Actually, I would argue that even one-time pads are also easily crackable. It's just that they are cracked through social engineering rather than mathematics or software engineering. Never underestimate the bandwidth of the five finger discount as it pertains to data security.
Or in summary, the extreme weakness of the one-time pad is that you can't effectively store it in your head.
Sun is one of the historic companies in the Valley and has given the world some amazing technology. I want companies like Sun to thrive but unfortunately the vagaries of the business world suggest that companies that fail to adapt often become roadside litter.
Large companies with enough bright people on the payroll will survive changes in business model. It seems that Sun has historically been a company which has attracted and kept a decent number of intelligent employees, and their management seems to be smart enough to keep a positive image among their principle clients (geeks) during a time when it's popular for geeks to hate big businesses.
- something intrinsic (a biometric, dna scan, etc) - somethign known (a password) - somethign kept (a security card)
The problem is that to the sufficiently criminal, a biometric IS something kept. You can give a mugger your wallet or your keys, but would you so willingly part with the skin around your finger? It's possible to reattach skin to someone else's finger.
I honestly don't think I've used a public library in the last 15-20 years (I'm only 27)...and I certainly don't think I should have to pay for something I never use.
We'll ignore for a minute the obvious counterpoint that the American principle of equal opportunity based on merit implies that information should be available regardless of wealth.
Even without that, consider that the availability of information in books is entirely what modern civilization is constructed from. If civilization collapsed due to war and catastrophe, but one public library in the middle of Kansas survived, we could reconstruct nearly all of our achievements from that one single library. Having just a library of congress and libraries at a few public universities is NOT sufficient, and in fact is negligent distribution of the combined knowledge we've accumulated.
How often in the history of mankind has some brilliant poor person gone to a public library to learn, and figured out something which benefitted a huge number of people? This is impossible to quantify, and its mere possibility mandates that we keep the pathway open.
Yeah, maybe you don't go to the library, but you certainly enjoy the wealth of its contents along with the rest of us. This is not a cost you can even begin to fairly distribute, because it's about preservation of our entire society and culture. The only prudent thing to do is to use public funding to sustain and grow libraries right along with us.
1. Click in the google search box. Type search terms.
2. Click on the 'search' button (power users: press the enter/return key)
3. Click on appropriate link.
4. Repeat 200 times because the word "Graph" is a ridiculous name for a plotting program.
>Is there any way openness could be less efficient than closed?
Alternatively, consider that openness can be more dependable than closed.
Set timelines. (Closed: I can set a deadline and everyone will work towards that goal. Open: Its done when its done.)
Closed: Things must be finished by a deadline. Open: It's done when it's done.
Definite commitment to the project. (Closed: people have alot invested to make sure that the project is a sucess. Open: I can leave the project at a drop of a hat and have very little repercussions)
Closed: As soon as upper management decides to stop working on a project, or stop support for a project, it terminates promptly. Open: As long as there are people interested in a project, development and support continue.
Startup (closed: I just have to convince upper management that people should be working on my project. Open: I have to convince everyone that they should work on it)
Closed: You can't start a project until upper management is convinced of its profitability. Open: You can start any project you find a need for, and for as long as others agree that it's useful, the project will prosper.
What about those poor people in the mortuary business? Those poor starving funeral workers are really taking the blunt end of that irresponsible food industry. It just keeps feeding people, over and over, without any consideration of lost profits for what would otherwise be funerals. Clearly any reasoning person would favor a royalty tax on the food industry which would directly compensate funeral workers.
It's actually off-topic because it's a political opinion more than anything else and moderation happens to agree with it.
It's called cynicism. A healthy degree of it can be very insightful when dealing with political matters. Unfortunately the standard state of politics consists of most people trying to get what they want for themselves, and cynicism is the best tool for eating through the clever little statements to see the real motivations. That's hardly political opinion, it's human nature.
Well I've been using the 2.6 series for about the last 3 months on my desktop. Not had one crash and its been under heavy load.
I first tried 2.6 about the same time length ago, and had horrible crashes. Then I switched back to 2.4 and the crashes went away. The crashes came back later under 2.4 and I eventually figured out that 2.6 was so much faster that it made my faulty video card overheat quicker. I swapped out the bad hardware and have been very pleased with 2.6 since.
