Nice to see the industries stock thumper is still #1 for attracting worms and looks to be still #1 in the future. Upon sighting wormsign one only need look closeby for a compromised IIS box.
Other than losing a customer its their fault really, use some common sense when heading back into shore. Of course, the daft gits shouldn't be a customer or on the flip side a supplier in either parties case.
Say, another cash crop is poppies, per unit area in the ship it would return a lot more cash. Probably make a lot more than some lousy rust bucket filled with coders.
Imagine a passed over supertanker refitted with lots of small decks (a la being John Malkovitch). Fitted with UV lighting and irrigation many plants could be harvested in international waters. Customers would arrive via boat.
Eventually some pissed govt sticks a torpedo in it.
H. PS: My Dilbert calendar last week or so had the one where PHB is telling Wally his status report was a series of non-sensical buzzwords to which Wally replied that PHB used his status report as the 'Mission Statement'. Wonderful.
1) Eat more charred foods 2) Use the cell phone handset a lot more 3) picnic under high tension wires often 4) cheap cigarettes from Canada 5) Use more liquids ending in -ene, -ide 6) Have more food colouring parties 7) Break out that Roentgen tube lying in the attic, make some cool photos. 8) Work with small fibres and dusts as often as possible.
Nice and evil. I like it, an ad-hoc connection, or infrastructure to a willing AP nearby (the parking lot). If you are on the roof tho or in the parking lot then you do risk physical observation. If you want to go there, why no just laser the windows and record the backscatter from your plumbing repair truck? (admittedly it wont get you into the core of an office). Many board rooms and such have ethernet jacks, all those presentations and business nudnicks need to get onto Outlook so they can be in touch. Since its open for a customer, imagine a tap that combines the voice + ethernet bridge to wireless (just a taste of the traffic of course given the stepdown in rate).
OK so with suitable codec interface, plant it in a wall jack (take your pick, ether, rj-11, wallplug). Wallplug would be best for the power, anyway, the unit upon power up, scans for open AP's if it finds one, it tries to get out, if it can get out, it sends voice activated audio to an embedded ip addr (or via some ip discovery protocol). If it cannot find an AP its useless. If it finds one with WEP, it will begin a slow patient crack on the WEP key. Let it sit there for weeks working to crack it, it successful, great, if not, oh well.
That's a nice idea but in reality I don't think you will see such a language. Of the 6billion people on earth, 1 in 5 use/understand some English. To affect the type of change you are suggesting would require a Herculean buy-in that no one would be prepared to make in my opinion. What has happened to English over the years can be attributed to linguistic change (like watching a glass window 'melt' over time) gradually new words and phrases enter common parlance but to effect a change where the goal is improved machine understanding would be too much to ask I feel. Besides, the English crossword puzzle lobby would be totally against this.:)
I have ranted to co-workers in the past about this. App's like that grammar checker have an amazing amount of leverage in today's society. When we were young, grammar was taught in a one-to-few setting across many schools. Now, kids can count on the crutch of software tools to handle spelling and grammar. The tool and market pressure have placed this type of technology as a keystone in language use and understanding, errors in these keystone apps have ripple effects far and wide in society. In the old days this checking was done by hand. My grandmother was in charge of a team of women at the FBI whose job (in the 50's 60's) was to examine all correspondence leaving the bureau and fix grammar and spelling errors. I don't say we should go back to a time like that but I do feel that these highly leveraged tools can damage the collective mental acuity needed to write well without the crutch.
Worse still if one of the rovers was lost on landing. With no frame of reference they may never have detected the initial cock up. With two at least they can contrast the measurements.
You know thinking about the pay-per-show idea, shows that we love(d) such as Futurama need not have perished if the content was supported by the consumers. Taking Futurama as an example Fox execs have a narrow channel to push content, for whatever reasons they determined that that channel was better used serving other content, now in the 100Mbps fibre world with distributed time shifted content and an international viewing audience, the small fee adds up and pays for the show. Different models could be arranged, pay-per-show or free with commercials.
