You're forgetting that an Enigma machine couldn't encrypt a letter to itself, so basically not all combinations of possible keys and wirings were possible. This made it easier for them to feed the bombe since they could reduce (manually) the number of possible combinations.
Well, I thought reading from the subject that it would burn algae or grow algae in it's wings for fuel. Apparently not, but something like that would be great. I just wonder how much algae you need to convert all planes on the world to this source (the article states 34000 sqkm for this project), remember that where algae are in abundance, not a lot of other creatures can survive, so you would probably not want to do this in a 'wild' environment.
Luckily I just bought a 'virtually indestructible keyboard' which can handle the fluid I just squirted all over it.
I am an employee and I do have a manager, I've had lots of them. My manager's job is to approve the reports for my hours performed (although he seemed to have given that job to the lead sysadmin) and the occasional expense report. My managers usually don't even understand or try to understand what I am doing, let alone check the quality of my work. They usually don't even know what many of the terms, abbreviations and lingo means that I am using when I propose a solution. All they do is wanting to change something after everything is working.
Don't give your manager too much credit, he usually does have a lower IQ and technical knowledge than you. They only know how to suck up to their bosses to get further up, that seems to work though, good quality work is secondary or even tertiary (2nd is not bothering the bosses too much or spending too much). Quality is actually for the QA department which seems to be in place only to bother you when the CUSTOMER complains of something that is lower quality.
Although I have to say my current manager is very good at not bothering me or being stupid nor annoying, I still think that they do not care very much about what I am doing, as long as everything keeps running and work gets done reasonably in time.
Well, if you payed a few hundred bucks to do that, you've been ripped off. I know some street artists (as in they sit on busy streets or fairs, markets, whatever) that will do it for 20 in 10 minutes.
Not that I don't like that they're charging you, hey you paid for it, but there are a bunch of GOOD artists out there that live of smaller contributions. I've been in art school and I know a few artists personally, but unless the artist has a special skill or technique to it that makes it unique or unless it is used for commercial purposes I don't think a lot of artists charge a huge amount of money for the 'common'. I could understand paintings since they take longer, not drawings.
Back to the article: I think this is a great opportunity to let artists actually work for their money. Current artists (P. Diddy, Shakira,...) don't bring out any good or original music but live in eternal riches from their hyped music. The only problem I see with this is a) use in commercial of 'custom' lyrics and b) annoying people that keep playing their "personal" song which is as dumb as they are over and over again at 110dB in a public place (a lot of cell phones these days have that 'capability').
If you haven't tried it yet do the following: corrupt the networking part in VPC (or disable networking in VMWare), then load Windows Vista or XP SP2 and use it on a regular basis (you don't even have to load anything, no updates or so), never allowing networking and since it's a corporate version you don't need to activate.
I think after about 90 days (more or less, I don't use it that much) I have noticed the Windows installation corrupts itself everytime with the same error (blue screen on startup saying it can't find a specific file in the \system folder), call Microsoft and all they know is that you should apply the latest patches (but I'm not on the Internet, I'm in a controlled environment)
I have had it with different systems (Mac, PC, Linux) and there was no special software running on the virtual machines and all networking and file transferring was blocked.
Well, you can't blur all the seas, and even when blurred, you could still make out things.
That said, if the US would find out the same about their subs, they would ask Google to blur the general vicinity of all their subs, they would even set up a feed to Google with their hourly updates on which areas to blur next.
It's really easy to find targets in the US, just send a big enough nuke to cover all of the blurred out areas (which is usually less than a mile in circumference, so any ol' missile will do I guess).
That's you, I like any other yuppie out there that has a social life live in a fairly modest apartment, I have people over once in a while and don't have much place. I do have a PowerBook right now and some other stuff laying around, but a Dell box is too clunky and ugly to be standing around. Heck, I think the subwoofer of my home theater system (nice Yamaha) is too large to be placing (currently under the couch).
