...does that "expensive equipment" cost? I gues Al Quaida didn't need anything more sophisticated. And I wonder when this kind of software and hardware gets banned by the government because it may be used by terrorists?
I guess they won't touch average Joe Geek for file sharing, but if they see you are suspect, they may arrest you, just for this bogus reason that you shared your files and start some more serious investigation with you legally in jail.
In darkest times of communist terror in Poland, there was a common saying "Don't worry, they can find a paragraph for everyone". Seems this law is just one more of such paragraphs to "match everyone".
Bill wouldn't let anyone to share their files! Bill keeps his monopoly with a strong hand and no matter what, FBI, government, hackers, competition - nobody's allowed to share their files, at least using Bill's OS!
15 student teams will optimize a conventional Ford Explorer into a lower-emissions vehicle with at least 25% higher fuel economy without sacrificing the performance, utility, safety, and affordability consumers want.
Don't you think it's scary that highly paid, proffessional engineers who design and upgrade this car every year MAKE IT POSSIBLE to upgrade fuel efficiency by 25% without sacrificing affordability? How BROKEN is the design in the first place, if _students_ (which aren't even paid for that work) are able to make it at least 25% better? IMHO Ford should fire all his "designers" (basis: Sabotage-quality work) and employ these students in their place.
if I'm wrong, but I heard 24V is the "lethal treshold" voltage, i.e. anything above it can kill, below - not (YMMV of course). So if your car breaks and you get your limb stuck with some powered element, with some bad luck you will fry to death, where 12V was safe, at worst giving you rather painful electric shock and some burns.
if the propulsion will be "contained" (clean) or "open" (dirty). The fusion may take place in partially open reactor, so superheated particles of the radioactive fuel are ejected at high speed, giving really fast propulsion and leaving a wide radioactive trail in space, or the reactor may be "contained" (like normal reactors) and produce electricity or other forms of "clean" power for some other propulsion system, like a ion drive, that's quite harmless. Which one will it be?
Try google search for "tesa-rom", that's how it's called. The "ROM" part is a bit confusing, it's "WORM" (write once read many) memory. (which with 1 terabyte cheap removable media is not a big concern. Why would you ever want to delete anything, just save new versions and "damage" entries you want to have removed...)
Similar thing is being developed in the "holographic memory". You don't spin the laser, just a tiny mirror that can turn VERY fast and move up/down at "reasonable" speeds. The media is not a disc, but a drum though (actually: A roll of duch tape), it stores 1TB of data and doesn't move in the process. The mirror is located in the middle and focusing the laser makes it possible to read/write any point of the media volume, not just the surface.
Take an example that never went true because it became a bit too... dedicated? I mean adapting it to more common case would require more work than writing it from scratch, but my intention was quite clear, and only quality of the final code prevented me from releasing it as open source.
My job: Sysadmin. My task: Provide the departament with a consistent "opt-in" daily backup system everyone could use to back up their work.
What can I do? Well, my boss doesn't care how I do it, just should be done and should be done well. I see this options: 1. Look around and purchase a commercial system. Not really possible, limited budget and quite specific situation (need to be able to use it from DOS, WinNT, Linux, Solaris and possibly more OSes) 2. Get a free software solution. Again, not quite possible for reasons above, the network. 3. Write the app myself.
Okay, so I pick #3. I write it in my "spare work time" - that is when I'm not assigned some other job. It's still "my private code" but it's towards achieving my boss' goals so he won't protest. I own the final application. I may license it as GNU. And then I implement it. My "paid task" wasn't writing the code so I still own it. But creating it was along the lines of the company needs so they welcome me doing it gladly - after all they will get just what they need from me for free... (and they aren't a software business anyway:)
Other situation - development of some other big app. "Look, boss, this thing could be useful for us if it had this and this... I could code that but it's GNU and the code would have to be licensed as that. (oh well, it could become our company's closeware too, but boss doesn't need to know that, plus I can credit my company in that part of code to get them free worldwide advertisment) So, what do you think? Can I write that?" "Okay, as long as that doesn't impact your assigned work." - that's the most probable answer.
1. "Retreat NOW, they try to surround us". 2. "Red markers on your HUD are the enemy positions. Blue are ours." 3. With current wind and angle, your grenade launcher will reach THIS point." 4."Friendly fireline comes through here. Stay cautious" 5. "A friendly soldier wants to walk past your fireline. Cease fire for 10 seconds" 6. "Red marks enemy positions behind the wall as seen from friendly camera" (think WallCheat in counterstrike) 7. "Nearest medic: 300m North ( --->that direction)" 8. Map with all positions marked. 9. "SOS, they are two steps away from my foxhole and my gun has jammed, but they don't see me yet!" 10. "The 2000 pound bomb will fall here: X"
Aww, that sight "+300" rising over enemy's corpse and score counter running up by 300, what could possibly encourage you to fight more effectively?!