But the easiest way to change it is to simply type:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
...and let debconf allow you to choose the nice value with the normal debconf configuration dialog.
<MODE="Humor"> Oh, those Debian users, always using their easy hand-holding little configuration tools instead of editing files manually like real Redhat users would do. </MODE>
i had some serious problems with my usb mouse in test9 (while it worked in test4 and before), and i don't see any mouse related fixes in the ChangeLog, so for now I guess usb mouse users should stick with older releases.
I have been using a usb mouse in test9 with no problems. Your problem must be related to other hardware or something more specific.
If you have coding skills, try looking at a diff between the two test versions where it broke. If not, try using the entire usb subsystem as modules and see if you can temporarilly load the test4 modules for your mouse or for usb into the newer kernels.
(I will assume you already made sure the configurations were identical.)
I think the OpenSource community can program one. But I've not heard of any takers. If we could even simulate a walking machine we'd be well on the way because actually building the actuators is not going to be very difficult... what is difficult is writing the code to control them.
Find us a hundred copies of the same robot at an affordable price. Until then the open source development model isn't really going to work like it does with computers.
Everyone hides it because it's embarassing for a business.
From my perspective, hiding it is embarassing for business. A major part of the reason I use Debian is exactly this announcement. I could have guaranteed as a fact that the Debian servers would be compromised, it was just a matter of time. What's important to me is that it's easy to detect when it happens, and that everyone is told about it as soon as it happens.
I have one of my machines which I updated during the compromised period. Now I know that when this investigation is complete, I need to check the details to see if the machine needs treatment.
As a student of physics I don't like that standard model. It seems more like classification than theory to me
The hope of the Standard Model is that if enough things get listed and categorized, some clever person will come along, see a pattern which we will later all consider obvious, and write down where all those categories come from in the first place.
That's how we discovered quarks in the first place. Patterns were noticed in the categories of baryons, and invoking a few quarks explained all those particles.
"Before the Columbia accident, NASA intended eventually to have a crew of astronauts maneuver the 43-foot-long telescope into a cargo bay and bring it home for installation in the National Air and Space Museum as an inspiration for future generations. A general unwillingness to subject astronauts to such risks for a museum exhibit, among other things, eliminated that option, Weiler said. "
Well, there's really no rush. If its orbit is high enough it should stay there for quite a long time waiting patiently for its time in a museum.
Much akin to the progress indicator for transferring this file has been saying 30seconds for more than an hour.
Hey, give them some credit where credit is due. They have made some tremendous speed boosts when it comes to progress bars. That first 99% goes by in only 1% of the time. You can't get that kind of performance under Linux.
Who can say... remember that you'd have to inspect the code for the machines and also make sure that that exact code is loaded into the voting machines, and not some different version.
You would also have to know the compiler was not compromised, and that the hardware was uncompromised. These are nightmarishly difficult tasks to do for even one machine, and impossible to do for all.
We CAN use electronic voting, but we need verifiable trails. We can take good steps to make it difficult to slip malicious code into the machines, such as having open source code and techies (and managers) from multiple parties working on setting up voting systems. But after doing all that, from a security perspective the machine is still a black box.
A paper trail printed out that the voter can verify and then deposit in a box at least allows spot checking.
Any piece of data can be interpreted as an encrypted form of any other piece of data, with a suitably convoluted "encryption/decryption" mechanism. Even zeroes.:)
That's exactly the encryption technique I use to keep anyone from ever getting my files. I encrypt them all to zeros and memorize them all. Then I simply store the keys on my harddrive.
However, an admin who says they can help cut admin costs is digging someone's grave.
The whole point of economic growth is for society as a whole to be able to do more and produce more. The amount of labor being done remains relatively constant over time, and the amount of stuff made and services available increases.
System administrators who can do more with less time have more time to offer other productive services to their companies.
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but it's very difficult to find data that proves that the behavior does not come from evolutionary factors.
Try fitting teen suicide to evolutionary theory.
Actually, I would argue that even one-time pads are also easily crackable. It's just that they are cracked through social engineering rather than mathematics or software engineering. Never underestimate the bandwidth of the five finger discount as it pertains to data security.
Or in summary, the extreme weakness of the one-time pad is that you can't effectively store it in your head.
