It might be their last bastion of profit - lawsuits with their patent warchest.
That's nothing unusual with massive companies- they're always suing eachother. The question becomes how bullish - SCO-til-the-last-lawyer-stands?
Why not get all the passive shit done at home - like watching a lecture and taking notes. Then come to class and do all the hard shit in class? Anything not finished in class is then required to be taken home.
For undergrad work, it's perfectly legit to go to a well-regarded state school.
Once you've nailed the academics at a state undergrad level and proven yourself (with less cost), then hit up the larger research universities like MIT. You'll have more track record on your academic resume, and you'll have tons of contacts from your undergrad years to help you get in.
Transferring into a top tier University with less debt is not a bad way to go, if you're willing to do undergrad work at a state level. The majority of undergrad studies - Physics, Calculus, etc. are all pretty much universal whether at the state or Ivy league schools.
It's when you get to the higher levels that your dollars will be well spent at a specialty school.
Developing your *love* for the work and showing it with publicly open projects is a great way to hone your skills with the subject, and get noticed for it! If you really dive into a project, it's likely some of the other members work for an aerospace company, or know someone who does. If you release some really cool stuff with a volunteer project, you'll be noticed more by head hunters who would be willing to pay you for it.
In the end, you'd be demonstrating your love for the subject in a very visible way. Most resume submitters never ever do this.
It speaks more of the manufacturers of this equipment, I think more than the users. The users who don't want to be techies but want a secure connection trust the router manufacturer that it has a secure implementation. What many don't realize is the wool that's been pulled over their eyes, or maybe it's all the cheapo routers that still float around at garage sales and on ebay with outdated firmware...
WPA2-PSK AES random passwords are pretty much uncrackable with conventional means - wardriver is going to move on to the next house with an open belkin54g.
you've just given me an idea...
1) setup a monstrous omni wi-fi antenna
2) set SSID to linksys
3) set security to none for a certain period, to WEP for a certain period and WPA2-PSK for the same period.
4) log the number of attempts with each security setting and plot graphs. rinse and repeat step 3 over x period of time.
the grand budget axe will fall on these agencies and they'll *have* to act. I just wonder how many times they have to be spanked by these frauds before they feel the pain...
Give the FBI a run for their money.... are they *really* going to spend millions of dollars to bust down every Slashdot nerd's door just for clicking on that link? Maybe, considering how flagrant their definition of "turrrrist" is.
Tactically, Westboro is a bit better target than just saying "hey! let's DDOS Amazon.com!"
Do I condone all their techniques? No. But it seems they've come to realize multi-billion dollar corporations are a bit too big to attack for them. Not that I pity Westboro at all (hypocritical demon warshipers)...
Bird, Lazyell reference Thompson's work, and show how this kind of hardware development can lead to novel sensors:
IV. UNCONSTRAINED INTRINSIC HARDWARE EVOLUTION
Unconstrained intrinsic HE design usually comprises a computer running an EA and a reconfigurable device, such as an FPGA, on which individual genotypes are instantiated as physical electronic circuits. The fitness of a given circuit is determined solely by its real time behaviour and other factors, such as topology, are not considered. For example, Thompson [9] evolved a circuit on a small corner of a Xilinx XC6216 FPGA that was able to discriminate between two square wave inputs of 1 kHz and 10 kHz without using any of the counters/timers or RC networks that conventional design would require for this task. The evolved circuit contained
several continuous-time recurrent loops and the timing mechanism relied on a subtle analogue property - possibly parasitic capacitance - which affected delays in the internal signal paths according to the input frequency [23]. Both the loops and the timing mechanism would have been forbidden under conventional design procedure, but the evolved circuit made more parsimonious use of the silicon.
Unconstrained, intrinsic HE therefore shows potential for the design of analogue dynamical systems that may prove more successful for certain tasks than conventional design. This approach may also lead to the discovery of novel electronic ‘tricks’ not yet exploited by conventional design. Layzell [24] developed the Evolvable Motherboard (EM) to investigate some of the key issues in intrinsic HE, in particular to evaluate the relative merits of different basic components, methods of analysis and interconnection architectures. The next section gives an overview of this testbed and describes an experiment where he intrinsically evolved the first oscillators to reach their target frequency.
Evolution is then free to explore very unusual designs: circuits with structures and intricate dynamical behaviours beyond
the scope of conventional design. In unconstrained HE, the circuit primitives do not have their behaviour constrained within specific input and output ranges or by temporal coordination, nor are they restricted to playing specific functional roles. Consequently, the process of unconstrained intrinsic HE is more like tinkering than conventional engineering [10,11] and in some key aspects is analogous to natural evolution.
In particular, this paper details an unconstrained, intrinsic HE experiment where a network of transistors sensed and utilised the radio waves emanating from a nearby PC. Essentially, the EA led to the construction of a radio...
Terrorists can kill trade infinitely more easily by blowing up ocean-going freighters in international waters, taking out big dams, placing some explosives at the foot of mainline power line runs, or even UPS/Fedex/postal centers.
The terrorists have won in my opinion, if the first thing you can think of is only how it could be a potential weakness.
We have hundreds of nerve centers that are already weak.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope you enjoy your blanket & bottle - I'd rather fight this than pack my tent and lay down before their steamroller...
It might be their last bastion of profit - lawsuits with their patent warchest. That's nothing unusual with massive companies- they're always suing eachother. The question becomes how bullish - SCO-til-the-last-lawyer-stands?
Why not get all the passive shit done at home - like watching a lecture and taking notes. Then come to class and do all the hard shit in class? Anything not finished in class is then required to be taken home.
