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FBI Applies New Rules to Surveillance;
Many Searches Not Subject To Regular
Courts' Oversight
FBI Applies New Rules to Surveillance;
Many Searches Not Subject To Regular
Courts' Oversight
12/14/2003 04:35 AMoverhaul of the FBI's counterterrorism policies .. Washington Post
story ..
WaPo
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Judge confirms table dancer rules
Judge confirms table dancer rules
04/30/2004 04:15 PMTable dancers will have to keep at least 36 inches away from their
punters, a London judge decides.
Net calls to take on landlines
Net calls to take on landlines
07/27/2004 07:29 AMThe battle over cheap phone calls hots up as Skype launches a service
offering global calling over the net.
BT plugs talking SMS into landlines
BT plugs talking SMS into landlines
08/06/2004 08:06 AMComputer Buyer Aug 6 2004 12:26PM GMT
China mobiles outstrip landlines
China mobiles outstrip landlines
01/07/2004 02:22 PMChina has more mobiles than traditional ones, thanks to falls in the
price of handsets and services.
A Tale of Cell Phones and Landlines
A Tale of Cell Phones and Landlines
12/30/2003 01:37 AMJim finds out that cheap isn't always better.
A proposal for Wifi-hubs to be built
into landlines...
A proposal for Wifi-hubs to be built
into landlines...
07/11/2004 06:19 PMSo I've been thinking a lot about ubiquitous home networks
recently, and the ways in which various appliances might start hooking
up to the internet and through the internet to other people - social
hardware if you will - and the problem keeps coming back to how you
introduce the network into the home in the first place. There needs to
be a way of wrapping all the core parts of a home in a network without
it being something that requires complex set-up and specialised
hardware. It also seems to me that the key to true ubiquity is to
detach the networking completely from a its current reliance on a
computer. Your home network of the future should not require a
perpetually-on computer in a cupboard. Your gran should be able to
have the benefits of internet enabled appliances without having to
figure out the configuration of modems and puzzle their way through a
complex OS-based interface.
And if - as I assume - we're talking about wrapping the home in a
wireless network, then it also seems to me that we should be
looking for a way to do all this without introducing lots more widgets
and boxes and cables around the place. Ideally - we would also try and
avoid having little appliances stuck into random power supplies around
the house (unless of course we can take them in a different direction
and use them as control nodes as well as bridges cf. Airport Express - but
more on that kind of paradigm another time). Essentially, we need a
model in which home, net-enabled networks are treated more like a
utility than a technology - more like water or electricity provision
than ...
Okay - so now we've got the criteria in place, how should we go
about making this wifi-enabled network space? Probably the place to
start is at the bridge between the appliance (including potentially a
computer) and the network. Since these appliance could be in pretty
much every room, then the first thing we're going to need is a series
of wifi points littered around the premises. These ideally would cover
the entire home, but if they couldn't cover it completely they'd have
to be in key areas like kitchens, studies, sitting rooms, bedrooms and
the like. They would not be as useful initially in storage
areas, hallways, lavatories, bathrooms or on stairs - although clearly
it would be an advantage if the bled into those areas. These points
need to be powered in some way and they'd presumably need to connect
with one another as wifi bridges. One of these appliances has to be
able to connect to the internet. More than likely they'll do this via
the telecommunications grid through a phone socket. And then there
will have to be some kind of interface for setting up the connection
and protecting it with some kind of password, encrypted and
connectable to by some kind of industry standard protocol. This
interface would not need to do anything else, but conceivably
could do...
So here's my contention. Given that it would seem to be a good
thing to split the provision of wireless network access from
computers, and given that we'll still need an interface and given that
we need a point in all the core rooms of a home and given that we need
to connect this network to the telephone network in some way -
isn't the telephone itself the ideal appliance to be the heart of
the home network? Unlike the television or the radio or the
stereo, any place in a home where people are likely to spend a lot of
time is likely to have a telephone point in or near it. They have
small interfaces on them already - a numeric keypad for one and often
a small LCD screen for recording input, and they're already connected
physically to the telephone network.
So here's what I'm thinking - and forgive the slightly ugly 80s
styling of the phone itself. I tried to do something beautiful and
isometric but it came out looking really nasty. So we make do with
gradient fills and basic Illustrator shapes...
