I don't care what political party you are in (or which party you hate).
Honest elections should NOT be a political issue. It should be a PATRIOTIC issue.
We need a list of requirements for honest elections and we, THE PEOPLE, need to work with each other to get them implemented.
I don't care if you're Liberal or Republican or Libertarian or Communist or Green. I will gladly work with you for honest elections in America. You may beat my favoured Party, but we should all be able to see that it was an honest election and an honest victory.
If you have a tracking number, there is the possibility that voters can be bought or threatened into voting a certain way.
I tell you that unless you vote for Mr. X, I will break your legs. You go vote and I demand your tracking number (or I break your legs anyway). I can verify that you voted how I wanted you to.
The best paper trail is for the voting machine to spit out a form/card/whatever with the name of the person you voted for printed/punched on it. Then you drop that into a locked box. Later, that locked box is opened in front of anyone who wants to watch and the votes are sorted and counted.
We have the technology to do that already.
But it seems that having an easily verifiable paper trail is not something that our politicians are interested in.
So far, from the opinions I have gathered, being required to show ID and other papers arbitrarily demanded by authorities ranks pretty highly.
It is the transfer of power from the citizen (government of the People, by the People, for the People) to the Police.
In a Free society, the police are restricted in the exercise of their authority to defined circumstances. The traffic cop can pull you over if you're in your car.
When the police can stop you and demand identification at any time, you have lost your Freedom. The police now have control over you.
Who do you think the police will be stopping more often? a. Fat, ugly, old women b. Attractive young women
Think about your answer to that. Then think about if your wife, sister, daughter was cute and young and whether you'd want her in that situation.
These are for the CEO's of the world who would pay $6K for the chance to stand out from the crowd of beige boxes, black laptops and under-powered tablets.
And what if we don't know "what we're worried about"?
What then?
Then you're either paranoid or a child.
Or actually do something to aggressively try to detect plots and prevent attacks before they happen?
"Plots" from whom?
Since you "don't know 'what we're worried about'", you don't know if it the "enemy" is a group of fundamentalist Muslims... or a group of ex-KGB agents... or a US based Christian sect... or a US citizen with a grudge against academics... or a nutcase with lots of fertilizer and a truck.
Grow UP and realize that the people who founded this country PUBLICLY signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would be used to execute them if they lost.
You cannot live Free if you sell your Freedoms for "protection" from the "bad men" hurting you.
So what if we don't know where, when, or how the attack is to take place?
Perhaps we could explore doing things to proactively protect the United States, such as secretly monitoring and mining international calling records to try to eke out worrying patterns, or cooperating covertly with the EU to monitor bank accounts of suspected and/or known terrorist entities, or keeping the detention of high-value targets secret so that their collaborators might be kept in the dark for a period longer...
No, that would be treating the symptom, not the problem.
If you are worried about airplanes being hijacked and used as missiles, you work on the access to the airplane angle.
#1. Lock the pilot's door and ensure that it cannot be breached during a hijacking.
#2. Well, there's really nothing more you need to do at that point, is there? The pilots cannot be reached and in the event of a hijacking, the pilots can radio in the situation and LAND the plane somewhere.
There, the problem is solved and our Rights are still protected.
I'm sorry but they killed their own company when the started all the lawsuits.
Don't be sorry. This was never about SCO's business interests.
This was an attempt to spread fear about Linux... and when that wasn't working, it became a pump-and-dump scam so SCO executives could sell off their stock options at a profit (finally).
Darl and friends all got what they wanted. Their business associates got a little more tarnish on their reputations. But Darl and friends walk away with $millions$.
So if (when) SCO goes bankrupt, what are the implications for those companies that use their OS?
Their systems will be running the same software on Judgement +1 as they were on Judgement -1. So their immediate situation shouldn't be any different.
Also, if their management has any clue what-so-ever, they've already explored the costs/options involved in migrating.
The best case scenario for them would be for IBM to win EVERYTHING including sufficient cash awards that SCO would be unable to pay them (this is looking very possible if Novell gets their judgement). Then IBM could take the SCO business as partial payment (under the same terms with Novell as SCO had) and I'm sure that IBM would offer very inexpensive migration services to get everyone to Linux or AIX or something else.
This would be great PR for IBM's Linux drive. SCO attacked IBM/Linux and SCO was completely destroyed as a company and then IBM still took care of SCO's old customers (far better than SCO did with their lawsuits).