I do have a 'normal' Linux-based computer that is standing in my storage space which has umpteen drives in it for backup and media storage just because, that thing is ugly and loud so it's nicely isolated. But I think about buying an iMac just because I can VESA-mount the whole unit to the wall, only one cable is necessary, I don't know any other computer that can do that and if you have about 3-5 feet between the wall and the couch you would be appreciating that.
Apple doesn't make computers for tinkerers like some of us (I used to be a tinkerer), they make machines that have all possible necessities (Bluetooth, WiFi,...) without being too ugly (no dongles or antenna's sticking out), are fairly affordable and easy to use. But for that you have to give up some flexibility, although the iMac's have a LOT of user-replaceable parts. I don't know about the video card, but I know the RAM is easily expandable as is the power unit, hard drive and wireless unit, there is even a manual with pictures on the Apple support site.
I wonder why so many people bash on RIM for this like "oh noes, security through obscurity" or "oh noes, the average user is stupid!!!!!111one"
This is actually a good thing, the user can install this program if he wants (and he has the rights to do so), there is no need to block a program to be installed. Or do we all want Microsoft's/RIM's approval for any program that we want to install? No, I do whatever the heck I want on my machine. Maybe Linus Torvalds should also approve all software you run on your box... no, Linus Torvalds is like: oh, this virus/trojan/spyware/whatever doesn't run well, let's fix the kernel.
The real problem is: in a managed (business) environment to let users run whatever the heck they like and that's what Microsoft is so bad in, to secure their machines against UNAUTHORIZED access. If a user decides to install something as their user, they should be able to do so, just like on Linux/Unix, not a 100 warnings, but if their user logs out, the program better be gone too, also (a large problem in Windows) a standard user shouldn't be able to run any programs that could b0rk the system or have direct access to hardware (raw sockets), they can only fsck their own profile. What I don't like is when backdoors are installed in my system (Microsoft likes to do so) that either report any activity to anyone (even if it's only the vendor through an anonymous service) or that allow people to come in without my knowledge. If anyone attempts to, it should be blocked by default unless I allow it. That's what a problem is in most security frameworks these days: the user is too dumb to activate something, so when somebody ELSE asks (whether that is a program or an external user), the operating system doesn't block it, but just asks a question if it's allowed, most users don't know/don't care or are just too friendly to deny anything.
So you can sell the "premium" service plan to them. Whether or not you make a call doesn't make a difference for most providers, the infrastructure is the same and has to be running anyway in order for you to get reception.
Yes, calling eats more bandwidth, but not everybody is calling at the same time nor 24/7 so the point is moot. That's how they can sell you unlimited calling/messaging plans at a premium ($5 extra/month).
The same here, whether or not the infrastructure will be used, the equipment and a reserved line has to be there (they will "reserve" bandwidth like most businesses, they can't afford to share all their bandwidth with other customers), the phone and service will come with an extra premium to pay for this though and there won't be 100 callers on a single router anyway, so there's always going to be place enough.
Take me for example, I pay $70 for 2 lines every month, whether I use the thousands-and-thousands of minutes with it or not is besides the point, my monthly costs are $70 no matter what I do with it, the revenue for the provider is the same whether I call or not, they have to power up the lines so I can make a call in the first place, whether or not it transmits data doesn't matter much then.
Well, as you know, the RIAA is trying to force ISP's and universities to use the same exact appliance (Audible Magic) to block P2P traffic. If you work at a university and get to know this appliance, basically all it is is a very expensive firewall and as their website also declares, it blocks all unencrypted P2P traffic, doesn't differentiate between 'legal' or 'illegal' use.
It wouldn't surprise me if Audible Magic is owned or otherwise affiliated to people within the RIAA and it's offshoot organizations.
Well, that's already a requirement. As we hear frequently, corporate lawyers do advice on not checking/not checking thourougly so that they can just say they didn't know.
