Over at one of the military gps status sites (over here) they mention the mission being global nav, time, and nuclear detection.
Nuclear detection?
Anyone have any other info on this? I'm mostly just curious, I didn't think those satellites also had that feature. Or are they simply the standard relays for another detection facility?
(Sorry if this is a repost, this didn't post the first time)
This is awesome news. I use gps nearly every weekend, and it's always bothered me a little knowing that it was off a little bit.
Anyways, for more info here are a couple of links to gps sites: GPS Info Website is an awesome starting point. Tons of links and info. GPS and NMEA- A good FAQ site on gps in general and also hooking a unit up to other equipment (hand computer, autopilot, etc.). US Coast Guard Nav Center has some good updates and status of gps. Garmin- A well known gps maker, their site also has some good general info on gps (not just their units).
Go for it. I'm extremely interested in an mp3 player for my car. I think around 500$ish is a good price that I would be willing to pay. I'm stoked at the idea of something that does not skip. That's one thing that really pisses me off about cds. I do a lot of fast, offroad driving in dusty conditions and that just beats the shit out of discs and the player so after just a couple of weeks a cd will have a skip. I don't think I have a disc that doesn't skip at the moment. And I went with a Kenwood unit specifically because of demonstrated anti-skip features.
So, short story long, if someone builds an mp3 car deck that holds at least 6 gigs, I'll make a trade for 500 bills.
Wow, does this include ls? And no maintenance or tech support agreements. Right there in the same size text as everything else. I think it shows quite a bit about the state of programmers and admins today. That would never fly now- the blurb would be in 4 pt font on the bottom, and nobody (in business where money matters) now tries that hard to learn enough about a system to fix it on their own.
sadr's reply to your post makes the most sense. But in case you're still interested, one of the many vapor modules that's supposed to come out for the Handspring visor is a cell phone module. I've seen pictures of prototypes. There's an ear piece for the speaker, and you use the built in microphone on the visor as the mic. Unfortunately I don't have the url off the top of my head, but there is a decent list of modules and status at VisorCentral.
Here's a blurb from Russ Cooper , NTBugTraq editor. It about sums up this hype pretty well:
Ok, so let's deal with this.
This text string, "!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN" is embedded in the dvwssr.dll that contains the vulnerability just discussed.
The question raised is what is this string for, and is it a secret backdoor password. At least that's what the media seems to be hyping up.
My information says that this string is used to obfuscate file names requested via the dvwssr.dll. Nobody seems to know why they're obfuscated at this point, but it does not represent a password". Its a piece of static data used in the obfuscating process is all.
FYI, it was put into the program sometime in 1995, when the program was first released, and definitely not in the "height of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft".
If you get this string to do anything for you, please let us know. The fact that the.dll has a vulnerability in it which permits anyone with web authoring permission to get access to files on other sites on the same box may have led the discoverer to believe that it was a password to enable that "functionality". My information says the two things are unrelated, the vulnerability exists whether you know the string text or not.
Let us not make another "NSA backdoor" out of this unless/until someone can actually prove a claim about it.
Take a look here for a decent explaination. It's from Russ Cooper from NTBugtraq, who usually has some pretty good contacts. Basically, the exploit is not as far reaching as people think. The attacker needs to already have permissions to edit a website on the server. Then they can change another user's site.
What I find somewhat interesting, or not, is the path that the OSes have taken on config files.
Win: from text (win.ini, etc) to the stupid binary registry. Unix: always (for the most part) easy to use text files. Mac: from resource forks/resedit to xml text files.
Text files are pretty damn nice. Always easily accessable, you can easily write utils to edit them, and you can do it from telnet. I was never a big fan of binary (or whatever you want to call them) config files, like resource forks or the registry. It may speed things up in some cases, but for this use I'd prefer the easy access. This is just another small round of ammo that makes me like windows less.
Hmmm... I kinda doubt this will be enough to really start another space race. This is the first time they're sending someone up, and the US does this pretty often. It will be quite some time before the Chinese can do something that's really new and cool.
