Hehe... it won't be 'experimental', but WILL be 'experiential' to be hit by 90-plus decibles at under 500 feet and suddenly realizing the ear plugs were not enough... Hehe... captcha is 'rumpled'... i am imagining Rumpled stilted skins (or, crumpled, steeled skin) after being sonic-blasted...
Exactly. It's NOT unreasonable. Some companies don't want to get caught up in dealing with fake or pumped-up references. If a company fears litigation from calling references only to have been given damning information they cannot ignore, and the interviewee finds out s/he was passed over, then the testing is one valid way to sleuth out who is a great fit. I'll even go so far as to say "give interpersonal skills" testing, too.
While we're at it, hygiene and personal appearance evaluations count, too. But, a 30-day pre-probationary period to the 3-month probationary period could help, too. Maybe even hire, ummm, trial two, with the understanding that only one will be retained. No, wait, that might cause homicide by one or both of the two. Back to litigation...
This is almost a Security Theatre/Boondoggle Exercise all over again.
Any pirates wanting a particular ship, or even a random one that is known to be equipped with sonic blasters, but not protected by specially-trained anti-piracy personne with long-range weaponry will only need to fire RPGs, or laser-guided weapons, or use sniper rifles with HE/AP shells to take out the expensive, lone sonic mount. Even a frag blast *near* it may send it off-kilter.
To pull this off is a no-brainer. Typically, pirates already send one to 3 boats ahead of the target lying wait in the dark. They already would have paid out (dispensed) a line rigged between them as they separated sufficiently to ensnare the target. The target craft/vessel encounters the line, and forging ahead, draws the pirates in closer. They pirates use suction cups or grappling hooks, or some combination thereof and scale the hull.
Now, using sniper rifles with NVG-enhancement type equipment, a few well-placed sniper-fired rounds from one or more craft can take out the LRAD mounts -- unless so many multiples (fakes) are emplaced so as to cause the pirates to fire enough rounds do betray their location. Smart LRAD emplacements will have gear to detect and localize the source of incoming fire and train the operational/real LRAD to that bearing and elevation and dwell on the target. But, in congested areas, like the Strait of Malacca, using the LRAD can quickly become illegal if locals are sickened, ship-wrecked or otherwise harmed.
For a more recent article (but not one containing countermeasures such as mine, which anyone with half a brain can adduce/deduct/produce/educe in 45 seconds), see:
Maritime Reporter & Engineering News (www.marinelink.com) August 2008
If you are a sailor/yacht operator, you've probably already read:
After all, they will have a "product" that they are "importing" to the US, and to other countries. Whether the cable is a physical one or a microwave or UHF or VHF data stream, they will be a target of opportunity for the IRS.
Just moving the data center away will cost money, even if they moved it to, say, Utah, or Idaho. The City of Sunnyvale, or at the very least, the County of Santa Clara will hit them with fees or fines related to early termination of the business, that is unless, Google times the move to the lapsing of their locale operating permits. The State of California, too, will have triggers in place. After all, with the State having no true operating budget in place (yeh, despite the talk about it this weekend), California will keep an ear and eye on Google.
However, what would be interesting is if Google pulls this off. It would be really interesting to see if they "co-locate" or inspire others to "co-locate" aboard ship businesses that don't NEED real estate. I'm all for paying "reasonable" local and community taxes, but these governments often spend beyond their means. If I want to sell a digital product, and could do it from an RV or a transit vehicle, they why should my mere existence and operation of pressing keys constitute the right or power of the State/local government to heist money from me.
A few years ago, i became enraged to find out that the City of San Jose considers it a taxable/fee-incurring/license-subject activity to be merely *writing* in preparation for writing a book that is to be put on the market. They basically could tax, fee-charge, or find a doodling writer for failing to register a business, obtain permits, and pay fees yearly or as required.
SO, for people in those cases, generating data and using mostly electricity to conduct their work, but who cannot afford to actually obtain a corporation status (say, for legal reasons or to satisfy clients who don't prefer to deal with sole proprietors or "amateurs"), I'd say, if you can co-locate, DO IT. ESCAPE unreasonable taxes.
But, the problem, the BIG problem is that whether it's me, any low-waste-producing entrepreneur, or even Google, i, we, or they will at *some* point have employees step foot ashore on the US soil, and be subject to various commerce, quarantine, homeland security and other inspections or seizure procedures to validate the authority of the Nation, State, County, City and local authorities. How? Well, virtually any legit company NEEDS employees. Unless those personnel never come back to shore, they will likely "conduct business on behalf of the (business) entity", and therefore be subject to taxes.
It doesn't matter that "Google Data Center, Afloat" will use micro currents of the sea to generate data streams. They will be sending and receiving data (product), going to places where most of the time they'll be subject to various taxes.
