Case in point Nikon D2H pro camera has a 802.11b option. What is to prevent a legislated mandate to listen for a specific SSID which if detected immediately shuts down the camera.
BTW the 802.11b interface allows for uploading and remote control of the camera body
How do you think the 'Mod' chips work. they UPLOAD code to the PCM. All the systems are linked so as to enable the systems to interoperate ie climate control is tweaked down a notch when the engine is heavily loaded or in danger of overheating.
An Air gap is a good idea for critical networks whether they be located in a nuclear power station or your spiffy new car.
Because SWA knows that IT is a critical part of their business not an "expense" to be minimized. Anybody with the proper qualifications can build an airline. To run one efficiently one needs to be in control of all the variables. To do this one needs efficient and effective IT.
Although the application crashed that is not why Comair needed to cancel all their flights.
In aviation there is a concept of "Legality" which basically states that the FAA in cooperation with the ICAO www.icao.int has set the allowable hours a pilot or F/A can work in a day. Since this is a crew scheduling application the airline was no longer able to determine the flight status of their crews and by FAA regulations needed to stop flying until they could once again determine their crew(s) flight status.
The only plan B the FAA alows is flght cancellation unless the airline has an approved greaseboard process.
The int overflow was just the nail in Ben Franklin's famous poem
For want of a nail a shoe was lost for want of a shoe a horse was lost for want of a horse a rider was lost for want of a rider the battle was lost for want of a battle the kingdom was lost and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
(or long counter)
In a former life I was director of engineering for a company which sold/supported retail Point of Sales systems CC processing was a important part of these systems.
First we always used a payment gateway system these used dialup or 56k leased lines to the processor. I know that using the internet for transport is attractive because of low costs however since you have accepted the use of an "unreliable transport" for your CC authorization traffic to your merchant account you have essentially no recourse when the system goes down.
If on the other hand you use a processor provided link THEY are on the hook when the system goes belly up.
We used First Data http://www.firstdata.com
They had another name back then but that is unimportant. We used their payment gateway and interfacing to it was simple.
And if the system went down the transactions were still captured logged and if necessary the customer could voice authorize the transactions.
One of the original reasons for creating corporations was in exchange for allowing the corporate structure to have the the legal rights of a person was so that the corporation would provide employment just as a sole proprietorship or partnership would. In exchange the investors were allowed the opportunity to accrete wealth
In the late 80's the idea came about that the only purpose of a corporation was to 'Maximize shareholder value' as direct result we have seen the corporate scandal's and offshoring and the decimation of the manufacturing base.
Congress needs to remind corporations that they have responsibilities to society as well as their investors.
Directly answering the poster's point no-one has a right to a job but a corporate charter's intent is to create jobs AND wealth not one at the expense of the ofther
Because the Ground Proximity Warning System is telling you that you are about to execute a Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain. (i.e. crash) with all the bad publicity that creates.
As a one time Civil Serpent (tm) I can tell you that these people are attracted to control over others like Pooh to his Hunnypot.
'Security' is simply a tool they use to justify their attempts to gain power over others.
An example is police agencies to stay with your reference they refer to people as 'subjects' this word has great power and magic as they mean "subject to our power and authority". They could just as easily use "person or citizen". But that would not carry the connotation that the person must submit to their authority. You can see the seeds of tyranny being sown here.
In this day and age of people not reading as much as they used to the average person forgets that words have very specific meanings and our Civil Serpents (tm) KNOW exactly what they mean and what the implications of that meaning.
This is what the founders spoke of when they discuss the letter and spirit of the law. Our Civil Serpents(tm) use the letter of the law to distort the spirit of the law to everyone's detriment.
Make no distinctions here this quest for power is a bipartisan quest. The republicrats and the demopubs are equal opportunity seekers here.
They do work well on REAR wheel drive cars. On front wheel drive cars i.e. the infamous 'Type R' all they do is reduce the amount of traction applied by the front wheels as the downforce provided by the spoiler is LIFTING the front wheels. They would work well mounted in front though...
