For everyone who thinks people with guns want to play GI Joe. two points
First an armed society is a _polite_ society second in the land of milk chocolate and the gnomes of Zurich everyone has a FULLY AUTOMATIC RIFLE in their hall closet. not the toys the pols call "assault weapons" here in the USA.
The Swiss have real assault weapons and somehow we do not hear about "gun violence" tearing apart the fabric of their society. This might reflect the fact that if you shoot at someone they can shoot back with a military grade weapon. Increases the risk for the criminally inclined of winding up dead this seems to be a deterrent
For reasons like this PC game installs are verboten at my house on any machine but the designated game box.
Windows is simply too crufty by far to risk destabilizing a machine which you need simply by installing a game.
You would think that the corporate titans would realize the only purpose of a corporation is to provide goods and services which people may or may not choose to consume.
Right now the current crop of MBA's thinks their customer is Wall Street and the 'customers/consumers' will blindly purchase anything they choose to provide.
i.e. Britney, Spiderman Alien vs Whatever, Any recent Disney production.
In the US we have an even more braindead system. It uses a trunked system with encryption on the voice/data channel encryption is hardcoded at the factoty (hence no field update) and the trunked system tends to have limited compatibity with transceiver sets. Ie once they stop making the ones which work with your system you get to buy a whole new system (or find used radios which works in the private sector but the public sector does not understand the concept
Apparently I did not express myself clearly enough. The repeater technology was the seminal idea behind the cellular system. It had it's limitations but unlike the old radiophone system the repeater used compact transmitters and antennas which could be located anywhere. Also the block of repeater freq's is fairly small so the freq's are reused over and over again similar to the AMPS and CDMA systems.
The handoff from cell site to cell site and the integration with the POTS network are what made the revolution possible. BUT without the repeater I do not think the AMPS system would have happened.
You are correct in that govt's really want to hang onto the old models especially since using a new model would require "GASP" learning.
However for emergency communications you cannot beat a FM repeater system. All you need to know is the frequency and the offset. In NYC in 9/11 the only emergency comms which were up belonged to the hams all the other 'closed source' radio systems could not and still cannot communicate with each other.
Ham Radio is open souce and open standards in the communications field.
The new 'closed source' radios do both digital and repeater tech and are likely to croak when they are needed the most because they rely on their mothership for channel assignment and encryption.
no mothership no comms but the control freaks like the mothership concept because they are IN COMMAND govt contractors like them because they need constant and expensive upgrades.
My state just tossed the delta band radios which they had for 30+ years for a system which will be lucky to get 5 years out of and it does not cover the mountains adequately because of the vagarities of digital transmission. The old FM radios got a little noisy but they were usable. with the 'closed source' radios NOISE == No Comms.
As a ham many areas of spectrum are underutilized because the technology does not exist to successfully exploit them. For example the repeater which takes a radio signal coming on one frequency and retransmits it on another is the basis for the entire cell phone industry.
At the time the commercial interests wanted that spectrum for expansion of paging.
What financially driven interests forget frequently is that basic non-directed research is a good thing which yields benefits down the road and often entire new industries.
Like the RFID crowd wants to put high power RFID tags on the 70cm band. This interferes with both Hams, Wind profiling radar and satellite communications. The difference is someone can make a quick buck.
Also these RFID tags can be read at a distance of several miles with the right equipment. So much for RFID being a 'short range' technology
Progressive DOES specialize in high risk drivers and they always have. 15 years ago the mantra was 'can't get insurance go see progressive' Progressive also uses your Fair Issac credit score on the assumption that poor credit==bad driver.
Once long ago I worked for the dark side so I am one of the few people on the planet who when they get their policy knows what it says!
The airbag has its own black box which records data. speed, throttle position, brake applied/not, wheel speed which both law enforcement and the insurance industry can query in the event of an accident. You can too if you pony up the 2k the reader costs.
The memory is volatile and is cleared every 15 seconds or so until the airbag fires at which point the memory can no longer be written to. Sort of like a ROM with a security fuse.
So hacking the OBD II stream (which is easy) will not do you much good in the event of an accident.
