There are plenty of ways to provide identity that do not require online access to a database. X509 at your service. Tried, tested, works, scales to the size of a population (most continental EU ID cards are actually smartcards wich hold an x509 cert). The only thing the ID reader needs to do is verify that the cert on the card is correct and show the information. This can be done by a sub-10$ mass produced device nowdays. It can also be completely standalone for less important apps and for the more important it needs to check for revoked certs via OCSP. It does not really need access to a centralised database. In fact it is better for an ID like this to hold your photo and your biometric because the verification is done through cryptographic integrity. If it holds them it does not need central database access in 99.99% of the cases.
Issuing the ID is a completely different ball game. There you need a database if you want to avoid identity fraud. The bigger, the nastier, the more comprehensive - the better. As a matter of fact such the databases already exist in most countries, they are reasonably well maintained and they work. These are the taxation system databases and all countries with successful ID systems use these as a primary source of information. A good example of database nations like this is any Scandinavian country and Bulgaria out of the ex-Soviet block.
There is a crucial difference here - the database is accessed only on issuing IDs and on updating/checking tax records. It is not accessed by every wannabie wanker in a small quango office who has declared himself the supreme owner of your identity. This is also the crucial difference between RealID, The UK ID, the Australian ID and working ID projects. These all aim to sneak a provision for tens of thousands of wankers to access your data and they do not try to build on the tax system data (which the tax system office rightfully denies them access to). This is also doomed to be abject failures long before they have even been started because they have to build a database for the whole country from scratch.
Depends which ads. I usually search for parts, components, gadgets using google. If I am looking to buy something, I often treat the ads like yet another search result and I go through them. If we throw out the odd "on-duty" E-bay and Amazon add Google ad targeting is usually nearly perfect. In some cases the results in the ad panel are actually even better than the search results. Example - search google.co.uk for shower tray or shower door.
Because kissing Mickey's arse is more important than the oil, gas and technological trade Russia did not become a part of any stinking trade agreements when it was interested. It is now one of the few nations that are not part of these agreements and is finding its ability to use this position to its advantage very appealing.
For example it can kick all Georgian, Moldovan imports and exports to Ukraine profilactically at its whim. If it was part of these agreements it would not have been able to. So I somehow do not see it becoming a part of these agreements any time soon...
A good test is with fuming Concentrated Nitric Acid or "royal water" - mix of Nitric Acid with Sulfuric, the one that dissolves gold. It will also dissolve nearly anything else on earth even group 8 noble metals.
Titanium is passivated in it and does not dissolve or show any signs of damage (except in extremely high saturation fuming nitric acid). At the same time it happily dissolves is hidrocloric, hidrofluoric acid. It will also dissolve in sulfuric acid even in low concentrations. IIRC it did not like the strong organic acids either, but I do not recall which dissolve it and which not at the moment (it is been a while since I gave in to the dark side of IT and left chemistry).
Note, that as most commercial titanium is actually various titanium alloys they may get coloured or change their appearance when passivated. Most importantly - if it is titanium it will smile at nitric acid and any strong oxidising agent and shrug it off.
This all is off the top of my head. Check with a good inorganic chemistry book before bringing a flask of something obnoxious to a shop.
Time to invest some money into DPI and cache vendor stocks. Pity that most of them are either private or diluted by humongous conglomerates like cisco. It is also DPI and cache, not content control. Most of content control is geared towards the corporate police, not ISPs so it is not what is going to be deployed down under.
That is not socks mate. Just ask anyone who has been anywhere near carrier group about the "Diaper club". Personally, I do not know how true it is as I have managed to skip as far away from the entire military thing as possible. Many people claim to be true (or that it was true at some point).
Which means that they have a DPI box like Ellacoia or P-Cube or a P2P cache box like CacheLogic or OverSee. From there on they are actually right to use this policy. The reason is very simple.
RIAA can subpoena the college IT and get real seeder IPs out of the P2P cache logs. From there on it is "game over". You show up on the cache log only if you have both offered a file and someone has used it. So armed with this log they should be able to prove what they have gone to prove. Check, Mate.
So if a college has deployed P2P Cache or DPI from there on they have no choice but to use it. It is actually in the interest of the students because the college IT dept can be made to provide much better evidence than the laughable junk supplied by MediaCentry.
