Back in the 1970s I had the pleasure of working on several large-scale classified projects (one included a large ship). Everything we did had to be done on a schedule that would take into account whether a Soviet spy satellite was passing over or not. I can remember being frustrated that this caused a lot of extra work and time but at least we knew when NOT to do something.
I've set up several squid proxies for companies that claimed to want to keep track of employee's web surfing. The log files are pretty extensive and there are several 3rd party utilities out there that can provide reports that even managers can read. Most of the time. Going through the reports is a lot of work and usually the Achilles heel of this sort of project in my experience.
A couple of things... 1. Set your border router to accept connections from the Squid box and your Exchange (or email) servers only. 2. Check for MAC addresses mapping to the same IP address. (Most employees don't understand how to spoof a MAC address but lots of them can change their IP address.) 3. Fire the first person to be caught and make sure everyone in the company knows about it.
If you set a Policy that mandates firing and don't do it then word will get out. If you don't bother to check the reports then word will get out. None of the companies that paid me exorbitant sums of money to set this sort of thing up ever fired anyone and all of them stopped bothering to check the reports after a few weeks. I think mostly because the managers were the ones doing most of the abuse and, after all, we can't fire *them*!.
None of those arguments are even germane to my post; they always claim right off the bat that there is no radiation danger even when they know that there is. Or they just cover it up (numerous documented cases). Even if you could rid the nuclear industry of corruption in administration, operation and construction you still couldn't make the same claim I make in my sig. Your continuous argument that more people die differently is like saying that because there are two documented cases of people falling from airplanes at altitude the rest of us should give it a try. Just because people die from malaria doesn't make the nuclear industry safe.
"The project started in 1993 and shot to fame six years later, largely as a result of three Slashdot articles (two of which brought the Counter to its knees)"
Most of the green energy sources are not viable by themselves. They're too unstable. Wind gusts cause surges for wind power. Solar doesn't produce anything at night. The only one that sounds like it might be viable is wave energy, and that only on shorelines that are never flat.
So to fill in, you need nuclear, coal, or gas plants.
So which part of "hydro-electric" are you not thinking about. But you're right... we do need some "legacy" power generation to act as a battery. But if we can spread the wind and solar around enough we shouldn't need much more *new* legacy power sources. Just imagine what 15kw of solar power on every roof of every family home in the USA would produce. Most of it without also upgrading the grid. Add some actual batteries at those homes so they can be self-sustaining most of the night time hours and you can have the ultimate in UPS systems everywhere feeding any excess power into the grid.
And most importantly, no one has ever had to evacutate a city because the solar panels broke.
According to the story Samsung Germany is appealing the decision so it's probably not "final". In addition, the ruling only bans Samsung Germany from selling into the EU marketplace; other Samsung divisions can sell into it.
At some point these industry giants will all be brought to their knees more-or-less simultaneously at which time they'll form some sort of community and demand that the USA "fix" it. They're bound and determined to fight this to a standstill.
I've always enjoyed languages and since I'm multi-lingual (not very unusual outside the USA) my FB pages are in a bunch of languages; some of which (like the posts in Swedish and Norwegian from my kayaking friends) I don't speak. But having them on my page means that with a little work I can decipher what they're saying. So now, since I'm a lazy person at heart, I'll just hit the "translate" button and get what will be only a general idea of what they were trying to say.
Oh well, like typing... and repair shops for televisions, typewriters and shoes... soon a thing of the past.
But the backspace key on a typewriter is (was) also unreachable by pinkie. And if you closely examine your keyboard you may notice that the keys on that are also slightly elevated. Not to the same level as a typewriter but still enough to make touch typing on a kb more efficient than whatever system you're advocating.
In this case the ruling clearly states that BOTH parties appealed the damages ruling. Spamhaus because they contended that the damages were for gross income not net income and e360 because the damages were too small. Who was at fault had already been determined and was not an issue.
From www.tigerdirect.com I bought one of their "kit" computers with an AMD Quad Core CPU, 2gb of Ram, a 500gb HD, a DVD r/w, and Ubuntu. I added a kb with a touchpad that I already had around the office and "viola!" a sub-200 desktop *with* optical drive. I haven't done a thing to it since... and I'm posting from it now.
A bunch of autonomous boats moving around the ocean at 2.5 knots with no one or nothing on watch seems a bit dangerous to me. I know most of you think there are nothing but container ships on the oceans but there are about 3,000 cruising sailboats with families aboard out there on vessels that are at risk of these sorts of unmanned vessels. These are often in the 30-foot range and seldom have the power to run radar all night. Most of them keep a lookout but I wonder if these "autonomous" boats have navigational lights showing at night.