No show that we like and support need die under this type of system.
I think the buildout is important. Ultimately in the limit I believe that you will get your entertainment content via the net (minus the pr0n we already receive). The idea is that you would visit webpages for the TV shows you like and support, you get billed directly and DL the show you like for a small fee. You watch it when you want commercial free. Movies also could be delivered this way. Anyway, thats where I believe the BW will ultimately go. If I am wrong, then you are right 1..4mbs would be all you would need (barring p2p). (that last comment sounds a lot like 640k is all you need:) ).
OK. Run the windows OS on VMware. First time you install, before accessing the net, mount the disk over to the host OS, lets say the host is... Linux. Now, MD5 all the files on the Windows disk. Now connect to the net. From time to time, have Linux mount the drive from windows and perform the signature analysis again. If you keep around zipped the first vmdk file you could just unzip it at the later time if corruption was detected.
The PSP is a similar form factor to the lynx in terms of where you place your hands. Everything is scaled down though except for the display which is enormous by comparaison and of really high quality. The form factor is slick too, shiny black plastic and pretty trim on it. I think it looks quite nice.
Sure I won't tell you what to do with your money, I am sorry I ever indicated you would like it and would desire one were you to handle one and try it.
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Nice to see the industries stock thumper is still #1 for attracting worms and looks to be still #1 in the future. Upon sighting wormsign one only need look closeby for a compromised IIS box.
Hedley
Super news on the potential for a rebirth.
:)
What does my plate say ladies/gents?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21274068@N00/830844/
Hedley
Kelley wrote the forward. David Stumpf was the author.
Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program
by Jay W. Kelley
I have this book. Its heavy on the detail of the missile silo development and the cold war time it was developed.
There was no other missile in the US arsenal that could loft the 9MT warhead it carried. Still to this day it is the heavyweight leader.
Hedley.
Of course, a suitable title supporting 16 is needed.
8 obviously could be done today.
Hedley
Other than losing a customer its their fault really, use some common sense when heading back into shore.
Of course, the daft gits shouldn't be a customer or on the flip side a supplier in either parties case.
Say, another cash crop is poppies, per unit area in the ship it would return a lot more cash. Probably make a lot more than some lousy rust bucket filled with coders.
Imagine a passed over supertanker refitted with lots of small decks (a la being John Malkovitch). Fitted with UV lighting and irrigation many plants could be harvested in international waters. Customers would
arrive via boat.
Eventually some pissed govt sticks a torpedo in it.
"We are quality"
I loved that one.
H.
PS: My Dilbert calendar last week or so had the one where PHB is telling Wally his status report was a series of non-sensical buzzwords to which Wally replied that PHB used his status report as the 'Mission Statement'. Wonderful.
1) Eat more charred foods
2) Use the cell phone handset a lot more
3) picnic under high tension wires often
4) cheap cigarettes from Canada
5) Use more liquids ending in -ene, -ide
6) Have more food colouring parties
7) Break out that Roentgen tube lying in the attic, make some cool photos.
8) Work with small fibres and dusts as often as possible.
Yep, now I can really break loose...
Hedley
Williams rocked.
Funhouse (It's getting....*late*)
Whirlwind (for those hot summer nights)
Earthshaker (don't sit your drink on here, do sit your gf on it tho).
*sigh* They wont be like that again.
Hedley
Bliss for another 364 days. Then the onslaught of cleverness starts over again.
One word, one syllable: Weak
H.
Nice and evil. I like it, an ad-hoc connection, or infrastructure to a willing AP nearby (the parking lot). If you are on the roof tho or in the parking lot then you do risk physical observation. If you want to go there, why no just laser the windows and record the backscatter from your plumbing repair truck? (admittedly it wont get you into the core of an office). Many board rooms and such have ethernet jacks, all those presentations and business nudnicks need to get onto Outlook so they can be in touch. Since its open for a customer, imagine a tap that combines the voice + ethernet bridge to wireless (just a taste of the traffic of course given the stepdown in rate).
