Furthermore, Microsoft agreed with the plan of disabling it. (RTFA) So it's more like
It's nice to see the Mozilla folks say Mozilla> "NOPE, you...'re NOT doing this to our browser, now get lost!". Mozilla> that is, if it is OK with you, Microsoft, we would like to temporarily disable the addon until you come up with a fix Microsoft> we see we get some bad press, so yeah, its OK Mozilla> Ooh thank you for talking with me FOSS people> Yeah, Mozilla, take them! M$ is buggy and insecure!
What more do you want? If you want to build the exact same thing, you'll probably still need an architect. But hey, you also need a IT guy for installing bind.
Cool, on page 419 they describe how they moved the house from Darmstadt to Washington DC. So that's your blueprint for stealing it!
I don't think design can be patented. Luckily, otherwise stealing^Wrecombining user interface ideas would not be possible. Trademarks/Logos are another thing.
It might be that they really are mixing terms up. Maybe they just mean a open software system that supports their workflows -- some webtool on top of apache/linux, and a internal extended http client for the OCR stuff would do it. Operating System = Software System that enables their work.
It'll be like digg -- you can vote a bill up or down and the most popular ones are passed:-P It is outsourcing the reading process. And to those who don't like the system people will say -- similar to as they do now with wikipedia -- "if you don't like the bill, just vote it down'
Planck and Herschel circulate around L2 of Earth-Moon. It needs little (but still) fuel to correct the orbit.
L4/L5 are better... that's where the Trojans are;-) (L4/L5 attract matter).
But as TorKlingberg points out below, the sun will move between Mars-L4/L5 or L4/L5-Earth. I assume you planned to use L4/L5 of Sun/Mars. TFA suggests moving out of the ecliptic plane, circulating around Mars. Maybe some oscillation/periodicity can be exploited?
If the malware is in BIOS, it will probably not be network capable to send collected keystrokes. Drivers and networking is just too complex to do that. I'm also not sure where it would store them to survive a boot (on some hard disk sectors?). AFAIK some antivirus programs do check the BIOS, but I guess smart malware may circumvent that.
Agreed, I think it is a good idea. Maybe Windows-users will also like the Linux Desktop on the LiveCD and ask themselves why they can't have it as a default.
At the point where you add everything onto the LiveCD you create security issue though that should be mitigated with SELinux/PaX/.... Are there user-friendly OpenBSD live CDs? If yes, that might also be a good choice.
They should remarket it as "application-targeted profiles" and sell it as a optimization feature.
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Electromagnetism is not new, no. Your link shows a field produced by a antenna, which is only a theoretical concept (abstracting away the measuring sensor). What the pictures in TFA show is the dependency of the field vs. the direction of the measuring device, i.e. a slice of a vector field B(x).
But I do believe that the makers were not interested in the technical aspect, but a design/architectural/artistic aspect.
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Does it bother other people too that we lack good methods of visualizing 3D/4D data? like a sensor value dependent on spacetime v(x, t)?
Can anyone hint me to good methods? I know there are some very experimental 3D-displays.
No. It does not matter that the channel for exchanging the certificate is unencrypted. Thats why there is a CA tree. You have the upper structure of the CA tree in your browser. If you receive a cert, signed by someone you know, it is ok. It is irrelevant whether you received it through a unencrypted connection.
It is the magic of security that insecure channels can be used for secure communication using prior knowledge (keys).
While you're guessing with such precision, why not choose 42% and grab more nerd eyes?
You know you have a unscientific study when they don't include either a measure of variance or confidence. Is it 41+-30% of 41+-0.1%? We'll never know if we can compare the bars in the bar chart.
See? Parent was modded informative by people who misunderstand SSL/TLS.
There is a phase called authentication in SSL/TLS. It includes exchanging a certificate. If you enter https://foobar/ in your browser, you will either a) get a error, because the cert is not known to your browsers root CA structure or b) get a encrypted, mitm-attack-safe end-to-end connection At that point it does not matter if your traffic is relayed because of a DNS hijack.
You will never be able to guarantee that traffic is transferred, and you'll never be able to guarantee that others are not listening. The former you will notice, the second does not matter (the statement "most of them are aware that SSL traffic can be sniffed without their knowledge" in TFA is also misleading).
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I should really get rid of my sock puppets. But the M$ one is so cute. The Mozilla one scares me a little bit.
Furthermore, Microsoft agreed with the plan of disabling it. (RTFA)
So it's more like
It's nice to see the Mozilla folks say
Mozilla> "NOPE, you...'re NOT doing this to our browser, now get lost!".
Mozilla> that is, if it is OK with you, Microsoft, we would like to temporarily disable the addon until you come up with a fix
Microsoft> we see we get some bad press, so yeah, its OK
Mozilla> Ooh thank you for talking with me
FOSS people> Yeah, Mozilla, take them! M$ is buggy and insecure!
It feels like 10% faster, really.