Do you think that the US' actions during the overthrow of Chile's President Allende and the imposition of a dictatorship was "no pressure"? Or its actions in Iran just before the Shah was put into power? Or its attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro? And just why do you suppose we went to all the bother of overthrowing Sadam Hussein when there really were no "Weapons of Mass Destruction"; and we knew it?
The "no pressure" from the USA is always - ALWAYS - applied with the sure and certain knowledge that we have overthrown governments and leaders in the past and we're ready to do it again.
I think that qualifies as "pressure" even to someone - an EU Commissioner - who may realize that the CIA and NSA have been monitoring his/her communications and knows just exactly how to get them out of office.
IANAL but reading the ruling made it clear to me that in states where wiretapping laws imply that it be done secretly then it's important to hold your recording device in plain sight. Many states define audio wiretapping in terms of "intercepting" the audio which this appellate court has determined to mean "secretly". The ruling states that since Glik was holding his cell phone in plain view then he was not doing anything in secret and thus was not wiretapping. You don't have to annouce that you are taking pictures or videos, however. Just holding it where the officers could have seen it is sufficient. But if they ask you if you are taking videos or pictures or recording then you should probably answer truthfully. YMMV so check your state's laws before relying on this ruling.
Of course, if officers cannot see it they would be unlikely to arrest you. So apparently just by them noticing the device would be evidence that it was not done in secret and therefore not wiretapping and therefore not "probable cause" for an arrest.
I have two artificial lenses in my eyes as a result of cataracts ten years ago. My vision, throughout my life, was about 20/200 correctable to 20/20 with thick glasses. After my cataract surgery I had 20/20 vision, threw away my glasses, and changed my life.
Over 20 years ago I had an industrial accident that resulted in my left leg not functioning properly. Last year I had a knee replacement surgery that greatly improved function - not to mention looks (as long as you ignore the scar running right down the middle). Before the knee surgery I could not bend my knee enough to ride a bicycle. After the surgery I rode a bike to my first post-op examination with my orthopedic surgeon only 4 weeks after the operation.
Were it not for advances in medicine and surgical techniques I would be blind in both eyes and crippled right now. Last weekend my wife and I took mountain bikes and rode some trails in Idaho. I have no idea where this is leading, but I can tell you that my life is vastly improved because I'm a cyborg now.
I downloaded and installed Linux onto a 386 PC that had been running Coherent (not very well, I might add). I think it was Slackware but it might have been Ygdrasil. I was pretty happy to get a version of Unix that I could afford. I have since run Red Hat, Suse, Centos, Debian and Ubuntu plus a couple BSDs. I have always thought of Linux as the "Swiss army knife" of operating systems because I've set up email servers, web servers, database servers, VPN routers, Vyatta routers, remote backup servers and desktops with LInux. I have one server with over 656 days of uptime.
I have made a comfortable living from understanding Unix and applying that to Linux over the past 18 years.
I can't imagine a Slashdot without a Cmdr Taco. You have written and posted things that were - at least at the time - important or interesting or funny or memorable. Not everyone can say that. Best of luck.... and, oh, one more thing.... I always assumed that the name/. came from the Unix method of executing a program or utility in the subdirectory you were in but since that's./ (the reverse).... how in the world did the name come about?
No child left behind. Hey, I know... let's elect another President from Texas. So far every one of them has started a war (and on shaky circumstances, too) and screwed not just the Texas school system but the National one as well.
When I lived in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s I had a chance to fly into Manaus on an old USAF C-54 and share expenses on a fishing trip into the Amazon and Rio Negro. It was a high point of my life. The area was fascinating in its lush vegetation, vast wetlands, and river traffic. The people - and especially the children - were wonderful. Six of us on an old Chris Craft (type) cabin cruiser plus some local fishing guides with food and drink included for just a couple hundred bucks apiece. It sure beat touring the opera house.
I'll be interested in seeing how much has changed.
Slashdot Mirror
Back in the 1970s I had the pleasure of working on several large-scale classified projects (one included a large ship). Everything we did had to be done on a schedule that would take into account whether a Soviet spy satellite was passing over or not. I can remember being frustrated that this caused a lot of extra work and time but at least we knew when NOT to do something.
I suspect that it's a lot more difficult now.
