In case you're not aware, Ekiga already exists and is a free-software SIP client implementation. See http://ekiga.org/ . At best this should be an extension for Ekiga, not an entirely new project.
This also excludes licenses published by Microsoft, such as the Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL), which is approved as an Open Source license by OSI and a Free Software license by FSF (although incompatible with the GPL).
This is the first time I've heard "birther" used in an anti-abortion/pro-life context. The only context I've heard "birther" before were people doubting the birthright citizenship of Obama. Lets not confuse the terms.
It takes a significant amount of infrastructure in order to do HF direction finding. I believe the FCC has one facility to do it. The US military probably has a few in different parts of the globe. Egypt might have a facility or two. But the accuracy of these things will only give you city-level precision. Tracking it down further requires driving around the city with a receiver and looking at the signal strength. Not quick.
The thing with ham stations is that you don't necessarily need a big antenna on a tower or anything. You could communicate with a wire antenna in a palm tree. You could go out into the desert and raise some 10m masts. Either way, these are low-infrastructure requirements and can easily be raised and town down in a matter of an hour. It should not be difficult to relocate after every communication session, even without running mobile (on a vehicle).
Running mobile is also an option, and can be done on HF without much difficulty. A "hamstick" type antenna for the 20m band (14 MHz) is able to reach hundreds of miles, even with today's low sunspot numbers.
In many jurisdictions, you don't have to be a ham in order to purchase or own a transceiver. I'm not sure if this applies to Egypt, but the idea is that even if they rounded up the hams and most of their equipment, there are likely other transceivers that can be used by unlicensed individuals, or can be provided to licensed hams to use without the government's permission. Yes, it would probably necessitate using fake callsigns.
There's a couple options here. POTS modem is a decent choice for data, until it gets blocked. Satellite internet should work also, but could be subject to jamming. Shortwave radio to listen to international broadcasts (BBC World Service, VOA, Deutsche Welle, etc.) is a good option for receiving information and news. They could still jam broadcasters that they don't like (but hard to get all of them).
Ham radio would be the best option, as it doesn't depend on anyone else's infrastructure, and equipment can be run from 12V batteries. Many frequency bands to choose from to avoid interference or jamming. Many digital modes can be used to relay articles, some with forward error correction. Voice modes are available for those without digital interfaces. Can be short range to arrange local protests if needed (VHF/UHF), possibly with a handheld transceiver. It can be long range on the HF bands (shortwave), potentially communicating over thousands of miles and across borders.
I've been reading slashdot since 1997 or so. This is too much change. The new layout is nearly illegible, I have to search for the content in a sea of whitespace. Far too bright. How do I go back to the previous version?
Capacity of a fighter? Here's what wikipedia has to say:
Earlier stealth aircraft (such as the F-117 and B-2) lack afterburners, because the hot exhaust would increase their infrared footprint, and breaking the sound barrier would produce an obvious sonic boom, as well as surface heating of the aircraft skin which also increased the infrared footprint. As a result their performance in air combat maneuvering required in a dogfight would never match that of a dedicated fighter aircraft. This was unimportant in the case of these two aircraft since both were designed to be bombers.
The F-117A is a bomber or "ground attack" aircraft, it is not an air-to-air fighter, despite what stupid movies and popular media say. This summary is also incorrect in calling it a fighter.
The original message claimed Scott Lowe was on the FBI payroll:
for example Scott Lowe is a well respected author in virtualization circles who also happens top be on the FBI payroll, and who has also recently published several tutorials for the use of OpenBSD VMs in enterprise VMware vSphere deployments.
For more ISS geekery, check out this video. Col. Doug Wheelock operates the NA1SS ham radio station on board the ISS. Since they are using FM, all the different transmissions are interfering and he's having trouble picking callsigns out of the noise. It is impressive to hear all that traffic in a FM pileup. Contacts start around 11:30 mark. Before that is background and a tour of the station.
"We expect to take measures in the aftermath of the Savannah incident," said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, which maintains the GNU Project, a source of freely available software for Unix and Linux systems. Among the measures, the project leaders will force developers to digitally sign any code they submit, and they plan to introduce additional features to freely available source-code maintenance systems--the best known being the Concurrent Versions System, or CVS--to check developers' digital signatures before accepting changes.
"We believe (adding digital signatures) is the single most useful technical change to tighten these systems to assure the integrity of the code they contain," Moglen said.
Does anyone know if the changes described here came to be? Did they help at all in this attack?
You forget that Turkey is a NATO member and falls under the US/UK/France nuclear umbrella. Turkey doesn't need nukes. Supposedly the US had missles based in Turkey (aimed at the USSR) that were removed as part of a secret deal ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the nuclear umbrella stays as part of NATO.
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In case you're not aware, Ekiga already exists and is a free-software SIP client implementation. See http://ekiga.org/ . At best this should be an extension for Ekiga, not an entirely new project.
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"Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6." © 2011 Microsoft
Wow. IMO, they should have left off the "6".
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You mean like this?
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I can't even find a wikipedia article on Blue's News.
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And then don't forget to launder them.