And if you just want a meeting space to collaborate, what amazing content are you going to produce that you're worried about. Designs for something with roughly 2-8 billions of CapEx per year, a couple of billions of OpEx per year and corresponding revenue. Some of it subject to security clearance constraints. Based on the current SL license using it for something like this is a "sorry, no go". Not a way in hell.
As I said, it is a Sadville wank, it is not a business tool.
Ensuring that noone speaks at the same time. If you set the virtual world conditions so you have to pop-up to breath at the same time you can see who is preparing to speak. Anyway, this is just my guess. There are tons of moderately insane approaches to "facilitate collaboration" during a meeting at the moment in real life, so not surprising that the "facilitator parasites" are having a ball in virtual.
Anyway, I would love to have access to something like that. I work in a team that spans the globe and we have yet to find a tool which will allow us to do all the collaboration we need. In fact, at the beginning one of our first thoughts was: If SecondLife were not such a bunch of Sadville wankers and offered a corporate version of their garbageware it would have been perfect. Unfortunately, using them is not an option at present because they can claim everything you produce in their virtual world (so not surprising that IBM has created one of its own).
On a more serious note it tends to be more stable on the more obscure architectures. Its internal guts are also considerably cleaner so it is easier to get going on various specialised platforms.
It is more of "it ain't fancy, but it works and does exactly what it says on the tin" philosophy compared to Linux.
I always keep a tree around (and a freebsd one) for a reference so I can look up how some things are implemented at the low level. You cannot do that with linux (or god forbid Slowarez) without arming yourself with a couple of aspirins and a bottle of vodka.
Most hysterically, the government spent two weeks saying "No the movie is alarmist, this is all bollocks, etc". After that they turned around and said "Hey we are not committed to building a new Thames barrier" (they still have not got the brain to make it electricity generating, but brain and UK gov do not mix well).
(Compare it to a LaTeX document, for example, and the kerning is horrible.)
Correct. It does not pass the standard test for document quality. Print "Microsoft [insert four letter word] Off" in a increasing font sizes in each. Compare. Observe for yourself (look at the ff and ft ligatures as well as capital F followed by lower case). It is sad when the latest top of the range product is easily beaten by something that is nearly 40 years old.
Unfortunately, MSFT has taught the entire world that their sloppy half-arsed layout, ligatures and kerning is good enough. So 99.999% of the users will just say "What?".
It has nothing to do with the original message from the novel. The novel had a number of very powerful messages regarding social structure, moral, etc. These are all absent from the film. And in the novel the enemy was anything but low tech.
The problem is that morals are specifically off the society book nowdays. Standalone (without religios tint) morals and how society functions are not something kids study in school or at home. At best they get a version which was skewed and slanted through the prism of their family religion. At worst they do not get anything. The situation is same all over US, UK and most of Europe. The rest of the world closely follows.
Sigh... As usually Heinlein "Starship Troopers" is probably right. We need "History and Moral Philosophy" lessons in school. Though there is noone to teach them in the current generation.
I experience it every time I let my wife drive. She is a classic binary driver. Throttle to the floor, brakes to the floor, throttle to the floor, brakes to the floor. 101010
Funnily enough, even with this style of driving, a 2003 Daihatsu Sirion still delivers 45+ MPG. So much for 35MPG being a "hurdle".
May I suggest that you read the Warranty Direct and the JD Power reliability surveys for the last 3 years. Here is a cut-n-paste from "Which Car?" based on Warranty direct data.
The only german car in the top 10 is the old BMW 3. Note - 5, 7 and any of the X series are not in there. By the way, the new 3 is not going to make it in there either (just ask any owner). Here is the top 10:
Position Model Years made Faults per 100 cars 1 Toyota Corolla 00-02 British Built 3 2 Honda CR-V 97-02 British Built 5 3= Honda HR-V 99-05 6 3= Toyota Celica 00-06 6 5 Honda S2000 99-now 7 6= BMW 3 Series Compact 94-01 9 6= Honda Civic 96-01 British Built 9 6= Honda Accord 99-03 British Built 9 9 Honda Civic 01-05 British Built 10 10 Nissan Micra 98-02 British Built 11
Here is the Bottom 10 (2007)
1 Alfa Romeo GTV 96-03 97 2 Renault Espace 97-02 77 3 Jaguar XK8 96-06 62 4 Renault Laguna '00-07 55 5 Fiat Multipla 99-now 52 6 Volvo S80 98-06 51 7= Land Rover Freelander 00-06 48 7= Land Rover Range Rover 95-02 48 7= Audi Allroad 00-05 48 10 Seat Alhambra 00-now 47
Similarly, for the manufacturer rankings neither Audi, nor BMW, nor VW, nor Mercedes are in the top 5 in the reliability league (Mini is not assembled in Germany).
