If you are from the Star Wars 4-5-6 generation (as I am) you have most likely seen the portrait of Lucas done by Bob Foss in "All that Jazz". Anyone having any doubts whatsoever about Lucas should go and see that movie. Besides everything else it is also the best portrait of Lucas done by one of the greatest masters of Cinema when he knew that he was dying and no longer cared even if Lucas would have sued his arse.
RSA patent was on an algorithm which was and still is patentable in the EU and anywhere else in the world. It is a patentable work and is quite different from the One-Click abominations.
I fully agree with you that it held back encryption, but it was a concious decision by the patent owners to satisfy the needs and requirements of their major 3 letter customers. In fact it was a political decision in first place. RSA simply got as much money as necessary in government contracts to "avoid" making encryption popular for 20 years.
There are plenty of non-patent law means to enforce such a "wish" and the reason it is no longer pushed is that there are too many people interested in having at least some communication security. These are the same people who lobbied for the relaxation of export controls, so on so forth. IMHO the expriation of the patent was not the reason for the growth. It was the growth in ecommerce in general.
Any profits from this libelous publication should go to the injured parties: Linus, whose professional reputation has been viciously besmirched.
You are assuming that there is a direct profit. This is a wrong assumption. The book and the report are least likely to break even. The profit will come from several well known companies (not just MSFT) which finance this institution and will not appear on the books as a product of this "research"
I do not think you know what are you talking about. I have hit a stream running across a road in a tropical rainstorm which was just about quarter of an inch deap at 32 mph. Was more then enough for the car to completely lose grip. There was an 800m sheer cliff going down into the Atlantic on the left and 800m sheer cliff going up towards Cumbre Viejo on the right.The next 2 seconds I was busy avoiding either one of these and bringing back the car under control. Barely avoided either at least 3 times each. And believe me if you have ever aquaplaned you would not have ever tried to joke about it.
And the other truth is that if they will give a good return only if driven in an environment where there is a lot of breaking from reasonable speed to 0 and starting after that all the way to reasonable speed.
They do not give good return in a traffic jam environment because the crawling gets the batteries drained to the point where the ECU decides to recharge them and starts from cold (and there is not enough energy recovered from breaking). This means engine running in the most inefficient mode combined with lack of working catalyst conversion (cats need to warm up too. It works just about enough to warm up and then shutdowns again for a period long enough to go cold.
So basically they will live to the expectations only in an environment where there are no highways and no long stretches of open road. At the same time it should not be congested and there should be no traffic jams as such. Frankly, I cannot think of any big city in the world that fits this description. There are possibly one or two medium size towns here and there, but even there you are likely to get better economy out of a high class recent petrol engine like on the Sirion SL or the Honda Jazz (not to mention diesels, CNG or LPG).
Windows NT5 (early codename for W2K) had a rewrite of the IP stack which was horrible. Suddenly after one of the builds (it was at least a year before release) it became very much working. Also suddenly the nmap fingerprint changed to match exactly OpenBSD. After some people noticed it was changed to be what it is now (though methinks that all that was changed was the fingerprint).
Are you sure that the OpenBSD fix is not covered by the Cisco patents as filed? I would not be so sure until the patent is granted and we can compare it because it is quite likely that has been watered down and vagued to the maximum possible extent so that it covers other future fixes.
Depends from what perspective. They have already pulled out the stunt of suing Aclcatel and OpenBSD for VRRP without doing the proper patent disclosure in IETF. So one more case one less is not going to change a lot.
Methinks that it is much more interesting that there were people from outside Cisco working on that vulnerability. If I recall correctly the list there was Juniper and someone else there as well. So unless Cisco did the correct paperwork with these guys they are fully entitled to sue Cisco's arse flat.
In btw, it is quite time someone questions the exact origin of SSL, SSH, NTP and a few other items in IOS which are known to be bug for bug compatible with OSS code and do not have stated copyrights in the IOS release notes.
