Cyberwar! It's like war, but for people too dumb to protect themselves.
Don't put critical systems or private data on anything attached to the public Internet. Regularly verify the physical integrity and isolation of all secure systems. For everything else, make regular backups to prevent wiping attacks. This is basic vigilance to protect vital assets.
What I'd like to suggest to every cheap-ass corporate exec that is counting on the government instead of internal IT staff to protect their networks, is to listen to how stupid that sounds.
Removing the candidate list seems like an dangerous complication to the system. The system can verify that a ballot was collected, but there is no possibility to correct a ballot that was miscounted.
Once removed, voters cannot verify for themselves who they marked their ballot for. On the counting side, it allows for fraud simply by changing the correspondences.
Also, if someone cracks the servers, they could replace or delete every ballot in the country, causing detectable but widespread chaos as every ballot would have to be rescanned.
Allowing these devices to power up through a 50 mile radius basically speaks to the market the manufacturers are working toward.
These "white space devices" are going to be industrial-scale. They will cost tens of thousands of dollars and will have to be set upon a pretty tall tower or building to even be safe from an EMR standpoint.
It's not home networking. It's not even local area networking. This is a business model for Wireless ISPs that doesn't include an FCC licencing and application process.
It is the duty of those of us who have brains in our skulls to ensure that everyone else has a vernal equinox tropical year calendar that is as accurate as possible.
This has to be one of the most obscene examples of attempting to alter reality to fit bad programming.
With automotive gasoline being responsible for more than 40% of our oil use (the single largest usage), creating a national transportation system that is energy efficient, timely, and practical to use needs to be at the top of the list.
High Speed Rail is one of the better solutions, but a national system would be an immense project, bigger than the Interstate Highway System -- and it would more than likely require nationalizing the regional railway oligarchies.
Electrostatic fusors spend all their input energy just getting the nuclei to collide. There's very little room for improvement, of which the Polywell stands the best chance of the entire class. But the Navy would have it in every boiler room if it already worked.
The classic problem with selling new cars is that the people who can afford to buy them don't care about efficiency. They want a car that will dust whoever's next to them when they take off from a stoplight, and looks/drives sporty and/or like a Cadillac.
Car reporters take this a step farther and don't even care how much the car costs to buy or operate, just how it feels to be behind the wheel. So in the end, cheap cars never get positive press, and efficient cars only get it if they play to the luxury-class tastes of Car and Driver.
John Jay College sophomore Ahmed Elshafaie, 19, who graduated from Long Island City High School, said he avoids math classes.
"I don't want to ruin my GPA," he said. "High school standards were really low."
Maybe what US high schools need is a difficulty multiplier for GPAs. Of course, that would require some sort of national standard that would have somebody crying foul.
Making the pilot itself a cliffhanger? Edgy. But this one seems to push all the envelopes, now doesn't it? Main characters that aren't good have not been a staple of the Stargate series, and I'm just not getting into it. They say that people are going to get left behind on this show? Dr. Rush and Sgt. Greer need to be the first ones.
When I went down to Marshall Space Flight Centre last year, I saw it all laid bare. NASA is still stuck in the Cold War.
All the presentations were highly nationalistic, and the histories omit the Russians except as adversaries. The TVs at the cafeteria were set to Fox News. And in private moments, the engineers are still griping about the switch to metric units for the Ares rocket. Some of them don't even know what a Newton is!
I don't know why NASA continues to persist in this mindset, but it's not going to help them in their long-term goals.
I was at a Democratic-NPL campaign strategy meeting in North Dakota in 2004, where they were trotting out a new voter database system.
The representative was pinging off the lists of format converters: Excel, CSV, and so on, and it was at this point that I raised my hand and asked him if OpenOffice was an option. His reply:
"We don't do open-source, we're Democrats."
It shocked me, and didn't make sense to anyone else in the room who knew anything about computers (which in politics is still woefully small).
To me, this was another example of how Big Content pervades the elite of the Democratic Party. It's still the RIAA/Microsoft types that have the money, make the donations, show up at the mixers, and they end up being the people hired to code Democratic Party websites.
1 or 2 Satellite dish(es) Transmitter: A Wireless router at your house Receiver: A Wireless router or wireless card with external antenna at your dad's place A reasonable line of sight.
Place the antenna of the receiver at the point of the satellite dish where the LNB would be (lashing the antenna onto the LNB should do for a test). Aim the dish toward the wireless router at your house.
If you can't get a good signal, you can set up another dish at your house, with the antenna of the router mounted at the LNB, to point directly at the receiver.
For the distances you're talking about, this should work with the half-metre mini-dishes commonly used for TV and Internet access. People with giant C-Band antennas have set WiFi transmission records with similar setups.
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Which is wiser:
A) Ignore geologically recent history or
B) Prepare for the worst
Of course, the New Madrid area isn't all that wealthy. I guess we should look for every excuse to not cough up retrofitting budgets.
Cyberwar! It's like war, but for people too dumb to protect themselves.
Don't put critical systems or private data on anything attached to the public Internet. Regularly verify the physical integrity and isolation of all secure systems. For everything else, make regular backups to prevent wiping attacks. This is basic vigilance to protect vital assets.
What I'd like to suggest to every cheap-ass corporate exec that is counting on the government instead of internal IT staff to protect their networks, is to listen to how stupid that sounds.
Removing the candidate list seems like an dangerous complication to the system. The system can verify that a ballot was collected, but there is no possibility to correct a ballot that was miscounted.
Once removed, voters cannot verify for themselves who they marked their ballot for. On the counting side, it allows for fraud simply by changing the correspondences.
