You've got to bring a towel -- amateurs never have their towel.
Also a fry pan and an axe. You need something to cook in and you can fix anything with an axe. Also, I'd bring my sleeping bag and tent -- they are small and I have lived out of them for years at a time.
And you might want to have some fishing gear and some wire to snare rabbits. Then you'd be able to survive indefinitely.
Cotton Gin -- basically, pulls the cotton from the unwanted plant parts by pulling it through a filter with, and I haven't seen one since I was a kid, a brush of needles.
Steam Locomotion -- easy: burn something to heat water resultant expansion pushes piston/turbine to make motion
Similar to above except uses small amount of gas which is ingited with a spark, or diesel fuel which is ignited through pressure and the resultant locomotion is powered through the driveshaft to turn the wheels. All the accessories are run off of a belt system from the driveshaft: water pump to keep the motor cool, alternator to keep the battery charged and the sparkplugs popping...
Electricity -- similar to above except instead of turning a wheel or drive shaft a magnet is spun inside a coil of wires and the electricity is produced and transmitted across a grid of wires and transformers to your home. Alternately, running water, nuclear fusion and wind can do this too.
Telephone: it's basically like pulling the tail of a cat and at the other end the cat screams.
over the air broadcast system -- same as above, but without the cat.
Wheel of Fortune -- Vanna White is the oracle of the goddess Fortuna and the wheel intereprets your fate.
It would be ironic if Albert Valente, the guy who shared his screener, were former head of the MPAA Jack Valente's nephew. If he is, Thanksgiving is going to be wierd.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
NetBeans is more than just about making beans and internet apps. You can use it for making stand alone J2SE apps and applets as well as enterprise apps.
I use Websphere (an IBM Eclipse) at work, but on my PII at home I like Netbeans. It's a nice fully functional IDE. Its only limit is with the J2ME, I don't think it does that yet, but I haven't checked. For J2ME I like the Websphere Device Developer.
I used to be a pure text based devoloper doing Java in Notepad because that is what was taught in school. But that's crappy. You get Netbeans or eclipse running and it will open a whole new world for you.
... and you'll really see how funny that is. Even remote fly in villages around the Hudson Basin have had better internet connectivity than is available in many large US areas now.
Going from NW Ontario down to Chicago last year was like going back in time eight years technologically. Not only is there a difference in internet speed and use, but also in understanding of technology.
I couldn't believe it! Not what I had expected at all.
You are correct. Format C: only gives a false sense of security. As stated elsewhere, a drive needs to be rewritten with random data preferably a few times. And even this isn't good enough for the paranoid.
Security is just a side benefit to the solution requested. The user asked for a way to split up an adress in order to avoid paying $60 per computer at his site. I figure they hadn't heard of NAT so I gave him my $0.02.
NAT alone does improve security. It is far better than a direct connection. NAT alone will stop a lot of port scan worms and door knob testers(the bulk of the crud that attacks simple users like myself). It's like having a cheap U-Lock on your bike, sure you can pick it with a BIC, but most people don't know that and it keeps mooks from riding off on it. THis is why most broadband routers & modems these days have NAT, it's a good first step.
Double NAT, however, is a different story. Double NAT is more difficult to breach. I am not going to say it is foolproof but it takes some serious effort to get across and for the networks that I have set up with this solution the end users have seen a dramatic drop in successful attacks. The only thing that I have seen succeed are trojans.
Still, if you want to be secure, I did suggested http://www.ipcop.org/, a linux distro that uses ipchains/tables and is a fairly sophisticated firewall and I have found to be a reliable and cost effective alternative to PIX or Checkpoint. Sites I have installed this solution in conjunction with good AV have had no breaches and they still run 98.
Security is not just one thing. Like the bike example above, security is many things: not just locking the front wheel, but locking the frame and both wheels; locking it in a well lit and visible place; bringing it indoors when possible... security is a matter of practicing many layers of secure procedures across the board -- it's using a secure OS, strong passwords, using virus/spyware protection, using firewalls, intrusion detection, logging, etc.
For the average enduser, most of this doesn't make any sense and you can't expect them to get it right even some of the time. But you put an unpatched Win98 box behind double NAT, even single NAT, and you will see a dramatic reduction in exploitation.
