I participated in US FIRST/FIRST my Junior and SEnior years in High School and must say that it is an absolute great competition. (Not to mention getting out of school to go practice driving the robot)
First you need to seperate people who make vulnerabilities public from those who actually use them. Those who use them need to be punished. Those who point them out (assuming proper notice/time was given to the vendor to fix it) should not be.
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Well I would hope that the passwords aren't that trivial and also if you were to vote over the net all it would have to do is simply store a 1 under your name as having voted. Then when that second vote comes in and it sees you already voted it tosses it and alerts an official that you tried to vote twice. Now maybe you'd also store an IP of where the vote came from to prosecute fraud or whatever.
NeoMedia, ah yes. They approached us when they were first starting up to design some software for them. The concept was essentially the exact same as DC. They said they had Nike signed to a contract to start adding there special barcodes to sneakers so that when scanned they would take you to a web page with a rather lame flash animation or game on it.
From dealing with the people there it is surprising we haven't seen a lawsuit yet. Especially with the number of NDA's they wanted us to sign. Heard they ran into money problems so maybe they are out of business. I can't seem to remember their web addr.:(
There are better ways to do this. If it is something that important no single person should have control over it. You use secret sharing and have it so that for instance 2 of 3 keys are needed in order to decrypt the message.
Actually many of the larger sun systems now have the ability to 'partition' the processor boards in the system into seperate 'virtual machines' so that if one goes down the rest of the system can keep running while you replace that one processor board and then bring it up.
This really isn't that new a technology. Cisco has been working on this for a number of years. As far as residential connections go, well You are gonna need a fairly fat pipe for this to work on. But for a business with the backbone already in place this is great.
Actually the site is just hosted by IBM o let you search through patents. If you look at who it was assigned to you will see that it was not assigned to IBM.
I just downloaded the Solaris version and it seems to run pretty well. I haven't done a major stress test on it but My ultra5 with 128 Megs of RAM is carrying it quite well.
I still don't like the whole StarOFfice desktop. I would much rather the ability to just open the word processor instead of the whole office desktop thing.
Ok so the guy getting spun into a million pieces was cool. But other than, THE ALIEN FREAKING CRIED! I think this review hits about the 90 bad things about this movie.
I completely agree. AS an admin of one the universities on "The List" we had no choice. Our bandwidth is first and foremost for education. Anything you do with it after that is up to the student until that interferes with the use of the bandwidth for education and as we saw on our campus 80% of our bandwidth was being used for napster. Hardly education. I love napster and if we could we would turn it back on in an instant. Unfortunately we have found no way to do this.
And to answer further questions: We do not charge for the internet connection.We charge a $100 dollar technology fee every year that goes towards keeping our labs in good shape and the computers in them cutting edge. (with only 2500 students thats not much to work with when it comes to hardware, licensing and upgrades)
I am a sysadmin for a university so I already work about 60 hours a week normally however I also happen to live across the street from my office (literally I can walk to work in a minute and a half. I've timed it) So I am also part maintainance man because everyone knows about me living there so they call me at all hours with stuff like, I left my door open could you go close for me? thanks bye. So in reality I work almost 24/7.
While the students have certain rights one must remember that it is still the universities equipment and is still the Universities choice as to what they can and will block. Just because they are a University doesn't mean they don't have the right to make money and to stop those taking away from their profits. BUT I do agree that it sucks.
I was wondering why it was taking so long for Thawte and Verisign to finish up. I was talking with Thawte just last week and they were acting like nothing happened.
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Here are links to the casemods on thinkgeek.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/3735.html
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/3738.html
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/373b.html
Did you read the rest of his comment?
If you cnahge your MAC you can call and get your PID reactivated.
I participated in US FIRST/FIRST my Junior and SEnior years in High School and must say that it is an absolute great competition. (Not to mention getting out of school to go practice driving the robot)
Anyone know of an NVidia Kernel driver for this?
The 2.2 ones don't work.
Who is forcing you to visit a website? The problem lies in the fact that when you do want to visit, you may not be able too.
That isn't a very good analogy.