Now, if their lawyers can successfully win, then that could be the start (or resumption/continuation) of an international case to once and for all terminate the USA's "Voice of America" broadcasts spilling (by intent) into the borders of countries the US considers in need of being overthrown. But, that's a different topic.
But, in order to further punish the afloat operators of any business, the State could refuse to renew their corporate status, penalize the key personnel, tax, lien, or garnish their wages, properties, and assets, and "quarantine" (or, jam/block/inconvenience/stream-corrupt) their product as it enters the offended territory.
At what point can/will Google and afloat operators contract hit men to "rectify" the problem?
Well, look at some of their latest laptops. Maybe if they \can\ do an end run around vista, they can take a page out of Apple's book: "The HP Store", and showcase some of their shiny black-shell gray-wrist-area laptops... Hopefully, they're "remember where they came from" and allow some Linux on the showroom floor, though.
- tab-hiding, to deal with people almost-suddenly appearing over/behind your shoulder... it would be nice to obscure having 25 tabs open. Maybe have a container tab or nested tab (not an obvious one, just simple line work) to reduce the appearance of having open a large number of tabs.
-- password protection of the sqlite databse, for minimizing the risk of IT or anyone else using Admin privileges to copy the database. Sure, they can protocol analyze/packet sniff, but in places where you care more about wholesale database copying...
--- Also, i'd like to be able to import/commingle my various ff browsers' databases... say, by at first-run entering a phrase that is to associate ME with each and every one of my disparate ff installations. This way, my database would reject importation of malicious attempts to add incriminating or harmful entries to MY database, and to permit me to easily mix/mingle/prune entries when I want/
Finally, one probably exists, but is it possible to *easily* use say, Lotus Approach, or MySQL, or some Open Source tool to read then comma-delim dump my stuff? I realize that at this stage, a password tool might be moot/pointless, but...
Suppose Linux & Apple fans go "shopping", wearing their "Linux"/"Mac" or "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" shirts. Would the store kick them out? Would the store "suggest" 3 times, then call the police and claim they "ordered" them out? Would the cops ask for video footage and mic tapes?
Would msoft hire security to bounce out the shoppers? Well, the shoppers with Linux & Mac t-shirts would definitely have to get a shopping cart, put in some items, and be prepared to buy at least ONE of those items to be legit. If the store guards or staff DO kick out the shoppers, it could make for bad press. See my other comment:
But, it might be nice if Linux Stores are opened near these "Vista experience" outlets.
Be sure to send in letters to the local media to get some "hitch hiker" coverage for Linux. If they refuse to carry the story, remind them that campaigners do it when they don't want to pay for TV time, or to distance themselves from potential backfiring releases...
When is "The Linux Store", one like the Apple stores, coming? IBM and HP and Sun could get together, fine tune various laptop, desktop, GPS, multimedia, cellular, console, and home management systems in 10 major cities:
San Francisco Boston Dallas Houston Los Angeles New York Baltimore Denver Phoenix Atlanta
just to name some/around 10 cities. I imagine these and other companies could find a creative way to write this off as marketing. Rent or lease properties, them them like Gateway did and Fry's does, aim the products at people earning less than $35,000 a year, and MAKE DAMNED SURE that Gutenprint, SAMBA, Webmin, VNC, and other mixed-environment tools work. Get Compiz/Beryl/Metisse working like never before. Commit to being open 18 hours a day for 2 years. Tie it in to local unemployed/trainable people so cities and counties will allow some variances that otherwise would hamper such a project. Make sure smoothies and coffee and magazines are available, as well as some games, joysticks, and ESPECIALLY CAD apps, like Punch! ViaCAD, Medusa, and products such as 3dConnexion are on hand.
They'll have already remote-activated the microphone, and --if the target is a Person of Interest-- they'd have had also had ground assets in the area looking for a divergence between the target and the target's monitored electronics.
I would not be surprised if nowadays they erect aerosol dispensers (colorless, odorless, visible by satellite or local aerial units...) around the doors of targets to "tag" them when they depart or when guests enter.
If there are multiple ports on the dispenser, targets can be "coded" so they can be followed in the visible and a few other spectra to prevent them from switching clothes and having "body doubles" throw off the surveillance team. And, if the trackers detect multiple spectra signals/shading from a single target it could imply sex between them.
Hell, this kind of thing might have dual uses. Do this to the favorite hotels of politicians, Page hangouts... find out who's having sex with whom... Talk about "smear jobs" coming to the fore...
Probably more than any Star Trek space craft, we could technically see Space Eagles/Transporter Eagles & Mark IX Hawks if ion engines and compact chem thrusters can be economically built. As a kid, I used to own a copy of the blueprints sold in Starlog.
