and some of the current regime's heavyweights outlined their plans before they even got into office. Then they did it, they followed through with their plans.
That actually doesn't prove anything. The Pentagon has legions of people who draw up all manner of contingency plans. So some day some guys in the Pentagon sit down at a table and say, "What if Iran makes an amphibious assault on Saudi Arabia?" or, "What if Syria attacks Jordan?" or you name it. Then it goes out to battle planners who look at current military capabilities and make a plan. Part of the report goes to the DLA (logistics) who check materiel requirements against what is stocked and if necessary order stuff to stick in the colossal wharehouse complex in, e.g., Columbus.
So when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 somebody walked aver to a file cabinet and pulled out a plan. Right next to 8,347 others that never got used (thank goodness).
my co-workers wife went to USA for few weeks and rented a car with a manual transmission.
Where in the USA can you rent a car with manual transmission? No rental place I have ever gone to even offers manual transmissions. Even the tin-can models (which desparately need a stick) have A/C and automatic. The 26-foot U-Haul trucks don't come in manual anymore (unless you can get an old one, but one I had was so beat-up it was missing second gear!). So you are stuck with a gasoline engine, auto transmission truck that can barely go 60 mph and guzzles fuel to the tune of 40 cents/mile.
All because Joe Sixpack (or Jenny Ponytail) can't use a clutch. Maybe that's why 2nd gear was gone...
If you think about it, in your proposal, (2) & (3) are really the same, just that (2) is encrypted & (3) is plaintext. Or really, all three parts are the same, just that (1) is signed, (2) is encrypted, & (3) is unsigned plaintext.
I suppose you can generalize this to having different signing authorities (The feds sign it as a passport, DMV signs it so you can drive, library signs it, Mastercard signs it, your employer/aprtment complex signs it so you can get in the door, etc) Each signature authority is independent so privacy issues are no worse than separate ID's. And opaque encrypted blocks for the CIA (if you're an agent), local police (if you're a cop), your local militia, al Quaeda, the ETA...oops.
The real idea here is to use cryptographic signatures to authenticate instead of holographic-color whatevers. More secure but requires equipment authenticate; you can't eyeball it anymore.
If you *are* a musician that *must* use the airlines to transport their instrument(s), I would *highly* recommend seeking out an insurance policy to cover it, and to also, if possible, plan to have an alternate instrument available in case of loss/theft.
Or, if possible, ship the instrument to a trusted associate before you leave. Even on their worst day, the air frieght comapnies are light-years more organized in material handling than the passenger airlines. Gotta do the customs paperwork though (and tolerate a day or so of delay), and the freight cost can be quite high for some countries.
That pretty much jibes with my experience back in the day...We always approached D&D a'la carte. Don't need 50 types of polearms inside a subterranean dungeon? Drop 'em. Got a situation where chracters have to lump across a pool of lava? Whip out Dragon Magazine and use the rules somebody wrote up.
My mindset is that the adventure defined the rules while the game was a library of pre-set rules that the adventure refers to. The adventure is analogous to a program while the game is a set of API function calls.
Everything in radio is old. Spread spectrum was patented in the 40's, FM in the 30's, and the principles of TDMA were worked out by Nyquist and his cohorts in Bell Labs in the 20's. Huffman coded digital data? Introduced (albeit in primitive form) by Samuel Morse. Even the "advanced" modulation formats being proposed these days are pretty much straightforward implementations of coding theories developed by Claude Shannon & his comtemporaries in the 50's
What's new is cheap silicon to strap radios to everything and everybody under the sun, and microprocessors to make them easy to operate, or even autonomous.
(CDMA was used by the US military before) which is probaby why most of Asia adopted GSM since that was the cutting-edge technology of that time. Now, both GSM and CDMA (IS-95) are 2G (second generation) technologies. Guess what's 3G? WCDMA (wideband-CDMA) and CDMA-2000. So CDMA is definitely not on its way out.
Be careful with your use of terms, there. The military uses CDMA in the sense that they use spread spectrum with codes defining the channels, but military systems are almost universally frequency-hopping type (for resistance to intentional jamming, no matter the cost) versus direct-sequence type (the watered-down type of spread-spectrum used in cellphones, not resistant to jamming but amenable to VLSI implementation and therefore cheaper to the mass market). So military communications don't use anything remotely resembling CDMA-the-standard (IS-95).
You mean the
merger rumor? It's true. JAMD & Blue Linux have merged. I installed JAMD..a nice little Red Hat derivative with well-integrated GUI install & login, good for home workstations, sorta like Mandrake I suppose but non-commercial. My father-in-law seems to have taken a liking to it since I put it on his machine as a dual-boot option. I had to switch to Slack myself, though, because I needed to set up a Samba server.
Thus, research into chip design was up until recently funneled towards keeping up with the Moore's Law pace of faster and faster clock speeds. Research into creating a chip that could run on low power just wasn't done because there wasn't much of a market for it.
