Much of the technology used to create the mars rovers seems like they would be useful for this challenge.
Just because DARPA is collaborating with NASA, don't get your hopes up if you're thinking about some 'geekcool' super-Star-Trek-beam-me-up-scotty rocket their buddy. DARPA is strictly defense, and anything they can get to the benefit of a defense project is worth gold.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD).
It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
If DARPA is doing something with NASA, it will likely use this for the killing fields nothing more nothing less.
The wealth of information that is available on the internet is mind boggling to most, and I was not surprised to hear about this
I just found out I suffer from slashdoticus postlotticus a rare disorder include me in your mailings for future medications. If and only if you're paying.10 for pill and charging me $10.00 thank you.
Imagine if you had something of say a corporate whistleblower who made comments on the contents of a book. Don't you think they'd be in danger of sorts... Consider the following case...
Whistleblower law gets unlikely first test
By ADAM GELLER
The Associated Press
FLOYD, Va. - When lawmakers set out to protect investors from another Enron, they probably never imagined a company - or a controversy - like the one stirring inside this one-stoplight town's namesake bank.
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David Welch, fired from his $60,000-a-year job as the bank's chief financial officer, is the first whistleblower granted protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, thanks to a little-noticed decision by a Department of Labor judge two weeks ago.Source
Now imagine if you were him, and you were posting something to correct false information... Don't you think you deserve to have the right of privacy?... Suppose you were a woman commenting on some book about rape and revealed you were once raped, and you were a prominent figure... Wouldn't you want your identity protected? Life is not always cut and dry there buddy, there are valid reasons for wanting privacy.
Although most take privacy as something only criminals doing dirty deeds would need... Here is an excerpt of a doc I wrote...
Well, did you know Choicepoint claims to have about 16 billion records on American citizens? 16 billion is a hell of a lot considering there are only about 300 million citizens, so average that out for yourself and ask yourself, what do they have on me? They claim they can track everything and anything known about someone: where they lived, how much money they made, what kind of car they're driving (insurance records), etc. Sure you signed some 'passport' disclaimer on some site that stated they wouldn't sell your information, did they implicitly specify they wouldn't sell your information, and if so to whom, and will they sell your information? Think about law for a second here. If someone stole your automobile in Texas, sold it to someone in Utah, who in turn sold it to someone in New York and you found it, do you lose the right to your car, even if the buyer purchased what he thought was legitimate? How can companies get away with redistributing the most sensitive and vital information of your life with ease? Every step you take...
But heck who the hell am I kidding... Only you, yourself are to blame for giving your privacy away. Instead of only whining about not having privacy, don't some of you think it's time to wag the tail instead of keeping it tucked under your asses. Write to your lawmakers, start complaining. Simply crying about it does nothing, and companies will continue walking all over you.
Anyway, considering no one (outside the ultra high geek) is going to be starting a c64 any time soon, it would be a nice idea if a company decided for history's sake to clone the old time machines. I'm sure there would be a market for it... Heck I know I would love to get my hands on a coleco vision adam computer again. Complete with cassettes and all.
First I'll answer this then the md5 myths... If there were problems, you would have heard about them. How sure could you be about that. Suppose for a second this compromising happened years ago, md5 checksums and all, then what? So you think that if the server was compromised, and an instance was found a year ago all is fine? Again you're missing the point. How much damage could be done if a distro was backdoored and the information delegated to the attackers within say one month?
Now for the md5 post above this, first off you must be off your rocker to think md5 makes a difference, and I think the response to that post sums it up fine.
rm realprog_md5_csum
md5 compromises_csum
Reupload... Give it a rest there. All that would be needed in say a *nix environment be it Linux, BSD, Solaris, whatever, is one nicely placed backdoor, md5 checksum and all/
You know something and this will probably get mod'd down quickly because many won't like the content... Oh well.. Thinking back to when the FSF servers were 'owned' or however you want to spin it, little mention was made of the repercussions that could have occurred - or could still occur - because of that hack. Instead all we heard was how great the security team was in assessing the incident with such quickness.
Think about that outside the zealotry mode for a minute. I don't recall any follow up determining, "Hey this happened X_TIME ago, therefore clean programs should be reinstalled on your machine." Now I support the entire Open Source movement by all means, but think about how many include files, or other files could have been tweaked. Say low level include files, or something similar. There is no one, and I say this COMFORTABLY, no one that checks every program, every line of code on their machine. Sure you could lsof|grep -i listen every here and there to see what's what, but a covert chan can hide that. Look I don't want to get into a sysadmin/secadmin shootout here it'd be a draw and I don't care who you are, but... In my eyes, there is still a long way to go.
Take a look at cpan and some of the modules you have on your machine. How many are updated with normalcy? What about the whole sourceforge/freshmeat concept of 'sysadmining', where you find a neat program supported for what... a year? Maybe 2 if you're lucky... Sometimes it seems the cool Open Source gets, the more issues come out with it...
