First off, I thought just about everything was workable in PERL but this is scary.:) Regardless, to the best of my knowledge there are no working quantum computers (tangible at least.) How can we be sure that code created with this will truely work the same way when it's eventually put onto an actual quantum computer? Even were this based on a tangible prototype I'd feel there'd still be cahnges that'd need to be made. *shrugs* Guess I'm just a jerk about toying with theory.:)
Are they going to also try to take further steps on locking down a more theft-proof design for these cards? I mean even in Cali the changes to the licenses only have pushed up the cost of illegal copies that look exactly the same. It's fairly easy to make your own identity and I'm just curious as to what thought was put into this to make it a secure system.
Here's my major beef. They apparently had a "zero-tolerance" for "hacking" or however they chose to put it. My questions are : Was this actually posted in several visible spots where it would be noticed? Also, did they bother to divulge what was considered such behavior? I mean if you browse around and scout a network. Check what ports are running. See what versions of the software are on there. Pretty much everything you can without actually modifying anything or running an exploit of sorts. Couldn't that (according to them) be "hacking." If a computer gives out that information freely from commonly used commands then how is that possible? For me there are for too many questions that need to be answered before a reasonable solution (not place of blame) can be found. .--bagel--.---------------.
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Maybe when they have streaming technology and you have your little N'Sync ring they'll charge like they do for radio stations for broadcasting it within the 15 feet it's audible.:P .--bagel--.---------------.
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Well maybe we can get more laughs in 2004 when good old Saddam tries to buy a couple of these to launch nerve gas at us.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
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I'm kind of curious what kind of behavior trying to exploit the ISN would show. I mean the best I could think is if one were to simply sniff packets. This isn't very in depth in terms of how ISN generation is done if it is not truly random. I know with attacks such as syn floods there were semi-obvious patterns that revealed what they were going after. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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It's nice to see that 3D printing is in the news again. Last I heard was a group who had made various electronic components from ceramic. This is definately a trend a lot of us hardware engineers and general geeks may want to look at. Although there are the definate limitations of material and how practical cost will be for something that can print at such a low level I'm sure that this could be very viable within 20 years. .--bagel--.---------------.
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I'd hate to consider what this would do if it hit a person's eye(s). I remember reading before about people getting hit by laser-like weapons and having serious and permenant eye problems ranging from intense headaches to blurred vision and worse. This sounds like a decent enough idea in theory but trying to control a micrometer sized beam from distances up to almost 2,300 feet away seems a bit like a problem. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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I thought way back when the Earth was still largely volcanic and there was a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere we had wonder bacterium known as cyanobacteria (aka blue-green algae) that did a good amount of work converting CO2 to breathable O2. I'm not sure if these bacterium directly changed the CO2 in the atmosphere but I know their chemical actions were to be responsible for a lot of the convertion to breathable O2. If I am wrong please correct me as this is what I remember from school from quite a few years back.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
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Between this and f*ckedcompany.com is there anything other than good old family/friend mishaps we can use to get humor for the holiday weekend? Maybe the look on someone's face when they get one of my low-budget presents.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Well, I guess we can all notice that this is a bit more ingenious then the classic "student had 2600 in their backpack." While this seems very naive there have still been instances. I forget which company but I know slashdot ran a story or two on the branded/watermarked "secure" audio files where an awards was to be given. Still if the teacher made such a proposal it would seem that the blame should be more fitting with the teacher who pretty much invited such an attack. This story in an abstract way does fit in with the prior news article about honeypots (computers that are open to attack/analysis for security hazards. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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I guess this just falls under the same category as any other censorship. Still the idea of Napster was to permit artists to get their music out there. Just because some (or many, regardless) people may not like the messages does not mean that others should be stripped of the right to listen to it. Filtering or censoring should be done by the end user. Not by the provider so that there is no option. It would be sad if what ended Napster was not paid for file-sharing but instead a completely destroyed ideology of free peer-peer transfer. .--bagel--.---------------.
