most BIOSes I came across in the last year permit boot from USB, and none have some option to disable it -- yes, you can *think* you disabled it, but the magic (cntrl-f10) "boot menu" key continued to work. I found this tremendously insecure.
"If someone emails out sensitive data, there is a record of it". I don't think so. You pack the data, encrypt it, put it inside a virus-looking executable, and send it to the destination with subject: "I love u", preferrently from another workstation, not yours, then infect said workstation with some (new?) virus. Plausible deniability.
DRM = data + key in the same package. I have said this a thousand times -- cryptographically speaking, DRM just plain does not work. Treat well your employees, and *that* you have the solution to the OP problems.
We are talking about present-day, not ancient history. If we are going to talk about ancient history, you'll have to bring up: the native American massacres all over the continent (by Christians); the African enslavement; the Crusades; the Inquisition; the Purge of the Jews in Spain by none other than Isabel of Castilla and Fernando de Leon; the Holocaust...
There are only TWO ways to stop terrorism: 1) Find them and kill them BEFORE they act (only works for small, geographically concentrated groups.) 2) Remove the social and political reasons for their acts.
Given that their motive is to conquer all non-Muslims and impose Sharia law world-wide-and what other goal has Islam ever had?-(see the amusements of the Taliban in Afganistan for a peachy example), I hope your set of solutions is incomplete. Fortunately, people other than you have been thinking about it, see, for example, this blog for one, or Daniel Pipes, for another, and even some really moderate and/or ex-Muslims over here.
Their motive is, basically:
1. coalition pull out of Iraq 2. Israel leave their neighbors in peace, and divide Jerusalem properly 3. Russia pull out of Chechnya 4. US pull out of Saudi Arabia 5. better income distribution in the middle east (related to 2, 4)
make the necessary reforms to do the five above and fundamentalist (terrorist) muslim activity will decrease to a halt.
If Microsoft *really* wanted to have anything to do with Linux/BSDs, they would simply improve WINE. Hell, they could implement it fully, maintain it on sync with all their Win* APIs and, as there is at least one version of WINE that is BSD/MIT-licensed, they could simply run with it -- even charge a little bit for it.
If Bush can get away... he can....our freedom is in more trouble... it is. Americans themselves have to be accountable... I agree.
Re:Your sig. Will slashdot ever drag itself into the year 2005 and provide the ability to edit posts? I hope not. Editing posts (even withdrawing them) makes extremely weird threads, where people edit what they say a lot. If you want to correct yourself, or withdraw some nonsense you just said, apologize for the record. It's far more mature than editing.
Ouviram do Ipiranga às margens plácidas de um povo heróico um brado retumbante e o sol da Liberdade em raios fúlgidos brilhou no céu da Pátria nesse instante.
Se o penhor dessa igualdade conseguimos conquistar com braços fortes em teu seio, ó Liberdade, desafia o nosso peito à própria morte!
Ó Pátria amada, idolatrada, salve, salve...
It's been heard at the placid shores of the Ipiranga River a thundering shout of a heroic people and the sun of the Freedom in strong rays shone in the sky of the Land in that instant.
If the distrain of this equality we got to conquer with strong arms in its heart, oh Freedom, defies our chest to the death!
does this thing have a "cut-off" mechanism? What prevents the guy with the finger on the trigger to keep his finger there? Anything that boils your skin under 5 seconds does a lot of damage if you keep it going for, say, 45 seconds.
We do have treated water, but nobody drinks it right off the tap (when I lived in Madrid, Spaniards looked funny to me because I bought bottled water -- they would say "our treated water is great, drink it right off the tap!!" -- but I digress.)
We don't really *trust* the water company, so many people have filters at their home. I, personally, live in a place where there is a slight contamination with iron oxide dust (there is an iron mine few km away and my building is on the top of a hill, the city reservoir that serves us is near, too), so we buy bottled water, not because of health issues (there is none), but because of the taste, and filters do no good about it.
Only people who have wells boil the water or otherwise treat it -- normally with chlorine small pills, that are cheap and relatively safe (you drop a pill per liter of water, wait one hour, and it's ready to drink).
When my brother-in-law comes from Germany, he drinks the (filtered) water, without any ill effects whatsoever, which IMHO indicates our water treatment is passable.