I bet Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, Brian Johnson, et al would be THRILLED to get royalties if their craft were honored as a model for Earth-Moon shuttles. If this could survive exit/re-entry through our atmosphere, this design could probably serve NASA well. Looks a HELLUVA lot sexier than the Space Shuttle, too.
Oh, and guess what? The blueprints are on sale again!
Well, don't some malicous/sophisticated virus and Trojan code have the ability to know they're being hunted? If the rogue router has a packet sniffer, it only needs to heuristically determine it's being hunted. If it has a map of all the known devices (before and after it itself was planted in the network), it can listen for addresses being culled by some number of devices, how many polls are in play, and then manipulate the detected collector. If the collector/vacuum/detector device is immune to the rogue router, then the router can be commanded (in advance or remotely if there is a remote player involved) to self-destruct, or to wreak havoc on the ferret device, or wreak last-kiss-goodbye/kiss-of-death havoc on the LAN and tributary sites...
Is it possible this device was built with a MAC/translation table to monitor devices, and -- if it heuristically senses it is being hunted down --temporarily change to their MAC, and hide, probably by instructing other devices to propagate a false MAC?
Isn't this technically possible, to create virtual NICs and MACs that change on sniffing detection?
"All they have to do is look for the small black box with a lone, onerous blinking red LED."
Not to be a grammar/word-choice "Nazi", but I think you meant "ominous".
But, after all this time, one might expect that the NSA would have been on top of this. Anytime a city government fails to locate rogue devices that could compromise local/state/federal/international investigations, the criminals and the undercover agents/officers, and witnesses, as well as payroll and other HR information, the FBI, NSA, and other agencies should take over that aspect where the locals prove incompetent.
But, i *do* get meta-moderator points. Maybe one or 2 times a week at times, it seems.
I prefer to comment (zany, semi-seriously, and seriously, too) so, I prefer to not moderate others, particularly not in a downward scoring. If i take strong umbrage to or disagreement with something someone wrote, i will weigh in with my own monologue/diatribe. But, I generally prefer to avoid conflict, especially avoiding capricious down-modding. This is why i feel the/. moderator system needs to be trashed/abolished and replaced with something that forces a lazy, vengeful, or friend-rubbing moderator to JUSTIFY their scoring or whatnot. They are NOT god, and the faster the owners of/. remember this, the better off/. will be. A scoring system is worthless if the scorers are not held accountable. Of course, source links are helpful. But links for and against the submitters' position would show balance.
As for the person calling me lazy, i ***DID*** hit publish my story (as opposed to share) for that story. The fact that there was not any rejection message of MY submission only shows someone was trying to not catch my attention that another's version got priority over mine. I included several sources, and even semi-editorialized. I guess it was hoped that i'd not be checking. That was a major insult. It's not as if i'm asking to be let in to the exclusive daily-doubles club.
I wish slashdot's owners would bust up the inside-boys-as-submitters and recognize that those of us who DO submit to the firehose are no less important. How would slashdot like it if enough harshly critical commentary spilled outside to more legitimate tech sites and caused real-named readers to be further tarred with a demeaning brush, even if they are good performers at work? Slash ASKS us for our participation. We participate. Yet, the cronies-club gets the lion share of submission displays. I would think there'd even be a metrics system to evaluate (positively?) those who pass on their meta-moderator points opportunities, opting instead to comment. I wonder if it metrics-monitors those who tend to down-mod people. After all, when i'm down-modded, i'm knocked to zero or -1, as if to suppress my posts.
So, unless/until/. starts playing revisionist history, more people need to read at below 0 to re-elevate capriciously down-modded articles/postings/comments. The firehose needs to be more visible, as in a running banner/vertical column/gutter stream so that READERS (not moderators) are the gatekeepers of what gets discussed and what gets replied to.
I smell Pliant Obsequious Supplicant wretches... That said, risk my so-called and worthless 'Excellent karma' in saying in protestation that i will have NO faith in the firehose nor any expectation of surmounting the cronies, and i accept defeat and simper in the penalty box. Disgustingly saddening and demoralizing. i expect the on-alert, -1 smackdown/cloaking code to further suppress my comments...
Or, for those of you who can speak Hankuk, or have Korean ID/work authorization, you can set up an account and check out the Korea-focused CyWorld
www.cyworld.co.kr
Google might decide they could "animate" the data search. Make it interactive. If you say, search on ships, then instead of you wading through links, they'd present you with icons or images of several eras or types of ships, and then you click on them, as if going through an Easter-egg hunt. Meta tags would associate the era-based icons to the likely data you're searching for. A sort of connect-the-dots approach could make searching more fun, less stressful, and remove some of the element of "zombie/opportunistic/"I-feel-lucky" types of mad-dash searching.