So the ADSL modem and wifi antenna/bridge/hub are both included
within the device. This means that in terms of buying a wifi network
for your house, all you have to do is purchase the phone and plug it
into a phone socket. By sticking an Ethernet port into the base of the
phone you could immediately use it to connect to printers or any
non-wifi enabled networkable device. If you bought a second phone,
however, it would operate like a wifi bridge (there's already
considerable precedent for hubs also acting as bridges - with the
Airport Extreme being the most recent example), extending the network
around the home. If ADSL modems did not reduce significantly in cost,
then perhaps you could remove that from the additional phone units,
creating master and slave phones, each of which could be strung
together to extend the network still further. If ADSL modems came down
in price, however, it might be useful to build them into all the
devices - allowing each phone unit to negotiate with the other phones
as to when it should become the dominant provider of access to the
internet (ie. if the connection broke down or if it became clear that
one phone could provide more throughput because of the local quality
of the line or intra-phone connectivity). Either way, you'd expect the
network to self-organise purely by bringing a new phone home and
plugging it into a socket. The blue-lines in the following image would
be self-organising connections between phones based upon proximity and
strength of signal:
So now we have a wifi network in the home, where all you'd need to
do to extend the network is purchase a phone and plug it in. And we
have a number of devices capable of connecting to the web. Except
we've left out questions of user names / passwords / encryptions and
the like. Since we're talking of this service as a utility, then the
most obvious way of handling it would seem to me to be to get your
ADSL along with your telephony from the same operator. Since the
operators already know the telephone number that the phone is plugged
into (and will know this whenever you use a phone on that network) it
seems most obvious to consider that telephone number to be your user
name for connectivity and the name of the local network. This would
mean that when the phone was initially connected it could attempt to
connect immediately to the operator. At this stage the operator (or
the phone) could generate a numeric key with which to access the
network. All you'd have to do is plug the phone in and then ring up
your operator. Since they already have security provisions in place to
help identify a caller, they could easily determine that a user was
legitimate and give out an initial code which said user could then use
to login to the network.
In practice this would mean the entire process to set up the
network was to plug in the phone, ring an activation number and get
your code, hang up and type in the number. Any other phones you wanted
to connect would just require you to plug them into the mains and type
in the activation number. And then to login from any device all you'd
have to do is connect to the network which was called your home phone
number (Network Name: 020 7286 ####) using (again) the
activation number. Piece of cake!
The process would have other possibilities too. By using a numeric
key rather than an alphanumeric key you immediately open up the number
of devices that can be easily set up to use the network. Numeric
keypads are far more common than full text input devices and
faster to use. It would take no time at all to connect your mobile
phone, television, DVD player, Tivo, Radio, CD player, tape deck and
computer to such a network. But that's just the beginning. Radio Alarm
clocks have keypads, Microwave ovens have key pads. In fact the
only electrical things that I can see around me in my flat that don't
immediately present some kind of numeric interface are my lights,
iPod, digital camera, kettle, X-box, toaster and oven - and four of
those have an interface that would allow you to choose numerals in
different ways.
So that's the concept in a nutshell. I can see some problems with
it with regard to the separation of telecommunications services and
the necessary connections that you might need to make between hardware
and service providers that might make the whole thing unfeasible. I'm
also more than aware that there have been explorations about ways of
connecting telephones and connectivity elsewhere - some of which no
doubt overlaps, encompasses or surpasses my thoughts - and no doubt
I've made a few errors through the piece as well, but nonetheless I
thought it was an interesting enough idea to push out into the real
world and to receive feedback around. And that's what I'm after now -
please feel free to leave any thoughts, fixes, suggestions or
extensions below or write a post and trackback to this one, so any
interested parties can follow the discussion (if there is any) more
easily...
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Since today, you can subcscribe the free EARLY WARNING service. By
subscribing it you will be notified directly in your mailbox about
intrusions in your servers that have been notified to our database.
Subject: Remove
Subject: Remove
03/13/2003 10:17 AMOnce, long ago, after receiving a particularly personal, dramatic,
too-much-information type of email from an acquaintance, I was about
87%...