You forgot: document the accident first, best done with extra witnesses (cops work, but are usually bad at it) otherwise your insurance will not pay you out. Someone I know had it happen, they pushed the car off the road and the insurance couldn't verify anything anymore since the other side changed their story. Just leave your car there and call your insurance to see what to do next, record your phone conversation with your insurance provider if possible, always have a camera in the car. My insurer gives me a nice booklet what to do in case of accident including what to do if you want to get the car of the road. You could just print it out from another website too and store it in your glove compartiment.
OK, but you'll have to do that from the beginning. Take me, an immigrant into the US, I have NO credit history, most creditors do not even acknowledge that I exist (even though I am on the phone or standing right in front of them with my original Social Security and Permanent Resident Card). If you have a bad credit history, it seems to be even worse, but creditors are not ashamed to charge you a 21% credit rate for a used car.
Currently I have enough money that my personal bank would extend me a small car loan at better rates and your logic is correct (basically let your savings pay off the car) but the problem is that 1) people WANT to live above their standards (be better than their neighbours) and 2) people sometimes make the wrong choices or are forced in such situations. My girlfriend, an American citizen could not get scholarships because her parents earned just too much to get any help from anywhere, so she had to fund her own schooling (college etc.) and the bank (Washington Mutual) happily let her take a loan at 12% up to $10000 and the rates go higher once she goes above that.
Let me take you back to the olden days when ISP's didn't care what you did with your internet, back when I was hacking (as in the white hat/programming scene) something back in the day with my 14k4 Telindus hardware-based modem (you could key in the phone number on the modem, that type of old).
I noticed that it is perfectly possible for different boxes to have the same public IP for a long time without noticeable problems. You could get to servers and gopher around and although it would seem that you'd have problems with mismatched packets, the routers on the backbone seemed to get around (they remember your original route for a while) unless of course you tried going to the same server. Now if you had a private network (or a tunnel on another IP/connection) and the skillset to code you could use that to route around those problems too and I found out that it was relatively easy to have a sort of redundant client/server system spread out on the net and each router would route the data for that IP to it's cheapest destination and I had a few systems all over the world which were accessible on the same IP.
A few years later in a more professional setting we used the same type of workaround in a datacenter (also public IP) to load balance a cluster. Give all servers the same public IP and just let the routers/switches route around any type of malfunction whether it was on the net or local. It would generate a lot of broadcasting and duplicate packets (it's thus quite expensive) and required it's own VLAN to not bring down the rest of the datacenter but it's cheap and it works and if you have the right daemons to handle your request, you could be quite efficient.
I would definitely use it for anonymizing myself somewhat or if I'd have a botnet. Of course these days routers and firewalls have this thing that it won't route out data that isn't from it's own network range, but there are enough less-than-perfect ISP's that don't check for that.
Using gold capacitors (very expensive though) you would get a far bit already. I had a power amp with 2 1F (not micro-farad, plain farad) gold capacitors and 2 years standing in dry storage and the thing still had a charge (painful). Capacitors are already used as a power source instead of a battery in certain applications and the requirements in cars (high output in short time periods) make capacitors a great candidate. The problem of course is the power density and of course the leaks which is many times greater in current capacitors than in batteries. If they could improve this possible theory, you might get somewhere.
My immobilizer consist out of: Bluetooth + CarPC under carseat (invisible, just music on FM):
Basically if I'm not in the car with my cell phone and somebody starts it up (while the car DOES have security features like a chip in the key), the computer will boot up (as it does always) and as soon as it can't find my mobile phone, it will just cut power to the fuel pump so it appears the car is out of fuel or otherwise broken down. It's a neat feature I've built with a Via C3 and a relay on the parallel port, since the computer needs time to boot up and time to run the script it will also happen only after about a minute (after they drive out the parking lot landing it in the middle of the street). Luckily I've had it never seen actually work with other persons than me. The computer keeps running for about 30 minutes after the car has been turned off, so it won't drop the power of the relay for a while unless I reset the system.
Another feature which might really immobilize the car(thief): Put a packet of C4 under the drivers seat or otherwise lock up the individual in the car and dial-out to the police.
