I was under the impression that it was every person's legal right to have an attorney provided for them by the state if they were a defendant in a case. I could be wrong. So running the defendants out of money wouldn't be a viable option in that case, as the state would have to provide them with adequate defense.
I live on campus with a high speed internet connection (else I wouldn't be typing here). The high speed recluses (and they do exist) are in a great minority compared to the people who use computers appropriately.
Many people use their high speed connection to allow them to work when the computer labs are closed or busy. Many use it for research that they otherwise wouldn't have time to do. Many use it to extend their social lives, to talk with other peopl ethat they would otherwise never meet. They use it to talk to friends on campus who are hard to contact.
Most people with internet connections in their room have a wide and varied social life, of which the connection to the electronic world is only one part.
I'm off now. Everyone else is upstairs in the common room, so I'm going to join them. Bye.
The AS/400 also runs tcp/ip fine. Most of my work on the system has been in software development, but it will use tcp/ip fine for comminicating with other devices and computers.
AFAIK most IBM mainframes could use tcp/ip but the sites running them just don't. And with good reason of course - why change most of your networking systems for little or no benefit?
Look closely at the bottles at the top of the page. Imagine cutting a hole at the top and pouring water in. It would stay in there, because there's nowhere else for it to go. Although the side leasves the notional inside through part of the surface, the water can't do that.
It can also be filled without cutting it, although it's a little more difficult. If you inverted it, and poured liquid in the bottom, then carefully tilted the bottle round to upright you could actually fill it!
If you can put water in it then it's not zero volume.
Much of the publicity on encryption breaking suggests brute force as the way to retrieve the information. This is of course workable with sufficient time and processing power.
But retrieving the encryption keys is somewhat more worrisome. Suddenly for the relatively small effort of breaking into the server a hacker could access scores of encrypted files which would previously have taken ages to crack. Not only that, but apparently it's harder to detect such attacks.
Passwords have been the weak link in computer security for some time now. Many users do not protect their password properly, or choose one easy to guess. Result: easy hacking. This isn't new, it's just another manifestation of the same old problem.
According to this article ( from BBC News ) it's only part of a larger programme involving the following:
1) The mentioned 3 year plan for computer security scientists.
2) The creation of an academic intisute to investigate ways of increasing computer security.
The main objective of this is to ensure that the US never gets caught unawares by computer problems, as so much of the world is dependent on them these days. Specifically, they want to prevent:
1) Computer Terrorist attacks compromising US national security
2) "Unforseen problems" like the Y2K problem.
Obviously, if successful, such a program would lead to significant improvements in global computer security.
I'm sure everyone knows exactly how likely it is that this program will produce very few results, if any. But that tends to happen when governments try to get involved in technology. And at the very least the $90 million should help a number of people through college, so it shouldn't be a total failure.
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I was under the impression that it was every person's legal right to have an attorney provided for them by the state if they were a defendant in a case. I could be wrong. So running the defendants out of money wouldn't be a viable option in that case, as the state would have to provide them with adequate defense.
Many people use their high speed connection to allow them to work when the computer labs are closed or busy. Many use it for research that they otherwise wouldn't have time to do. Many use it to extend their social lives, to talk with other peopl ethat they would otherwise never meet. They use it to talk to friends on campus who are hard to contact.
Most people with internet connections in their room have a wide and varied social life, of which the connection to the electronic world is only one part.
I'm off now. Everyone else is upstairs in the common room, so I'm going to join them. Bye.
AFAIK most IBM mainframes could use tcp/ip but the sites running them just don't. And with good reason of course - why change most of your networking systems for little or no benefit?
It can also be filled without cutting it, although it's a little more difficult. If you inverted it, and poured liquid in the bottom, then carefully tilted the bottle round to upright you could actually fill it!
If you can put water in it then it's not zero volume.
But retrieving the encryption keys is somewhat more worrisome. Suddenly for the relatively small effort of breaking into the server a hacker could access scores of encrypted files which would previously have taken ages to crack. Not only that, but apparently it's harder to detect such attacks.
Passwords have been the weak link in computer security for some time now. Many users do not protect their password properly, or choose one easy to guess. Result: easy hacking. This isn't new, it's just another manifestation of the same old problem.
1) The mentioned 3 year plan for computer security scientists.
2) The creation of an academic intisute to investigate ways of increasing computer security.
The main objective of this is to ensure that the US never gets caught unawares by computer problems, as so much of the world is dependent on them these days. Specifically, they want to prevent:
1) Computer Terrorist attacks compromising US national security
2) "Unforseen problems" like the Y2K problem.
Obviously, if successful, such a program would lead to significant improvements in global computer security.
I'm sure everyone knows exactly how likely it is that this program will produce very few results, if any. But that tends to happen when governments try to get involved in technology. And at the very least the $90 million should help a number of people through college, so it shouldn't be a total failure.