The manufacturer included a 'license' in the box (which was not visble from the outside) which basically said you could not give the jig away (makes gift giving a trifle inconvenient) you could not sell or distribute stuff produced with the jig and any new applications for the jig belonged to the vendor. Cant remember the vendor
The serial number can be encoded using steganographic techniques you will never 'see' the encoded string unless you have the magic Homeland Security decoder ring.
On a more prosaic level DIGIMARC allows photoshop users to embed a unique ID number within your image and if someone opens up your image with a DIGIMARC enabled tool alarm bells go off.
Anyone know where we can get some Diablo 630's or Okidata Microline 83/93's (printers too stupid to encode images)
If you remember the first Airbus A series at the Paris Airshow crashed because the computer overrode the pilot's control inputs.
There is some debate over whether the A/C was correctly configured for takeoff but still the computer needs to allow manual override for conditions the software designer did not take into account. To this day I will not fly on Airbus equipment for this very reason if a software designer is so arrogant as to think there is no condition they have not accounted for I agree with the parent poster and I dont want any part of their A/C or nuclear reactor.
Just use ($YOUR_AREA_CODE)-555-($SEQUENCE_OF_FOUR_DIGITS) most of the drones asking for this data are not smart enough to realize that 555 is equivalent to.example.com which is defined in the RFC's for testing.
For better or worse TV is the primary information channel for most of the population and digital modulation schemes are simply not appropriate in many rural areas. Don't watch much TV anymore but I can receive the analog broadcasts from the nearest major market ~100 miles away with reasonable quality.
I do have a digital tuner and the digital broadcasts don't make the trip. I can pick up 1 station in a 30 mile radius I do have a Satellite for the family - ie h*ll will freeze over before I give Comcast a single dime but Digital is a great idea for the metro NY/LA markets but it just doesnt cut it for the rest of the country.
BTW the reason NTSC uses its odd phase modulation scheme for color was to ensure backwards compatibility with the existing B&W sets.
This scheme is just a moneygrab by the Gov't because even Big Media doesn't want Digital because there is nothing in it for them either. ie spend millions of dollars to reequip the TV studio to broadcast the same stuff to fewer advertising viewers.
You can _still_ be a shade tree mechanic. Like everything these days it will just cost more. With the new diagnostics systems built into the engines and the appropriate interface you can get data on the car that used to take a dealers gararge full of equipment to look at.
However fixing your car with $100 of tools is long gone
The big boxes do their ad blitz so joe sixpack who is susceptible to adverts thinks only Electronics == Big Box
The level of advertising these days borders on brainwashing in my opinion.
The funny thing is the small box stores are often cheaper
there was a book published in the 60's called "The Great Discount Delusion" which fortold the rise of what we are seeing now and it also noted the negative impact on employment the big boxes would cause
I look at where an item is manufactured and if it says China or one of the other slave labor economies I put it back on the shelf.
However the Big Box stores make it difficult for the average consumer because they only stock items from the slave labor economies.
Most people when they think 'electronics' they think BB or CC or wally world They don't think about going down to the local stereo shop and finding something that meets their needs AND is manufactured in a place which pays a living wage.
Among other things I tinker with cars there are many sources of tools however I make sure I buy the tools made in living wage countries. i.e. USA, EU, Oz, Japan & Taiwan I have omitted the rest in the interests of brevity.
GPS receivers calculate the answer to the 3 body problem in calculus based on differential time between the various atomic clocks on the satellites and your receiver.
Basically the NavStar satellites are flying atomic clocks which transmit time and their orbit using the C/A code on the L1 band for the SPS (Standard Positioning Service). The SPS is subject to intentional degradation or shutdown based on national security requirements. Hence the interest in the Galileo and GLONASS by the EU and the Russian Federation respectively.
There is a PPS or Precise Positioning Service which is transmitted on the L2 band and that is accurate to 3" but is only available to Govt and Military users with the appropriate decryption key of the day.