Nope, he is not. His intelligence level assumes using the first post-WWII generation of multiple rocket launchers which have this range - 20.4 km. First - they are not called Katusha. Katusha is the WW2 BM13 which has range of 3.2km for the overcaliber charge. It looks like this: http://legion.wplus.net/guide/army/rs/bm13.shtml The system with 20.4 km range is Grad: http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?gr ad/grad.shtml It is quite often incorrectly referred to as Katusha.
While extremely lethal and very popular around the world this weapon is on its way out by now. Russian army (and exports) are switching to higher caliber and longer range systems (some of them with cassette or guided warheads. An example of this new generation of systems is Uragan http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?ur aga/uraga.shtml
which has 35 km range and is to be followed by other weapons that push the limit way up to 80 and all the way to the BM non-proliferation limit.
If we follow this logic, this will entitle Israel to occupy half of middle east just because they are in rocket range of some kind of rocket on sale somewhere. So if this logic is followed Israel is entitled to occupy the world. With all due respect, creating and maintaining peaceful relationship with neigbours seems to be considerably more productive.
That is besides the fact most larger russian AAA missile have one very interesting switch on the control panel. It is marked "Zemlia". In english Ground. Meaning is selfexplanatory, range is anything up to 160 km. And if I recall correctly every single country around there has russian AAA systems on the ground.
Also I do not quite see what this can do against a modern targeting system like the one used on these: http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?gr anit/granit.shtml They run a network between the missiles and one missile is a master providing the rest with targeting information. If the master is shot down another one is elected, changes trajectory goes up and turns on radar and targeting susbsystems (which are otherwise silent).
So on so fourth. Ad naseum. And overall - informed my a***
The difference here is that it is not the domestic product. Micorosoft is possibly the only american company to grow based on international ubiquity. What it has traditionally undercut by dumping through lack of license enforcement are all unix vendors, novell, IBM (OS2 days anyone?), Oracle, so on so forth. This has given it a healthy customer base of addicts of all over the world (up to 95%+ penetration in some areas) which allows it to push back at any company that wants to expand internationally from the US.
It is not just Fionna. It is a flock of executives. We had a head of engineering transplanted from there in one of my previous jobs. The creature f**ked up the department in less then 3 months and was one of the very few which were ever ejected from the company in those days (top of the boom). He was "retired to spend more time with his family".
From day the transplanted lucent abomination started going around with an "outsourcing checklist" without even trying to understand the fact that we have just about enough staff to either define the requirements or write bespoke stuff to plug holes without defininig requirements (basically write as we go along). He never actually understood this. He never had any other ideas on how to do things either. Classic example of a person without any clue in software development. Believe it or not he was the head of Lucent reqional R&D before being transplanted.
He provided me with an insight of what happened to lucent. Lucent was the first company to outsource massively its software development arond 1997. It did this as a "cost saving measure" without retaining people to define the requirements and design what the outsourcers have to do. As a result from 1st company in VOIP it promptly went off the radar screen. Same thing happened in many other areas. Basically Lucents's woes are selfinflicted and they are a classic example on how not to outsource.
That is correct. I have "on the ground" observation from 3-5th world countries that it does not enforce until market penetration reaches at least 80%. In fact I have seen Microsoft reps and partners handing out CDs like candy to kids especially in the academia. All of them with versions that are later blamed to be pirated and with keys like 1234-5678. Once all alternatives are dead Bill comes to discuss the matters of software piracy with the prime minister or the president and bolts start to tighten. Two years later MSFT has one more steady revenue stream.
It is the same scheme crack dealers use in schools and IMO it should be prohibited. If you do not enforce a license you must lose your rights as entitled by the license.
Err... Who told you that the UK coast guard is a safety critical system? Who actually told you that they do anything besides wasting public money?
All the real work is done either by RAF or by volunteer lifeboats which do not get a single penny of government money. Frankly, I find it shamefull and disgusting that a country in the big 8 wich is also an island is incapable of even financing its lifeboat crews.