...if I am reading the map correctly, the lighter orange area is broadband whereas the dark orange is where you'll get service if you are lucky. Read their disclaimer:
This map shows approximately where rates and coverage apply based on our internal data. Wireless service is subject to network and transmission limitations, including cell site unavailability, particularly near boundaries and remote areas. Customer equipment, weather, topography, and other environmental considerations associated with radio technology also affect service and service may vary significantly within buildings. With "all-digital" devices, you can only make and receive calls when digital service is available. When digital service is not available, your device will not operate or be able to make 911 calls. Check the roam indicator on your phone to determine actual areas where service rates apply.
If you look at the whole of PA, there are large areas without any service.
Pennyslvania is a tough market for any wireless tech. Due to the hilly terrain, line of sight is limited. I'd make sure it works before investing.
I have field agents who use my mobile application in PA and they say most places they hit do not even get crappy cell service. So we set them up with dial up and modems for their PDA's. Cellular modems, from our tests, are slow (1200 - 2400 bps) and dodgy when used over normal cellular networks.
... Although if you can see a broadband tower from your place, cellular broadband would be a nice way to go. And to be honest, I'd prefer it over my home connection of DSL and plan to switch when/if it ever becomes available. I am not holding my breathe.
All you need to do is connect your first connection to a router and use Network Address Translation to split your one address into many private addresses.
This will not only allow you to allocate a fairly large address space, but will also allow your addresses to be unroutable, meaning that an outsider will not be able to reach your machine without you explicitly allowing them to.
This may be an overly simplistic answer to your question, but it should work even if you have to use an old box and run something like ipcop you can then have an additional router with some fairly sophisticated firewalling to split up your account and then ethernet cable to a wireless router.
Yow, you make me jealous!! But thanks for giving me hope. I am hoping to convince my company to switch to RFID in 4-6 years once the technology is proven and the costs are down.
That would be *cool*... are the tags you are refering to passive? If there are RFID tags that work near absolute zero, I'd really be interested in knowing who makes them.
I was just speculating on warmer temperatures from how I have seen other electronics fail at temperatures -30 to -50 and I just can't see something that small be reliable in those ranges let alone negative 300 to 400 degrees farenheit...
There are many limits to RFID -- for example, how well do those thing withstand extreme cold? I'd like to use them for Artificial Insemination samples in our labs, but I just don't think those things would work too well at temperatures approaching absolute zero. Even if they did, you'd still have to open the insulated containers to get a signal since they are line of sight. I doubt they would work to well in meat or frozen foods either or anything shipped in winter.
Moreover, their biggest limitiation is bad data design. For example that chip Tommy Thompson seems to be backing away from inserting... I heard on Wisconsin Public radio it only gives a unique 8 digit identifier to be entered into a website to obtain the medical info. A number that small wouldn't come close to being able to give a unique number to the US population let alone the world's -- it seems like it would be too easy to get the wrong info on someone, let alone be able to wardial the database for fun and profit.
RFID seems to be a great way to manage drygoods, but medical applications can be dangerous. What do you do if the chip gets lost in the body as frequently happens with dogs? Even worse, what do you do with the thing when you get an MRI? Would it rocket out of your body to the strong magnet?
I think down the road there will be many useful applications, but we are still trying to figure out how to do simple things with them -- which is why Walmart's deadline to have everything RFID is long gone and forgotten as even the big players are trying to figure out how to get the things to work. Ethical concerns aside, the technology is still too new to be reliable but it does show promise.
You're probably right. Sorry to come off so cocky. RSI is mysterious and overall I am a very relaxed person which might account for some of my luck because I have really beat on my body working in extreme cold for long hours and bad posture.
On how much I depend on my body, RSI of any kind would really suck. I imagine it's the same for you. My sympathies. I hope you can figure out a way to get around it and it never bugs you again.
You are probably on to something in teaching good posture and taking breaks. A good deal of the exercise I do is focused on relaxing. I work on breathing and keeping my heart rate down during hard work by keeping my body relaxed.
Probably the most important skill to stress with a child is laziness. Don't worry about keeping up, work at your own pace and listen to your own body. Rest before you get tired and stretch before you get tight.
I am twice your age and have never experienced any sort of RSI despite being at the keyboard for at least eight to ten hours a day for the past two and a half decades. And I can't tell you how many 72+ hour stints I have accumulated.