You're comparing apples to pears here, a union or an organization like the ACLU is there to protect it's members against Bad Things(tm) and is either government based or a non-profit organization or otherwise and tries to find a solution for a large number of people equally and evenly that might not have the power or money to fight for themselves individually (class-action).
The suits that were brought against this person were brought as a collusion of for-profit corporations that (should) have the goal to compete against each other. You could compare it to Dell, HP, Apple and Creative bringing a single suit against you because you hacked your iPod (which could be a breaking of the DMCA) and pressing you to pay an extortion fee instead of going through trial and actually testing the DMCA and the fact that you can't hack your iPod in a court of law, then as they see it won't work, they delay, don't want to pay up your lawyer fees etc. I think since all those companies should compete with their respective music players, they shouldn't band together and put together their money against you as an individual (they could do this in name of the whole business (all record companies even the not RIAA ones or as in my example all music player producers) against somebody like the government or Microsoft)
Now the fact that the RIAA only sees to it's own business and not to the other independent music producers that these persons might or might not have affected is what makes it prone to a breach of RICO or whatever other law might be there for that.
My idea is that they will go to the bitter end, no matter what, just to set an example. Now if Mr. Ray Beckerman (I think he's pursuing the case, not sure though) wins he'll be a rich and/or famous bastard^W lawyer in no time especially if he brings down the whole RIAA in the next few years. The RIAA delaying the case might just be what brings over the decision of the judge/jury to the Good Side since they're acting Evil which might just help in proving their guilt.
The provider, Broadview Networks, also made the Yes Men remove all mention of Exxon from TheYesMen.org before they'd restore the Yes Men's email service.
Well, there might be a reason to it all, although I think the case is too weird and too 'clean' to be done by someone like Reiser who is in my eyes, a lot like me. I for one have asperger syndrome, a 'disorder' in the autism spectrum and heck, I can live into the situation. I have had a relationship run sideways, and I do crazy stuff too that I might not be able to explain, I also (like Reiser) have those ideas that I have to work out and a kinky side and similar friends.
It's coincidence, but you should also see it from what you hear: small-town media reporting on a sensationalist issue, it wouldn't be a surprise to me (having lived in a small town like that) that the local police and media is making it look much worse than it already is. I have had a 'wet' look in my car, I washed my car on the inside because I had cooling fluid from the heater core running into my car. That stuff can stay there for weeks depending on the weather and how you washed/used the car. I also had run-in with the local police in said town, I was speeding; at my trial, the cop made it sound like I was driving as you would in GTA3 and thought he was a big shot that he catched me, I thought to myself: well, go to New York City, Paris or any other major city and you'll see people do crazier things because they had to be somewhere.
This starts sounding a lot like pre-WWII Germany and the Soviet Union. Anybody done anything out of the usual, please report here, we'll investigate them, then we'll tag them (now we can do that with an embedded chip instead of with a triangle or a star).
What's next? I thought universities were to be the equivalent of the Greek knowledge centers where smart minded people come together to come up with even smarter things. No government, no rules are necessarily needed, a bunch of smart people should be able to govern themselves I guess.
Who says the universe didn't exist for an infinitely long time? The universe we are in or that is current or even the one that we experience might not have been around for an infinitely long time but then again, it might have been.
Was our universe existing in what some call the "beginning" of the universe, maybe in a different form? For example: did you "exist" partly in your dad's seed and your mothers egg, in the twinkle of their eyes, in their DNA or that of your grandparents? Most likely you (or at least a infinitely small part of you) did exist hundreds of years ago, yet it was not YOU as a person, rather a more simple form like a part of DNA.
I personally believe that the universe (or an infinitely large void) did exist long before our universe as we know it came into existence and that things were roaming around in that universe.
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You're forgetting that an Enigma machine couldn't encrypt a letter to itself, so basically not all combinations of possible keys and wirings were possible. This made it easier for them to feed the bombe since they could reduce (manually) the number of possible combinations.
Algae-on-a-plane? watersnakes on a plane?