Hedley
OK so with suitable codec interface, plant it in a wall jack (take your pick, ether, rj-11, wallplug). Wallplug would be best for the power, anyway, the unit upon power up, scans for open AP's if it finds one, it tries to get out, if it can get out, it sends voice activated audio to an embedded ip addr (or via some ip discovery protocol). If it cannot find an AP its useless. If it finds one with WEP, it will begin a slow patient crack on the WEP key. Let it sit there for weeks working to crack it, it successful, great, if not, oh well.
Hedley
That's a nice idea but in reality I don't think you will see such a language. Of the 6billion people on earth, 1 in 5 use/understand some English. To affect the type of change you are suggesting would require a Herculean buy-in that no one would be prepared to make in my opinion. What has happened to English over the years can be attributed to linguistic change (like watching a glass window 'melt' over time) gradually new words and phrases enter common parlance but to effect a change where the goal is improved machine understanding would be too much to ask I feel. Besides, the English crossword puzzle lobby would be totally against this. :)
http://www.english.co.uk/FoE/contents/ovr.html for details on English and its future prospects.
Hedley
I have ranted to co-workers in the past about this. App's like that grammar checker have an amazing amount of leverage in today's society. When we were young, grammar was taught in a one-to-few setting across many schools. Now, kids can count on the crutch of software tools to handle spelling and grammar. The tool and market pressure have placed this type of technology as a keystone in language use and understanding, errors in these keystone apps have ripple effects far and wide in society. In the old days this checking was done by hand. My grandmother was in charge of a team of women at the FBI whose job (in the 50's 60's) was to examine all correspondence leaving the bureau and fix grammar and spelling errors. I don't say we should go back to a time like that but I do feel that these highly leveraged tools can damage the collective mental acuity needed to write well without the crutch.
Hedley
I think these recent experiments are interesting and require some explanation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/841690.stm
and also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/655518.stm
Hedley
The two hour echo strikes again.
H.
Worse still if one of the rovers was lost on landing. With no frame of reference they may never have detected the initial cock up. With two at least they can contrast the measurements.
Hedley
Yeah Carlin's joke was something like this (re: things you can and cannot say)
:)
"you can prick your finger but oh no.. don't finger your prick"
Wonderful.
Hedley
You know thinking about the pay-per-show idea, shows that we love(d) such as Futurama need not have perished if the content was supported by the consumers. Taking Futurama as an example Fox execs have a narrow channel to push content, for whatever reasons they determined that that channel was better used serving other content, now in the 100Mbps fibre world with distributed time shifted content and an international viewing audience, the small fee adds up and pays for the show. Different models could be arranged, pay-per-show or free with commercials.
No show that we like and support need die under this type of system.
Hedley
I think the buildout is important. Ultimately in the limit I believe that you will get your entertainment content via the net (minus the pr0n we already receive). The idea is that you would visit webpages for the TV shows you like and support, you get billed directly and DL the show you like for a small fee. You watch it when you want commercial free. Movies also could be delivered this way. :) ).
Anyway, thats where I believe the BW will ultimately go. If I am wrong, then you are right 1..4mbs would be all you would need (barring p2p). (that last comment sounds a lot like 640k is all you need
Hedley
You can get 100Mbps for $50(US) in Japan and ditto in Sweden for $40.
That includes VoIP service.
Anything less is stoneage.
Hedley
OK. Run the windows OS on VMware. First time you install, before accessing the net, mount the disk over to the host OS, lets say the host is... Linux. Now, MD5 all the files on the Windows disk. Now connect to the net. From time to time, have Linux mount the drive from windows and perform the signature analysis again. If you keep around zipped the first vmdk file you could just unzip it at the later time if corruption was detected.
Hedley
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
The PSP is a similar form factor to the lynx in terms of where you place your hands. Everything is scaled down though except for the display which is enormous by comparaison and of really high quality. The form factor is slick too, shiny black plastic and pretty trim on it. I think it looks quite nice.
Sure I won't tell you what to do with your money, I am sorry I ever indicated you would like it and would desire one were you to handle one and try it.
Hedley