Users could set up their "library" or "den" and search from there. Google could come up with an analog to CyWorld's "Acorns"... Maybe "poppy seeds"...
If ANYthing, this sounds like insider trading of a sort. They get legally sanctioned/approved early opportunity to alert cronies ahead of the rest of the common stock holders/traders.
said the plunge and its return were both *fast* and paper-trades. Sounds to me that if anyone gained or lost would be those who tried to take advantage of the short (duration) time period in which to alert buddies to get ready to dump stocks early or to prepare to buy up low-priced shares related to the plunge predicted to happen.
So, of this can be likened to a form of insider trading, then those not involved might feel lucky.
Also, if anyone *did* gain much or if anyone dumped early, i would expect that they would expect to hear from the SEC about insider tips. Then again, what do i know?
The oldddd wait-a-day-trick, as Maxwell Smart would say. I submitted to the firehose, but guess i have bad karma, and not "excellent" karma, the fake level shown in my profile when i'm logged in.
I guess "BEHOLD" is a word i should regard as the final nail in the coffin: cronyism gets you ahead, not the fact that you posted/submitted a day before anyone else who has a better reputation...
Hell, slashdot didn't even say my submission was rejected... What kind of respect is slashdot expecting to deserve when regular (if not/even if coarse and blunt) readers get passed over for long-timers? I no longer feel that slashdot cares about individual contributors.
I wrote and submitted my posting:
Journal by davidsyes on Tuesday September 09, @04:08PM
kdawson?
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 10, @01:10PM
Well, this is where smart-product manufacturing has to step up even more. Consider how many companies' IT & Facilities departments still do not properly implement energy saving features/policies, still allow wasteful old CRTs (some using the excuse that they've been paid off, still work, and "you don't NEED an LCD to do the work we pay you to do" (with that fetid attitude, failing to take into account that coming from homes with LCDs to work in an environment with a funky, outdated, crappy CRT is an insult, and a lame excuse for not spending company money on energy efficiency and worker productivity... I dare say that having to shift from LCD at home to CRT at work stymies and in subtle ways affects attitudes and productivity, but that is my own opinion...)...
I don't know about data center air cooling systems, but the ubiquitous air conditioner for homes is something the utilities and some other companies need to see timer/load controlled by entities other than home or small business users.
Yesterday, I was listening to Quest, on KQED... and the topic was on reinventing the air conditioner, which i'm paraphrasing below.
Most of the residential home units in the US were designed with a one-size-fits-all mentality. In the past 40 or so years, California's population has grown greatly, and some "eight San Jose's worth of population" is expected in the not-too-distant future. California's homes grew some 30 in area, and that's more volume to be kept cooled by people who cannot stand the increasing heat. The "Load from Hell" happens to the California utilities when working people get home and flip on their AC's almost all around the same block of time. The carbon foot print is expanded partly because California's utilities have to maintain wasteful, less-regulated, more-polluting feeder plants to make up for damaging/load-dropping surges in demand for residential AC units.
Worse, home AC units in their one-size-fits-all design operate inefficiently because they are optimized to work in all parts of the US, regardless of local climate. California-Oregon, Kansas-Iowa, and Georgia-Florida areas have differing temperatures and humidity effects/affects and now (well, in a few years) are going see adapted/diversified AC units going into new and into retrofitted homes.
Again, that was all from memory from listening to yesterday's Quest report on KQED (as i rode the public transit to work). I submitted to the firehose, but might not get picked up, so:
IT centers' and data centers' increased responsibilities don't have to be headaches. We will just need more public policy (regulation?) or industry incentives to see manufacturing produce products that are increasingly more efficient, remote-manageable (for discounts on utility bills), and audited systems so that the national energy waste can be curtailed if not rolled back.
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Hehe... it won't be 'experimental', but WILL be 'experiential' to be hit by 90-plus decibles at under 500 feet and suddenly realizing the ear plugs were not enough... Hehe... captcha is 'rumpled'... i am imagining Rumpled stilted skins (or, crumpled, steeled skin) after being sonic-blasted...
Exactly. It's NOT unreasonable. Some companies don't want to get caught up in dealing with fake or pumped-up references. If a company fears litigation from calling references only to have been given damning information they cannot ignore, and the interviewee finds out s/he was passed over, then the testing is one valid way to sleuth out who is a great fit. I'll even go so far as to say "give interpersonal skills" testing, too.
While we're at it, hygiene and personal appearance evaluations count, too. But, a 30-day pre-probationary period to the 3-month probationary period could help, too. Maybe even hire, ummm, trial two, with the understanding that only one will be retained. No, wait, that might cause homicide by one or both of the two. Back to litigation...
