it should be flat out illegal for anybody to install software on someone elses computer w/o the owners written permission - that goes for spyware, virus, marketing research firms, even Microsoft, and this. Just because you're network connected or pop in a CD doesn't give everybody and his brother the right to take over part of your machine in ANY way. It's so bizarre that govt. enforces access rights for govt business and military machines but personal home computers, pfft, it's like an open free for all.
Gah, he's a media wag pandering to a certain mindset constituency for fame & fortune, investigating truth has nothing to do with it. As I pointed out - read my F'ing post - what he wrote about Fl. being the only state that that takes away felons voting rights due to some 'old deep south' (thereby implying vestiges of confederate racist you see) is plain WRONG WRONG WRONG. Check the link I posted that lists every states laws and check the facts. Do you own research. Simply quoting some journalist who just bangs out what you want to hear proves nothing.
Finally, the election was decided by the supreme court of the United States since the Florida recount was stopped prior to the date that Florida had to turn in their electoral votes.
You guys are really grasping at straws to validate your twisted view: The Supreme Court 'decided' nothing except time's up, and that was MONTHS after the ballots had been counted, and counted over, and over and over again. Every time Bush came up with more votes, some democrat would file another suit to consider such insanities like 'dimpeled chad' and smell the ballot and devine what the voter intended to punch. If anybody can be accused of trying to steal an election it should be the democrats for their "keep REcounting until Gore wins" tactic, while changing the criteria for what constitutes a "Gore" vote every time, "Darn, Bush won again. Well, we want a recount, except this time look for all the ballots that were all democrat except for the president, that clearly means they really intended to vote for Gore but pushed the wrong button, yeah, that's it".
If you commit a felony in Florida, you lose your right to vote there, and you're "scrubbed" from the rolls. You become a non-citizen, like in the old Soviet Union. This is not the case in most other states; it's an uncivilized vestige of the Deep South.
It's curious that another state, New York suffers from the same "uncivilized vestige of the Deep South".
Who is "Greg Plast" and why should we listen to him? A simple search turns up this page which lists all the US states, and if anyone takes the time to read it instead of hammering out more communists bulletins for their leftist anti-US readers, they will see that almost all US states take away felons voting rights while in prison or on parole.
Florida/Old South/Soviet Union ??? This guy is hogwash.
That would make a great movie title, about an obscenely wealthy man who stumbles from one cockup to another, only to be rescured from each by his vast fortune.
so what's a good defense if you expect this to be in use and your a protester? A foil suit? Maybe clothes with a wire mesh fully enclosed faraday shield? It'd be neat to have the pigs firing at you and you just keep walking.
I just finished something like that - one server is a cheap ($150 from ebay, incl ship) PIII 800Mhz with a $20 AHA2940, a $30 scsi cable with 5 connectors and 4 36Gb IBM disks for $180 (all from ebay). Slap RedHat 9 on it, read the HOWTO, use the built in tools and blammo, 100Gb raid-5.
Next project was a Sun E250 from ebay for $300 (incl. ship!), that came with 6 9Gb disk drives. Also got a box-o-10 18Gb drives for $100, and 5 spud brackets for $60. Replace 5 of the 9G drives with 18's, install DiskSuite, follow the instructions and blammo, 50Gb raid w/ an automatic hot spare failover, tested and working (just yanked a drive out one night to 'simulate' failure). Not the biggest but relatively inexpensive and very reliable.
A patent all depends on how broad you make the claims, but the first thing I thought of is the aircraft IFF (identification friend or foe) transponder which dates back to WWar II. A radio signal is sent out to an aircraft and an identification is returned - definitely 'rfid' on an airspace scale.
bletch - that solarviews.com link brought up one of the most annoying pages I've ever seen with the giant flashing red arrows. Who can read the info with all that crap going on, jeebus.
I wasn't aware that you could pump gas anywhere in the US w/o paying for it first?