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I've always been for putting a spare computer/box/whatever for use as honeypot. Not only can you learn a little (after weeding out script kiddie traffic) about what tactics are most widespread but you can also learn VERY valuable information from mistakes you leave (intentionally or unintentionally) on the honeypot before it gets to the network you are trying to protect. I know a lot of people consider these just stomping grounds for computer crime but I feel that while that could be and is partially true the potential benefit from having such things outweights the presumed negative effects. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I thought that GPS units (or possibly the satellites themselves) were made to be just that little bit off so someone couldn't just borrow the electronics and hook them up to a missile for precision as they blow something to kingdom come. I'd hate for some terrorist to suddenly feel they had a round-about $100 missile targetting system. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I thought a while ago I had heard of someone buying out/saving Iridium a few months ago and they would be funding getting the satellites in working order. Guess this kind of proves that was false? Still a sad waste of machinery. Well hopefully in another 20 years I will be able to comfortably afford my own comm satellite, lol.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
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I'm just waiting for the local cable companies or whomever "releases" the content to companies such as TiVo to permit you to construct your own "digital video storage thingie" sorry I just woke up and got to work so my brain is kind of munged. Seriously though, if the software was GPLed and with a little electronics hacking building your own TiVo rather than hacking an existing one shouldn't be too very hard. Besides people would still have to pay for the service for incoming transmissions.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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I understand the advantages of having a collection of data collected by your firewall in a centralized location but wouldn't this also permit computer criminals to see which attacks do not go unnoticed. Besides shouldn't an admin take responsibility and do log analysis themselves. I mean on large-scale networks it is totally impractical but still. One can't rely totally on these measures.:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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It will be quite nice for you to be able to hack/develop a great system without having to have oodles of money and a company under your belt. Especially when that system runs linux (yes, I am a little anti-M$.) Personally I have been looking more towards hardware specs of systems like the Dreamcast (hoping to make BBSish) software using the modem and it's nice to see a company finally realizing the great potential of not only having it's hardware/software tested thoroughly for errors, etc but also have a lot of free development and maybe pick up ideas. Let's hope this is the beginning of an emerging trend in the gaming industry:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
A further note. Should even a few robots gain deemed "human-level" intelligence, entailing perceivable emotions, obvious noting/reacting to stimuly, etc. (obviously shooting off to a huge debate about what is intelligent or sentient. What is to stop such a robot from seeing an assembly-line robot or a "housekeeping" robot, what-have-you and thinking that robot could further live up to as great potential as itself? Purhaps that could be the basis of a mechanized evolution:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Seems like it's the usual as with any other processor in some regards it benchmarks great and in others it shows far less regard. I think we should take this like any other innovation and just wait a bit. I've always been against buying stuff immediately on release as it always has kinks to work out (a la Playstation 2:D) .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
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Although it always seems to be a good sign when we achieve smaller forms of existing technologies they always raise other questions. Some of which I ponder is first, if they will be able to dynamically program them to be able to do other tasks? I know that would undoubtedly be expensive at first but they seem like they'd be expensive to produce now. .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
It will be nice to watch quality organizations be able to stretch out to other nations. I have been watching several of the FSFs ventures and have agreed with quite a few. Hopefully this will be the starting of a trend:D .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Perhaps this is more of a general "get off my duff and research" but are PS2 games region coded like DVD movies? If not it'd be nice if Sony decided to give PS2BASIC to other folks in other countries. Personally I think it'd be a nice thing to play with. Anyone have more info on this? .--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Not sure if you covered this but even with a lot of people switching to (or already using) open source software there still could be the problems with existing backdoors put into other proprietary software such as the Microsoft IIS services, etc. Those would still permit the backdoor to do what will with users of that service. Also how would these backdoors go undetected depending on what they do? I mean sure if they are sending little data or a lot of data over a long time then the small amount of packets over time would be very hard to notice still. I'm babbling now but hopefully enough of this was understandable to start a discussion:D
Nopefully this isn't too naive a question but wouldn't this laser broom cause some trouble if it ran across larger debris? Possibly break it into smaller chunks and cause it to hit other satellites?