Manufacturer league table 2007: 1 Honda 2 Toyota 3 Subaru 4 Lexus 5 Mini 6 Nissan 7 Ford 8 Citroën 9 Rover 10 BMW 11 Peugeot 12 Mercedes 13= Fiat 13= Vauxhall 15 Volkswagen 16 MG 17 Jaguar 18 Volvo 19 Skoda 20 Audi 21 Saab 22 Chrysler 23 Seat 24 Alfa Romeo 25 Renault 26 Land Rover
So I suggest you take your "rasist" insult, print it, put some japanese teri-aki sause (for taste and to follow the topic) and eat it.
And who cares anyway. They are talking about this like it is rocket science.
I have done that for a living for nearly 10 years now and frankly it is trivial (at least for Cisco). There is _NO_ rocket science in it. It takes a couple of weeks tops for someone who is good in both software development and network engineering to write one. There is no need for an extra API. The techniques on how to deal with IOS are well known.
The problem is elsewhere. The problem is "what to orchestrate?". Data modelling a network, representing configurations internally, representing orchestration templates and models, now that is a problem. In fact it is not a problem anyone has resolved completely so far.
In fact, it would be much more interesting if Cisco stops wanking off and puts multiple checkpoint/rollback capabilities and transaction capabilities in IOS. This is extremely painful to implement externally because you have to model the whole router and they cannot be bothered to implement it internally.
In Cambridge (the other red brick city) they tell you not to bother them unless the kid has stopped breathing and come within working hours. Speaking based on experience. NHS, don't you just love 'em.
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Exactly. Running man and 1984 come to mind more frequently than ever.
Actually not quite so.
There are plenty of ways to provide identity that do not require online access to a database. X509 at your service. Tried, tested, works, scales to the size of a population (most continental EU ID cards are actually smartcards wich hold an x509 cert). The only thing the ID reader needs to do is verify that the cert on the card is correct and show the information. This can be done by a sub-10$ mass produced device nowdays. It can also be completely standalone for less important apps and for the more important it needs to check for revoked certs via OCSP. It does not really need access to a centralised database. In fact it is better for an ID like this to hold your photo and your biometric because the verification is done through cryptographic integrity. If it holds them it does not need central database access in 99.99% of the cases.
Issuing the ID is a completely different ball game. There you need a database if you want to avoid identity fraud. The bigger, the nastier, the more comprehensive - the better. As a matter of fact such the databases already exist in most countries, they are reasonably well maintained and they work. These are the taxation system databases and all countries with successful ID systems use these as a primary source of information. A good example of database nations like this is any Scandinavian country and Bulgaria out of the ex-Soviet block.
There is a crucial difference here - the database is accessed only on issuing IDs and on updating/checking tax records. It is not accessed by every wannabie wanker in a small quango office who has declared himself the supreme owner of your identity. This is also the crucial difference between RealID, The UK ID, the Australian ID and working ID projects. These all aim to sneak a provision for tens of thousands of wankers to access your data and they do not try to build on the tax system data (which the tax system office rightfully denies them access to). This is also doomed to be abject failures long before they have even been started because they have to build a database for the whole country from scratch.
Depends which ads. I usually search for parts, components, gadgets using google. If I am looking to buy something, I often treat the ads like yet another search result and I go through them. If we throw out the odd "on-duty" E-bay and Amazon add Google ad targeting is usually nearly perfect. In some cases the results in the ad panel are actually even better than the search results. Example - search google.co.uk for shower tray or shower door.
Here is some news for you. Georgia already is a member which means that Russia is not becoming a member anytime soon.
What free trade commitments?
Because kissing Mickey's arse is more important than the oil, gas and technological trade Russia did not become a part of any stinking trade agreements when it was interested. It is now one of the few nations that are not part of these agreements and is finding its ability to use this position to its advantage very appealing.
