If you are working on a government computer system, you have to go through this or a similar waiver of rights. You do not see this on a civilian computer because the bill of rights does not apply to buisnesses. The bill of rights is only applies to what the GOVERNMENT can not do. Essentially this is giving the government system administrators the right to scan for hackers on their systems, just like any buisness will be doing.
Yes, you may not be working on sensitive information, but others on the server may be, or the server may have trusted host servers that contain sensitive data. It is important that this information is secure. If all the federal computers could not be moinitored for their security, would you sleep well at night? I wouldn't. Think of all the hackers that would be lurking about in top secret government computers, knowing they will never be noticed because nobody was able to look for them. Even a tripwire program can be considered monitoring. How could you detect aborant account behavior if you cant look at any activity of any accounts?
Agreeing to this disclaimer is not too bad. Take a look at the regs for things like this AR380-53 is one of them (for the Army). If you disagree, then you cannot use the system, and you may loose your job. Better review all the paperwork you signed when you were hired!
>Yes there are nNAVY vessils that could servive a Nuclear detonation at that range.
Yup, you are right. They have new alloys that withstand thousands of degrees farenheit without melting. Cooling systems keep the ship (and people inside) at a nice 72F. These are the same ships that were used on the faked moon landing. They actually landed on the sun. However, if that nuke gets a LITTLE too close, it will be all over. This is because the metal can only take 1,000,000F and not 1,000,001F. Danm one degree.
Oh, and scud missles weren't guided. they were just lobbed in a general direction. Cruise use a helluva lot more complex stuff than civvy GPS
I hate to break it to these guys, but the frequency does not have much to do with the ammount of RF that is being emmitted from the chips. In order to emit RF, you must have an antennae. That is why the traces from the processor->north bridge->memory are so short (aside from latency). If an antennae is not tuned, or near a tune, it will not radiate much. Putting the shielding on the memory makes it look nice. The RF, if any, would be jumping off of the traces, not the memory. The other wires/traces would be picking up the RF, not the memory (you need antennae's to recieve too!) This is called crosstalk and that is why there are groundplanes between many layers of various boards.
An week in the laboratory will save an hour in the library!
Essentially, this is a key distribution system for a one time pad (OTP) encryption setup. OTP encryption can only be deciphered if you have both keys, or if the keys are not purely random. If the data is random and you only have access to one key, game over. no good.
Why this system is good: 100% (reportedly) random data generation Spying ruins the data (like beam splitting) Neither side has to store a key
There is error within the procedure. This is inherent within quantum transmissions like this. Take a look at http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/crypto/ and click on the links for the protocols. There is about a 4 percent error in the transmission. Not too bad. All you would have to do is integrate error correction within the message and you will be set.
All of this information has been released by the NOAA as a coverup of their true operation. The 15 million dollars went into the purchase of a unique Pentium 90, circa 1995. This pentium 90 processor has been used on distributed engineering projects continuously for 5 years now, and in that time its health has deteriorated significantly. This has been a benefit for its new job at the NOAA. The arthritis in its 2,000,000 transistors is SO sensitive, it is able to accurately predict weather systems months in advance. This is a great step over their previous computer, a cray T90. The cray ran several RC/SETI/Mersenne prime distributed projects, games, and a web site. The forecasting was done by its operater, 95 year old Joe Blow. His mere 206 bones and patented "trick knee" could only predict weather 3 days in advance.
Joe will be retiring at the completion of the new computer installation in the facility. Plans are underway for a party in which he will receive a gold barometer
If this is the gate width, what the heck do the doping levels look like? My training is a little (ok, lot) outdated, but they must be only using a handful of impurities per gate. How about dopant mobility at these levels. I would love to know how they are doing the masking and implantation. Neat stuff.
I have heard that below a process of ~.14 one has a problem with a resistance breakdown. Anyone know how these problems are being remedied?