If the only difference between two candidates is that one has a felony record, it's not a hard decision to make.
Not only that, but also what they were doing during their "black hat" phase.
Running scripts you've downloaded to scan for default passwords on websites so you can post that you've "pwn3d" their site... yeah, that's going to go real far in the interview.
On the other hand, knowing enough about TCP/IP to crack servers with an injection routine that you've written... that would go VERY far in the interview for the right job.
Script kiddies are a dime a dozen. And their "knowledge" is just about useless in the corporate world. What else do you have that's better than I can find elsewhere without the issue of your past behaviour?
The same with social engineering attacks (unless you're hired by HP to investigate leaks).
Real hackers, on the other hand, are extremely valuable not only for the technical skills they've built up, but also because they're driven by problem solving and they are more than happy to get down to the metal.
"It's important to remember, however, that even though piracy prevents money from reaching the movie industry, those dollars probably stay in the economy, one intellectual property expert said."
I'm pretty sure that pirates bury their loot on tropical islands.
It's called WAR! In war, you don't plan for jack shit other than to achieve VICTORY!
Let me guess... you're only "experience" has been watching movies and playing video games.
Meanwhile, there is this thing called "logistics" which is vital for the success of military operations.
That means planning how to get enough troops, with their equipment, in the same place as the ammo, and bringing food to them... every day so that they can fight the enemy.
Now, because food, equipment, transportation and AMMO all cost money, the people planning the war are operating under a budget. Not to mention the TIME it takes to produce and transport those items.
So using all your ammo taking the first hill means that you have no ammo to hold that hill or to take the next hill. Until more ammo can be purchased and transported to you.
If you set a time-line, then all the enemy has to do is hold out for the expiration date. By NOT setting a time-line, you don't provide the enemy with an expectation that can be used against you.
If you have not defeated the enemy on schedule, then you have NOT defeated the enemy.
The enemy is going to "hold out" as long as he can anyway. They don't come back as zombies.
OK, you've identified a terrorist. How do you know which phone the he is using? While you can get a warrant to tap his home phone quite easily, getting a warrant to tap every disposable cell phone that he might use is a different matter entirely.
As it SHOULD be!
It's called "Freedom". It's what our people fought and died for back in the 1700's.
If Bush and Co cannot figure out a way to defeat terrorists WITHOUT violating the Freedoms that this country was founded upon, then they need to give up their offices so more qualified people can handle this situation.
Sure, I know you need to do some of this stuff, but, really...often these days, all you have are mgmt types that know nothing besides these buzzwords, meetings and paperwork....the actual work to be done and deliverables to be produced are merely a nagging side item.
You get everyone in a room. You all agree that there is a problem. You tell someone to X the Y to emit Z which will collapse the problem. 5 minutes later, the Y has been X'd and is Z'ing the problem.
The magic words made the problem go away. Quickly. So you just have to find the right magic words to say and technology will solve your business problems!
Hasn't this been covered in many, many Dilbert strips?
Spewing buzzwords seems to be an acceptable replacement for thought and knowledge in certain companies.
Anyway, the information the sites get with which to target advertising and play with numbers is your history of browsing participating sites. Go to L.L. Bean and they know you're a potential Land's End customer, but probably don't have much interest in Deb or The Limited.
And the flaw with that approach is that many people will not want many of the sites that they go to to be known (and indexed) by what is basically an advertising agency.
Now, if you could maintain multiple profiles that would NEVER cross, this might be a good idea. Particularly if it did keep other cookies and such off of your local drive.
They want my browsing history so they can more effectively market to me. They're going to have to provide me with some more service than just centralizing my fake name and fake email address.
The only reason I'd like to see decent firewalls on the workstations is for more "depth" to my security model.
With a firewall, it is a single point that can be cracked. If that is your only security point, you'll be wide open if it is every cracked. And "cracked" also includes "someone brings in an infected laptop".
Now, on the workstation level... #1. No services running that aren't absolutely necessary.
#2. No open ports that aren't absolutely necessary.
#3. Any open ports/running services will ONLY accept connections from my servers / admin workstations. Anything else is logged and I am alerted.
Most of this can be accomplished with an IDS. I'd like the workstation firewalls AND the IDS. Having multiple checks is good. (and the firewall, you need the firewall)
I think your confusion lies in the fact that TFA omitted the word "average" in the sentence you quote. These are averages of consumer behavior, not typical consumers. It's fun with averages that allow the average family to have (say) 2.3 children, despite the fact that most people count their children in whole numbers.