The Subject Is Subjects
The Subject Is Subjects
06/14/2004 09:32 PMThe American Psychological Association wants to retire the term
"subjects" as a descriptor of those who volunteer for psychology
experiments.
On the subject of cheese...
On the subject of cheese...
12/06/2003 06:42 PMThis may sound like a bit of an advert, but frankly I don't care.
You have to be able to express joy in the things you like - I think -
whether they be commercial or not. Only let me say that I have
received no money or free merchandising for the following glowing
endorsement. None at all. Not even the tiniest sliver of perfectly
ripe brie...
Every year shortly before Christmas I pop into Neal's Yard Dairy and get
a selection of cheeses to take up to my family in Norfolk. It's become
a bit of a ritual. There's something really primal and satisfying
about bringing food back for a significant meal - particularly one so
associated with the winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun (oh and
all that Christian stuff I guess). So to do my part, I go into Covent
Garden's most well-stocked and sensually stimulating shop, sample a
dozen cheeses (they'll let you try everything)
and then buy a representative sample.
This sounds more like an advert than I'd feared, but let me
continue anyway... The wonderful staff will recommend the Stilton
that'll be at its best at exactly the right time, they'll tell you how
to store your cheese (FYI: in a cellar or on a window-ledge - not in
the fridge because it'll dry it out) and they'll even label each
perfectly paper-wrapped block of cheese you buy - so that you can
order them again or look them up later in your favourite cheese tome
(I bought my father a book of cheese so that he can investigate the
whole issue in more detail - I believe it's been a tremendous
success). In a nutshell - it's one of the most pleasant experiences of
my year and I heartily recommend it. Plug over. Well, nearly...
It occurs to me that this is an ideal topic for a random poll, so
here we go: What's your favourite cheese?
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Which is Best for a Site to Cover a Big
Subject?
Which is Best for a Site to Cover a Big
Subject?
07/13/2004 08:22 PM"As ever you see different views on this all the time. Ive seen web
businesses come back from oblivion (Florida) as a result of breaking
down their sites and opting for niching. But on the other hand large
"authority" sites also do well in the serps."
Subject to the Penalty of Death
Subject to the Penalty of Death
01/01/2005 02:59 PMGeneva Convention, Article 18: Civilian hospitals organized to give
care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases,…
Nine More Detainees Subject to Tribunal
(AP)
Nine More Detainees Subject to Tribunal
(AP)
07/07/2004 01:17 PMAP - President Bush has designated nine additional prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as subject to military tribunal, the Pentagon
said Wednesday.
Subject Pathways from the EnergyFiles
Subject Pathways from the EnergyFiles
09/25/2004 06:10 AM
Subject Pathways
from the EnergyFiles
Subject Pathways from
the EnergyFiles
http://energyfiles.osti.gov/
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Within each Subject Pathway you will find diverse
resources hosted by a variety of agencies and organizations. Each
Subject Pathway is preceded by a brief explanation of the types of
information found under that specific subject category, followed by
three distinct sets of resources.
*
Searchable Databases – a distributed deep Web search across
subject-specific databases and Web sites;
* STI Resources and
Tools – links to resources and sites within each subject;
*
Related Resources – links to professional organizations,
conferences, funding information and reference material within each
subject.
Subbect Pathways include: a)
Biology and Medicine, b) Chemistry, c) Energy Storage, Conversion, and
Utilization, d) Engineering, e) Environmental Sciences, Safety, and
Health, f) Fission and Nuclear Technologies, g) Fossil Fuels, h)
Geosciences, i) Materials Science, j) Mathematics, Computing, and
Information Science, k) Physics, l) Plasma Physics and Fusion, m)
Power Transmission, Distribution, and Plants, and n) Renewable Energy.
This has been added to
Directory Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Top Spam Subject Lines
Top Spam Subject Lines
01/02/2004 06:06 PMAOL reveals top 10 spam subject lines of
2003: Here's a shocker.
Viagra. Lowest mortgage rates. Hot XXX action. As seen on
Oprah. [...] Those four phrases and six more topped the list of the
most commonly-used subject lines for junk, or "spam" e-mail in 2003,
Internet service provider AOL said Wednesday.
