The person to control the door is not on site. So if he sees that I want to enter and he does not want me to, he can't be physically be forced to do so.
I have a gun to someone's head. If you don't open the door, I'll shoot them. You will watch on the camera. I will repeat this until the door opens.
The real question is: How much of a stomach do you have for watching people die because you won't push a button? Will you be able to live with yourself for the rest of your life seeing visions of their brain meats smeared across the wall?
The problem with geeks is they never consider the human angle, just the technical one.
I found one! It's called the Zuckerbug. It appears the Zuckerbug is a kind of malware posing as a security solution, when in reality it steals your personal information which is then sold off.
Nate said the social security numbers and passwords are encrypted
And stored in a database, which for authentication purposes would need to be able to convert said "encrypted" data into plain text for any customer service representative, the billing systems, etc. The key has to be something that's widely accessible, or goes through a proxy. Either way, it's highly unlikely the "encryption" scheme is much more sophisticated than a single XOR operation. Decrypting that field for a substantial portion of the database SELECT statements would be a huge overhead.
No, I suspect they have the SSNs, it's just a matter of time before they get them back in plain text. Besides, the 'nice' thing about SSNs is... If you know where the person was born, and what year (not hard to find), you can predict 6 out of the 10 digits with a high degree of accuracy, thus aiding substantially in the cryptanalysis. This isn't random data being encrypted... it's highly structured, and most of the plain-text is already known.
* Officer McDuff has beat the crap out of Neighbor Joe and arrested him on fake drug charges.
LAPD, NSA, and 3 others like this.
* Neighbor Joe and Officer McDuff are no longer friends.
* Attorney Smith and Neighbor Joe are now friends.
Sometimes after spending a whole day amongst non-geeks, doing non-geeky things, I come here and read the names of some of the things these technologies are named.
Git? Ruby? Subversion? Eclipse?
I get this distinct hillbilly feeling after reading some of the names the open source community has come up with for their projects of late. Mental images of tie-clad programmers in a rusted pickup truck waving corded mice over their head while techno music plays kind of images. Then I hit page reload, and the feeling fades... until I think of Richard Stallman.
Now is probably a bad time to point out to the FDA that the last time they tried regulating this, it was because the computer diagnostic program didn't have a license to practice medicine. They ignored the fact that the program was better at diagnosing medical conditions than the doctors that asked for its removal.
I fail to see how giving people the resources to diagnose their own problems is a public health concern, any more than providing people with information about how to fix their own cars. Yes, some people will do it wrong and get themselves or others hurt, but at some point the government needs to give people back their personal responsibility.
Meanwhile, my collection pf pirate mp3s sits on my harddrive, perpetually available, can be transcoded into any forseeable format in the future, and has wide support on every modern portable and computing device out there...
The market has spoken! And it has said "f*ck you".
P.S. RIAA/MPAA I've taunted you on this website and dozens of others ever since the DeCSS incident, daring you to start legal action against me. I've got close to 2 terabytes of "your" crap on my harddrive and I have yet to hear so much as a cricket-noise from you.
My PS3 handles its controllers over bluetooth like a dream, why cant all bluetooth work that smoothly?
Same reason Wifi "sucks". Making products interoperable with each other using unlicensed spectrum is hard enough when you do have absolute control over the development of both the transmitter and receiver. Without it, the devices are only as good as the certification... which is to say, "not very".
Haters gonna hate.:\ The only false logic I see here is saying "they've been successful in the past. It doesn't mean they'll be successful this time." While that's true, the fact is that Apple has a track record of strong consumer support. The standards their devices use have a strong bearing on what other manufacturers integrate into their own devices. No, I think talking now is exactly what's needed; NFC has yet to see a deployment by any major consumer hardware manufacturer. BT4 just signed its first contract, as it were. In IT especially, first to market usually wins.
When the Jobs Reality Distortion Field is turned off, usually Apple is found to be selling overpriced, underspec'd hardware. But the one time they get it right, we jump on them?
Bluetooth supports cryptography. NFC does not. Bluetooth has a higher bitrate. Bluetooth has longer range. The power consumption is similar... in fact, the only thing NFC seems to do better is that it takes less time to setup because (ta-da!) it has no security built into it.