First, some URLs:
Long range acoustic device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device
Ship Blasted Pirates With Sonic Weapon
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8DNUV2G3&show_article=1
Sonic Weapons Ward Off Pirate Attack
http://realmwaverider.blogspot.com/2005/11/sonic-weapons-ward-off-pirate-attack.html
Does LRAD Work?
http://maritimeaccident.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/does-lrad-work/
Cruise Lines Turn to LRAD
http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Cruise+Lines+Turn+to++LRAD-200811.html
This is almost a Security Theatre/Boondoggle Exercise all over again.
Any pirates wanting a particular ship, or even a random one that is known to be equipped with sonic blasters, but not protected by specially-trained anti-piracy personne with long-range weaponry will only need to fire RPGs, or laser-guided weapons, or use sniper rifles with HE/AP shells to take out the expensive, lone sonic mount. Even a frag blast *near* it may send it off-kilter.
To pull this off is a no-brainer. Typically, pirates already send one to 3 boats ahead of the target lying wait in the dark. They already would have paid out (dispensed) a line rigged between them as they separated sufficiently to ensnare the target. The target craft/vessel encounters the line, and forging ahead, draws the pirates in closer. They pirates use suction cups or grappling hooks, or some combination thereof and scale the hull.
Now, using sniper rifles with NVG-enhancement type equipment, a few well-placed sniper-fired rounds from one or more craft can take out the LRAD mounts -- unless so many multiples (fakes) are emplaced so as to cause the pirates to fire enough rounds do betray their location. Smart LRAD emplacements will have gear to detect and localize the source of incoming fire and train the operational/real LRAD to that bearing and elevation and dwell on the target. But, in congested areas, like the Strait of Malacca, using the LRAD can quickly become illegal if locals are sickened, ship-wrecked or otherwise harmed.
For a more recent article (but not one containing countermeasures such as mine, which anyone with half a brain can adduce/deduct/produce/educe in 45 seconds), see:
Maritime Reporter & Engineering News (www.marinelink.com) August 2008
If you are a sailor/yacht operator, you've probably already read:
"The New Piracy"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n24/glas01_.html
"Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas", By John Burnette (I bought my copy in 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Waters-Modern-Piracy-Terror/dp/0452284139
After all, they will have a "product" that they are "importing" to the US, and to other countries. Whether the cable is a physical one or a microwave or UHF or VHF data stream, they will be a target of opportunity for the IRS.
Just moving the data center away will cost money, even if they moved it to, say, Utah, or Idaho. The City of Sunnyvale, or at the very least, the County of Santa Clara will hit them with fees or fines related to early termination of the business, that is unless, Google times the move to the lapsing of their locale operating permits. The State of California, too, will have triggers in place. After all, with the State having no true operating budget in place (yeh, despite the talk about it this weekend), California will keep an ear and eye on Google.
However, what would be interesting is if Google pulls this off. It would be really interesting to see if they "co-locate" or inspire others to "co-locate" aboard ship businesses that don't NEED real estate. I'm all for paying "reasonable" local and community taxes, but these governments often spend beyond their means. If I want to sell a digital product, and could do it from an RV or a transit vehicle, they why should my mere existence and operation of pressing keys constitute the right or power of the State/local government to heist money from me.
A few years ago, i became enraged to find out that the City of San Jose considers it a taxable/fee-incurring/license-subject activity to be merely *writing* in preparation for writing a book that is to be put on the market. They basically could tax, fee-charge, or find a doodling writer for failing to register a business, obtain permits, and pay fees yearly or as required.
SO, for people in those cases, generating data and using mostly electricity to conduct their work, but who cannot afford to actually obtain a corporation status (say, for legal reasons or to satisfy clients who don't prefer to deal with sole proprietors or "amateurs"), I'd say, if you can co-locate, DO IT. ESCAPE unreasonable taxes.
But, the problem, the BIG problem is that whether it's me, any low-waste-producing entrepreneur, or even Google, i, we, or they will at *some* point have employees step foot ashore on the US soil, and be subject to various commerce, quarantine, homeland security and other inspections or seizure procedures to validate the authority of the Nation, State, County, City and local authorities. How? Well, virtually any legit company NEEDS employees. Unless those personnel never come back to shore, they will likely "conduct business on behalf of the (business) entity", and therefore be subject to taxes.
It doesn't matter that "Google Data Center, Afloat" will use micro currents of the sea to generate data streams. They will be sending and receiving data (product), going to places where most of the time they'll be subject to various taxes.
Now, if their lawyers can successfully win, then that could be the start (or resumption/continuation) of an international case to once and for all terminate the USA's "Voice of America" broadcasts spilling (by intent) into the borders of countries the US considers in need of being overthrown. But, that's a different topic.