Well, I thought reading from the subject that it would burn algae or grow algae in it's wings for fuel. Apparently not, but something like that would be great. I just wonder how much algae you need to convert all planes on the world to this source (the article states 34000 sqkm for this project), remember that where algae are in abundance, not a lot of other creatures can survive, so you would probably not want to do this in a 'wild' environment.
Luckily I just bought a 'virtually indestructible keyboard' which can handle the fluid I just squirted all over it.
I am an employee and I do have a manager, I've had lots of them. My manager's job is to approve the reports for my hours performed (although he seemed to have given that job to the lead sysadmin) and the occasional expense report. My managers usually don't even understand or try to understand what I am doing, let alone check the quality of my work. They usually don't even know what many of the terms, abbreviations and lingo means that I am using when I propose a solution. All they do is wanting to change something after everything is working.
Don't give your manager too much credit, he usually does have a lower IQ and technical knowledge than you. They only know how to suck up to their bosses to get further up, that seems to work though, good quality work is secondary or even tertiary (2nd is not bothering the bosses too much or spending too much). Quality is actually for the QA department which seems to be in place only to bother you when the CUSTOMER complains of something that is lower quality.
Although I have to say my current manager is very good at not bothering me or being stupid nor annoying, I still think that they do not care very much about what I am doing, as long as everything keeps running and work gets done reasonably in time.
Well, if you payed a few hundred bucks to do that, you've been ripped off. I know some street artists (as in they sit on busy streets or fairs, markets, whatever) that will do it for 20 in 10 minutes.
...) don't bring out any good or original music but live in eternal riches from their hyped music. The only problem I see with this is a) use in commercial of 'custom' lyrics and b) annoying people that keep playing their "personal" song which is as dumb as they are over and over again at 110dB in a public place (a lot of cell phones these days have that 'capability').
Not that I don't like that they're charging you, hey you paid for it, but there are a bunch of GOOD artists out there that live of smaller contributions. I've been in art school and I know a few artists personally, but unless the artist has a special skill or technique to it that makes it unique or unless it is used for commercial purposes I don't think a lot of artists charge a huge amount of money for the 'common'. I could understand paintings since they take longer, not drawings.
Back to the article: I think this is a great opportunity to let artists actually work for their money. Current artists (P. Diddy, Shakira,
Basically, I like assembler because you have to be a good programmer in order to get it right and UNDERSTAND the system. I can't do it myself though:
mov ax,cs
mov ds,ax
mov ah,9
mov dx, offset Hello
int 21h
xor ax,ax
int 21h
Hello:
db "Hello World!",13,10,"$"
If you haven't tried it yet do the following: corrupt the networking part in VPC (or disable networking in VMWare), then load Windows Vista or XP SP2 and use it on a regular basis (you don't even have to load anything, no updates or so), never allowing networking and since it's a corporate version you don't need to activate.
I think after about 90 days (more or less, I don't use it that much) I have noticed the Windows installation corrupts itself everytime with the same error (blue screen on startup saying it can't find a specific file in the \system folder), call Microsoft and all they know is that you should apply the latest patches (but I'm not on the Internet, I'm in a controlled environment)
I have had it with different systems (Mac, PC, Linux) and there was no special software running on the virtual machines and all networking and file transferring was blocked.
Well, you can't blur all the seas, and even when blurred, you could still make out things.
That said, if the US would find out the same about their subs, they would ask Google to blur the general vicinity of all their subs, they would even set up a feed to Google with their hourly updates on which areas to blur next.
It's really easy to find targets in the US, just send a big enough nuke to cover all of the blurred out areas (which is usually less than a mile in circumference, so any ol' missile will do I guess).
That's you, I like any other yuppie out there that has a social life live in a fairly modest apartment, I have people over once in a while and don't have much place. I do have a PowerBook right now and some other stuff laying around, but a Dell box is too clunky and ugly to be standing around. Heck, I think the subwoofer of my home theater system (nice Yamaha) is too large to be placing (currently under the couch).
