Maybe it appears as though you've been 'reading' about the valley coming back for two years. But here it is a different story. The last two years have been bleak and depressing. Articles in the merc every week about how people are coping without tech jobs. How to squeeze the pennies and how people don't want to leave. Only in the last 3 or 4 months have things seemed to be picking up. My company is hiring people as are several companies I have associates at. Granted, it isn't hiring like it's 1999(woo prince!) but people are demanding techies again. I've lived in the valley all my life(save college) but I notice that it goes in waves. The first was in the early eighties, personal computer revolution. Then came the internet boom of the mid nineties. I think the next wave in the valley will be defense companies... DHS has buckets of money they will give away to ANYBODY who even says 'I can do impossible task X'. Where X is usually something like 'facial recognition'...
These things exist....
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And are only going to get more accurate
Imagine devices that monitor the breathing rhythms of infants in cribs, watch toddlers at day care, and track children as they go to and from school; that can keep an eye on our home supply of orange juice and let us know when the milk is sour. Machines might watch our calorie intake and burn-off, monitor air quality in our homes, and look out for mice and bugs.
I work for a startup company that does this kind of surveillance development. We have software that will detect bad behavior(someone being clubbed over the head at an ATM for example), objects that are left lying around where they shouldn't be(suitcases in airports or trash bags on the side of the road), and everything is network aware... cameras tell other cameras to look at objects if they have a better view. As well as motion tracking, object detection(the cameras can say 'hey i see a red car')... some very very cool but scary stuff.
on a side note it's all linux based and 100% digital from the photons to mpeg storage
It is too bad it took me until half way through college to really focus my passion in life. I've been with computers since i was 4 years old, but mostly until college I was a serious gamer and didn't have a clue as to how things actually worked. I would tell myself as a 12 year old, to keep reading the BASIC book i started and never finished. Take more math courses and try harder in them, read more books that are good for you not crappy science fiction. in short I wish i'd just gotten seriously into computing earlier in life. other than that... do more drugs while you can't be convicted as an adult!
no, a vernam cipher is the only form of unbreakable encryption. It happens like this:
you have a stream of extremely random bits. And you have to make sure they are really really random, no pseudo random number generators. Say it's coming from a satelite up in space that measures radioactive particles(this was proposed in a paper not too long ago). Now the satellite streams these bits down to earth, so anybody can access them. Alice and Bob want to communicate securely over an insecure channel. So the agree on a series of bits to encrypt with. This can be anything from "every other bit" to a large polynomial function that says which bits to use.
So every bit the function designates as an encrypted bit is used to XOR any message Alice and Bob use to communitacte.
So, Alice computes bit random bit number x to encrypt bit y. She does XOR(x,y)->c and sends it to Bob. Bob also has this formula and performs the calculation to find which bit number x to use, then performs XOR(c,x)->y. The key is keeping the bit number function secret.
Now, why is this secure? because anybody listening on the channel doesn't know the function(hopefully) and if your bits are truely random there is *no* way to distinguish whether any given bit can be 0 or 1. Try all the combinations for 0 or 1 in the message you want, but every permutation you want will look like the correct decryption.
well funny thing was, i met RMS this summer at the EFF party during LWE-SF and i got a picture of me with him. So i went home after seeing the movie to see if he was in the same shirt... checked out the picture. RMS was wearing a different shirt but i was wearing the same one;-)
I saw this movie in denver when it was here for a film festival a couple months ago. And the director JTS Moore had a little question/answer session afterwards. He said that during the 6-9 months he filmed this he interviewed RMS like 4 times on different trips to the east cost( a couple months apart) and *every time* he was wearing the same shirt. Watch the movie, look at his shirt... same in ever shot... you'd think it was shot in one sitting... but you'd be wrong.
When my roomate and I were trying to think up naming conventions for our apartment one of our ideas was STD's. the clap herpes chlamidia AIDS at first we thought it was funny, but then it got kinda weird... plus there actually isn't that many STD's out there.
