The question is if I can do this and have it run from my car. I put in predefined phrases, and depending on which switch I hit or button, it says them?
Sure. Let's say you put mount this thing on your car someway, and put a server in the trunk, running off a power inverter hacked into the vehicles 12-volt power. You then run a serial line from there to the microcontroller and wiring to the LED sign, which also must be hooked into the vehicles 12-Volt in someway. The server is hooked to wifi, either adhoc or through a WAP in the trunk along with it.
Then, you have a laptop in the front seat. You get yourself one of those keyboard macro thingies, and hook it to the keyboard port on the laptop. This is set up to send text, as in the example in TFA, to port 6666 on the server. The server then sends the new text through the serial port the LED microcontroller, and voila!
There you go. I just architected your new system at no charge at all.:-D
And there's the difference between 'open standards' and 'Microsoft being forced to open their standards': The open standards folks produce software that accurately reflects their documentation.
But 1) there's no guarantee that all the servers in the recipient chain are using TLS and configured correctly. If the server at the other end doesn't support TLS, the SMTP server just forwards it silently over normal cleartext channels.
And 2) Gmail also supports SMTP over TLS. As long as the emails contain unclassified material, it doesn't matter whether they get forwarded over Gmail or not. Oh yeah, and classified material is NEVER forwarded over the Internet, encrypted or not.
Well, the court can't impose sanctions under Rule 37 for fighting back.
Rule 37 says the court can impose sanction, basically, if someone refuses or fails to appear, respond, answer etc. when so ordered by the court:
(A) Motion; Grounds for Sanctions. The court where the action is pending may, on motion, order sanctions if:
(i) a party or a party's officer, director, or managing agent â" or a person designated under Rule 30(b)(6) or 31(a)(4) â" fails, after being served with proper notice, to appear for that person's deposition; or
(ii) a party, after being properly served with interrogatories under Rule 33 or a request for inspection under Rule 34, fails to serve its answers, objections, or written response.
(B) Certification. A motion for sanctions for failing to answer or respond must include a certification that the movant has in good faith conferred or attempted to confer with the party failing to act in an effort to obtain the answer or response without court action.
We can find political news anyplace else. This stuff really is not news for nerds and does not matter here.
It's a technology story, not just an Obama story (as was the last one involving cookies). E-mail is Internet tech, last I checked. Gmail is a state-of-the-art free Web-based e-mail service. Obama is the most technologically fluent President ever.
What's not to like?
Will those emails then be transfered to the official email server?
Most likely, yes. FTFA:
In addition, Cherlin noted that any e-mail sent to the Gmail accounts "could be forwarded to White House accounts and subject to the Presidential Records Act."
The position has to be advertised in the paper and online, and the compensation must comply with prevailing wage numbers, which are quite accurate.
Oh, yeah, companies are doing this alright. There are now actually consultants who are experts in meeting the minimum requirements without anyone actually seeing said ad: they post ads, for example, to only appear in weekday papers. Or ads for Oracle developers with 10 years of experience and 2 of which in Oracle 10i, but the job is paying $50K and other such bullshit.
General Dynamics isn't known for building with "economy" in mind.
Uh, no. It's probably waterproof, bulletproof, shielded from nuclear radiation, built-in parachute with freefall sensor, completely lined with TEMPEST shielding, auto self-destruct if it falls into enemy hands, etc.
Think James Bond, but built to U.S. MILSPEC standards.
Agreed, partly. 1) That doesn't mean we should be providing tax incentives for businesses that outsource to India, either. 2) H1-B visas aren't trade per se. 65,000 H1-Bs for IT workers means 65,000 domestic IT workers without a job. 65,000 TVs imported from China, OTOH, create more jobs than they cost.
As another poster said, it looks like Win 2K. FWIW, I'm no Microsoft fan, but I do know that it is possible make a Windows 2000 (or XP or Vista) box secure:
Install the latest patches.
Turn off unnecessary services, especially IIS.
Turn off ActiveX
Install a decent firewall
Install decent antivirus protection
Lock down permissions
Lock down system policies
Make sure patches are kept up-to-date (automatic update notifications, but not automatically installed)
Log in only with non-Administrator rights
Not 100% compatible with all applications, not as user-friendly, but fairly secure.
Applications could be changed to take advantage of this speed. If lists and SQL databases could be sorted on the drive without CPU overhead, it could be very useful.
Until the power suddenly goes out and the UPS fails...ouch!
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All of *my* open source programs come with and/or have full documentation online.
As for others, yes, some have very good documentation.
The question is if I can do this and have it run from my car. I put in predefined phrases, and depending on which switch I hit or button, it says them?
Sure. Let's say you put mount this thing on your car someway, and put a server in the trunk, running off a power inverter hacked into the vehicles 12-volt power. You then run a serial line from there to the microcontroller and wiring to the LED sign, which also must be hooked into the vehicles 12-Volt in someway. The server is hooked to wifi, either adhoc or through a WAP in the trunk along with it.