...) without being too ugly (no dongles or antenna's sticking out), are fairly affordable and easy to use. But for that you have to give up some flexibility, although the iMac's have a LOT of user-replaceable parts. I don't know about the video card, but I know the RAM is easily expandable as is the power unit, hard drive and wireless unit, there is even a manual with pictures on the Apple support site.
I do have a 'normal' Linux-based computer that is standing in my storage space which has umpteen drives in it for backup and media storage just because, that thing is ugly and loud so it's nicely isolated. But I think about buying an iMac just because I can VESA-mount the whole unit to the wall, only one cable is necessary, I don't know any other computer that can do that and if you have about 3-5 feet between the wall and the couch you would be appreciating that.
Apple doesn't make computers for tinkerers like some of us (I used to be a tinkerer), they make machines that have all possible necessities (Bluetooth, WiFi,
I wonder why so many people bash on RIM for this like "oh noes, security through obscurity" or "oh noes, the average user is stupid!!!!!111one"
This is actually a good thing, the user can install this program if he wants (and he has the rights to do so), there is no need to block a program to be installed. Or do we all want Microsoft's/RIM's approval for any program that we want to install? No, I do whatever the heck I want on my machine. Maybe Linus Torvalds should also approve all software you run on your box... no, Linus Torvalds is like: oh, this virus/trojan/spyware/whatever doesn't run well, let's fix the kernel.
The real problem is: in a managed (business) environment to let users run whatever the heck they like and that's what Microsoft is so bad in, to secure their machines against UNAUTHORIZED access. If a user decides to install something as their user, they should be able to do so, just like on Linux/Unix, not a 100 warnings, but if their user logs out, the program better be gone too, also (a large problem in Windows) a standard user shouldn't be able to run any programs that could b0rk the system or have direct access to hardware (raw sockets), they can only fsck their own profile. What I don't like is when backdoors are installed in my system (Microsoft likes to do so) that either report any activity to anyone (even if it's only the vendor through an anonymous service) or that allow people to come in without my knowledge. If anyone attempts to, it should be blocked by default unless I allow it. That's what a problem is in most security frameworks these days: the user is too dumb to activate something, so when somebody ELSE asks (whether that is a program or an external user), the operating system doesn't block it, but just asks a question if it's allowed, most users don't know/don't care or are just too friendly to deny anything.
So you can sell the "premium" service plan to them. Whether or not you make a call doesn't make a difference for most providers, the infrastructure is the same and has to be running anyway in order for you to get reception.
Yes, calling eats more bandwidth, but not everybody is calling at the same time nor 24/7 so the point is moot. That's how they can sell you unlimited calling/messaging plans at a premium ($5 extra/month).
The same here, whether or not the infrastructure will be used, the equipment and a reserved line has to be there (they will "reserve" bandwidth like most businesses, they can't afford to share all their bandwidth with other customers), the phone and service will come with an extra premium to pay for this though and there won't be 100 callers on a single router anyway, so there's always going to be place enough.
Take me for example, I pay $70 for 2 lines every month, whether I use the thousands-and-thousands of minutes with it or not is besides the point, my monthly costs are $70 no matter what I do with it, the revenue for the provider is the same whether I call or not, they have to power up the lines so I can make a call in the first place, whether or not it transmits data doesn't matter much then.
Well, as you know, the RIAA is trying to force ISP's and universities to use the same exact appliance (Audible Magic) to block P2P traffic. If you work at a university and get to know this appliance, basically all it is is a very expensive firewall and as their website also declares, it blocks all unencrypted P2P traffic, doesn't differentiate between 'legal' or 'illegal' use.
It wouldn't surprise me if Audible Magic is owned or otherwise affiliated to people within the RIAA and it's offshoot organizations.
Well, that's already a requirement. As we hear frequently, corporate lawyers do advice on not checking/not checking thourougly so that they can just say they didn't know.