Suprisingly many service stations do, or did. Drive up to pump, flip the level and pump, then walk inside and pay. I asbentmindedly pumped and drove off w/o paying once, then went back and settled the bill;)
The most successful life forms are insects - both in number of species, biomass, etc, there are a LOT more of insects than elephants. Also heard recently that over half of the people who ever lived died of: mosquito bite.
Instead of longevity for deep space travel, I would prefer suspended animation - it may take thousands of earth years to get anywhere, but at least subjectively the travellers would experience passing out, then suddenly waking up at the destination.
Due to competition in hardware design and marketing, manufacturers and vendors are forced to streamline and cut costs to attain the highest effeciency possible, altho they will never be 'free' (unless subsidized by something else) - whereas due to the legal copyright monopoly phenomena, software vendors are able to charge confiscatory rates, operate very sloppy, ineffecient operations while legally preventing any competition from honing in on their protected 'market'.
During the 'gold rush' years of personal and 'minicomputing' some companies made small fortunes, but those rich veins eventually play out - even customers 'locked in' get wise to their situation and start seeking better value deals - customers instinctively hate single vendor solutions, it's anti freemarket/capitalist in my opinion, and fight back. In the end, customers will seek out the best value for the buck, and the companies that deliver it will get the business.
Have you actually done it? I have been running Airsnort in my apartment with two encrypted nets visible and have had absolutely no results so far. Probably not enough traffic, but also thought THIS article interesting. Would be nice to hear if anybody has actually been successful or just repeating the 'myth'(?).
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I think it's kinda neat that they're streaming digital audio in MPeg-4 over shortwave radio these days. /joke
;)
Seriously, DRMondiale is pretty cool if you get a good signal
it should be flat out illegal for anybody to install software on someone elses computer w/o the owners written permission - that goes for spyware, virus, marketing research firms, even Microsoft, and this. Just because you're network connected or pop in a CD doesn't give everybody and his brother the right to take over part of your machine in ANY way. It's so bizarre that govt. enforces access rights for govt business and military machines but personal home computers, pfft, it's like an open free for all.
Gah, he's a media wag pandering to a certain mindset constituency for fame & fortune, investigating truth has nothing to do with it. As I pointed out - read my F'ing post - what he wrote about Fl. being the only state that that takes away felons voting rights due to some 'old deep south' (thereby implying vestiges of confederate racist you see) is plain WRONG WRONG WRONG. Check the link I posted that lists every states laws and check the facts. Do you own research. Simply quoting some journalist who just bangs out what you want to hear proves nothing.
Finally, the election was decided by the supreme court of the United States since the Florida recount was stopped prior to the date that Florida had to turn in their electoral votes.
You guys are really grasping at straws to validate your twisted view: The Supreme Court 'decided' nothing except time's up, and that was MONTHS after the ballots had been counted, and counted over, and over and over again. Every time Bush came up with more votes, some democrat would file another suit to consider such insanities like 'dimpeled chad' and smell the ballot and devine what the voter intended to punch. If anybody can be accused of trying to steal an election it should be the democrats for their "keep REcounting until Gore wins" tactic, while changing the criteria for what constitutes a "Gore" vote every time, "Darn, Bush won again. Well, we want a recount, except this time look for all the ballots that were all democrat except for the president, that clearly means they really intended to vote for Gore but pushed the wrong button, yeah, that's it".
From the article linked:
If you commit a felony in Florida, you lose your right to vote there, and you're "scrubbed" from the rolls. You become a non-citizen, like in the old Soviet Union. This is not the case in most other states; it's an uncivilized vestige of the Deep South.
It's curious that another state, New York suffers from the same "uncivilized vestige of the Deep South".
Who is "Greg Plast" and why should we listen to him? A simple search turns up this page which lists all the US states, and if anyone takes the time to read it instead of hammering out more communists bulletins for their leftist anti-US readers, they will see that almost all US states take away felons voting rights while in prison or on parole.
Florida/Old South/Soviet Union ??? This guy is hogwash.
