Allow me to add that security is not only a matter of the algorithm used, what also matters is how it is implemented and how the system handles it. A metaphor I love to use is this: The best, most stable security steel door is useless if your walls are made out of paper. For reference, play Monkey Island.
This is very true. Reminds me of a story someone told me once. He was going over to a secure datacenter his company was using to see for himself how they handled things. He got there and had to admit they seemed to actually know what they were doing. Until he felt a draft... One of the employees inside the center had decided it was a bit too hot in there and propped open a door to let air in. All it took was one person's bad decision to nullify everything else they had done. Remember people, weakest link...
times like this, I just want to be able to say:
sandbox $whatever_command
and have it run in a completely safe environment.
[...] Or does such a thing exist?
There seem to be some simple checks you can do. Some of them are outlined here. For those not who don't want to read that link it is basically about checking the info.plist file for the app to see if it has been modified. Not that sophisticated but probably good enough in most cases.
I won't be pleased with the whole thing until until computers start shipping with full UTF-8 (or UTF-16, or UTF-32) keyboards, where I can fluently touch type between different character sets without switching codepages or whatever.
I would be happy to just have an OLED based one that would show different layouts.
The Apollo astronauts were trained by a professional photographer on how to use the custom (Hasselbak or something close to that.) cameras for use on the moon.
They were modified Hasselblad cameras (a very nice medium format film camera). They brought the film back but left the cameras on the moon.
I find it amazing that something this dubious was allowed to get all the way to airing without someone at the BBC having a hissy fit. Perhaps they have received legal advice that said it was legit?
Or the legal department were the first to be made redundant?
It also depends whether it would be worth using more power but finishing the task quicker, assuming that when idling they would be more or less comparable. One problem the Atom has had so far is that the chipsets they have been paired with draw a lot of power by themselves making the power savings less noticeable than they could have been.
Seems to vary from country to country, in some (like Sweden I believe, UK banks seem to have more of a PRNG device, at least that's what Barclays gave me) all banks provide a Challenge-Response system for logging into your account, similar to the RSA fob I am sure many here have used for secure logon.
I think you're jumping to conclusions; that is Google's usual "content license", and something they need in order to offer services to you. I don't know how you think it applies to the browser. If you're trying to imply that Google is attempting to claim that everything you do with Chrome belongs to them, you're wrong.
GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.
I can't see that anywhere in the link you're citing, could you please point out where it says that? To have a proper discussion about things we need facts not unfounded accusations. I don't have any problem believing Apple might have done something like that but I need a proper link.
By the way, the summary is wrong - that study the other day did not say the crimes didn't deter crime... only that they don't help much in SOLVING street robberies. Big difference, that.
Speaking of which (cameras deterring crime), here is an interesting article from SFGate
From the article:
Using a complicated method, researchers were able to come up with an average daily crime rate at each location broken out by type of crime and distance from the cameras. They then compared it with the average daily crime rate from the period before the cameras were installed.
They looked at seven types of crime: larcenies, burglaries, motor vehicle theft, assault, robbery, homicide and forcible sex offenses.
The only positive deterrent effect was the reduction of larcenies within 100 feet of the cameras. No other crimes were affected -- except for homicides, which had an interesting pattern.
Murders went down within 250 feet of the cameras, but the reduction was completely offset by an increase 250 to 500 feet away, suggesting people moved down the block before killing each other.
God forbid you actually want to use a desktop Linux distro at 640x48
Maybe not a desktop Linux distro but a laptop one (ASUS eee first gen is 800x480 px). Yes, I know that you can do Alt+drag but many dialogs seem to me, like you said, to be much bigger than they need to be.
Sounds like you're describing the hacker mindset, but in a security context, which seems pretty fitting. It does make sense if you think of a security expert as a hacker, someone that that sees something and thinks "hm, wonder if I could do this with it?".
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Allow me to add that security is not only a matter of the algorithm used, what also matters is how it is implemented and how the system handles it. A metaphor I love to use is this: The best, most stable security steel door is useless if your walls are made out of paper. For reference, play Monkey Island.
This is very true. Reminds me of a story someone told me once. He was going over to a secure datacenter his company was using to see for himself how they handled things. He got there and had to admit they seemed to actually know what they were doing. Until he felt a draft... One of the employees inside the center had decided it was a bit too hot in there and propped open a door to let air in. All it took was one person's bad decision to nullify everything else they had done. Remember people, weakest link...
