Could they then demand that ISPs and/or LAN admins hand over information on who uploaded pictures to a magazine website, then use this information to demand the extradition of employees of any magazine that showed so much as a woman's bare ankle? Find out who uploaded Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition pictures and yank them over to Saudi Arabia for a public flogging followed by 15 years in jail?
An exaggeration, I'll admit, but just an extreme example of the types of things we could see if this is ratified by many nations. Just about anything you can think of is a criminal offense somewhere. Add extradition treaties and you get something quite scary.
I'm just glad that the retention requirement is impossible given today's technology. Even a small home LAN with a broadband connection would need a drive array with capacity measured in multiple Terabytes. A small enterprise network would require Petabytes. Fat chance!
Good points. And as far as persistent phosphors being used, I believe that is true - in well made fluorescent bulbs. But with CFLs, you can pay $10 for a good bulb or buy cheapies at 6 for $10 - and I have serious problems with the quality of the cheaper ones. Perhaps standards for bulbs in machine shop settings? But then again, I hate to invite the government to interfere more than it already does. At the very least this one deserves more though that it has been given (the blanket ban that is).
Fluorescent bulbs running on AC are in fact strobe lights. If the frequency of the AC matches that of some repetitive motion (such as a spinning blade, cog, or other machine part) then the machine will give the appearance of standing still.
I wonder how many hands people will have to lose before they consider allowing exceptions to this one? All in all I am in favor, but not of a blanket ban.
...then I think the benefits could be tremendous, but whenever I hear the term "meritocracy" or it's derivatives, I start to get skeptical and/or nervous. One person's eyesore of a website could be someone else's lovingly tended but badly coded page that is popular with all their friends. Also, by definition, those who are willing to spend time in a "modified wiki" project such as this will likely be more technically oriented and likely have a bias against poor design and/or poor coding. Bear in mind that of the first million or so webpages out there, by far the majority were put together by "power users" who self taught HTML - and coded without any form of compliance with any W3C standard as it existed at that time.
I can really see why they feel slighted - after all, collection of samples for the WHO is not a process without its costs and hazards. It's not like they're collecting bread mold or something.
Perhaps approaching the WHO looking for some form of compensation for sample collection could be attempted. Perhaps it already has been. But anyone who has dealt with a global scale NGO, especially a UN agency, knows that the bureaucracy involved makes even the most overburdened of national government bureaucracies look like a model of efficiency.
Still, though, I have to wonder about the claims that Indonesia cannot afford to purchase the vaccines. Indonesia is one of the most populous countries in the world, and seems more than able to afford many of the trappings of a modern industrialized nation. Their GDP is close to a trillion dollars US. Is it possible that a certain amount of their stand on this issue is posturing? Or to the benefit of one particular agency or department of their government? Follow the money to its destination and more would begin to be clear.
Who hasn't had to sit through hours of painfully bad PowerPoint presentations? You know, the type where the presenter has used every transition effect and font available and just sort of stands there watching the viewer reaction as the next painfully rendered lame animation comes up? Where half the audience is thinking "Please God (or FSM), let that notebook HDD end its duty cycle now!"?
So soon this type of dreck can be developed online, huh? How long before GooPoint joins Flash and the other usual suspects as a so called "website development tool"? Will there be support for embedded GooTube objects as well?
I know, I know, give the user community what it wants. If they go through with this, it will be a shameless waste of development talent. Unless of course Google can completely remake the concept of PowerPoint.
Unless the system takes advantage of people that are in close proximity to the camera to get its pictures. Think about the resolution required otherwise. Let's say we have a picture that is 2,048 x 1,536 pixels... now, can you imagine a person's irises taking up more than 1% of the width of the picture, unless it were a rather close "headshot" type pose? Now, take a look at some closeup shots of human irises. How much information do you think you'll get from 20 x 15 pixels?
Now, instead of 3 megapixels, think 12. That's still only 40 x 30 pixels. Not enough.
I'll worry when 100 megapixels becomes commonly available. (Yes I know the Navy has a 111 megapixel CCD).
Very good point. ut is Defense was in fact targeted and attacked more heavily, then that has potentially ominous undertones beyond the basic fact of a partially successful attack.
Why am I not surprised that Defense did poorly...
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Perhaps it is unfair of me to say so, but I get the distinct impression that large governmental organizations do not do very well in terms of security until the attack vector is pointed out to them. After that, sometimes they do very well (often using overkill methods), sometimes they do less well - but something usually has to kick the learning curve process into gear.
