Ah, 'Ask Slashdot'...Next time I want a drawn on discussion about requirements for credit card merchants, I too will submit a question about rats eating my cables. What the original submitter did not realize is to have his actual question answered, he should have asked about, oh, I dunno, "What's the best brand of electron microscope for computer forensic data recovery?" and allow the topic to mysteriously wander into discussing rats eating cables, as it is constantly modded up.
Couldn't she then be one of their best people, interested in leaving to form a new CTO position in the Federal Government? Who knows, maybe she wants out because she can't stand Cisco either.
hm. I can't find the surface area of a HDD platter, but let's say that 1/3 of the radius of the disk is unwritable in the center. Supposedly, you can get as much as 500GB on a single 3.5'' platter. Now lets say you sand it with 120 grit sandpaper, so that you could rip off a chunk the size of a 120 grit grain of sand....By my math (which could be miserable) one single flake could contain as much as 248k of data, all perfectly recoverable via electron microscope. That's a lot of text! God...this sound like one of those Microsoft job interview questions...
Wow, I haven't read this thing in ages, but this protocol is HORRIBLY restrictive. No thought was given to extensibility at all. The coffee pot should really respond to an incoming request responding with a freeform list of supported modifiers, so the client can have processing to resolve compatibility issues. No worry about being restricted a mere 4 types of alcohol or any such silliness. IETF usually comes up with better designed protocols than this...I guess they didn't have enough coffee or something.
Sure, but apps like google maps are not the reason why cell phone manufacturers decided to put GPS into cell phones in the first place. They were put there because of US legislation. After the fact, manufacturers said, "hey, as long as it's there, how about we make it do stuff that we can market as spiffy features?"
Umm..Too lazy to RTFA, but the whole reason why cell phones have GPS is so that emergency services can find you with more to go on than "um..I'm by some trees, there's a kinda funny looking rock next to me..." I wouldn't consider that a military application...
From Triumph of the Nerds:
Bill Lowe
Head, IBM IBM PC Development Team 1980
He kind of said well, what should we do, and I said well, we think we know what we would like to do if we were going to proceed with our own product and he said no, he said at IBM it would take four years and three hundred people to do anything, I mean it's just a fact of life. And I said no sir, we can provide with product in a year. And he abruptly ended the meeting, he said you're on Lowe, come back in two weeks and tell me what you need.
An IBM product in a year! Ridiculous! Down in the basement Bill still has the plan. To save time, instead of building a computer from scratch, they would buy components off the shelf and assemble them -- what in IBM speak was called 'open architecture.' IBM never did this. Two weeks later Bill proposed his heresy to the Chairman.
Bill Lowe
And frankly this is it. The key decisions were to go with an open architecture, non IBM technology, non IBM software, non IBM sales and non IBM service. And we probably spent a full half of the presentation carrying the corporate management committee into this concept. Because this was a new concept for IBM at that point.
BOB: Was it a hard sell?
BILL: Mr. Carey bought it. And as result of him buying it, we got through it.
In other words, IBM said "0 n0ez, @pp1e be drinkin' mah milkshaik!! BUILD PC FAST!!1!"
Back when I was in highschool (late 90s), every couple months I would go with some Parents to a regular event done by the NIH in Silver Spring Maryland. Saturday mornings they would give away surplus computers to non-profit organizations, particularly education. It'd be with a dozen or so other groups, they'd ring a bell and it was a Supermarket Sweep style dash-and-grab. We'd fill up a van and drop them off at my school and other schools in my feeder system.
There are lots of surplus supplies out there. Besides NIH, I've also delt with the state of Maryland, the University of Maryland, and the DoD, but I don't reccomend the latter for technology, as they strip anything remotely good out of all electronics.
The financial ties involved in EAL evalution are pretty loose at best. I'm more familiar with FIPS and Orange Book evaluation, but assuming the processes are similar, evaluation is done a an independent third party organization; usually as a result of a requirement stated in a government contract. There is not much in the way of monetary incentive for the evaluation group to rate a product any higher than it deserves to be.
That being said, I don't believe EAL6+ requires any additional vulnerability testing beyond that of than EAL5+; it is mostly just a stricter evaluation/review of the soundness of the OS design.