You forgot: document the accident first, best done with extra witnesses (cops work, but are usually bad at it) otherwise your insurance will not pay you out. Someone I know had it happen, they pushed the car off the road and the insurance couldn't verify anything anymore since the other side changed their story. Just leave your car there and call your insurance to see what to do next, record your phone conversation with your insurance provider if possible, always have a camera in the car. My insurer gives me a nice booklet what to do in case of accident including what to do if you want to get the car of the road. You could just print it out from another website too and store it in your glove compartiment.
OK, but you'll have to do that from the beginning. Take me, an immigrant into the US, I have NO credit history, most creditors do not even acknowledge that I exist (even though I am on the phone or standing right in front of them with my original Social Security and Permanent Resident Card). If you have a bad credit history, it seems to be even worse, but creditors are not ashamed to charge you a 21% credit rate for a used car.
Currently I have enough money that my personal bank would extend me a small car loan at better rates and your logic is correct (basically let your savings pay off the car) but the problem is that 1) people WANT to live above their standards (be better than their neighbours) and 2) people sometimes make the wrong choices or are forced in such situations. My girlfriend, an American citizen could not get scholarships because her parents earned just too much to get any help from anywhere, so she had to fund her own schooling (college etc.) and the bank (Washington Mutual) happily let her take a loan at 12% up to $10000 and the rates go higher once she goes above that.
Let me take you back to the olden days when ISP's didn't care what you did with your internet, back when I was hacking (as in the white hat/programming scene) something back in the day with my 14k4 Telindus hardware-based modem (you could key in the phone number on the modem, that type of old).
I noticed that it is perfectly possible for different boxes to have the same public IP for a long time without noticeable problems. You could get to servers and gopher around and although it would seem that you'd have problems with mismatched packets, the routers on the backbone seemed to get around (they remember your original route for a while) unless of course you tried going to the same server. Now if you had a private network (or a tunnel on another IP/connection) and the skillset to code you could use that to route around those problems too and I found out that it was relatively easy to have a sort of redundant client/server system spread out on the net and each router would route the data for that IP to it's cheapest destination and I had a few systems all over the world which were accessible on the same IP.
A few years later in a more professional setting we used the same type of workaround in a datacenter (also public IP) to load balance a cluster. Give all servers the same public IP and just let the routers/switches route around any type of malfunction whether it was on the net or local. It would generate a lot of broadcasting and duplicate packets (it's thus quite expensive) and required it's own VLAN to not bring down the rest of the datacenter but it's cheap and it works and if you have the right daemons to handle your request, you could be quite efficient.
I would definitely use it for anonymizing myself somewhat or if I'd have a botnet. Of course these days routers and firewalls have this thing that it won't route out data that isn't from it's own network range, but there are enough less-than-perfect ISP's that don't check for that.
Using gold capacitors (very expensive though) you would get a far bit already. I had a power amp with 2 1F (not micro-farad, plain farad) gold capacitors and 2 years standing in dry storage and the thing still had a charge (painful). Capacitors are already used as a power source instead of a battery in certain applications and the requirements in cars (high output in short time periods) make capacitors a great candidate. The problem of course is the power density and of course the leaks which is many times greater in current capacitors than in batteries. If they could improve this possible theory, you might get somewhere.
My immobilizer consist out of: Bluetooth + CarPC under carseat (invisible, just music on FM):
Basically if I'm not in the car with my cell phone and somebody starts it up (while the car DOES have security features like a chip in the key), the computer will boot up (as it does always) and as soon as it can't find my mobile phone, it will just cut power to the fuel pump so it appears the car is out of fuel or otherwise broken down. It's a neat feature I've built with a Via C3 and a relay on the parallel port, since the computer needs time to boot up and time to run the script it will also happen only after about a minute (after they drive out the parking lot landing it in the middle of the street). Luckily I've had it never seen actually work with other persons than me. The computer keeps running for about 30 minutes after the car has been turned off, so it won't drop the power of the relay for a while unless I reset the system.
Another feature which might really immobilize the car(thief): Put a packet of C4 under the drivers seat or otherwise lock up the individual in the car and dial-out to the police.
You forgot something between 3 and 4 and you also forgot 6:
4. Shoot with loaded guns at 1. through 2.
5. ???