With this breakthrough, Intel researchers said, they have shown that it should be possible to build optical fiber communications systems using Intel's conventional chipmaking process
Great now we'll only have to buy from two companies in the future Intel and Microsoft.
Seriously though, when I hear some chip news, and how it's the 'next best thing' I kind of wonder how much is just marketing hype. So far I heard of terabyte chips... Coming Soon!!!... Faster chipset will do... and so on. Yet on the market you see none. According to most companies capabilities (providing it's not just hype), from what I gather, they have a chipset in the works that can fly you to the moon, wash your car, bone your partner, and have you back in time for work the next morning. However, these companies have to make as much money as they possibly can selling you their fourth, third, and second generation chips for the next few years.
This reminds me of when the Food and Drug Administration decided to "look into" VeriChip. Not a food, and not drug... So why do some of these regulations come into effect when there are no ties to the products and the investigator...? Who knows, but common knowledge shows (and you can research the facts) that heavy hitters (money powerhouses) prevail in almost (*note word almost*) all cases.
Motorola claims to be the number one manufacturer of handsets in China, where IDC estimates there are 252.3 million current mobile telephone subscribers. By 2007, the Chinese mobile phone market is forecast to reach 371.4 million subscribers.
In other words... China has the United States' (or soon will have) population already as a customer in China. Do the math... Do I release it in the US and sell about 50-100 million (wishfully thinking), or do I do with a solid 100+ million Gee willikers what would you do...
Opinion: 1. The Internet isn't complicated
That's an opinion. Considering more and more people are logging on, and I just read an article about older people turning to the Internet, consider the following... Just because to the author, the Internet, and using it is easy, does not mean it is not complicated for a new user
Opinion 3. The Internet is stupid.
No people are stupid. Personally (this is my opinion) I believe the next generation is going to be hellishly smarter than the one I grew up (growing up) with (in). Where else can you learn so many things from without leaving your home. Encyclopedia? They're limited.
Opinion: 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
There is no true 'value' per se as one cannot grasp anything physical. But where else can you find mega bargains, mega information...
I sincerely hope you were kidding about that. In case you weren't, Choicepoint is in the business of selling data... Yours
source
ChoicePoint Acquires National Data Retrieval,
Expands Presence in Public Records Field
ALPHARETTA, Ga. - January 2, 2003 - ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) today announced the acquisition of National Data Retrieval Inc. (NDR), one of the nation's leading providers of public records information for bankruptcies, civil judgments, and federal and state tax liens. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
National Data Retrieval, which also is based in Alpharetta, has 26 fulltime employees, all of whom will be retained, plus a nationwide network of approximately 400 independent collection contractors. The privately held company was established in 1989.
NDR's products, services and public records databases of nearly 43 million records will complement ChoicePoint's existing Court Research and Retrieval Group (CRRG), which processed approximately 5 million records requests in 2002. NDR's customers will gain access to ChoicePoint's CRRG technology and records collection facilities, supported by ChoicePoint's proprietary database of more than 16 billion public records.
Note I bolded the 16 and the date, there is a page somewhere on that monstrous site which states they have 40 billion. I've seen it a few times unfortunately I can't pinpoint the location right now.
Who gets to play Big Brother? That's an easy one... Choicepoint gets to play Big Brother. They tout 40 billion records... 40 billion records on about 300million Americans?...
And what will they do with what they know? They claim to be able to pinpoint every move you made from college to getting tossed out your duplex etc.,
Netscape crashed and burned following Sun's lead and spending millions chasing dreams in a court of law against Microsoft. Not because they gave up so get your info straight. They lost because they decided to focus their resources on fighting that same 400lb gorilla I just mentioned.
Personally I use Lynx most of the time or Firebird for my personal use, but as for work I use Windows IE. So here is just another little quip, the majority of corporations (big money spenders) have (or at least should have) policies against software being installed, and I doubt they'd be willing to dish out more money for something already "FREE" (note the quotations before you flame back), "FREE" on the OS they were conned into buying/upgrading. It's called IE.
For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Opera earned 1.3 million kroner ($190,000), compared with a loss of 21.4 million kroner ($3.1 million) in the same period a year ago.
Not to bang the drum slowly here but if Netscape which was already paired with a money maker (or loser depending on your view) such as AOL, and it's pretty much a dead product nowadays, I wonder what Opera is thinking aside from making a quick dollar. Even if they made a measly $190k they lost $3.1 that will eventually have to be paid back if not done already.
Now, Opera is alright as a browser, but as it stands the majority of `quickie' users tend to be - dare I say it? - IE (l)users, and with Microsoft making it pretty much the first thing a new computer user sees, I wonder what is making Opera think they can compete with the (s/^/crooked/g) Microsoft 400lb Gorilla.