I didn't like their last few alblums that I heard on MP3's. Can I make a negative donation and get a refund for my lost time? How about the time spent on connection fees, fone line time, and my expertise on sucky/good music differentiation? :)
Waitaminute. On one hand you are complaining about over equiping the soldier causing information overload, and on the other you have an enemy who is carrying IR and RF detecting equipment? Directional too, i guess? What, are we attacking people with their local radio shack strapped on their back?
Mabey your luddite knee-jerk reaction is poorly thought out. I appreciate the idea that another person aiming at me from my own side would have his gun tell him I am friendly, rather than finding that out at a later time. Using a computer with GPS will help eliminate map reading screwups. They happen frequently. (d-day ring a bell?)
All firing is still mechanical, and all the artillery still has manual sighting in case of computer failure. You can always shut things down and go back to buisness as usual.
By using different modulation/transmission techniques, one may be able to reduce the effect of stochiastic noise on the demodulation side. Take a look at the new cell/portable phones. There is a lot less static on those than there was 5 years ago. Transmissions are always battling the signal to noise ratio. Satelites have to worry about radiation, solar winds, coronal discharges and whatnot screwing up the transmissions. It may not be heroic to you, but to us ham radio freaks it sure is! I remember being in 3rd grade and writing "when I grow up I want to be a jam-proof satelite defending my carrier frequency from the evil-doers!:)
Give them a break. Radios are only 50 years old. We've come a long way. Where would this world be if all these transmission that we rely upon went down 10 times a day?
Hey cool! Next time I program I will put a whole bunch of easy syntax errors at the beginning so I won't have any errors in the rest of the code. Hmmm. If MS has been practicing this for a while I think I know why they have so many problems....
QA checks? Does 64,000 bugs ring a bell? QA is nonexistant. As long as it gets out the door two years late they don't seem to give a danm at Microsoft. Look at the first version of FP. More bugs than a volkswagen factory. Ex. Every time you open a page in the editor it removes the background for you.
This type of mediation between adolecent peers has been implemented and functioned with astounding results. In 1692, a system of peer review was used in Massachusets where young adults reviewed their fellow students and friends. The result was positive. 24 severly defunct students were removed from society, preventing countless others from being hurt. Although this event was dubbed the Salem "witch hunt", the south has the moral obligation to overlook this hasty misnomer, and reintroduce a productive, result-based system for the preservation of a functioning society.
We must start construction of gallows and burning stakes immediately to prepare for the forthcoming onslaught of morally-misaligned youthes.
1) The recording industry has missed the boat. If they would have had a decent distribution method for the internet 2 years ago, this probably wouldn't have happened. There has been demand for online music for YEARS. MP3's have been the enabler for online music sales, but the recording industries greed stopped them from using the internet as a market. Why charge 10 bucks for an online CD when you can charge 20 bucks in a store? I still believe an online store would be successful, and nearly eliminate the use of Napster. How many times have you been cut off in the middle of a transfer? Or had it too slow to wait for it to finish? or the quality is terrible? This list can go on and on.
2) I have a hard time believing artists don't make money on concerts. Some of these bums are charging 40 bucks a ticket. With 10,000 fans, that adds up to almost half a million. I know a lot of people dip into that bucket, but then multiply this by the number of shows, the number of cities, etc. Some of the more pompous bands charge even more. Add in the sales of soda/beer/food/t-shirts/parking/programs and the fans are paying more than their share. Maby the bands should complain to the indie about their cut of the other sales.
3) I don't know about anyone else, but most of what I download I would never buy. The radio stations only play the same 200 songs. I just want variety. If I like a band, yeah, I will get the CD. Its a lot more durable, comes in a nifty case and all that. Plus, I get tracks I never would have downloaaded. Sometimes they are even good:)
It may be illegal, it may be immoral, but THERE IS NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE! Napster or nothing. Music Industry: take a hint, put up a store already! What are you worried about, copying? People are already doing it. You want your money, then make it already.
Hmmm. 30 to 50 sales a month is from $1198.50 to $1997.50 per month. This "package" is probably in electronic form, so no overhead. Just an internet account at $20 a month. So all this guy did, to make this kind of money, is to write a book detailing how he did what he did? DANM! Looks like I will start making payments on a new Porsche! Oh, yes, if you want to buy my book on spam prevention, or online buisnesses just send check or money order to........:) I wish I had no morals.