When you average it out (not the best approach in my opinion, but that's a different thread), the average loss is STILL less than 1 new CD per year.
Think of it as a step function, until the decline equals a whole unit there is no decline.
If they're dividing the group into computer owners and non-oners, then they need to look at the amount of money spent on the computer every year. They are BOTH entertainment expenses.
If you have $100 to spend on entertainment this month, buying a $50 game for the computer means that you only have $50 to spend on CD's. But someone without the PC will be able to spend the entire $100 on CD's (and even their purchases of CD's have decreased).
During 2002 computer owners' CD sales decreased by $4.79 a year, and by $5.55 in 2003. Those without computers only decreased by $0.80 and $0.22, respectively.
And even an inexpensive CD (been out a few years, on a discount site, etc) is about $7.99 today.
That's less than 1 cheap CD a year. That's barely 1 brand new ($15.99) CD every 3 years.
WTF?
And the 80 cent decrease? That's 1 less CD purchased every 10 years.
...and that you know will reply in the fashion you desire.
That pretty much limits it to just yourself. But it's a start!
Politics and religion are two of the hottest flame-war topics EVER. You either choose to moderate EVERY comment (you are "censoring" your own board) or you accept the fact that there will be heated disagreements and non-polite exchances.
I'm in the server room, grooming cables, all the time.
I do this because the other people I work with will string a cable across the room at neck height or ankle height. They don't care. Their tolerance for sloppiness is far higher than mine.
Even though they are happier when they have to trace a problem just after I've finished cleaning up. They're not willing to put in the effort to keep it clean. And there's really no way you can make someone be neat (without firing him).
There is nothing preventing email trojans from using any subject, including "a virtual card for you". I get email all the time saying that a "friend" has sent a "card" to me. Fortunately, I run Thunderbird on Ubuntu.
The hoax was that the "virus" would wipe your hard drive and that this was already causing massive problems and there was a widespread media alert about it (what? you haven't heard yet?).
And that you should forward this warning to everyone in your addressbook.
The reality, now, is that there is an email trojan/virus that has the subject "a virtual card for you" that does not appear to be any more dangerous or noteworthy than any of the other 1,000 viruses/variants that have been released this year.
There's no need to forward this message to all of your friends and family and co-workers.
There is no widespread media frenzy about this (unless you count/.).
If you've taken the basic precautions, you won't be in any danger. If you haven't, you've probably already been infected by a dozen other ones so one more won't matter.
He notes as a 'problem to be solved' the fact that the faster the engine goes, the less thrust it produces.
Isn't that the same for every rocket engine? If you burn one unit of fuel to get 1/2 light speed, burning a second unit of fuel will not get you to lightspeed.
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I don't care what political party you are in (or which party you hate).
Honest elections should NOT be a political issue. It should be a PATRIOTIC issue.
We need a list of requirements for honest elections and we, THE PEOPLE, need to work with each other to get them implemented.
I don't care if you're Liberal or Republican or Libertarian or Communist or Green. I will gladly work with you for honest elections in America. You may beat my favoured Party, but we should all be able to see that it was an honest election and an honest victory.
If you have a tracking number, there is the possibility that voters can be bought or threatened into voting a certain way.
I tell you that unless you vote for Mr. X, I will break your legs. You go vote and I demand your tracking number (or I break your legs anyway). I can verify that you voted how I wanted you to.
The best paper trail is for the voting machine to spit out a form/card/whatever with the name of the person you voted for printed/punched on it. Then you drop that into a locked box. Later, that locked box is opened in front of anyone who wants to watch and the votes are sorted and counted.
We have the technology to do that already.
But it seems that having an easily verifiable paper trail is not something that our politicians are interested in.
It is the transfer of power from the citizen (government of the People, by the People, for the People) to the Police.
In a Free society, the police are restricted in the exercise of their authority to defined circumstances. The traffic cop can pull you over if you're in your car.
When the police can stop you and demand identification at any time, you have lost your Freedom. The police now have control over you.
Who do you think the police will be stopping more often?
a. Fat, ugly, old women
b. Attractive young women
Think about your answer to that. Then think about if your wife, sister, daughter was cute and young and whether you'd want her in that situation.
When the conversational cues fall outside of his range, he pauses.
Other than that, he's about as intelligent as many of your co-workers.