So frankly, if someone will wipe off the coast guard completely noone will notice. Emergency services have direct lines to the RAF anyway, and most of the lifeboat crewes are listening on the SOS frequencies as well.
I would like the moderators who modded down this comment to confess if they have ever tried to run:
Retail Windows (any variety) on a Vaio or a recent Stinkpad.
There is such a thing as a windows distro. Big vendors have always gone and replaced the parts of windows that sting particularly bad with parts that more or less work. So it is in fact: which particular vendor variety of Windows are you running:
Examples:
1. Dell and Windows NT frustration - get working PCMCIA hot-plug. If you run retail - you do not. 2. Sony and Windows 2000 - get working power management. If you run retail - you do not. 3. IBM and Windows XP - get working WEP with preshared 128 bit keys and a reasonable network connection manager (that can make any connection interdependent on each other, not just dialup and execute external commands to bring connections.)
Rover (or one of the companies that are now Rover) did an amphibious vehicle in the late 60-es. Featured here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345 236203/104-7631974-3723944?v=glance
There was something I personally find more interesting, rewarding and easier to implement. The russians used to make a fairly decent amphibious trailer/mobile home. Forgot the name, but it was quite cool. 12 knots, capable of running in most general freshwater conditions (30 cm max wave) + the general comfort you get from a camping trailer.
even if the kids were taught to excel, it wouldn't change anything
Sad but true. Even if they will be tought to excell as long as they are tought within the existing US system they will be year to two years behind someone tought to excell in science in Russia, France, most of Eastern Europe or India for that matter. At least as far as primary, secondary, high school and university education prior to MSc level are concerned.
I have seen math tought in a three upper league unis - one in US, one in Russia and one in Eastern Europe. It was exactly as described. Russian was mad, Eastern Europe was crazy but still surmountable by a normal human, US was outright lame.
If he is correct for what he alleges, he will win. If SPAMCop anonymizes addresses it makes it impossible for this abhorrent slime to comply with current US legislation (CAN SPAM). The fact that he would have simply copied the complaint address to a higher rank "sucker alive" database is unfortunately irrelevant.
So no matter how much I hate to say it, he is likely to win thanks to the congrescritters. It is an unfortunate side effect of the CAN SPAM act. Now spammers have the right to expect to know who complains against them.
If the scales do not bend there will be some very nasty drag on their borders. In fact it should completely negate any advantage from having a better shape wing.
Well, welcome to jail for the crime of not handing in your keys.
2 years in Britain according to the RIP act, many other countries have similar provisions. IMO I have nothing against this provision if these were the subject of the standard search and seize court order procedures (which at least in the UK is not the case).
In btw, if you have any objections to applying search and seize court procedures to crypto keys all you need to think about is the day when all accounts will become fully electronic. And 256bit AES without the keys IMO is the best shredder the money can buy.
Handing in your keys has to become a normal procedure in a digitized world. But it has to become equivalent to handing in your passport or the physical keys from the company accounts files. There are well established standards for issuing a search order, arrest order and posting a bail in almost all countries in the world. If crypto keys will become treated in according to _THESE_ procedures I can only appload, because this will mean that the world has finally gone digital.
Unfortunately, that is still not the case because the congress and MPcritters think that the digital nature makes them somehow different.
The worst case scenario is that most of tropical Asia and Southern China becomes a desert. As a result you get 2 billion of hungry people on the move which are part of at least three nuclear armed nations (China, India, Pakistan) and are bordering a fourth one (Russia).
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If you are from the Star Wars 4-5-6 generation (as I am) you have most likely seen the portrait of Lucas done by Bob Foss in "All that Jazz". Anyone having any doubts whatsoever about Lucas should go and see that movie. Besides everything else it is also the best portrait of Lucas done by one of the greatest masters of Cinema when he knew that he was dying and no longer cared even if Lucas would have sued his arse.
