The mouthpiece for today's article is Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft. He praised M$'s Shared Source Intiatives and FUDed free software as only "good enough", second rate and not really free. It's more of the same Bull Shit designed to confuse people about free software and make them think they can get the same advantages from Microsoft.
"What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
Here, he confuses the way that people are free to chose what software they would run with what Microsoft choses to give their customers. Anyone who thinks for more than an instant will realize that Microsoft choices are made for completely different reasons free software projects make their decisions and even more different from the reasons free software users might modify code themselves a thing the Microsoft user can not do, yet.
Face it, no one is going to learn about free software from rags like InfromationWeek, Byte, ComputerShopper or anything that makes it's money advertising M$ on pulp. You learn about free software by getting Red Hat, Debian, Suse or what have you and running it.
Microsoft will never go free because it's run on the priciples outlined here.
The same threats are repeated again and again, but it does not work.
,i>Sorry, no. Metal Storm is something entirely different. (And, incidentally, *way* more powerful and practical at this point.)
Duh, why don't you put the two together. Loading mechanism suck regerdless of propellent.
Nothing too revolutionary here, anyway. "Metal Storm" is no more sophisticated than a Roman candle. Military minds move so slowly. It has something to do with distrust and paranoia.
eh, a little fast but typical.
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See the Death Ride. Yeah, it's fast but people do that on their bikes. Well, not me. I've never pushed it over 45 MPH, but I live in Louisianna.
Unless, of course, you happen to be a total psycho
Coporate America and their M$ whores could care less about you. You have to pass the Minnisota Multiphasic Personality test to work for them, and if you can answer that you can pass the ink blot like any other corporate drone - no brains, no imagination - you fit in great. Otherwise, out you go to hustle or starve with the rest of us.
It's more like people who don't know what they are talking about have purchased equipment that could do the job, if only they would not insist on ASP and other Microshit. It's more like someone bought a nice deisel pickup truck to haul manure, but isists on using model airplane fuel to make it go. Our hero is asking, "how can I make this alcohol based fluid act like deisel? I know that it would be silly to try to move all that manure with 20,000 model airplanes and my client really does not have that kind of money. Someone tell me it's going to work." It's funny to read astrotufers like this, recomend a fleet of 20,000 model airplanes. It'll be fast!
My advice would be to *try* and use a cluster of some sort instead of the one server approach..... Of course, the more machines - the more licenses... Good luck!
What part of this did you not understand?
the obvious answer is 'buy more systems', but what if your customer says I only have 20K budgeted for the year. No matter what Slashdot readers say about buying more boxes, try telling that to your client, who can't afford anything more.
People are going to think the same things regardless of the input image, because people all have about the same things in their brains. Passphrases are good, but the image clue is not going to work.
Most people recomend taking a book from your library and highlighting a sentence to remember. It's nicer if the book is no longer in publication. When you need to get you sentence, just open the book like your were researching something. Local attacks are made difficult if you highlight things ordinarily. Dictionary atacks are made difficult by not knowing how many letters people use.
The article didn't say it will be the most secure password ever, is specifically said that it will be a stronger password than most people use, and that people will be more likely to remember it without writing it on a post-it note 'hidden' by being stuck to the underside of a desk.
Duh, passphrases are like that. Just about any sheme using passphrases is better than asking people to come up with a random word, the M$ default. The silly inkblot detracts from the randomness of the phrase and that was the point. The big gappeing holes that Microsoft is famous for defeat any and all actions the user might take. It's dishonest of Microsoft to even use the word "security" to talk about their junk.
Not even that good an idea.
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There's nothing new here. M$ has reimplemented passphrases, with a picture hint. Who has not thought of that? From the article,
"We show you a bunch of computer generated inkblots," said Simon. "We ask you to look at the inkblot, see whatever you see in the inkblot, and type a short abbreviation of what you see. The first and last letter works well.
Of course it works, well sort of. Passphrases are easy to remember, that's why they work so well. They could have used any kind of clue and might want to consider that because the things people think of on their own ARE NOT RANDOM, especiall for ink blots. "There are several responses that almost everyone gives; mentioning these shows the psychologist you're a regular guy." So, I'm afraid that these inkblot tests won't be any better than pet names and the other common things in people's heads.
The Microsoft PR department's discovery and promotion passphrases, however, is a welcome innovation. Keep working, but be careful. The easier you make it for users to be unpredictable, the more difficult you make it to blame the user for holes in your code.
There are a lot of spam filtration methods. Why can't this be used for automatic categorization and numerical analysis, instead of putting the burden on the constituent?