I've set up several squid proxies for companies that claimed to want to keep track of employee's web surfing. The log files are pretty extensive and there are several 3rd party utilities out there that can provide reports that even managers can read. Most of the time. Going through the reports is a lot of work and usually the Achilles heel of this sort of project in my experience.
A couple of things...
1. Set your border router to accept connections from the Squid box and your Exchange (or email) servers only.
2. Check for MAC addresses mapping to the same IP address. (Most employees don't understand how to spoof a MAC address but lots of them can change their IP address.)
3. Fire the first person to be caught and make sure everyone in the company knows about it.
If you set a Policy that mandates firing and don't do it then word will get out. If you don't bother to check the reports then word will get out. None of the companies that paid me exorbitant sums of money to set this sort of thing up ever fired anyone and all of them stopped bothering to check the reports after a few weeks. I think mostly because the managers were the ones doing most of the abuse and, after all, we can't fire *them*!.
Brilliant!!! (No pun intended!)
None of those arguments are even germane to my post; they always claim right off the bat that there is no radiation danger even when they know that there is. Or they just cover it up (numerous documented cases). Even if you could rid the nuclear industry of corruption in administration, operation and construction you still couldn't make the same claim I make in my sig. Your continuous argument that more people die differently is like saying that because there are two documented cases of people falling from airplanes at altitude the rest of us should give it a try. Just because people die from malaria doesn't make the nuclear industry safe.
There's never a risk of radiation leaking according to the first announcement in every case.
as the bankers got for defauding investors....
Oh... wait...
"The project started in 1993 and shot to fame six years later, largely as a result of three Slashdot articles (two of which brought the Counter to its knees)"
It's down.
Most of the green energy sources are not viable by themselves. They're too unstable. Wind gusts cause surges for wind power. Solar doesn't produce anything at night. The only one that sounds like it might be viable is wave energy, and that only on shorelines that are never flat.
So to fill in, you need nuclear, coal, or gas plants.
So which part of "hydro-electric" are you not thinking about. But you're right... we do need some "legacy" power generation to act as a battery. But if we can spread the wind and solar around enough we shouldn't need much more *new* legacy power sources. Just imagine what 15kw of solar power on every roof of every family home in the USA would produce. Most of it without also upgrading the grid. Add some actual batteries at those homes so they can be self-sustaining most of the night time hours and you can have the ultimate in UPS systems everywhere feeding any excess power into the grid.
And most importantly, no one has ever had to evacutate a city because the solar panels broke.
According to the story Samsung Germany is appealing the decision so it's probably not "final". In addition, the ruling only bans Samsung Germany from selling into the EU marketplace; other Samsung divisions can sell into it.
At some point these industry giants will all be brought to their knees more-or-less simultaneously at which time they'll form some sort of community and demand that the USA "fix" it. They're bound and determined to fight this to a standstill.
Isn't Facebook designed to talk to people you already know? Isn't it pretty much a given that you can already communicate with these people?
Suppose your friends in Italy.. who speak English.. also write interesting posts in Italian. Maybe you might like to read those posts.
I've always enjoyed languages and since I'm multi-lingual (not very unusual outside the USA) my FB pages are in a bunch of languages; some of which (like the posts in Swedish and Norwegian from my kayaking friends) I don't speak. But having them on my page means that with a little work I can decipher what they're saying. So now, since I'm a lazy person at heart, I'll just hit the "translate" button and get what will be only a general idea of what they were trying to say.
Oh well, like typing... and repair shops for televisions, typewriters and shoes... soon a thing of the past.
But the backspace key on a typewriter is (was) also unreachable by pinkie. And if you closely examine your keyboard you may notice that the keys on that are also slightly elevated. Not to the same level as a typewriter but still enough to make touch typing on a kb more efficient than whatever system you're advocating.
In this case the ruling clearly states that BOTH parties appealed the damages ruling. Spamhaus because they contended that the damages were for gross income not net income and e360 because the damages were too small. Who was at fault had already been determined and was not an issue.
From www.tigerdirect.com I bought one of their "kit" computers with an AMD Quad Core CPU, 2gb of Ram, a 500gb HD, a DVD r/w, and Ubuntu. I added a kb with a touchpad that I already had around the office and "viola!" a sub-200 desktop *with* optical drive. I haven't done a thing to it since... and I'm posting from it now.