But, in order to further punish the afloat operators of any business, the State could refuse to renew their corporate status, penalize the key personnel, tax, lien, or garnish their wages, properties, and assets, and "quarantine" (or, jam/block/inconvenience/stream-corrupt) their product as it enters the offended territory.
At what point can/will Google and afloat operators contract hit men to "rectify" the problem?
Like, cockoon and cockoof?
Well, look at some of their latest laptops. Maybe if they \can\ do an end run around vista, they can take a page out of Apple's book: "The HP Store", and showcase some of their shiny black-shell gray-wrist-area laptops... Hopefully, they're "remember where they came from" and allow some Linux on the showroom floor, though.
Wierd...
So, of you get hose over in your cocoon, you can cry "au nau"... Or, if you LIKE it in there, say, "Hau nau braun cau"... (LOL)
Two things I wish FireFox would offer:
- tab-hiding, to deal with people almost-suddenly appearing over/behind your shoulder... it would be nice to obscure having 25 tabs open. Maybe have a container tab or nested tab (not an obvious one, just simple line work) to reduce the appearance of having open a large number of tabs.
-- password protection of the sqlite databse, for minimizing the risk of IT or anyone else using Admin privileges to copy the database. Sure, they can protocol analyze/packet sniff, but in places where you care more about wholesale database copying...
--- Also, i'd like to be able to import/commingle my various ff browsers' databases... say, by at first-run entering a phrase that is to associate ME with each and every one of my disparate ff installations. This way, my database would reject importation of malicious attempts to add incriminating or harmful entries to MY database, and to permit me to easily mix/mingle/prune entries when I want/
Finally, one probably exists, but is it possible to *easily* use say, Lotus Approach, or MySQL, or some Open Source tool to read then comma-delim dump my stuff? I realize that at this stage, a password tool might be moot/pointless, but...
Suppose Linux & Apple fans go "shopping", wearing their "Linux"/"Mac" or "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" shirts. Would the store kick them out? Would the store "suggest" 3 times, then call the police and claim they "ordered" them out? Would the cops ask for video footage and mic tapes?
Would msoft hire security to bounce out the shoppers? Well, the shoppers with Linux & Mac t-shirts would definitely have to get a shopping cart, put in some items, and be prepared to buy at least ONE of those items to be legit. If the store guards or staff DO kick out the shoppers, it could make for bad press. See my other comment:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=962097&cid=24980691
But, it might be nice if Linux Stores are opened near these "Vista experience" outlets.
Be sure to send in letters to the local media to get some "hitch hiker" coverage for Linux. If they refuse to carry the story, remind them that campaigners do it when they don't want to pay for TV time, or to distance themselves from potential backfiring releases...
Well, as long as they don't do it near the meat section...
When is "The Linux Store", one like the Apple stores, coming? IBM and HP and Sun could get together, fine tune various laptop, desktop, GPS, multimedia, cellular, console, and home management systems in 10 major cities:
San Francisco
Boston
Dallas
Houston
Los Angeles
New York
Baltimore
Denver
Phoenix
Atlanta
just to name some/around 10 cities. I imagine these and other companies could find a creative way to write this off as marketing. Rent or lease properties, them them like Gateway did and Fry's does, aim the products at people earning less than $35,000 a year, and MAKE DAMNED SURE that Gutenprint, SAMBA, Webmin, VNC, and other mixed-environment tools work. Get Compiz/Beryl/Metisse working like never before. Commit to being open 18 hours a day for 2 years. Tie it in to local unemployed/trainable people so cities and counties will allow some variances that otherwise would hamper such a project. Make sure smoothies and coffee and magazines are available, as well as some games, joysticks, and ESPECIALLY CAD apps, like Punch! ViaCAD, Medusa, and products such as 3dConnexion are on hand.
They'll have already remote-activated the microphone, and --if the target is a Person of Interest-- they'd have had also had ground assets in the area looking for a divergence between the target and the target's monitored electronics.
I would not be surprised if nowadays they erect aerosol dispensers (colorless, odorless, visible by satellite or local aerial units...) around the doors of targets to "tag" them when they depart or when guests enter.
If there are multiple ports on the dispenser, targets can be "coded" so they can be followed in the visible and a few other spectra to prevent them from switching clothes and having "body doubles" throw off the surveillance team. And, if the trackers detect multiple spectra signals/shading from a single target it could imply sex between them.
Hell, this kind of thing might have dual uses. Do this to the favorite hotels of politicians, Page hangouts... find out who's having sex with whom... Talk about "smear jobs" coming to the fore...