Looks like "Secure Linux for Retards"
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Ok, I feel that putting some peices of security in an OS kernel is a good idea. It allows you to have a lot of control over what goes on on a system, however it's not always the best idea for certain things. This distro it seems is that + *basic* system security...
HP-LX includes pretty much every security tool for Unix imaginable, and defaults are set up with security in mind right out of the box. For example, HP-LX allows command shell access only via the system console or SSH (encrypted) connections. HP forces you to use OpenSSH by including a procedure for creating and installing the keys during the OS installation.
This is a no brainer for anybody who is semi secruity concious. And
HP-LX's installer won't install unneeded services. This is probably one of the best things you could do on your existing server; remove everything that you don't absolutely need.
Comon people, every semi decent sysadmin knows this. Maybe I'm expecting too much from people (the number of people that complain to me about not being able to use telnet is disgusting)
The added chroot jail stuff is neat, and no doubt helpful, but this distro really looks like it is not worth 3k. Any competent Linux admin could set this up with a couple days work. That doesn't mean his manager will approve... they would buy the MP distro because it would make them feel warm and fuzzy inside, even if their admin could design a better distro.
When the article first off proclaims things like:
Pros: Currently the most secure commercially available Linux system.
I can generally discount most of what it has to say. Security is a process not a product.
Doode, i know EXACTLY what your talking about. Even when i was in like second grade(87') me and my friends would talk about that haunted toys-r-us. I dunno about the validity of it all, but it certainly was fun to be scared of it when your little
I was of this thinking as well for quite a while. And although I have never really downloaded and exploit and tried it out, I was very away of how easy it is. Recently I went to a security talk at LWE SF where Optics(who wrote KIS) and Sir Dystric were on a panel talking about online security. They brought up an interesting point, good security people who release an exploit often break something obvious so that stupid k1dd13s can't use it. This is a good thing(tm). People should be encouraged to do this so that we can avoid just what you are describing. And only the smart crackers, who would be able to write their own scripts anyway, can use it.
Ok now that I can understand. 3 character extension makes sense and definatly clears up a few things. But in the spirit of.. what is already out there and working, why did they change from what was "the standard" apache looks for index.html not index.htm. And AFAIK most other webservers check for the same.
Well you may not care about multimedia. But I like to play mp3's(on linux mind you). And a lot of people like to do it on their favorite proprietary operating system. The problem is that windows XP is trying it's hardest to prevent people from doing that. With the WMA format enforcing copyright protection by crippling default mp3 encoding, and over riding applications that handle files. It certianly looks like microsoft is playing dirty tricks.
The best part of the article was this line: " The reason Microsoft has never done this isn't technical; it's pure business hardball cowering behind the camouflage of a technicality."
That quote sums up %50 of Microsoft's design decisions. Not to say that they don't do great things in other places(the research division there does some cool stuff with text rendering) but they certainly have a record of not playing nice.
Yeah that was annoying. Plus what the heck is with Front Page and other MS internet oriented webpage material using.htm ? I mean it's called HTML, not HyperTextMarkup. It looks to me like microsoft just trying to make things difficult for users so they'll think "oh everything here says.htm that must be what is correct"
Some other posts were saying that this guy is just looking for something to bitch about. I think he had some great points, the RealPlayer vs WindowsMedia is the new killer app war. Microsoft won in the browser market, now for multimedia.
Agreed. And I'm not terribly proud of it. Just think where we'd be today if the puritans hadn't come to america. We wouldn't have such rediculously immature culture viewpoints on sex and nudity.
It's interesting to see that Europe is more openminded towards OSS than the US is. If they do things like this.. pass legislation to encourage OSS development. I could see how programmers would see countries in the EU as kind of a haven. Especially if they didn't arrest them on site like a certain country i know of...
We are currently in the process of deploying it internally at Cisco. While it is not my project, I have seen and breifly used it. It is a _great_ collaboration tool.