How many years have you been reading Slashdot? You must have noticed the rise of the Astroturfers and other robot trolls around here. If people go through all that trouble just to spoof a news site, what do you think they would do to someone who's been dropping bombs on them? I can only imagine the kinds of crap they get.
The transition period is approximately six months from today (February 20, 2003).... Imagine that. Microsoft said it would take six months and it took *looking at my calendar* six months!
Uhhh, no they did not say they would take six months to update their web site. They said they would take six months to " bringing on board key members of the Connectix team" They also said that Connextix would continue to "sell and support" their stuff for the six months, but the whole page you link too was obviously a Microsoft publication which indicates full control of was assumed immediately. Why that would keep them from updating their own web pages for six months is known only to paraniod inner workings of Bill Gates. Microsoft keeping any promise is different and shocking.
Microsoft also claims they will continue with Virtual PC development, but it should be obvious they don't want ways around their upgrade train and planned obsolescence of their software. Chances are they will use any IP purchased with Connextix to shut down other VMware, the way they have used SCO to threaten IBM and free software. It's just more of their expressed desire that there be only one OS on the planet for everything. That's one promise I expect them to try to keep.
Bittorrent was not designed as a way to anonymously get files, or to trick the RIAA, or anything like that.
It was designed as a way for people to distribute large files without paying gobs for bandwidth.
Wonderful.
So who do you think shut them down? Why? Because the RIAA will destroy any alternate distribution channel, regardless of content carried. If you have not noticed, the "promotion" business is mostly about suppressing other content. If a DoS won't do it, the **AA's will put their own content up and then send a cease and dissist letter.
The **AA are going to fail sooner or later. Their technology is simply obsolete and others are starting to produce too much for them to squash. They don't have the resources to fight everyone, and that's what it's comming to. They have enough money and resources to make a few people sorry before they go away. You have to wonder why they bother.
And look what a bunch of theives we have here they must have simply coppied other people's phone books! They ought to be hung like horses for the crime of unauthorized copying. So immoral.
Look at the market for MP3 stuff, from keychains in happy meals to the same thing sold to old yuppy joggers with many hundred dollar features. If you make any of these, you can pay a license for your MP3 recordings or you can get one of these ogg widgets. Tick-tock, tick-tock, hurry and make up your mind. Every day you punch out thousands of toys. The toy and music industry will embrace these gadgets as quick as the film industry has embraced free software.
Two things - first, a decent sensor device made to detect specific things (like sarin, soman, etc, which are all chemically similar) won't be tripping on a cigarette. Pattern won't match.
So what does your system make of mass food poisioning from a popular Taco Bell bad bean batch in Manhatan? Would airborn botulism trigger anything? It would be a bad day to ride the subway, but an evacuation might be overkill.
CIA official John Fulton and his team "were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building.
I'd rather think that Ossama was a strategic master than someone taking all his ideas from the CIA. Some people just take the fun out of everything.
No frills, just a connection. With yahoo, hotmail, VPN, web access to corporate email I do not need webspace or an email account.
Have you tried looking at hotmail with a dailup lately? Unless you block the adverts, it's impractical. The same can be said for windoze based remote tools, which I've seen crawl over fast dedicated corporate lines.
Dialups work with normal text based content. You can do pop, TLS, ssh and some modest surfing. Well make websites can upload you some good graphics, but the average animated gif banner advert hell site just blows, even with a good provider.
I used one of these dialup services for a few months and did just fine. My wife, on the other hand, had a hard time. She refuses to use any of Mozilla's popup and add blocking tools and insists on using dumb stuff like Hotmail. It was very painful to her. I imagine this is what the web is like to the average Windoze user these days. I would not try to foward X over it, and I can't imagine how bad Windoze remote tools would be.
What is the hell is "responsibility"? This kind of talk can be used to stop any kind of publishing that may be anonymous. The limit is to have a state gaurd at every copy machine in the country, as in the former USSR.
Freenet is about more than just freedom of speech, it's an attempt to get freedom from accountability.
NO! This is an attempt to insure anonymous speech is possible. Anonymous speech is an important part of free speech and is well established in Constitional law. It is freedom from reprisals for upopular opinion. People who commit crimes have no such fears.
When someone breaks a law using Freenet...
When someone breaks a law with Freenet, that's their bad. It has nothing to do with you anymore than when someone breaks a law with a normal printing press and leaves the result on your front doorstep. Neither you nor the maker of the printing press are to blame for somone's misuse of that tool. If you are really worried about someone serving kiddie porn on your computer, stay off the internet, and whatever you do, don't run software from Microsoft.