...That's why I imagine these parts would be KISS and easily replaceable (possibly even automatically). I may put my cellular phone antenna into the wall socket and as long as it's not connected with the phone itself (or connected through a sophisticated and durable enough protection circuit), it's safe.
Besides, Radio is not the only means of transmission... What about ultrasounds, infrared, laser, and quite a lot of EMP-proof media? With p2p-style network, if your radio is broken, you can try to reach the first soldier with a working one easily.
Do you really believe, that if US military tested nuclear bomb radiation effects on their soldiers, they really care about soldiers being exposed to RF energy?
The fact that the army recruits nerds amongst others means nothing yet. For example, nerds make superb "live shields" to attract enemy fire, thus protecting more valuable soldiers...
You're not the only one who thought of that - the military experts did too. That's why the soldiers are still taught how to kill the enemy with a shovel, how to make fire without matches or any other equipment, and a lot of stuff none of them will ever need in a war, because they have some superior equipment. But ther MUST know how to handle the situation without that equipment and that doctrine of the army is not going to change anytime soon.
6. The HUD will display uphgrade commercials in the middle of the battle. 7. Targetting... Please insert WinMilitary installation CD into drive E: 8. The enemy may pay M$ to put evil stuff in the source. 9. The exploits will be fixed within 1 year since found. 10. It's not really you who controls the soldiers. It's Microsoft...
Linux:
6. If you get root, you may kill -9 the enemy. 7. The enemy must have access to your source code. 8. Poor entertainment software support. 9. Dictators won't agree to support FREE software. 10. Too steep learning curve for the brave american boiz.
I imagine the planes drop a few thousands of tiny "dummy emiters" over the whole area, so the enemy can't distinguish a soldier from a small harmless device. Besides that - beam antennas, screened equipment, etc... but I agree, locating electronic circuits may be the future and the bane of future military.
Hmm... When Einstein said the WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones... did he mean stealth assassin teams, who carry no metal nor electronics so they can't be tracked?
Nowadays EMP protection is not a big problem in military environment - the "faraday's cage" is simple and effective enough. (Put an electronic watch ON TOP of a working microwave oven. Nothing happens. Now put it inside.) so either the pulse would have to be VERY strong or the equipment would have to be "civil grade" (unprotected) or quite old (pre-EMP-threat). I guess such a helmet would be quite easy to protect. Maybe except the antenna.
...each platoon has a cracker or a few, who is able to jam the opponent's displays temporarily, hack into older models to confuse the enemy's friend-or-foe identification, protect his own people from such attacks, snoop on enemy data transfers, fry their heads or change the intelligent helmet into guided missile attractor beacon...
Future? Maybe not, but certainly a good idea for a computer game.
Theoretically - yes. But what if this is one of the the cheapest available, (means affordable for me), and I know it's the best available in this price class anyway? Anything better than them is 4 times more expensive and beyond my financial reach. (note I don't live in US...)
Oh, Joe User used to send 20 50K packets per second. Now he's sending 200 100b packets because firewall's HTB or other simple QoS won't let any more through. From 1M/s the bandwidth usage will drop to 20K/s. (why would anyone install the new high-level shaping filters, while leaving good old ones out?)
Sounds clever, unless the shaper recognises "single file" transfer unit (may do at this level) and considers only the outermost headers... Plus the losers at the other end may be pissed off that Y0UR MP3Z AR BR0K3N
Encryption/tunelling will help you as long as 2 conditions are satisfied: 1) The other end supports it. (HTTP? Kazaa?? Multiplayer games???) 2) The admin doesn't know/notice and doesn't downgrade all -your- encrypted transfers...
Yes, theoretically a HTTP-like (or even HTTP-based) P2P network app could be easily made and could easily beat the filter. But how many people would switch to the new network? Only a part of the affected by the filter, and not many will be affected. And even if you do - the filters by then would probably include downgrading big file transfers (something like HTB only on per-file basis, not per-host/per-connection) and would be able to detect "by special fingerprints" and distinguish a real webserver from a p2p host.