Thanks to digital compression...
http://www.space1999.net/eagle/
Probably more than any Star Trek space craft, we could technically see Space Eagles/Transporter Eagles & Mark IX Hawks if ion engines and compact chem thrusters can be economically built. As a kid, I used to own a copy of the blueprints sold in Starlog.
I bet Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, Brian Johnson, et al would be THRILLED to get royalties if their craft were honored as a model for Earth-Moon shuttles. If this could survive exit/re-entry through our atmosphere, this design could probably serve NASA well. Looks a HELLUVA lot sexier than the Space Shuttle, too.
Oh, and guess what? The blueprints are on sale again!
Well, don't some malicous/sophisticated virus and Trojan code have the ability to know they're being hunted? If the rogue router has a packet sniffer, it only needs to heuristically determine it's being hunted. If it has a map of all the known devices (before and after it itself was planted in the network), it can listen for addresses being culled by some number of devices, how many polls are in play, and then manipulate the detected collector. If the collector/vacuum/detector device is immune to the rogue router, then the router can be commanded (in advance or remotely if there is a remote player involved) to self-destruct, or to wreak havoc on the ferret device, or wreak last-kiss-goodbye/kiss-of-death havoc on the LAN and tributary sites...
OTOH, maybe my imagination is too wild?
Is it possible this device was built with a MAC/translation table to monitor devices, and -- if it heuristically senses it is being hunted down --temporarily change to their MAC, and hide, probably by instructing other devices to propagate a false MAC?
Isn't this technically possible, to create virtual NICs and MACs that change on sniffing detection?
"All they have to do is look for the small black box with a lone, onerous blinking red LED."
Not to be a grammar/word-choice "Nazi", but I think you meant "ominous".
But, after all this time, one might expect that the NSA would have been on top of this. Anytime a city government fails to locate rogue devices that could compromise local/state/federal/international investigations, the criminals and the undercover agents/officers, and witnesses, as well as payroll and other HR information, the FBI, NSA, and other agencies should take over that aspect where the locals prove incompetent.
But, i *do* get meta-moderator points. Maybe one or 2 times a week at times, it seems.
I prefer to comment (zany, semi-seriously, and seriously, too) so, I prefer to not moderate others, particularly not in a downward scoring. If i take strong umbrage to or disagreement with something someone wrote, i will weigh in with my own monologue/diatribe. But, I generally prefer to avoid conflict, especially avoiding capricious down-modding. This is why i feel the /. moderator system needs to be trashed/abolished and replaced with something that forces a lazy, vengeful, or friend-rubbing moderator to JUSTIFY their scoring or whatnot. They are NOT god, and the faster the owners of /. remember this, the better off /. will be. A scoring system is worthless if the scorers are not held accountable. Of course, source links are helpful. But links for and against the submitters' position would show balance.
As for the person calling me lazy, i ***DID*** hit publish my story (as opposed to share) for that story. The fact that there was not any rejection message of MY submission only shows someone was trying to not catch my attention that another's version got priority over mine. I included several sources, and even semi-editorialized. I guess it was hoped that i'd not be checking. That was a major insult. It's not as if i'm asking to be let in to the exclusive daily-doubles club.
I wish slashdot's owners would bust up the inside-boys-as-submitters and recognize that those of us who DO submit to the firehose are no less important. How would slashdot like it if enough harshly critical commentary spilled outside to more legitimate tech sites and caused real-named readers to be further tarred with a demeaning brush, even if they are good performers at work? Slash ASKS us for our participation. We participate. Yet, the cronies-club gets the lion share of submission displays. I would think there'd even be a metrics system to evaluate (positively?) those who pass on their meta-moderator points opportunities, opting instead to comment. I wonder if it metrics-monitors those who tend to down-mod people. After all, when i'm down-modded, i'm knocked to zero or -1, as if to suppress my posts.
So, unless/until /. starts playing revisionist history, more people need to read at below 0 to re-elevate capriciously down-modded articles/postings/comments. The firehose needs to be more visible, as in a running banner/vertical column/gutter stream so that READERS (not moderators) are the gatekeepers of what gets discussed and what gets replied to.
I smell Pliant Obsequious Supplicant wretches... That said, risk my so-called and worthless 'Excellent karma' in saying in protestation that i will have NO faith in the firehose nor any expectation of surmounting the cronies, and i accept defeat and simper in the penalty box. Disgustingly saddening and demoralizing. i expect the on-alert, -1 smackdown/cloaking code to further suppress my comments...
Cyworld...
