A good security person will keep their senses open. Touch things and let your muscles and nerves alert you to strange things. Help people by passing their stuff to them. Watch their manner. If I had a hollow coin I might handle it differently, afraid that it might open. By acting differently I am exposing the differentness of me and that item.
I have an eeepc 701. Yeah I know the screen is small, but I run ubuntu on it and I get a lot of coding done on the tram with it. I want a keyboard but I could do without the track pad if I had a touch screen instead.
BTW has anybody else in Australia noticed the little linux based netbook in JB? I saw it last week. Screen size seems about the same as the 701. Its ~250 bucks or so.
Except that a hollowed-out coin would look more suspicious at the airport scanner.
It should look exactly the same as any other coin. Their scanners can’t see through solid metal. They can’t tell the difference between a real gun and a thin metal plate that’s cut out in the shape of one. I seemed to remember that there was actually somebody using x-ray opaque ink to print stencils onto plain paper, but I can’t seem to find a link... all I found was an artist who was cutting silhouettes out of sheet metal.
The hollow coin can't have the same weight as a normal one, and IMHO people are pretty good picking up "the odd one out" in a hand full of whatever.
I think carrying a hollow coin through a border would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. If you want to carry secret data, encrypt it and leave it in plain view somewhere.
I have a seizure disorder, but according to my EEG I am not photosensitive. Generally you would worry about pulses below 100hz. This system sends data at megabits per second so there is no primary need to pulse at low frequencies. I a imagine that starting and stopping downloads (say) could generate visible pulses but I am sure the system could be designed not to behave that way.
I have read that usable data can be extracted from the TX/RX LEDS on some hubs and switches. I am more concerned about the 9-12Hz pulsing LED lights on bicycles. I don't use them on my bike.
Photo sensitivity in seizure disorders is generally for pulses below 20Hz and definitely below 100Hz. It is legitimate to ask why bicycle head and tail lights are allowed to pulse at 9-12Hz.
That is a good point however the problem with Apollo 1 was not just the pure oxygen atmosphere but the fact that it was at atmospheric pressure..
Actually I thought it was two atm. In his book Carrying the fire Mike Collins says that a cigarette will burn out in two seconds in 2 atmospheres of oxygen, and when the call came through about the fire in the spacecraft everybody knew the crew were dead.
New Zealand has a lot of little streams and they all seem to have names. One day on south island I crossed a bridge where the stream was named "wind bag". I guess the stream namer was having a bad day.
Yes, but eventually, you want to store more air than the free stuff can store, so you want to use the bags. The bags are useful for off-shore wind farms.
Ha! wind bags. I knew they had to be good for something.
I'm curious... I wonder how high the psi could get before something broke. I mean, the weak link would definitely be the seal (one would think). I suppose you could get some pretty dense air underground... very interesting idea.
Well, its a way of storing the energy. Another way is to time shift. Drop the price when you have a lot of supply so that customers can charge their cars and heat their houses and water tanks using cheap power.
I have actually been surprised at how durable the idea of source code has been. Ever since editors started formatting and highlighting code I have expected code to go into a database as stored instructions.
Years ago I tried to hitch hike up the east coast of Tas from Hobart to Devonport. I camped in Bicheno and looked for a lift to Launceston. Nothing. I was there for hours. This was in the days of the Franklin river controversy and people with back packs were unpopular.
So I got out of Bicheno but I got stuck in the next town and I thought this is really bad when along came this old VW van. They stopped for me and I jumped in.
Inside the van were six people with quite amazing facial deformities. They looked like extras from Star Wars. But you know, they were the nicest people on the entire east coast of Tasmania. Really nice people. They weren't going far but they gave me advice on getting lifts from there on.
The state first started using the machines in a limited trial during the last state election in 2006. It appears as if the machines were used for voting for the vision-impaired, as well as for military personnel.
Yeah, I'm in Victoria too and I've never seen an electronic voting machine. Maybe next election...
A woman I work with works for the AEC on election day. Its pretty interesting how they run the polling places. All the votes you see on the night are counted by the same people who run the polling place, right after they close up.
Oh okay so we are talking about local elections. Last time I checked they were all done by post. I still have (unopened) voting slips addressed to:
Brett A Needham
Martin J Spratt (twice)
Marlene J Valentine
Catherine A Spratt
Ian J Valentine
Venessa Sayers
...at my former address in South Croydon. I imagine they were test data inside the former voting system. I am holding on to those letters, just in case.
One of the last stand-out Linux desktop deployments in Australia was that found at Kennards Hire.
Can't be much going on at Kennards. Where I work we've got maybe 200 linux desktops and thousands of linux systems which run our product. Maybe I should tell this Delimiter thing about it.
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What do the think the Repository was for?
A good security person will keep their senses open. Touch things and let your muscles and nerves alert you to strange things. Help people by passing their stuff to them. Watch their manner. If I had a hollow coin I might handle it differently, afraid that it might open. By acting differently I am exposing the differentness of me and that item.
I have an eeepc 701. Yeah I know the screen is small, but I run ubuntu on it and I get a lot of coding done on the tram with it. I want a keyboard but I could do without the track pad if I had a touch screen instead.
BTW has anybody else in Australia noticed the little linux based netbook in JB? I saw it last week. Screen size seems about the same as the 701. Its ~250 bucks or so.