The reason your GPS has a barometric alitmeter is so that you can get accurate elevation readings irrespective of the status of selective availability and GDOP 'geometric distortion of precision'
The GPS data is already degraded to 100M RMS using 'Selective Availability'. SA was disabled during the Clinton Administration so that aviation users could wean themselves off LORAN-C.
The increased accuracy was provided by WAAS which sends it's position which is then used by the GPS receiver to 'correct' its position readings.
For a long time the altitude reading on my GPS units would remain constant but now it jinks around like a weasel on a SAM hunt. Note my GPS units do not have a WAAS receiver so I am dependent on satellite derived data only
We will be lucky if we can get 384k DSL! to most homes by 2010.
Remember the ILEC's took rate increase after rate increase to 'deploy broadband services like ISDN' Still can't get ISDN in most locations (useful for T1 backup) The money went towards divdends for shareholders and buying wireless companies.
Bring back the regulated monopoly i.e. you get to make 5-9% profit but you must deliver services to all comers _not_ just the most profitable markets.
Italy has fiber to the home! Here in the US if you have a major facility (1000+ People) you might be able to get the ILEC to install a fiber.
At our University we have a group whose job it is to create audio and video of each lecture which is then made available to the students enrolled in the class via a streaming server.
Duke is simply distrbuting the load onto portable storage units here. This strategy makes perfect sense to me. removes a lot of network and server based bottlenecks especially at exam time and allows the student to review the information anywhere they do not need a high speed connection to get decent playback quality.
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Ah, hoisted on my petard!
I meant the concept of an air gap where no direct communication is possible between two networks one secure one not
Case in point Nikon D2H pro camera has a 802.11b option. What is to prevent a legislated mandate to listen for a specific SSID which if detected immediately shuts down the camera.
BTW the 802.11b interface allows for uploading and remote control of the camera body
How do you think the 'Mod' chips work. they UPLOAD code to the PCM. All the systems are linked so as to enable the systems to interoperate ie climate control is tweaked down a notch when the engine is heavily loaded or in danger of overheating.
An Air gap is a good idea for critical networks whether they be located in a nuclear power station or your spiffy new car.
Because SWA knows that IT is a critical part of their business not an "expense" to be minimized. Anybody with the proper qualifications can build an airline. To run one efficiently one needs to be in control of all the variables. To do this one needs efficient and effective IT.
Although the application crashed that is not why Comair needed to cancel all their flights.
In aviation there is a concept of "Legality" which basically states that the FAA in cooperation with the ICAO www.icao.int has set the allowable hours a pilot or F/A can work in a day. Since this is a crew scheduling application the airline was no longer able to determine the flight status of their crews and by FAA regulations needed to stop flying until they could once again determine their crew(s) flight status.
The only plan B the FAA alows is flght cancellation unless the airline has an approved greaseboard process.
The int overflow was just the nail in Ben Franklin's
famous poem
For want of a nail a shoe was lost
for want of a shoe a horse was lost
for want of a horse a rider was lost
for want of a rider the battle was lost
for want of a battle the kingdom was lost
and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
(or long counter)
In a former life I was director of engineering for a company which sold/supported retail Point of Sales systems CC processing was a important part of these systems.
First we always used a payment gateway system these used dialup or 56k leased lines to the processor. I know that using the internet for transport is attractive because of low costs however since you have accepted the use of an "unreliable transport" for your CC authorization traffic to your merchant account you have essentially no recourse when the system goes down.
If on the other hand you use a processor provided link THEY are on the hook when the system goes belly up.
We used First Data http://www.firstdata.com
They had another name back then but that is unimportant. We used their payment gateway and interfacing to it was simple.
And if the system went down the transactions were still captured logged and if necessary the customer could voice authorize the transactions.