The whole concept of need to know basis, is the understanding that information will fall into the wrong hands, you just want to minimize how much information can fall into the wrong hands when someone or something is compromised. That computers, especially military computers would follow this highly pragmatic principle shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
No, that's great.
This and this are complete surprises. Who would think to create a momoculture of poor security systems like that? Especially after right headed thinking like:
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NYT reports actual mail still looked at and was there in the FAQ all along.
You mean they think they own the kernel?
nah, too much trouble.
"What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
Here, he confuses the way that people are free to chose what software they would run with what Microsoft choses to give their customers. Anyone who thinks for more than an instant will realize that Microsoft choices are made for completely different reasons free software projects make their decisions and even more different from the reasons free software users might modify code themselves a thing the Microsoft user can not do, yet.
Face it, no one is going to learn about free software from rags like InfromationWeek, Byte, ComputerShopper or anything that makes it's money advertising M$ on pulp. You learn about free software by getting Red Hat, Debian, Suse or what have you and running it.
Microsoft will never go free because it's run on the priciples outlined here. The same threats are repeated again and again, but it does not work.
A pretty picture may be cheap, but it does not always prove correct. Oh well, the next one will be better.
Duh, why don't you put the two together. Loading mechanism suck regerdless of propellent.
Nothing too revolutionary here, anyway. "Metal Storm" is no more sophisticated than a Roman candle. Military minds move so slowly. It has something to do with distrust and paranoia.
See the Death Ride. Yeah, it's fast but people do that on their bikes. Well, not me. I've never pushed it over 45 MPH, but I live in Louisianna.
Coporate America and their M$ whores could care less about you. You have to pass the Minnisota Multiphasic Personality test to work for them, and if you can answer that you can pass the ink blot like any other corporate drone - no brains, no imagination - you fit in great. Otherwise, out you go to hustle or starve with the rest of us.
It's more like people who don't know what they are talking about have purchased equipment that could do the job, if only they would not insist on ASP and other Microshit. It's more like someone bought a nice deisel pickup truck to haul manure, but isists on using model airplane fuel to make it go. Our hero is asking, "how can I make this alcohol based fluid act like deisel? I know that it would be silly to try to move all that manure with 20,000 model airplanes and my client really does not have that kind of money. Someone tell me it's going to work." It's funny to read astrotufers like this, recomend a fleet of 20,000 model airplanes. It'll be fast!
My advice would be to *try* and use a cluster of some sort instead of the one server approach. .... Of course, the more machines - the more licenses... Good luck!
What part of this did you not understand?
the obvious answer is 'buy more systems', but what if your customer says I only have 20K budgeted for the year. No matter what Slashdot readers say about buying more boxes, try telling that to your client, who can't afford anything more.
Go away.
Most people recomend taking a book from your library and highlighting a sentence to remember. It's nicer if the book is no longer in publication. When you need to get you sentence, just open the book like your were researching something. Local attacks are made difficult if you highlight things ordinarily. Dictionary atacks are made difficult by not knowing how many letters people use.
Nope. Most people see the same things in ink blot tests. This page puts it, "There are several responses that almost everyone gives; mentioning these shows the psychologist you're a regular guy." Because the original 10 inkblots were reandom to begin with, it does not matter how many random variations M$ decides to use. They are going to get the same kinds of answers.
The article didn't say it will be the most secure password ever, is specifically said that it will be a stronger password than most people use, and that people will be more likely to remember it without writing it on a post-it note 'hidden' by being stuck to the underside of a desk.
Duh, passphrases are like that. Just about any sheme using passphrases is better than asking people to come up with a random word, the M$ default. The silly inkblot detracts from the randomness of the phrase and that was the point. The big gappeing holes that Microsoft is famous for defeat any and all actions the user might take. It's dishonest of Microsoft to even use the word "security" to talk about their junk.
I don't think they will get lots of unique stuff from ink blots. There's nothing new about M$ claiming to have invented something.
"We show you a bunch of computer generated inkblots," said Simon. "We ask you to look at the inkblot, see whatever you see in the inkblot, and type a short abbreviation of what you see. The first and last letter works well.
Of course it works, well sort of. Passphrases are easy to remember, that's why they work so well. They could have used any kind of clue and might want to consider that because the things people think of on their own ARE NOT RANDOM, especiall for ink blots. "There are several responses that almost everyone gives; mentioning these shows the psychologist you're a regular guy." So, I'm afraid that these inkblot tests won't be any better than pet names and the other common things in people's heads.
