> All in all, there's nothing to worry about, and labeling meat as 'CLONED' will just make it easier for consumers to boycott perfectly safe products.
Agreed, but requiring those who choose to label their meat "NON-CLONED" should not be forced to add some bullshit disclaimer citing the safety of cloned meat, as is the case in the milk industry.
I wonder if someone turning these stupid advertisement pumps off via a http://www.tvbgone.com device would be changed with disabling emergency communications equipment and expelled. They are easy enough to hide though, and like the typical threat of expulsion keeping people out of the steam tunnels, I'm sure it could become a popular pastime to use such devices.
A public university is held to a different standard that a private institution in regards to being able to expel students for arbitrary and capricious reasons since public institutions are partially tax-funded. I wonder if the ACLU would like to step up to the plate on this one.
I sure the hell wouldn't want to be in any way affiliated with such an oppressive institution. After he wins his case and gets his money back, he should consider an institution that upholds certain concepts like freedom of speech and independent thinking.
He called "CQ DE" in the video, but seemingly intentionally left off his callsign in the video. Maybe he wants his privacy. In any event, I'd love to contact him and actually hear his QRP radio with the homemade tubes on the air.
I really hate it when people attack those who choose to cure the underlying disease instead of the immediate symptoms.
The goal here is to allow these groups of people to become self sufficient, so that they can eat the results of their own agricultural endeavors. Education is the _only_ way to raise a country out of poverty as handouts only prolong an existing fundamental flaw. Necroponte strikes at the root of poverty with tools and information, and it is this information that can overcome not only hunger, but greed and corruption as well. This is a long-term solution as these are the sorts of problems that may take a generation to fix, but if someone doesn't break the cycle all the aid in the world will only amount to a stopgap measure and a people totally dependent on aid for their survival. OLPC is a very noble means to a end.
Hey Jim, you can play ogg vorbis on an Ipod, so fear not. You just need to replace its built-in O/S with Linux first. Rockbox makes this possible, and easy to do.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005957
Some 12 years ago, in the stone-ages of yesteryear before the significance of the WWW and in a time when we actually ventured outside our dorm rooms, drank, socialized and got laid, I'd program my HP48G calculator to use it's I/R transmitter and send commands to my A/V equipment to do tasks like this. I even had it serve as an "alarm clock" by blasting my stereo if I didn't respond to it's little "beep-beep" alarm. Something similar would still work.
In the ways of severely abused services, you can be _really_ sick and tunnel via bogus DNS calls which will result in the traffic going to a DNS server under your control. Use this "covert channel" to route your VPN traffic.
An analog to this releasing of CO2 at a rate much higher that our current plants absorb it is that fossil fuels can release energy at a rate much higher than the natural energy captured by the fossil fuels in their development. This energy "time-funnel" is the only reason fossil fuel is such a low hanging fruit. The kicker is that renewable resources must be taken in real time. Of course none of this applies with nuclear power, so please pardon my offtopicness.
If this works out, and costs come down with scale, then this is the only single logical choice for government to subsidize instead of wasting our tax money on subsidizing corn-based ethanol. Before someone goes off on how electric cars only move the pollution around, I call bullshit. It's obvious it moves some of it around, but large power plants even with their lossy distribution system being used to charge lossy batteries for electric cars are still orders of magnitude more efficient than the small prime movers under most hoods. If you don't believe me, price it out for yourself. The big guys don't loose money.
But, amateur radio operators also have a band that overlaps part of the WiFi allocation, and part 97 rules apply. We indeed do have legal recourse if part 15 devices start to piss on our allocations.
Why does it need to be bigger than the data? I always thought it only had to be the same exact size of the data. (or are you talking about being able to actually make it useful and add data)
-Michael
good point...this would be useful in finding the "container within the container" technique used in truecrypt. The national security letter would be written in such a way that the drives themselves would be monitored at a low enough level to confirm the probable hidden container. Of course, with GFS spread across multiple drive arrays connected to multiple servers connected to multiple data centers residing in multiple countries, it would be a real bitch to implement.
>Is there any form of encryption that you believe people like the NSA cannot crack?
Yes, the NSA cannot crack one time pad encryption (OTP), nor will the every be able to. Provided you generate your OTP keys using a pure random number generator (not pseudo-random...so software-based is out of the question), this system is uncrackable. An associate of mine created such a pure random number generator based on radioactive decay. Provided you don't loose (or ever loose) your keys and have a secure way to exchange your keys beforehand, OTP works.
