Note name of company advertising with Dallas Morning News (e.g. cars.com)
Write a letter to said company (e.g. cars.com) informing them that you will not be doing any business with them specifically because the advertise with Dallas Morning News online.
Repeat steps 1-3 as often as necessary
Belo will quickly change their position to allow free linking to anyplace you like.
If you pad your message to a fixed length, you can eliminate problem of a known message length. (if the message is longer than your fixed length, break it into two messages)
No form of "encryption" will hide the fact that you are transmitting a message. To do that you need to imploy a steganographic technique such as spread spectrum transmission. Once you have encrypted your message using your one time pad, you transmit the message using Stego technique and you have "perfect" encryption according to your definition.
I've done some OSGi work in the past and I found it a royal pain. What it is really meant for is having a "Service Provider" (aka Utility, Cable company, etc...) manage a device remotely.
That said, check out ProSyst. They have a server and bundles for various tasks. I've used it in the past to control X10.
Granted hoteensluts.com is obvious whitehouse.com IS NOT and is there to only decieve and misrepresent in-order to trick people into their site.
Not exactly, Lumpy. Whitehouse is the name of a UK porn magazine. The magazine is named for Mary Whitehouse an anti-porn campainer in the UK, just to piss her off.
Did you try or even consider implementing a model similar to frame relay, where each user has a CIR (committed information rate) and if they exceed thier CIR then the their packet are subject to being dropped if there is congestion in the network?
It isn't quite that easy for vivendi. First the burden of proof lies with vivendi, so they have to prove that code was copied, not just that code looks like a different block of code.
Secondly, if vivendi didn't register the code with the trademark office then the burden of them become much greater.
Anyone else notice that they were using Cisco 4000 series routers (at least as the gateway router, but I bet in other parts of the network as well)?
Why is this significant? Well, as was recently pointed out the 4000 series line cards contain a class III led transmit/receive status indicator, which makes it possible to sniff traffic off of the interface optically from a distance. Hope the CIA has some extra black tape handy.
IMNSHO, this would be a really good thing. One of the current problems with software (and a lot of other things) is that cost are shifted away from where they belong in order to make a product cheaper.
It is cheaper to write software that works most of the time, but has a few bugs than it is to have an proper design, implementation and testing process that prevents buggy software from being shipped too soon. In general the industry has the felling that it cheap and easy to release a patch for a bug later so the cost of not catching it early is small.
This is the exact opposite of hardware engineering, were companies go to extreme measures to try and debug the design be commiting to Si since it is very expensive to do this.
Increasing the cost of bugs to the software developer will decrease the quantity of code and increase the quality of code, something that is sorely needed.
You may want to investigate using a case based reasoning system (I believe ART Enterprise has CBR capabilities, its been a while since I've worked with A*E)
In general, I think you are going to find that even if you pick a general rule based package such as CLIPS or iLog Rules or go with some that has CBR capabilities such as A*E the project is going to be a lot more difficult than you think.
Diagnositic expert systems are not simple, and having a good tool is only the begining. If you want a usuable effective system plan to have 2-3 experts work at least a year to develop it.
Disclaimer: I develop expert system for a living, and have extensive experience developing diagnostic systems. Most clients I've worked with have no idea how difficult a problem this is. You really have restrict your problem domain or the task is impossible.
This leads down a slippery slope. What about other engineering fields? (e.g. Airplanes designed in Seattle but built elsewhere?)
If all service are taxed then software development should be also, otherwise it shouldn't be. I never understand why people try to make special laws for digital media (or software as this case is)
But why should companies compete in a free market if they can compete on a legal and political playing field? If we, as a society, don't want companies to do this we have to make the cost of doing this greater than the potential reward.
If the political and legal systems were complete hands off, business wouldn't try to influence them, since it would be a bad investment. The real question is how do we do this? I don't think that there is any easy answer.
Another issue is that microsoft will come in and setup an entire system for you. One stop shopping. Believe it or not, this sells. IBM is basically the same way. When you want a complex system put in place its often easier to deal with a single large vendor than several smaller but better vendors.
It's hard to recall any industry which has so abused, neglected and exploited its customers and survived.
