I'm pretty sure echelon has this covered, either through straight decoding, a government "key" or whatever.
Also - you can be sure that encrypted calls will be decrypted by some government - after all -- their mindset is "if you have nothing to hide...". Especially in this situation, where the phones are not encrypted all the time (the user has to activly turn on security).
If you are attracting so much attention to yourself - I suppose use for this will be more for commercial purposes than planning terrorism.
hmm.. how much bandwidth does the call use? POTS is made to run with 4000hz of bandwidth, with the maximum data rate of about 56k (something about the maximum number of discrete signals possible within a certain block of bandwidth. Are calls going to sound good when they hit a land line?
If the cell phones do hit a land line somewhere, I'm sure that the call must "fit" into a "standard" voice grade telephone circuit. which is slightly different in europe, but the bandwidth alloted for each connection is very close (don't have my euro telecomm handbook with me now, sorry)
On a side note, the US Navy Seal teams use 256bit encryption, burst transmission technology in their headsets. That is some nice stuff - supposedly clear as a bell too. So nanana-boo-boo.
Hmm.. the canadian rcmp in BC use encrypted radio sometime too, its not phone, but kind of annoying not being able to hear the swat deployments like you used to be able too.
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If I'm right, Dilithium was not the fuel, but the catalyst or something.
As for food, etc.. the replicators would take care of that. I'm sure if the trip had taken 70 years, it would of have been an orgy ship - that or the holodecks would of have been umm.. "occupied" almost continously - and they were.
I am also pretty sure that what will need major repairs after x hrs at high warp is not the superstructure but the Dilithium crystals / warp drive components. Logically, a bit more speed wouldn't make a difference if you're already going _________
I could be wrong, but I don't have my sttng tech manual with me, so I can't look it up.
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I'm with you on the Reboot thing. It is friggin annoying. Especially when you have to install each and every sp + hotfix (7 or 8 so far) in the proper order. If you're running active directory, DC with exchange server it takes you at least 2 min to reboot and login, and then do that again 8x. Break out the anti-acids.
NT Security is quite powerful - especially the relatively unknown command line commands. Which the MCSE teaches you precisely NOTHING about. Regedit classes are really short too.
As for documentation - I beg to differ - wk advanced server comes with quite a bit of documentation on all its features - very, very helpful - I was shocked. It is helpful - but also covers the basics (paper club) But if you include the online documentation from the ms website, you have quite a deal of information.
Also - if you make the OS, you know exactly which hardware was used, which hardware has no issues (and get the ms driver dudes to write approved drivers), which probably explains why their webserver is up 24-7-365. I'm sure they have a pretty much unlimited budget for that too. Besides, they are using data center, and I've heard really, really awesome things about that.
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I was going to flame you, but I'm gonna try not sounding like a anti-ms zealot.
Windows advocates are willing to admit that Linux has gotten better over the years.. why aren't Linux advocates prepared to admit the same thing about Microsoft?
OK. MS's offerings in the past have been shit, 95 was full of holes , 98 crashed continously.
NT4 was not really a server OS. Novell and *nix took the market by storm - how many hospitals were running on a ms base? Exactly - all were on novell and *nix.
Now MS brings 2k in. Ok, it's cool - I'd like to not reboot 8 times when I'm installing the last 8 hotfixes after installing the os, then doing the same shit after installing sp1, but hey at least
Its a shitload more stable than 9x/me, more secure (though it would be nice to be able to enable ip filtering on a per adaptor basis... sigh.)
You said "over the years" - which is exactly my point. The industry isn't going to make an overnight switch to something that is new - and, more importantly, relativley untested.
Naah, thought again about it. You're a dumb fucking hick. The link that you developed between vetran's faces and MS is totally fucked. Gimme some of that shit that you were smoking so that my party next week will be a little more exciting.
Maybe you just watched Pearl Harbor or something, but watch that patriotic rant - especially if you go to any arab countries. Keep in mind that everybody outside your country hates you.
Yay! lets firebomb tokyo again - from the outside in, so we get all those people toasty warm - and set up concentration camps for asians! Or let loose dogs and firehoses on those who have a skin color that is not white.
