dont play that game... 3 months before the big nasty worm that hit I was threatened with being fired because I patched all my systems with thew RPC hole patch... Not by my supervisor but by a bunch of jerks in corperate IT... after it hit and we were immune to the problems, did I hear an "I'm sorry?" or anything else? nope.. my boss bought me lunch that entire week and wrote a shining/gleaming letter to be put in my employment file... but corperate asshats refused to acknowlege that a nobody from the midwest division knew more than them.
Most of the problems in companies that got nailed with the RPC hole worms was ignorance and apathy.. they do things "their way" and ignore anyone below them on the totem pole.. until the fire starts raging...
That kind of crap makes me glad I work in academia. They give me a PC, complete unfiltered access to the internet, and that is it. I want to install linux/bsd/beos/whatever, they are cool with it as long as I do my job and don't get hacked. It is MY responsibility to secure my machine, not some clueless MCSE (redundant I know) who thinks everyone is most productive when their PC is locked down and under their complete control.
Granted I know not every university works this way, and some corporations are laid back when it comes to IT but generally that is not the case.
I think they are accomplishing exactly what Microsoft wants, they are making companies hesitate in going to a broad Linux platform change while they wotk on their new licensing and integration plans.
Then why does all evidence suggest otherwise? This suit is not causing companies to abandon Linux, they are sticking with it in droves and more and more companies are looking to it.
If anything this has given Linux more credibility by getting the name out there.
I had a picture of Aki in a bikini from the Final Fantasy movie on my computer. My girlfriend found it and wanted to know why I had it. She didn't beleive me that it wasn't a real person.
In case (like me) you feel the need to find this picture, I think the one the parent poster is talking about is here
I see your point but it IS by far the most popular player. I've noticed at my university that "ipod" is becoming generic slang for any mp3 player (like how walkman came to mean any portable radio)
Looking glass is way cool, I am itching and burning to get my hands on a copy of that (and perhaps some ointment).
Java Desktop is gnome with a new theme. Seriously they didn't even do as good a job as Redhat with Bluecurve in pretending that it was anything more than that. I suppose the real benefit is the legitimacy that it lends Linux on the desktop to the PHBs of the world, but technically it appears to be nothing to get excited about.
But the demos I've seen for looking glass....damn. It looks like Apple's Expose on steroids.
It probably only had 16 then. I know at some point I upgraded to Win95 (then started getting really interested in freebsd which let to linux a bit later) and also upped the memory to 32, then 64. I just don't remember what order that all happened in.
Incidentally that machine is still running as my DCE Security server in my apartment:)
Strong words from one of the most powerful supporters of the Clipper Chip (and the second part of that plan which was to outlaw all non-clipper forms of encryption). Imagine how much worse this situation would be if he had his way in '94
Not that I support Bush and his nightmare of a justice department in their war on the constitution (far from it), but Gore isn't exactly Mr Civil Liberties.
We did last election (we got rid of that Clipper Chip and DMCA happy Gore). It didn't help.
I'm starting to think that the government is an organism unto itself, bent on amassing more and and more power over it's subjects (errrr, consumers....errrrr, citizens. Yeah that's it). At this point I don't think it matters who is in office, or in congress. Whoever gets elected will become just as corrupt as everyone else and the cycle will continue. Honestly, we have gone so beyond voting for the lesser of two evils we are now pretty much voting for the evil that most entertains us.
This is just Mac/Anti-MS propaganda. He even starts out with the standard windows is so unstable I have to reboot all the time! Which is not nearly true anymore as XP remains perfectly stable for weeks on end.
Eh, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I've still seen MCSEs around here unable to fix a crashing XP or 2k box and just give up and reinstall the OS. Yes the later releases are much better, but they still are not always stable.
Spamhaus recommends organizations that get 200,000+ emails a day sign up for the service. Conservatively, I think, we can estimate that would mean 100,000 users
Just for reference, PSU has roughly 130,000 users, and averages around 4,000,000 emails a day (actually that number is about a year old, I imagine it is considerably higher given the microsoft viruses and spam that are going around now)
Most biometric systems I have come in contact with also have EKG scanners so it has to be a living finger (and not, say a gummy bear with a fingerprint on it).
Also, lets face facts here, all a mugger who has your card today has to do to get your PIN is threaten to cut your finger off.
Which is fine, the beauty of a one time pad is that the message can be decrypted to read anything you want, given the proper "key". So the common practice (in higher security situations than either of us will likely ever find ourselves in) is to have a "fake" one time pad that decrypts the message to read something plausible (nobody would encrypt their grocery list with a OTP so make it somewhat "juicy"), but not what the message REALLY says.
Nobody can prove it one way or another, which is what makes OTPs unbreakable by any cryptographic means.
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dont play that game... 3 months before the big nasty worm that hit I was threatened with being fired because I patched all my systems with thew RPC hole patch... Not by my supervisor but by a bunch of jerks in corperate IT... after it hit and we were immune to the problems, did I hear an "I'm sorry?" or anything else? nope.. my boss bought me lunch that entire week and wrote a shining/gleaming letter to be put in my employment file... but corperate asshats refused to acknowlege that a nobody from the midwest division knew more than them.
Most of the problems in companies that got nailed with the RPC hole worms was ignorance and apathy.. they do things "their way" and ignore anyone below them on the totem pole.. until the fire starts raging...
That kind of crap makes me glad I work in academia. They give me a PC, complete unfiltered access to the internet, and that is it. I want to install linux/bsd/beos/whatever, they are cool with it as long as I do my job and don't get hacked. It is MY responsibility to secure my machine, not some clueless MCSE (redundant I know) who thinks everyone is most productive when their PC is locked down and under their complete control.