That would make a great movie title, about an obscenely wealthy man who stumbles from one cockup to another, only to be rescured from each by his vast fortune.
If it takes 7 programmers 7 months to finish 7 projects, how long does it take 8 programmers to finish 8 projects?
Memorable scene from the movie "Casablanca"
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [A croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
so what's a good defense if you expect this to be in use and your a protester? A foil suit? Maybe clothes with a wire mesh fully enclosed faraday shield? It'd be neat to have the pigs firing at you and you just keep walking.
I just finished something like that - one server is a cheap ($150 from ebay, incl ship) PIII 800Mhz with a $20 AHA2940, a $30 scsi cable with 5 connectors and 4 36Gb IBM disks for $180 (all from ebay). Slap RedHat 9 on it, read the HOWTO, use the built in tools and blammo, 100Gb raid-5.
Next project was a Sun E250 from ebay for $300 (incl. ship!), that came with 6 9Gb disk drives. Also got a box-o-10 18Gb drives for $100, and 5 spud brackets for $60. Replace 5 of the 9G drives with 18's, install DiskSuite, follow the instructions and blammo, 50Gb raid w/ an automatic hot spare failover, tested and working (just yanked a drive out one night to 'simulate' failure). Not the biggest but relatively inexpensive and very reliable.
I always wondered what happened to that NASA programmer.
A patent all depends on how broad you make the claims, but the first thing I thought of is the aircraft IFF (identification friend or foe) transponder which dates back to WWar II. A radio signal is sent out to an aircraft and an identification is returned - definitely 'rfid' on an airspace scale.
it hasn't been fixed in NT4
Good, then we still have a way to disable the Swedish Navy
bletch - that solarviews.com link brought up one of the most annoying pages I've ever seen with the giant flashing red arrows. Who can read the info with all that crap going on, jeebus.
why binary - make one of these hover about - it can indicate a range of whatever.
I wasn't aware that you could pump gas anywhere in the US w/o paying for it first?
;)
Suprisingly many service stations do, or did. Drive up to pump, flip the level and pump, then walk inside and pay. I asbentmindedly pumped and drove off w/o paying once, then went back and settled the bill
The most successful life forms are insects - both in number of species, biomass, etc, there are a LOT more of insects than elephants. Also heard recently that over half of the people who ever lived died of: mosquito bite.
with the recent spike in US gas prices, I'll bet some companies would like to put this in gas pumps to track drive offs.
deep FAT fried french fries
... we need more french fry consumers so we'll have enough waste oil for our enviro-friendly biodiesel autos!
but
buy low, sell high, get out before the crash.
Instead of longevity for deep space travel, I would prefer suspended animation - it may take thousands of earth years to get anywhere, but at least subjectively the travellers would experience passing out, then suddenly waking up at the destination.
hemp...can be used as a paper fibre, and that oil can also be extracted from it
But, what are we going to do with all the unfertilized flowers?
Due to competition in hardware design and marketing, manufacturers and vendors are forced to streamline and cut costs to attain the highest effeciency possible, altho they will never be 'free' (unless subsidized by something else) - whereas due to the legal copyright monopoly phenomena, software vendors are able to charge confiscatory rates, operate very sloppy, ineffecient operations while legally preventing any competition from honing in on their protected 'market'.
During the 'gold rush' years of personal and 'minicomputing' some companies made small fortunes, but those rich veins eventually play out - even customers 'locked in' get wise to their situation and start seeking better value deals - customers instinctively hate single vendor solutions, it's anti freemarket/capitalist in my opinion, and fight back. In the end, customers will seek out the best value for the buck, and the companies that deliver it will get the business.
Have you actually done it? I have been running Airsnort in my apartment with two encrypted nets visible and have had absolutely no results so far. Probably not enough traffic, but also thought THIS article interesting. Would be nice to hear if anybody has actually been successful or just repeating the 'myth'(?).
all we need now is for Ashcroft for require Microsoft to put RFID in their cd-roms so the RIAA can track pirated mp3s with open spam relays.