Internet in politics, for me this is the first *real* use of the Internet in a meaningful way
I won't bother getting into a political shootout over this so here's my two ^*. The last place I would want to look towards when thinking of the pResidency, votes, voters* (and any variation of this) would be online. How many articles have you seen on Diebold, and all of the quirks associated with things political.
Wait before you shoot some quick response, I know this has little to do with voting so let me shift. Using the net in the fashion Dean has, is nothing new, he's probably the only one smart enough to publicize it though. Remember, many Americans aren't that literate when it comes to computing as it is, so think about this... Who are his real followers, and one has to know these numbers the Dean camp or whomever can be tweaked.
E.g.: Dean2004.com or whatever sites associated with them show 1,000,000 visitors for February. Oh really? How many unique visitors, etc. Don't throw out numbers without backing it. Secondly, when it comes to computing, for all you know, there could be some 13-17 (under the voting age) kids playing around with Dean & Co. No you say? Prove it. Who in Dean or any camp can say with a straight face "We've attracted 1,000,000 legal aged voters that live in America" that would be a flat out lie. Even if say "cache.bigcompany.com" (where Big Company was a Fortune 500 co.) connected to someone's party, how do you know it's not a misconfigured proxy allowing anyone to connect.
Dumb users spread viruses. Irrelevant? I definitely think not. I would not look to the net for the next best thing "politically" for a long ass time. Now when someone decided to post "this is the first *real* use of the Internet in a meaningful way"... They should have thought up something more meaningful like medical studies or something similar. My personal "REAL USE" of the internet would be the sharing of information on the educational level a-la MIT's Open Course Ware, and other projects similar to that. However I think medically it's underdeveloped and could rock. Think distributed dna sequencing type stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because DARPA is collaborating with NASA, don't get your hopes up if you're thinking about some 'geekcool' super-Star-Trek-beam-me-up-scotty rocket their buddy. DARPA is strictly defense, and anything they can get to the benefit of a defense project is worth gold.
If DARPA is doing something with NASA, it will likely use this for the killing fields nothing more nothing less.I just found out I suffer from slashdoticus postlotticus a rare disorder include me in your mailings for future medications. If and only if you're paying .10 for pill and charging me $10.00 thank you.
Although most take privacy as something only criminals doing dirty deeds would need... Here is an excerpt of a doc I wrote...
But heck who the hell am I kidding... Only you, yourself are to blame for giving your privacy away. Instead of only whining about not having privacy, don't some of you think it's time to wag the tail instead of keeping it tucked under your asses. Write to your lawmakers, start complaining. Simply crying about it does nothing, and companies will continue walking all over you.
Considering most Americans gave their privacy away, nothing via way of RFID's nor laws should concern anyone.
, it is funny... Oh, by the way... No back to Martha Stewart's shoes...
Anyway, considering no one (outside the ultra high geek) is going to be starting a c64 any time soon, it would be a nice idea if a company decided for history's sake to clone the old time machines. I'm sure there would be a market for it... Heck I know I would love to get my hands on a coleco vision adam computer again. Complete with cassettes and all.
I thought broad band was a group of chicks playing some tunes...
Now for the md5 post above this, first off you must be off your rocker to think md5 makes a difference, and I think the response to that post sums it up fine. rm realprog_md5_csum
md5 compromises_csum
Reupload... Give it a rest there. All that would be needed in say a *nix environment be it Linux, BSD, Solaris, whatever, is one nicely placed backdoor, md5 checksum and all/
Think about that outside the zealotry mode for a minute. I don't recall any follow up determining, "Hey this happened X_TIME ago, therefore clean programs should be reinstalled on your machine." Now I support the entire Open Source movement by all means, but think about how many include files, or other files could have been tweaked. Say low level include files, or something similar. There is no one, and I say this COMFORTABLY, no one that checks every program, every line of code on their machine. Sure you could lsof|grep -i listen every here and there to see what's what, but a covert chan can hide that. Look I don't want to get into a sysadmin/secadmin shootout here it'd be a draw and I don't care who you are, but... In my eyes, there is still a long way to go.
Take a look at cpan and some of the modules you have on your machine. How many are updated with normalcy? What about the whole sourceforge/freshmeat concept of 'sysadmining', where you find a neat program supported for what... a year? Maybe 2 if you're lucky... Sometimes it seems the cool Open Source gets, the more issues come out with it...
Every step you take... someone is watching you
Great now we'll only have to buy from two companies in the future Intel and Microsoft.
Seriously though, when I hear some chip news, and how it's the 'next best thing' I kind of wonder how much is just marketing hype. So far I heard of terabyte chips... Coming Soon!!!... Faster chipset will do... and so on. Yet on the market you see none. According to most companies capabilities (providing it's not just hype), from what I gather, they have a chipset in the works that can fly you to the moon, wash your car, bone your partner, and have you back in time for work the next morning. However, these companies have to make as much money as they possibly can selling you their fourth, third, and second generation chips for the next few years.