But I also get exercise. So not only did I get my kid a laptop, but also a bicycle and I take her out biking everyday after dinner. Not only is it good exercise, but it's a good way to spend time together. Endorphins and tedium are like truth serum. I just ride next to her and let her talk. And when I tell her things she listens. We have great conversations and I am instilling in her the benefits of physical fitness.
Also, I put her to work in the yard taking care of livestock and keeping the woodshed stocked.
It's important to have a laptop, but it's also important not to grow up to be a pastey computer geek -- a tan, fit computer geek is preferable.
Have you read the threads??? Yes, they should have a nice desktop machine, but a cheap laptop is a good thing. It's good that they are too slow to play SIMs or DOOM or whatever memory intensive game is in vogue.
A cheap laptop is ideal for playing educational software.
A cheap laptop is a great way to introduce kids to the world of status and the accompanying responsibility. A kid will work hundreds of hours on educational software when would be unimpressed by a comparably priced set of encyclopedias just because it is cool to use a laptop even if they have to do math and spelling games or learn astronomy. Additionally, you can use it as a way to teach a bit of icarus and daedelus -- use the thing wisely or it melts in the sun -- translation, leave it in a dangerous place and it will get broken or if you're lucky, I'll take it away before it's broken.
And yes, you can get a half dozen cheapo used laptops for less than a new Xbox. And if you are limited for space, which would you rather have in your house: six laptops, six desktops or six xboxes with tv's? Not to mention which power bill would you rather pay?
As I have posted earlier, there are a lot of sub $100 laptops out there for kids to use. If you really look, you can find one for under $50 >> I know, I have a stack of em.
What kids need to use laptops for is to learn how to responsibly take care of something as well as to use educational software.
I don't think a kid needs network access on a laptop or even battery life. But having one's own computer is a great opportunity. They can plug it in and use it to run all those great educational CD's or even home made educational software.
When I was a kid, I used a calculator to learn multiplication. Now, kids in my family use software I wrote that drills them on their numbers.
Computerized learning is a great opportunity for kids to learn letters, numbers, spelling, history, math, astronomy... It's like a museum and tutor all in one.
And rather than cluttering up the house with PC's everyone can have a notebook usually for less money.
I got my kid a 300mhz laptop from a used computer store for forty bucks because they couldn't figure out how to load an OS on it.
The most important lessons a kid needs to learn about laptops is how to take care of it so it doesn't get smashed. This is why it seems pointless to invest in a new one -- I'd rather be out forty bucks than a grand or more. I had to take the machine away from her when she'd leave it sitting on a chair or the floor, but she quickly learned to take good care of it.
The thing works great and she writes all of her papers on it using Open Office. I have it running Win98 because there is a lot of good educational software I have her work with (she uses linux on her desktop -- her choice)
I don't give her network access on her laptop since I want her to be doing school work, not chatting or playing games -- that's what her desktop is for.
Even if some magic wand made MS 100% secure (and really it's not that far off) by default, there would be tons of work for security professionals. For example the recent brewhaha over the Cisco OS, the insecurity of DNS, and just the stupid way so many corporate networks are set up and maintained.
What good is a secure Windows network when your server room and backup tapes are destroyed in a fire?
Back before the Fourth of July, a major bank in Wisconsin had a major fsck up that resulted in direct deposit for its client companies not being deposited. In our company alone, over 1000 people had to get their check overnight expressed to them. Multiply this by hundreds of major employers across the state who used this bank, including government payrolls and this was a major incident that wasn't mentioned once in the media.
This disaster most probably had nothing to do with Microsoft, but was the result of poor administration of a complex system with little thought to business continuity. Was it a security breach, or just bad software -- I don't know. But if they had decent Security principles in place the fiasco would have been contained immediately saving the bank millions in overnight courriers, overdraft refunds and lost customers.
This is what Computer Security is all about, not just protecting computers from bad guys, but protecting data and its processing from the uncertainty that the world creates. As systems become more and more complex, this uncertainty is increased as is the need for better security.
If Reagan used Star Wars as a bluff to getting the Soviets to spend themselves into oblivion on useless technology, is the U.S. just stepping into the trap it used to crush the Soviets saying "Mmmmm, cheeeeese!"???
