One of the operation's goals is to protect the public from network infrastructure failures associated with the counterfeits, the DOJ said. As opposed to network infrastructure failure caused by ships dragging their anchors through the Mediterranean. Or Verizon techs installing crap on their toplevel DNS servers.
No, I think the goal is to protect the corporation. Not that I completely object to these actions, just that it's getting pretty tiresome to see the police always trotting out the public safety angle.
When you specified the work for your outsourced buddies, did you specify that the input was sorted (and UTF-8 or 8-bit ASCII) ? If you didn't, that was hardly their fault.
Yes, it made me sad, but realistically... it had something like a 25 Mhz 68020 and 32 MB of RAM. It was way cool for its time (and I had originally paid something like $12K in today's dollars), but it took up space that I didn't really have and it couldn't handle the crap that passed for websites anymore.
If you want to track this down, try using google groups to dig through comp.unix.wizards from 1989 or thereabouts. I rmember when Linus was still mooting the idea of writing a unix clone and trying to drum up enthusiasm. I don't recall any specific discussions about names though.
Haha, I've actually got one sitting on my desk right this minute - I pulled it from my old NeXtStation before I sent it off to the recyclers... It's in a pile with two 9 GB SCSI drives that I think must have been DOA but I can't remember. Now, a TEN meg drive, that would be impressive.
if someone asks you to sell him a gun so he can murder his wife That's not what this law is about. It's only about interfering with commerce. So unless his wife is a hooker (and it doesn't specify lawful commerce), this law would not apply to that behavior.
This law is all about protecting McDonald's and Starbucks from TEH AN4RKISTS!!
One of the things that spy satellites are legitimately good for is seeing submarines underwater near our shores. If you're concerned about someone using a boat or a one-man submersible to smuggle a suitcase nuke ashore, somewhere along our thousands of miles of coastline, you might want to watch those coastlines from orbit.
I think that would legally require a warrant since the coastlines themselves are usually private property, and you'd probably also want to be watching up to a mile inland.
But I still think that if you were part of a conspiracy you could manage to work around that.
I used to do aerial photography for the USDA's payment-in-kind program. They would use my photographs to determine the exact acreage of a farmer's fields, and whether or not he was growing the crops he said he was. They claimed to be able to distinguish between corn and soybeans from 35mm photographs shot at 8000 ft in a vibrating Cessna. The color was certainly involved -- they weren't just imaging a leaf. They have now switched to using satellite photos. Maybe they're just bluffing.
Has anyone here ever seen a photo from the spy satellites that was not downsampled? Fuzzed, obscured, obfuscated, if you will? The exact capabilities of those satellites are highly classified, and the way they stay secret is by keeping the photos secret too.
Now what is going to happen if we start handing out eyespies to every deputy with a warrant? Poof, there goes the secret.
is at least part of what this is about. Should make it much easier to find hidden fields of cash crops. I don't see needing a warrant to be a real impediment: "Your Honor, we have a confidential informant that tells us that there is a 1/4 acre plot of pot plants somewhere in the Adirondack National Forest. We could just go fly a plane over it for a few days at a cost of $2000, or we sure could use those high-res satellite photos."
From what I've seen, the Google Earth photos are good enough to locate a clearing in the woods, but not good enough to differentiate pot from, well, weeds.
Hahahaha. Sorry, Microsoft DFS was a quick and dirty rip-off of the highlights of DCE DFS so they could claim "yeah, we do replication". To the back of the class with you.
You have two choices: (a) Allow the hijackers into the cockpit. They crash the plane into a skyscraper and kill thousands of people. Everyone on the plane dies. (b) Don't allow the hijackers into the cockpit. Everyone on the plane dies.
Huh. Seems like a pretty simple choice, painful though it may be.
Sellers depend on other sellers to leave legitimate feedback as a guide for the integrity of the bidder. The key here is "legitimate" feedback. It is equally the same for buyers and sellers (and many people are both). EBay was cool in the 90s, but it's been overrun by opportunists. I no longer bother with EBay as the time investment and risk are just too high. If EBay can't solve their reputation problems, they'll be supplanted. Mark well when they pull out their patent portfolio and start suing competitors -- that will be the beginning of the end.
NASA exists in an entirely different competitive environment from MS or Sun or Apple or Linux. I agree that the hoi polloi tolerate entirely too much crap from consumer-grade software, but I don't agree that the performance of NASA's software teams should be used to throw stones at people who are operating in a different world.
But the NTSB never gave any real credence to it being a missile. Neither did the FBI, for that matter. There was just never any evidence. The FBI had pretty much ruled out terrorism within 2 days of the accident. Of course, that didn't stop them from rolling out new ID requirements to prevent terrorists from buying and selling frequent flier tickets. Yes kids, before TWA 800 blew up all by itself, you didn't have to show photo id to board a domestic flight.
between not wanting to give the "T3RR0R K1DD13Z" any ideas if they haven't already got them, and feeling a need to dope-slap the unimaginative slobs who vote. Fact is, there are so many cheap and easy ways to damage the electrical grid that we can't possibly protect it from sabotage in a remotely cost-effective way.
Sez Hayden: "Not that there's anything at all novel in this discussion, mind you, but it gives us a chance to hype an upcoming Hollywood flick on the front page of Slashdot. Just in case some of you nerds really are living in a bubble that our producers haven't managed to penetrate."
I would love to purchase an always-on, burstable service, billed by the Mbit. I think it's a great disincentive to the use of horribly inefficient protocols and sloppy huge Flash applications on all the web pages everywhere. If there were some pressure for Web developers to be frugal about their bandwidth demands, then maybe the internet would be useful over cheap wireless carriers... once again. And things like community wireless mesh networks could be practical for Internet access.
