my father was trained as a fighter pilot in a simulator before the time of video games.
Looking at actions had some effect - but the immersion in a simulation produced the very same body symptoms as a real fight situation - blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing. And training is training. If you train violence, violence will become natural - in simulation and in life because the parasympathic nervous system knows no difference.
The US and many of its leading politicians wants to see their country as the new Rome.
They are closer to the truth than they might wish:
Their Secret Services have taken on the role of the Pretorian Guards - no President can survive without their good will ( Kennedy ) and some of their masters became Cesar - sorry president ( B?sh )
some like to play big games either in the colosseum or as Star Wars ( Nero and Reagan ).
They have to obey the panem et circenses of elections as we can see every four years.
And it is always good to make the masses fear the external enemy 9/11 or cyber warfare.
Not withholding the fact that their own military already equipped their own troops to be better at that game.
Problem is: common sense told me the US is in the role of a farmer who:
rented out his fields -> production went offshore
drove off his friends: echelon, intelectuals, and even high quality work went offshore.
started to drink: overconsumption - primarily energy.
and started to gamble: Wall Street desaster
my grandfather told me what can be expected from such a farmer: bancrupcy
The US will not be teared apart by China, it will be teared apart from their "friends"
so did my country. I was shaken awake when I went abroad as a teenager. Proud of MY country, I was brought back to reality when I was shown that other people are also not stupid.
About selling Technology: US company daughters sold in the 60s and 70s HiTech equipment to USSR and Soviet Block by "repairing" older items.
The US mothers liked it! Especially for their financial profit!
routers and switches can have ( and logic says they have ) a small Trojan Boot Loader (TBL) in their code which listens to traffic from search engines.
the guys from the rooms behind the back-office send a small wake-up packet to a router/switch with a certain serial-number, thus activating the TBL.
The TBL extracts its instructions from the traffic coming from the Search Engine. It loads the spy-program tailored to this very company/institution.
Data reported back is hidden also in traffic to the search engine.
the TBL ought to be written with dirty programming so it will be difficult to proof it is in the firmware of the router/switch.
every individual person shares 50% of its DNA with its father and 55% with its mother ( counting also mitochondrial DNA ) and percentages of 100% ( twins ) to sometimes 0% with siblings.
other relatives also share DNA with every individual person!
where these people asked by the contributors, if they are allowed to publish their genetic makeup?
How is the legal situation?
Can these relatives sue somebody who published his DNA?
I congratulate you top your decision and motivation to use OSS.
The very argument: you know what you SW is doing should be stuffed down the throat of every government office, institute or company:
I suggested that in every router sits a well hidden Trojan Boot Loader, making life for eavesdropping and directed spying child's play!
why invest in ECHELON when you just need to key in the serial No of the router of company XYZ or Ministry of Defense of Balconia and tell your electronic fifth column what to look for!
you think that can be monitored? not if the traffic hides in search-engine traffic!
all are Linux-based OS placed in BIOS ROM
available 5 to 10 seconds after power on.
ASUS offers with their P5Q Delux a built in SSD
so you can store your text straight away without
mounting a USB stick or harddisk.
tell you that is the future - and I bet hell and heaven that M$ works on their version like mad.
imagine a boss who would not like to have his computer up and running immediately after flipping the power switch!
maybe you missed the point - there is at least one router in every institutions LAN and companies network - dehind the firewall and the DMZ!
There traffic is usually not encrypted.
And it can listen specifically to the things it is being told to look for. No need for SuperComputers and Quantum-Decryption. Straight from the horses mouth! A real bug in the sense of secret listening device. Routers can be bugged with Trojans loaded by a Trojan Boot Loader which most likely is hidden in the firmware of each commercial router.
At least thats what I would do as a secret service.
The only cure you rightfully said: Have your software compiled by yourself - including the software for the router!!
most likely Firmware, nowadays in Flash.
So it may disappear if its masters think it is better to clear the field. But it might also in a CPLD, FPGA or such. - - - - for me it seems that to many power hungry polit-hyenas ruin the field for the secret services as they overdo and will provoke a counter-reaction.