Making a key copy that will last for a single use has always been within the capacities of a retarded monkey. Once you realize that, the only think that makes the article interesting is the social blaze, and the image processing. Naming specific distances from the camera is a little silly though. The bigger concerns are focus, pixel count, and lossy compression; to say nothing of the orientation of the key relative to the lens, and color contrast.
I won a bet once by making a copy of someone's key by pressing it against my arm for a few seconds, and using a trace of the resultant discoloration as a template.
Microsoft decided to battle Linux in Africa when it learned that it recieves 3 bonus armies for every turn in which it manages to hold the entire continent.
NASA has a known hardline anti-sex policy? Says who? Just a quick Google search brought up this article saying "Lawrence Palinkas, a professor of social work, anthropology and preventive medicine at UCLA...said there "is no official policy" at NASA regarding sex on space missions. "There really has been no research conducted on the area to know whether it [sex in space] would be a good thing or a bad thing," he said, "but it probably is inevitable.""
The only thing I've ever known NASA to declare is that they don't intend to experiment with human sexuality in space, and they don't intend to comment on any sexual encounters that have or will take place.
Just a quick note, casting metal is a gigantic pain. Low temp metals (pewter) are way too weak for machine parts, and high temp metals like brass require crazy equipment. Molds are only good for a single use and you still have to grind away all the flaws, assuming the pour went alright.
Starting with like block aluminum and Machining the parts gets you a more consistent and precise result. (particularly if you have access to a CNC machine).
If you have a prototype piece and you need lower strength perfect copies, molding in silicone and casting in polyurethane resin is glorious; Not difficult, perfectly detailed results, and a lot of fun if I do say so. If you use the right grade resin, (possibly doped with aluminum powder), it can get pretty sturdy. In the US, Smooth-on and Polytek are the two companies to look into to do that sort of thing (Smooth-on is more lay-person friendly, but in my experience polytek costs less for higher quality analogous products).
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Ah, 'Ask Slashdot'...Next time I want a drawn on discussion about requirements for credit card merchants, I too will submit a question about rats eating my cables. What the original submitter did not realize is to have his actual question answered, he should have asked about, oh, I dunno, "What's the best brand of electron microscope for computer forensic data recovery?" and allow the topic to mysteriously wander into discussing rats eating cables, as it is constantly modded up.
I have read it. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of reading it aloud, so now I have to go to court.
I've tried this WoW thing of which you speak. The suicidal Linux guy is better off.
THIS must be The Year of the Linux Desktop!
Sheesh, thank you for posting this so I didn't have to. Ohhh nooo! Methane-producing landfills! Hey wait, they're a Good Thing.
In other news, said scientists' funders have threatened to pull their grants citing "Idle is pants".
FTFY.
Didn't you know about the latest project? fed.google.com, "Google Federal Infrastructure (Beta)"??
Couldn't she then be one of their best people, interested in leaving to form a new CTO position in the Federal Government? Who knows, maybe she wants out because she can't stand Cisco either.
"Oh no, Yoko Kanno!!! Now we'll have to use Danny Elfman!"
hm. I can't find the surface area of a HDD platter, but let's say that 1/3 of the radius of the disk is unwritable in the center. Supposedly, you can get as much as 500GB on a single 3.5'' platter. Now lets say you sand it with 120 grit sandpaper, so that you could rip off a chunk the size of a 120 grit grain of sand....By my math (which could be miserable) one single flake could contain as much as 248k of data, all perfectly recoverable via electron microscope. That's a lot of text! God...this sound like one of those Microsoft job interview questions...
Brilliant! The top tech breakthrough of 2009 shall be a self-padding end-of-the-year tech article! (available 3rd quarter 2012)
Wow, I haven't read this thing in ages, but this protocol is HORRIBLY restrictive. No thought was given to extensibility at all. The coffee pot should really respond to an incoming request responding with a freeform list of supported modifiers, so the client can have processing to resolve compatibility issues. No worry about being restricted a mere 4 types of alcohol or any such silliness. IETF usually comes up with better designed protocols than this...I guess they didn't have enough coffee or something.
The entire reason this article was posted to slashdot was so that people could make this reference, and feel damn clever about it.
Sure, but apps like google maps are not the reason why cell phone manufacturers decided to put GPS into cell phones in the first place. They were put there because of US legislation. After the fact, manufacturers said, "hey, as long as it's there, how about we make it do stuff that we can market as spiffy features?"