Dear fellow Gentoo User, this is just your headache from watching programs compile. Take your medicine now.
Yes, knowledge ontologies are the new hype in companies anyway
Go to the teams site e.g. http://www.solardecathlon.org/2009/team_germany.cfm
On the bottom right are the zip files. They contain the complete technical drawings.
What more do you want? If you want to build the exact same thing, you'll probably still need an architect. But hey, you also need a IT guy for installing bind.
Cool, on page 419 they describe how they moved the house from Darmstadt to Washington DC. So that's your blueprint for stealing it!
I don't think design can be patented. Luckily, otherwise stealing^Wrecombining user interface ideas would not be possible.
Trademarks/Logos are another thing.
It might be that they really are mixing terms up. Maybe they just mean a open software system that supports their workflows -- some webtool on top of apache/linux, and a internal extended http client for the OCR stuff would do it. Operating System = Software System that enables their work.
It'll be like digg -- you can vote a bill up or down and the most popular ones are passed :-P
It is outsourcing the reading process. And to those who don't like the system people will say -- similar to as they do now with wikipedia -- "if you don't like the bill, just vote it down'
... an attempt to ride the Linux hype wave ...
There is a 'Linux hype wave'? In which universe?
So does Linux need that, do they think about implementing something similar, porting it or what is happening?
You assume two redundant communication points: One on mars, and one in L4/5.
But the point is to use only one between Earth and Mars.
Amazon just makes its shareholders rich.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing is wrong with that.
Planck and Herschel circulate around L2 of Earth-Moon. It needs little (but still) fuel to correct the orbit.
L4/L5 are better ... that's where the Trojans are ;-) (L4/L5 attract matter).
But as TorKlingberg points out below, the sun will move between Mars-L4/L5 or L4/L5-Earth.
I assume you planned to use L4/L5 of Sun/Mars. TFA suggests moving out of the ecliptic plane, circulating around Mars. Maybe some oscillation/periodicity can be exploited?
I don't mind Google stealing a piece of Amazons profit, they at least invest in (yet) non-profitable ideas, Amazon just makes its shareholders rich.
Remind me: Why do helicopters not qualify as flying cars?
I'm pretty sure burning karma is what powers slashdot.
Where is this $$$-hill and does it have trees? I'd prefer a €€€-hill though.
If the malware is in BIOS, it will probably not be network capable to send collected keystrokes. Drivers and networking is just too complex to do that. I'm also not sure where it would store them to survive a boot (on some hard disk sectors?).
AFAIK some antivirus programs do check the BIOS, but I guess smart malware may circumvent that.
Agreed, I think it is a good idea. Maybe Windows-users will also like the Linux Desktop on the LiveCD and ask themselves why they can't have it as a default.
At the point where you add everything onto the LiveCD you create security issue though that should be mitigated with SELinux/PaX/.... Are there user-friendly OpenBSD live CDs? If yes, that might also be a good choice.
They should remarket it as "application-targeted profiles" and sell it as a optimization feature.
Electromagnetism is not new, no. Your link shows a field produced by a antenna, which is only a theoretical concept (abstracting away the measuring sensor).
What the pictures in TFA show is the dependency of the field vs. the direction of the measuring device, i.e. a slice of a vector field B(x).
But I do believe that the makers were not interested in the technical aspect, but a design/architectural/artistic aspect.
Does it bother other people too that we lack good methods of visualizing 3D/4D data? like a sensor value dependent on spacetime v(x, t)?
Can anyone hint me to good methods? I know there are some very experimental 3D-displays.
No. It does not matter that the channel for exchanging the certificate is unencrypted. Thats why there is a CA tree. You have the upper structure of the CA tree in your browser.
If you receive a cert, signed by someone you know, it is ok. It is irrelevant whether you received it through a unencrypted connection.
It is the magic of security that insecure channels can be used for secure communication using prior knowledge (keys).
Granted, MD5 collisions are a attack vector, and also drive-by-downloads that modify your CA database. But that wasn't your point.
Start reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#How_it_works
While you're guessing with such precision, why not choose 42% and grab more nerd eyes?
You know you have a unscientific study when they don't include either a measure of variance or confidence.
Is it 41+-30% of 41+-0.1%? We'll never know if we can compare the bars in the bar chart.
See? Parent was modded informative by people who misunderstand SSL/TLS.
There is a phase called authentication in SSL/TLS. It includes exchanging a certificate. If you enter https://foobar/ in your browser, you will either
a) get a error, because the cert is not known to your browsers root CA structure or
b) get a encrypted, mitm-attack-safe end-to-end connection
At that point it does not matter if your traffic is relayed because of a DNS hijack.
You will never be able to guarantee that traffic is transferred, and you'll never be able to guarantee that others are not listening. The former you will notice, the second does not matter (the statement "most of them are aware that SSL traffic can be sniffed without their knowledge" in TFA is also misleading).