Yeah - lets also celebrate the day after we nuked two cities full of civilians - we woulda taken kyoto out (1 mill people, the nuke would of have been much more effective there) but the weather sucked! Yay america! innocent slaughter of civilians!
/. is anti-ms because of fucking trolls like you. I have no fucking idea how you got enough karma to post at +2.
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If you actually drive, I'm sure that you'll agree that old women drivers are the worst drivers, this is closely followed by female teenagers and fuck-off male teenagers.
Imagine if women had to pay more insurance than men! Gasp! The oppression! The discrimination!
Bah (still pissed about paying $1800 a year for basic insurance while my parents can cover 3 cars with full coverage for about half. That and they don't have perfect driving records, I do.) Oh well, only 2 more years before I start paying somewhat normal rates.
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First off: good movie - yeah, it has all the patriotism crap a la independence day, but it is good. Action scenes for you, love story for your girlfriend, airplanes, pretty good special effects, etc... It's 3 hrs long, which makes it probably the cheapest form of entertainment - though still a ripoff.
Now,
My grandfather served in the occupation forces in Japan. If the bomb had not been used, he would have been in the invasion force, where casualties were expected to hit the 50% mark.
The japs were willing to surrender under the terms and conditions of an american proposed agreement that was offered several months before the bombings.
The US did not accept that surrender agreement. It is unknown why.
Vengance? Maybe
Testing of the bomb on real people / to impress the russians who were already "on bad terms" with the americans. Either one of these is more likely;
The reason for the nuclear bombing was not to prevent the tedious struggle of island hopping.
Oh.. the exact conditions of surrender offered to the japs after the bombing were exactly the same terms offered by the us nearly 1.5 years before the bombing.
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Could this say something about the quality of crap that comes from hollywood?
Shit, feel free to disagree with me, but quite honestly, I can say, without reservation, that this was the best movie released in 3 or 4 months.
If anything, nights tale would be the thing that you described.
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you mean like the firebombing of tokyo and dresden? Hell, we admit it, but indifference is the name of the game here. Like, from the outside in - to ensure that everyone was burned to a crisp?
Quite a bit is not actually buried, but requires some effort to go and find it (i.e. its not showing on dateline, which Joe American thinks is "undercover exposes etc..."
The laziness or indifference of most americans ensures that the "bad things the USA has done" remain isolated to who ever cares enough to look. That takes out 99% of americans.
Fuckit, happy vetrans day!
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surrender terms presented to the japanese after the atomic bombings were word for word exactly what was proposed nearly a year and a half earlier.
If you think I'm full of shit, respond and I'll put up a whole bunch of primary documents, etc.. as well as a report on the bombings on my website.
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It sounds interesting, though I'm not sure if reuters has their story correct. This is my take on it.
I'm assuming their solution is hardware based ("special cards"), with a star topology from the central unit. I'm sure that the special cards will not be running a variation of ethernet, but some other, more secure transport. If it is standard ethernet, the network would be switched.
The "central unit" acts as a switch / router, and allows some kind of address changing. No other hubs / switches are on the network, except perhaps between "central units"
I am assuming that reuters or yahoo is wrong, and this protocol is based on the switching of MAC addresses, rather than IP.
If so, then the whole network would have to be revamped in order to put this in place. Existing routers would most likely not be able to handle MAC switching - perhaps a software upgrade could change that though. I'm pretty sure that the company would just sell their central units as hubs / switches. Why not have a monopoly on the propriatary network that you designed?
So, while they are at it, they might as well couple this with fiber optics, with the central unit watching the strength of the signal for drops (i.e. a fiber optic tap is detectable - unlike ethernet, which can be tapped just by planting something on the cat-5 jacket (CIA $$$$ stuff) - or by cutting into the wire and installing a repeater/sniffer unit. We are talking about fairly expensive "spy" stuff either way.
If not, if the address switching is indeed IP, there would certainly be a way to sniff the network and to filter out MAC adresses from all other data being sent across the network. If the "special cards" or the network were designed to prevent sniffing, that would
Either way - it is essentially security through obsurity, but it makes life a lot harder for those trying to compromise computers - although hosting a server with this would be difficult - unless the Central unit acted as a gateway of some kind.
More info is certainly needed - if someone can post some that would really clear things up.