I was anonymously informed that Snape kills Dumbledore around page 600 of this book, and that Snape is the "half-blood prince". (I am not sure what that means.) I am not a Harry Potter fan, and it is of little importance to me to learn about the plot of this book either today or next year. However, when governments spit on human rights, posting what they wish to suppress is one way humans can protest.
If everyone else is playing by the book? They sit down and talk diplomatically, and make concessions until a consensus is reached. Or, if no consensus is reached, the rogue country is isolated, which can be pretty bad in itself.
are you really that misguided? No, I am not misguided at all. Read on.
Your statements assume that terrorists are reasonable and rational, operate in good faith... They often are, and do, at least for started. I am from a country that only got redemocratized (?) with aid of terrorist and guerrilla techniques. Terrorists normally are those who have no voice... and find out that nothing talks louder than a bomb or a good old 747 bumping on a big building.
No matter WHAT you do, there's going to be someone with a different viewpoint and beliefs, and often with conflicting interests. With reasoning, good faith, and reasonable concessions, you can negotiate anything.
Simple example: your not meddling in the internal affairs of other countries can be taken as inaction and indifference by one side, and they may bomb you anyway just to get you "involved". This is wrong in so many levels. One: they do not do that. Ever. There is no record of this. Terrorists normally have targets, and they keep their focus. Two: inaction and indiference are not urgent enough to be in the radar of guerrilla people. Three: what many perceive as inaction and indiference is just hidden under a pile of commercial actions and interests.
This is not to say that one shouldn't do the things you suggest, but following your recipie by rote does NOT mean that *no* terrorists will *ever* want to bomb your country. You may be right that there are no guarantees -- to a point. But the politically-motivated terrorist finds some systems more "at fault" than others. There are reasonable reasons why Osama attacked NY and DC and not Brasilia. We do have good relations with Israel, but we also have great relations with most (all?) muslim countries. Our muslim internal community is well-integrated in our society, and welcome everywhere, and has been like that for the last two centuries. We respect them. All of this make us less of a target.
The UK was a target just for the IRA, until Blair thought it was a good idea to put an end to it joining Bush in his anti-rights crusade. Aznar did the same IRT the ETA in Spain. Both (Aznar and Blair) wanted to be known as "the man who ended the ETA/IRA". They failed miserably and all they did was to paint huge concentrical black and white circles in their capital cities.
Even if Ireland/Euskadi people want (democratically) to be integrated instead of secessed (?), more regional financial independence (more local taxes, less federal taxes) is the recipe to block separatists: they usually want to stop the bleeding of resources that usually end up in other places. Spain, for instance, had conceded a lot in those areas, and as a result ETA has much less popular support among the Basque people that it had in the past. All their problems would be solved, IMHO, if Spain just went the "Democratic alternative" way and made a popular referendum on the emancipation of Euskadi.
Even the USofAn constitution (or was it the Declaration) acknowledge the importance of peoples self-determination. Or do many think that it is only valid to USofAns from King George?
But they're entertaining. Actually, it only took me four to five hours to read any of them (except for the last one that was double the size of the others) so, it's a good thing to do in a Friday night for a married man while the wife and kid sleep (I got insomnia)
Injunctions, in my jurisdiction, need a binomial to be issued: fumus bono iuris (the "smoke" of the good right) and periculum in mora (danger in delaying).
In casu, none of those are present.
There is no periculum in mora, because no irreparable damage will come from people discussing the book, or doing anything that would be legal anyway about it (if the book sucks, people will find out soon enough anyway).
There is no fumus bono iuris because third-party bona fide buyers are exempt from problems ocurring upstream in the distribution chain. For the love of $DEITY, if I enter a big bookstore, buy a book and pay with my credit card it's assumed that I thought in good faith that it was legal to buy that book. The first sale doctrine makes it legal any licit use of the book, even if the book was sold to me in breach of contract. And no, the book is not a stolen good. If I had bought the book from the back of a van, then it could be.
1. the publishers could arrange distribution in crescent order of payload size (smaller stores, that buy less books, served first) 2. as the other poster indicated, "voluntarily" is a strong word; in case, you can breathe voluntarily too.
Someone who bought the book is a bona fide third party and cannot be liable for the illegal actions of others. How much time to read a Harry Potter novel? The big one took me just one weekend...
I would just read the thing and review it, put the review on the Net.
I know what I'm talking about, and my country tries to implement -- at a constitutional level, and with varying success quotient -- all but #1 above. We had our bombings during the 64-84 dictatorial period, but no more. Why? IMHO, because in our shiny new Constitution (1988), our country made the promises to be a pacific, non-expansionist (and this includes non-imperialist), extend-our-friendly-hand-to-everyone-that-asks kind of country. And, even if we have more than our quota of corruption, bad income distribution, we try to keep our internal problems internal and our external problems solved the diplomatic way.
One thing I can tell you: the "war on terror" is nothing but a scam. Terrorists (and I know some, I can tell you) are not raving lunatics, they are simply people like you and me that, at some point, start thinking they have no other option and if they want to be heard they'll have to use terror tactics. Or people to whom so much evil has been done that they just want revenge. Even the Unabomber thought, at some point, that he could be doing some for the good of mankind, trying to warn us of the imminent (in his opinion) failure of our society's models.
Keep with me: the "awful truth" is that if the state of Palestin had been created together with Israel, if they were charted with local peace as their objectives (Israel is a predominantly military-oriented state), if the US did not keep the Saudi royals where they are by force and with their oil as their only interest, 9/11 would not have happened.
To those who say that "the Islam makes these fundamentalist mad people", remember that Christian fundamentalist have in the recent past bombed abortion clinics. Fundamentalists are fundamentalists, whichever religion they have. But the sure way to turn a fundamentalist in a terrorist is to ignore him, to despise him. Even fundamentalists can be tought the values of respect to others' beliefs.
Ain't freedom of speech great? Yes it is.
How did we get that freedom? In my country, in a gradual process that involved, among other things, terrorist attacks.
How do we keep it? There are so many answers to this, but the best I can think is: respecting other people's freedom of speech, respecting other people's point of view, knowing that your freedom ends where the other people's freedom begins, ie, being civilized. If enough people do this, everybody will keep their freedom of speech.
No enterprise (worth of enterprise-class) phases out every equipment at once. The norm is to have 3-6 "generations" of workstations. You buy 1/5 of your equipments, move stuff around, phase out 1/5 of the stuff -- those of the "older generation".
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Lock the door, and your developers out?
most BIOSes I came across in the last year permit boot from USB, and none have some option to disable it -- yes, you can *think* you disabled it, but the magic (cntrl-f10) "boot menu" key continued to work. I found this tremendously insecure.
"If someone emails out sensitive data, there is a record of it". I don't think so. You pack the data, encrypt it, put it inside a virus-looking executable, and send it to the destination with subject: "I love u", preferrently from another workstation, not yours, then infect said workstation with some (new?) virus. Plausible deniability.
DRM = data + key in the same package. I have said this a thousand times -- cryptographically speaking, DRM just plain does not work.
Treat well your employees, and *that* you have the solution to the OP problems.
MODS please mod parent Funny. :-)
Or Troll.
We are talking about present-day, not ancient history. If we are going to talk about ancient history, you'll have to bring up: the native American massacres all over the continent (by Christians); the African enslavement; the Crusades; the Inquisition; the Purge of the Jews in Spain by none other than Isabel of Castilla and Fernando de Leon; the Holocaust...
Their motive is, basically:
1. coalition pull out of Iraq
2. Israel leave their neighbors in peace, and divide Jerusalem properly
3. Russia pull out of Chechnya
4. US pull out of Saudi Arabia
5. better income distribution in the middle east (related to 2, 4)
make the necessary reforms to do the five above and fundamentalist (terrorist) muslim activity will decrease to a halt.
Carry a large machete everywhere you go... so they can dispose of your body after they finish you.
ATTENTION HUMOUR-IMPAIRED MODS: this is a joke.
most of the African countries have an recent history of genocide.
If Microsoft *really* wanted to have anything to do with Linux/BSDs, they would simply improve WINE. Hell, they could implement it fully, maintain it on sync with all their Win* APIs and, as there is at least one version of WINE that is BSD/MIT-licensed, they could simply run with it -- even charge a little bit for it.
If Bush can get away... he can. ...our freedom is in more trouble... it is.
Americans themselves have to be accountable... I agree.
Re:Your sig.