And consider this:
During calendar 2003, AOL blocked nearly 500 billion spam
messages from reaching user inboxes, an average of 40 fewer such
messages per day per subscriber account. The company said it regularly
blocks 75 percent to 80 percent of incoming mail as spam.
4 out of every 5 emails bound for AOL are spam. Crazy.
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DSL Portability Comes To The UK?
DSL Portability Comes To The UK?
08/02/2004 08:43 PMOne of the most annoying things about a broadband connection is that,
unlike with a phone connection, it's often quite a pain to switch
providers -- sometimes involving extended periods without service,
multiple installs, and completely redoing work that's already been
done. In an attempt to show that they really can regulate themselves,
and don't need government officials bothering them, a bunch of ISPs in
the UK have
come up with
a voluntary plan to make it easier for UK DSL customers to switch
providers (mostly) seamlessly. Of course, it helps when there are
a lot of providers and they're all using the same wholesaler, as is
the case in the UK.
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
Before we get on the subject of safe
deposit boxes
05/12/2004 04:13 AMThe response to last week's newsletter proposing a "safe deposit box"
metaphor for identity federation and storage has been tremendous. I'm
still reading through the messages, following the links and
downloading the papers. It'll take another week or two before I'll be
ready to present your thoughts, so bear with me.
And On Subject of Web Email, This Yahoo
Thing
And On Subject of Web Email, This Yahoo
Thing
06/15/2004 10:08 AMBelieve it or not, web email isn't really our bailiwick, at least
until it starts intersecting with mobile devices and what have you,
but it is at least worth mentioning that Yahoo has upgraded its
existing free email service from 4MB to 100MB, and is offering a 2GB
ad-free version for $20 a year. Good news for those of you that don't
want to change email addresses. (Thanks to everyone that sent this
in.)
Read [NYTimes]
PC vs. Mac Subject Broached In
Democratic Debate
PC vs. Mac Subject Broached In
Democratic Debate
11/05/2003 03:40 PM"Here is Dean Esmay's post on the
subject"
"Here is Dean Esmay's post on the
subject"
07/14/2004 10:19 PMIn Google We Trust? When the Subject Is
E-Mail, Maybe Not
In Google We Trust? When the Subject Is
E-Mail, Maybe Not
04/09/2004 04:03 PMGoogle, the search-engine leader, has announced plans to offer a free
Web-based e-mail service. But many potential subscribers have
reservations.
Subject Tracer Information Blogs
Subject Tracer Information Blogs
02/19/2004 06:14 AMSubject Tracer Information Blogshttp://www.SubjectTracerBlog
s.com/The number of
Subject Tracer™
Information Blogs has increased dramatically in the past
month and here is the lastest listing of these resources created by
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A. :
Biological Informaticshttp://www.BiologicalInfo
rmatics.infoBot Researchhttp://www.BotResearch.infoBusiness Intelligence Resourceshttp://www.biresources.info/ChatterBotshttp://www.ChatterBots.info/Deep Web Researchhttp://www.DeepWebResearch.inf
oDirectory Resourceshttp://www.DirectoryResourc
es.info/eCommerce Resourceshttp://www.eCommerceResourc
es.info/Finding Peoplehttp://www.FindingPeople.info/
Genealogy Resources
http://www.GenealogyResourc
es.info/Healthcare Resourceshttp://www.HealthcareResour
ces.infoInformation Futures
Marketshttp://www.Informatio
nFuturesMarkets.com/Internet
Alertshttp://www.InternetAlerts.info/
Internet Demographicshttp://www.InternetDemogra
phics.infoInternet Expertshttp://www.InternetExperts.info
Internet Hoaxeshttp://www.InternetHoaxes.info
Knowledge Discovery
http://www.KnowledgeDiscover
y.infoPrivacy Resourceshttp://www.PrivacyResources.i
nfo/Research Resourceshttp://www.ResearchResources.
infoRestStress™http://www.RestStress.com/ShoppingBotshttp://www.ShoppingBots.info/
Statistics Resourceshttp://www.StatisticsResour
ces.infoStudent Researchhttp://www.StudentResearch.info
'How dare they subject us to such
dishonor!'
'How dare they subject us to such
dishonor!'