RSA patent was on an algorithm which was and still is patentable in the EU and anywhere else in the world. It is a patentable work and is quite different from the One-Click abominations.
I fully agree with you that it held back encryption, but it was a concious decision by the patent owners to satisfy the needs and requirements of their major 3 letter customers. In fact it was a political decision in first place. RSA simply got as much money as necessary in government contracts to "avoid" making encryption popular for 20 years.
There are plenty of non-patent law means to enforce such a "wish" and the reason it is no longer pushed is that there are too many people interested in having at least some communication security. These are the same people who lobbied for the relaxation of export controls, so on so forth. IMHO the expriation of the patent was not the reason for the growth. It was the growth in ecommerce in general.
You are assuming that there is a direct profit. This is a wrong assumption. The book and the report are least likely to break even. The profit will come from several well known companies (not just MSFT) which finance this institution and will not appear on the books as a product of this "research"
I do not think you know what are you talking about. I have hit a stream running across a road in a tropical rainstorm which was just about quarter of an inch deap at 32 mph. Was more then enough for the car to completely lose grip. There was an 800m sheer cliff going down into the Atlantic on the left and 800m sheer cliff going up towards Cumbre Viejo on the right.The next 2 seconds I was busy avoiding either one of these and bringing back the car under control. Barely avoided either at least 3 times each. And believe me if you have ever aquaplaned you would not have ever tried to joke about it.
Are you sure it is Texas? This sounds EXACTLY LIKE BRITAIN!!!
Absolutely correct.
And the other truth is that if they will give a good return only if driven in an environment where there is a lot of breaking from reasonable speed to 0 and starting after that all the way to reasonable speed.
They do not give good return in a traffic jam environment because the crawling gets the batteries drained to the point where the ECU decides to recharge them and starts from cold (and there is not enough energy recovered from breaking). This means engine running in the most inefficient mode combined with lack of working catalyst conversion (cats need to warm up too. It works just about enough to warm up and then shutdowns again for a period long enough to go cold.
So basically they will live to the expectations only in an environment where there are no highways and no long stretches of open road. At the same time it should not be congested and there should be no traffic jams as such. Frankly, I cannot think of any big city in the world that fits this description. There are possibly one or two medium size towns here and there, but even there you are likely to get better economy out of a high class recent petrol engine like on the Sirion SL or the Honda Jazz (not to mention diesels, CNG or LPG).
Windows NT5 (early codename for W2K) had a rewrite of the IP stack which was horrible. Suddenly after one of the builds (it was at least a year before release) it became very much working. Also suddenly the nmap fingerprint changed to match exactly OpenBSD. After some people noticed it was changed to be what it is now (though methinks that all that was changed was the fingerprint).
Are you sure that the OpenBSD fix is not covered by the Cisco patents as filed? I would not be so sure until the patent is granted and we can compare it because it is quite likely that has been watered down and vagued to the maximum possible extent so that it covers other future fixes.
Depends from what perspective. They have already pulled out the stunt of suing Aclcatel and OpenBSD for VRRP without doing the proper patent disclosure in IETF. So one more case one less is not going to change a lot.
Methinks that it is much more interesting that there were people from outside Cisco working on that vulnerability. If I recall correctly the list there was Juniper and someone else there as well. So unless Cisco did the correct paperwork with these guys they are fully entitled to sue Cisco's arse flat.
In btw, it is quite time someone questions the exact origin of SSL, SSH, NTP and a few other items in IOS which are known to be bug for bug compatible with OSS code and do not have stated copyrights in the IOS release notes.
Bollocks, running it on a dual CPU one at the moment.
Hasn't crashed yet. Dbianizing Samba 3.0.4 and so far it has been building nearly non-stop for the last hour.