One of the original reasons for creating corporations was in exchange for allowing the corporate structure to have the the legal rights of a person was so that the corporation would provide employment just as a sole proprietorship or partnership would. In exchange the investors were allowed the opportunity to accrete wealth
In the late 80's the idea came about that the only purpose of a corporation was to 'Maximize shareholder value' as direct result we have seen the corporate scandal's and offshoring and the decimation of the manufacturing base.
Congress needs to remind corporations that they have responsibilities to society as well as their investors.
Directly answering the poster's point no-one has a right to a job but a corporate charter's intent is to create jobs AND wealth not one at the expense of the ofther
Because the Ground Proximity Warning System is telling you that you are about to execute a Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain. (i.e. crash) with all the bad publicity that creates.
As a one time Civil Serpent (tm) I can tell you that these people are attracted to control over others like Pooh to his Hunnypot.
'Security' is simply a tool they use to justify their attempts to gain power over others.
An example is police agencies to stay with your reference they refer to people as 'subjects' this word has great power and magic as they mean "subject to our power and authority". They could just as easily use "person or citizen". But that would not carry the connotation that the person must submit to their authority. You can see the seeds of tyranny being sown here.
In this day and age of people not reading as much as they used to the average person forgets that words have very specific meanings and our Civil Serpents (tm) KNOW exactly what they mean and what the implications of that meaning.
This is what the founders spoke of when they discuss the letter and spirit of the law. Our Civil Serpents(tm) use the letter of the law to distort the spirit of the law to everyone's detriment.
Make no distinctions here this quest for power is a bipartisan quest. The republicrats and the demopubs are equal opportunity seekers here.
This is a truly classic toy been around for 100+ years and now has all sorts of electronic controls.
Plus well made enough so that this year's set will be around for your grandchildren
They do work well on REAR wheel drive cars. On front wheel drive cars i.e. the infamous 'Type R' all they do is reduce the amount of traction applied by the front wheels as the downforce provided by the spoiler is LIFTING the front wheels. They would work well mounted in front though...
Already happened with a woodworking jig.
The manufacturer included a 'license' in the box (which was not visble from the outside) which basically said you could not give the jig away (makes gift giving a trifle inconvenient) you could not sell or distribute stuff produced with the jig and any new applications for the jig belonged to the vendor. Cant remember the vendor
The serial number can be encoded using steganographic techniques you will never 'see' the encoded string unless you have the magic Homeland Security decoder ring.
On a more prosaic level DIGIMARC allows photoshop users to embed a unique ID number within your image and if someone opens up your image with a DIGIMARC enabled tool alarm bells go off.
Anyone know where we can get some Diablo 630's or Okidata Microline 83/93's (printers too stupid to encode images)
If you remember the first Airbus A series at the Paris Airshow crashed because the computer overrode the pilot's control inputs.
There is some debate over whether the A/C was correctly configured for takeoff but still the computer needs to allow manual override for conditions the software designer did not take into account. To this day I will not fly on Airbus equipment for this very reason if a software designer is so arrogant as to think there is no condition they have not accounted for I agree with the parent poster and I dont want any part of their A/C or nuclear reactor.
Just use ($YOUR_AREA_CODE)-555-($SEQUENCE_OF_FOUR_DIGITS) most of the drones asking for this data are not smart enough to realize that 555 is equivalent to .example.com which is defined in the RFC's for testing.
If their software chokes on 555 use 222 instead
For better or worse TV is the primary information channel for most of the population and digital modulation schemes are simply not appropriate in many rural areas. Don't watch much TV anymore but I can receive the analog broadcasts from the nearest major market ~100 miles away with reasonable quality.
I do have a digital tuner and the digital broadcasts don't make the trip. I can pick up 1 station in a 30 mile radius
I do have a Satellite for the family - ie h*ll will freeze over before I give Comcast a single dime but Digital is a great idea for the metro NY/LA markets but it just doesnt cut it for the rest of the country.
BTW the reason NTSC uses its odd phase modulation scheme for color was to ensure backwards compatibility with the existing B&W sets.