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You've got to bring a towel -- amateurs never have their towel.
Also a fry pan and an axe. You need something to cook in and you can fix anything with an axe. Also, I'd bring my sleeping bag and tent -- they are small and I have lived out of them for years at a time.
And you might want to have some fishing gear and some wire to snare rabbits. Then you'd be able to survive indefinitely.
But definitely bring a towel.
geezer to ipod wearing youngling: dumbass sez what?
Younging wearing ipod? WHAT!?
Cotton Gin -- basically, pulls the cotton from the unwanted plant parts by pulling it through a filter with, and I haven't seen one since I was a kid, a brush of needles.
Steam Locomotion -- easy: burn something to heat water resultant expansion pushes piston/turbine to make motion
Similar to above except uses small amount of gas which is ingited with a spark, or diesel fuel which is ignited through pressure and the resultant locomotion is powered through the driveshaft to turn the wheels. All the accessories are run off of a belt system from the driveshaft: water pump to keep the motor cool, alternator to keep the battery charged and the sparkplugs popping...
Electricity -- similar to above except instead of turning a wheel or drive shaft a magnet is spun inside a coil of wires and the electricity is produced and transmitted across a grid of wires and transformers to your home. Alternately, running water, nuclear fusion and wind can do this too.
Telephone: it's basically like pulling the tail of a cat and at the other end the cat screams.
over the air broadcast system -- same as above, but without the cat.
Wheel of Fortune -- Vanna White is the oracle of the goddess Fortuna and the wheel intereprets your fate.
any other smart questions whippersnapper?
It would be ironic if Albert Valente, the guy who shared his screener, were former head of the MPAA Jack Valente's nephew. If he is, Thanksgiving is going to be wierd.
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller
NetBeans is more than just about making beans and internet apps. You can use it for making stand alone J2SE apps and applets as well as enterprise apps.
I use Websphere (an IBM Eclipse) at work, but on my PII at home I like Netbeans. It's a nice fully functional IDE. Its only limit is with the J2ME, I don't think it does that yet, but I haven't checked. For J2ME I like the Websphere Device Developer.
I used to be a pure text based devoloper doing Java in Notepad because that is what was taught in school. But that's crappy. You get Netbeans or eclipse running and it will open a whole new world for you.
It's awesome and really advances your creativity.
... and you'll really see how funny that is. Even remote fly in villages around the Hudson Basin have had better internet connectivity than is available in many large US areas now.
Going from NW Ontario down to Chicago last year was like going back in time eight years technologically. Not only is there a difference in internet speed and use, but also in understanding of technology.
I couldn't believe it! Not what I had expected at all.
You are correct. Format C: only gives a false sense of security. As stated elsewhere, a drive needs to be rewritten with random data preferably a few times. And even this isn't good enough for the paranoid.
Security is just a side benefit to the solution requested. The user asked for a way to split up an adress in order to avoid paying $60 per computer at his site. I figure they hadn't heard of NAT so I gave him my $0.02.
NAT alone does improve security. It is far better than a direct connection. NAT alone will stop a lot of port scan worms and door knob testers(the bulk of the crud that attacks simple users like myself). It's like having a cheap U-Lock on your bike, sure you can pick it with a BIC, but most people don't know that and it keeps mooks from riding off on it. THis is why most broadband routers & modems these days have NAT, it's a good first step.
Double NAT, however, is a different story. Double NAT is more difficult to breach. I am not going to say it is foolproof but it takes some serious effort to get across and for the networks that I have set up with this solution the end users have seen a dramatic drop in successful attacks. The only thing that I have seen succeed are trojans.
Still, if you want to be secure, I did suggested http://www.ipcop.org/, a linux distro that uses ipchains/tables and is a fairly sophisticated firewall and I have found to be a reliable and cost effective alternative to PIX or Checkpoint. Sites I have installed this solution in conjunction with good AV have had no breaches and they still run 98.
Security is not just one thing. Like the bike example above, security is many things: not just locking the front wheel, but locking the frame and both wheels; locking it in a well lit and visible place; bringing it indoors when possible... security is a matter of practicing many layers of secure procedures across the board -- it's using a secure OS, strong passwords, using virus/spyware protection, using firewalls, intrusion detection, logging, etc.