6. Profit!
You're comparing apples to pears here, a union or an organization like the ACLU is there to protect it's members against Bad Things(tm) and is either government based or a non-profit organization or otherwise and tries to find a solution for a large number of people equally and evenly that might not have the power or money to fight for themselves individually (class-action).
The suits that were brought against this person were brought as a collusion of for-profit corporations that (should) have the goal to compete against each other. You could compare it to Dell, HP, Apple and Creative bringing a single suit against you because you hacked your iPod (which could be a breaking of the DMCA) and pressing you to pay an extortion fee instead of going through trial and actually testing the DMCA and the fact that you can't hack your iPod in a court of law, then as they see it won't work, they delay, don't want to pay up your lawyer fees etc. I think since all those companies should compete with their respective music players, they shouldn't band together and put together their money against you as an individual (they could do this in name of the whole business (all record companies even the not RIAA ones or as in my example all music player producers) against somebody like the government or Microsoft)
Now the fact that the RIAA only sees to it's own business and not to the other independent music producers that these persons might or might not have affected is what makes it prone to a breach of RICO or whatever other law might be there for that.
My idea is that they will go to the bitter end, no matter what, just to set an example. Now if Mr. Ray Beckerman (I think he's pursuing the case, not sure though) wins he'll be a rich and/or famous bastard^W lawyer in no time especially if he brings down the whole RIAA in the next few years. The RIAA delaying the case might just be what brings over the decision of the judge/jury to the Good Side since they're acting Evil which might just help in proving their guilt.
RTFA:
The provider, Broadview Networks, also
made the Yes Men remove all mention of Exxon from TheYesMen.org
before they'd restore the Yes Men's email service.
How come your spider even has such permissions?
Well, there might be a reason to it all, although I think the case is too weird and too 'clean' to be done by someone like Reiser who is in my eyes, a lot like me. I for one have asperger syndrome, a 'disorder' in the autism spectrum and heck, I can live into the situation. I have had a relationship run sideways, and I do crazy stuff too that I might not be able to explain, I also (like Reiser) have those ideas that I have to work out and a kinky side and similar friends.
It's coincidence, but you should also see it from what you hear: small-town media reporting on a sensationalist issue, it wouldn't be a surprise to me (having lived in a small town like that) that the local police and media is making it look much worse than it already is. I have had a 'wet' look in my car, I washed my car on the inside because I had cooling fluid from the heater core running into my car. That stuff can stay there for weeks depending on the weather and how you washed/used the car. I also had run-in with the local police in said town, I was speeding; at my trial, the cop made it sound like I was driving as you would in GTA3 and thought he was a big shot that he catched me, I thought to myself: well, go to New York City, Paris or any other major city and you'll see people do crazier things because they had to be somewhere.
This starts sounding a lot like pre-WWII Germany and the Soviet Union. Anybody done anything out of the usual, please report here, we'll investigate them, then we'll tag them (now we can do that with an embedded chip instead of with a triangle or a star).
What's next? I thought universities were to be the equivalent of the Greek knowledge centers where smart minded people come together to come up with even smarter things. No government, no rules are necessarily needed, a bunch of smart people should be able to govern themselves I guess.
by turning bits into fuzzy quantum things called qubits (pronounced cue-bits) that are 0 and 1 simultaneously
Sounds like any ol' woman to me, nothing to worry about, we have been handling it for centuries.
Who says the universe didn't exist for an infinitely long time? The universe we are in or that is current or even the one that we experience might not have been around for an infinitely long time but then again, it might have been.
Was our universe existing in what some call the "beginning" of the universe, maybe in a different form? For example: did you "exist" partly in your dad's seed and your mothers egg, in the twinkle of their eyes, in their DNA or that of your grandparents? Most likely you (or at least a infinitely small part of you) did exist hundreds of years ago, yet it was not YOU as a person, rather a more simple form like a part of DNA.
I personally believe that the universe (or an infinitely large void) did exist long before our universe as we know it came into existence and that things were roaming around in that universe.