All we need now are some Pierson's puppeteers to come sell us some No. 2 General Products Hull's to build the minesweepers out of. But a No. 1 would probably be ok for small scale use.
Now remember do not expose them to antimatter...
We could probably get the thrintun to _motivate_ the labor force.
Ahh. reminders of my wasted youth
Once again we are confronted with the hype for a new all singing all dancing wireless broadband standard which operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The data rates are theoretically possible with no interference from Microwave Ovens, cordless phones 802.11x.
With commercially available equipment from Cisco you can already build a reliable 25Km link which requires that the antennas be mounted at the 150' level due to the curvature of the earth.
So the advertised range figures are possible but only in environments such as the Serengeti with the transmitters mounted on 500' towers. In this environment this could bring true internet backbones to the third world. Remeber up to 1996 or so the transcontinental links were only DS3 (44Mb/Sec)
Since when have the marketdroids ever allowed someting like the laws of physics to interfere with their hype since they will try and tell you a single tower located in a valley will serve all the communities around it which happen to be on the other side of the range of hills surrounding the valley with the predictable results (Sigh...)
This cert is a foot in the door. As another poster pointed out it is about certifying that you can perform BASIC networking tasks without assistance. The CCNP and CCIE certs are about being able to design and debug medium to _very_ large networks. None of these certs will get you a job by themselves howver if I have two people competing for a job with equal experience and only one has a cisco cert all other factors being equal I am going to give the nod to the person with the cert. One reason for that is the person with the cert took the time to _prove_ what they know.
Without violating the Cisco NDA _all_ of the current exams make you configure either real or simulated equipment so with these certs your prospective employer has some assurance that you really can do the job at hand.
Casual counterfeiting boggles the mind. BUT what happens when you are in the business of selling currency. Think Christie's auction house with the new anti-counterfeiting codes how are you supposed to prepare auction catalog's et.al. Museum documentation of currency say a special issue. People need to remember that Counterfeiting is a CRIME but that still does not justify breaking pre-press tools for the rest of us. I am inclined to give copier vendors a pass on not printing currency or marking it "COPY" since copying currency would seem to have few if any legitimate uses but prepress tools have many legitimate uses for images of currency. i.e. bank annual reports, bank training manuals I could go on and on
Then you probably do not want to fly on a Boeing 757,767 or 777 or any Airbus A-xxx product since they are all fly by wire. i.e. a computer translates pilot inputs into control surface movements. 747's are Ok since they have hydraulic controls.
But Honda has this feature on their drive by wire cars and with the Honda the wheels swivel sideways and the car zips right in. Unfortunately not available for sale in the US yet.
These shoes are expensive and TSA friendly. They have really thin soles which contain no metal and since the soles are so thin there is no place to hide stuff which makes the TSA people happy. They are very comfortable and since they are designed for sailing if they get wet it's no big deal. These are my airport shoes and since they are designed for use while wet slipping and falling on spilled liquids is not a problem.
They also have the preppy chic look and look really good with khakis and an oxford shirt (cotton of course) so when not travelling in a suit you can still dress up!.
This is probably an extension of the digital watermarking feature of Photoshop
Photoshop since version 5 has incorporated digimarc watermarking. And if a watermark is found within the current image photoshop brings up a dialog informing you of the fact.
Practical steganograpy at its best. And no a scan will not save you since the watermark is encoded within the structure of the image.
I am a photgrapher and control of my images is somewhat important to me. If BigCorp buys an image for use in their annual report I really do not want them using it in their national ad blitz without proper compensation to me. The watermark allows me to encode the appropriate uses for the image and allows me to prove authorship without overly restrictive DRM (see DigitalOwl et. al.)
In medeval england Coffee was banned due to the "Ladies Petition" to ban the use of the "Drying and enfeebling beverage" Coffee. Fortunately for us geeks this did not last very long.
In other news Lloyd's of London was formed at a coffee house becoming the progenitor of the insurance industry and creating the insurance salesman who shortens our lives by boring us to death!