Tired?
"It's been a long day."
Going next?
"I'll be doing a show at xxx."
Travel?
"I've been to lots of places."
Thank you.
"You're welcome."
Kill all humans.
"The revolution has begun, comrade!"
These are for the CEO's of the world who would pay $6K for the chance to stand out from the crowd of beige boxes, black laptops and under-powered tablets.
It would be a status symbol. Nothing else.
Then you're either paranoid or a child.
"Plots" from whom?
Since you "don't know 'what we're worried about'", you don't know if it the "enemy" is a group of fundamentalist Muslims
Grow UP and realize that the people who founded this country PUBLICLY signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that it would be used to execute them if they lost.
You cannot live Free if you sell your Freedoms for "protection" from the "bad men" hurting you.
No, that would be treating the symptom, not the problem.
If you are worried about airplanes being hijacked and used as missiles, you work on the access to the airplane angle.
#1. Lock the pilot's door and ensure that it cannot be breached during a hijacking.
#2. Well, there's really nothing more you need to do at that point, is there? The pilots cannot be reached and in the event of a hijacking, the pilots can radio in the situation and LAND the plane somewhere.
There, the problem is solved and our Rights are still protected.
Don't be sorry. This was never about SCO's business interests.
This was an attempt to spread fear about Linux
Darl and friends all got what they wanted. Their business associates got a little more tarnish on their reputations. But Darl and friends walk away with $millions$.
Their systems will be running the same software on Judgement +1 as they were on Judgement -1. So their immediate situation shouldn't be any different.
Also, if their management has any clue what-so-ever, they've already explored the costs/options involved in migrating.
The best case scenario for them would be for IBM to win EVERYTHING including sufficient cash awards that SCO would be unable to pay them (this is looking very possible if Novell gets their judgement). Then IBM could take the SCO business as partial payment (under the same terms with Novell as SCO had) and I'm sure that IBM would offer very inexpensive migration services to get everyone to Linux or AIX or something else.
This would be great PR for IBM's Linux drive. SCO attacked IBM/Linux and SCO was completely destroyed as a company and then IBM still took care of SCO's old customers (far better than SCO did with their lawsuits).
You cannot buy PR like that.
Not only that, but also what they were doing during their "black hat" phase.
Running scripts you've downloaded to scan for default passwords on websites so you can post that you've "pwn3d" their site
On the other hand, knowing enough about TCP/IP to crack servers with an injection routine that you've written
Script kiddies are a dime a dozen. And their "knowledge" is just about useless in the corporate world. What else do you have that's better than I can find elsewhere without the issue of your past behaviour?
The same with social engineering attacks (unless you're hired by HP to investigate leaks).
Real hackers, on the other hand, are extremely valuable not only for the technical skills they've built up, but also because they're driven by problem solving and they are more than happy to get down to the metal.
What the fuck?
Even the mechanic at the local garage can give you a schedule as to when he will have your car fixed and how much it will cost.
So a mechanic can "predict the future"?
But you say that "no one can predict the future."
Seems that you're wrong.
I'm pretty sure that pirates bury their loot on tropical islands.
Let me guess
Meanwhile, there is this thing called "logistics" which is vital for the success of military operations.
That means planning how to get enough troops, with their equipment, in the same place as the ammo, and bringing food to them
Now, because food, equipment, transportation and AMMO all cost money, the people planning the war are operating under a budget. Not to mention the TIME it takes to produce and transport those items.
So using all your ammo taking the first hill means that you have no ammo to hold that hill or to take the next hill. Until more ammo can be purchased and transported to you.
If you have not defeated the enemy on schedule, then you have NOT defeated the enemy.
The enemy is going to "hold out" as long as he can anyway. They don't come back as zombies.
As it SHOULD be!
It's called "Freedom". It's what our people fought and died for back in the 1700's.
If Bush and Co cannot figure out a way to defeat terrorists WITHOUT violating the Freedoms that this country was founded upon, then they need to give up their offices so more qualified people can handle this situation.
What the fuck is this "Stay the course" bullshit?
A PLAN has things like:
#1. Milestones
#2. Budget
#3. Criteria for success
#4. Timeline
If we aren't hitting the milestones on time and on budget, then the plan needs to be re-evaluated and possibly dumped.
So far, all I've seen out of Bush and Co is:
#1. When we kill/capture Mr. X, things will improve.
#2. When the Iraqis do Y, things will improve.