Would a LITERARY genius necessarily have good spacial comprehension???? Hell yes! Pull two or three pages out of a book and hold them up to a light. You now have letters in different orientations and depth. It would not be easy to crack because the words are intertwined in each other. There is no letter to letter correlation, which is what was hinted to in the last puzzle. This may be a step in the right direction.
Yeah, but imagine having to say to Word, "delete the third line down from the second paragraph, from the word function to the word drop". In the mean time you could just highlight and delete the danm thing with a mouse.
Sure hands-free type stuff would be nice, and it is already working. I used to have a mac in a lab that had it enabled about 5 years ago. When I was working on a PC, I would yell out COMPUTER, wait for a response, and then TIME! and it would tell me the time. It was a great shareware program, but I cannot remember the name of it. Buggy too, but it worked OK.
I beleieve he just meant it is easier to represent and manipulate data in better ways than the same way in 4 dimensions (x,y,z,sound).
So wait a minute,/. slashdot-effected itself? Strange, but I didn't see any articles referencing www.slashdot.com. If it did, I dunno what the effect would be. Server would be down for weeks, probably.
Not meant for computers!?!?! Are you nuts! This is specifically for computers! This is the whole DVD DeCSS thing moving up one step. Say a DVD is made with double encryption. The DVD drive ONLY outputs a signal with one level of decryption removed. The signal is then sent to the monitor, which removes the second layer of encryption. You can no longer make a copy of the CD because you no longer have access to the signal. If the keys are large enough, you won't be able to decrypt it, and send it to your friends over the internet. This is obviously one of the fears of the MPAA.
You are probably wondering how this all factors ino your TV. Look at all of the media centers and internet appliances we hear sony and micro$oft coming out with. 2+2=4. Your TV will soon (probably) be digital, and this system would work.
Copying through a DVD burner is slower to distribute, harder and more expensive to do, and easier to prosecute. Not a big worry for the MPAA, or at least, not as big as movie distribution over the internet. Little do they know, when you make something more idiot proof, mother nature will just make a better idiot.:)
And for the whole TEMPEST proofing thing, do you REALLY think there wouldn't be a special door for the boys upstairs to use?
>The nervous system in our body uses electrical impulses to transmit the sensory data. But that's not even close to the speed at which computers transmit their data.
Well, yes and no. Signals going through the brain are about the same speed. From your foot to your brain, yeah there is latency. This is why reflex reactions are processed in the spinal column.
>The bones in our body grow and are alive, so they can't possibly have the strength of the "skeletons" we use for cars and buildings.
Your bones are nasty strong under compression. Your femur can hold several thousand pounds, and it actually experiences loads like this during running.
>most living things, in fact, have these "flaws".
I dinged my car yesterday. It has a flaw now. I dinged my toe on the coffe table two days ago. I am not flawed anymore. I am alive, and therefore can heal (most stuff) back to normal. Nanoprobes are nice, but they will not last forever. If damaged, will they self repair? Where will they find the metals to repair themselves with? If they cannot self repair, then the whole spying idea is moot. I will just expose myself to a magnetic pulse and short them out. (or nonleathal amount of radiation).
Here is my point. We have small "computers" already that contain a set of design and operating instructions on a small tape with error correction coding. The computer has sensors for light, temperature, touch, and various chemical detectors. It has motors for movement and operates on electricity. It is in every top secret installation in the world and is capable of killing humans. Sounds nasty? We call them germs. Heck, any protozoa will qualify. If you think we can do better with metal and silicon than nature has done with carbohydrates and proteins, I would be suprised.
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If you are working on a government computer system, you have to go through this or a similar waiver of rights. You do not see this on a civilian computer because the bill of rights does not apply to buisnesses. The bill of rights is only applies to what the GOVERNMENT can not do. Essentially this is giving the government system administrators the right to scan for hackers on their systems, just like any buisness will be doing.