It appears that the advent of truly mobile microprocessors (beyond calculator specs at least) conincided with the development of digital cellular handsets. So perhaps Palm[$RANDOMCOMAPNYSUFFIX]'s success, where others had failed before, was a result of piggybacking on chip fabrication technologies whose development costs were justifed by the cellphone market.
Visa International (formerly Bank of America) did.
And this Liberty Alliance would do well to understand the experience of Interbank/Master{card|charge}. Properly implemented open systems can explode on the scene when conditions are right...in both finance and networking.
The BankAmericard now is back as...get this...a Mastercard!
Consider this. Back in the 1980s, MS-DOS/PC-DOS was the OS...Among the warez community floppy boot sector viruses were very common. Nearly every other disk someone lent me had a virus...I would estimate that the number of Linux boxes installed today would be at least as big as the number of MS-DOS/PC-DOS installations back in the 1980s.
To extend that point even further, the Amiga, whose market/mind share even at its peak was maybe 2% and never sold more than a couple million units total, suffered from 200 or so virus. So Linux should have at least a thousand or so by now if not for its prudent design.
The Amiga's pioneering-for-a-desktop multitasking OS made it easy for early virus writers; the "mega-mighty SCA" was the first known virus. Sometimes being a pioneer means having an arrow in your back. But the sparse (or elegant, if you prefer) Amiga architecture makes it easy to scan for viral behavior, and there are algorithmic virus scanners for that platform, so outbreaks never got very far. I sometimes wonder how the old girl would fare against a network worm or browser exploit, if anybody made one. But right now I have so much security through obscurity there is no way of knowing.
I thought the same thing. That Gold Disk (also of Canada) also did the Amiga "Appetizer" set of word processor, paint, & music programs, bundled with the A500's ~1989.
But gven the quote: >Mr. Head set up Gold Disk Canada Inc. in June, 1998, at the age of 19,...
Barring infant entrepeneurs, the two must be unrelated. Surely a spammer would have no qualms misapproriating someone else's trademark (if it is still even active).
There actually is such a thing as latex paint thinner. It is a mixture of water & an emulsifier of the same sort used in the latex paint. It looks like milk (which is itself an emulsion). Supposed to work better than plain water.
> A lunchbox may certainly be better, but I haven't
> seen one in real life for almost 20 years
Luggables are making a sort-of comeback. A small-form PC (like a Shuttle X or mITX) can be combined with a flat panel screen & you are bascially there. Just put a handle on it and get a bag for the screen.
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and some of the current regime's heavyweights outlined their plans before they even got into office. Then they did it, they followed through with their plans.
That actually doesn't prove anything. The Pentagon has legions of people who draw up all manner of contingency plans. So some day some guys in the Pentagon sit down at a table and say, "What if Iran makes an amphibious assault on Saudi Arabia?" or, "What if Syria attacks Jordan?" or you name it. Then it goes out to battle planners who look at current military capabilities and make a plan. Part of the report goes to the DLA (logistics) who check materiel requirements against what is stocked and if necessary order stuff to stick in the colossal wharehouse complex in, e.g., Columbus.
So when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 somebody walked aver to a file cabinet and pulled out a plan. Right next to 8,347 others that never got used (thank goodness).
my co-workers wife went to USA for few weeks and rented a car with a manual transmission.
Where in the USA can you rent a car with manual transmission? No rental place I have ever gone to even offers manual transmissions. Even the tin-can models (which desparately need a stick) have A/C and automatic. The 26-foot U-Haul trucks don't come in manual anymore (unless you can get an old one, but one I had was so beat-up it was missing second gear!). So you are stuck with a gasoline engine, auto transmission truck that can barely go 60 mph and guzzles fuel to the tune of 40 cents/mile.
All because Joe Sixpack (or Jenny Ponytail) can't use a clutch. Maybe that's why 2nd gear was gone...
If you think about it, in your proposal, (2) & (3) are really the same, just that (2) is encrypted & (3) is plaintext. Or really, all three parts are the same, just that (1) is signed, (2) is encrypted, & (3) is unsigned plaintext.
I suppose you can generalize this to having different signing authorities (The feds sign it as a passport, DMV signs it so you can drive, library signs it, Mastercard signs it, your employer/aprtment complex signs it so you can get in the door, etc) Each signature authority is independent so privacy issues are no worse than separate ID's. And opaque encrypted blocks for the CIA (if you're an agent), local police (if you're a cop), your local militia, al Quaeda, the ETA...oops.
The real idea here is to use cryptographic signatures to authenticate instead of holographic-color whatevers. More secure but requires equipment authenticate; you can't eyeball it anymore.