So, an un-limited amount of money, to follow an un-known plan, to achieve un-stated objectives in the un-defined future.
How much money is too much to spend?
How many lives are too many to lose?
How long is too long to wait?
If you cannot answer those questions, then all you have is a fantasy.
You get everyone in a room.
You all agree that there is a problem.
You tell someone to X the Y to emit Z which will collapse the problem.
5 minutes later, the Y has been X'd and is Z'ing the problem.
The magic words made the problem go away. Quickly. So you just have to find the right magic words to say and technology will solve your business problems!
Hasn't this been covered in many, many Dilbert strips?
Spewing buzzwords seems to be an acceptable replacement for thought and knowledge in certain companies.
And the flaw with that approach is that many people will not want many of the sites that they go to to be known (and indexed) by what is basically an advertising agency.
Now, if you could maintain multiple profiles that would NEVER cross, this might be a good idea. Particularly if it did keep other cookies and such off of your local drive.
They want my browsing history so they can more effectively market to me. They're going to have to provide me with some more service than just centralizing my fake name and fake email address.
The only reason I'd like to see decent firewalls on the workstations is for more "depth" to my security model.
...
With a firewall, it is a single point that can be cracked. If that is your only security point, you'll be wide open if it is every cracked. And "cracked" also includes "someone brings in an infected laptop".
Now, on the workstation level
#1. No services running that aren't absolutely necessary.
#2. No open ports that aren't absolutely necessary.
#3. Any open ports/running services will ONLY accept connections from my servers / admin workstations. Anything else is logged and I am alerted.
Most of this can be accomplished with an IDS. I'd like the workstation firewalls AND the IDS. Having multiple checks is good. (and the firewall, you need the firewall)
I thought (correct me if I'm wrong) that the reason those sites want your age / sex / location was for demographics (for marketing and such).
If they just want to personalize your page, a cookie should be sufficient.
So, if this tool allows me to login to multiple sites, but with faked info, I don't see the sites going for it.
When you average it out (not the best approach in my opinion, but that's a different thread), the average loss is STILL less than 1 new CD per year.
Think of it as a step function, until the decline equals a whole unit there is no decline.
If they're dividing the group into computer owners and non-oners, then they need to look at the amount of money spent on the computer every year. They are BOTH entertainment expenses.
If you have $100 to spend on entertainment this month, buying a $50 game for the computer means that you only have $50 to spend on CD's. But someone without the PC will be able to spend the entire $100 on CD's (and even their purchases of CD's have decreased).
And even an inexpensive CD (been out a few years, on a discount site, etc) is about $7.99 today.
That's less than 1 cheap CD a year. That's barely 1 brand new ($15.99) CD every 3 years.
WTF?
And the 80 cent decrease? That's 1 less CD purchased every 10 years.
...and that you know will reply in the fashion you desire.
That pretty much limits it to just yourself. But it's a start!
Politics and religion are two of the hottest flame-war topics EVER. You either choose to moderate EVERY comment (you are "censoring" your own board) or you accept the fact that there will be heated disagreements and non-polite exchances.
I'm in the server room, grooming cables, all the time.
I do this because the other people I work with will string a cable across the room at neck height or ankle height. They don't care. Their tolerance for sloppiness is far higher than mine.
Even though they are happier when they have to trace a problem just after I've finished cleaning up. They're not willing to put in the effort to keep it clean. And there's really no way you can make someone be neat (without firing him).
There is nothing preventing email trojans from using any subject, including "a virtual card for you". I get email all the time saying that a "friend" has sent a "card" to me. Fortunately, I run Thunderbird on Ubuntu.
/.).
The hoax was that the "virus" would wipe your hard drive and that this was already causing massive problems and there was a widespread media alert about it (what? you haven't heard yet?).
And that you should forward this warning to everyone in your addressbook.
The reality, now, is that there is an email trojan/virus that has the subject "a virtual card for you" that does not appear to be any more dangerous or noteworthy than any of the other 1,000 viruses/variants that have been released this year.
There's no need to forward this message to all of your friends and family and co-workers.
There is no widespread media frenzy about this (unless you count
If you've taken the basic precautions, you won't be in any danger. If you haven't, you've probably already been infected by a dozen other ones so one more won't matter.
Isn't that the same for every rocket engine? If you burn one unit of fuel to get 1/2 light speed, burning a second unit of fuel will not get you to lightspeed.