Yes, you may not be working on sensitive information, but others on the server may be, or the server may have trusted host servers that contain sensitive data. It is important that this information is secure. If all the federal computers could not be moinitored for their security, would you sleep well at night? I wouldn't. Think of all the hackers that would be lurking about in top secret government computers, knowing they will never be noticed because nobody was able to look for them. Even a tripwire program can be considered monitoring. How could you detect aborant account behavior if you cant look at any activity of any accounts?
Agreeing to this disclaimer is not too bad. Take a look at the regs for things like this AR380-53 is one of them (for the Army). If you disagree, then you cannot use the system, and you may loose your job. Better review all the paperwork you signed when you were hired!
>Yes there are nNAVY vessils that could servive a Nuclear detonation at that range.
Yup, you are right. They have new alloys that withstand thousands of degrees farenheit without melting. Cooling systems keep the ship (and people inside) at a nice 72F. These are the same ships that were used on the faked moon landing. They actually landed on the sun. However, if that nuke gets a LITTLE too close, it will be all over. This is because the metal can only take 1,000,000F and not 1,000,001F. Danm one degree.
Oh, and scud missles weren't guided. they were just lobbed in a general direction. Cruise use a helluva lot more complex stuff than civvy GPS
I hate to break it to these guys, but the frequency does not have much to do with the ammount of RF that is being emmitted from the chips. In order to emit RF, you must have an antennae. That is why the traces from the processor->north bridge->memory are so short (aside from latency). If an antennae is not tuned, or near a tune, it will not radiate much. Putting the shielding on the memory makes it look nice. The RF, if any, would be jumping off of the traces, not the memory. The other wires/traces would be picking up the RF, not the memory (you need antennae's to recieve too!) This is called crosstalk and that is why there are groundplanes between many layers of various boards.
An week in the laboratory will save an hour in the library!
Essentially, this is a key distribution system for a one time pad (OTP) encryption setup. OTP encryption can only be deciphered if you have both keys, or if the keys are not purely random. If the data is random and you only have access to one key, game over. no good.
/
Why this system is good:
100% (reportedly) random data generation
Spying ruins the data (like beam splitting)
Neither side has to store a key
Take a look at:
http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/crypto
for more info.
There is error within the procedure. This is inherent within quantum transmissions like this. Take a look at http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/crypto/ and click on the links for the protocols. There is about a 4 percent error in the transmission. Not too bad. All you would have to do is integrate error correction within the message and you will be set.
All of this information has been released by the NOAA as a coverup of their true operation. The 15 million dollars went into the purchase of a unique Pentium 90, circa 1995. This pentium 90 processor has been used on distributed engineering projects continuously for 5 years now, and in that time its health has deteriorated significantly. This has been a benefit for its new job at the NOAA. The arthritis in its 2,000,000 transistors is SO sensitive, it is able to accurately predict weather systems months in advance. This is a great step over their previous computer, a cray T90. The cray ran several RC/SETI/Mersenne prime distributed projects, games, and a web site. The forecasting was done by its operater, 95 year old Joe Blow. His mere 206 bones and patented "trick knee" could only predict weather 3 days in advance.
Joe will be retiring at the completion of the new computer installation in the facility. Plans are underway for a party in which he will receive a gold barometer
So if in the middle of the summer, the weather forecaster said it is NOT going to snow this week, you would be happy? Even if he is right?
If this is the gate width, what the heck do the doping levels look like? My training is a little (ok, lot) outdated, but they must be only using a handful of impurities per gate. How about dopant mobility at these levels. I would love to know how they are doing the masking and implantation. Neat stuff.
I have heard that below a process of ~.14 one has a problem with a resistance breakdown. Anyone know how these problems are being remedied?
I didn't like their last few alblums that I heard on MP3's. Can I make a negative donation and get a refund for my lost time? How about the time spent on connection fees, fone line time, and my expertise on sucky/good music differentiation?
:)
Waitaminute. On one hand you are complaining about over equiping the soldier causing information overload, and on the other you have an enemy who is carrying IR and RF detecting equipment? Directional too, i guess? What, are we attacking people with their local radio shack strapped on their back?