A bunch of autonomous boats moving around the ocean at 2.5 knots with no one or nothing on watch seems a bit dangerous to me. I know most of you think there are nothing but container ships on the oceans but there are about 3,000 cruising sailboats with families aboard out there on vessels that are at risk of these sorts of unmanned vessels. These are often in the 30-foot range and seldom have the power to run radar all night. Most of them keep a lookout but I wonder if these "autonomous" boats have navigational lights showing at night.
Do you think that the US' actions during the overthrow of Chile's President Allende and the imposition of a dictatorship was "no pressure"? Or its actions in Iran just before the Shah was put into power? Or its attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro? And just why do you suppose we went to all the bother of overthrowing Sadam Hussein when there really were no "Weapons of Mass Destruction"; and we knew it?
The "no pressure" from the USA is always - ALWAYS - applied with the sure and certain knowledge that we have overthrown governments and leaders in the past and we're ready to do it again.
I think that qualifies as "pressure" even to someone - an EU Commissioner - who may realize that the CIA and NSA have been monitoring his/her communications and knows just exactly how to get them out of office.
IANAL but reading the ruling made it clear to me that in states where wiretapping laws imply that it be done secretly then it's important to hold your recording device in plain sight. Many states define audio wiretapping in terms of "intercepting" the audio which this appellate court has determined to mean "secretly". The ruling states that since Glik was holding his cell phone in plain view then he was not doing anything in secret and thus was not wiretapping. You don't have to annouce that you are taking pictures or videos, however. Just holding it where the officers could have seen it is sufficient. But if they ask you if you are taking videos or pictures or recording then you should probably answer truthfully. YMMV so check your state's laws before relying on this ruling.
Of course, if officers cannot see it they would be unlikely to arrest you. So apparently just by them noticing the device would be evidence that it was not done in secret and therefore not wiretapping and therefore not "probable cause" for an arrest.
I have two artificial lenses in my eyes as a result of cataracts ten years ago. My vision, throughout my life, was about 20/200 correctable to 20/20 with thick glasses. After my cataract surgery I had 20/20 vision, threw away my glasses, and changed my life.
Over 20 years ago I had an industrial accident that resulted in my left leg not functioning properly. Last year I had a knee replacement surgery that greatly improved function - not to mention looks (as long as you ignore the scar running right down the middle). Before the knee surgery I could not bend my knee enough to ride a bicycle. After the surgery I rode a bike to my first post-op examination with my orthopedic surgeon only 4 weeks after the operation.
Were it not for advances in medicine and surgical techniques I would be blind in both eyes and crippled right now. Last weekend my wife and I took mountain bikes and rode some trails in Idaho. I have no idea where this is leading, but I can tell you that my life is vastly improved because I'm a cyborg now.
and getting it back safely to Earth is another. I wish 'em luck.
I downloaded and installed Linux onto a 386 PC that had been running Coherent (not very well, I might add). I think it was Slackware but it might have been Ygdrasil. I was pretty happy to get a version of Unix that I could afford. I have since run Red Hat, Suse, Centos, Debian and Ubuntu plus a couple BSDs. I have always thought of Linux as the "Swiss army knife" of operating systems because I've set up email servers, web servers, database servers, VPN routers, Vyatta routers, remote backup servers and desktops with LInux. I have one server with over 656 days of uptime.
I have made a comfortable living from understanding Unix and applying that to Linux over the past 18 years.
And it was way better than Coherent!!!
Thanks, Linux. :)
I can't imagine a Slashdot without a Cmdr Taco. You have written and posted things that were - at least at the time - important or interesting or funny or memorable. Not everyone can say that. Best of luck.... and, oh, one more thing.... I always assumed that the name /. came from the Unix method of executing a program or utility in the subdirectory you were in but since that's ./ (the reverse).... how in the world did the name come about?
Oh well.... thanks for all the fish.
... but I make up for it in volume.
No child left behind. Hey, I know... let's elect another President from Texas. So far every one of them has started a war (and on shaky circumstances, too) and screwed not just the Texas school system but the National one as well.
But I'm sure the next one will be ok.
When I lived in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s I had a chance to fly into Manaus on an old USAF C-54 and share expenses on a fishing trip into the Amazon and Rio Negro. It was a high point of my life. The area was fascinating in its lush vegetation, vast wetlands, and river traffic. The people - and especially the children - were wonderful. Six of us on an old Chris Craft (type) cabin cruiser plus some local fishing guides with food and drink included for just a couple hundred bucks apiece. It sure beat touring the opera house.
I'll be interested in seeing how much has changed.