This seems to me to be a modern trend in business. Businesses in all sectors have discovered that you don't have to be good or provide a good product or service, you just have to be good enough. In fact it seems that businesses can maximize profits by being subpar. Consumers will often buy a cheap product that does 90% of what they want rather than an expensive product that does 100%.
This seems to be especially true with customer service. Providing the level of customer service to help the average user (oh, I have to plug it in?) and not providing the level of service desired by the "tech savvy" saves a lot of money for these companies.
It comes down to cheap, fast, good, chose any two. The population typcially goes for cheap and fast, and not good.
I know what asymmetric crypto is, and I can imagine a number of ways that you could build a relatively secure system. It has just been my experience in practice that these system aren't implemented correctly or target the wrong threat model.
I'm not questioning whether a system could be devised that would prevent forgery or other exploits, but whether or not this system is designed to handle this, and how whether the system will fail safe. Too many systems are not designed fail safe with respect to security and windup being wide open when a new type of attack is discovered.
how long will it be before someone builds a remote reader that can pull info just by walking within a few feet of one?
I really doubt this would be an issue. The smart cards have no power supply nor do they have a radio transmitter. It would be extremely difficult to remotely power a device and remotely sense extract data from the device. You could possibly extract information from a reader when the device is in use, but it would be much easier to set up a fake reader to do this rather than doing it remotely from a real card reader.
This is similar to problems faced with ATM machines. A few years ago people started setting up fake ATM which would capture your ATM card info and PIN and then return an error. The crooks would forge new cards and clean out your account. No need to sniff data from working real ATMs when people would use your bogus ATM.
I think one of the biggest problems will be that of forged cards. If the cards are going to be trusted absolutely, which the article implies by saying that you will be able to enter and leave HK using the card at a kiosk, no human oversite, then if a sucessful forgery is made, all cards become untrustworthy.
They don't describe how the system protects against forgery, but the do talk about information only being stored on the card. No central database to check against. This seems rather unsafe to me and a poor way to implement an identification mechanism.
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As someone who lives in Washington D.C. and has numerous friends who work as Congressional aids and in the administration, I can tell you that writting is not the most effective method, although it is better than nothing.
The best method is to try and arrange a face to face meeting with your Rep. Calling on the phone, come next, followed by writting and lastly e-mail. Basically, the more effort it is the more effective it is. If you are willing to travel to washington or arrange a meeting with your Rep. when they are at home, they will realize that what ever issue you want to discuss is very important to you.
The idea of a hidden link that the spider would follow seems like a good idea, but I don't see an example on the robotcop site. Do you have a direct link?
I guess I could see setting this up similar to a web bug, 1x1 pixel image with link same color as background, but you could then modify the spider not to follow those types of links.
I think this will be better than nothing, but you start to enter a robotcop / spider arms race.
It's an interesting idea, but it looks like the spiders have to be well behaved to get caught. If the spider never reads the robots.txt file and it claims to be a friendly user agent (not a spider) it seems the only way it could get caught is if it falls into a trap directory. This doesn't seem likely.
How do you prevent users from finding and falling into a trap directory? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to write a spider to get around the restrictions imposed by robotcop.
I think the one case of a non-nuclear attack having an acceptable nuclear response is with biological and chemical weapons.
The reason to use nukes in response to nukes rest on two ideas
The results of the use of nukes is horrible
The threat of a horrible retaliation prevents nukes from being used in the first place. MAD
If we extend this arguement to include bio weapons and chem weapons we can effectively prevent the use of either bio or chem weapons. So the threat of a nuclear response to a biological attack is useful in extending the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). I think the idea of using nuclear weapons in any scenario except a MAD one, is, well mad.
Personally, I think nerve gas or something like ebola would be as horrific or worse than nuclear war
Use of nuclear "bunker busters", although tactically expendient would be a geo-political nightmare.
I used to work designing data networks for the New York Stock Exchange and associated companies, brokerages, etc... One of the biggest problems was that almost all of our telco services were provided out of one or two buildings. One of those buildings was the West St. CO which was heavily damaged during the 9/11 attack was one of the primary reason the stock exchange had to close for several days.
