So, all terrorists have to do is find a list of important people to whom lack of commercial flight availability would hamper US security, and use aliases that match their names, right? It would seem that something more than a name should be required to deny people access to tranportation. Heck, I've looked up my own name in national phone book databases and found dozens of first & last name matches all over the country.
A photo of a face would go a long way, but would definatley increase the overhead of distribution of the list.
Anyway, it does seem to be an easy-to-abuse/misuse system as it is.
After squeezing a motherboard into a different case (requiring some work with the dremel tool to make holes that lined up with ports), I went to plug in a PS/2 mouse and since it's dark in the corner of my basement where the box was, I inserted it into an opening in the case that led to some pins on the motherboard (instead of the PS/2 port). Saw and heard the spark, and from then on, the keyboard, mouse and onboard serial ports don't work. Fortunately, I already had ssh access to the box, and it boots headless, so I'm still using it. Linux never even crashed when the spark happened. It actually took a while to notice all that was wrong with it.
Next time I go to a concert can I get a filter for my eyes, preferably an open source one?
Mediated or Augmented reality is something being worked on by the wearable computer folks at MIT's media lab. Steve Mann's name comes to mind from previous Linux Journal articles on the subject.
Users wear glasses fitted with 45-degree mirrors so that what you are looking at is piped into a video camera, and the output of a display is what you actually see. This give the wearable computer a chance to modify what you're looking at. An example given was that you could replace a billboard with a Xterm window to read your email instead of the ad that was there.
At least one paging company is out
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The paging company my company uses is out. They called me this morning to let me know a satellite problem had taken them offline, and had no ETA for coming back online. We don't do any life-dependant work, but I hate to think of what any hospitals that use them are having to deal with at this point.
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A photo of a face would go a long way, but would definatley increase the overhead of distribution of the list. Anyway, it does seem to be an easy-to-abuse/misuse system as it is.
After squeezing a motherboard into a different case (requiring some work with the dremel tool to make holes that lined up with ports), I went to plug in a PS/2 mouse and since it's dark in the corner of my basement where the box was, I inserted it into an opening in the case that led to some pins on the motherboard (instead of the PS/2 port). Saw and heard the spark, and from then on, the keyboard, mouse and onboard serial ports don't work. Fortunately, I already had ssh access to the box, and it boots headless, so I'm still using it. Linux never even crashed when the spark happened. It actually took a while to notice all that was wrong with it.
So is that all a blasting "cap" is? I always wondered why they are called caps, but if it's because they're capacitor, that would make sence
Mediated or Augmented reality is something being worked on by the wearable computer folks at MIT's media lab. Steve Mann's name comes to mind from previous Linux Journal articles on the subject.
Users wear glasses fitted with 45-degree mirrors so that what you are looking at is piped into a video camera, and the output of a display is what you actually see. This give the wearable computer a chance to modify what you're looking at. An example given was that you could replace a billboard with a Xterm window to read your email instead of the ad that was there.
The paging company my company uses is out. They called me this morning to let me know a satellite problem had taken them offline, and had no ETA for coming back online. We don't do any life-dependant work, but I hate to think of what any hospitals that use them are having to deal with at this point.