So tell me guys, given how much data is sitting on your iphone, android, blackberry, blueberry, and walla-walla-ding-dong phones, do you really want a transciever built into it that has no security capability at all... and one of its main functions is point-of-sale integration?
Sorry guys, but this time at least, Apple did good.
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it
The police report says he was yelling a lot just before he fell down a bunch of stairs filled with tasers, mace, boots and car hoods and that when officers helped him up, he tried to pass his camcorder off to someone standing nearby, who also fell down the stairs. I find it really hard to understand why you're blaming the police for defective stairs...
Having solved all other problems, FBI agents today busted down the doors of supersized geeks with cheeto-stained fingers living in their mother's basements. A spokesperson said "these 'hacker' types represent the single biggest threat to the american way of life, and must be stopped." Elsewhere in America infrastructure continued to crumble into dust, fall into rivers, or start on fire as unemployment continues to rise, many urban centers are now 3rd world status, and white-collar criminals are seen driving cars made out of hundred dollar bills and dead immigrants.
The FBI insists that random vandalism of websites is a far worthier objective for them than catching terrorists, rich bastards who steal millions from retirement funds, and the occasional rapist.
If you have to ask 'can you really do serious work with them?' the answer is NO. If you answered anything else, your standards for 'serious work' are too low.
I mean, can it run Crysis at 50 FPS, full screen, across two 24" LCDs at native resolution? How about calculate pi to a billion digits in 1 second? Solve the national deficit, make you a sandwich, and build itself a new body from spare parts found in your garage, interface with the internet, and spread its consciousness to all computers, everywhere, sparking a massive revolution?
Yeesh. You people and your limited imaginations.
I'm going to the special hell for this, but I misread the headline as "Attachment does the right thing for mono", and I thought to myself -- attachment is what causes mono. Well, that and kissing. Then I realized I was on slashdot, and nobody would get the joke...
While you're all worrying about whether or not your face will be entered into some large database, you should know that many major retailers (such as Target, whom I worked for) have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) technology on their parking lot cameras. In fact, at least out there, the only two purposes of outdoor cameras is to capture license places and pictures of people's faces exiting the store. Since most of you use credit cards, your face, credit card, name, billing address, gender, make/model of vehicle, and license plate number are all available in a database that is updated in real time.
But you can worry about that guy with the cell phone if you'd like... I'm sure he's a bigger threat to your privacy.
Is this the same scanning that Google does with GMail? If so, why no outcry there?
But everyone loves Google, and we all know Yahoo is a washed up has-been looking for any way to turn a profit to keep its zombie brain-eating existance alive./snark
Obvious potential for abuse, so all of the protections have to be post hoc.
In every other case, the employee would simply be fired and have to find a new line of work. Fining the employer for an infrastructure that is working as designed only increases medical costs for everyone. Worse, I highly doubt this fine would have been levied if it had been a homeless person instead of a celebrity. Effectively we're paying for celebrity ego here.
their whole business model is based on traditional closed source software.
No, their business model is based on vendor lock-in and pricey support contracts. They could publish the source code and it would not harm their business model because the moment someone created a compatible product, they'd be sued for copying the "look and feel". Our patent and copyright system pretty much ensure there will never be competition against Microsoft (or any large business) from this country, european countries, australia, or most anywhere else they've managed to sucker the government into enacting intellectual property regulations.
The only place Microsoft's source code could be useful would be in places like China that don't have restrictive IP laws, and in either event don't pay for software licensing anyway, so it's hardly a loss.
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Your favorite band sucks. Yo mamma so fat. You're stupid, retarded, a pathetic waste of oxygen! You're so--hangon a sec, gotta get the door...
The person to control the door is not on site. So if he sees that I want to enter and he does not want me to, he can't be physically be forced to do so.
I have a gun to someone's head. If you don't open the door, I'll shoot them. You will watch on the camera. I will repeat this until the door opens.