There is no need to decrypt the entire file to be able to use it. You can design a file system so that only the blocks needed are decrypted and you can basically use the file system just like a live file system with the crypto layer keeping it all very much transparent. Using Google's online file storage in such a way that you could mount it like a drive, then sticking a truecrypt container in it would give the desired effect of my previous post.
Google needs to incorporate encryption with keys totally held and managed by the end user in such a way that even if Google is subpoenaed or shown national security papers, Google would be technically unable to access end-user's data. Another words, at no time should Google have access to any of the user's cleartext nor the user's secret key. Decryption would all be client-side. A subpoena or national security letter would have to go directly to the end user who would then at least know they are being served.
Every single watt consumed by a computer is turned into heat, and generally released out the back of the case. Computers behave the same as the coil of nichrome wire as is used in a laundromat clothes dryer. (I guess a few milliwatts gets out of your cold room via ethernet cables and photons on fiber)
It's a big system called ASRS+ which combines a large highly-automated warehouse with a multitude of high-load bearing floor robots that drive around and transfer parts between the warehouse and the requesting party in the depot. CCAD is mostly a helicopter repair/refurb facility and because they service such a wide variety of aircraft, require an extensive inventory. These robots look vaguely like a pallet-jack on roids, without all the sci-fi robotic amenities. These bots drive about on their cute little trails making sorta a "beep, honk" as they go merrily about their business, that is until they run into some dumbass who gets in the way. Then they safely stop, so I guess they even follow part of Asimov's 1st law of robotics.;-) Amusingly, if someone manages to stop one at a critical juncture, the whole lot of them shut down.
If my writing today sounds like dis-coherent ramblings, please realize I haven't had my coffee yet and I was up to 3 am fishing and have a cooler-full of large trout to prove it, but I've actually seen what I'm describing in person as I worked for a university's agency's subcontractor's contractor out there (or something like that) back in 2001.
I wonder if the number of writes the device can endure has been improved. This is an area that would really help push solid-state flash devices as an alternative to traditional magnetic hard drives.
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> All in all, there's nothing to worry about, and labeling meat as 'CLONED' will just make it easier for consumers to boycott perfectly safe products.
Agreed, but requiring those who choose to label their meat "NON-CLONED" should not be forced to add some bullshit disclaimer citing the safety of cloned meat, as is the case in the milk industry.
I wonder if someone turning these stupid advertisement pumps off via a http://www.tvbgone.com device would be changed with disabling emergency communications equipment and expelled. They are easy enough to hide though, and like the typical threat of expulsion keeping people out of the steam tunnels, I'm sure it could become a popular pastime to use such devices.
some might even find it fun...
A public university is held to a different standard that a private institution in regards to being able to expel students for arbitrary and capricious reasons since public institutions are partially tax-funded. I wonder if the ACLU would like to step up to the plate on this one.
I sure the hell wouldn't want to be in any way affiliated with such an oppressive institution. After he wins his case and gets his money back, he should consider an institution that upholds certain concepts like freedom of speech and independent thinking.
We live at 14 psi.
He called "CQ DE" in the video, but seemingly intentionally left off his callsign in the video. Maybe he wants his privacy. In any event, I'd love to contact him and actually hear his QRP radio with the homemade tubes on the air.
I really hate it when people attack those who choose to cure the underlying disease instead of the immediate symptoms.
The goal here is to allow these groups of people to become self sufficient, so that they can eat the results of their own agricultural endeavors. Education is the _only_ way to raise a country out of poverty as handouts only prolong an existing fundamental flaw. Necroponte strikes at the root of poverty with tools and information, and it is this information that can overcome not only hunger, but greed and corruption as well. This is a long-term solution as these are the sorts of problems that may take a generation to fix, but if someone doesn't break the cycle all the aid in the world will only amount to a stopgap measure and a people totally dependent on aid for their survival. OLPC is a very noble means to a end.
Are apt repos easier to maintain than yum repos?
Hey Jim, you can play ogg vorbis on an Ipod, so fear not. You just need to replace its built-in O/S with Linux first. Rockbox makes this possible, and easy to do. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005957
Some 12 years ago, in the stone-ages of yesteryear before the significance of the WWW and in a time when we actually ventured outside our dorm rooms, drank, socialized and got laid, I'd program my HP48G calculator to use it's I/R transmitter and send commands to my A/V equipment to do tasks like this. I even had it serve as an "alarm clock" by blasting my stereo if I didn't respond to it's little "beep-beep" alarm. Something similar would still work.