My business unit is going to use it to keep in contact with our contacts in india. It's easier to access and administer than a newsgroup server. Plus it has advanced bug tracking and access features. I know we paid _alot_ of money for it and in my opinion, once it is deployed, it will be worth every penny.
Sprint does the same kind of stupid crap. Except they say "we require you to have a firewall and you cannot port scan us, but we can port scan you" Total bullshit if you ask me. You can check out the Acceptable Use Policy
They haven't sent any threatening e-mails to me yet, but i'm sure the day will come.
how open is your BIOS ? oh not very? OpenFirmware is used to boot Macs it's a standard that is used to boot machines independent of archetecture. How is that not open ?
Re:Del the Funky Homosapien
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thank you grammar police!;-)
Tracks, yes definatly... there is Virus, Mastermind, Memory Loss, and Madness. Those are some of my favorites on that album. Search for deltron on cdnow.com and it will pull up the album. Good Luck
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I believe his first album is self titled, but his new comp project DelTron 3030 is awesome. It's Del, KidKoala, and Dan the Automator... very very phat album. It's all about the future and space battles, virus', microsoft, corporations. A very fun album and I recommend it to people who aren't really into hiphop.. it's a good way to get into it.
I studied the Clipper project in my computer security class last quarter and it all seemed like the stupidest idea ever. Then I wondered why I had never heard about it... well it WAS a stupid idea, and luckily people were able to fight against it on my behalf even though I didn't know about it. It's interesting now to see what COULD have happened, that really was the dumbest idea ever. And this only confirms my suspicions about the FBI/CIA out to monitor everything that I ever could possibly do. If you don't use PKI, maybe you should think again.
Re:He may already be doing the right thing.
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Yes this stuff is really messed up. In fact two weeks ago this same thing happened to my sister. A couple of kids who didn't like her told the administration that she "had a gun." And so they called the police, and arrested her. No searching, no questioning... just took her downtown. My sister 12 years old, she has no idea where to get a gun... she just worries about playing softball and talking to her friends on the phone. My parents were incredibly upset and are now in a law suit with the district to get her record cleared.. and just like in this story the students were not punished. Protected by an "anonimity" policy... well i hope they at least teach mccarthyism in school so the kids can see what a crock of shit the system is.
I bet you if execs had their names up there they would come down REAL fast. But does it strike anybody else like total propaganda bullshit? i mean look at that mirror, it sounds like the church of scientology kinda stuff. I can't believe people buy this stuff no matter what their views on abortion are. Stuff like this
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The banner-head above summarizes the philosophy of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned
Parenthood. Like Adolf Hitler, Margaret Sanger considered herself to be part of a genetically superior
elite who had to protect themselves against "hereditary taints." She set out to start a "New Race" -
"A Race of Thoroughbreds." This elitist attitude is clearly at odds with the leftist, social worker
image that is commonly attributed to her by the mass media.
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And seriously, these pictures of aborted fetus's? yuck
the people who made this web site are fscked up!
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Maybe it appears as though you've been 'reading' about the valley coming back for two years. But here it is a different story. The last two years have been bleak and depressing. Articles in the merc every week about how people are coping without tech jobs. How to squeeze the pennies and how people don't want to leave.
Only in the last 3 or 4 months have things seemed to be picking up. My company is hiring people as are several companies I have associates at. Granted, it isn't hiring like it's 1999(woo prince!) but people are demanding techies again.
I've lived in the valley all my life(save college) but I notice that it goes in waves. The first was in the early eighties, personal computer revolution. Then came the internet boom of the mid nineties. I think the next wave in the valley will be defense companies... DHS has buckets of money they will give away to ANYBODY who even says 'I can do impossible task X'. Where X is usually something like 'facial recognition'...
And are only going to get more accurate
Imagine devices that monitor the breathing rhythms of infants in cribs, watch toddlers at day care, and track children as they go to and from school; that can keep an eye on our home supply of orange juice and let us know when the milk is sour. Machines might watch our calorie intake and burn-off, monitor air quality in our homes, and look out for mice and bugs.