Umm..Too lazy to RTFA, but the whole reason why cell phones have GPS is so that emergency services can find you with more to go on than "um..I'm by some trees, there's a kinda funny looking rock next to me..." I wouldn't consider that a military application...
From Triumph of the Nerds:
Bill Lowe
Head, IBM IBM PC Development Team 1980
He kind of said well, what should we do, and I said well, we think we know what we would like to do if we were going to proceed with our own product and he said no, he said at IBM it would take four years and three hundred people to do anything, I mean it's just a fact of life. And I said no sir, we can provide with product in a year. And he abruptly ended the meeting, he said you're on Lowe, come back in two weeks and tell me what you need.
An IBM product in a year! Ridiculous! Down in the basement Bill still has the plan. To save time, instead of building a computer from scratch, they would buy components off the shelf and assemble them -- what in IBM speak was called 'open architecture.' IBM never did this. Two weeks later Bill proposed his heresy to the Chairman.
Bill Lowe
And frankly this is it. The key decisions were to go with an open architecture, non IBM technology, non IBM software, non IBM sales and non IBM service. And we probably spent a full half of the presentation carrying the corporate management committee into this concept. Because this was a new concept for IBM at that point.
BOB: Was it a hard sell?
BILL: Mr. Carey bought it. And as result of him buying it, we got through it.
In other words, IBM said "0 n0ez, @pp1e be drinkin' mah milkshaik!! BUILD PC FAST!!1!"
Back when I was in highschool (late 90s), every couple months I would go with some Parents to a regular event done by the NIH in Silver Spring Maryland. Saturday mornings they would give away surplus computers to non-profit organizations, particularly education. It'd be with a dozen or so other groups, they'd ring a bell and it was a Supermarket Sweep style dash-and-grab. We'd fill up a van and drop them off at my school and other schools in my feeder system.
There are lots of surplus supplies out there. Besides NIH, I've also delt with the state of Maryland, the University of Maryland, and the DoD, but I don't reccomend the latter for technology, as they strip anything remotely good out of all electronics.
The financial ties involved in EAL evalution are pretty loose at best. I'm more familiar with FIPS and Orange Book evaluation, but assuming the processes are similar, evaluation is done a an independent third party organization; usually as a result of a requirement stated in a government contract. There is not much in the way of monetary incentive for the evaluation group to rate a product any higher than it deserves to be.
That being said, I don't believe EAL6+ requires any additional vulnerability testing beyond that of than EAL5+; it is mostly just a stricter evaluation/review of the soundness of the OS design.
Making a key copy that will last for a single use has always been within the capacities of a retarded monkey. Once you realize that, the only think that makes the article interesting is the social blaze, and the image processing. Naming specific distances from the camera is a little silly though. The bigger concerns are focus, pixel count, and lossy compression; to say nothing of the orientation of the key relative to the lens, and color contrast.
I won a bet once by making a copy of someone's key by pressing it against my arm for a few seconds, and using a trace of the resultant discoloration as a template.
Microsoft decided to battle Linux in Africa when it learned that it recieves 3 bonus armies for every turn in which it manages to hold the entire continent.
The only thing I've ever known NASA to declare is that they don't intend to experiment with human sexuality in space, and they don't intend to comment on any sexual encounters that have or will take place.
I see...And how does Depressed Astronauts Getting Computerized Solace make you feel?
"They should have sent a poet..."
Just a quick note, casting metal is a gigantic pain. Low temp metals (pewter) are way too weak for machine parts, and high temp metals like brass require crazy equipment. Molds are only good for a single use and you still have to grind away all the flaws, assuming the pour went alright. Starting with like block aluminum and Machining the parts gets you a more consistent and precise result. (particularly if you have access to a CNC machine). If you have a prototype piece and you need lower strength perfect copies, molding in silicone and casting in polyurethane resin is glorious; Not difficult, perfectly detailed results, and a lot of fun if I do say so. If you use the right grade resin, (possibly doped with aluminum powder), it can get pretty sturdy. In the US, Smooth-on and Polytek are the two companies to look into to do that sort of thing (Smooth-on is more lay-person friendly, but in my experience polytek costs less for higher quality analogous products).