Couldn't you just use another webkit browser like Chromium, Konqueror, Epiphany or Midori?
Could be different versions of WebKit. Mostly you would want to test javascript behavior which would be significantly different.
times like this, I just want to be able to say:
sandbox $whatever_command
and have it run in a completely safe environment.
[...] Or does such a thing exist?
A virtual machine you mean?
There seem to be some simple checks you can do. Some of them are outlined here. For those not who don't want to read that link it is basically about checking the info.plist file for the app to see if it has been modified. Not that sophisticated but probably good enough in most cases.
I won't be pleased with the whole thing until until computers start shipping with full UTF-8 (or UTF-16, or UTF-32) keyboards, where I can fluently touch type between different character sets without switching codepages or whatever.
I would be happy to just have an OLED based one that would show different layouts.
The Apollo astronauts were trained by a professional photographer on how to use the custom (Hasselbak or something close to that.) cameras for use on the moon.
They were modified Hasselblad cameras (a very nice medium format film camera). They brought the film back but left the cameras on the moon.
their State Police will have really cool uniforms
Made by Hugo Boss
I find it amazing that something this dubious was allowed to get all the way to airing without someone at the BBC having a hissy fit. Perhaps they have received legal advice that said it was legit?
Or the legal department were the first to be made redundant?
It also depends whether it would be worth using more power but finishing the task quicker, assuming that when idling they would be more or less comparable. One problem the Atom has had so far is that the chipsets they have been paired with draw a lot of power by themselves making the power savings less noticeable than they could have been.
Don't worry, there is a way to target .NET 1.1 with VS 2005 and even with VS 2008.
Seems to vary from country to country, in some (like Sweden I believe, UK banks seem to have more of a PRNG device, at least that's what Barclays gave me) all banks provide a Challenge-Response system for logging into your account, similar to the RSA fob I am sure many here have used for secure logon.
EAL does not mean what you think it does.
Inconceivable!
Windows:
WinDirStat - http://windirstat.info/
Mac OS X:
Disk Inventory X - http://www.derlien.com/
Both are released under the GPL.
"Blessed are the peacemakers"
GREGORY:
What was that?
MAN #1:
I think it was 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'
I think you're jumping to conclusions; that is Google's usual "content license", and something they need in order to offer services to you. I don't know how you think it applies to the browser. If you're trying to imply that Google is attempting to claim that everything you do with Chrome belongs to them, you're wrong.
I suppose you are a contract lawyer?
Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984 should be required reading in our schools.
Don't forget Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
That being said, implementing a non-standard data type that has precision FAR beyond the standard ones is relatively easy. (Think high-school level)
Or just use an existing library like GNU MP Bignum Library:
GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.
It's also funny how a company that sells itself as secure has root privilege escalation without a password as a feature out of the box.
http://www.apple.com/sg/macosx/features/security/
I can't see that anywhere in the link you're citing, could you please point out where it says that? To have a proper discussion about things we need facts not unfounded accusations. I don't have any problem believing Apple might have done something like that but I need a proper link.
Anyone have any ideas on Linux on CF (limiting writes etc?)
Here are some links:
Also most other eee laptop configuration guides you can find.
The whole thing just reminds me of the parable of Ruritania
Speaking of which (cameras deterring crime), here is an interesting article from SFGate
From the article:
Using a complicated method, researchers were able to come up with an average daily crime rate at each location broken out by type of crime and distance from the cameras. They then compared it with the average daily crime rate from the period before the cameras were installed.They looked at seven types of crime: larcenies, burglaries, motor vehicle theft, assault, robbery, homicide and forcible sex offenses.
The only positive deterrent effect was the reduction of larcenies within 100 feet of the cameras. No other crimes were affected -- except for homicides, which had an interesting pattern.
Murders went down within 250 feet of the cameras, but the reduction was completely offset by an increase 250 to 500 feet away, suggesting people moved down the block before killing each other.
Well, security of the containers is taken care of. The container will be surrounded by these signs
Maybe not a desktop Linux distro but a laptop one (ASUS eee first gen is 800x480 px). Yes, I know that you can do Alt+drag but many dialogs seem to me, like you said, to be much bigger than they need to be.
Sounds like you're describing the hacker mindset, but in a security context, which seems pretty fitting. It does make sense if you think of a security expert as a hacker, someone that that sees something and thinks "hm, wonder if I could do this with it?".
Short (as opposed to the Tall size)