- - - - BTW I aired this idea of a router-based TBL 5 years ago and all I got was assurance that I am paranoid.
If I am a secret service, my job is to supply infomration by eavesdropping - also on the Internet.
I may build something like ECHELON, tapping both sattelite communication and cables both at land and the sea.
But if I am clever, I ask the market leaders of routers to include a tiny little piece of code in their products, which nobody will notice. This little code will be a trojan-boot-loader (TBL).
It will listen to certain commands embedded in traffic, preferably in search engine queries adn answers as there it will be difficult to detect.
And if I know the serial number of the device and the company which purchased it, I have a nice means of industrial espionage.
So in any net which is connected to the Internet I will have my information provider.
If I am a government or a company which has competitors in the US, UK or NZ I would not buy a router - I would use a Linux based one with the software compiled by myself!
If a company like M$ destroys your market - you destroy theirs by offering their product for free.
As this is not legal, you support somebody else who does. Economics of supporting FOSS explained in a capitalist market!
Second:
I would love to see a modified GPL which limits the use of SW it covers to non-commercial use but allows companies who contribute ( according to some key/function etc..) to include it in their products/use it for their commercial purposes.
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my father was trained as a fighter pilot in a simulator before the time of video games.
Looking at actions had some effect - but the immersion in a simulation produced the very same body symptoms as a real fight situation - blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing. And training is training. If you train violence, violence will become natural - in simulation and in life because the parasympathic nervous system knows no difference.
Kurt Vonnegut was wrong in his A Clockwork Orange that an overdose of violence makes non-aggressive.
Aggression is like an addiction: you need more and more to get the kick.
Dear pro violent-video-gamers:
It is the immersion in the action which makes - not only kids - get indoctrinated. Through violent games with violence.
Lets watch the crime statistics.
And the armys of many countries will need pilots for their drones.
They are closer to the truth than they might wish:
Their Secret Services have taken on the role of the Pretorian Guards - no President can survive without their good will ( Kennedy ) and some of their masters became Cesar - sorry president ( B?sh )
some like to play big games either in the colosseum or as Star Wars ( Nero and Reagan ). They have to obey the panem et circenses of elections as we can see every four years.
And it is always good to make the masses fear the external enemy 9/11 or cyber warfare.
Not withholding the fact that their own military already equipped their own troops to be better at that game.
Problem is: common sense told me the US is in the role of a farmer who:
rented out his fields -> production went offshore
drove off his friends: echelon, intelectuals, and even high quality work went offshore.
started to drink: overconsumption - primarily energy.
and started to gamble: Wall Street desaster
my grandfather told me what can be expected from such a farmer: bancrupcy
The US will not be teared apart by China, it will be teared apart from their "friends"
About selling Technology: US company daughters sold in the 60s and 70s HiTech equipment to USSR and Soviet Block by "repairing" older items.
The US mothers liked it! Especially for their financial profit!
And the CIA put in their spy devices :-)
the guys from the rooms behind the back-office send a small wake-up packet to a router/switch with a certain serial-number, thus activating the TBL.
The TBL extracts its instructions from the traffic coming from the Search Engine. It loads the spy-program tailored to this very company/institution.
Data reported back is hidden also in traffic to the search engine.
the TBL ought to be written with dirty programming so it will be difficult to proof it is in the firmware of the router/switch.
no need for costly Echelon any more!
other relatives also share DNA with every individual person!
where these people asked by the contributors, if they are allowed to publish their genetic makeup? How is the legal situation?
Can these relatives sue somebody who published his DNA?
What about the DMCA?
plz dont make this man aware of his mis-understanding FOSS.
He thinks because of economic problems we will have to pay royalty to use English and Roman letters - perhaps even to use Arab numbers.