05/29/2004 06:08 PMthe people, armed with the truth, are coming to get
ya
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Shoshana Zuboff: From Subject to Citizen
Shoshana Zuboff: From Subject to Citizen
05/05/2004 05:26 AMGetting the feudalism out of capitalism.
How came any reasonable being to subject
himself to such a yoke of misery?
How came any reasonable being to subject
himself to such a yoke of misery?
04/05/2005 04:25 PM
Con
fessions of an EBay opium addict -
Like anyone trolling the
Internet at 4 a.m., I had been looking for some kind of temporary drug
fix. I found it on eBay under Crafts>Floral Supplies>Flowers,
Foliage>Dried. (via Alternet) "Here's a bunch of stuff from
Instapundit on the subject."
"Here's a bunch of stuff from
Instapundit on the subject."
04/29/2004 04:26 PMCisco Gear Subject to DoS Attack
Cisco Gear Subject to DoS Attack
08/30/2004 10:09 AMMemo To: Ed Zander. Subject: Motorola
Memo To: Ed Zander. Subject: Motorola
12/21/2003 10:47 PMBusiness Week Dec 21 2003 9:38PM ET
FTC Tackles Slippery Subject of Spyware
FTC Tackles Slippery Subject of Spyware
04/20/2004 10:12 PMAs the Federal Trade Commission begins holding policy forums on the
topic—which has bills pending on it in Congress—it learns
that spyware is in the eye of the beholder.
What Has Number Portability Done For
You?
What Has Number Portability Done For
You?
12/03/2003 02:32 PMColdeagle writes "Number portability has been around for a few days
now, I was wondering; have any of you fellow Slashdot readers switched
carriers? How was ...
What you need to know about number
portability
What you need to know about number
portability
06/01/2004 08:22 PMZDNet Jun 2 2004 0:26AM GMT
It's like there was a vast right-wing
conspiracy memo on the subject
It's like there was a vast right-wing
conspiracy memo on the subject
12/19/2004 03:52 PMhe is writing about the people .. Christmas and Hannukah .. Charles
Krauthammer ..
Hammer
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DeLay to Be Subject of Ethics Complaint
(washingtonpost.com)
DeLay to Be Subject of Ethics Complaint
(washingtonpost.com)
06/14/2004 09:16 PMwashingtonpost.com - A Democratic congressman plans to file a
wide-ranging ethics complaint today against House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay (R-Tex.), shattering the remnants of a seven-year-old, unwritten
ethics truce between the two parties and possibly nudging the House
back toward a brand of political warfare that helped topple two
speakers.
Songs inspired by spam subject lines
Songs inspired by spam subject lines
11/13/2003 12:21 PMHere's a surprisingly good compilation of songs with titles taken from
common spam subject lines, such as "You Are Being Watched," and "Look
and Feel Years Younger." The full MP3s are available for download. My
favorite is "Do You Measure Up."
LinkWireless tech in schools subject of
lawsuit
Wireless tech in schools subject of
lawsuit
11/11/2003 11:41 AMOak Park Elementary School District No. 97 in Illinois is in the
middle of a legal battle with concerned parents regarding the use of
wireless technology in the school. Ron Baiman, one of the plaintiffs
in the lawsuit, says the Oak Park school board ignored his and other
parents' questions about wireless's potential dangers,
TechTV reports.
Online nude photos subject to new
federal law
Online nude photos subject to new
federal law
06/24/2005 09:02 PMSouthern Voice Jun 24 2005 9:52AM GMT
Weather Monitoring Frequencies Subject
to Pollution
Weather Monitoring Frequencies Subject
to Pollution
12/19/2004 03:51 PMSlashdot Dec 18 2004 4:04PM GMT
Mind Over Subject Matter (Los Angeles
Times)
Mind Over Subject Matter (Los Angeles
Times)
04/25/2004 05:51 AMLos Angeles Times - HOLYOKE, Mass. — Poverty, unemployment and
the grip of bipolar disorder have built a wall of isolation around
Myrna Colon. But twice a week, the 48-year-old finds sanctuary when
she joins 15 to 20 other women to discuss philosophy, art, literature,
poetry, history and the process of critical thinking.
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