.
The Supreme Court, despite upholding Miranda recently (thought they rather grudgingly admitted that it had become part of the nation's culture -- perps know Miranda better than cops, having seen it on Cops and a myriad movies and tv shows), have ruled that illegally seized evidence is admissable if the officers acted in good faith. Uh huh.
We've come a long way from "Turn 'em Loose Bruce".
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
If this is really a "grassroots" movement (yeah, right), what is stopping the rank and file of Slashdot readers from joining this organization and subverting it? I'm not talking about disrupting it, merely changing its direction. Like joining the Republican Party and voting for moderates/liberals. Roberts Rules of Order instead of a defaced web page or a Molotov.
How would Microsoft react to a thousand "FIN" web pages with a "Powered by Apache/Linux" graphic on them? Would they start serving injunctions in the name of "freedom"? Surely, they wouldn't just sit on their hands.
The nuclear power industry tried this back in the '70s and '80s, sending "citizens" to town meetings and public hearings. It inevitably backfired as the shills were exposed as paid operatives.
Then again, sometimes it makes me so angry I just want to whack someone with a pie.
k.
-- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I do a lot of Photoshop work, on both PC and Mac. I use a 12x18 Summagrafix and a smaller Wacom, both with pressure sensitive pens.
There's no substitute for drawing. A mouse just doesn't cut it for some tasks.
When I got my first Mac (512K, 1985), it came with a "Guided Tour" application that showed how to use this newfangled pointing device, complete with a maze to run the cursor through.
Still boots up, BTW (System 3.2).
Too bad Microsoft ruined pen computing on the Wintel side. PENWIN.DLL anyone?
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Fuck yeah. I used to live in an apartment on Peterborough Street in Boston and every time I turned on the oven thousands of roaches would pour out of the stove, jumping to the safety of the floor or my clothes. They have vestigial wings and fly about as well as chickens.
It was like something from a horror movie.
I mailed a box of dead roaches to my landlord with the rent check in the middle. He was not amused.
He came over with a cop and I end up showing the cop all of the roaches that were painted over when they redid the walls. Little lumpy white spots under the paint. I kept popping them like bubblewrap until the cop started getting sick. He left after telling the landlord to expect a visit from Inspectional Services.
I finally got the landlord to spring for an exterminator and he gets this guy who must have been the model for Hans Moleman from the Simpsons.
"Watch this," he said, emptying a rubber syringe of yellow powder in the suspended ceiling. What ever that was got every fucking roach's full attention. They start pouring out of the ceiling and walls, out of the stove and under the fridge and sink.
"They don't like that," he said, totally deadpan. It was like Yoda meets the Orkin Man. This guy knew his roaches.
We lived there for two more years until the roof collapsed.
Oh, and we had bats, too.
So, yeah. Roaches fly.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Uh, Mozart died penniless and was buried in a mass paupers' grave in Vienna. Bach made most of his income as a performer (he was a reknown organist). More recently, Shoenberg and Stravinsky ended up scoring Hollywood films and Phillip Glass used to drive a cab. Charles Ives sold insurance.
These days royal patronage has been replaced by the promise of a tenured position in academia.
k. -- "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Slashdot Mirror
Traffic analysis will get you every time.
If it's really sensitive, encode it and broadcast it, like the "numbers" stations or the BBC broadcasts to French partisans during WWII.
"The carrot awakens at dusk. The carrot awakens at dusk."
Of course, there's the non-trivial exercise of setting up the one-time pad or whatever beforehand, but that's a one-time risk (as opposed to the ongoing threat of traffic analysis).
If this sounds like Spy vs. Spy, it is. Anything that threatens $REGIME is viewed as treason by $REGIME and gets you the same attention that an embassy's "military attache" would get. A lot.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Speaker Dennis Hastur! Hastur! The Goat with a Thousand Young!
IA HASTUR! IA CTHULHU!
The preceding was paid for by the Cthulhu 2000 Committee
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Etherpeek is the name of a commercial packet sniffer/network analysis tool.
k ing-glass-you'll-hear-better?
I sense a lack of imagination where the naming of secrets is concerned. What's next: Operation Trashpicker or Operation Hold-your-ear-against-the-wall-Here-use-this-drin
I guess even spies get bored.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Holy shit! It's completely off the scale!
Mankind is doomed! Doomed I tell you! Our only hope is aluminum foil! Lots and lots of aluminum foil!
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Huh? There's no copyright registration office? So I've been sending those forms, checks, and copies of work to the Library of Congress for nothing? Damn.
Seriously, though a work is covered by a statutory copyright the moment it is created, there is a distinction made when that work is published. The author's rights under 17 USC 107-118 are affected if a work is published without registration.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I can confirm this. A couple of different brands and formulations are affected, Scotch [3M] 226 being the most common. Note that it can be avoided with proper storage and damaged tapes can actually be (temporarily) repaired by slowly baking them in a convection oven (how's that for counterintuitive?).
Nothing like rewinding a tails-out reel of 2" and filling the control room with expensive rust-colored snow flakes.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I know a Class III butcher who can convert our sirloin to ground beef.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
It's just an aberration, a temporary backslide on the path of Progress. Soon enough our robot masters^W servants will perform all necessary tasks, leaving us humans free to do the one thing we never seem to tire of:
Breed.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Just ask him for a date already, sweetie. I'm sure he'd be glad to cornhole your browneye.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Let's see...
The Federal Trade Commission has a cadre of crack investigators backed up by masses of professional bureaucrats.