This is a HUGE problem. Considering that kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, think about how much damage even a small chip of paint can do at orbital speeds (low Earth orbit = approx. 5 miles per second). Then think of a 2 lb. chunk of metal at the same speed (8 times the speed of a rifle bullet).
Right off the top of my head I can't think of a feasible way of beginning to clean this up. Perhaps large orbital superconducting magnets (easy to maintain cryo temperatures in space) for the ferrous stuff, but what about ceramics and all the other junk?
This has the potential to make what is usually the safest part of space travel (sitting there in orbit) the most dangerous part, unlike the historical danger zones of liftoff and reentry.
Considering the soon to be published/. story about "Space Junk", maybe the Republicans are correct to be afraid of space. After all, debris from recent Chinese anti-satellite tests seems remarkably resistant to the efforts of Political Action Committees.
Quite often, if I'm not certain about an OSS package, I'll just do a quick check for existing installs of the software on the web in general. Usually it will only take 2 or 3 good solid implementations by organizations of more than minimal size to convince me. When it comes to stuff that is potentially mission critical, I'm not about to pick on the bleeding edge - or take pity on orphans.
Take a look at the Church of Scientology and how it uses lawsuits to destroy lives. That is the best example I can think of of this tactic being used. There are journalists out there with frivolous lawsuits against them filed by Scientology right now. They file them in all kinds of different jurisdictions, and each of them requiring at least a statement of defense and a court appearance. And try not defending or showing up for even one of them, and the Scientologists will go for default judgment then proceed to try for your bank account, cars, house, everything you have.
They spend an estimated $20,000,000 USD per year on legal actions. So yes, a sufficiently determined and wealthy opponent can wreck your life with lawsuits.
But without a non-competition agreement I can't see that theirs would go very far. Of course anyone can sue anybody at anytime for anything. Actually winning a judgement is another matter.
Perhaps your former employer might be better advised to spend the money and effort having a consultant come in and find out why they are losing people - a professional job satisfaction survey, say. If you have found that the work environment has changed enough to motivate you to seek employment elsewhere, then others are likely thinking the same thing. Maybe their threat of a lawsuit is a form of coercive message to other workers that they had better stay... or else!!
According to the FTC, the software also exposed consumers to significant security risks and was unreasonably difficult to uninstall.
Huh? "Reasonably difficult"? This damned thing broke Russinovich's machine, and he had to use several utilities he developed himself to get rid of it by looking deeper into the Windows OS than I think Microsoft ever intended (or wanted) anyone to look. How many/. denizens would have looked for this little gem using named pipes to communicate?
I've looked at the cost of photovoltaics, and the ROI, and my conclusion was that I'd rather go with a wind turbine. The same thing applies - in areas that allow it, your excess power runs your meter backwards and the power company pays you for it. A pretty good selection of small scale wind turbines can be seen here. Of course, if you have 5 acres like I do, you can dream about these little darlings that start at 1.5MW power generation and move up from there. No serious zoning issues if you are out in a rural area, and your ROI is as low as 3-4 years - assuming no unusually high maintenance costs and that the power company will pay you a decent rate per kWh not some pittance.
Oh, I'm sure they do deliberately misspell things. Just wasn't sure on this point. I've seen his handle in print both ways - so now I know which way is correct, thanks:)
Actually, Cap'n Crunch (the cereal) once upon a time included a toy whistle in each box of cereal. Draper was the guy who figured out that it blew a 2600 Hz tone - the exact frequency to get your phone phreaking session started. Now why exactly he decided to blow a toy whistle into a phone microphone I don't know, but that's where he got his name. Are you so very sure it's Captain Crunch now?
I agree with this. Having installed networking in an ironworks, I can tell you that the way to go is fibre - it will withstand both extreme temperature and extreme EMC/RFI interference. Why don't you take a quick look at Moxa and what they have to offer? They can be a starting point for you.
Good luck! And I hope your client/employer has the budget for this one - we're not talking commodity priced stuff here.
Looks like I commented on the previous/. thread on Sealand - the interview with the HavenCo guy.
So they want 8 figures do they? $100 million plus seems like a lot for what is basically a 550 m^2 platform. (A square 77 feet on a side would be approximately this size).