Sun is one of the historic companies in the Valley and has given the world some amazing technology. I want companies like Sun to thrive but unfortunately the vagaries of the business world suggest that companies that fail to adapt often become roadside litter.
Large companies with enough bright people on the payroll will survive changes in business model. It seems that Sun has historically been a company which has attracted and kept a decent number of intelligent employees, and their management seems to be smart enough to keep a positive image among their principle clients (geeks) during a time when it's popular for geeks to hate big businesses.
- something intrinsic (a biometric, dna scan, etc)
- somethign known (a password)
- somethign kept (a security card)
The problem is that to the sufficiently criminal, a biometric IS something kept. You can give a mugger your wallet or your keys, but would you so willingly part with the skin around your finger? It's possible to reattach skin to someone else's finger.
I honestly don't think I've used a public library in the last 15-20 years (I'm only 27)...and I certainly don't think I should have to pay for something I never use.
We'll ignore for a minute the obvious counterpoint that the American principle of equal opportunity based on merit implies that information should be available regardless of wealth.
Even without that, consider that the availability of information in books is entirely what modern civilization is constructed from. If civilization collapsed due to war and catastrophe, but one public library in the middle of Kansas survived, we could reconstruct nearly all of our achievements from that one single library. Having just a library of congress and libraries at a few public universities is NOT sufficient, and in fact is negligent distribution of the combined knowledge we've accumulated.
How often in the history of mankind has some brilliant poor person gone to a public library to learn, and figured out something which benefitted a huge number of people? This is impossible to quantify, and its mere possibility mandates that we keep the pathway open.
Yeah, maybe you don't go to the library, but you certainly enjoy the wealth of its contents along with the rest of us. This is not a cost you can even begin to fairly distribute, because it's about preservation of our entire society and culture. The only prudent thing to do is to use public funding to sustain and grow libraries right along with us.
Everything already is 3-clicks away:
1. Click in the google search box. Type search terms.
2. Click on the 'search' button (power users: press the enter/return key)
3. Click on appropriate link.
4. Repeat 200 times because the word "Graph" is a ridiculous name for a plotting program.
>Is there any way openness could be less efficient than closed?
Alternatively, consider that openness can be more dependable than closed.
Set timelines. (Closed: I can set a deadline and everyone will work towards that goal. Open: Its done when its done.)
Closed: Things must be finished by a deadline. Open: It's done when it's done.
Definite commitment to the project. (Closed: people have alot invested to make sure that the project is a sucess. Open: I can leave the project at a drop of a hat and have very little repercussions)
Closed: As soon as upper management decides to stop working on a project, or stop support for a project, it terminates promptly. Open: As long as there are people interested in a project, development and support continue.
Startup (closed: I just have to convince upper management that people should be working on my project. Open: I have to convince everyone that they should work on it)
Closed: You can't start a project until upper management is convinced of its profitability. Open: You can start any project you find a need for, and for as long as others agree that it's useful, the project will prosper.
What about those poor people in the mortuary business? Those poor starving funeral workers are really taking the blunt end of that irresponsible food industry. It just keeps feeding people, over and over, without any consideration of lost profits for what would otherwise be funerals. Clearly any reasoning person would favor a royalty tax on the food industry which would directly compensate funeral workers.
If anything this would help SCOX.
And what's your market prediction for when Google countersues? Google isn't some tiny little toy project anymore.
It's actually off-topic because it's a political opinion more than anything else and moderation happens to agree with it.
It's called cynicism. A healthy degree of it can be very insightful when dealing with political matters. Unfortunately the standard state of politics consists of most people trying to get what they want for themselves, and cynicism is the best tool for eating through the clever little statements to see the real motivations. That's hardly political opinion, it's human nature.
Well I've been using the 2.6 series for about the last 3 months on my desktop. Not had one crash and its been under heavy load.
I first tried 2.6 about the same time length ago, and had horrible crashes. Then I switched back to 2.4 and the crashes went away. The crashes came back later under 2.4 and I eventually figured out that 2.6 was so much faster that it made my faulty video card overheat quicker. I swapped out the bad hardware and have been very pleased with 2.6 since.
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
<MODE="Humor">
Oh, those Debian users, always using their easy hand-holding little configuration tools instead of editing files manually like real Redhat users would do.
</MODE>
i had some serious problems with my usb mouse in test9 (while it worked in test4 and before), and i don't see any mouse related fixes in the ChangeLog, so for now I guess usb mouse users should stick with older releases.