First you need to seperate people who make vulnerabilities public from those who actually use them. Those who use them need to be punished. Those who point them out (assuming proper notice/time was given to the vendor to fix it) should not be.
Well I would hope that the passwords aren't that trivial and also if you were to vote over the net all it would have to do is simply store a 1 under your name as having voted. Then when that second vote comes in and it sees you already voted it tosses it and alerts an official that you tried to vote twice. Now maybe you'd also store an IP of where the vote came from to prosecute fraud or whatever.
but you didn't make it known to the masses how to do it.
Found and old business card:
http://www.neomedia-tech.com/
NeoMedia, ah yes. They approached us when they were first starting up to design some software for them. The concept was essentially the exact same as DC. They said they had Nike signed to a contract to start adding there special barcodes to sneakers so that when scanned they would take you to a web page with a rather lame flash animation or game on it. :(
From dealing with the people there it is surprising we haven't seen a lawsuit yet. Especially with the number of NDA's they wanted us to sign. Heard they ran into money problems so maybe they are out of business. I can't seem to remember their web addr.
There are better ways to do this. If it is something that important no single person should have control over it. You use secret sharing and have it so that for instance 2 of 3 keys are needed in order to decrypt the message.
Well I think you summed it up with:
"how appropriate is it for people to use their website"
It is theirs.
Its a hell of a lot more relevant than Katz's movie reviews.
Is it really smart to assosciate the linux penguin with jackass penguins?
Just curious.
I don't think that the Aliens in this movie were stupid. Nothing from the movie portrays this.
I think we need to just do an echelon type thing where we name all MP3's Metallica-Unforgiven.mp3.
Anyone know if it is illegal to name a file a trademarked (or copyrighted) name?
Actually many of the larger sun systems now have the ability to 'partition' the processor boards in the system into seperate 'virtual machines' so that if one goes down the rest of the system can keep running while you replace that one processor board and then bring it up.
Use to have a link but lost it...
This really isn't that new a technology.
Cisco has been working on this for a number of years.
As far as residential connections go, well You are gonna need a fairly fat pipe for this to work on. But for a business with the backbone already in place this is great.
Are they planning on just tracking web usage or are they going to look at other things such as ftp and telnet?
I wonder if they plan on contacting universities to ask for this data also?
Actually the site is just hosted by IBM o let you search through patents. If you look at who it was assigned to you will see that it was not assigned to IBM.
Oh. That is messed up by the way.
I just downloaded the Solaris version and it seems to run pretty well. I haven't done a major stress test on it but My ultra5 with 128 Megs of RAM is carrying it quite well.
I still don't like the whole StarOFfice desktop. I would much rather the ability to just open the word processor instead of the whole office desktop thing.
Ok so the guy getting spun into a million pieces was cool. But other than, THE ALIEN FREAKING CRIED!
I think this review hits about the 90 bad things about this movie.
I completely agree. AS an admin of one the universities on "The List" we had no choice. Our bandwidth is first and foremost for education. Anything you do with it after that is up to the student until that interferes with the use of the bandwidth for education and as we saw on our campus 80% of our bandwidth was being used for napster. Hardly education. I love napster and if we could we would turn it back on in an instant. Unfortunately we have found no way to do this.
.We charge a $100 dollar technology fee every year that goes towards keeping our labs in good shape and the computers in them cutting edge. (with only 2500 students thats not much to work with when it comes to hardware, licensing and upgrades)
And to answer further questions: We do not charge for the internet connection
I am a sysadmin for a university so I already work about 60 hours a week normally however I also happen to live across the street from my office (literally I can walk to work in a minute and a half. I've timed it) So I am also part maintainance man because everyone knows about me living there so they call me at all hours with stuff like, I left my door open could you go close for me? thanks bye. So in reality I work almost 24/7.
While the students have certain rights one must remember that it is still the universities equipment and is still the Universities choice as to what they can and will block. Just because they are a University doesn't mean they don't have the right to make money and to stop those taking away from their profits.
BUT I do agree that it sucks.
I was wondering why it was taking so long for Thawte and Verisign to finish up. I was talking with Thawte just last week and they were acting like nothing happened.
--patrick