Actually, I don’t think they x-ray your keys and change anyway. You just drop them in the basket while you walk through the metal detector.
Or have they begun to run those through the x-ray machine too now?
Where I travel (mostly in Asia) little basket full of misc items goes through the machine.
Except that a hollowed-out coin would look more suspicious at the airport scanner.
It should look exactly the same as any other coin. Their scanners can’t see through solid metal. They can’t tell the difference between a real gun and a thin metal plate that’s cut out in the shape of one. I seemed to remember that there was actually somebody using x-ray opaque ink to print stencils onto plain paper, but I can’t seem to find a link... all I found was an artist who was cutting silhouettes out of sheet metal.
The hollow coin can't have the same weight as a normal one, and IMHO people are pretty good picking up "the odd one out" in a hand full of whatever.
I bet the hollow coin is lighter than a normal coin and that an experienced inspector would pick that up.
I think carrying a hollow coin through a border would be an incredibly stupid thing to do. If you want to carry secret data, encrypt it and leave it in plain view somewhere.
I don't use facebook (possibly for some of the reasons you quoted) but my wife does and I noticed recently the my sister has 417 "Friends".
Personally I can't be bothered.
I have a seizure disorder, but according to my EEG I am not photosensitive. Generally you would worry about pulses below 100hz. This system sends data at megabits per second so there is no primary need to pulse at low frequencies. I a imagine that starting and stopping downloads (say) could generate visible pulses but I am sure the system could be designed not to behave that way.
I have read that usable data can be extracted from the TX/RX LEDS on some hubs and switches. I am more concerned about the 9-12Hz pulsing LED lights on bicycles. I don't use them on my bike.
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Photo sensitivity in seizure disorders is generally for pulses below 20Hz and definitely below 100Hz. It is legitimate to ask why bicycle head and tail lights are allowed to pulse at 9-12Hz.
That is a good point however the problem with Apollo 1 was not just the pure oxygen atmosphere but the fact that it was at atmospheric pressure..
Actually I thought it was two atm. In his book Carrying the fire Mike Collins says that a cigarette will burn out in two seconds in 2 atmospheres of oxygen, and when the call came through about the fire in the spacecraft everybody knew the crew were dead.
There's nothing wrong with pure oxygen, I breathe it all the time, diving.
Is that right? I thought normal SCUBA gear is just compressed air, while re-breathers use a mix of O2 and either nitrogen or helium.
But what happens if the train breaks down? Will people need space suits to get to the nearest exit from the tunnel?
Maybe oxygen masks.
New Zealand has a lot of little streams and they all seem to have names. One day on south island I crossed a bridge where the stream was named "wind bag". I guess the stream namer was having a bad day.
Yes, but eventually, you want to store more air than the free stuff can store, so you want to use the bags. The bags are useful for off-shore wind farms.
Ha! wind bags. I knew they had to be good for something.
I'm curious... I wonder how high the psi could get before something broke. I mean, the weak link would definitely be the seal (one would think). I suppose you could get some pretty dense air underground... very interesting idea.
It would make a great Michael Bay movie.
Well, its a way of storing the energy. Another way is to time shift. Drop the price when you have a lot of supply so that customers can charge their cars and heat their houses and water tanks using cheap power.
There was a time when Japanese manuals for legitimate produsts had really poor spelling and grammar.
Yeah I do it too. -1 for morning medication. +1 and climbing for morning coffee.
I saw this street sign in Korea which said something like "Exit roap this way".
I have actually been surprised at how durable the idea of source code has been. Ever since editors started formatting and highlighting code I have expected code to go into a database as stored instructions.
Years ago I tried to hitch hike up the east coast of Tas from Hobart to Devonport. I camped in Bicheno and looked for a lift to Launceston. Nothing. I was there for hours. This was in the days of the Franklin river controversy and people with back packs were unpopular.
So I got out of Bicheno but I got stuck in the next town and I thought this is really bad when along came this old VW van. They stopped for me and I jumped in.
Inside the van were six people with quite amazing facial deformities. They looked like extras from Star Wars. But you know, they were the nicest people on the entire east coast of Tasmania. Really nice people. They weren't going far but they gave me advice on getting lifts from there on.
Thanks. I didn't know that.
From the article:
The state first started using the machines in a limited trial during the last state election in 2006. It appears as if the machines were used for voting for the vision-impaired, as well as for military personnel.
Yeah, I'm in Victoria too and I've never seen an electronic voting machine. Maybe next election...
A woman I work with works for the AEC on election day. Its pretty interesting how they run the polling places. All the votes you see on the night are counted by the same people who run the polling place, right after they close up.
Oh okay so we are talking about local elections. Last time I checked they were all done by post. I still have (unopened) voting slips addressed to:
Brett A Needham
Martin J Spratt (twice)
Marlene J Valentine
Catherine A Spratt
Ian J Valentine
Venessa Sayers
...at my former address in South Croydon. I imagine they were test data inside the former voting system. I am holding on to those letters, just in case.
Sounds like the Whittlam government all over again.
Its a bit of a stupid article:
One of the last stand-out Linux desktop deployments in Australia was that found at Kennards Hire.
Can't be much going on at Kennards. Where I work we've got maybe 200 linux desktops and thousands of linux systems which run our product. Maybe I should tell this Delimiter thing about it.