The real question is: How much of a stomach do you have for watching people die because you won't push a button? Will you be able to live with yourself for the rest of your life seeing visions of their brain meats smeared across the wall?
The problem with geeks is they never consider the human angle, just the technical one.
I found one! It's called the Zuckerbug. It appears the Zuckerbug is a kind of malware posing as a security solution, when in reality it steals your personal information which is then sold off.
Nate said the social security numbers and passwords are encrypted
And stored in a database, which for authentication purposes would need to be able to convert said "encrypted" data into plain text for any customer service representative, the billing systems, etc. The key has to be something that's widely accessible, or goes through a proxy. Either way, it's highly unlikely the "encryption" scheme is much more sophisticated than a single XOR operation. Decrypting that field for a substantial portion of the database SELECT statements would be a huge overhead.
No, I suspect they have the SSNs, it's just a matter of time before they get them back in plain text. Besides, the 'nice' thing about SSNs is... If you know where the person was born, and what year (not hard to find), you can predict 6 out of the 10 digits with a high degree of accuracy, thus aiding substantially in the cryptanalysis. This isn't random data being encrypted... it's highly structured, and most of the plain-text is already known.
They're screwed.
* Officer McDuff has beat the crap out of Neighbor Joe and arrested him on fake drug charges. LAPD, NSA, and 3 others like this. * Neighbor Joe and Officer McDuff are no longer friends. * Attorney Smith and Neighbor Joe are now friends.
You are complaining about the name of software projects? Have you looked at the name of cars coming out recently?
Yeah, but I can blame too much coffee and a lack of womanly affections for their market department's failures...
Exactly who the fuck has 50GB in one source code tree?
The answer to that question is, achem, pretty obvious.
Sometimes after spending a whole day amongst non-geeks, doing non-geeky things, I come here and read the names of some of the things these technologies are named.
Git? Ruby? Subversion? Eclipse?
I get this distinct hillbilly feeling after reading some of the names the open source community has come up with for their projects of late. Mental images of tie-clad programmers in a rusted pickup truck waving corded mice over their head while techno music plays kind of images. Then I hit page reload, and the feeling fades... until I think of Richard Stallman.
Just make it so the site only shows the likes/dislikes of people who are in your circles. Trust networks are a proven, decade-old concept.
Now is probably a bad time to point out to the FDA that the last time they tried regulating this, it was because the computer diagnostic program didn't have a license to practice medicine. They ignored the fact that the program was better at diagnosing medical conditions than the doctors that asked for its removal.
I fail to see how giving people the resources to diagnose their own problems is a public health concern, any more than providing people with information about how to fix their own cars. Yes, some people will do it wrong and get themselves or others hurt, but at some point the government needs to give people back their personal responsibility.
Meanwhile, my collection pf pirate mp3s sits on my harddrive, perpetually available, can be transcoded into any forseeable format in the future, and has wide support on every modern portable and computing device out there...
The market has spoken! And it has said "f*ck you".
P.S. RIAA/MPAA I've taunted you on this website and dozens of others ever since the DeCSS incident, daring you to start legal action against me. I've got close to 2 terabytes of "your" crap on my harddrive and I have yet to hear so much as a cricket-noise from you.
My PS3 handles its controllers over bluetooth like a dream, why cant all bluetooth work that smoothly?
Same reason Wifi "sucks". Making products interoperable with each other using unlicensed spectrum is hard enough when you do have absolute control over the development of both the transmitter and receiver. Without it, the devices are only as good as the certification... which is to say, "not very".
Despite all Apple success...
Haters gonna hate. :\ The only false logic I see here is saying "they've been successful in the past. It doesn't mean they'll be successful this time." While that's true, the fact is that Apple has a track record of strong consumer support. The standards their devices use have a strong bearing on what other manufacturers integrate into their own devices. No, I think talking now is exactly what's needed; NFC has yet to see a deployment by any major consumer hardware manufacturer. BT4 just signed its first contract, as it were. In IT especially, first to market usually wins.
When the Jobs Reality Distortion Field is turned off, usually Apple is found to be selling overpriced, underspec'd hardware. But the one time they get it right, we jump on them?