Maybe it's time to start rolling out Thorium reactors.
Once you've nailed the academics at a state undergrad level and proven yourself (with less cost), then hit up the larger research universities like MIT. You'll have more track record on your academic resume, and you'll have tons of contacts from your undergrad years to help you get in.
Transferring into a top tier University with less debt is not a bad way to go, if you're willing to do undergrad work at a state level. The majority of undergrad studies - Physics, Calculus, etc. are all pretty much universal whether at the state or Ivy league schools.
It's when you get to the higher levels that your dollars will be well spent at a specialty school.
In the end, you'd be demonstrating your love for the subject in a very visible way. Most resume submitters never ever do this.
Try Raytheon.
Is Bill Nye dressing up as Big Bird?
It would make for a hell of an orbiting hotel - and I can count half dozen emerging space companies who'd bid on it.
Convergence: When your home automation, grid power, security, telephone, TV, internet and wireless companies are all owned by the same conglomerate
We've become so accustom to drowning in our collective Apple drool we can't th ink straight!
It speaks more of the manufacturers of this equipment, I think more than the users. The users who don't want to be techies but want a secure connection trust the router manufacturer that it has a secure implementation. What many don't realize is the wool that's been pulled over their eyes, or maybe it's all the cheapo routers that still float around at garage sales and on ebay with outdated firmware...
WPA2-PSK AES random passwords are pretty much uncrackable with conventional means - wardriver is going to move on to the next house with an open belkin54g.
on a dummy spare router.
you've just given me an idea...
1) setup a monstrous omni wi-fi antenna
2) set SSID to linksys
3) set security to none for a certain period, to WEP for a certain period and WPA2-PSK for the same period.
4) log the number of attempts with each security setting and plot graphs. rinse and repeat step 3 over x period of time.
WPA2-PSK!!!
How often must this be said, WEP is NOT security - it's a giant virtual white flag to any wardriver saying "Hi There - I'm Open, Please Hack ME!"
the grand budget axe will fall on these agencies and they'll *have* to act. I just wonder how many times they have to be spanked by these frauds before they feel the pain...
They don't have to bust down everyone's door. Just a dozen or so, and make sure it's well publicized.
That's awesome justice! A few high profile bust ins, and the'll have the ACLU up their ass faster than a junkie can roll a joint...
Give the FBI a run for their money.... are they *really* going to spend millions of dollars to bust down every Slashdot nerd's door just for clicking on that link? Maybe, considering how flagrant their definition of "turrrrist" is.
Tactically, Westboro is a bit better target than just saying "hey! let's DDOS Amazon.com!"
Do I condone all their techniques? No. But it seems they've come to realize multi-billion dollar corporations are a bit too big to attack for them. Not that I pity Westboro at all (hypocritical demon warshipers)...
Jon Bird and Paul Layzell
Bird, Lazyell reference Thompson's work, and show how this kind of hardware development can lead to novel sensors:
IV. UNCONSTRAINED INTRINSIC HARDWARE EVOLUTION
Unconstrained intrinsic HE design usually comprises a computer running an EA and a reconfigurable device, such as an FPGA, on which individual genotypes are instantiated as physical electronic circuits. The fitness of a given circuit is determined solely by its real time behaviour and other factors, such as topology, are not considered. For example, Thompson [9] evolved a circuit on a small corner of a Xilinx XC6216 FPGA that was able to discriminate between two square wave inputs of 1 kHz and 10 kHz without using any of the counters/timers or RC networks that conventional design would require for this task. The evolved circuit contained several continuous-time recurrent loops and the timing mechanism relied on a subtle analogue property - possibly parasitic capacitance - which affected delays in the internal signal paths according to the input frequency [23]. Both the loops and the timing mechanism would have been forbidden under conventional design procedure, but the evolved circuit made more parsimonious use of the silicon.
Unconstrained, intrinsic HE therefore shows potential for the design of analogue dynamical systems that may prove more successful for certain tasks than conventional design. This approach may also lead to the discovery of novel electronic ‘tricks’ not yet exploited by conventional design. Layzell [24] developed the Evolvable Motherboard (EM) to investigate some of the key issues in intrinsic HE, in particular to evaluate the relative merits of different basic components, methods of analysis and interconnection architectures. The next section gives an overview of this testbed and describes an experiment where he intrinsically evolved the first oscillators to reach their target frequency.
Evolution is then free to explore very unusual designs: circuits with structures and intricate dynamical behaviours beyond the scope of conventional design. In unconstrained HE, the circuit primitives do not have their behaviour constrained within specific input and output ranges or by temporal coordination, nor are they restricted to playing specific functional roles. Consequently, the process of unconstrained intrinsic HE is more like tinkering than conventional engineering [10,11] and in some key aspects is analogous to natural evolution.
In particular, this paper details an unconstrained, intrinsic HE experiment where a network of transistors sensed and utilised the radio waves emanating from a nearby PC. Essentially, the EA led to the construction of a radio...
2) it's a term I like to call "Googlizing". Slashdot's far from the first!
Yes. You'll wake up tomorrow to a new internet, slightly different than todays.
where we go from here, is up to you.
Terrorists can kill trade infinitely more easily by blowing up ocean-going freighters in international waters, taking out big dams, placing some explosives at the foot of mainline power line runs, or even UPS/Fedex/postal centers.
The terrorists have won in my opinion, if the first thing you can think of is only how it could be a potential weakness.
We have hundreds of nerve centers that are already weak.
awesome idea as a potential beta testing group?