And what could be cooler than going to another planet or the moon? Think about this- China is pretty big, and has few people there, and they know that they are getting too big for their own good. What better place to expand a population than up? That's one fairly common argument for continuing NASA's exploration- one of these days, we're going to have to expand into space. Well, China may actually take that seriously.
Now THAT would start a space race. And not one that is (outwardly) motivated by fear, but a real race, as in who gets there first. It was pretty exciting doing that while north america was being explored and populated by whitey, now imagine racing to another planet!
Is it only x86? I still haven't absorbed everything, but it seems that you could emulate other instruction sets. Or a totally new one. Or, could you right directly with the VLIW instruction set? Could you put a small footprint, high power OS in flash rom with the VLIW instruction set?
Come on, guys. So far all I see are people whining about the marketing guys, or it's just another intel chip, pretty much everything but the technology. Does anyone have any opinion or original thoughts at all on what this technology can really do? Right now? Never mind what intel mind release next week. I don't care about marketing. I'm a nerd. This sounds cool.
Lizardtech is another company doing similar research that is seems luratech is doing. My company has done some alpha/beta testing for lizardtech (we're in the graphic arts industry). The cool thing is that they have a web server application (interfaced in perl) that allows you to zoom in on images in a web site.
Another company that has done probably the most ground breaking work in wavelets is Iterated Systems who we also helped out in the past. They are not as adept at bringing tools to market but have done a lot of original research into wavelet compression.
So does this mean that next year we go through the same thing? Shouldn't there be a ruling somewhere- either by a bonehead judge or a numbskull at nsi?
Some time, eventually this same argument will come up and have to be resolved. We should take this time, right now, to get in touch with decision makers and show them what almost happened now that the pressure is off and people are a bit more relaxed. Rationally. Probably don't want to call them a numbskull to their face. But you get the idea.
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I'm not liking the sounds of this plan. And initially I was thinking that hey, as long as I have my current printer that does fine, no worries. However, all it would seem to take is a driver upgrade, and zap, your currently private printer is now id'ing you.
So, a bit off topic, but let's say after all this hubbub and 5 or 10 years from now there's a wiretapping backdoor into everything IP. Even today a lot of people are starting to get (as in understand and use) encryption for personal use. By the time all this wiretapping stuff comes to a head, don't you think it will be fairly moot? Yeah, the spec and implementation has wasted a lot of hours and slows performance, that another argument. But as someone has mentioned, all the snoopers will see is cyphertext flying by.
Does it really matter? Let's just not let big bro force a back door into everyday encryption, ok?
I can't add much to what others have said, but here's my experience.
I had my eyes done this past June. Everything went absolutely perfectly, it's awesome. I went to Laski-Vision in Vancouver Canada. Purely for cost. It cost me 1500$ for both eyes there, and the business is quite reputable. The only reason I went 7 hours north was to save a butt load of money. I also researched things quite a bit before going, and was refered to this place through another friend who went there.
The procedure itself was pretty cool. After they peel the flap back, while the laser is firing I can see the blurs slowly change as the cornea surface was shaped. There was one odd thing that they didn't warn me about but makes sense- the distinct odor of burning flesh. Kinda sounds freaky, but just adds to the fun in my opinion. Overall the operation was painless and really cool to experience, especially for a nerd.
Recovery is pretty simple, but make sure to LISTEN TO THEM! Put in the drops just as prescribed, don't skimp. It's easy and very important. With the lubricating drops, I used mine for a bit over three months. Some people use them for six months or more, but that can be normal. The important thing is to use them too much, rather than not enough.
There are already several companies using this stuff. The technology has been around for a while, but we've been using fractal image formats in the graphic arts industry for just the last couple of years. Here are the actual products:
The cool thing about this isn't so much the compression of an image (visually lossless compression to 40:1 or better), but the scaling of an image. You can scan an image at optimum setting (maybe 8x10, 1200dpi, etc) and compress it. But the cool part is later on when you want a poster size of this image, or a web thumbnail, you can scale the image up or down with great clarity from a single source. Extremely cool in this industry.