The governor of Maine found this out the hard way when his State Police driver flipped the Suburban he was driving and a subsequent readback of the black box showed he was 10-15 miles over the limit.
Remember the 'Patriot' act was recently used to tap the comms of and then used to authorize a ARMED raid against some kid who ran a SG-1 fan website. Cant recall the kid's name at the moment early onset of Alzheimers I guess.
Somehow this does not seem like terrorism to me... Which is the trouble with laws like the patriot act they WILL be abused by people who are only interested in power
These types of applications call for the bare-metal application of ADA which will allow you to mathematically prove every input will result in one and only one output.
That's why its used for "fly-by-wire" aircraft where it's kind of important when you push the stick down the houses get big and when you pull the stick back the houses get small again.
Medical devices are at least as important and I would not trust any embedded O/S whatsoever in these types of applications. other posters have mentioned the THERAC system which was not validated and had fatal outputs for some sane inputs.
bondage and discipline languages DO have their uses!
you can bet the username will be 'username' and the password will be 'password' so all the encryption in the world won't help here and the credentials will probably be stored. Cthulu help us all when one of these are lost/stolen.
As an aside Logan in pre 9/11 days used to have the toilets on the other side of the security doors and the door's took 45 seconds to cycle so people 'piggybacked' on door cycles.
Just another example of you need to DESIGN security in not add it later.
This is of course primarily a sales tool but it is an unsual one because in many eco-friendly localities it costs between $25-$100 to dispose of a machine (buy sticker to attach to discarded box/monitor).
Personally I have been wiping the drives and sending the boxes to goodwill since none of the schools want anything less than a 2Ghz box with WinXP and Office XP at least at goodwill the boxes have a chance of finding a good home.
However for many people and companies the recycling programs are the only cost effective way for people to safely get old systems off the premises without incurring fines.
I also know of several businesses which buy the computers returned to HP/Dell and part them out and sell the spares to service companies worldwide.
This is of course an opportunity for O/S advocates to buy these machines and put them back into service or alternatively create a program like the Lions Club has done with eyeglasses to give people an alternative recycler.
Cisco IOS has had this feature for a long time. You simply enter the desired IP and the router basically does a 'tee' command on any traffic to the listed IP and sends the stream in realtime to a logging server.
This is the 'CALEA' feature set which was first implemented I believe in the uBR series routers (Cable modem headend)
Any of the Nikonos series - these are Nikon cameras designed for underwater use. In an emergency you can drive nails with them. Older ones can be had on ebay for cheap money.
The newer automatic ones can be rented from most large camera rental houses if you do not want to buy them
Minolta makes a great underwater point and shoot camera the Vectis Weathermatic. Uses APS film and is bright yellow and rubber armored it's about $250 US
Underwater housings are great BUT they need to be inspected the gaskets can have NO dirt in them and if you drop one it's all over. They are designed for use underwater and to be opened and closed in controlled condition.
Where even in paid mode the ad server remains installed although supposedly disabled but when Ad-aware removes it by time the next Ad-Aware run it's back.
What no one had a high speed tape reader on their PDP 8/I which could read their tapes at a blistering 300 characters per second in addition to the DECTAPE which flapped so wonderfully when you unloaded them.
Also had a ASR-35 which was the size of a sofa and always smelled of hot oil
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Get out the TROLL mod points
For everyone who thinks people with guns want to play GI Joe. two points
First an armed society is a _polite_ society
second in the land of milk chocolate and the gnomes of Zurich everyone has a FULLY AUTOMATIC RIFLE in their hall closet. not the toys the pols call "assault weapons" here in the USA.
The Swiss have real assault weapons and somehow we do not hear about "gun violence" tearing apart the fabric of their society. This might reflect the fact that if you shoot at someone they can shoot back with a military grade weapon. Increases the risk for the criminally inclined of winding up dead this seems to be a deterrent
For reasons like this PC game installs are verboten at my house on any machine but the designated game box.
Windows is simply too crufty by far to risk destabilizing a machine which you need simply by installing a game.
You would think that the corporate titans would realize the only purpose of a corporation is to provide goods and services which people may or may not choose to consume.