Toysmart has warehouses full of Sooper Soakers and a legion of G.I. Joes with Kung Fu Grip[tm].
My money's on Toysmart.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Not a single story on the failed ballistic missile defense test this morning?
I know Slashdot != Janes, but this is hi-tech and hi-mech and certainly qualifies as newsworthy, considering that NASA's every fart warrants mention on Slashdot.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot's political content wasn't so Katz-o-centric. A $60,000,000,000 weapon system and the subsequent arms race is going to have more societal impact than a Doom clone or the profiling of adolescent misfits.
k., wondering where the hate went.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
This is what it says on the timetable:
Not quite the "back-button disabled" site top9 makes them out to be. And yet I couldn't view top9's site because I didn't have the right flavor of plug-in.
Who are these guys?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Have you ever seen the tools to open and old mac?
It's called a Torx bit, size 10 or 15, IIRC. And there's a tool called a "case cracker", but you can substitute a screwdriver or knife blade.
If you do open an old Mac (128, 512, 512kE), you'll see the signatures of everyone at Apple who helped create it, embossed on the inside of the cover. I always thought that was pretty cool.
Really, you don't have to be McGuyver to open up an old Mac.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Musicians have no god-given right to compensation.
I keep seeing this idea trotted out whenever there's a music copyright discussion. It's bullshit, just like the "Bands make their money touring" meme.
Either music benefits society and the individual or it doesn't. If it does, pay the piper. If it doesn't, why are we even discussing trivialities?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Of course not. That would be naive, to say the least.
But it's also naive to ignore the fact that LEA have access to "tame" judges at all levels: local, state, and Federal. These are judges that ignore patently fabricated testimony by officers under oath, that allow tainted evidence.
The Supreme Court, despite upholding Miranda recently (thought they rather grudgingly admitted that it had become part of the nation's culture -- perps know Miranda better than cops, having seen it on Cops and a myriad movies and tv shows), have ruled that illegally seized evidence is admissable if the officers acted in good faith. Uh huh.
We've come a long way from "Turn 'em Loose Bruce".
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
The most interesting part of the article was the part about government troops and rebel guerillas trading insults via text.
Does SRS support attachments or scripting?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
If this is really a "grassroots" movement (yeah, right), what is stopping the rank and file of Slashdot readers from joining this organization and subverting it? I'm not talking about disrupting it, merely changing its direction. Like joining the Republican Party and voting for moderates/liberals. Roberts Rules of Order instead of a defaced web page or a Molotov.
How would Microsoft react to a thousand "FIN" web pages with a "Powered by Apache/Linux" graphic on them? Would they start serving injunctions in the name of "freedom"? Surely, they wouldn't just sit on their hands.
The nuclear power industry tried this back in the '70s and '80s, sending "citizens" to town meetings and public hearings. It inevitably backfired as the shills were exposed as paid operatives.
Then again, sometimes it makes me so angry I just want to whack someone with a pie.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I do a lot of Photoshop work, on both PC and Mac. I use a 12x18 Summagrafix and a smaller Wacom, both with pressure sensitive pens.
There's no substitute for drawing. A mouse just doesn't cut it for some tasks.
When I got my first Mac (512K, 1985), it came with a "Guided Tour" application that showed how to use this newfangled pointing device, complete with a maze to run the cursor through.
Still boots up, BTW (System 3.2).
Too bad Microsoft ruined pen computing on the Wintel side. PENWIN.DLL anyone?
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Bullshit.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
And the question is: Can cockroaches fly?
Fuck yeah. I used to live in an apartment on Peterborough Street in Boston and every time I turned on the oven thousands of roaches would pour out of the stove, jumping to the safety of the floor or my clothes. They have vestigial wings and fly about as well as chickens.
It was like something from a horror movie.
I mailed a box of dead roaches to my landlord with the rent check in the middle. He was not amused.
He came over with a cop and I end up showing the cop all of the roaches that were painted over when they redid the walls. Little lumpy white spots under the paint. I kept popping them like bubblewrap until the cop started getting sick. He left after telling the landlord to expect a visit from Inspectional Services.
I finally got the landlord to spring for an exterminator and he gets this guy who must have been the model for Hans Moleman from the Simpsons.
"Watch this," he said, emptying a rubber syringe of yellow powder in the suspended ceiling. What ever that was got every fucking roach's full attention. They start pouring out of the ceiling and walls, out of the stove and under the fridge and sink.
"They don't like that," he said, totally deadpan. It was like Yoda meets the Orkin Man. This guy knew his roaches.
We lived there for two more years until the roof collapsed.
Oh, and we had bats, too.
So, yeah. Roaches fly.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
I like the Moon idea but a 2" disk is going to get lost pretty quick in all that dust.
I think a 9-meter tall slab of black rock, situated in a major crater like Tycho would be more obvious.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Uh, Mozart died penniless and was buried in a mass paupers' grave in Vienna. Bach made most of his income as a performer (he was a reknown organist). More recently, Shoenberg and Stravinsky ended up scoring Hollywood films and Phillip Glass used to drive a cab. Charles Ives sold insurance.
These days royal patronage has been replaced by the promise of a tenured position in academia.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
*ahem*
Myst was a Director movie.
k., wondering how HyperCard ran under Win3.1.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
MISSION CONTROL: Say again?
FOALE: We have a problem. I've got a Main Bus B undervoltage and Hotmail comes back "404 Not Found".
MISSION CONTROL: Okay, stand by while we try to work out a procedure here.
FOALE: Standing by.
k.
--
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank