Hey, I remember an exchange with you in the past where you said something funny, and I put in my sig (see below). You also made some valid point about the topic, which I can't recall now. Anyway, I wanted to get in touch with you now because I'm considering a law degree and was hoping for some pointers. Your email address is hidden, so I'm stuck posting this reply and looking like a bit of a tool.:-) Anyway, you can email me at steveh (at) amnesiac.net
It's not considered evidence until you're asked to provide it as part of the investigation of a crime. Otherwise, you'd never be allowed to throw anything out...it's all potential evidence.
Some corporations (a very large beer producer comes to mind) are now enforcing restrictions on how long employees can keep internal documents, in physical or digital form. This is the brainchild of the legal department, and it reduces their liability considerably. A leaked internal memo can easily seal a conviction in a corporate fraud/antitrust/endangerment case.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with the law, per se, but plenty with Law & Order.;-)
I obviously need to re-read _Cryptonomicon_, but I would take the following quote from your link to mean more than it seems:
The doctor checks his watch, then steps out of the room.
Rudy reaches out and closes Enoch's eyes, then stands there with his hand on the late padre's face, and looks at Shaftoe. "Go," he says, "and make sure the doctor files the death certificate."
Now, Rudy appears to unsurprised at Root's reappearance later, hinting that he might know something peculiar about him. In the quote above, he wants to ensure that the death certificate is filed. Perhaps it is important to Rudy that Root be officially dead.
That's an interesting point. One could most likely consider everything above $HOME on a typical Lindows box replaceable. Because the user isn't hacking startup scripts, recompiling the kernel, etc., a reinstallation from CD and update from CnR would restore the PC to its previous state. Losing $HOME, OTOH, would be disastrous.
In light of this, I wonder if Lindows has considered an online backup service. You could have an automated or manually-run agent make a bzipped tarball of $HOME and transfer it to a Lindows server. Hell, I'd go one step further and encrypt that with ``openssl rc4'' and a user-defined password. Tack on an interface for excluding specified directories and a N-megabyte limit, and I think you have a killer service.
This brings to mind a conversation my wife and I have been having lately. We're in our mid-20's and bought a house in the 'burbs last year. It's around 1400-1500 ft^2 with a small garage and big, flat back yard. It's in a nice neighborhood, in a good school district and, in fact, borders an elementary school lot. None of the rooms are huge, but we have three bedrooms and two full bathrooms.
We are working on remodelling parts of the house as time and money permit, but we've had this thought in the back of our minds the whole time: "Someday, when we have children, we'll probably move to a bigger house." Recently, we have started questioning this logic. We plan on having three children, with about two years between each. Keeping this in mind, I consider all the points I made in the first paragraph and wonder what the hell is wrong with me. We want to update a few things, but there is no reason we can't raise three kids in the space we have. OMG, two children may have to share a room for a couple years?! I remember sharing a room with my brother. It's not exactly going to make or break your childrearing efforts. It may even (gasp!) teach your children that not everything they use is theirs alone and/or foster a close relationship between siblings.
On closer inspection, I found the urge to get a bigger house is nothing more than a manifestation of a desire for status symbols. I hate that I experienced such a desire, as I have traditionally considered myself above that kind of nonsense. We've decided to put our time and effort into making our modest house something we (and our children) will enjoy.
The first update will be a garage large enough for my new Cadillac Escalade.
Holy friggin' crap! I still remember a wooden (I believe), rounded triangle rolling along a table, and Mr. Wizard explaining that it would roll just like a wheel. I was pretty young at the time and eventually convinced myself that I must have imagined it or not understood. When I tried to remember, I kept picturing an axle through the center of the shape as if was attached to a car and thinking, "no, you're dumb, that would never work." Only today did I find out that 1) these do exist, and 2) they're called Rouleaux triangles.
And I thought I was wasting time here on slashdot!
I love your sig. I was demonstrating useless Linux tricks to a friend of mine for whom I'd just build a new system. I wrote the exact same script, and he was so thrilled, he just had to record it on his new Canan S200: link.
Note: That link is temporary, as I usually don't run Apache, and my ADSL is limited to 128kbps upstream.
Even more entertaining, of course, was ssh'ing into another development box at work and playing with eject:
Me: 'eject'
Coworker: Huh? [starts reaching for CD-ROM eject button]
Me: 'eject -t' [tray closes before he touches it]
Coworker: WTF?!?!
Me: Heh heh heh.
The same coworker also used to listen to headphones all the time, so it was fun to run GNOME's mixer remotely and, every couple minues, bump the volume down just a notch. I quickly run out of patience, though, so I eventually resorted to wildly adjusting it (not loud, though...I'm not a jerk or anything).:-)
That's certainly interesting. (I can't read the article now, as Tom's seems a bit overwhelmed at the moment.) And, of course, the Opteron is unable to use its extra registers in 32-bit legacy mode. I bet the numbers would be a bit different if a beta x86-64 Windows OS was used, even with 32-bit apps.
I think a lot of people are getting hung up on the 64-bitness of the Hammer and failing to realize that it's much more than that. Extra registers, HyperTransport, integrated memory controller...these are the real killer features, IMO.
Now I'm not going to assume, either, what the discussion was supposed to be about, but if the idea really is to make the system more secure, wouldn't the appropriate audience of such a discussion be the people who own and/or run the system?
Bringing this kind of information to a party that doesn't have anything to do with the development/maintenance of these systems doesn't do anything to make the system more secure.
First, as already mentioned, the facts were brought to the vendor, who was unresponsive.
Second, I don't think the idea was to make the system more secure. (Who gives a damn about a computer system?) It was to ensure the security of the school campuses and students. The easiest method of doing this--encouraging the vendor to fix the problems--had obviously failed. The remaining option is to warn schools of the specific problems so that they can prevent theft, unauthorized access, etc.
I think the bank analogy is good. And, yes, it is imperative that the public be informed that the vulnerability exists. I would further argue that the details of the exploit be divulged.
If one cannot discuss how a vulnerability works, we are left with unfounded statements of security problems. "Your money is not safe in this bank!" you can tell people. If you can't disclose why this is the case, the bank can simply respond, "No, that's ridiculous. Your money is perfectly safe. This person has provided no proof to support these outrageous lies." Consider the other side of the coin, as well. If no one is able to provide such details, one can make false accusations which appear authentic. "I'd be happy to discuss how using our competitor's product will make your SSN available to the world, but it would violate professional ethics and the law. Rest assured, our fine products are completely secure." The ensuing FUD-storm would reach epic proportions. In the end, only the blackhats and PR specialists would benefit.
Just curious, but why a V6? It seems the added weight of a six cylinder engine would make the handling all wonky...plus, you'd need a different transmission and may have trouble locating axles that will fit (custom jobs are, obviously, very expensive).
Do you have the 1.5L or 1.8L? If it's the 1.8, you have a really great starting point for a small car (under 2400 lbs.). I'd recommend a turbocharger instead, but you can probably get some good advice at http://www.flyinmiata.com/protege/default.asp.
(Bah. After looking at their turbo kit, it looks like it would only work on the newer 2.0L.) If you have the 1.5L, perhaps a swap to a more potent four cylinder would be a good choice.
Good luck with the project. I've done some mods to my Civic Si (mostly suspension) and have spent a good deal of time researching performance modifications. Feel free to email me if you want any input.
A couple other good links in case you haven't seen them already:
That's strange. I'm a contractor at Mastercard right now, and I haven't noticed any mistreatment. I used to see it a bit at Sprint when I was a FTE, but not here. The only way I've really been treated differently is that all the consultants on our team were moved to a much more convenient location than the corporate campus, which is out in the middle of nowhere. Now I park right next to the building, and I can get from my desk to a restaurant in about five minutes, as opposed to twenty minutes when on campus. The horror!
Please indicate whether you are joking or not. I will explain the impossibility of powering something like an electric grill via USB if you like. Seriously.
Have you used Squeak then? I may have to check it out. I've been developing Java for a while now, but I did some Smalltalk at Sprint for a short time and came away very impressed by the "everything is an object" approach. This was especially cool when I realized this even extended to blocks of code! IIRC, there was a popular construct that was similar to this:
do: [ block of code here ] whileOpen: 'filename'
You could write the "do: stuff whileOpen: filename" method to open the file, perform the code block, and close the file.
There was also the trick about how to stop execution in the fewest keystrokes: 1halt would be read by the parser as the numerical object "1" followed by a message (method call), and everything inherited the "halt" method from the base object.
Ah, the memories. If only IBM's VisualAge had been as impressive...
Because hiring managers often don't know much about the technology their departments use. For instance, I saw listings in 2000 for people with 2-3 years J2EE experience...uh, sure some people qualify, but they all work in Sun R&D.