For example it can kick all Georgian, Moldovan imports and exports to Ukraine profilactically at its whim. If it was part of these agreements it would not have been able to. So I somehow do not see it becoming a part of these agreements any time soon...
Did the kettle just call the pot black?
My chemistry is quite obviously "not English" so I was translating into English something from another language(s). Apologies.
Anyway, the idea is still the same. You can dip titanium into the nastiest oxidising mix and it will shrug it off.
A good test is with fuming Concentrated Nitric Acid or "royal water" - mix of Nitric Acid with Sulfuric, the one that dissolves gold. It will also dissolve nearly anything else on earth even group 8 noble metals.
Titanium is passivated in it and does not dissolve or show any signs of damage (except in extremely high saturation fuming nitric acid). At the same time it happily dissolves is hidrocloric, hidrofluoric acid. It will also dissolve in sulfuric acid even in low concentrations. IIRC it did not like the strong organic acids either, but I do not recall which dissolve it and which not at the moment (it is been a while since I gave in to the dark side of IT and left chemistry).
Note, that as most commercial titanium is actually various titanium alloys they may get coloured or change their appearance when passivated. Most importantly - if it is titanium it will smile at nitric acid and any strong oxidising agent and shrug it off.
This all is off the top of my head. Check with a good inorganic chemistry book before bringing a flask of something obnoxious to a shop.
Time to invest some money into DPI and cache vendor stocks. Pity that most of them are either private or diluted by humongous conglomerates like cisco. It is also DPI and cache, not content control. Most of content control is geared towards the corporate police, not ISPs so it is not what is going to be deployed down under.
Forgot to add... You know when a diaper "inflates" right? If you do not ask any parent...
That is not socks mate. Just ask anyone who has been anywhere near carrier group about the "Diaper club". Personally, I do not know how true it is as I have managed to skip as far away from the entire military thing as possible. Many people claim to be true (or that it was true at some point).
Which means that they have a DPI box like Ellacoia or P-Cube or a P2P cache box like CacheLogic or OverSee. From there on they are actually right to use this policy. The reason is very simple.
RIAA can subpoena the college IT and get real seeder IPs out of the P2P cache logs. From there on it is "game over". You show up on the cache log only if you have both offered a file and someone has used it. So armed with this log they should be able to prove what they have gone to prove. Check, Mate.
So if a college has deployed P2P Cache or DPI from there on they have no choice but to use it. It is actually in the interest of the students because the college IT dept can be made to provide much better evidence than the laughable junk supplied by MediaCentry.
As I said, it is a Sadville wank, it is not a business tool.
Ensuring that noone speaks at the same time. If you set the virtual world conditions so you have to pop-up to breath at the same time you can see who is preparing to speak. Anyway, this is just my guess. There are tons of moderately insane approaches to "facilitate collaboration" during a meeting at the moment in real life, so not surprising that the "facilitator parasites" are having a ball in virtual.
Anyway, I would love to have access to something like that. I work in a team that spans the globe and we have yet to find a tool which will allow us to do all the collaboration we need. In fact, at the beginning one of our first thoughts was: If SecondLife were not such a bunch of Sadville wankers and offered a corporate version of their garbageware it would have been perfect. Unfortunately, using them is not an option at present because they can claim everything you produce in their virtual world (so not surprising that IBM has created one of its own).
Easier to port onto a toaster :-)
On a more serious note it tends to be more stable on the more obscure architectures. Its internal guts are also considerably cleaner so it is easier to get going on various specialised platforms.
It is more of "it ain't fancy, but it works and does exactly what it says on the tin" philosophy compared to Linux.
I always keep a tree around (and a freebsd one) for a reference so I can look up how some things are implemented at the low level. You cannot do that with linux (or god forbid Slowarez) without arming yourself with a couple of aspirins and a bottle of vodka.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There is always a boom tomorrow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEsFB2GPy24
London - http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0790665/
Most hysterically, the government spent two weeks saying "No the movie is alarmist, this is all bollocks, etc". After that they turned around and said "Hey we are not committed to building a new Thames barrier" (they still have not got the brain to make it electricity generating, but brain and UK gov do not mix well).
Correct. It does not pass the standard test for document quality. Print "Microsoft [insert four letter word] Off" in a increasing font sizes in each. Compare. Observe for yourself (look at the ff and ft ligatures as well as capital F followed by lower case). It is sad when the latest top of the range product is easily beaten by something that is nearly 40 years old.