The Microsoft PR department's discovery and promotion passphrases, however, is a welcome innovation. Keep working, but be careful. The easier you make it for users to be unpredictable, the more difficult you make it to blame the user for holes in your code.
How many years have you been reading Slashdot? You must have noticed the rise of the Astroturfers and other robot trolls around here. If people go through all that trouble just to spoof a news site, what do you think they would do to someone who's been dropping bombs on them? I can only imagine the kinds of crap they get.
Uhhh, no they did not say they would take six months to update their web site. They said they would take six months to " bringing on board key members of the Connectix team" They also said that Connextix would continue to "sell and support" their stuff for the six months, but the whole page you link too was obviously a Microsoft publication which indicates full control of was assumed immediately. Why that would keep them from updating their own web pages for six months is known only to paraniod inner workings of Bill Gates. Microsoft keeping any promise is different and shocking.
Microsoft also claims they will continue with Virtual PC development, but it should be obvious they don't want ways around their upgrade train and planned obsolescence of their software. Chances are they will use any IP purchased with Connextix to shut down other VMware, the way they have used SCO to threaten IBM and free software. It's just more of their expressed desire that there be only one OS on the planet for everything. That's one promise I expect them to try to keep.
It was designed as a way for people to distribute large files without paying gobs for bandwidth.
Wonderful.
So who do you think shut them down? Why? Because the RIAA will destroy any alternate distribution channel, regardless of content carried. If you have not noticed, the "promotion" business is mostly about suppressing other content. If a DoS won't do it, the **AA's will put their own content up and then send a cease and dissist letter.
The **AA are going to fail sooner or later. Their technology is simply obsolete and others are starting to produce too much for them to squash. They don't have the resources to fight everyone, and that's what it's comming to. They have enough money and resources to make a few people sorry before they go away. You have to wonder why they bother.
And look what a bunch of theives we have here they must have simply coppied other people's phone books! They ought to be hung like horses for the crime of unauthorized copying. So immoral.
Look at the market for MP3 stuff, from keychains in happy meals to the same thing sold to old yuppy joggers with many hundred dollar features. If you make any of these, you can pay a license for your MP3 recordings or you can get one of these ogg widgets. Tick-tock, tick-tock, hurry and make up your mind. Every day you punch out thousands of toys. The toy and music industry will embrace these gadgets as quick as the film industry has embraced free software.
In the event of an actual nuclear attack, millions of sensors could cry out at once, "Duck and cover!" Ah yes, I feel better already.
So what does your system make of mass food poisioning from a popular Taco Bell bad bean batch in Manhatan? Would airborn botulism trigger anything? It would be a bad day to ride the subway, but an evacuation might be overkill.
I'd rather think that Ossama was a strategic master than someone taking all his ideas from the CIA. Some people just take the fun out of everything.
Have you tried looking at hotmail with a dailup lately? Unless you block the adverts, it's impractical. The same can be said for windoze based remote tools, which I've seen crawl over fast dedicated corporate lines.
Dialups work with normal text based content. You can do pop, TLS, ssh and some modest surfing. Well make websites can upload you some good graphics, but the average animated gif banner advert hell site just blows, even with a good provider.
I used one of these dialup services for a few months and did just fine. My wife, on the other hand, had a hard time. She refuses to use any of Mozilla's popup and add blocking tools and insists on using dumb stuff like Hotmail. It was very painful to her. I imagine this is what the web is like to the average Windoze user these days. I would not try to foward X over it, and I can't imagine how bad Windoze remote tools would be.
What is the hell is "responsibility"? This kind of talk can be used to stop any kind of publishing that may be anonymous. The limit is to have a state gaurd at every copy machine in the country, as in the former USSR.
Freenet is about more than just freedom of speech, it's an attempt to get freedom from accountability.
NO! This is an attempt to insure anonymous speech is possible. Anonymous speech is an important part of free speech and is well established in Constitional law. It is freedom from reprisals for upopular opinion. People who commit crimes have no such fears.
When someone breaks a law using Freenet ...
When someone breaks a law with Freenet, that's their bad. It has nothing to do with you anymore than when someone breaks a law with a normal printing press and leaves the result on your front doorstep. Neither you nor the maker of the printing press are to blame for somone's misuse of that tool. If you are really worried about someone serving kiddie porn on your computer, stay off the internet, and whatever you do, don't run software from Microsoft.
No, that's great.
This and this are complete surprises. Who would think to create a momoculture of poor security systems like that? Especially after right headed thinking like: