Granted, in standard/. poster style, I didn't bother reading the FA but this sounds like cipher-block chaining which has been part of modern crypto systems since forever; why has it taken until 2011 for someone to apply it to e-voting?
As an addendum: Try to do some homework and get hardware that has open-source drivers already in the kernel; pay special attention to video and wireless drivers. As a general rule, I have found Intel hardware to be well supported across distros but YMMV.
Gnome3 fallback mode is nice but the devs need to treat it as more than just a "fallback mode" for when desktop compositing breaks and actually cultivate it as an separate interface at parity with Gnome Shell (or at the very least make its existence better known to users). As it stands right now, you either have to have an issue with video hardware acceleration or poke around and actively look for it, not exactly ideal.
Turn their iPhones into Nokia phones running Symbian!
Well aren't you the merciful type! Frankly, I would have wished them be struck with Sony-Ericsson phones running WinMobile but I guess that means you're just a better person than I am.
Oh blow it out your ass, the idea that a particular non-neurotypical mindset could be better suited to a particular suite of tasks does not mean that a Brave New World is right around the corner. This is talking about an inborn trait that science frankly doesn't know all that much about; not genetically engineering autistic traits into caste workers.
Actually, Suspend-to-RAM is damn useful for laptops, you can keep all your documents, windows, webpages, whatever up as you move from place to place and you don't have to wait for your computer to power up/down, it all just comes back instantly. For a minor powerhit on the batteries I consider that a more than satisfactory trade.
A device in promiscuous mode could still listen to the broadcasts, routed to them or not, also you're thinking of 255.255.255.252 (/30) netmask for point to point links, 255 would mean that there are no bits left over for the host address
Most reputable repositories (Off the top of my head I know that the Fedora, Adobe, RPMFusion, and Dell repositories all use package signing keys) use GPG keys to sign and guarantee that a particular package is legit and has not been tampered with. Provided that you can trust the key issuer, if a given package passes its signature check then you know that has not been altered.
You know, not all scientific publications have to contain thorough empirical confirmations of proposed hypotheses -- science would advance much slower if this were the case.
Those publications you refer to are usually classified as science fiction. The whole "thorough empirical confirmations of proposed hypotheses" thing is what most folks call the scientific method.
I don't think the point was that they were installing Linux per se but that the students had to install and configure a non-desktop oriented OS, and perform some administrative tasks in it. Ubuntu, Arch, LFS, FreeBSD, whatever, either way the student would have to research and learn how to do those tasks, I would imagine that half the difficulty of the assignment was learning where to go for documentation.
That does not address the issue though, just offloads it to making sure that your VM software will be able to open the file and kick up a functioning VM. Hell, what you propose might actually make matters worse, who's to say that VM software 25 years down the road will support stuff like SATA or PATA? If they don't and you can't access the VM file, then you effectively lose the documents entirely, unless of course you want to go bit-hunting through the VM file, which still leaves you at square -1.
Both things you said are true however from a policy perspective I have two comments of my own. Why would you want to support two different products for two different platforms, especially when the tool you mention, TrueCrypt, is cross-platform and able to run on both? Also, aside from basically invisible network and data-storage tasks (e.g. firewalls, database servers, etc.) why would you be using *nix in a hospital setting? There are a lot of custom programs out there for electronic health administration and I'd bet the great majority of them are built for Win32 environments, or maybe an oddball Mac environment here or there. (could be wrong, please correct me as needed)
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Granted, in standard /. poster style, I didn't bother reading the FA but this sounds like cipher-block chaining which has been part of modern crypto systems since forever; why has it taken until 2011 for someone to apply it to e-voting?
FATAL: module anger is in use
As an addendum: Try to do some homework and get hardware that has open-source drivers already in the kernel; pay special attention to video and wireless drivers. As a general rule, I have found Intel hardware to be well supported across distros but YMMV.
System76 and ZaReason are both good dedicated Linux laptop companies. Personally, I have a Dell n-series laptop .
Gnome3 fallback mode is nice but the devs need to treat it as more than just a "fallback mode" for when desktop compositing breaks and actually cultivate it as an separate interface at parity with Gnome Shell (or at the very least make its existence better known to users). As it stands right now, you either have to have an issue with video hardware acceleration or poke around and actively look for it, not exactly ideal.
I mean, the government work for the citizens, not the other way around.
You're new here aren't you?
Turn their iPhones into Nokia phones running Symbian!
Well aren't you the merciful type! Frankly, I would have wished them be struck with Sony-Ericsson phones running WinMobile but I guess that means you're just a better person than I am.
Oh blow it out your ass, the idea that a particular non-neurotypical mindset could be better suited to a particular suite of tasks does not mean that a Brave New World is right around the corner. This is talking about an inborn trait that science frankly doesn't know all that much about; not genetically engineering autistic traits into caste workers.
Can't they be both?
Actually, Suspend-to-RAM is damn useful for laptops, you can keep all your documents, windows, webpages, whatever up as you move from place to place and you don't have to wait for your computer to power up/down, it all just comes back instantly. For a minor powerhit on the batteries I consider that a more than satisfactory trade.
Tasers and tear gas come to mind.
Any guesses as to what its price point would be in the App Store?
I readily agree with Paul and Kucinich but not Palin. Palin did not get famous for knocking out encumbants, she got famous for being a ditz.
A device in promiscuous mode could still listen to the broadcasts, routed to them or not, also you're thinking of 255.255.255.252 (/30) netmask for point to point links, 255 would mean that there are no bits left over for the host address
Most reputable repositories (Off the top of my head I know that the Fedora, Adobe, RPMFusion, and Dell repositories all use package signing keys) use GPG keys to sign and guarantee that a particular package is legit and has not been tampered with. Provided that you can trust the key issuer, if a given package passes its signature check then you know that has not been altered.
You know, not all scientific publications have to contain thorough empirical confirmations of proposed hypotheses -- science would advance much slower if this were the case.
Those publications you refer to are usually classified as science fiction . The whole "thorough empirical confirmations of proposed hypotheses" thing is what most folks call the scientific method.
There is always someone more clever than you out there, see the Enigma system and Alan Turing for a real world example.
I don't think the point was that they were installing Linux per se but that the students had to install and configure a non-desktop oriented OS, and perform some administrative tasks in it. Ubuntu, Arch, LFS, FreeBSD, whatever, either way the student would have to research and learn how to do those tasks, I would imagine that half the difficulty of the assignment was learning where to go for documentation.
The message is that good design plus obscurity beats just good design.
Yes, in theory, but unless you are able to actually LOOK at the design how will you know if it's any good?
Except for the part where said backdoors failed to materialize, see link
I don't know if that disproves the existence of God so much as speak of the ingenuity and depravity of the human race.
But how is that any different from the internet we have now?
Forget your crappy iPad, will Microsoft's own software be able to run that reader 25 years from now? I very high doubt that.
That does not address the issue though, just offloads it to making sure that your VM software will be able to open the file and kick up a functioning VM. Hell, what you propose might actually make matters worse, who's to say that VM software 25 years down the road will support stuff like SATA or PATA? If they don't and you can't access the VM file, then you effectively lose the documents entirely, unless of course you want to go bit-hunting through the VM file, which still leaves you at square -1.
Both things you said are true however from a policy perspective I have two comments of my own. Why would you want to support two different products for two different platforms, especially when the tool you mention, TrueCrypt, is cross-platform and able to run on both? Also, aside from basically invisible network and data-storage tasks (e.g. firewalls, database servers, etc.) why would you be using *nix in a hospital setting? There are a lot of custom programs out there for electronic health administration and I'd bet the great majority of them are built for Win32 environments, or maybe an oddball Mac environment here or there. (could be wrong, please correct me as needed)