Nope, he is not. His intelligence level assumes using the first post-WWII generation of multiple rocket launchers which have this range - 20.4 km. First - they are not called Katusha. Katusha is the WW2 BM13 which has range of 3.2km for the overcaliber charge. It looks like this: http://legion.wplus.net/guide/army/rs/bm13.shtml
r ad/grad.shtml It is quite often incorrectly referred to as Katusha.
r aga/uraga.shtml
r anit/granit.shtml They run a network between the missiles and one missile is a master providing the rest with targeting information. If the master is shot down another one is elected, changes trajectory goes up and turns on radar and targeting susbsystems (which are otherwise silent).
The system with 20.4 km range is Grad: http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?g
While extremely lethal and very popular around the world this weapon is on its way out by now. Russian army (and exports) are switching to higher caliber and longer range systems (some of them with cassette or guided warheads. An example of this new generation of systems is Uragan http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?u
which has 35 km range and is to be followed by other weapons that push the limit way up to 80 and all the way to the BM non-proliferation limit.
If we follow this logic, this will entitle Israel to occupy half of middle east just because they are in rocket range of some kind of rocket on sale somewhere. So if this logic is followed Israel is entitled to occupy the world. With all due respect, creating and maintaining peaceful relationship with neigbours seems to be considerably more productive.
That is besides the fact most larger russian AAA missile have one very interesting switch on the control panel. It is marked "Zemlia". In english Ground. Meaning is selfexplanatory, range is anything up to 160 km. And if I recall correctly every single country around there has russian AAA systems on the ground.
Also I do not quite see what this can do against a modern targeting system like the one used on these: http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/search/outinfo.php?g
So on so fourth. Ad naseum. And overall - informed my a***
The difference here is that it is not the domestic product. Micorosoft is possibly the only american company to grow based on international ubiquity. What it has traditionally undercut by dumping through lack of license enforcement are all unix vendors, novell, IBM (OS2 days anyone?), Oracle, so on so forth. This has given it a healthy customer base of addicts of all over the world (up to 95%+ penetration in some areas) which allows it to push back at any company that wants to expand internationally from the US.
It is not just Fionna. It is a flock of executives. We had a head of engineering transplanted from there in one of my previous jobs. The creature f**ked up the department in less then 3 months and was one of the very few which were ever ejected from the company in those days (top of the boom). He was "retired to spend more time with his family".
From day the transplanted lucent abomination started going around with an "outsourcing checklist" without even trying to understand the fact that we have just about enough staff to either define the requirements or write bespoke stuff to plug holes without defininig requirements (basically write as we go along). He never actually understood this. He never had any other ideas on how to do things either. Classic example of a person without any clue in software development. Believe it or not he was the head of Lucent reqional R&D before being transplanted.
He provided me with an insight of what happened to lucent. Lucent was the first company to outsource massively its software development arond 1997. It did this as a "cost saving measure" without retaining people to define the requirements and design what the outsourcers have to do. As a result from 1st company in VOIP it promptly went off the radar screen. Same thing happened in many other areas. Basically Lucents's woes are selfinflicted and they are a classic example on how not to outsource.
That is correct. I have "on the ground" observation from 3-5th world countries that it does not enforce until market penetration reaches at least 80%. In fact I have seen Microsoft reps and partners handing out CDs like candy to kids especially in the academia. All of them with versions that are later blamed to be pirated and with keys like 1234-5678. Once all alternatives are dead Bill comes to discuss the matters of software piracy with the prime minister or the president and bolts start to tighten. Two years later MSFT has one more steady revenue stream.
It is the same scheme crack dealers use in schools and IMO it should be prohibited. If you do not enforce a license you must lose your rights as entitled by the license.
Err... Who told you that the UK coast guard is a safety critical system? Who actually told you that they do anything besides wasting public money?
All the real work is done either by RAF or by volunteer lifeboats which do not get a single penny of government money. Frankly, I find it shamefull and disgusting that a country in the big 8 wich is also an island is incapable of even financing its lifeboat crews.
So frankly, if someone will wipe off the coast guard completely noone will notice. Emergency services have direct lines to the RAF anyway, and most of the lifeboat crewes are listening on the SOS frequencies as well.