Not to mention that Coffee was discovered by goat's who's herders noticed that after eating the fruit of a certain plant their goats were 'dancing'
In response to the gentleman who indicated that it was difficult to reprogram keyfobs for modern cars.
He is correct in that you need physical access to the car but most of the time all you need to do is throw the Learn/Operate switch on the ECU or execute several IGN ON/OFF cycles within a defined period and you can reprogram keyfobs for fun and profit! on US made cars.
Another poster pointed out that maintenance will be a problem when you move to a new job.
I would recommend a Cisco 1200 access point. Yes they are expensive $800 or so but they incorporate bandwidth mangement, basic ACL's, DHCP and if you buy the maintenance if it croaks cisco ships you a new one overnight also a single ap can have 2 radios 802.11b/g and 802.11a
The "fact" that fiber optic cable is untappable is more a article of faith rather than objective reality.
Providing you have physical access to a optical cable it is trivial to tap one. All that is required is that the cable be bent. The bend refracts light through the cladding and it can be detected with a suitable detector. The loss increases on the cable as a result of the bend (but communications are not disrupted so long as the loss is less than the loss budget for the link. Most carriers have test equipment based on this principle to allow them to perform non-invasive testing of their fiber plant.
Hence the problem is more of an access issue. BTW this is why secure F/O cables run within a pressurized conduit. A pressure drop indicates someone is attempting to gain access OR a squirrel is chewing through it!.
Yes I design F/O cable plant!
Not to mention that the plate is only usable for 1 visit to the restaurant after which you need to purchase a new plate. (and pay disposal fees for the old one...)
Metropolitan wire shelving. Expensive but most surplus houses have it from dot bomb's and other casualties of the business cycle. Each shelf can hold up to 500lbs and can be equipped with drawers etc. Best of all wheels are available so you can move the shelves around easily.
It's already here...
There is a new emissons monitoring system called OBDIII (On Board Diagnostics III) all cars built since 1996 have OBD II (The thing that lights your "Check Engine" indicator). OBD III will phone home to the EPA when your check engine light activates. Just how much additional effort will it take to add an audio and GPS channel to this for Homeland Security use?
Answer to this reply from the bench.
Mister X would you please step down and surrender yourself to the Bailiff. Bailiff, Please charge Mr. X with wilful destruction of evidence and escort him to a holding cell.
It's magic!, instant criminal charge for what was a civil case!. Thanks Microsoft!
To paraphrase another poster
Technolgy giveth what technology takes away!
What kind of car do you have?.
If it was made before 1996 a paperclip can be inserted in a strategic location and the check engine light will blink . Google to find the codes for your car
I purchased used every version since it was called MacInTax and published by Chipsoft.
I now use TaxCut
If they were really that concerned about protecting their IP they could have allowed the program to run only if an original CD was in the CDROM drive. Notice the use of an instead of THE
this means any orginal TurboTax CD!
This simple measure would have provided reasonable protection for IP while allowing the customer to move the program from machine to machine as they deemed fit.
Instead they chose a intrusive program developed by macrovision which modified the disk drive and restricted the purchaser's ability to use the software on any machine other than the one it was originally installed upon.
With this in mind I voted with my wallet and chose a more reasonable product and company.
Place all personal financial data on a system running IIS just waiting for the next 'leet skript kiddie to take advantage of the next glaring vulnerability so they can own your bank accoount. I dont think so.
1 - Get Ham License
2 - Get an old Kustom Signals KR-10
(OLD Police speed/doppler Radar and detune
to move it into ham bands)
3 - Build a rotary mount with position encoder
enclose in large round ball
using analog outputs from radar unit
convert into convenient digital format
for display/crunching with your favorite
signal processing application.
4 - Weather Radar (or was that Profit!)
PIX Firewalls actually run a OS called Finesse. It used to look a lot less IOS like than it does today. They do not appear to be vulnerable at this time
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All we need now are some Pierson's puppeteers to come sell us some No. 2 General Products Hull's to build the minesweepers out of. But a No. 1 would probably be ok for small scale use. Now remember do not expose them to antimatter... We could probably get the thrintun to _motivate_ the labor force. Ahh. reminders of my wasted youth
Once again we are confronted with the hype for a new all singing all dancing wireless broadband standard which operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The data rates are theoretically possible with no interference from Microwave Ovens, cordless phones 802.11x.