Hm. I knew perry in a previous life. I'd say he's one of the 100 smartest people I know, so I give his analysis some credibility. Unfortunately, I suspect that much of the information he was starting with was deliberate *mis*-information, provided by security officials to the press in hopes that they could encourage a few jihadists to send themselves to a premature heaven.
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No, I think the goal is to protect the corporation. Not that I completely object to these actions, just that it's getting pretty tiresome to see the police always trotting out the public safety angle.
When you specified the work for your outsourced buddies, did you specify that the input was sorted (and UTF-8 or 8-bit ASCII) ? If you didn't, that was hardly their fault.
Yes, it made me sad, but realistically... it had something like a 25 Mhz 68020 and 32 MB of RAM. It was way cool for its time (and I had originally paid something like $12K in today's dollars), but it took up space that I didn't really have and it couldn't handle the crap that passed for websites anymore.
If you want to track this down, try using google groups to dig through comp.unix.wizards from 1989 or thereabouts. I rmember when Linus was still mooting the idea of writing a unix clone and trying to drum up enthusiasm. I don't recall any specific discussions about names though.
Haha, I've actually got one sitting on my desk right this minute - I pulled it from my old NeXtStation before I sent it off to the recyclers... It's in a pile with two 9 GB SCSI drives that I think must have been DOA but I can't remember. Now, a TEN meg drive, that would be impressive.
This law is all about protecting McDonald's and Starbucks from TEH AN4RKISTS!!
One of the things that spy satellites are legitimately good for is seeing submarines underwater near our shores. If you're concerned about someone using a boat or a one-man submersible to smuggle a suitcase nuke ashore, somewhere along our thousands of miles of coastline, you might want to watch those coastlines from orbit.
I think that would legally require a warrant since the coastlines themselves are usually private property, and you'd probably also want to be watching up to a mile inland.
But I still think that if you were part of a conspiracy you could manage to work around that.
I used to do aerial photography for the USDA's payment-in-kind program. They would use my photographs to determine the exact acreage of a farmer's fields, and whether or not he was growing the crops he said he was. They claimed to be able to distinguish between corn and soybeans from 35mm photographs shot at 8000 ft in a vibrating Cessna. The color was certainly involved -- they weren't just imaging a leaf. They have now switched to using satellite photos. Maybe they're just bluffing.
Has anyone here ever seen a photo from the spy satellites that was not downsampled? Fuzzed, obscured, obfuscated, if you will? The exact capabilities of those satellites are highly classified, and the way they stay secret is by keeping the photos secret too.
Now what is going to happen if we start handing out eyespies to every deputy with a warrant? Poof, there goes the secret.
is at least part of what this is about. Should make it much easier to find hidden fields of cash crops. I don't see needing a warrant to be a real impediment: "Your Honor, we have a confidential informant that tells us that there is a 1/4 acre plot of pot plants somewhere in the Adirondack National Forest. We could just go fly a plane over it for a few days at a cost of $2000, or we sure could use those high-res satellite photos."
From what I've seen, the Google Earth photos are good enough to locate a clearing in the woods, but not good enough to differentiate pot from, well, weeds.
Does that mean I can't have a jury of my peers, if negative experiences with various kinds of police are part of my ordinary experience?
Hahahaha. Sorry, Microsoft DFS was a quick and dirty rip-off of the highlights of DCE DFS so they could claim "yeah, we do replication". To the back of the class with you.
You have two choices:
(a) Allow the hijackers into the cockpit. They crash the plane into a skyscraper and kill thousands of people. Everyone on the plane dies.
(b) Don't allow the hijackers into the cockpit. Everyone on the plane dies.
Huh. Seems like a pretty simple choice, painful though it may be.
Huh. That explains why my @#$%^& kid swears like a #$% sailor, too.
It used to be that even the n00bs knew a little bit about technology.
Let me explain something to you in one little word: dialup.
How do you propose to cut off all delivery of trojans and worms, while permitting international telephone calls to continue?
Once you've figured that out, think about postal mail of CD-ROMs.
NASA exists in an entirely different competitive environment from MS or Sun or Apple or Linux. I agree that the hoi polloi tolerate entirely too much crap from consumer-grade software, but I don't agree that the performance of NASA's software teams should be used to throw stones at people who are operating in a different world.
would have been on takeoff, about 4 seconds after the wheels left the ground.
between not wanting to give the "T3RR0R K1DD13Z" any ideas if they haven't already got them, and feeling a need to dope-slap the unimaginative slobs who vote. Fact is, there are so many cheap and easy ways to damage the electrical grid that we can't possibly protect it from sabotage in a remotely cost-effective way.
I have the logs here to prove it. Still, I seem to have it under control.
Sez Hayden: "Not that there's anything at all novel in this discussion, mind you, but it gives us a chance to hype an upcoming Hollywood flick on the front page of Slashdot. Just in case some of you nerds really are living in a bubble that our producers haven't managed to penetrate."
I would love to purchase an always-on, burstable service, billed by the Mbit. I think it's a great disincentive to the use of horribly inefficient protocols and sloppy huge Flash applications on all the web pages everywhere. If there were some pressure for Web developers to be frugal about their bandwidth demands, then maybe the internet would be useful over cheap wireless carriers... once again. And things like community wireless mesh networks could be practical for Internet access.
Hm. I knew perry in a previous life. I'd say he's one of the 100 smartest people I know, so I give his analysis some credibility. Unfortunately, I suspect that much of the information he was starting with was deliberate *mis*-information, provided by security officials to the press in hopes that they could encourage a few jihadists to send themselves to a premature heaven.