For the average enduser, most of this doesn't make any sense and you can't expect them to get it right even some of the time. But you put an unpatched Win98 box behind double NAT, even single NAT, and you will see a dramatic reduction in exploitation.
That qualifies as an improvement in security.
If you look at the whole of PA, there are large areas without any service.
Pennyslvania is a tough market for any wireless tech. Due to the hilly terrain, line of sight is limited. I'd make sure it works before investing.
I have field agents who use my mobile application in PA and they say most places they hit do not even get crappy cell service. So we set them up with dial up and modems for their PDA's. Cellular modems, from our tests, are slow (1200 - 2400 bps) and dodgy when used over normal cellular networks.
... Although if you can see a broadband tower from your place, cellular broadband would be a nice way to go. And to be honest, I'd prefer it over my home connection of DSL and plan to switch when/if it ever becomes available. I am not holding my breathe.
All you need to do is connect your first connection to a router and use Network Address Translation to split your one address into many private addresses.
This will not only allow you to allocate a fairly large address space, but will also allow your addresses to be unroutable, meaning that an outsider will not be able to reach your machine without you explicitly allowing them to.
This may be an overly simplistic answer to your question, but it should work even if you have to use an old box and run something like ipcop you can then have an additional router with some fairly sophisticated firewalling to split up your account and then ethernet cable to a wireless router.
Yow, you make me jealous!! But thanks for giving me hope. I am hoping to convince my company to switch to RFID in 4-6 years once the technology is proven and the costs are down.
That would be *cool*... are the tags you are refering to passive? If there are RFID tags that work near absolute zero, I'd really be interested in knowing who makes them.
I was just speculating on warmer temperatures from how I have seen other electronics fail at temperatures -30 to -50 and I just can't see something that small be reliable in those ranges let alone negative 300 to 400 degrees farenheit...
There are many limits to RFID -- for example, how well do those thing withstand extreme cold? I'd like to use them for Artificial Insemination samples in our labs, but I just don't think those things would work too well at temperatures approaching absolute zero. Even if they did, you'd still have to open the insulated containers to get a signal since they are line of sight. I doubt they would work to well in meat or frozen foods either or anything shipped in winter.
Moreover, their biggest limitiation is bad data design. For example that chip Tommy Thompson seems to be backing away from inserting... I heard on Wisconsin Public radio it only gives a unique 8 digit identifier to be entered into a website to obtain the medical info. A number that small wouldn't come close to being able to give a unique number to the US population let alone the world's -- it seems like it would be too easy to get the wrong info on someone, let alone be able to wardial the database for fun and profit.
RFID seems to be a great way to manage drygoods, but medical applications can be dangerous. What do you do if the chip gets lost in the body as frequently happens with dogs? Even worse, what do you do with the thing when you get an MRI? Would it rocket out of your body to the strong magnet?
I think down the road there will be many useful applications, but we are still trying to figure out how to do simple things with them -- which is why Walmart's deadline to have everything RFID is long gone and forgotten as even the big players are trying to figure out how to get the things to work. Ethical concerns aside, the technology is still too new to be reliable but it does show promise.
Then whose going to make the stuff you buy at walmart and whose gonna hold the paper on your mortgage???
If our behaviour is strict, we do not need fun!
You're probably right. Sorry to come off so cocky. RSI is mysterious and overall I am a very relaxed person which might account for some of my luck because I have really beat on my body working in extreme cold for long hours and bad posture.
On how much I depend on my body, RSI of any kind would really suck. I imagine it's the same for you. My sympathies. I hope you can figure out a way to get around it and it never bugs you again.
You are probably on to something in teaching good posture and taking breaks. A good deal of the exercise I do is focused on relaxing. I work on breathing and keeping my heart rate down during hard work by keeping my body relaxed.
Probably the most important skill to stress with a child is laziness. Don't worry about keeping up, work at your own pace and listen to your own body. Rest before you get tired and stretch before you get tight.
I am twice your age and have never experienced any sort of RSI despite being at the keyboard for at least eight to ten hours a day for the past two and a half decades. And I can't tell you how many 72+ hour stints I have accumulated.
But I also get exercise. So not only did I get my kid a laptop, but also a bicycle and I take her out biking everyday after dinner. Not only is it good exercise, but it's a good way to spend time together. Endorphins and tedium are like truth serum. I just ride next to her and let her talk. And when I tell her things she listens. We have great conversations and I am instilling in her the benefits of physical fitness.