This scheme is just a moneygrab by the Gov't because even Big Media doesn't want Digital because there is nothing in it for them either. ie spend millions of dollars to reequip the TV studio to broadcast the same stuff to fewer advertising viewers.
Sounds like a great deal to me Sign us up!
PS - Sorry for the blank posts not enough coffee
You can _still_ be a shade tree mechanic. Like everything these days it will just cost more. With the new diagnostics systems built into the engines and the appropriate interface you can get data on the car that used to take a dealers gararge full of equipment to look at.
However fixing your car with $100 of tools is long gone
I agree with a caveat
The big boxes do their ad blitz so joe sixpack who is susceptible to adverts thinks only Electronics == Big Box
The level of advertising these days borders on brainwashing in my opinion.
The funny thing is the small box stores are often cheaper
there was a book published in the 60's called "The Great Discount Delusion" which fortold the rise of what we are seeing now and it also noted the negative impact on employment the big boxes would cause
They do and they don't
I look at where an item is manufactured and if it says China or one of the other slave labor economies I put it back on the shelf.
However the Big Box stores make it difficult for the average consumer because they only stock items from the slave labor economies.
Most people when they think 'electronics' they think BB or CC or wally world They don't think about going down to the local stereo shop and finding something that meets their needs AND is manufactured in a place which pays a living wage.
Among other things I tinker with cars there are many sources of tools however I make sure I buy the tools made in living wage countries. i.e. USA, EU, Oz, Japan & Taiwan I have omitted the rest in the interests of brevity.
GPS receivers calculate the answer to the 3 body problem in calculus based on differential time between the various atomic clocks on the satellites and your receiver.
Basically the NavStar satellites are flying atomic clocks which transmit time and their orbit using the C/A code on the L1 band for the SPS (Standard Positioning Service).
The SPS is subject to intentional degradation or shutdown based on national security requirements. Hence the interest in the Galileo and GLONASS by the EU and the Russian Federation respectively.
There is a PPS or Precise Positioning Service which is transmitted on the L2 band and that is accurate to 3" but is only available to Govt and Military users with the appropriate decryption key of the day.
The reason your GPS has a barometric alitmeter is so that you can get accurate elevation readings irrespective of the status of selective availability and GDOP 'geometric distortion of precision'
The GPS data is already degraded to 100M RMS using 'Selective Availability'. SA was disabled during the Clinton Administration so that aviation users could wean themselves off LORAN-C.
The increased accuracy was provided by WAAS which sends it's position which is then used by the GPS receiver to 'correct' its position readings.
For a long time the altitude reading on my GPS units would remain constant but now it jinks around like a weasel on a SAM hunt. Note my GPS units do not have a WAAS receiver so I am dependent on satellite derived data only
We will be lucky if we can get 384k DSL! to most homes by 2010.
Remember the ILEC's took rate increase after rate increase to 'deploy broadband services like ISDN' Still can't get ISDN in most locations (useful for T1 backup) The money went towards divdends for shareholders and buying wireless companies.
Bring back the regulated monopoly i.e. you get to make 5-9% profit but you must deliver services to all comers _not_ just the most profitable markets.
Italy has fiber to the home! Here in the US if you have a major facility (1000+ People) you might be able to get the ILEC to install a fiber.
Just think in your car there is a 12 volt DC motor submerged in gasoline with air and fuel vapor filling the void space in the tannk.
This is an even nastier mix than LOX in an AL tank
and we all drive around with it every day.
At least on apollo only the oxidizer was in the tank...
The ad's will be intrusive and probably interfere with game play otherwise how will the advertiser ensure that an "impression" has been made.
For an example an early VHS version of "Top Gun" contained an ad for Pepsi before the movie began
At our University we have a group whose job it is to create audio and video of each lecture which is then made available to the students enrolled in the class via a streaming server.
Duke is simply distrbuting the load onto portable storage units here. This strategy makes perfect sense to me. removes a lot of network and server based bottlenecks especially at exam time and allows the student to review the information anywhere they do not need a high speed connection to get decent playback quality.