With commercially available equipment from Cisco you can already build a reliable 25Km link which requires that the antennas be mounted at the 150' level due to the curvature of the earth.
So the advertised range figures are possible but only in environments such as the Serengeti with the transmitters mounted on 500' towers. In this environment this could bring true internet backbones to the third world. Remeber up to 1996 or so the transcontinental links were only DS3 (44Mb/Sec)
Since when have the marketdroids ever allowed someting like the laws of physics to interfere with their hype since they will try and tell you a single tower located in a valley will serve all the communities around it which happen to be on the other side of the range of hills surrounding the valley with the predictable results (Sigh...)
See salon.com's "Ask the pilot" column for the inside story on what happens when you mix "Blue Juice" with dry ice.
This cert is a foot in the door. As another poster pointed out it is about certifying that you can perform BASIC networking tasks without assistance. The CCNP and CCIE certs are about being able to design and debug medium to _very_ large networks. None of these certs will get you a job by themselves howver if I have two people competing for a job with equal experience and only one has a cisco cert all other factors being equal I am going to give the nod to the person with the cert. One reason for that is the person with the cert took the time to _prove_ what they know. Without violating the Cisco NDA _all_ of the current exams make you configure either real or simulated equipment so with these certs your prospective employer has some assurance that you really can do the job at hand.
Casual counterfeiting boggles the mind. BUT what happens when you are in the business of selling currency. Think Christie's auction house with the new anti-counterfeiting codes how are you supposed to prepare auction catalog's et.al. Museum documentation of currency say a special issue. People need to remember that Counterfeiting is a CRIME but that still does not justify breaking pre-press tools for the rest of us. I am inclined to give copier vendors a pass on not printing currency or marking it "COPY" since copying currency would seem to have few if any legitimate uses but prepress tools have many legitimate uses for images of currency. i.e. bank annual reports, bank training manuals I could go on and on
Then you probably do not want to fly on a Boeing 757,767 or 777 or any Airbus A-xxx product since they are all fly by wire. i.e. a computer translates pilot inputs into control surface movements. 747's are Ok since they have hydraulic controls. But Honda has this feature on their drive by wire cars and with the Honda the wheels swivel sideways and the car zips right in. Unfortunately not available for sale in the US yet.
These shoes are expensive and TSA friendly. They have really thin soles which contain no metal and since the soles are so thin there is no place to hide stuff which makes the TSA people happy. They are very comfortable and since they are designed for sailing if they get wet it's no big deal. These are my airport shoes and since they are designed for use while wet slipping and falling on spilled liquids is not a problem.
They also have the preppy chic look and look really good with khakis and an oxford shirt (cotton of course) so when not travelling in a suit you can still dress up!.
Actually I got a book for christmas about coffee and found all these fascinating facts!
This is probably an extension of the digital watermarking feature of Photoshop Photoshop since version 5 has incorporated digimarc watermarking. And if a watermark is found within the current image photoshop brings up a dialog informing you of the fact. Practical steganograpy at its best. And no a scan will not save you since the watermark is encoded within the structure of the image. I am a photgrapher and control of my images is somewhat important to me. If BigCorp buys an image for use in their annual report I really do not want them using it in their national ad blitz without proper compensation to me. The watermark allows me to encode the appropriate uses for the image and allows me to prove authorship without overly restrictive DRM (see DigitalOwl et. al.)
I used TTax from the days it was called MacInTax for Windows. TaxCut from last year until the congresscritters pass a flat tax. Oblivion to DRM!