The only way to avoid this CO was to build our own telco infrastructure. We had to buy (not lease) 250 pair of fiber in a large ring around NYC to avoid the West St. CO. We looked at leasing the fiber but all the companies wanted to run the connection into West St.
We then used point to point microwave link to backup key portions of the fiber ring.
It turned out that all this still wasn't enough. One network connected to the Internet via a single major ISP via multiple POP (from multiple data centers around NYC) and no two connections were supposed to have any common physical circuits. We even paid extra for this, but the had all circuit running through the West St. CO. From the IP layer and Circuit IDs it looked like everything was ok, but the telco didn't maintain physical diversity.
One university has recently begun advertising at the movies. I don't know which is worse, ads at the movies or a university advertising for students.
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Wow, your ass has alot to say, unfortunately most of it wrong.
Neilson viewer are supposed to only log time actively watching television. They are not supposed to log time for a show if they fall asleep while watching it. The rating box will periodically query the viewer inorder determine that they are still watching.
From the Neilson website: Whenever the television set is turned on a red light flashes from time to time on the meter, reminding viewers to press their assigned button to indicate if they are watching television. Additional buttons on the meter enable guests in a sample home to report when they watch TV by entering their age and gender and pushing a visitor button.
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Belo will quickly change their position to allow free linking to anyplace you like.
If you pad your message to a fixed length, you can eliminate problem of a known message length. (if the message is longer than your fixed length, break it into two messages)
No form of "encryption" will hide the fact that you are transmitting a message. To do that you need to imploy a steganographic technique such as spread spectrum transmission. Once you have encrypted your message using your one time pad, you transmit the message using Stego technique and you have "perfect" encryption according to your definition.
That said, check out ProSyst. They have a server and bundles for various tasks. I've used it in the past to control X10.
Not exactly, Lumpy. Whitehouse is the name of a UK porn magazine. The magazine is named for Mary Whitehouse an anti-porn campainer in the UK, just to piss her off.
DASD is short for Direct Access Storage Device.
Did you try or even consider implementing a model similar to frame relay, where each user has a CIR (committed information rate) and if they exceed thier CIR then the their packet are subject to being dropped if there is congestion in the network?
Secondly, if vivendi didn't register the code with the trademark office then the burden of them become much greater.
Why is this significant? Well, as was recently pointed out the 4000 series line cards contain a class III led transmit/receive status indicator, which makes it possible to sniff traffic off of the interface optically from a distance. Hope the CIA has some extra black tape handy.
IMNSHO, this would be a really good thing. One of the current problems with software (and a lot of other things) is that cost are shifted away from where they belong in order to make a product cheaper.
It is cheaper to write software that works most of the time, but has a few bugs than it is to have an proper design, implementation and testing process that prevents buggy software from being shipped too soon. In general the industry has the felling that it cheap and easy to release a patch for a bug later so the cost of not catching it early is small.
This is the exact opposite of hardware engineering, were companies go to extreme measures to try and debug the design be commiting to Si since it is very expensive to do this.
Increasing the cost of bugs to the software developer will decrease the quantity of code and increase the quality of code, something that is sorely needed.
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In general, I think you are going to find that even if you pick a general rule based package such as CLIPS or iLog Rules or go with some that has CBR capabilities such as A*E the project is going to be a lot more difficult than you think.
Diagnositic expert systems are not simple, and having a good tool is only the begining. If you want a usuable effective system plan to have 2-3 experts work at least a year to develop it.
Disclaimer: I develop expert system for a living, and have extensive experience developing diagnostic systems. Most clients I've worked with have no idea how difficult a problem this is. You really have restrict your problem domain or the task is impossible.
If all service are taxed then software development should be also, otherwise it shouldn't be. I never understand why people try to make special laws for digital media (or software as this case is)
If the political and legal systems were complete hands off, business wouldn't try to influence them, since it would be a bad investment. The real question is how do we do this? I don't think that there is any easy answer.
Another issue is that microsoft will come in and setup an entire system for you. One stop shopping. Believe it or not, this sells. IBM is basically the same way. When you want a complex system put in place its often easier to deal with a single large vendor than several smaller but better vendors.
This seems to me to be a modern trend in business. Businesses in all sectors have discovered that you don't have to be good or provide a good product or service, you just have to be good enough. In fact it seems that businesses can maximize profits by being subpar. Consumers will often buy a cheap product that does 90% of what they want rather than an expensive product that does 100%.