If they look at CyWorld:
http://us.cyworld.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld
http://www.squidoo.com/cyworld
Or, for those of you who can speak Hankuk, or have Korean ID/work authorization, you can set up an account and check out the Korea-focused CyWorld
www.cyworld.co.kr
Google might decide they could "animate" the data search. Make it interactive. If you say, search on ships, then instead of you wading through links, they'd present you with icons or images of several eras or types of ships, and then you click on them, as if going through an Easter-egg hunt. Meta tags would associate the era-based icons to the likely data you're searching for. A sort of connect-the-dots approach could make searching more fun, less stressful, and remove some of the element of "zombie/opportunistic/"I-feel-lucky" types of mad-dash searching.
Users could set up their "library" or "den" and search from there. Google could come up with an analog to CyWorld's "Acorns"... Maybe "poppy seeds"...
thing the "HexBox"/"HexedBox"...
HALOllujah!
If ANYthing, this sounds like insider trading of a sort. They get legally sanctioned/approved early opportunity to alert cronies ahead of the rest of the common stock holders/traders.
However, the NPR report i heard, and submitted on
http://tech.slashdot.org/~davidsyes/firehose/
said the plunge and its return were both *fast* and paper-trades. Sounds to me that if anyone gained or lost would be those who tried to take advantage of the short (duration) time period in which to alert buddies to get ready to dump stocks early or to prepare to buy up low-priced shares related to the plunge predicted to happen.
So, of this can be likened to a form of insider trading, then those not involved might feel lucky.
Also, if anyone *did* gain much or if anyone dumped early, i would expect that they would expect to hear from the SEC about insider tips. Then again, what do i know?
a gasket...
http://tech.slashdot.org/~davidsyes/journal/
http://tech.slashdot.org/~davidsyes/firehose/
The oldddd wait-a-day-trick, as Maxwell Smart would say. I submitted to the firehose, but guess i have bad karma, and not "excellent" karma, the fake level shown in my profile when i'm logged in.
I guess "BEHOLD" is a word i should regard as the final nail in the coffin: cronyism gets you ahead, not the fact that you posted/submitted a day before anyone else who has a better reputation...
Hell, slashdot didn't even say my submission was rejected... What kind of respect is slashdot expecting to deserve when regular (if not/even if coarse and blunt) readers get passed over for long-timers? I no longer feel that slashdot cares about individual contributors.
I wrote and submitted my posting:
Journal by davidsyes on Tuesday September 09, @04:08PM
kdawson?
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday September 10, @01:10PM
Maybe my:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954963&cid=24893475
got me tossed into the shitter? But, how can anyone tossed into the shitter have "Excellent" karma?
Well, this is where smart-product manufacturing has to step up even more. Consider how many companies' IT & Facilities departments still do not properly implement energy saving features/policies, still allow wasteful old CRTs (some using the excuse that they've been paid off, still work, and "you don't NEED an LCD to do the work we pay you to do" (with that fetid attitude, failing to take into account that coming from homes with LCDs to work in an environment with a funky, outdated, crappy CRT is an insult, and a lame excuse for not spending company money on energy efficiency and worker productivity... I dare say that having to shift from LCD at home to CRT at work stymies and in subtle ways affects attitudes and productivity, but that is my own opinion...)...
I don't know about data center air cooling systems, but the ubiquitous air conditioner for homes is something the utilities and some other companies need to see timer/load controlled by entities other than home or small business users.
Yesterday, I was listening to Quest, on KQED... and the topic was on reinventing the air conditioner, which i'm paraphrasing below.
Most of the residential home units in the US were designed with a one-size-fits-all mentality. In the past 40 or so years, California's population has grown greatly, and some "eight San Jose's worth of population" is expected in the not-too-distant future. California's homes grew some 30 in area, and that's more volume to be kept cooled by people who cannot stand the increasing heat. The "Load from Hell" happens to the California utilities when working people get home and flip on their AC's almost all around the same block of time. The carbon foot print is expanded partly because California's utilities have to maintain wasteful, less-regulated, more-polluting feeder plants to make up for damaging/load-dropping surges in demand for residential AC units.
Worse, home AC units in their one-size-fits-all design operate inefficiently because they are optimized to work in all parts of the US, regardless of local climate. California-Oregon, Kansas-Iowa, and Georgia-Florida areas have differing temperatures and humidity effects/affects and now (well, in a few years) are going see adapted/diversified AC units going into new and into retrofitted homes.
Again, that was all from memory from listening to yesterday's Quest report on KQED (as i rode the public transit to work). I submitted to the firehose, but might not get picked up, so:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/air-conditioning-reinvented
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/
IT centers' and data centers' increased responsibilities don't have to be headaches. We will just need more public policy (regulation?) or industry incentives to see manufacturing produce products that are increasingly more efficient, remote-manageable (for discounts on utility bills), and audited systems so that the national energy waste can be curtailed if not rolled back.