BTW the majority of SPAM comes not from China but from the US!
and there were no bombs in Beijing: http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/27/olympic.bomb.main/
The very argument: you know what you SW is doing should be stuffed down the throat of every government office, institute or company:
I suggested that in every router sits a well hidden Trojan Boot Loader, making life for eavesdropping and directed spying child's play!
why invest in ECHELON when you just need to key in the serial No of the router of company XYZ or Ministry of Defense of Balconia and tell your electronic fifth column what to look for!
you think that can be monitored? not if the traffic hides in search-engine traffic!
for me they look like Vegas roulette table with a break installed. If it doesnt suit the operator, the win does not come.
Throw out you e-voting and other easily forged democracy-tools operated by the republicans!
America
wake up!!
( and other slahdotters )
make this a survey
I and I think others would love to see the outcome!!
tell you that is the future - and I bet hell and heaven that M$ works on their version like mad.
imagine a boss who would not like to have his computer up and running immediately after flipping the power switch!
if M$ can not do that they have lost the game!
I fully agree and posted my agreement before I read your comment!
NOT SO MUCH ROBOTS
tele-sex will be THE HIT of the internet
remote touch/feeling will allow both person to person body-interaction
but will allow also interaction with a virtual sex-partner
or with a sex partner who is real, but wears the virtual look of some sexual attractive other
either my countryman Arnold thinks he is still acting in a movie
or
citizens are brought back to learn by experience like kids
when you touch the hot plate, you burn your fingers
or you pay us so that you can read first: don't touch or you'll burn
the wise man was asked : What are you doing?
He answered: I am very busy - I am preparing my next error!
thanks for realizing the potential
reality looks like this:
USA 1590
China 442
Russia 304
SouthKorea 201
UK 184
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso
no comment!
to my knowledge no mobile phone provider passes SMS from Austria to China. ( which would ease the time difference for communication )
I would like to help a slashdotter. Have a look at: http://www.iaea.org/About/Jobs/profstaff.html and http://www.iaea.org/About/Jobs/genstaff.html and consider if you can stand that US citizens are not everybody's darling any more. I would appreciate welcoming a brother in mind!
maybe you missed the point - there is at least one router in every institutions LAN and companies network - dehind the firewall and the DMZ! There traffic is usually not encrypted. And it can listen specifically to the things it is being told to look for. No need for SuperComputers and Quantum-Decryption. Straight from the horses mouth! A real bug in the sense of secret listening device. Routers can be bugged with Trojans loaded by a Trojan Boot Loader which most likely is hidden in the firmware of each commercial router. At least thats what I would do as a secret service. The only cure you rightfully said: Have your software compiled by yourself - including the software for the router!!
most likely Firmware, nowadays in Flash. So it may disappear if its masters think it is better to clear the field. But it might also in a CPLD, FPGA or such. - - - - for me it seems that to many power hungry polit-hyenas ruin the field for the secret services as they overdo and will provoke a counter-reaction. - - - - BTW I aired this idea of a router-based TBL 5 years ago and all I got was assurance that I am paranoid.
If I am a secret service, my job is to supply infomration by eavesdropping - also on the Internet. I may build something like ECHELON, tapping both sattelite communication and cables both at land and the sea. But if I am clever, I ask the market leaders of routers to include a tiny little piece of code in their products, which nobody will notice. This little code will be a trojan-boot-loader (TBL). It will listen to certain commands embedded in traffic, preferably in search engine queries adn answers as there it will be difficult to detect. And if I know the serial number of the device and the company which purchased it, I have a nice means of industrial espionage. So in any net which is connected to the Internet I will have my information provider. If I am a government or a company which has competitors in the US, UK or NZ I would not buy a router - I would use a Linux based one with the software compiled by myself!
If a company like M$ destroys your market - you destroy theirs by offering their product for free. As this is not legal, you support somebody else who does. Economics of supporting FOSS explained in a capitalist market! Second: I would love to see a modified GPL which limits the use of SW it covers to non-commercial use but allows companies who contribute ( according to some key/function etc..) to include it in their products/use it for their commercial purposes.
You don't like the fact or the form?