Right now the current crop of MBA's thinks their customer is Wall Street and the 'customers/consumers' will blindly purchase anything they choose to provide.
i.e. Britney, Spiderman Alien vs Whatever, Any recent Disney production.
These people need a reality check
In the US we have an even more braindead system. It uses a trunked system with encryption on the voice/data channel
encryption is hardcoded at the factoty (hence no field update) and the trunked system tends to have limited compatibity with transceiver sets. Ie once they stop making the ones which work with your system you get to buy a whole new system (or find used radios which works in the private sector but the public sector does not understand the concept
Apparently I did not express myself clearly enough. The repeater technology was the seminal idea behind the cellular system. It had it's limitations but unlike the old radiophone system the repeater used compact transmitters and antennas which could be located anywhere. Also the block of repeater freq's is fairly small so the freq's are reused over and over again similar to the AMPS and CDMA systems.
The handoff from cell site to cell site and the integration with the POTS network are what made the revolution possible. BUT without the repeater I do not think the AMPS system would have happened.
You are correct in that govt's really want to hang onto the old models especially since using a new model would require "GASP" learning.
However for emergency communications you cannot beat a FM repeater system. All you need to know is the frequency and the offset. In NYC in 9/11 the only emergency comms which were up belonged to the hams all the other 'closed source' radio systems could not and still cannot communicate with each other.
Ham Radio is open souce and open standards in the communications field.
The new 'closed source' radios do both digital and repeater tech and are likely to croak when they are needed the most because they rely on their mothership for channel assignment and encryption.
no mothership no comms but the control freaks like the mothership concept because they are IN COMMAND govt contractors like them because they need constant and expensive upgrades.
My state just tossed the delta band radios which they had for 30+ years for a system which will be lucky to get 5 years out of and it does not cover the mountains adequately because of the vagarities of digital transmission. The old FM radios got a little noisy but they were usable. with the 'closed source' radios NOISE == No Comms.
Call the hams!!!
As a ham many areas of spectrum are underutilized because the technology does not exist to successfully exploit them. For example the repeater which takes a radio signal coming on one frequency and retransmits it on another is the basis for the entire cell phone industry.
At the time the commercial interests wanted that spectrum for expansion of paging.
What financially driven interests forget frequently is that basic non-directed research is a good thing which yields benefits down the road and often entire new industries.
Like the RFID crowd wants to put high power RFID tags on the 70cm band. This interferes with both Hams, Wind profiling radar and satellite communications. The difference is someone can make a quick buck.
Also these RFID tags can be read at a distance of several miles with the right equipment. So much for RFID being a 'short range' technology
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OBD II on modern cars DOES collect that data since all those devices are controlled via electronics
Progressive DOES specialize in high risk drivers and they always have. 15 years ago the mantra was 'can't get insurance go see progressive' Progressive also uses your Fair Issac credit score on the assumption that poor credit==bad driver.
Once long ago I worked for the dark side so I am one of the few people on the planet who when they get their policy knows what it says!
The airbag has its own black box which records data. speed, throttle position, brake applied/not, wheel speed which both law enforcement and the insurance industry can query in the event of an accident. You can too if you pony up the 2k the reader costs.
The memory is volatile and is cleared every 15 seconds or so until the airbag fires at which point the memory can no longer be written to. Sort of like a ROM with a security fuse.
So hacking the OBD II stream (which is easy) will not do you much good in the event of an accident.
The governor of Maine found this out the hard way when his State Police driver flipped the Suburban he was driving and a subsequent readback of the black box showed he was 10-15 miles over the limit.
Remember the 'Patriot' act was recently used to tap the comms of and then used to authorize a ARMED raid against some kid who ran a SG-1 fan website. Cant recall the kid's name at the moment early onset of Alzheimers I guess.
Somehow this does not seem like terrorism to me... Which is the trouble with laws like the patriot act they WILL be abused by people who are only interested in power
These types of applications call for the bare-metal application of ADA which will allow you to mathematically prove every input will result in one and only one output.
That's why its used for "fly-by-wire" aircraft where it's kind of important when you push the stick down the houses get big and when you pull the stick back the houses get small again.
Medical devices are at least as important and I would not trust any embedded O/S whatsoever in these types of applications. other posters have mentioned the THERAC system which was not validated and had fatal outputs for some sane inputs.
bondage and discipline languages DO have their uses!