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First off, I thought just about everything was workable in PERL but this is scary. :) Regardless, to the best of my knowledge there are no working quantum computers (tangible at least.) How can we be sure that code created with this will truely work the same way when it's eventually put onto an actual quantum computer? Even were this based on a tangible prototype I'd feel there'd still be cahnges that'd need to be made. *shrugs* Guess I'm just a jerk about toying with theory. :)
Are they going to also try to take further steps on locking down a more theft-proof design for these cards? I mean even in Cali the changes to the licenses only have pushed up the cost of illegal copies that look exactly the same. It's fairly easy to make your own identity and I'm just curious as to what thought was put into this to make it a secure system.
Here's my major beef. They apparently had a "zero-tolerance" for "hacking" or however they chose to put it. My questions are : Was this actually posted in several visible spots where it would be noticed? Also, did they bother to divulge what was considered such behavior? I mean if you browse around and scout a network. Check what ports are running. See what versions of the software are on there. Pretty much everything you can without actually modifying anything or running an exploit of sorts. Couldn't that (according to them) be "hacking." If a computer gives out that information freely from commonly used commands then how is that possible? For me there are for too many questions that need to be answered before a reasonable solution (not place of blame) can be found.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Maybe when they have streaming technology and you have your little N'Sync ring they'll charge like they do for radio stations for broadcasting it within the 15 feet it's audible. :P
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Well maybe we can get more laughs in 2004 when good old Saddam tries to buy a couple of these to launch nerve gas at us. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I'm kind of curious what kind of behavior trying to exploit the ISN would show. I mean the best I could think is if one were to simply sniff packets. This isn't very in depth in terms of how ISN generation is done if it is not truly random. I know with attacks such as syn floods there were semi-obvious patterns that revealed what they were going after.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
It's nice to see that 3D printing is in the news again. Last I heard was a group who had made various electronic components from ceramic. This is definately a trend a lot of us hardware engineers and general geeks may want to look at. Although there are the definate limitations of material and how practical cost will be for something that can print at such a low level I'm sure that this could be very viable within 20 years.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I'd hate to consider what this would do if it hit a person's eye(s). I remember reading before about people getting hit by laser-like weapons and having serious and permenant eye problems ranging from intense headaches to blurred vision and worse. This sounds like a decent enough idea in theory but trying to control a micrometer sized beam from distances up to almost 2,300 feet away seems a bit like a problem.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I thought way back when the Earth was still largely volcanic and there was a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere we had wonder bacterium known as cyanobacteria (aka blue-green algae) that did a good amount of work converting CO2 to breathable O2. I'm not sure if these bacterium directly changed the CO2 in the atmosphere but I know their chemical actions were to be responsible for a lot of the convertion to breathable O2. If I am wrong please correct me as this is what I remember from school from quite a few years back. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Between this and f*ckedcompany.com is there anything other than good old family/friend mishaps we can use to get humor for the holiday weekend? Maybe the look on someone's face when they get one of my low-budget presents. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Well, I guess we can all notice that this is a bit more ingenious then the classic "student had 2600 in their backpack." While this seems very naive there have still been instances. I forget which company but I know slashdot ran a story or two on the branded/watermarked "secure" audio files where an awards was to be given. Still if the teacher made such a proposal it would seem that the blame should be more fitting with the teacher who pretty much invited such an attack. This story in an abstract way does fit in with the prior news article about honeypots (computers that are open to attack/analysis for security hazards.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I guess this just falls under the same category as any other censorship. Still the idea of Napster was to permit artists to get their music out there. Just because some (or many, regardless) people may not like the messages does not mean that others should be stripped of the right to listen to it. Filtering or censoring should be done by the end user. Not by the provider so that there is no option. It would be sad if what ended Napster was not paid for file-sharing but instead a completely destroyed ideology of free peer-peer transfer.