Also, if someone cracks the servers, they could replace or delete every ballot in the country, causing detectable but widespread chaos as every ballot would have to be rescanned.
Allowing these devices to power up through a 50 mile radius basically speaks to the market the manufacturers are working toward.
These "white space devices" are going to be industrial-scale. They will cost tens of thousands of dollars and will have to be set upon a pretty tall tower or building to even be safe from an EMR standpoint.
It's not home networking. It's not even local area networking. This is a business model for Wireless ISPs that doesn't include an FCC licencing and application process.
That's it. Big Whoop.
Ethics courses are part of the standard ABET engineering program.
The trouble is that most engineering students are only in it for the money, not out of some moral desire to solve the world's problems.
It is the duty of those of us who have brains in our skulls to ensure that everyone else has a vernal equinox tropical year calendar that is as accurate as possible.
This has to be one of the most obscene examples of attempting to alter reality to fit bad programming.
With automotive gasoline being responsible for more than 40% of our oil use (the single largest usage), creating a national transportation system that is energy efficient, timely, and practical to use needs to be at the top of the list.
High Speed Rail is one of the better solutions, but a national system would be an immense project, bigger than the Interstate Highway System -- and it would more than likely require nationalizing the regional railway oligarchies.
Economically feasible? No. Necessary? Absolutely.
Unless the USPTO spontaneously starts denying software patents again, the fact that these are merely "applications" are irrelevant.
It takes a lot of loyalty to Microsoft before they let you do that, and then they really only allow it to help root out troublemakers.
Electrostatic fusors spend all their input energy just getting the nuclei to collide. There's very little room for improvement, of which the Polywell stands the best chance of the entire class. But the Navy would have it in every boiler room if it already worked.
The classic problem with selling new cars is that the people who can afford to buy them don't care about efficiency. They want a car that will dust whoever's next to them when they take off from a stoplight, and looks/drives sporty and/or like a Cadillac.
Car reporters take this a step farther and don't even care how much the car costs to buy or operate, just how it feels to be behind the wheel. So in the end, cheap cars never get positive press, and efficient cars only get it if they play to the luxury-class tastes of Car and Driver.
From TFA:
Maybe what US high schools need is a difficulty multiplier for GPAs. Of course, that would require some sort of national standard that would have somebody crying foul.
Making the pilot itself a cliffhanger? Edgy. But this one seems to push all the envelopes, now doesn't it? Main characters that aren't good have not been a staple of the Stargate series, and I'm just not getting into it. They say that people are going to get left behind on this show? Dr. Rush and Sgt. Greer need to be the first ones.
Dell clearly doesn't have any clue how severe the backlash from this could be.
Ireland is never going to approve another EU treaty.
One can only hope that Dell execs escape the wrath of unemployed ex-IRA members.
The United States can't possibly allow this tank of deadly chemicals to hit the ground without testing out its anti-satellite missile system, can it?
I mean, someone could get exposed to ammonia and we can't let THAT happen, even if it would probably just burn up and dissipate anyway.
Brazilian cities were able to know the election results in the same day of voting, before midnight.
You mean:
Brazilian mayors were able to rig the election results in the same day of voting, before midnight.
If intel owns all their chip designs, what's left to buy? Does Transmeta have a 22nm fab laying underneath its quaint facade of slowish processors?
It is the honest truth, I wish I could say otherwise. I'm hoping that NASA's bigger than that particular talent pool. Hoping.
When I went down to Marshall Space Flight Centre last year, I saw it all laid bare. NASA is still stuck in the Cold War.
All the presentations were highly nationalistic, and the histories omit the Russians except as adversaries. The TVs at the cafeteria were set to Fox News. And in private moments, the engineers are still griping about the switch to metric units for the Ares rocket. Some of them don't even know what a Newton is!
I don't know why NASA continues to persist in this mindset, but it's not going to help them in their long-term goals.
The ATV is fully human-rated. Slap some seats in there and call it good!
Then again, for ESA to put an astronaut up on its own would probably require an amendment to whatever treaties it's bound by....
I was at a Democratic-NPL campaign strategy meeting in North Dakota in 2004, where they were trotting out a new voter database system.
The representative was pinging off the lists of format converters: Excel, CSV, and so on, and it was at this point that I raised my hand and asked him if OpenOffice was an option. His reply:
"We don't do open-source, we're Democrats."
It shocked me, and didn't make sense to anyone else in the room who knew anything about computers (which in politics is still woefully small).
To me, this was another example of how Big Content pervades the elite of the Democratic Party. It's still the RIAA/Microsoft types that have the money, make the donations, show up at the mixers, and they end up being the people hired to code Democratic Party websites.
Supplies:
1 or 2 Satellite dish(es)
Transmitter: A Wireless router at your house
Receiver: A Wireless router or wireless card with external antenna at your dad's place
A reasonable line of sight.
Place the antenna of the receiver at the point of the satellite dish where the LNB would be (lashing the antenna onto the LNB should do for a test). Aim the dish toward the wireless router at your house.
If you can't get a good signal, you can set up another dish at your house, with the antenna of the router mounted at the LNB, to point directly at the receiver.
For the distances you're talking about, this should work with the half-metre mini-dishes commonly used for TV and Internet access. People with giant C-Band antennas have set WiFi transmission records with similar setups.
I think Commodore Mendez said it best:
"This is a court of SPACE LAW, not a theatre!"
So it's the United States that gets to decide who is and who is not a terrorist?
... but this is an outright scam. These guys are the moral equivalent of those gas station clerks who steal winning lottery tickets.