This seems to be especially true with customer service. Providing the level of customer service to help the average user (oh, I have to plug it in?) and not providing the level of service desired by the "tech savvy" saves a lot of money for these companies.
It comes down to cheap, fast, good, chose any two. The population typcially goes for cheap and fast, and not good.
Check out Ross Anderson's book on security engineering for an number of examples of systems, not too different from this were exploited.
I'm not questioning whether a system could be devised that would prevent forgery or other exploits, but whether or not this system is designed to handle this, and how whether the system will fail safe. Too many systems are not designed fail safe with respect to security and windup being wide open when a new type of attack is discovered.
I really doubt this would be an issue. The smart cards have no power supply nor do they have a radio transmitter. It would be extremely difficult to remotely power a device and remotely sense extract data from the device. You could possibly extract information from a reader when the device is in use, but it would be much easier to set up a fake reader to do this rather than doing it remotely from a real card reader.
This is similar to problems faced with ATM machines. A few years ago people started setting up fake ATM which would capture your ATM card info and PIN and then return an error. The crooks would forge new cards and clean out your account. No need to sniff data from working real ATMs when people would use your bogus ATM.
They don't describe how the system protects against forgery, but the do talk about information only being stored on the card. No central database to check against. This seems rather unsafe to me and a poor way to implement an identification mechanism.
The best method is to try and arrange a face to face meeting with your Rep. Calling on the phone, come next, followed by writting and lastly e-mail. Basically, the more effort it is the more effective it is. If you are willing to travel to washington or arrange a meeting with your Rep. when they are at home, they will realize that what ever issue you want to discuss is very important to you.
I guess I could see setting this up similar to a web bug, 1x1 pixel image with link same color as background, but you could then modify the spider not to follow those types of links.
I think this will be better than nothing, but you start to enter a robotcop / spider arms race.
How do you prevent users from finding and falling into a trap directory? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to write a spider to get around the restrictions imposed by robotcop.
Am I missing something?
The reason to use nukes in response to nukes rest on two ideas
If we extend this arguement to include bio weapons and chem weapons we can effectively prevent the use of either bio or chem weapons. So the threat of a nuclear response to a biological attack is useful in extending the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). I think the idea of using nuclear weapons in any scenario except a MAD one, is, well mad.
Personally, I think nerve gas or something like ebola would be as horrific or worse than nuclear war
Use of nuclear "bunker busters", although tactically expendient would be a geo-political nightmare.
I used to work designing data networks for the New York Stock Exchange and associated companies, brokerages, etc... One of the biggest problems was that almost all of our telco services were provided out of one or two buildings. One of those buildings was the West St. CO which was heavily damaged during the 9/11 attack was one of the primary reason the stock exchange had to close for several days.
The only way to avoid this CO was to build our own telco infrastructure. We had to buy (not lease) 250 pair of fiber in a large ring around NYC to avoid the West St. CO. We looked at leasing the fiber but all the companies wanted to run the connection into West St.
We then used point to point microwave link to backup key portions of the fiber ring.
It turned out that all this still wasn't enough. One network connected to the Internet via a single major ISP via multiple POP (from multiple data centers around NYC) and no two connections were supposed to have any common physical circuits. We even paid extra for this, but the had all circuit running through the West St. CO. From the IP layer and Circuit IDs it looked like everything was ok, but the telco didn't maintain physical diversity.
One would immagine that the entropy of a DNA sequence coding for a protein would be lower then random sequences.
One university has recently begun advertising at the movies. I don't know which is worse, ads at the movies or a university advertising for students.
Wow, your ass has alot to say, unfortunately most of it wrong.
Neilson viewer are supposed to only log time actively watching television. They are not supposed to log time for a show if they fall asleep while watching it. The rating box will periodically query the viewer inorder determine that they are still watching.
From the Neilson website: Whenever the television set is turned on a red light flashes from time to time on the meter, reminding viewers to press their assigned button to indicate if they are watching television. Additional buttons on the meter enable guests in a sample home to report when they watch TV by entering their age and gender and pushing a visitor button.