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Yeah, but it doesn't help when your supreme court (supposedly the check in "checks and balances") Is a bunch of political party posterchildren who support imprisioning people for traffic violations.
Look - there is a reason this country was voted off the human rights panel.
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They are both stupid. Bush's daddy just had more pull.
This country is like the old Roman empire. Inept politicians only reaching their positions through "divine right" / their rich families helping them out.
Are the Canadians going to swoop down from the hills next?
The last election truly had no leaders worth their salt, just the poster children of two political parties.
I'm not advocating Nader, or libertarian either.
blah, this post aint news for nerds.
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Also - you can be sure that encrypted calls will be decrypted by some government - after all -- their mindset is "if you have nothing to hide...". Especially in this situation, where the phones are not encrypted all the time (the user has to activly turn on security).
If you are attracting so much attention to yourself - I suppose use for this will be more for commercial purposes than planning terrorism.
hmm.. how much bandwidth does the call use? POTS is made to run with 4000hz of bandwidth, with the maximum data rate of about 56k (something about the maximum number of discrete signals possible within a certain block of bandwidth. Are calls going to sound good when they hit a land line?
If the cell phones do hit a land line somewhere, I'm sure that the call must "fit" into a "standard" voice grade telephone circuit. which is slightly different in europe, but the bandwidth alloted for each connection is very close (don't have my euro telecomm handbook with me now, sorry)
On a side note, the US Navy Seal teams use 256bit encryption, burst transmission technology in their headsets. That is some nice stuff - supposedly clear as a bell too. So nanana-boo-boo.
Hmm.. the canadian rcmp in BC use encrypted radio sometime too, its not phone, but kind of annoying not being able to hear the swat deployments like you used to be able too.
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As for food, etc.. the replicators would take care of that. I'm sure if the trip had taken 70 years, it would of have been an orgy ship - that or the holodecks would of have been umm.. "occupied" almost continously - and they were.
I am also pretty sure that what will need major repairs after x hrs at high warp is not the superstructure but the Dilithium crystals / warp drive components. Logically, a bit more speed wouldn't make a difference if you're already going _________
I could be wrong, but I don't have my sttng tech manual with me, so I can't look it up.
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Thanks for playing.
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I want my flying cars!
Seems like the development of "cool stuff" has taken to a microsoft tempo.
Shuffle
shuffle
shuffle.
Chicks wearing "futuristic" clothes would kick ass too!
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NT Security is quite powerful - especially the relatively unknown command line commands. Which the MCSE teaches you precisely NOTHING about. Regedit classes are really short too.
As for documentation - I beg to differ - wk advanced server comes with quite a bit of documentation on all its features - very, very helpful - I was shocked. It is helpful - but also covers the basics (paper club) But if you include the online documentation from the ms website, you have quite a deal of information.
Also - if you make the OS, you know exactly which hardware was used, which hardware has no issues (and get the ms driver dudes to write approved drivers), which probably explains why their webserver is up 24-7-365. I'm sure they have a pretty much unlimited budget for that too. Besides, they are using data center, and I've heard really, really awesome things about that.
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Windows advocates are willing to admit that Linux has gotten better over the years
OK. MS's offerings in the past have been shit, 95 was full of holes , 98 crashed continously.
NT4 was not really a server OS. Novell and *nix took the market by storm - how many hospitals were running on a ms base? Exactly - all were on novell and *nix.
Now MS brings 2k in. Ok, it's cool - I'd like to not reboot 8 times when I'm installing the last 8 hotfixes after installing the os, then doing the same shit after installing sp1, but hey at least
Its a shitload more stable than 9x/me, more secure (though it would be nice to be able to enable ip filtering on a per adaptor basis... sigh.)
You said "over the years" - which is exactly my point. The industry isn't going to make an overnight switch to something that is new - and, more importantly, relativley untested.
Naah, thought again about it. You're a dumb fucking hick. The link that you developed between vetran's faces and MS is totally fucked. Gimme some of that shit that you were smoking so that my party next week will be a little more exciting.
Maybe you just watched Pearl Harbor or something, but watch that patriotic rant - especially if you go to any arab countries. Keep in mind that everybody outside your country hates you.
Yay! lets firebomb tokyo again - from the outside in, so we get all those people toasty warm - and set up concentration camps for asians! Or let loose dogs and firehoses on those who have a skin color that is not white.