Granted I know not every university works this way, and some corporations are laid back when it comes to IT but generally that is not the case.
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Lies! The odds of successfully navigating an astroid field are 3720 to 1!
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Chances are that you cut the desired element and paste it into your e-mail program to send it.
Because you are a moron who thinks email is a filesystem.
It really isn't hard to get web space somewhere, throw a file there and email a link.
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I think they are accomplishing exactly what Microsoft wants, they are making companies hesitate in going to a broad Linux platform change while they wotk on their new licensing and integration plans.
Then why does all evidence suggest otherwise? This suit is not causing companies to abandon Linux, they are sticking with it in droves and more and more companies are looking to it.
If anything this has given Linux more credibility by getting the name out there.
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The difference of course was that Koresh just wanted to be left alone with his kookie followers, not kill everyone who didn't believe as he did.
It's tough to find Christian extremists as dangerous as Islamic ones today (whereas it was easy during the middle ages, crusades anyone?)
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Wow, that is some hard core geek right there.
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The picture is so-so, but the dns name is classic :)
I had a picture of Aki in a bikini from the Final Fantasy movie on my computer. My girlfriend found it and wanted to know why I had it. She didn't beleive me that it wasn't a real person.
In case (like me) you feel the need to find this picture, I think the one the parent poster is talking about is here
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Try clicking the friendly links in the submission. The headline on the linked story is the same (well, almost)
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True, fortunately this is a REALLY low crime campus.
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I see your point but it IS by far the most popular player. I've noticed at my university that "ipod" is becoming generic slang for any mp3 player (like how walkman came to mean any portable radio)
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I know more about the Turing character in Cryptonomicon than I do about the real man. Any recommended books?
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Looking glass is way cool, I am itching and burning to get my hands on a copy of that (and perhaps some ointment).
Java Desktop is gnome with a new theme. Seriously they didn't even do as good a job as Redhat with Bluecurve in pretending that it was anything more than that. I suppose the real benefit is the legitimacy that it lends Linux on the desktop to the PHBs of the world, but technically it appears to be nothing to get excited about.
But the demos I've seen for looking glass....damn. It looks like Apple's Expose on steroids.
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It probably only had 16 then. I know at some point I upgraded to Win95 (then started getting really interested in freebsd which let to linux a bit later) and also upped the memory to 32, then 64. I just don't remember what order that all happened in.
:)
Incidentally that machine is still running as my DCE Security server in my apartment
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Strong words from one of the most powerful supporters of the Clipper Chip (and the second part of that plan which was to outlaw all non-clipper forms of encryption). Imagine how much worse this situation would be if he had his way in '94
Not that I support Bush and his nightmare of a justice department in their war on the constitution (far from it), but Gore isn't exactly Mr Civil Liberties.
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vote the clowns out in November
We did last election (we got rid of that Clipper Chip and DMCA happy Gore). It didn't help.
I'm starting to think that the government is an organism unto itself, bent on amassing more and and more power over it's subjects (errrr, consumers....errrrr, citizens. Yeah that's it). At this point I don't think it matters who is in office, or in congress. Whoever gets elected will become just as corrupt as everyone else and the cycle will continue. Honestly, we have gone so beyond voting for the lesser of two evils we are now pretty much voting for the evil that most entertains us.
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There should also be a "wrong about parent poster being wrong -1" mod option :)
He has a BA in Physics, which you can get from many institutions.
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Well, executive producer David Cohen has a B.S. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.A. in physics from Harvard.
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BTW, Windows 3.1 sitting on MSDOS 6.2 ran like shit of a stick on my old P133. I wonder if/how it would run on a modern system?
Really? Cause it ran fine on my 486/25 back in the day. How much RAM did you have? I'm pretty sure I only had 32 or 64.
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This is just Mac/Anti-MS propaganda. He even starts out with the standard windows is so unstable I have to reboot all the time! Which is not nearly true anymore as XP remains perfectly stable for weeks on end.
Eh, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I've still seen MCSEs around here unable to fix a crashing XP or 2k box and just give up and reinstall the OS. Yes the later releases are much better, but they still are not always stable.
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Spamhaus recommends organizations that get 200,000+ emails a day sign up for the service. Conservatively, I think, we can estimate that would mean 100,000 users
Just for reference, PSU has roughly 130,000 users, and averages around 4,000,000 emails a day (actually that number is about a year old, I imagine it is considerably higher given the microsoft viruses and spam that are going around now)
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Most biometric scanners (well, at least not dirt cheap consumer ones) will not allow a "dead" body part to be used. EKG scanners are cheap.
Also there is still the matter of a pin, biometric doesn't replace this, it adds to it.
Most biometric systems I have come in contact with also have EKG scanners so it has to be a living finger (and not, say a gummy bear with a fingerprint on it).
Also, lets face facts here, all a mugger who has your card today has to do to get your PIN is threaten to cut your finger off.
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Which is fine, the beauty of a one time pad is that the message can be decrypted to read anything you want, given the proper "key". So the common practice (in higher security situations than either of us will likely ever find ourselves in) is to have a "fake" one time pad that decrypts the message to read something plausible (nobody would encrypt their grocery list with a OTP so make it somewhat "juicy"), but not what the message REALLY says.
Nobody can prove it one way or another, which is what makes OTPs unbreakable by any cryptographic means.
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All security is security by obscurity. That's the dumbest phrase going. Too bad it rhymes.
You are mistaken, please read Secrets & Lies and/or Applied Cryptography.
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