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Over at one of the military gps status sites (over here) they mention the mission being global nav, time, and nuclear detection.
Nuclear detection?
Anyone have any other info on this? I'm mostly just curious, I didn't think those satellites also had that feature. Or are they simply the standard relays for another detection facility?
Just wondering,
Jason
(Sorry if this is a repost, this didn't post the first time)
This is awesome news. I use gps nearly every weekend, and it's always bothered me a little knowing that it was off a little bit.
Anyways, for more info here are a couple of links to gps sites:
GPS Info Website is an awesome starting point. Tons of links and info.
GPS and NMEA- A good FAQ site on gps in general and also hooking a unit up to other equipment (hand computer, autopilot, etc.).
US Coast Guard Nav Center has some good updates and status of gps.
Garmin- A well known gps maker, their site also has some good general info on gps (not just their units).
Anyways, have fun out there!
Jason
Go for it. I'm extremely interested in an mp3 player for my car. I think around 500$ish is a good price that I would be willing to pay. I'm stoked at the idea of something that does not skip. That's one thing that really pisses me off about cds. I do a lot of fast, offroad driving in dusty conditions and that just beats the shit out of discs and the player so after just a couple of weeks a cd will have a skip. I don't think I have a disc that doesn't skip at the moment. And I went with a Kenwood unit specifically because of demonstrated anti-skip features.
So, short story long, if someone builds an mp3 car deck that holds at least 6 gigs, I'll make a trade for 500 bills.
Jason
Hey-
:)
It's not there anymore because there's a new version 2.0 of wiretape. It's called the World Wide Web.
Seriously, isn't this pretty much what the web is about, with a little more organized index? And a lot smaller.
Just some thoughts.
Jason
Wow, does this include ls? And no maintenance or tech support agreements. Right there in the same size text as everything else. I think it shows quite a bit about the state of programmers and admins today. That would never fly now- the blurb would be in 4 pt font on the bottom, and nobody (in business where money matters) now tries that hard to learn enough about a system to fix it on their own.
Ah well, still a fun ad to look at today.
Jason
sadr's reply to your post makes the most sense. But in case you're still interested, one of the many vapor modules that's supposed to come out for the Handspring visor is a cell phone module. I've seen pictures of prototypes. There's an ear piece for the speaker, and you use the built in microphone on the visor as the mic. Unfortunately I don't have the url off the top of my head, but there is a decent list of modules and status at VisorCentral.
Jason
right here. A good write up by rain forest puppy.
Jason
Take a look here
for a decent explaination. It's from Russ Cooper from NTBugtraq, who usually has some pretty good contacts. Basically, the exploit is not as far reaching as people think. The attacker needs to already have permissions to edit a website on the server. Then they can change another user's site.
Jason
What I find somewhat interesting, or not, is the path that the OSes have taken on config files.
Win: from text (win.ini, etc) to the stupid binary registry.
Unix: always (for the most part) easy to use text files.
Mac: from resource forks/resedit to xml text files.
Text files are pretty damn nice. Always easily accessable, you can easily write utils to edit them, and you can do it from telnet. I was never a big fan of binary (or whatever you want to call them) config files, like resource forks or the registry. It may speed things up in some cases, but for this use I'd prefer the easy access. This is just another small round of ammo that makes me like windows less.
Just pondering.
Jason
Hmmm... I kinda doubt this will be enough to really start another space race. This is the first time they're sending someone up, and the US does this pretty often. It will be quite some time before the Chinese can do something that's really new and cool.
And what could be cooler than going to another planet or the moon? Think about this- China is pretty big, and has few people there, and they know that they are getting too big for their own good. What better place to expand a population than up? That's one fairly common argument for continuing NASA's exploration- one of these days, we're going to have to expand into space. Well, China may actually take that seriously.