If you *are* a musician that *must* use the airlines to transport their instrument(s), I would *highly* recommend seeking out an insurance policy to cover it, and to also, if possible, plan to have an alternate instrument available in case of loss/theft.
Or, if possible, ship the instrument to a trusted associate before you leave. Even on their worst day, the air frieght comapnies are light-years more organized in material handling than the passenger airlines. Gotta do the customs paperwork though (and tolerate a day or so of delay), and the freight cost can be quite high for some countries.
That pretty much jibes with my experience back in the day...We always approached D&D a'la carte. Don't need 50 types of polearms inside a subterranean dungeon? Drop 'em. Got a situation where chracters have to lump across a pool of lava? Whip out Dragon Magazine and use the rules somebody wrote up.
My mindset is that the adventure defined the rules while the game was a library of pre-set rules that the adventure refers to. The adventure is analogous to a program while the game is a set of API function calls.
Everything in radio is old. Spread spectrum was patented in the 40's, FM in the 30's, and the principles of TDMA were worked out by Nyquist and his cohorts in Bell Labs in the 20's. Huffman coded digital data? Introduced (albeit in primitive form) by Samuel Morse. Even the "advanced" modulation formats being proposed these days are pretty much straightforward implementations of coding theories developed by Claude Shannon & his comtemporaries in the 50's
What's new is cheap silicon to strap radios to everything and everybody under the sun, and microprocessors to make them easy to operate, or even autonomous.
Be careful with your use of terms, there. The military uses CDMA in the sense that they use spread spectrum with codes defining the channels, but military systems are almost universally frequency-hopping type (for resistance to intentional jamming, no matter the cost) versus direct-sequence type (the watered-down type of spread-spectrum used in cellphones, not resistant to jamming but amenable to VLSI implementation and therefore cheaper to the mass market). So military communications don't use anything remotely resembling CDMA-the-standard (IS-95).
You mean the merger rumor? It's true. JAMD & Blue Linux have merged. I installed JAMD..a nice little Red Hat derivative with well-integrated GUI install & login, good for home workstations, sorta like Mandrake I suppose but non-commercial. My father-in-law seems to have taken a liking to it since I put it on his machine as a dual-boot option. I had to switch to Slack myself, though, because I needed to set up a Samba server.
Thus, research into chip design was up until recently funneled towards keeping up with the Moore's Law pace of faster and faster clock speeds. Research into creating a chip that could run on low power just wasn't done because there wasn't much of a market for it.
It appears that the advent of truly mobile microprocessors (beyond calculator specs at least) conincided with the development of digital cellular handsets. So perhaps Palm[$RANDOMCOMAPNYSUFFIX]'s success, where others had failed before, was a result of piggybacking on chip fabrication technologies whose development costs were justifed by the cellphone market.
Visa International (formerly Bank of America) did.
And this Liberty Alliance would do well to understand the experience of Interbank/Master{card|charge}. Properly implemented open systems can explode on the scene when conditions are right...in both finance and networking.
The BankAmericard now is back as...get this...a Mastercard!
Consider this. Back in the 1980s, MS-DOS/PC-DOS was the OS...Among the warez community floppy boot sector viruses were very common. Nearly every other disk someone lent me had a virus...I would estimate that the number of Linux boxes installed today would be at least as big as the number of MS-DOS/PC-DOS installations back in the 1980s.
To extend that point even further, the Amiga, whose market/mind share even at its peak was maybe 2% and never sold more than a couple million units total, suffered from 200 or so virus. So Linux should have at least a thousand or so by now if not for its prudent design.
The Amiga's pioneering-for-a-desktop multitasking OS made it easy for early virus writers; the "mega-mighty SCA" was the first known virus. Sometimes being a pioneer means having an arrow in your back. But the sparse (or elegant, if you prefer) Amiga architecture makes it easy to scan for viral behavior, and there are algorithmic virus scanners for that platform, so outbreaks never got very far. I sometimes wonder how the old girl would fare against a network worm or browser exploit, if anybody made one. But right now I have so much security through obscurity there is no way of knowing.
I thought the same thing. That Gold Disk (also of Canada) also did the Amiga "Appetizer" set of word processor, paint, & music programs, bundled with the A500's ~1989.
But gven the quote:
>Mr. Head set up Gold Disk Canada Inc. in June, 1998, at the age of 19,...
Barring infant entrepeneurs, the two must be unrelated. Surely a spammer would have no qualms misapproriating someone else's trademark (if it is still even active).
There actually is such a thing as latex paint thinner. It is a mixture of water & an emulsifier of the same sort used in the latex paint. It looks like milk (which is itself an emulsion). Supposed to work better than plain water.
> seen one in real life for almost 20 years
Luggables are making a sort-of comeback. A small-form PC (like a Shuttle X or mITX) can be combined with a flat panel screen & you are bascially there. Just put a handle on it and get a bag for the screen.
About a third the cost of a similar-spec laptop.