I would like the moderators who modded down this comment to confess if they have ever tried to run:
Retail Windows (any variety) on a Vaio or a recent Stinkpad.
There is such a thing as a windows distro. Big vendors have always gone and replaced the parts of windows that sting particularly bad with parts that more or less work. So it is in fact: which particular vendor variety of Windows are you running:
Examples:
1. Dell and Windows NT frustration - get working PCMCIA hot-plug. If you run retail - you do not.
2. Sony and Windows 2000 - get working power management. If you run retail - you do not.
3. IBM and Windows XP - get working WEP with preshared 128 bit keys and a reasonable network connection manager (that can make any connection interdependent on each other, not just dialup and execute external commands to bring connections.)
So on so forth.
Rover (or one of the companies that are now Rover) did an amphibious vehicle in the late 60-es. Featured here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345 236203/104-7631974-3723944?v=glance
There was something I personally find more interesting, rewarding and easier to implement. The russians used to make a fairly decent amphibious trailer/mobile home. Forgot the name, but it was quite cool. 12 knots, capable of running in most general freshwater conditions (30 cm max wave) + the general comfort you get from a camping trailer.
Sad but true. Even if they will be tought to excell as long as they are tought within the existing US system they will be year to two years behind someone tought to excell in science in Russia, France, most of Eastern Europe or India for that matter. At least as far as primary, secondary, high school and university education prior to MSc level are concerned.
I have seen math tought in a three upper league unis - one in US, one in Russia and one in Eastern Europe. It was exactly as described. Russian was mad, Eastern Europe was crazy but still surmountable by a normal human, US was outright lame.
I will be flamed to charcoal, but anyway:
If he is correct for what he alleges, he will win. If SPAMCop anonymizes addresses it makes it impossible for this abhorrent slime to comply with current US legislation (CAN SPAM). The fact that he would have simply copied the complaint address to a higher rank "sucker alive" database is unfortunately irrelevant.
So no matter how much I hate to say it, he is likely to win thanks to the congrescritters. It is an unfortunate side effect of the CAN SPAM act. Now spammers have the right to expect to know who complains against them.
Why chemical? Old good one side sharpened spoon for them. Never fails.
Well... I guess that the prosecution has not offered them to go supergrass... Wander why...
It is following the Afganistan scenario so far:
T +00 days: The liberators are met with flowers
T +90 days: "Liberation fighters" blow up hospital and shoot medical personnel
T +1 year: Polish (yes they were in Afganistan as well as the Bulgarians) pull out and everyone starts fighting everyone
T +14 years: Biggest drug generating minefiled in the world...
If the scales do not bend there will be some very nasty drag on their borders. In fact it should completely negate any advantage from having a better shape wing.
Well, welcome to jail for the crime of not handing in your keys.
2 years in Britain according to the RIP act, many other countries have similar provisions. IMO I have nothing against this provision if these were the subject of the standard search and seize court order procedures (which at least in the UK is not the case).
In btw, if you have any objections to applying search and seize court procedures to crypto keys all you need to think about is the day when all accounts will become fully electronic. And 256bit AES without the keys IMO is the best shredder the money can buy.
Handing in your keys has to become a normal procedure in a digitized world. But it has to become equivalent to handing in your passport or the physical keys from the company accounts files. There are well established standards for issuing a search order, arrest order and posting a bail in almost all countries in the world. If crypto keys will become treated in according to _THESE_ procedures I can only appload, because this will mean that the world has finally gone digital.
Unfortunately, that is still not the case because the congress and MPcritters think that the digital nature makes them somehow different.
Nope, that is not the worst case scenario.
The worst case scenario is that most of tropical Asia and Southern China becomes a desert. As a result you get 2 billion of hungry people on the move which are part of at least three nuclear armed nations (China, India, Pakistan) and are bordering a fourth one (Russia).
And that is scary...