Will slashdot ever drag itself into the year 2005 and provide the ability to edit posts? I hope not. Editing posts (even withdrawing them) makes extremely weird threads, where people edit what they say a lot. If you want to correct yourself, or withdraw some nonsense you just said, apologize for the record. It's far more mature than editing.
Ouviram do Ipiranga às margens plácidas
de um povo heróico um brado retumbante
e o sol da Liberdade em raios fúlgidos
brilhou no céu da Pátria nesse instante.
Se o penhor dessa igualdade
conseguimos conquistar com braços fortes
em teu seio, ó Liberdade,
desafia o nosso peito à própria morte!
Ó Pátria amada, idolatrada, salve, salve...
It's been heard at the placid shores of the Ipiranga River
a thundering shout of a heroic people
and the sun of the Freedom in strong rays
shone in the sky of the Land in that instant.
If the distrain of this equality
we got to conquer with strong arms
in its heart, oh Freedom,
defies our chest to the death!
Oh beloved, idolized, Land, hooray!
does this thing have a "cut-off" mechanism? What prevents the guy with the finger on the trigger to keep his finger there? Anything that boils your skin under 5 seconds does a lot of damage if you keep it going for, say, 45 seconds.
We do have treated water, but nobody drinks it right off the tap (when I lived in Madrid, Spaniards looked funny to me because I bought bottled water -- they would say "our treated water is great, drink it right off the tap!!" -- but I digress.)
We don't really *trust* the water company, so many people have filters at their home. I, personally, live in a place where there is a slight contamination with iron oxide dust (there is an iron mine few km away and my building is on the top of a hill, the city reservoir that serves us is near, too), so we buy bottled water, not because of health issues (there is none), but because of the taste, and filters do no good about it.
Only people who have wells boil the water or otherwise treat it -- normally with chlorine small pills, that are cheap and relatively safe (you drop a pill per liter of water, wait one hour, and it's ready to drink).
When my brother-in-law comes from Germany, he drinks the (filtered) water, without any ill effects whatsoever, which IMHO indicates our water treatment is passable.
If everyone else is playing by the book? They sit down and talk diplomatically, and make concessions until a consensus is reached. Or, if no consensus is reached, the rogue country is isolated, which can be pretty bad in itself.
are you really that misguided? No, I am not misguided at all. Read on.
Your statements assume that terrorists are reasonable and rational, operate in good faith... They often are, and do, at least for started. I am from a country that only got redemocratized (?) with aid of terrorist and guerrilla techniques. Terrorists normally are those who have no voice... and find out that nothing talks louder than a bomb or a good old 747 bumping on a big building.
No matter WHAT you do, there's going to be someone with a different viewpoint and beliefs, and often with conflicting interests. With reasoning, good faith, and reasonable concessions, you can negotiate anything.
Simple example: your not meddling in the internal affairs of other countries can be taken as inaction and indifference by one side, and they may bomb you anyway just to get you "involved". This is wrong in so many levels. One: they do not do that. Ever. There is no record of this. Terrorists normally have targets, and they keep their focus. Two: inaction and indiference are not urgent enough to be in the radar of guerrilla people. Three: what many perceive as inaction and indiference is just hidden under a pile of commercial actions and interests.
This is not to say that one shouldn't do the things you suggest, but following your recipie by rote does NOT mean that *no* terrorists will *ever* want to bomb your country. You may be right that there are no guarantees -- to a point. But the politically-motivated terrorist finds some systems more "at fault" than others. There are reasonable reasons why Osama attacked NY and DC and not Brasilia. We do have good relations with Israel, but we also have great relations with most (all?) muslim countries. Our muslim internal community is well-integrated in our society, and welcome everywhere, and has been like that for the last two centuries. We respect them. All of this make us less of a target.
The UK was a target just for the IRA, until Blair thought it was a good idea to put an end to it joining Bush in his anti-rights crusade. Aznar did the same IRT the ETA in Spain. Both (Aznar and Blair) wanted to be known as "the man who ended the ETA/IRA". They failed miserably and all they did was to paint huge concentrical black and white circles in their capital cities.