Kiss your privacy goodbye thanks to... You
Now we can all buy more bootleg $1.00 packs of batteries from vendors riding the subways to test our CPU loads!
In other words... China has the United States' (or soon will have) population already as a customer in China. Do the math... Do I release it in the US and sell about 50-100 million (wishfully thinking), or do I do with a solid 100+ million Gee willikers what would you do...
Opinionater bastard
Opinion: 1. The Internet isn't complicated
That's an opinion. Considering more and more people are logging on, and I just read an article about older people turning to the Internet, consider the following... Just because to the author, the Internet, and using it is easy, does not mean it is not complicated for a new user
Opinion 3. The Internet is stupid.
No people are stupid. Personally (this is my opinion) I believe the next generation is going to be hellishly smarter than the one I grew up (growing up) with (in). Where else can you learn so many things from without leaving your home. Encyclopedia? They're limited.
Opinion: 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
There is no true 'value' per se as one cannot grasp anything physical. But where else can you find mega bargains, mega information...
For sale Dell Computer Pentium II with the Internet
I was shocked... First thing I thought was where the hell can I fit the entire Internet on my machine.
I would have contacted a lawyer first... As for me... I wish I had some form of luck
They've perfected they voice, and they're claim they have perfected the face. So what happens when we don't know things such as:
Real President or clone (not that in this office it matters
Real Osama or clone
Real Arafat who just bombed a synagogue or clone
On a serious note though, these types of things should be left alone. On the one hand they may seem cool, but they leave a lot of room for abuse.
Just imagine the field day say a bank robber could have robbing banks while his clone is parked in front of a police station...
hehehehehehehe
Note I bolded the 16 and the date, there is a page somewhere on that monstrous site which states they have 40 billion. I've seen it a few times unfortunately I can't pinpoint the location right now.
And what will they do with what they know? They claim to be able to pinpoint every move you made from college to getting tossed out your duplex etc.,
Personally I use Lynx most of the time or Firebird for my personal use, but as for work I use Windows IE. So here is just another little quip, the majority of corporations (big money spenders) have (or at least should have) policies against software being installed, and I doubt they'd be willing to dish out more money for something already "FREE" (note the quotations before you flame back), "FREE" on the OS they were conned into buying/upgrading. It's called IE.
Not to bang the drum slowly here but if Netscape which was already paired with a money maker (or loser depending on your view) such as AOL, and it's pretty much a dead product nowadays, I wonder what Opera is thinking aside from making a quick dollar. Even if they made a measly $190k they lost $3.1 that will eventually have to be paid back if not done already.
Now, Opera is alright as a browser, but as it stands the majority of `quickie' users tend to be - dare I say it? - IE (l)users, and with Microsoft making it pretty much the first thing a new computer user sees, I wonder what is making Opera think they can compete with the (s/^/crooked/g) Microsoft 400lb Gorilla.
I won't bother getting into a political shootout over this so here's my two ^*. The last place I would want to look towards when thinking of the pResidency, votes, voters* (and any variation of this) would be online. How many articles have you seen on Diebold, and all of the quirks associated with things political.
Wait before you shoot some quick response, I know this has little to do with voting so let me shift. Using the net in the fashion Dean has, is nothing new, he's probably the only one smart enough to publicize it though. Remember, many Americans aren't that literate when it comes to computing as it is, so think about this... Who are his real followers, and one has to know these numbers the Dean camp or whomever can be tweaked.
E.g.: Dean2004.com or whatever sites associated with them show 1,000,000 visitors for February. Oh really? How many unique visitors, etc. Don't throw out numbers without backing it. Secondly, when it comes to computing, for all you know, there could be some 13-17 (under the voting age) kids playing around with Dean & Co. No you say? Prove it. Who in Dean or any camp can say with a straight face "We've attracted 1,000,000 legal aged voters that live in America" that would be a flat out lie. Even if say "cache.bigcompany.com" (where Big Company was a Fortune 500 co.) connected to someone's party, how do you know it's not a misconfigured proxy allowing anyone to connect.
Dumb users spread viruses. Irrelevant? I definitely think not. I would not look to the net for the next best thing "politically" for a long ass time. Now when someone decided to post "this is the first *real* use of the Internet in a meaningful way" ... They should have thought up something more meaningful like medical studies or something similar. My personal "REAL USE" of the internet would be the sharing of information on the educational level a-la MIT's Open Course Ware, and other projects similar to that. However I think medically it's underdeveloped and could rock. Think distributed dna sequencing type stuff.
Oh well my ramblings for the day
content
1. Desiring no more than what one has; satisfied.
2. Ready to accept or acquiesce; willing: She was content to spread her legs for fun and profit.