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This is in Manhattan's Chinatown. As for being a filthy shithole.. welcome to New York. :)
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Didn't blackberry roll over for the governments requesting intercept capability last summer?
Either way, I don't trust BB that much.
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This also excludes licenses published by Microsoft, such as the Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL), which is approved as an Open Source license by OSI and a Free Software license by FSF (although incompatible with the GPL).
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This is the first time I've heard "birther" used in an anti-abortion/pro-life context. The only context I've heard "birther" before were people doubting the birthright citizenship of Obama. Lets not confuse the terms.
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And half of them will strike oil.
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It takes a significant amount of infrastructure in order to do HF direction finding. I believe the FCC has one facility to do it. The US military probably has a few in different parts of the globe. Egypt might have a facility or two. But the accuracy of these things will only give you city-level precision. Tracking it down further requires driving around the city with a receiver and looking at the signal strength. Not quick.
The thing with ham stations is that you don't necessarily need a big antenna on a tower or anything. You could communicate with a wire antenna in a palm tree. You could go out into the desert and raise some 10m masts. Either way, these are low-infrastructure requirements and can easily be raised and town down in a matter of an hour. It should not be difficult to relocate after every communication session, even without running mobile (on a vehicle).
Running mobile is also an option, and can be done on HF without much difficulty. A "hamstick" type antenna for the 20m band (14 MHz) is able to reach hundreds of miles, even with today's low sunspot numbers.
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In many jurisdictions, you don't have to be a ham in order to purchase or own a transceiver. I'm not sure if this applies to Egypt, but the idea is that even if they rounded up the hams and most of their equipment, there are likely other transceivers that can be used by unlicensed individuals, or can be provided to licensed hams to use without the government's permission. Yes, it would probably necessitate using fake callsigns.
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There's a couple options here. POTS modem is a decent choice for data, until it gets blocked. Satellite internet should work also, but could be subject to jamming. Shortwave radio to listen to international broadcasts (BBC World Service, VOA, Deutsche Welle, etc.) is a good option for receiving information and news. They could still jam broadcasters that they don't like (but hard to get all of them).
Ham radio would be the best option, as it doesn't depend on anyone else's infrastructure, and equipment can be run from 12V batteries. Many frequency bands to choose from to avoid interference or jamming. Many digital modes can be used to relay articles, some with forward error correction. Voice modes are available for those without digital interfaces. Can be short range to arrange local protests if needed (VHF/UHF), possibly with a handheld transceiver. It can be long range on the HF bands (shortwave), potentially communicating over thousands of miles and across borders.
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I've been reading slashdot since 1997 or so. This is too much change. The new layout is nearly illegible, I have to search for the content in a sea of whitespace. Far too bright. How do I go back to the previous version?
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Capacity of a fighter? Here's what wikipedia has to say:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_aircraft#Dogfighting_ability
References: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-stealth.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-35.htm
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The F-117A is a bomber or "ground attack" aircraft, it is not an air-to-air fighter, despite what stupid movies and popular media say. This summary is also incorrect in calling it a fighter.
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Maybe you haven't heard of the NYPD's "stop-and-frisk" policy? It is clearly unconstitutional, but goes on anyway.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-powell/stopping-stop-and-frisk-i_b_647298.html
http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices
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Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
It looks like about 50 errors were recorded.
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Right, just ask Nina Reiser.
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The original message claimed Scott Lowe was on the FBI payroll:
for example Scott Lowe is a well
respected author in virtualization circles who also happens top be on
the FBI payroll, and who has also recently published several tutorials
for the use of OpenBSD VMs in enterprise VMware vSphere deployments.
In response, Scott Lowe has denied any affiliation with the FBI or other government agency.
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For more ISS geekery, check out this video. Col. Doug Wheelock operates the NA1SS ham radio station on board the ISS. Since they are using FM, all the different transmissions are interfering and he's having trouble picking callsigns out of the noise. It is impressive to hear all that traffic in a FM pileup. Contacts start around 11:30 mark. Before that is background and a tour of the station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73EYcyszf8
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http://www.universetoday.com/81224/gallery-x-37b-space-plane-returns-to-earth/
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/photos-x-37b-robot-space-plane-landing-101203.html
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Can we enforce it against the NSA?
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GNU Savannah was hacked in 2003 also. http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344-5117271.html
"We expect to take measures in the aftermath of the Savannah incident," said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, which maintains the GNU Project, a source of freely available software for Unix and Linux systems. Among the measures, the project leaders will force developers to digitally sign any code they submit, and they plan to introduce additional features to freely available source-code maintenance systems--the best known being the Concurrent Versions System, or CVS--to check developers' digital signatures before accepting changes.
"We believe (adding digital signatures) is the single most useful technical change to tighten these systems to assure the integrity of the code they contain," Moglen said.
Does anyone know if the changes described here came to be? Did they help at all in this attack?
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You forget that Turkey is a NATO member and falls under the US/UK/France nuclear umbrella. Turkey doesn't need nukes. Supposedly the US had missles based in Turkey (aimed at the USSR) that were removed as part of a secret deal ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the nuclear umbrella stays as part of NATO.
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