Bluetooth supports cryptography. NFC does not. ... in fact, the only thing NFC seems to do better is that it takes less time to setup because (ta-da!) it has no security built into it.
Bluetooth has a higher bitrate.
Bluetooth has longer range.
The power consumption is similar
So tell me guys, given how much data is sitting on your iphone, android, blackberry, blueberry, and walla-walla-ding-dong phones, do you really want a transciever built into it that has no security capability at all... and one of its main functions is point-of-sale integration?
Sorry guys, but this time at least, Apple did good.
The artificial neurons of this network can take incomplete inputs, interact with each other, and come up with a complete conclusion.
So they've managed to create a republican using only a few brain cells...
What you should have learned is that people with power tend to abuse it, even for the most trivial of things.
Yes, hence my long-standing tradition of passive-aggressive revenge tactics against authority figures.
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it
The police report says he was yelling a lot just before he fell down a bunch of stairs filled with tasers, mace, boots and car hoods and that when officers helped him up, he tried to pass his camcorder off to someone standing nearby, who also fell down the stairs. I find it really hard to understand why you're blaming the police for defective stairs...
This just in:
Zuckerberg is the bitch in the relationship.
Having solved all other problems, FBI agents today busted down the doors of supersized geeks with cheeto-stained fingers living in their mother's basements. A spokesperson said "these 'hacker' types represent the single biggest threat to the american way of life, and must be stopped." Elsewhere in America infrastructure continued to crumble into dust, fall into rivers, or start on fire as unemployment continues to rise, many urban centers are now 3rd world status, and white-collar criminals are seen driving cars made out of hundred dollar bills and dead immigrants. The FBI insists that random vandalism of websites is a far worthier objective for them than catching terrorists, rich bastards who steal millions from retirement funds, and the occasional rapist.
If you have to ask 'can you really do serious work with them?' the answer is NO. If you answered anything else, your standards for 'serious work' are too low. I mean, can it run Crysis at 50 FPS, full screen, across two 24" LCDs at native resolution? How about calculate pi to a billion digits in 1 second? Solve the national deficit, make you a sandwich, and build itself a new body from spare parts found in your garage, interface with the internet, and spread its consciousness to all computers, everywhere, sparking a massive revolution? Yeesh. You people and your limited imaginations.
I'm going to the special hell for this, but I misread the headline as "Attachment does the right thing for mono", and I thought to myself -- attachment is what causes mono. Well, that and kissing. Then I realized I was on slashdot, and nobody would get the joke...
While you're all worrying about whether or not your face will be entered into some large database, you should know that many major retailers (such as Target, whom I worked for) have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) technology on their parking lot cameras. In fact, at least out there, the only two purposes of outdoor cameras is to capture license places and pictures of people's faces exiting the store. Since most of you use credit cards, your face, credit card, name, billing address, gender, make/model of vehicle, and license plate number are all available in a database that is updated in real time.
But you can worry about that guy with the cell phone if you'd like... I'm sure he's a bigger threat to your privacy.
Is this the same scanning that Google does with GMail? If so, why no outcry there?
But everyone loves Google, and we all know Yahoo is a washed up has-been looking for any way to turn a profit to keep its zombie brain-eating existance alive. /snark
Obvious potential for abuse, so all of the protections have to be post hoc.
In every other case, the employee would simply be fired and have to find a new line of work. Fining the employer for an infrastructure that is working as designed only increases medical costs for everyone. Worse, I highly doubt this fine would have been levied if it had been a homeless person instead of a celebrity. Effectively we're paying for celebrity ego here.
their whole business model is based on traditional closed source software.
No, their business model is based on vendor lock-in and pricey support contracts. They could publish the source code and it would not harm their business model because the moment someone created a compatible product, they'd be sued for copying the "look and feel". Our patent and copyright system pretty much ensure there will never be competition against Microsoft (or any large business) from this country, european countries, australia, or most anywhere else they've managed to sucker the government into enacting intellectual property regulations. The only place Microsoft's source code could be useful would be in places like China that don't have restrictive IP laws, and in either event don't pay for software licensing anyway, so it's hardly a loss.