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...does that "expensive equipment" cost? I gues Al Quaida didn't need anything more sophisticated. And I wonder when this kind of software and hardware gets banned by the government because it may be used by terrorists?
I guess they won't touch average Joe Geek for file sharing, but if they see you are suspect, they may arrest you, just for this bogus reason that you shared your files and start some more serious investigation with you legally in jail.
In darkest times of communist terror in Poland, there was a common saying "Don't worry, they can find a paragraph for everyone". Seems this law is just one more of such paragraphs to "match everyone".
Bill wouldn't let anyone to share their files! Bill keeps his monopoly with a strong hand and no matter what, FBI, government, hackers, competition - nobody's allowed to share their files, at least using Bill's OS!
15 student teams will optimize a conventional Ford Explorer into a lower-emissions vehicle with at least 25% higher fuel economy without sacrificing the performance, utility, safety, and affordability consumers want.
Don't you think it's scary that highly paid, proffessional engineers who design and upgrade this car every year MAKE IT POSSIBLE to upgrade fuel efficiency by 25% without sacrificing affordability? How BROKEN is the design in the first place, if _students_ (which aren't even paid for that work) are able to make it at least 25% better? IMHO Ford should fire all his "designers" (basis: Sabotage-quality work) and employ these students in their place.
if I'm wrong, but I heard 24V is the "lethal treshold" voltage, i.e. anything above it can kill, below - not (YMMV of course). So if your car breaks and you get your limb stuck with some powered element, with some bad luck you will fry to death, where 12V was safe, at worst giving you rather painful electric shock and some burns.
if the propulsion will be "contained" (clean) or "open" (dirty). The fusion may take place in partially open reactor, so superheated particles of the radioactive fuel are ejected at high speed, giving really fast propulsion and leaving a wide radioactive trail in space, or the reactor may be "contained" (like normal reactors) and produce electricity or other forms of "clean" power for some other propulsion system, like a ion drive, that's quite harmless. Which one will it be?
Try google search for "tesa-rom", that's how it's called. The "ROM" part is a bit confusing, it's "WORM" (write once read many) memory. (which with 1 terabyte cheap removable media is not a big concern. Why would you ever want to delete anything, just save new versions and "damage" entries you want to have removed...)
Similar thing is being developed in the "holographic memory". You don't spin the laser, just a tiny mirror that can turn VERY fast and move up/down at "reasonable" speeds. The media is not a disc, but a drum though (actually: A roll of duch tape), it stores 1TB of data and doesn't move in the process. The mirror is located in the middle and focusing the laser makes it possible to read/write any point of the media volume, not just the surface.
Take an example that never went true because it became a bit too... dedicated? I mean adapting it to more common case would require more work than writing it from scratch, but my intention was quite clear, and only quality of the final code prevented me from releasing it as open source.
:)
My job: Sysadmin.
My task: Provide the departament with a consistent "opt-in" daily backup system everyone could use to back up their work.
What can I do? Well, my boss doesn't care how I do it, just should be done and should be done well. I see this options:
1. Look around and purchase a commercial system. Not really possible, limited budget and quite specific situation (need to be able to use it from DOS, WinNT, Linux, Solaris and possibly more OSes)
2. Get a free software solution. Again, not quite possible for reasons above, the network.
3. Write the app myself.
Okay, so I pick #3. I write it in my "spare work time" - that is when I'm not assigned some other job. It's still "my private code" but it's towards achieving my boss' goals so he won't protest. I own the final application. I may license it as GNU. And then I implement it. My "paid task" wasn't writing the code so I still own it. But creating it was along the lines of the company needs so they welcome me doing it gladly - after all they will get just what they need from me for free... (and they aren't a software business anyway
Other situation - development of some other big app. "Look, boss, this thing could be useful for us if it had this and this... I could code that but it's GNU and the code would have to be licensed as that. (oh well, it could become our company's closeware too, but boss doesn't need to know that, plus I can credit my company in that part of code to get them free worldwide advertisment) So, what do you think? Can I write that?" "Okay, as long as that doesn't impact your assigned work." - that's the most probable answer.
1. "Retreat NOW, they try to surround us".
2. "Red markers on your HUD are the enemy positions. Blue are ours."
3. With current wind and angle, your grenade launcher will reach THIS point."
4."Friendly fireline comes through here. Stay cautious"
5. "A friendly soldier wants to walk past your fireline. Cease fire for 10 seconds"
6. "Red marks enemy positions behind the wall as seen from friendly camera"
(think WallCheat in counterstrike)
7. "Nearest medic: 300m North ( --->that direction)"
8. Map with all positions marked.
9. "SOS, they are two steps away from my foxhole and my gun has jammed, but they don't see me yet!"