Mabey your luddite knee-jerk reaction is poorly thought out. I appreciate the idea that another person aiming at me from my own side would have his gun tell him I am friendly, rather than finding that out at a later time. Using a computer with GPS will help eliminate map reading screwups. They happen frequently. (d-day ring a bell?)
All firing is still mechanical, and all the artillery still has manual sighting in case of computer failure. You can always shut things down and go back to buisness as usual.
By using different modulation/transmission techniques, one may be able to reduce the effect of stochiastic noise on the demodulation side. Take a look at the new cell/portable phones. There is a lot less static on those than there was 5 years ago. Transmissions are always battling the signal to noise ratio. Satelites have to worry about radiation, solar winds, coronal discharges and whatnot screwing up the transmissions. It may not be heroic to you, but to us ham radio freaks it sure is! I remember being in 3rd grade and writing "when I grow up I want to be a jam-proof satelite defending my carrier frequency from the evil-doers! :)
Give them a break. Radios are only 50 years old. We've come a long way. Where would this world be if all these transmission that we rely upon went down 10 times a day?
Hey cool! Next time I program I will put a whole bunch of easy syntax errors at the beginning so I won't have any errors in the rest of the code. Hmmm. If MS has been practicing this for a while I think I know why they have so many problems....
QA checks? Does 64,000 bugs ring a bell? QA is nonexistant. As long as it gets out the door two years late they don't seem to give a danm at Microsoft. Look at the first version of FP. More bugs than a volkswagen factory. Ex. Every time you open a page in the editor it removes the background for you.
This type of mediation between adolecent peers has been implemented and functioned with astounding results. In 1692, a system of peer review was used in Massachusets where young adults reviewed their fellow students and friends. The result was positive. 24 severly defunct students were removed from society, preventing countless others from being hurt. Although this event was dubbed the Salem "witch hunt", the south has the moral obligation to overlook this hasty misnomer, and reintroduce a productive, result-based system for the preservation of a functioning society.
We must start construction of gallows and burning stakes immediately to prepare for the forthcoming onslaught of morally-misaligned youthes.
1) The recording industry has missed the boat. If they would have had a decent distribution method for the internet 2 years ago, this probably wouldn't have happened. There has been demand for online music for YEARS. MP3's have been the enabler for online music sales, but the recording industries greed stopped them from using the internet as a market. Why charge 10 bucks for an online CD when you can charge 20 bucks in a store? I still believe an online store would be successful, and nearly eliminate the use of Napster. How many times have you been cut off in the middle of a transfer? Or had it too slow to wait for it to finish? or the quality is terrible? This list can go on and on.
:)
2) I have a hard time believing artists don't make money on concerts. Some of these bums are charging 40 bucks a ticket. With 10,000 fans, that adds up to almost half a million. I know a lot of people dip into that bucket, but then multiply this by the number of shows, the number of cities, etc. Some of the more pompous bands charge even more. Add in the sales of soda/beer/food/t-shirts/parking/programs and the fans are paying more than their share. Maby the bands should complain to the indie about their cut of the other sales.
3) I don't know about anyone else, but most of what I download I would never buy. The radio stations only play the same 200 songs. I just want variety. If I like a band, yeah, I will get the CD. Its a lot more durable, comes in a nifty case and all that. Plus, I get tracks I never would have downloaaded. Sometimes they are even good
It may be illegal, it may be immoral, but THERE IS NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE! Napster or nothing.
Music Industry: take a hint, put up a store already! What are you worried about, copying? People are already doing it. You want your money, then make it already.
3. and cramped at that.
Hmmm. 30 to 50 sales a month is from $1198.50 to $1997.50 per month. This "package" is probably in electronic form, so no overhead. Just an internet account at $20 a month. So all this guy did, to make this kind of money, is to write a book detailing how he did what he did? DANM! Looks like I will start making payments on a new Porsche! Oh, yes, if you want to buy my book on spam prevention, or online buisnesses just send check or money order to ........ :)
I wish I had no morals.
