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Failures at build never see the customer. One would hope that hardware failing build has at least enough warranty to recover failed parts from supplier/manufacturer. If not, how can you provide any warranty to your customer?
Yeah, that's true. I wasn't arguing with your comment, merely commenting that a reasonable number of modules fail when first tested. Not maintaining machines I've had no experience to comment on ongoing failures.
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And conversely; a reasonable number fail. Working as a system builder and memtesting every machine I build, I've seen around 15% failure rate in all brands of RAM.
I'd love to set up a myth box, but every time I try to find out what tuner cards are available and work, I get a huge mess of conflicting opinions, long dead forums and disappeared sites.
Can you possibly point to a current list of known working hardware? Cheers.
I'd take issue with the word more if it didn't fit so perfectly with the five-year-old-wrote-it style of article. Have any other sites got a decent article that doesn't read like "New Technology for Dummies' and has some information?
Yeah, my bad for not including the link. I'm in no way arguing that any security agency has anything to do with this, simply that it's possible to sniff fiber without breaking the link. Which is in itself an argument against the "NSA did it!" paranoia - why would they bother disrupting it. This site (Warning! Informative non-conspiracy site!) describes the simple details of fiber-optic coupling by bending one fiber.
Radioshack does fall regrettably short in network sniffing equipment, but a quick google search will find you hundreds of companies selling splitters and couplers, albeit not ones designed to be attached covertly. This company will happily quote you.
If you're going to debate, at least do a five second search to establish the facts.
the American forces supposedly had the benefit of a jamming operation that prevented the enemy from communicating at all
No offence, but any criticism of the war-game after that would be just redundant, surely you give the enemy the huge advantage and make your own forces work around it? If that's a true story then there's some strange thinking in play. Able to give us a source?
Wasn't there some article a while back about sniffing fiber optics by bending the cable to a certain extent (or something)?
In any case, I suspect assuming you know what security agencies can do is like assuming you know what will happen tomorrow; probably fairly close but never 100%, and always the possibility of something drastically different.
the ACMA only applies to things published in australia
No argument there, but that's not my point. Sorry if I didn't make my theory clear, but I meant that content would be classified in line with ACMA guidelines. We see something similar with the laws banning the importation of pornography. reference
When you get right down to it, access to externally published material over the net is an oddity; all content imported by any other means is either banned or subject to classification/censorship.
I honestly don't believe that if we have this filtering system set up the government will be able to resist attempting to bring content published over the net in line with the rest of our censorship system.
In short, while the federal ID card certainly had some issues (RFID) and arguments in favor and against, filtering provides nothing of value other than censorship. Once it's in place and demonstrated to be working at least somewhat, it's guaranteed to be extended to bring it in line with our other media classification/censorship. And from there it's most likely to be enforced by legislative and not technical means.
No, it's not mandatory, but it is going however to be an "opt-out" system. And to be honest, I'd be stunned if you can opt out entirely. Once filtering is in place, the government could never afford to let things like child pornography not be filtered regardless.
Once the filtering commences it's all downhill. We already hold internally published material to standards set by the ACMA (no publishing porn here!) so how long do you really think it's going to take before the government is pushed to classify and filter all content in line with ACMA guidelines?
Are you COMPLETELY UNAWARE of how many threats the US is unprepared for?! This is scary stuff. We need to all pull together in whichever direction the President chooses!
Ahem.
Though to be honest, these days that article presented as an official announcement probably would terrify the populace. Good luck reassuring people who are terrified of imaginary threats.
My three encrypted volumes contain soft-core porn, business secrets, divorce plans and copyrighted music. Four! My FOUR encrypted volumes contain soft-core porn, business secrets, divorce plans and copyrighted music, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Damn. Amongst my encrypted volumes are volumes that contain...
They hate us because we've been meddling in their governments, undermining their sovereignty, propping up dictators favorable to us, invading them when those propped up dictators fall out favor, all for our own national self interests.
I know your post is going to get a hundred posts replying "It's not us! It's Islam! They're out to destroy us!" but I'd like to add one more theory:
The western world (and America included, despite dire predictions about it's economy) is much wealthier than the countries the terrorist ideologies come from.
It's that simple. America is wealthy, Americans are wealthy, and they project a culture that shows how wealthy they are. Is it so hard to imagine that to the average Iraqi (only an example, works in Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, wherever) who is massively poorer than the soldiers and contracters rebuilding his/her country might be a little jealous? And hey, when you're family is starving and someone points out a scapegoat, and promises martyrdom, maybe it doesn't look like such a bad idea.
I'm not saying it's only economic inequality, but if you can take that away people will have more of a commitment to improving their situation than attacking others. When there is genuine hope of gaining something better within the system ideologies that preach destruction and martyrdom will find fewer supporters.
Not only that, but by buying commodity hardware and using their own software to make it scale, it'd be a helluva lot easier to make sure their purchases don't show up amongst the usual government spending. Their own custom chip-fab plant, plus all the associated requirements would be pretty noticeable if a foreign spy agency went looking, and from their it's only one step to studying the plant itself.
Nah, it's got to be:
"Please note, we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record. Followed by death. Good luck."
Now that's coffee-nose-keyboard destructive goodness.
I'm guessing the thing didn't need power to keep on shooting, much like an automatic weapon. My guess would be that the electronics aimed it the wrong way and it stopped when it jammed/ran out of ammo. Which raises an interesting point, just what the hell can you do to stop an automatic weapon by remote?
Surely murder is a conscious action? One that requires a decision based in free will? So it could hardly be argued that murder is 'natural'; murder is uncommon among humans, who may have free will, and impossible for an animal which presumably does not. Killing, OTOH, that's natural:)
On the other hand, our location makes us a very important satelite ground station. I suspect that's the major reason behind our membership in that treaty, though I'm not sure about NZ.