10. "The 2000 pound bomb will fall here: X"
Aww, that sight "+300" rising over enemy's corpse and score counter running up by 300, what could possibly encourage you to fight more effectively?!
I don't know how they manage to get the proper grounding on fighter planes, but they do...
...That's why I imagine these parts would be KISS and easily replaceable (possibly even automatically). I may put my cellular phone antenna into the wall socket and as long as it's not connected with the phone itself (or connected through a sophisticated and durable enough protection circuit), it's safe.
Besides, Radio is not the only means of transmission... What about ultrasounds, infrared, laser, and quite a lot of EMP-proof media? With p2p-style network, if your radio is broken, you can try to reach the first soldier with a working one easily.
Do you really believe, that if US military tested nuclear bomb radiation effects on their soldiers, they really care about soldiers being exposed to RF energy?
The fact that the army recruits nerds amongst others means nothing yet. For example, nerds make superb "live shields" to attract enemy fire, thus protecting more valuable soldiers...
You're not the only one who thought of that - the military experts did too.
That's why the soldiers are still taught how to kill the enemy with a shovel, how to make fire without matches or any other equipment, and a lot of stuff none of them will ever need in a war, because they have some superior equipment. But ther MUST know how to handle the situation without that equipment and that doctrine of the army is not going to change anytime soon.
Win:
6. The HUD will display uphgrade commercials in the middle of the battle.
7. Targetting... Please insert WinMilitary installation CD into drive E:
8. The enemy may pay M$ to put evil stuff in the source.
9. The exploits will be fixed within 1 year since found.
10. It's not really you who controls the soldiers. It's Microsoft...
Linux:
6. If you get root, you may kill -9 the enemy.
7. The enemy must have access to your source code.
8. Poor entertainment software support.
9. Dictators won't agree to support FREE software.
10. Too steep learning curve for the brave american boiz.
I imagine the planes drop a few thousands of tiny "dummy emiters" over the whole area, so the enemy can't distinguish a soldier from a small harmless device. Besides that - beam antennas, screened equipment, etc... but I agree, locating electronic circuits may be the future and the bane of future military.
Hmm... When Einstein said the WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones... did he mean stealth assassin teams, who carry no metal nor electronics so they can't be tracked?
Nowadays EMP protection is not a big problem in military environment - the "faraday's cage" is simple and effective enough. (Put an electronic watch ON TOP of a working microwave oven. Nothing happens. Now put it inside.) so either the pulse would have to be VERY strong or the equipment would have to be "civil grade" (unprotected) or quite old (pre-EMP-threat). I guess such a helmet would be quite easy to protect. Maybe except the antenna.
...each platoon has a cracker or a few, who is able to jam the opponent's displays temporarily, hack into older models to confuse the enemy's friend-or-foe identification, protect his own people from such attacks, snoop on enemy data transfers, fry their heads or change the intelligent helmet into guided missile attractor beacon...
Future? Maybe not, but certainly a good idea for a computer game.
Theoretically - yes. But what if this is one of the the cheapest available, (means affordable for me), and I know it's the best available in this price class anyway? Anything better than them is 4 times more expensive and beyond my financial reach. (note I don't live in US...)
Oh, Joe User used to send 20 50K packets per second. Now he's sending 200 100b packets because firewall's HTB or other simple QoS won't let any more through. From 1M/s the bandwidth usage will drop to 20K/s. (why would anyone install the new high-level shaping filters, while leaving good old ones out?)
and you'll see in the beginning of the gene:
...
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
Sounds clever, unless the shaper recognises "single file" transfer unit (may do at this level) and considers only the outermost headers...
Plus the losers at the other end may be pissed off that Y0UR MP3Z AR BR0K3N
Encryption/tunelling will help you as long as 2 conditions are satisfied:
1) The other end supports it. (HTTP? Kazaa?? Multiplayer games???)
2) The admin doesn't know/notice and doesn't downgrade all -your- encrypted transfers...
Yes, theoretically a HTTP-like (or even HTTP-based) P2P network app could be easily made and could easily beat the filter. But how many people would switch to the new network? Only a part of the affected by the filter, and not many will be affected. And even if you do - the filters by then would probably include downgrading big file transfers (something like HTB only on per-file basis, not per-host/per-connection) and would be able to detect "by special fingerprints" and distinguish a real webserver from a p2p host.