Yeah - lets also celebrate the day after we nuked two cities full of civilians - we woulda taken kyoto out (1 mill people, the nuke would of have been much more effective there) but the weather sucked! Yay america! innocent slaughter of civilians!
/. is anti-ms because of fucking trolls like you. I have no fucking idea how you got enough karma to post at +2.
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Imagine if women had to pay more insurance than men! Gasp! The oppression! The discrimination!
Bah (still pissed about paying $1800 a year for basic insurance while my parents can cover 3 cars with full coverage for about half. That and they don't have perfect driving records, I do.) Oh well, only 2 more years before I start paying somewhat normal rates.
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Now,
My grandfather served in the occupation forces in Japan. If the bomb had not been used, he would have been in the invasion force, where casualties were expected to hit the 50% mark.
The japs were willing to surrender under the terms and conditions of an american proposed agreement that was offered several months before the bombings.
The US did not accept that surrender agreement. It is unknown why.
Vengance? Maybe
Testing of the bomb on real people / to impress the russians who were already "on bad terms" with the americans. Either one of these is more likely;
The reason for the nuclear bombing was not to prevent the tedious struggle of island hopping.
Oh.. the exact conditions of surrender offered to the japs after the bombing were exactly the same terms offered by the us nearly 1.5 years before the bombing.
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Shit, feel free to disagree with me, but quite honestly, I can say, without reservation, that this was the best movie released in 3 or 4 months.
If anything, nights tale would be the thing that you described.
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Quite a bit is not actually buried, but requires some effort to go and find it (i.e. its not showing on dateline, which Joe American thinks is "undercover exposes etc..."
The laziness or indifference of most americans ensures that the "bad things the USA has done" remain isolated to who ever cares enough to look. That takes out 99% of americans.
Fuckit, happy vetrans day!
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If you think I'm full of shit, respond and I'll put up a whole bunch of primary documents, etc.. as well as a report on the bombings on my website.
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Oh no.... they might mod me down for this. Not my precious karma.
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Or buy firewire..
Those three words?
Fuck this noise?
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Serves them right.
MY keyboard was made in 1987, weighs several pounds, but kicks ass, just need an adaptor from AT to PS2.
Sniff this
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I'm assuming their solution is hardware based ("special cards"), with a star topology from the central unit. I'm sure that the special cards will not be running a variation of ethernet, but some other, more secure transport. If it is standard ethernet, the network would be switched.
The "central unit" acts as a switch / router, and allows some kind of address changing. No other hubs / switches are on the network, except perhaps between "central units"
I am assuming that reuters or yahoo is wrong, and this protocol is based on the switching of MAC addresses, rather than IP.
If so, then the whole network would have to be revamped in order to put this in place. Existing routers would most likely not be able to handle MAC switching - perhaps a software upgrade could change that though. I'm pretty sure that the company would just sell their central units as hubs / switches. Why not have a monopoly on the propriatary network that you designed?
So, while they are at it, they might as well couple this with fiber optics, with the central unit watching the strength of the signal for drops (i.e. a fiber optic tap is detectable - unlike ethernet, which can be tapped just by planting something on the cat-5 jacket (CIA $$$$ stuff) - or by cutting into the wire and installing a repeater/sniffer unit. We are talking about fairly expensive "spy" stuff either way.
If not, if the address switching is indeed IP, there would certainly be a way to sniff the network and to filter out MAC adresses from all other data being sent across the network. If the "special cards" or the network were designed to prevent sniffing, that would
Either way - it is essentially security through obsurity, but it makes life a lot harder for those trying to compromise computers - although hosting a server with this would be difficult - unless the Central unit acted as a gateway of some kind.
More info is certainly needed - if someone can post some that would really clear things up.
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Look - there is a reason this country was voted off the human rights panel.
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They are both stupid. Bush's daddy just had more pull.
This country is like the old Roman empire. Inept politicians only reaching their positions through "divine right" / their rich families helping them out.
Are the Canadians going to swoop down from the hills next?
The last election truly had no leaders worth their salt, just the poster children of two political parties.
I'm not advocating Nader, or libertarian either.
blah, this post aint news for nerds.
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