I work for a startup company that does this kind of surveillance development. We have software that will detect bad behavior(someone being clubbed over the head at an ATM for example), objects that are left lying around where they shouldn't be(suitcases in airports or trash bags on the side of the road), and everything is network aware... cameras tell other cameras to look at objects if they have a better view. As well as motion tracking, object detection(the cameras can say 'hey i see a red car')... some very very cool but scary stuff.
on a side note it's all linux based and 100% digital from the photons to mpeg storage
It is too bad it took me until half way through college to really focus my passion in life. I've been with computers since i was 4 years old, but mostly until college I was a serious gamer and didn't have a clue as to how things actually worked. I would tell myself as a 12 year old, to keep reading the BASIC book i started and never finished. Take more math courses and try harder in them, read more books that are good for you not crappy science fiction.
in short I wish i'd just gotten seriously into computing earlier in life.
other than that...
do more drugs while you can't be convicted as an adult!
it's "Quad Denied", get it right
no, a vernam cipher is the only form of unbreakable encryption. It happens like this: you have a stream of extremely random bits. And you have to make sure they are really really random, no pseudo random number generators. Say it's coming from a satelite up in space that measures radioactive particles(this was proposed in a paper not too long ago). Now the satellite streams these bits down to earth, so anybody can access them. Alice and Bob want to communicate securely over an insecure channel. So the agree on a series of bits to encrypt with. This can be anything from "every other bit" to a large polynomial function that says which bits to use. So every bit the function designates as an encrypted bit is used to XOR any message Alice and Bob use to communitacte. So, Alice computes bit random bit number x to encrypt bit y. She does XOR(x,y)->c and sends it to Bob. Bob also has this formula and performs the calculation to find which bit number x to use, then performs XOR(c,x)->y. The key is keeping the bit number function secret. Now, why is this secure? because anybody listening on the channel doesn't know the function(hopefully) and if your bits are truely random there is *no* way to distinguish whether any given bit can be 0 or 1. Try all the combinations for 0 or 1 in the message you want, but every permutation you want will look like the correct decryption.
well funny thing was, i met RMS this summer at the EFF party during LWE-SF and i got a picture of me with him. So i went home after seeing the movie to see if he was in the same shirt... checked out the picture. RMS was wearing a different shirt but i was wearing the same one ;-)
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I saw this movie in denver when it was here for a film festival a couple months ago. And the director JTS Moore had a little question/answer session afterwards. He said that during the 6-9 months he filmed this he interviewed RMS like 4 times on different trips to the east cost( a couple months apart) and *every time* he was wearing the same shirt. Watch the movie, look at his shirt... same in ever shot... you'd think it was shot in one sitting... but you'd be wrong.
When my roomate and I were trying to think up naming conventions for our apartment one of our ideas was STD's.
the clap
herpes
chlamidia
AIDS
at first we thought it was funny, but then it got kinda weird... plus there actually isn't that many STD's out there.
if they didn't realize that using vector math, and especially "linear combinations" of vectors were linear then they are incredibly stupid.
Doode, i know EXACTLY what your talking about. Even when i was in like second grade(87') me and my friends would talk about that haunted toys-r-us. I dunno about the validity of it all, but it certainly was fun to be scared of it when your little
I was of this thinking as well for quite a while. And although I have never really downloaded and exploit and tried it out, I was very away of how easy it is. Recently I went to a security talk at LWE SF where Optics(who wrote KIS) and Sir Dystric were on a panel talking about online security. They brought up an interesting point, good security people who release an exploit often break something obvious so that stupid k1dd13s can't use it. This is a good thing(tm). People should be encouraged to do this so that we can avoid just what you are describing. And only the smart crackers, who would be able to write their own scripts anyway, can use it.
Ok now that I can understand. 3 character extension makes sense and definatly clears up a few things. But in the spirit of.. what is already out there and working, why did they change from what was "the standard" apache looks for index.html not index.htm. And AFAIK most other webservers check for the same.