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Could they then demand that ISPs and/or LAN admins hand over information on who uploaded pictures to a magazine website, then use this information to demand the extradition of employees of any magazine that showed so much as a woman's bare ankle? Find out who uploaded Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition pictures and yank them over to Saudi Arabia for a public flogging followed by 15 years in jail?
An exaggeration, I'll admit, but just an extreme example of the types of things we could see if this is ratified by many nations. Just about anything you can think of is a criminal offense somewhere. Add extradition treaties and you get something quite scary.
I'm just glad that the retention requirement is impossible given today's technology. Even a small home LAN with a broadband connection would need a drive array with capacity measured in multiple Terabytes. A small enterprise network would require Petabytes. Fat chance!
Good points. And as far as persistent phosphors being used, I believe that is true - in well made fluorescent bulbs. But with CFLs, you can pay $10 for a good bulb or buy cheapies at 6 for $10 - and I have serious problems with the quality of the cheaper ones. Perhaps standards for bulbs in machine shop settings? But then again, I hate to invite the government to interfere more than it already does. At the very least this one deserves more though that it has been given (the blanket ban that is).
Fluorescent bulbs running on AC are in fact strobe lights. If the frequency of the AC matches that of some repetitive motion (such as a spinning blade, cog, or other machine part) then the machine will give the appearance of standing still.
I wonder how many hands people will have to lose before they consider allowing exceptions to this one? All in all I am in favor, but not of a blanket ban.
...then I think the benefits could be tremendous, but whenever I hear the term "meritocracy" or it's derivatives, I start to get skeptical and/or nervous. One person's eyesore of a website could be someone else's lovingly tended but badly coded page that is popular with all their friends. Also, by definition, those who are willing to spend time in a "modified wiki" project such as this will likely be more technically oriented and likely have a bias against poor design and/or poor coding. Bear in mind that of the first million or so webpages out there, by far the majority were put together by "power users" who self taught HTML - and coded without any form of compliance with any W3C standard as it existed at that time.
I can really see why they feel slighted - after all, collection of samples for the WHO is not a process without its costs and hazards. It's not like they're collecting bread mold or something.
Perhaps approaching the WHO looking for some form of compensation for sample collection could be attempted. Perhaps it already has been. But anyone who has dealt with a global scale NGO, especially a UN agency, knows that the bureaucracy involved makes even the most overburdened of national government bureaucracies look like a model of efficiency.
Still, though, I have to wonder about the claims that Indonesia cannot afford to purchase the vaccines. Indonesia is one of the most populous countries in the world, and seems more than able to afford many of the trappings of a modern industrialized nation. Their GDP is close to a trillion dollars US. Is it possible that a certain amount of their stand on this issue is posturing? Or to the benefit of one particular agency or department of their government? Follow the money to its destination and more would begin to be clear.
Who hasn't had to sit through hours of painfully bad PowerPoint presentations? You know, the type where the presenter has used every transition effect and font available and just sort of stands there watching the viewer reaction as the next painfully rendered lame animation comes up? Where half the audience is thinking "Please God (or FSM), let that notebook HDD end its duty cycle now!"?
So soon this type of dreck can be developed online, huh? How long before GooPoint joins Flash and the other usual suspects as a so called "website development tool"? Will there be support for embedded GooTube objects as well?
I know, I know, give the user community what it wants. If they go through with this, it will be a shameless waste of development talent. Unless of course Google can completely remake the concept of PowerPoint.
Unless the system takes advantage of people that are in close proximity to the camera to get its pictures. Think about the resolution required otherwise. Let's say we have a picture that is 2,048 x 1,536 pixels... now, can you imagine a person's irises taking up more than 1% of the width of the picture, unless it were a rather close "headshot" type pose? Now, take a look at some closeup shots of human irises. How much information do you think you'll get from 20 x 15 pixels?
Now, instead of 3 megapixels, think 12. That's still only 40 x 30 pixels. Not enough.
I'll worry when 100 megapixels becomes commonly available. (Yes I know the Navy has a 111 megapixel CCD).
Very good point. ut is Defense was in fact targeted and attacked more heavily, then that has potentially ominous undertones beyond the basic fact of a partially successful attack.
Perhaps it is unfair of me to say so, but I get the distinct impression that large governmental organizations do not do very well in terms of security until the attack vector is pointed out to them. After that, sometimes they do very well (often using overkill methods), sometimes they do less well - but something usually has to kick the learning curve process into gear.
Hmmm... looks like I stand corrected on a few things here. Thanks for the heads up :)
This is a HUGE problem. Considering that kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, think about how much damage even a small chip of paint can do at orbital speeds (low Earth orbit = approx. 5 miles per second). Then think of a 2 lb. chunk of metal at the same speed (8 times the speed of a rifle bullet).
Right off the top of my head I can't think of a feasible way of beginning to clean this up. Perhaps large orbital superconducting magnets (easy to maintain cryo temperatures in space) for the ferrous stuff, but what about ceramics and all the other junk?
This has the potential to make what is usually the safest part of space travel (sitting there in orbit) the most dangerous part, unlike the historical danger zones of liftoff and reentry.
Considering the soon to be published /. story about "Space Junk", maybe the Republicans are correct to be afraid of space. After all, debris from recent Chinese anti-satellite tests seems remarkably resistant to the efforts of Political Action Committees.
Quite often, if I'm not certain about an OSS package, I'll just do a quick check for existing installs of the software on the web in general. Usually it will only take 2 or 3 good solid implementations by organizations of more than minimal size to convince me. When it comes to stuff that is potentially mission critical, I'm not about to pick on the bleeding edge - or take pity on orphans.
Take a look at the Church of Scientology and how it uses lawsuits to destroy lives. That is the best example I can think of of this tactic being used. There are journalists out there with frivolous lawsuits against them filed by Scientology right now. They file them in all kinds of different jurisdictions, and each of them requiring at least a statement of defense and a court appearance. And try not defending or showing up for even one of them, and the Scientologists will go for default judgment then proceed to try for your bank account, cars, house, everything you have.
They spend an estimated $20,000,000 USD per year on legal actions. So yes, a sufficiently determined and wealthy opponent can wreck your life with lawsuits.
But without a non-competition agreement I can't see that theirs would go very far. Of course anyone can sue anybody at anytime for anything. Actually winning a judgement is another matter.
Perhaps your former employer might be better advised to spend the money and effort having a consultant come in and find out why they are losing people - a professional job satisfaction survey, say. If you have found that the work environment has changed enough to motivate you to seek employment elsewhere, then others are likely thinking the same thing. Maybe their threat of a lawsuit is a form of coercive message to other workers that they had better stay... or else!!
So it was a typo. Everybody makes them. Some are worse than others :(
Huh? "Reasonably difficult"? This damned thing broke Russinovich's machine, and he had to use several utilities he developed himself to get rid of it by looking deeper into the Windows OS than I think Microsoft ever intended (or wanted) anyone to look. How many
"Difficult to uninstall"? Right...
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "phone jack"
Yay! (I think...)
Thanks for the URL :)
I've looked at the cost of photovoltaics, and the ROI, and my conclusion was that I'd rather go with a wind turbine. The same thing applies - in areas that allow it, your excess power runs your meter backwards and the power company pays you for it. A pretty good selection of small scale wind turbines can be seen here. Of course, if you have 5 acres like I do, you can dream about these little darlings that start at 1.5MW power generation and move up from there. No serious zoning issues if you are out in a rural area, and your ROI is as low as 3-4 years - assuming no unusually high maintenance costs and that the power company will pay you a decent rate per kWh not some pittance.
Oh, I'm sure they do deliberately misspell things. Just wasn't sure on this point. I've seen his handle in print both ways - so now I know which way is correct, thanks :)
Actually, Cap'n Crunch (the cereal) once upon a time included a toy whistle in each box of cereal. Draper was the guy who figured out that it blew a 2600 Hz tone - the exact frequency to get your phone phreaking session started. Now why exactly he decided to blow a toy whistle into a phone microphone I don't know, but that's where he got his name. Are you so very sure it's Captain Crunch now?
I agree with this. Having installed networking in an ironworks, I can tell you that the way to go is fibre - it will withstand both extreme temperature and extreme EMC/RFI interference. Why don't you take a quick look at Moxa and what they have to offer? They can be a starting point for you.
Good luck! And I hope your client/employer has the budget for this one - we're not talking commodity priced stuff here.
Looks like I commented on the previous /. thread on Sealand - the interview with the HavenCo guy.
So they want 8 figures do they? $100 million plus seems like a lot for what is basically a 550 m^2 platform. (A square 77 feet on a side would be approximately this size).