In the ways of severely abused services, you can be _really_ sick and tunnel via bogus DNS calls which will result in the traffic going to a DNS server under your control. Use this "covert channel" to route your VPN traffic.
An analog to this releasing of CO2 at a rate much higher that our current plants absorb it is that fossil fuels can release energy at a rate much higher than the natural energy captured by the fossil fuels in their development. This energy "time-funnel" is the only reason fossil fuel is such a low hanging fruit. The kicker is that renewable resources must be taken in real time. Of course none of this applies with nuclear power, so please pardon my offtopicness.
If this works out, and costs come down with scale, then this is the only single logical choice for government to subsidize instead of wasting our tax money on subsidizing corn-based ethanol. Before someone goes off on how electric cars only move the pollution around, I call bullshit. It's obvious it moves some of it around, but large power plants even with their lossy distribution system being used to charge lossy batteries for electric cars are still orders of magnitude more efficient than the small prime movers under most hoods. If you don't believe me, price it out for yourself. The big guys don't loose money.
But, amateur radio operators also have a band that overlaps part of the WiFi allocation, and part 97 rules apply. We indeed do have legal recourse if part 15 devices start to piss on our allocations.
directional antenna --> high gain preamp --> receiver -(I.F. via soundcard...it's probably narrow enough)-> laptop --> linux --> gnuradio --> .wav file --> profit???
Don't bother hiring IT services to wipe drives, just use DBAN.
Why does it need to be bigger than the data? I always thought it only had to be the same exact size of the data. (or are you talking about being able to actually make it useful and add data) -Michael
good point...this would be useful in finding the "container within the container" technique used in truecrypt. The national security letter would be written in such a way that the drives themselves would be monitored at a low enough level to confirm the probable hidden container. Of course, with GFS spread across multiple drive arrays connected to multiple servers connected to multiple data centers residing in multiple countries, it would be a real bitch to implement.
>Is there any form of encryption that you believe people like the NSA cannot crack? Yes, the NSA cannot crack one time pad encryption (OTP), nor will the every be able to. Provided you generate your OTP keys using a pure random number generator (not pseudo-random...so software-based is out of the question), this system is uncrackable. An associate of mine created such a pure random number generator based on radioactive decay. Provided you don't loose (or ever loose) your keys and have a secure way to exchange your keys beforehand, OTP works.
Just create a RAID set with Google's online competition who will certainly all step up to the plate.
There is no need to decrypt the entire file to be able to use it. You can design a file system so that only the blocks needed are decrypted and you can basically use the file system just like a live file system with the crypto layer keeping it all very much transparent. Using Google's online file storage in such a way that you could mount it like a drive, then sticking a truecrypt container in it would give the desired effect of my previous post.
Google needs to incorporate encryption with keys totally held and managed by the end user in such a way that even if Google is subpoenaed or shown national security papers, Google would be technically unable to access end-user's data. Another words, at no time should Google have access to any of the user's cleartext nor the user's secret key. Decryption would all be client-side. A subpoena or national security letter would have to go directly to the end user who would then at least know they are being served.
Perhaps the far superior, far more efficient Dvorak layout would help. I've been using it for 12 years now ;-) QWERTY just plain sucks.
Every single watt consumed by a computer is turned into heat, and generally released out the back of the case. Computers behave the same as the coil of nichrome wire as is used in a laundromat clothes dryer. (I guess a few milliwatts gets out of your cold room via ethernet cables and photons on fiber)
It's a big system called ASRS+ which combines a large highly-automated warehouse with a multitude of high-load bearing floor robots that drive around and transfer parts between the warehouse and the requesting party in the depot. CCAD is mostly a helicopter repair/refurb facility and because they service such a wide variety of aircraft, require an extensive inventory. These robots look vaguely like a pallet-jack on roids, without all the sci-fi robotic amenities. These bots drive about on their cute little trails making sorta a "beep, honk" as they go merrily about their business, that is until they run into some dumbass who gets in the way. Then they safely stop, so I guess they even follow part of Asimov's 1st law of robotics. ;-) Amusingly, if someone manages to stop one at a critical juncture, the whole lot of them shut down.
If my writing today sounds like dis-coherent ramblings, please realize I haven't had my coffee yet and I was up to 3 am fishing and have a cooler-full of large trout to prove it, but I've actually seen what I'm describing in person as I worked for a university's agency's subcontractor's contractor out there (or something like that) back in 2001.
I wonder if the number of writes the device can endure has been improved. This is an area that would really help push solid-state flash devices as an alternative to traditional magnetic hard drives.