Wonderful,
The legendary mechanical reliability of a FIAT (Ex owner of 124 Spyder) with the legendary software reliability of M$ products.
This will make the USS Yorktown look like a Five nines operation.
What I want to know is where it will leak oil from
me.me,me!
The ORIGINAL intent of the 2'nd amendment was so the citzens would have arms to take up against the govt if it became tyrannical.
i.e. the last box
This was based on the disarming of the British yeomen and the highland clearances.
If you are in Boston the restrictions are already there. the MBTA will now search all bags/parcels as a condtion of boarding public transit.
This was in the MBTA's OWN publication the "Metro" the other day!!!!!!
How do you know the g'ummint has not implemented a LIA program.
Remember you can get 10 in Gitmo if you disclose that the g'ummint has quried the reading habits of your patrons.
With such idiocies.
you can bet the username will be 'username' and the password will be 'password' so all the encryption in the world won't help here and the credentials will probably be stored. Cthulu help us all when one of these are lost/stolen.
As an aside Logan in pre 9/11 days used to have the toilets on the other side of the security doors and the door's took 45 seconds to cycle so people 'piggybacked' on door cycles.
Just another example of you need to DESIGN security in not add it later.
You forgot one
Rule 98
"Every man has his price"
This is of course primarily a sales tool but it is an unsual one because in many eco-friendly localities it costs between $25-$100 to dispose of a machine (buy sticker to attach to discarded box/monitor).
Personally I have been wiping the drives and sending the boxes to goodwill since none of the schools want anything less than a 2Ghz box with WinXP and Office XP at least at goodwill the boxes have a chance of finding a good home.
However for many people and companies the recycling programs are the only cost effective way for people to safely get old systems off the premises without incurring fines.
I also know of several businesses which buy the computers returned to HP/Dell and part them out and sell the spares to service companies worldwide.
This is of course an opportunity for O/S advocates to buy these machines and put them back into service or alternatively create a program like the Lions Club has done with eyeglasses to give people an alternative recycler.
Cisco IOS has had this feature for a long time. You simply enter the desired IP and the router basically does a 'tee' command on any traffic to the listed IP and sends the stream in realtime to a logging server.
This is the 'CALEA' feature set which was first implemented I believe in the uBR series routers (Cable modem headend)
True a _Microphone_ can only pick up signals in the low KHz range but there are other acoustic transducers other than the bog standard mike.
Remember acoustic energy is also called vibration and objects can vibrate in to the low Mhz ranges.
Speaking as a Ham,
Sending music over the ham bands using ANY encoding is illegal it was banned back in 1934 as part of the Communications Act.
Even singing "Happy Birthday" can win you a "Notice of Apparent Violation" from your friendly local fed.
Q. Where am I
A. The Village
I am Number 2, You are Number 6
I am not a not a Number I am a Free Man
And don't forget who is Number 1
You did not mention cost
Most rugged camera for wet conditions
Any of the Nikonos series - these are Nikon cameras designed for underwater use. In an emergency you can drive nails with them. Older ones can be had on ebay for cheap money.
The newer automatic ones can be rented from most large camera rental houses if you do not want to buy them
Minolta makes a great underwater point and shoot camera the Vectis Weathermatic. Uses APS film and is bright yellow and rubber armored it's about $250 US
Underwater housings are great BUT they need to be inspected the gaskets can have NO dirt in them and if you drop one it's all over. They are designed for use underwater and to be opened and closed in controlled condition.
Like Eudora
Where even in paid mode the ad server remains installed although supposedly disabled but when Ad-aware removes it by time the next Ad-Aware run it's back.
Oh, and dont forget Hammurabi where you were king of an ancient realm in the fertile crescent and you would allocate resources.
Kind of like the SIMS but the UI was oily yellow paper.
What no one had a high speed tape reader on their PDP 8/I
which could read their tapes at a blistering 300 characters per second in addition to the DECTAPE which flapped so wonderfully when you unloaded them.
Also had a ASR-35 which was the size of a sofa and always smelled of hot oil
Ahh the memories when computers were fun...