Then, you have a laptop in the front seat. You get yourself one of those keyboard macro thingies, and hook it to the keyboard port on the laptop. This is set up to send text, as in the example in TFA, to port 6666 on the server. The server then sends the new text through the serial port the LED microcontroller, and voila!
There you go. I just architected your new system at no charge at all. :-D
How can an LHC scientist say oops if their vocal cords have entered another dimension of space and time?
At the LHC's first collisions, a black hole forms....
scientist: Oops... OMFG! Call the President!
evil voice from inside the black hole: What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
And there's the difference between 'open standards' and 'Microsoft being forced to open their standards': The open standards folks produce software that accurately reflects their documentation.
But 1) there's no guarantee that all the servers in the recipient chain are using TLS and configured correctly. If the server at the other end doesn't support TLS, the SMTP server just forwards it silently over normal cleartext channels.
And 2) Gmail also supports SMTP over TLS. As long as the emails contain unclassified material, it doesn't matter whether they get forwarded over Gmail or not. Oh yeah, and classified material is NEVER forwarded over the Internet, encrypted or not.
I dunno, but I get the feeling that Solaris 10 must somehow be involved.
Well, the court can't impose sanctions under Rule 37 for fighting back.
Rule 37 says the court can impose sanction, basically, if someone refuses or fails to appear, respond, answer etc. when so ordered by the court:
(A) Motion; Grounds for Sanctions. The court where the action is pending may, on motion, order sanctions if:
(i) a party or a party's officer, director, or managing agent â" or a person designated under Rule 30(b)(6) or 31(a)(4) â" fails, after being served with proper notice, to appear for that person's deposition; or
(ii) a party, after being properly served with interrogatories under Rule 33 or a request for inspection under Rule 34, fails to serve its answers, objections, or written response.
(B) Certification. A motion for sanctions for failing to answer or respond must include a certification that the movant has in good faith conferred or attempted to confer with the party failing to act in an effort to obtain the answer or response without court action.
We can find political news anyplace else. This stuff really is not news for nerds and does not matter here.
It's a technology story, not just an Obama story (as was the last one involving cookies). E-mail is Internet tech, last I checked. Gmail is a state-of-the-art free Web-based e-mail service. Obama is the most technologically fluent President ever. What's not to like?
Because whitehouse.gov mail is more secure? It's e-mail, people. You know. SMTP. It's sent in plaintext over the wire through SMTP servers.
That's why stuff like PGP, GPG, etc. exist.
Will those emails then be transfered to the official email server?
Most likely, yes. FTFA:
In addition, Cherlin noted that any e-mail sent to the Gmail accounts "could be forwarded to White House accounts and subject to the Presidential Records Act."
Exactly. Get over it people. Set your browser to not allow cookies from YouTube. BFD.
The position has to be advertised in the paper and online, and the compensation must comply with prevailing wage numbers, which are quite accurate.
Oh, yeah, companies are doing this alright. There are now actually consultants who are experts in meeting the minimum requirements without anyone actually seeing said ad: they post ads, for example, to only appear in weekday papers. Or ads for Oracle developers with 10 years of experience and 2 of which in Oracle 10i, but the job is paying $50K and other such bullshit.
General Dynamics isn't known for building with "economy" in mind.
Uh, no. It's probably waterproof, bulletproof, shielded from nuclear radiation, built-in parachute with freefall sensor, completely lined with TEMPEST shielding, auto self-destruct if it falls into enemy hands, etc. Think James Bond, but built to U.S. MILSPEC standards.
Mod parent +5, informative! Ah! That's what I was looking for! I didn't see that in the article. Thanks for that.
Agreed, partly. 1) That doesn't mean we should be providing tax incentives for businesses that outsource to India, either. 2) H1-B visas aren't trade per se. 65,000 H1-Bs for IT workers means 65,000 domestic IT workers without a job. 65,000 TVs imported from China, OTOH, create more jobs than they cost.
History still blames Hoover.
Not 100% compatible with all applications, not as user-friendly, but fairly secure.
Grrr.. Slashdot ate my link again.
Yeah, it is interessting. I've heard the DoD uses BlackBerry, but the Sectera Edge seems to be a no-brainer for a commander-in-chief.
Info on the General Dynamics Sectera
And before any pedants out there note that I didn't RTFA, I did: 23 minutes for a CF backup is just not fast enough to cover a failed UPS.
Applications could be changed to take advantage of this speed. If lists and SQL databases could be sorted on the drive without CPU overhead, it could be very useful.
Until the power suddenly goes out and the UPS fails...ouch!
You mean like this guy?
zero-watt displays. RTFA
You mean like this one, which used zero watts when the PC was off because it came with one of these?
Not exactly new.
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Yeah, well, as they say TANSTAAFL.
Hmmmm...that's weird. I have a Seagate hard drive and I've never lost d