Well you may not care about multimedia. But I like to play mp3's(on linux mind you). And a lot of people like to do it on their favorite proprietary operating system. The problem is that windows XP is trying it's hardest to prevent people from doing that. With the WMA format enforcing copyright protection by crippling default mp3 encoding, and over riding applications that handle files. It certianly looks like microsoft is playing dirty tricks.
The best part of the article was this line: " The reason Microsoft has never done this isn't technical; it's pure business hardball cowering behind the camouflage of a technicality."
That quote sums up %50 of Microsoft's design decisions. Not to say that they don't do great things in other places(the research division there does some cool stuff with text rendering) but they certainly have a record of not playing nice.
Some other posts were saying that this guy is just looking for something to bitch about. I think he had some great points, the RealPlayer vs WindowsMedia is the new killer app war. Microsoft won in the browser market, now for multimedia.
Shit! i'll have to put a backdoor in my rot13lib.so! back to the drawing board...
Agreed. And I'm not terribly proud of it. Just think where we'd be today if the puritans hadn't come to america. We wouldn't have such rediculously immature culture viewpoints on sex and nudity.
It's interesting to see that Europe is more openminded towards OSS than the US is. If they do things like this.. pass legislation to encourage OSS development. I could see how programmers would see countries in the EU as kind of a haven. Especially if they didn't arrest them on site like a certain country i know of...
My business unit is going to use it to keep in contact with our contacts in india. It's easier to access and administer than a newsgroup server. Plus it has advanced bug tracking and access features. I know we paid _alot_ of money for it and in my opinion, once it is deployed, it will be worth every penny.
Sprint does the same kind of stupid crap. Except they say "we require you to have a firewall and you cannot port scan us, but we can port scan you" Total bullshit if you ask me. You can check out the
Acceptable Use Policy
They haven't sent any threatening e-mails to me yet, but i'm sure the day will come.
how open is your BIOS ? oh not very? OpenFirmware is used to boot Macs it's a standard that is used to boot machines independent of archetecture. How is that not open ?
thank you grammar police! ;-)
Tracks, yes definatly... there is Virus, Mastermind, Memory Loss, and Madness. Those are some of my favorites on that album. Search for deltron on cdnow.com and it will pull up the album. Good Luck
I believe his first album is self titled, but his new comp project DelTron 3030 is awesome. It's Del, KidKoala, and Dan the Automator... very very phat album. It's all about the future and space battles, virus', microsoft, corporations. A very fun album and I recommend it to people who aren't really into hiphop.. it's a good way to get into it.
I studied the Clipper project in my computer security class last quarter and it all seemed like the stupidest idea ever. Then I wondered why I had never heard about it... well it WAS a stupid idea, and luckily people were able to fight against it on my behalf even though I didn't know about it. It's interesting now to see what COULD have happened, that really was the dumbest idea ever. And this only confirms my suspicions about the FBI/CIA out to monitor everything that I ever could possibly do. If you don't use PKI, maybe you should think again.
Yes this stuff is really messed up. In fact two weeks ago this same thing happened to my sister. A couple of kids who didn't like her told the administration that she "had a gun." And so they called the police, and arrested her. No searching, no questioning... just took her downtown. My sister 12 years old, she has no idea where to get a gun... she just worries about playing softball and talking to her friends on the phone. My parents were incredibly upset and are now in a law suit with the district to get her record cleared.. and just like in this story the students were not punished. Protected by an "anonimity" policy... well i hope they at least teach mccarthyism in school so the kids can see what a crock of shit the system is.
" The banner-head above summarizes the philosophy of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. Like Adolf Hitler, Margaret Sanger considered herself to be part of a genetically superior elite who had to protect themselves against "hereditary taints." She set out to start a "New Race" - "A Race of Thoroughbreds." This elitist attitude is clearly at odds with the leftist, social worker image that is commonly attributed to her by the mass media. "
And seriously, these pictures of aborted fetus's? yuck the people who made this web site are fscked up!