Now THAT would start a space race. And not one that is (outwardly) motivated by fear, but a real race, as in who gets there first. It was pretty exciting doing that while north america was being explored and populated by whitey, now imagine racing to another planet!
Could be kinda cool.
Jason
Is it only x86? I still haven't absorbed everything, but it seems that you could emulate other instruction sets. Or a totally new one. Or, could you right directly with the VLIW instruction set? Could you put a small footprint, high power OS in flash rom with the VLIW instruction set?
Come on, guys. So far all I see are people whining about the marketing guys, or it's just another intel chip, pretty much everything but the technology. Does anyone have any opinion or original thoughts at all on what this technology can really do? Right now? Never mind what intel mind release next week. I don't care about marketing. I'm a nerd. This sounds cool.
What do the nerds here think?
Jason
Lizardtech is another company doing similar research that is seems luratech is doing. My company has done some alpha/beta testing for lizardtech (we're in the graphic arts industry). The cool thing is that they have a web server application (interfaced in perl) that allows you to zoom in on images in a web site.
Another company that has done probably the most ground breaking work in wavelets is Iterated Systems who we also helped out in the past. They are not as adept at bringing tools to market but have done a lot of original research into wavelet compression.
Jason
So does this mean that next year we go through the same thing? Shouldn't there be a ruling somewhere- either by a bonehead judge or a numbskull at nsi?
Some time, eventually this same argument will come up and have to be resolved. We should take this time, right now, to get in touch with decision makers and show them what almost happened now that the pressure is off and people are a bit more relaxed. Rationally. Probably don't want to call them a numbskull to their face. But you get the idea.
Jason
It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!
:)
Don't tell me you don't know that line...
Jason
I'm not liking the sounds of this plan. And initially I was thinking that hey, as long as I have my current printer that does fine, no worries. However, all it would seem to take is a driver upgrade, and zap, your currently private printer is now id'ing you.
Jason
So, a bit off topic, but let's say after all this hubbub and 5 or 10 years from now there's a wiretapping backdoor into everything IP. Even today a lot of people are starting to get (as in understand and use) encryption for personal use. By the time all this wiretapping stuff comes to a head, don't you think it will be fairly moot? Yeah, the spec and implementation has wasted a lot of hours and slows performance, that another argument. But as someone has mentioned, all the snoopers will see is cyphertext flying by.
Does it really matter? Let's just not let big bro force a back door into everyday encryption, ok?
Jason
Heya-
I can't add much to what others have said, but here's my experience.
I had my eyes done this past June. Everything went absolutely perfectly, it's awesome. I went to Laski-Vision in Vancouver Canada. Purely for cost. It cost me 1500$ for both eyes there, and the business is quite reputable. The only reason I went 7 hours north was to save a butt load of money. I also researched things quite a bit before going, and was refered to this place through another friend who went there.
The procedure itself was pretty cool. After they peel the flap back, while the laser is firing I can see the blurs slowly change as the cornea surface was shaped. There was one odd thing that they didn't warn me about but makes sense- the distinct odor of burning flesh. Kinda sounds freaky, but just adds to the fun in my opinion. Overall the operation was painless and really cool to experience, especially for a nerd.
Recovery is pretty simple, but make sure to LISTEN TO THEM! Put in the drops just as prescribed, don't skimp. It's easy and very important. With the lubricating drops, I used mine for a bit over three months. Some people use them for six months or more, but that can be normal. The important thing is to use them too much, rather than not enough.
Anyways, good luck! It'll change your life...
Jason
Iterated Systems- http://www.iterated.com
Lizardtech- http://www.lizardtech.com
The cool thing about this isn't so much the compression of an image (visually lossless compression to 40:1 or better), but the scaling of an image. You can scan an image at optimum setting (maybe 8x10, 1200dpi, etc) and compress it. But the cool part is later on when you want a poster size of this image, or a web thumbnail, you can scale the image up or down with great clarity from a single source. Extremely cool in this industry.
Jason
Compared to microsoft's test site, at least this one is reachable so far. After two days, I have been able to load microsoft's page only once.