I have been using a usb mouse in test9 with no problems. Your problem must be related to other hardware or something more specific.
If you have coding skills, try looking at a diff between the two test versions where it broke. If not, try using the entire usb subsystem as modules and see if you can temporarilly load the test4 modules for your mouse or for usb into the newer kernels.
(I will assume you already made sure the configurations were identical.)
What 90% of the world calls "The Internet" is the World Wide Web, which hasn't exen existed for decades, so your "explanation" is clearly false.
Actually, the "World Wide Web" is about 13 years old. Read:
http://www.w3.org/History.html
it would seem that there is a major point that he has been charged with "Theft of Communications".
Perhaps someone forgot to write a law making it illegal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street with no pants on.
I think the OpenSource community can program one. But I've not heard of any takers. If we could even simulate a walking machine we'd be well on the way because actually building the actuators is not going to be very difficult... what is difficult is writing the code to control them.
Find us a hundred copies of the same robot at an affordable price. Until then the open source development model isn't really going to work like it does with computers.
Everyone hides it because it's embarassing for a business.
From my perspective, hiding it is embarassing for business. A major part of the reason I use Debian is exactly this announcement. I could have guaranteed as a fact that the Debian servers would be compromised, it was just a matter of time. What's important to me is that it's easy to detect when it happens, and that everyone is told about it as soon as it happens.
I have one of my machines which I updated during the compromised period. Now I know that when this investigation is complete, I need to check the details to see if the machine needs treatment.
That's how full disclosure is supposed to work.
As a student of physics I don't like that standard model. It seems more like classification than theory to me
The hope of the Standard Model is that if enough things get listed and categorized, some clever person will come along, see a pattern which we will later all consider obvious, and write down where all those categories come from in the first place.
That's how we discovered quarks in the first place. Patterns were noticed in the categories of baryons, and invoking a few quarks explained all those particles.
No self-respecting scientist thinks otherwise.
Self-respecting scientists respect the work of our colleagues as well.
No useful applied research is done which does not depend on pure research of the past which had no clear usage at the time of its creation.
Would you suggest we waited until we developed space travel before trying to find a theory of the solar system?
"Before the Columbia accident, NASA intended eventually to have a crew of astronauts maneuver the 43-foot-long telescope into a cargo bay and bring it home for installation in the National Air and Space Museum as an inspiration for future generations. A general unwillingness to subject astronauts to such risks for a museum exhibit, among other things, eliminated that option, Weiler said. "
Well, there's really no rush. If its orbit is high enough it should stay there for quite a long time waiting patiently for its time in a museum.
Much akin to the progress indicator for transferring this file has been saying 30seconds for more than an hour.
Hey, give them some credit where credit is due. They have made some tremendous speed boosts when it comes to progress bars. That first 99% goes by in only 1% of the time. You can't get that kind of performance under Linux.
Who can say... remember that you'd have to inspect the code for the machines and also make sure that that exact code is loaded into the voting machines, and not some different version.
You would also have to know the compiler was not compromised, and that the hardware was uncompromised. These are nightmarishly difficult tasks to do for even one machine, and impossible to do for all.
We CAN use electronic voting, but we need verifiable trails. We can take good steps to make it difficult to slip malicious code into the machines, such as having open source code and techies (and managers) from multiple parties working on setting up voting systems. But after doing all that, from a security perspective the machine is still a black box.
A paper trail printed out that the voter can verify and then deposit in a box at least allows spot checking.
I, for one, would certainly like my tax dollars go towards some serious time travel research.
Why build it? You could just be patient, wait until time travel is invented, and then bring a machine back to yourself now.
Any piece of data can be interpreted as an encrypted form of any other piece of data, with a suitably convoluted "encryption/decryption" mechanism. Even zeroes. :)
That's exactly the encryption technique I use to keep anyone from ever getting my files. I encrypt them all to zeros and memorize them all. Then I simply store the keys on my harddrive.
However, an admin who says they can help cut admin costs is digging someone's grave.
The whole point of economic growth is for society as a whole to be able to do more and produce more. The amount of labor being done remains relatively constant over time, and the amount of stuff made and services available increases.
System administrators who can do more with less time have more time to offer other productive services to their companies.