In medeval england Coffee was banned due to the "Ladies Petition" to ban the use of the "Drying and enfeebling beverage" Coffee. Fortunately for us geeks this did not last very long. In other news Lloyd's of London was formed at a coffee house becoming the progenitor of the insurance industry and creating the insurance salesman who shortens our lives by boring us to death! Not to mention that Coffee was discovered by goat's who's herders noticed that after eating the fruit of a certain plant their goats were 'dancing'
In response to the gentleman who indicated that it was difficult to reprogram keyfobs for modern cars. He is correct in that you need physical access to the car but most of the time all you need to do is throw the Learn/Operate switch on the ECU or execute several IGN ON/OFF cycles within a defined period and you can reprogram keyfobs for fun and profit! on US made cars.
Another poster pointed out that maintenance will be a problem when you move to a new job.
I would recommend a Cisco 1200 access point. Yes they are expensive $800 or so but they incorporate bandwidth mangement, basic ACL's, DHCP and if you buy the maintenance if it croaks cisco ships you a new one overnight also a single ap can have 2 radios 802.11b/g and 802.11a
The "fact" that fiber optic cable is untappable is more a article of faith rather than objective reality. Providing you have physical access to a optical cable it is trivial to tap one. All that is required is that the cable be bent. The bend refracts light through the cladding and it can be detected with a suitable detector. The loss increases on the cable as a result of the bend (but communications are not disrupted so long as the loss is less than the loss budget for the link. Most carriers have test equipment based on this principle to allow them to perform non-invasive testing of their fiber plant. Hence the problem is more of an access issue. BTW this is why secure F/O cables run within a pressurized conduit. A pressure drop indicates someone is attempting to gain access OR a squirrel is chewing through it!. Yes I design F/O cable plant!
Not to mention that the plate is only usable for 1 visit to the restaurant after which you need to purchase a new plate. (and pay disposal fees for the old one...)
Metropolitan wire shelving. Expensive but most surplus houses have it from dot bomb's and other casualties of the business cycle. Each shelf can hold up to 500lbs and can be equipped with drawers etc. Best of all wheels are available so you can move the shelves around easily.
It's already here... There is a new emissons monitoring system called OBDIII (On Board Diagnostics III) all cars built since 1996 have OBD II (The thing that lights your "Check Engine" indicator). OBD III will phone home to the EPA when your check engine light activates. Just how much additional effort will it take to add an audio and GPS channel to this for Homeland Security use?
Answer to this reply from the bench. Mister X would you please step down and surrender yourself to the Bailiff. Bailiff, Please charge Mr. X with wilful destruction of evidence and escort him to a holding cell. It's magic!, instant criminal charge for what was a civil case!. Thanks Microsoft! To paraphrase another poster Technolgy giveth what technology takes away!
What kind of car do you have?. If it was made before 1996 a paperclip can be inserted in a strategic location and the check engine light will blink . Google to find the codes for your car
Correction 'I purchased used' should be 'I purchased and used' Too much blood in the caffeine system.
I purchased used every version since it was called MacInTax and published by Chipsoft. I now use TaxCut If they were really that concerned about protecting their IP they could have allowed the program to run only if an original CD was in the CDROM drive. Notice the use of an instead of THE this means any orginal TurboTax CD! This simple measure would have provided reasonable protection for IP while allowing the customer to move the program from machine to machine as they deemed fit. Instead they chose a intrusive program developed by macrovision which modified the disk drive and restricted the purchaser's ability to use the software on any machine other than the one it was originally installed upon. With this in mind I voted with my wallet and chose a more reasonable product and company.
Place all personal financial data on a system running IIS just waiting for the next 'leet skript kiddie to take advantage of the next glaring vulnerability so they can own your bank accoount. I dont think so.
1 - Get Ham License 2 - Get an old Kustom Signals KR-10 (OLD Police speed/doppler Radar and detune to move it into ham bands) 3 - Build a rotary mount with position encoder enclose in large round ball using analog outputs from radar unit convert into convenient digital format for display/crunching with your favorite signal processing application. 4 - Weather Radar (or was that Profit!)
As Spock would say Fascinating the link is no longer there on CCO
PIX Firewalls actually run a OS called Finesse. It used to look a lot less IOS like than it does today. They do not appear to be vulnerable at this time