Vernor Vinge may be one of the best near-future fiction writers around atm. When you read the book, it's hard not to see at least some of the details starting to form already.
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Failures at build never see the customer. One would hope that hardware failing build has at least enough warranty to recover failed parts from supplier/manufacturer. If not, how can you provide any warranty to your customer?
Yeah, that's true. I wasn't arguing with your comment, merely commenting that a reasonable number of modules fail when first tested. Not maintaining machines I've had no experience to comment on ongoing failures.And conversely; a reasonable number fail. Working as a system builder and memtesting every machine I build, I've seen around 15% failure rate in all brands of RAM.
I counter your angry picture with Wikipedia!
I'd love to set up a myth box, but every time I try to find out what tuner cards are available and work, I get a huge mess of conflicting opinions, long dead forums and disappeared sites. Can you possibly point to a current list of known working hardware? Cheers.
I'd take issue with the word more if it didn't fit so perfectly with the five-year-old-wrote-it style of article. Have any other sites got a decent article that doesn't read like "New Technology for Dummies' and has some information?
Done and done. I'll charge that to your account.
Radioshack does fall regrettably short in network sniffing equipment, but a quick google search will find you hundreds of companies selling splitters and couplers, albeit not ones designed to be attached covertly. This company will happily quote you.
If you're going to debate, at least do a five second search to establish the facts.
No offence, but any criticism of the war-game after that would be just redundant, surely you give the enemy the huge advantage and make your own forces work around it? If that's a true story then there's some strange thinking in play. Able to give us a source?
Wasn't there some article a while back about sniffing fiber optics by bending the cable to a certain extent (or something)?
In any case, I suspect assuming you know what security agencies can do is like assuming you know what will happen tomorrow; probably fairly close but never 100%, and always the possibility of something drastically different.
Anyone else instantly reminded of the clip for "Closer", by Nine Inch Nails?
Really? I'm trying to keep it out of mine.
No argument there, but that's not my point. Sorry if I didn't make my theory clear, but I meant that content would be classified in line with ACMA guidelines. We see something similar with the laws banning the importation of pornography. reference
When you get right down to it, access to externally published material over the net is an oddity; all content imported by any other means is either banned or subject to classification/censorship. I honestly don't believe that if we have this filtering system set up the government will be able to resist attempting to bring content published over the net in line with the rest of our censorship system. In short, while the federal ID card certainly had some issues (RFID) and arguments in favor and against, filtering provides nothing of value other than censorship. Once it's in place and demonstrated to be working at least somewhat, it's guaranteed to be extended to bring it in line with our other media classification/censorship. And from there it's most likely to be enforced by legislative and not technical means.
No, it's not mandatory, but it is going however to be an "opt-out" system. And to be honest, I'd be stunned if you can opt out entirely. Once filtering is in place, the government could never afford to let things like child pornography not be filtered regardless.
Once the filtering commences it's all downhill. We already hold internally published material to standards set by the ACMA (no publishing porn here!) so how long do you really think it's going to take before the government is pushed to classify and filter all content in line with ACMA guidelines?
Gentlemen, start your TOR routers.
Why go to such lengths as nano-tech? Contact lenses, man! (Credit to Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge)
I only exist in two dimensions, you dimensionist clod!
Actually, forget about the ink.
Ahem.
Though to be honest, these days that article presented as an official announcement probably would terrify the populace. Good luck reassuring people who are terrified of imaginary threats.
My three encrypted volumes contain soft-core porn, business secrets, divorce plans and copyrighted music. Four! My FOUR encrypted volumes contain soft-core porn, business secrets, divorce plans and copyrighted music, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Damn. Amongst my encrypted volumes are volumes that contain...
I know your post is going to get a hundred posts replying "It's not us! It's Islam! They're out to destroy us!" but I'd like to add one more theory:
The western world (and America included, despite dire predictions about it's economy) is much wealthier than the countries the terrorist ideologies come from.
It's that simple. America is wealthy, Americans are wealthy, and they project a culture that shows how wealthy they are. Is it so hard to imagine that to the average Iraqi (only an example, works in Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, wherever) who is massively poorer than the soldiers and contracters rebuilding his/her country might be a little jealous? And hey, when you're family is starving and someone points out a scapegoat, and promises martyrdom, maybe it doesn't look like such a bad idea.
I'm not saying it's only economic inequality, but if you can take that away people will have more of a commitment to improving their situation than attacking others. When there is genuine hope of gaining something better within the system ideologies that preach destruction and martyrdom will find fewer supporters.
Not only that, but by buying commodity hardware and using their own software to make it scale, it'd be a helluva lot easier to make sure their purchases don't show up amongst the usual government spending. Their own custom chip-fab plant, plus all the associated requirements would be pretty noticeable if a foreign spy agency went looking, and from their it's only one step to studying the plant itself.
Nah, it's got to be: "Please note, we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record. Followed by death. Good luck." Now that's coffee-nose-keyboard destructive goodness.
I'm guessing the thing didn't need power to keep on shooting, much like an automatic weapon. My guess would be that the electronics aimed it the wrong way and it stopped when it jammed/ran out of ammo. Which raises an interesting point, just what the hell can you do to stop an automatic weapon by remote?
Surely murder is a conscious action? One that requires a decision based in free will? So it could hardly be argued that murder is 'natural'; murder is uncommon among humans, who may have free will, and impossible for an animal which presumably does not. Killing, OTOH, that's natural :)
On the other hand, our location makes us a very important satelite ground station. I suspect that's the major reason behind our membership in that treaty, though I'm not sure about NZ.
Vernor Vinge may be one of the best near-future fiction writers around atm. When you read the book, it's hard not to see at least some of the details starting to form already.