I think it's just a ploy to keep the really inexperienced would-be applicants from wasting the employer's time.
Yeah, I like pedals myself. But the stick shift is awful. It requires removing a hand from the steering wheel, which is dangerous while cornering. However, I still drive a manual transmission car for a simple reason: no slushbox I've seen can predict when I want to hold a low gear rather than upshift (approaching a tight corner, for example). The best solution, I think, is a paddle-shift setup. CVTs are very nice, too, but I still want control over the gear ratio one way or another.
I doubt I'd feel compelled to try any kind of automatic arrangement in the near future. I've almost perfected my heel-toe and rev-matching.:-D
ITRs are sweet. I have a 2000 Civic Si with the b16a2 engine. Rod/Stroke is 1.74, almost a perfect 1.75.:-D Compared to the ITR, the hp deficit doesn't bother me nearly as much as not having an LSD...especially at the autocross. It produces 160 hp at 7600 rpm (IIRC) and doesn't hit the rev limiter 'til 8200. Go Honda, indeed.
That's very interesting. I wonder if the same could be accomplished through a retrovirus. While I find life extension ethically questionable (especially given the inevitable population surge), it at least beats creating and destroying dozens of human embryos. And it is certainly preferable to the next step Clonaid and friends claim to be researching:
The Raelians believe their spiritual leader -- former French journalist Claude Vorilhon who now calls himself Rael -- is a direct descendant of these aliens. He says he has met with aliens and visited their planet. Rael told CNN in July 2001 that the long-term goal for human cloning is to live forever.
Rael says the Raelians eventually want to learn how to clone an adult and then "transfer the brain to the clone."
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Hey, I remember an exchange with you in the past where you said something funny, and I put in my sig (see below). You also made some valid point about the topic, which I can't recall now. Anyway, I wanted to get in touch with you now because I'm considering a law degree and was hoping for some pointers. Your email address is hidden, so I'm stuck posting this reply and looking like a bit of a tool. :-) Anyway, you can email me at steveh (at) amnesiac.net
Thanks.
It's not considered evidence until you're asked to provide it as part of the investigation of a crime. Otherwise, you'd never be allowed to throw anything out...it's all potential evidence.
Some corporations (a very large beer producer comes to mind) are now enforcing restrictions on how long employees can keep internal documents, in physical or digital form. This is the brainchild of the legal department, and it reduces their liability considerably. A leaked internal memo can easily seal a conviction in a corporate fraud/antitrust/endangerment case.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with the law, per se, but plenty with Law & Order. ;-)
In light of this, I wonder if Lindows has considered an online backup service. You could have an automated or manually-run agent make a bzipped tarball of $HOME and transfer it to a Lindows server. Hell, I'd go one step further and encrypt that with ``openssl rc4'' and a user-defined password. Tack on an interface for excluding specified directories and a N-megabyte limit, and I think you have a killer service.
We are working on remodelling parts of the house as time and money permit, but we've had this thought in the back of our minds the whole time: "Someday, when we have children, we'll probably move to a bigger house." Recently, we have started questioning this logic. We plan on having three children, with about two years between each. Keeping this in mind, I consider all the points I made in the first paragraph and wonder what the hell is wrong with me. We want to update a few things, but there is no reason we can't raise three kids in the space we have. OMG, two children may have to share a room for a couple years?! I remember sharing a room with my brother. It's not exactly going to make or break your childrearing efforts. It may even (gasp!) teach your children that not everything they use is theirs alone and/or foster a close relationship between siblings.
On closer inspection, I found the urge to get a bigger house is nothing more than a manifestation of a desire for status symbols. I hate that I experienced such a desire, as I have traditionally considered myself above that kind of nonsense. We've decided to put our time and effort into making our modest house something we (and our children) will enjoy.
The first update will be a garage large enough for my new Cadillac Escalade.
Yes, I am kidding.
And I thought I was wasting time here on slashdot!
I think you bit on a troll. :-) It's borderline at times, but I think some of the details like the kernel-based GUI and AC author give it away.
Note: That link is temporary, as I usually don't run Apache, and my ADSL is limited to 128kbps upstream.
Even more entertaining, of course, was ssh'ing into another development box at work and playing with eject:
- Me: 'eject'
- Coworker: Huh? [starts reaching for CD-ROM eject button]
- Me: 'eject -t' [tray closes before he touches it]
- Coworker: WTF?!?!
- Me: Heh heh heh.
The same coworker also used to listen to headphones all the time, so it was fun to run GNOME's mixer remotely and, every couple minues, bump the volume down just a notch. I quickly run out of patience, though, so I eventually resorted to wildly adjusting it (not loud, though...I'm not a jerk or anything).How long do you think it would take the marketing departments to resort to scientific notation?
I think a lot of people are getting hung up on the 64-bitness of the Hammer and failing to realize that it's much more than that. Extra registers, HyperTransport, integrated memory controller...these are the real killer features, IMO.
Second, I don't think the idea was to make the system more secure. (Who gives a damn about a computer system?) It was to ensure the security of the school campuses and students. The easiest method of doing this--encouraging the vendor to fix the problems--had obviously failed. The remaining option is to warn schools of the specific problems so that they can prevent theft, unauthorized access, etc.
If one cannot discuss how a vulnerability works, we are left with unfounded statements of security problems. "Your money is not safe in this bank!" you can tell people. If you can't disclose why this is the case, the bank can simply respond, "No, that's ridiculous. Your money is perfectly safe. This person has provided no proof to support these outrageous lies." Consider the other side of the coin, as well. If no one is able to provide such details, one can make false accusations which appear authentic. "I'd be happy to discuss how using our competitor's product will make your SSN available to the world, but it would violate professional ethics and the law. Rest assured, our fine products are completely secure." The ensuing FUD-storm would reach epic proportions. In the end, only the blackhats and PR specialists would benefit.
Do you have the 1.5L or 1.8L? If it's the 1.8, you have a really great starting point for a small car (under 2400 lbs.). I'd recommend a turbocharger instead, but you can probably get some good advice at http://www.flyinmiata.com/protege/default.asp. (Bah. After looking at their turbo kit, it looks like it would only work on the newer 2.0L.) If you have the 1.5L, perhaps a swap to a more potent four cylinder would be a good choice.
Good luck with the project. I've done some mods to my Civic Si (mostly suspension) and have spent a good deal of time researching performance modifications. Feel free to email me if you want any input.
A couple other good links in case you haven't seen them already:
That's strange. I'm a contractor at Mastercard right now, and I haven't noticed any mistreatment. I used to see it a bit at Sprint when I was a FTE, but not here. The only way I've really been treated differently is that all the consultants on our team were moved to a much more convenient location than the corporate campus, which is out in the middle of nowhere. Now I park right next to the building, and I can get from my desk to a restaurant in about five minutes, as opposed to twenty minutes when on campus. The horror!
Please indicate whether you are joking or not. I will explain the impossibility of powering something like an electric grill via USB if you like. Seriously.
There was also the trick about how to stop execution in the fewest keystrokes: 1halt would be read by the parser as the numerical object "1" followed by a message (method call), and everything inherited the "halt" method from the base object.
Ah, the memories. If only IBM's VisualAge had been as impressive...
I've done that on a Solaris box...development, thankfully. Yep, yep. No usage instructions--it just went ahead and killed all. :-)
Because hiring managers often don't know much about the technology their departments use. For instance, I saw listings in 2000 for people with 2-3 years J2EE experience...uh, sure some people qualify, but they all work in Sun R&D.
I think it's just a ploy to keep the really inexperienced would-be applicants from wasting the employer's time.
Yeah, I like pedals myself. But the stick shift is awful. It requires removing a hand from the steering wheel, which is dangerous while cornering. However, I still drive a manual transmission car for a simple reason: no slushbox I've seen can predict when I want to hold a low gear rather than upshift (approaching a tight corner, for example). The best solution, I think, is a paddle-shift setup. CVTs are very nice, too, but I still want control over the gear ratio one way or another.
:-D
I doubt I'd feel compelled to try any kind of automatic arrangement in the near future. I've almost perfected my heel-toe and rev-matching.
ITRs are sweet. I have a 2000 Civic Si with the b16a2 engine. Rod/Stroke is 1.74, almost a perfect 1.75. :-D Compared to the ITR, the hp deficit doesn't bother me nearly as much as not having an LSD...especially at the autocross. It produces 160 hp at 7600 rpm (IIRC) and doesn't hit the rev limiter 'til 8200. Go Honda, indeed.
I think the intent would be for an x86 Linux user to build a hella fast kernel. Another post off the parent claims it doesn't work, though.
"Kool-aid" refers to Jonestown