Also, I put her to work in the yard taking care of livestock and keeping the woodshed stocked.
It's important to have a laptop, but it's also important not to grow up to be a pastey computer geek -- a tan, fit computer geek is preferable.
Have you read the threads??? Yes, they should have a nice desktop machine, but a cheap laptop is a good thing. It's good that they are too slow to play SIMs or DOOM or whatever memory intensive game is in vogue.
A cheap laptop is ideal for playing educational software.
A cheap laptop is a great way to introduce kids to the world of status and the accompanying responsibility. A kid will work hundreds of hours on educational software when would be unimpressed by a comparably priced set of encyclopedias just because it is cool to use a laptop even if they have to do math and spelling games or learn astronomy. Additionally, you can use it as a way to teach a bit of icarus and daedelus -- use the thing wisely or it melts in the sun -- translation, leave it in a dangerous place and it will get broken or if you're lucky, I'll take it away before it's broken.
And yes, you can get a half dozen cheapo used laptops for less than a new Xbox. And if you are limited for space, which would you rather have in your house: six laptops, six desktops or six xboxes with tv's? Not to mention which power bill would you rather pay?
As I have posted earlier, there are a lot of sub $100 laptops out there for kids to use. If you really look, you can find one for under $50 >> I know, I have a stack of em.
What kids need to use laptops for is to learn how to responsibly take care of something as well as to use educational software.
I don't think a kid needs network access on a laptop or even battery life. But having one's own computer is a great opportunity. They can plug it in and use it to run all those great educational CD's or even home made educational software.
When I was a kid, I used a calculator to learn multiplication. Now, kids in my family use software I wrote that drills them on their numbers.
Computerized learning is a great opportunity for kids to learn letters, numbers, spelling, history, math, astronomy... It's like a museum and tutor all in one.
And rather than cluttering up the house with PC's everyone can have a notebook usually for less money.
I got my kid a 300mhz laptop from a used computer store for forty bucks because they couldn't figure out how to load an OS on it.
The most important lessons a kid needs to learn about laptops is how to take care of it so it doesn't get smashed. This is why it seems pointless to invest in a new one -- I'd rather be out forty bucks than a grand or more. I had to take the machine away from her when she'd leave it sitting on a chair or the floor, but she quickly learned to take good care of it.
The thing works great and she writes all of her papers on it using Open Office. I have it running Win98 because there is a lot of good educational software I have her work with (she uses linux on her desktop -- her choice)
I don't give her network access on her laptop since I want her to be doing school work, not chatting or playing games -- that's what her desktop is for.
Even if some magic wand made MS 100% secure (and really it's not that far off) by default, there would be tons of work for security professionals. For example the recent brewhaha over the Cisco OS, the insecurity of DNS, and just the stupid way so many corporate networks are set up and maintained.
What good is a secure Windows network when your server room and backup tapes are destroyed in a fire?
Back before the Fourth of July, a major bank in Wisconsin had a major fsck up that resulted in direct deposit for its client companies not being deposited. In our company alone, over 1000 people had to get their check overnight expressed to them. Multiply this by hundreds of major employers across the state who used this bank, including government payrolls and this was a major incident that wasn't mentioned once in the media.
This disaster most probably had nothing to do with Microsoft, but was the result of poor administration of a complex system with little thought to business continuity. Was it a security breach, or just bad software -- I don't know. But if they had decent Security principles in place the fiasco would have been contained immediately saving the bank millions in overnight courriers, overdraft refunds and lost customers.
This is what Computer Security is all about, not just protecting computers from bad guys, but protecting data and its processing from the uncertainty that the world creates. As systems become more and more complex, this uncertainty is increased as is the need for better security.
Tis a convenient pre-election move to put tech people back to work just before the election!
The energy it will save will be the energy it will take to make the Republican party look good.
8:59, First time I've ever been early for work. --except for all those daylight savings times, lousy farmers!
If Reagan used Star Wars as a bluff to getting the Soviets to spend themselves into oblivion on useless technology, is the U.S. just stepping into the trap it used to crush the Soviets saying "Mmmmm, cheeeeese!"???