Unfortunately, MSFT has taught the entire world that their sloppy half-arsed layout, ligatures and kerning is good enough. So 99.999% of the users will just say "What?".
Ugh... The movie... Puke...
It has nothing to do with the original message from the novel. The novel had a number of very powerful messages regarding social structure, moral, etc. These are all absent from the film. And in the novel the enemy was anything but low tech.
Read my post again. The bit about "prism of religion". In fact Islam and the Evangelicals was exactly what I meant there. Sigh...
The problem is that morals are specifically off the society book nowdays. Standalone (without religios tint) morals and how society functions are not something kids study in school or at home. At best they get a version which was skewed and slanted through the prism of their family religion. At worst they do not get anything. The situation is same all over US, UK and most of Europe. The rest of the world closely follows.
Sigh... As usually Heinlein "Starship Troopers" is probably right. We need "History and Moral Philosophy" lessons in school. Though there is noone to teach them in the current generation.
I experience it every time I let my wife drive. She is a classic binary driver. Throttle to the floor, brakes to the floor, throttle to the floor, brakes to the floor. 101010
Funnily enough, even with this style of driving, a 2003 Daihatsu Sirion still delivers 45+ MPG. So much for 35MPG being a "hurdle".
May I suggest that you read the Warranty Direct and the JD Power reliability surveys for the last 3 years. Here is a cut-n-paste from "Which Car?" based on Warranty direct data.
The only german car in the top 10 is the old BMW 3. Note - 5, 7 and any of the X series are not in there. By the way, the new 3 is not going to make it in there either (just ask any owner). Here is the top 10:
Position Model Years made Faults per 100 cars
1 Toyota Corolla 00-02 British Built 3
2 Honda CR-V 97-02 British Built 5
3= Honda HR-V 99-05 6
3= Toyota Celica 00-06 6
5 Honda S2000 99-now 7
6= BMW 3 Series Compact 94-01 9
6= Honda Civic 96-01 British Built 9
6= Honda Accord 99-03 British Built 9
9 Honda Civic 01-05 British Built 10
10 Nissan Micra 98-02 British Built 11
Here is the Bottom 10 (2007)
1 Alfa Romeo GTV 96-03 97
2 Renault Espace 97-02 77
3 Jaguar XK8 96-06 62
4 Renault Laguna '00-07 55
5 Fiat Multipla 99-now 52
6 Volvo S80 98-06 51
7= Land Rover Freelander 00-06 48
7= Land Rover Range Rover 95-02 48
7= Audi Allroad 00-05 48
10 Seat Alhambra 00-now 47
Similarly, for the manufacturer rankings neither Audi, nor BMW, nor VW, nor Mercedes are in the top 5 in the reliability league (Mini is not assembled in Germany).
Manufacturer league table 2007:
1 Honda
2 Toyota
3 Subaru
4 Lexus
5 Mini
6 Nissan
7 Ford
8 Citroën
9 Rover
10 BMW
11 Peugeot
12 Mercedes
13= Fiat
13= Vauxhall
15 Volkswagen
16 MG
17 Jaguar
18 Volvo
19 Skoda
20 Audi
21 Saab
22 Chrysler
23 Seat
24 Alfa Romeo
25 Renault
26 Land Rover
So I suggest you take your "rasist" insult, print it, put some japanese teri-aki sause (for taste and to follow the topic) and eat it.
And who cares anyway. They are talking about this like it is rocket science.
I have done that for a living for nearly 10 years now and frankly it is trivial (at least for Cisco). There is _NO_ rocket science in it. It takes a couple of weeks tops for someone who is good in both software development and network engineering to write one. There is no need for an extra API. The techniques on how to deal with IOS are well known.
The problem is elsewhere. The problem is "what to orchestrate?". Data modelling a network, representing configurations internally, representing orchestration templates and models, now that is a problem. In fact it is not a problem anyone has resolved completely so far.
In fact, it would be much more interesting if Cisco stops wanking off and puts multiple checkpoint/rollback capabilities and transaction capabilities in IOS. This is extremely painful to implement externally because you have to model the whole router and they cannot be bothered to implement it internally.
In Cambridge (the other red brick city) they tell you not to bother them unless the kid has stopped breathing and come within working hours. Speaking based on experience. NHS, don't you just love 'em.