Would a LITERARY genius necessarily have good spacial comprehension???? Hell yes! Pull two or three pages out of a book and hold them up to a light. You now have letters in different orientations and depth. It would not be easy to crack because the words are intertwined in each other. There is no letter to letter correlation, which is what was hinted to in the last puzzle. This may be a step in the right direction.
Yeah, but imagine having to say to Word, "delete the third line down from the second paragraph, from the word function to the word drop". In the mean time you could just highlight and delete the danm thing with a mouse.
Sure hands-free type stuff would be nice, and it is already working. I used to have a mac in a lab that had it enabled about 5 years ago. When I was working on a PC, I would yell out COMPUTER, wait for a response, and then TIME! and it would tell me the time. It was a great shareware program, but I cannot remember the name of it. Buggy too, but it worked OK.
I beleieve he just meant it is easier to represent and manipulate data in better ways than the same way in 4 dimensions (x,y,z,sound).
I think you mean slashdot.ORG putz!
So wait a minute, /. slashdot-effected itself? Strange, but I didn't see any articles referencing www.slashdot.com. If it did, I dunno what the effect would be. Server would be down for weeks, probably.
:)
Digital monitors are FLAT PANELS!!!! (I cant think of a single tube montior that is digital).
Little/no/easily shieldable against radiation.
(and I am sure there will be >56 bit encryption for more secure workstations)
Not meant for computers!?!?! Are you nuts! This is specifically for computers! This is the whole DVD DeCSS thing moving up one step. Say a DVD is made with double encryption. The DVD drive ONLY outputs a signal with one level of decryption removed. The signal is then sent to the monitor, which removes the second layer of encryption. You can no longer make a copy of the CD because you no longer have access to the signal. If the keys are large enough, you won't be able to decrypt it, and send it to your friends over the internet. This is obviously one of the fears of the MPAA.
:)
You are probably wondering how this all factors ino your TV. Look at all of the media centers and internet appliances we hear sony and micro$oft coming out with. 2+2=4. Your TV will soon (probably) be digital, and this system would work.
Copying through a DVD burner is slower to distribute, harder and more expensive to do, and easier to prosecute. Not a big worry for the MPAA, or at least, not as big as movie distribution over the internet. Little do they know, when you make something more idiot proof, mother nature will just make a better idiot.
And for the whole TEMPEST proofing thing, do you REALLY think there wouldn't be a special door for the boys upstairs to use?
Easy. You are in HTML mode. Use < BR>,(the html tag for newline) or select Plain Old Text mode on the selector under the editing window.
Checkout the threads under Wednesday's article about "CERT advisory on malicious HTML tags" for nifty tricks.
>The nervous system in our body uses electrical impulses to transmit the sensory data. But that's not even close to the speed at which computers transmit their data.
Well, yes and no. Signals going through the brain are about the same speed. From your foot to your brain, yeah there is latency. This is why reflex reactions are processed in the spinal column.
>The bones in our body grow and are alive, so they can't possibly have the strength of the "skeletons" we use for cars and buildings.
Your bones are nasty strong under compression. Your femur can hold several thousand pounds, and it actually experiences loads like this during running.
>most living things, in fact, have these "flaws".
I dinged my car yesterday. It has a flaw now. I dinged my toe on the coffe table two days ago. I am not flawed anymore. I am alive, and therefore can heal (most stuff) back to normal. Nanoprobes are nice, but they will not last forever. If damaged, will they self repair? Where will they find the metals to repair themselves with? If they cannot self repair, then the whole spying idea is moot. I will just expose myself to a magnetic pulse and short them out. (or nonleathal amount of radiation).
Here is my point. We have small "computers" already that contain a set of design and operating instructions on a small tape with error correction coding. The computer has sensors for light, temperature, touch, and various chemical detectors. It has motors for movement and operates on electricity. It is in every top secret installation in the world and is capable of killing humans. Sounds nasty? We call them germs. Heck, any protozoa will qualify. If you think we can do better with metal and silicon than nature has done with carbohydrates and proteins, I would be suprised.