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I've always been for putting a spare computer/box/whatever for use as honeypot. Not only can you learn a little (after weeding out script kiddie traffic) about what tactics are most widespread but you can also learn VERY valuable information from mistakes you leave (intentionally or unintentionally) on the honeypot before it gets to the network you are trying to protect. I know a lot of people consider these just stomping grounds for computer crime but I feel that while that could be and is partially true the potential benefit from having such things outweights the presumed negative effects.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I thought that GPS units (or possibly the satellites themselves) were made to be just that little bit off so someone couldn't just borrow the electronics and hook them up to a missile for precision as they blow something to kingdom come. I'd hate for some terrorist to suddenly feel they had a round-about $100 missile targetting system.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I thought a while ago I had heard of someone buying out/saving Iridium a few months ago and they would be funding getting the satellites in working order. Guess this kind of proves that was false? Still a sad waste of machinery. Well hopefully in another 20 years I will be able to comfortably afford my own comm satellite, lol. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I'm just waiting for the local cable companies or whomever "releases" the content to companies such as TiVo to permit you to construct your own "digital video storage thingie" sorry I just woke up and got to work so my brain is kind of munged. Seriously though, if the software was GPLed and with a little electronics hacking building your own TiVo rather than hacking an existing one shouldn't be too very hard. Besides people would still have to pay for the service for incoming transmissions. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
I understand the advantages of having a collection of data collected by your firewall in a centralized location but wouldn't this also permit computer criminals to see which attacks do not go unnoticed. Besides shouldn't an admin take responsibility and do log analysis themselves. I mean on large-scale networks it is totally impractical but still. One can't rely totally on these measures. :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
It will be quite nice for you to be able to hack/develop a great system without having to have oodles of money and a company under your belt. Especially when that system runs linux (yes, I am a little anti-M$.) Personally I have been looking more towards hardware specs of systems like the Dreamcast (hoping to make BBSish) software using the modem and it's nice to see a company finally realizing the great potential of not only having it's hardware/software tested thoroughly for errors, etc but also have a lot of free development and maybe pick up ideas. Let's hope this is the beginning of an emerging trend in the gaming industry :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
A further note. Should even a few robots gain deemed "human-level" intelligence, entailing perceivable emotions, obvious noting/reacting to stimuly, etc. (obviously shooting off to a huge debate about what is intelligent or sentient. What is to stop such a robot from seeing an assembly-line robot or a "housekeeping" robot, what-have-you and thinking that robot could further live up to as great potential as itself? Purhaps that could be the basis of a mechanized evolution :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Seems like it's the usual as with any other processor in some regards it benchmarks great and in others it shows far less regard. I think we should take this like any other innovation and just wait a bit. I've always been against buying stuff immediately on release as it always has kinks to work out (a la Playstation 2 :D)
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Although it always seems to be a good sign when we achieve smaller forms of existing technologies they always raise other questions. Some of which I ponder is first, if they will be able to dynamically program them to be able to do other tasks? I know that would undoubtedly be expensive at first but they seem like they'd be expensive to produce now.
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
It will be nice to watch quality organizations be able to stretch out to other nations. I have been watching several of the FSFs ventures and have agreed with quite a few. Hopefully this will be the starting of a trend :D
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Perhaps this is more of a general "get off my duff and research" but are PS2 games region coded like DVD movies? If not it'd be nice if Sony decided to give PS2BASIC to other folks in other countries. Personally I think it'd be a nice thing to play with. Anyone have more info on this?
.--bagel--.---------------.
| aim: | bagel is back |
| icq: | 158450 |
Not sure if you covered this but even with a lot of people switching to (or already using) open source software there still could be the problems with existing backdoors put into other proprietary software such as the Microsoft IIS services, etc. Those would still permit the backdoor to do what will with users of that service. Also how would these backdoors go undetected depending on what they do? I mean sure if they are sending little data or a lot of data over a long time then the small amount of packets over time would be very hard to notice still. I'm babbling now but hopefully enough of this was understandable to start a discussion :D
Nopefully this isn't too naive a question but wouldn't this laser broom cause some trouble if it ran across larger debris? Possibly break it into smaller chunks and cause it to hit other satellites?