Even if Ireland/Euskadi people want (democratically) to be integrated instead of secessed (?), more regional financial independence (more local taxes, less federal taxes) is the recipe to block separatists: they usually want to stop the bleeding of resources that usually end up in other places. Spain, for instance, had conceded a lot in those areas, and as a result ETA has much less popular support among the Basque people that it had in the past. All their problems would be solved, IMHO, if Spain just went the "Democratic alternative" way and made a popular referendum on the emancipation of Euskadi.
Even the USofAn constitution (or was it the Declaration) acknowledge the importance of peoples self-determination. Or do many think that it is only valid to USofAns from King George?
But they're entertaining. Actually, it only took me four to five hours to read any of them (except for the last one that was double the size of the others) so, it's a good thing to do in a Friday night for a married man while the wife and kid sleep (I got insomnia)
Injunctions, in my jurisdiction, need a binomial to be issued: fumus bono iuris (the "smoke" of the good right) and periculum in mora (danger in delaying).
In casu, none of those are present.
There is no periculum in mora, because no irreparable damage will come from people discussing the book, or doing anything that would be legal anyway about it (if the book sucks, people will find out soon enough anyway).
There is no fumus bono iuris because third-party bona fide buyers are exempt from problems ocurring upstream in the distribution chain. For the love of $DEITY, if I enter a big bookstore, buy a book and pay with my credit card it's assumed that I thought in good faith that it was legal to buy that book. The first sale doctrine makes it legal any licit use of the book, even if the book was sold to me in breach of contract. And no, the book is not a stolen good. If I had bought the book from the back of a van, then it could be.
1. the publishers could arrange distribution in crescent order of payload size (smaller stores, that buy less books, served first)
2. as the other poster indicated, "voluntarily" is a strong word; in case, you can breathe voluntarily too.
1st: breach of contract != theft. so, there is NO stolen goods here.
2nd: first sale doctrine guarantees that bona fide buyers of a book in a fscking bookstore get to keep it and use it normally.
This court order would be manifestly illegal, and henceforth void.
All of this shit just because Hermione finally dies in this book.
Someone who bought the book is a bona fide third party and cannot be liable for the illegal actions of others. How much time to read a Harry Potter novel? The big one took me just one weekend...
I would just read the thing and review it, put the review on the Net.
I know what I'm talking about, and my country tries to implement -- at a constitutional level, and with varying success quotient -- all but #1 above. We had our bombings during the 64-84 dictatorial period, but no more. Why? IMHO, because in our shiny new Constitution (1988), our country made the promises to be a pacific, non-expansionist (and this includes non-imperialist), extend-our-friendly-hand-to-everyone-that-asks kind of country. And, even if we have more than our quota of corruption, bad income distribution, we try to keep our internal problems internal and our external problems solved the diplomatic way.
One thing I can tell you: the "war on terror" is nothing but a scam. Terrorists (and I know some, I can tell you) are not raving lunatics, they are simply people like you and me that, at some point, start thinking they have no other option and if they want to be heard they'll have to use terror tactics. Or people to whom so much evil has been done that they just want revenge. Even the Unabomber thought, at some point, that he could be doing some for the good of mankind, trying to warn us of the imminent (in his opinion) failure of our society's models.
Keep with me: the "awful truth" is that if the state of Palestin had been created together with Israel, if they were charted with local peace as their objectives (Israel is a predominantly military-oriented state), if the US did not keep the Saudi royals where they are by force and with their oil as their only interest, 9/11 would not have happened.
To those who say that "the Islam makes these fundamentalist mad people", remember that Christian fundamentalist have in the recent past bombed abortion clinics. Fundamentalists are fundamentalists, whichever religion they have. But the sure way to turn a fundamentalist in a terrorist is to ignore him, to despise him. Even fundamentalists can be tought the values of respect to others' beliefs.
Ain't freedom of speech great? Yes it is.
How did we get that freedom? In my country, in a gradual process that involved, among other things, terrorist attacks.
How do we keep it? There are so many answers to this, but the best I can think is: respecting other people's freedom of speech, respecting other people's point of view, knowing that your freedom ends where the other people's freedom begins, ie, being civilized. If enough people do this, everybody will keep their freedom of speech.
Peace to you.
No enterprise (worth of enterprise-class) phases out every equipment at once. The norm is to have 3-6 "generations" of workstations. You buy 1/5 of your equipments, move stuff around, phase out 1/5 of the stuff -- those of the "older generation".