No one figured out that backdoor until Microsoft forgot to remove the explicit name NSA_Key in NT SP 5? What kind of joke is this? Or is it a programmer at Microsoft that's covertly working for the Open Source movement?:)
It could be a joke. It could be nothing at all. But why are there two keys- and why was this kept hidden? Sure, if it is the NSA that has backdoored Windows- that is a Bad Thing(tm). But I don't care if a janitor that put it in there- a backdoor is a backdoor is a backdoor.
Also, I think that this would be exactly the way that the NSA would invade our privacy- through collusion. Why spend the time cracking an OS when you can have Bill and his boys save you the trouble? If you need another example, look at Echelon. Don't spy on your own people, spy on the others and trade the information. Same idea.
It's a decoy. The NSA has a backdoor somewhere else, much less obvious, and this is meant to make us believe the NSA backdoor has been found.
This is a real possibility, but I don't think so. Why bother making a decoy if the source is closed? We may have never found it had not someone droped the ball with SP5. I'm not saying there aren't other backdoors elsewhere, for all I know the entire TCP/IP stack is rigged, but thanks to closed source and unethical collusion it's likely no one will ever know.
On a similar thread.. Does anyone know of good graduate schools that are doing research into stuff like Nanotechnology, Cybernetics, Biocomputing or anything equally uber-hitech? Or do you know of any specific researchers at an institution doing this sort of thing? (I know thats probably not quite computer science... or even computer engineering... sorry). I just no idea where to even start looking for schools doing research in these areas...
You're thinking of MacOS X Server (previously known as Rhapsody). As for MacOS X Consumer (or Workstation, or whatever you want to call it) I think it's a few months away.
And hopefully It's price will be much much lower than $400....;)
I have had lots of luck with Display Doctor when trying to get weird graphics cards to work. You can download it from here. I think its a 30 day demo or something and its pretty cheap to buy it. I have no idea if it will work with the eMachine's chipset, but hey, worth a shot.
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Hell, I bet It won't work with W2K.
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Or if another country starts doing this I can print foreign stamps....
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I'm not sure if it has been proven that a random mutation has added new information to a genetic structure- but it is certainly possible and (depending on what you believe the rate of random mutations to be) even likely that a given trait came into existance from a mutation.
Of course, it is not likely that a particular random mutation will produce a favorable trait. It is much more likely that a mutation will cause a gene to become random garbage and cause the death of the organism. Life has evolved many mechanisms to prevent mutations from ever occuring. And, if a mutation does occur, there are mechanisms in place to detect and repair the mutated gene before it can be passed on to offspring.
Even so, some mutations inevitably get through and become a part of the genome. Most will cause death (cancer maybe) or reduce the ability of the organism to breed effectively and thus not get passed on from generation to generation. However, when a beneficial mutation does occur it is passed on very rapidly. (Ok, so "rapidly" means hundreds or thousands of years:)
You know, this sounds a lot like, "given enough monkeys banging on typewriters you can produce the complete works of Shakespeare". And I guess it is. Mathematically, both are reasonable. It just takes a really long time!
Gibson's novels are very descriptive. I won't argue with you there. He deals with subjects that are extremely difficult to describe (take "cyberspace" for example. Can you describe it convincingly?). And yet he describes his metaphysical worlds very well.
But maybe I just like that sort of thing. I like Joseph Conrad too.
Personally, I hope they don't reveal how the AI's took control and enslaved humanity. Sure, the idea of humanity bringing this upon themselves is pretty scary, but it has been done before (T2, for example)
But what if, as far as the humans could tell, the AI's had always been in power. Forever and ever. What if the "reality" that the humans were experiencing had never really existed- it was completely fabricated by the AI's! Now that scares me....
I've actually worked with the glow-in-the-dark mice before. Apparently the gene for, well, _glowing_ came from plankton.
The lab I worked at studied ways to keep skin grafts from being rejected. Skin was transplanted from one mouse to another. Glow in the dark skin made for a good marker!
I remember hearing somewhere that Gatorade is like the accecpted treatment for some Disease-found-in-Africa (dysentary or something- I forget). A relief agency wanted to contract with Gatorade to supply them with the stuff and they in turn would give gatorade good press.
Gatorade would not hear of it, and in fact did all they could to distance themselves from diseases.
I guess that could be an urban ledgend... oh well.
The spammer send a message to the account that I use only for distributed.net. The address has even changed slightly (the old address will still deliver mail) and the only place that I have not updated adresses is distributed.net.....
Circuit City pushed DIVX like there was no tomorrow. It was quite disgusting. Their sales people would show DIVX players if you asked to see a DVD player or sometimes even a VCR. And, at least at my hometown Circuit City, every single computer in the store had a screensaver saying "ASK ABOUT DIVX!" (of course it had a password...;)
well it turns out there are patron saints for nearly everything from 'the patron saint for victims of volcanos' to 'the patron saint for tv repair men'
and no, im not kidding...
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They accidentally sent out blank emails last night.
The real story here isn't the cancelation of the final episode of a TV show- its about the power of the Internet. I think we all know deep down how powerfull it is- therein lies the huge draw for so many of us.
I wont assume to preach to the choir on this point, but I will illustrate with an anecdote. One of my friends runs a fairly major X-files website and listserv. A whole culture has developed around this with people submiting scripts and info on shows in advance (I think they pull them off of satelites or something...) I suspect this is much like the buffy crowd.
The Internet poses a phantom menace for any and all who censor. We are seeing some censoring already. I.E. Australian censorship, or in Shangh ai, or those slowly disapearing textfiles.
Let us hope that the Internet continues to be successful as an outlet for free speach.
Interesting point. But wouldn't it just be like having offspring when one is older in life. If someone sired offspring when they were 70 would their offspring have an older "genetic age"? I don't think so. The only problem that I can see is that Dolly may reach an age where she is too old to have offspring- three years earlier!
Its been known for some time now that most cells don't live forever. I think it has actually been calcualted that human cells will only devide X numer of times before they stop working very well (where X is a number around 7x10^5 or so).
Some cells don't have this problem- noteably stem cells (the cells in your bone marrow from which all other cells come from) and cancerous cells. (!!!) I would have thought that Dolly would have been cloned from a stem cell. Maybe this was not possible when she was, uh, created.
The part of the article about telomeres is fairly accurate. Due to the way that DNA replicates, the ends of the chromosomes are not copied properly. There is an enzyme called telomerase that adresses this problem by capping the ends of the chromosome on each replication. (This also keeps the ends of the DNA from being degraded by enzymes in the cell's endoplasm). But telomerase doesn't do its job perfectly and the chromosome eventually starts to loose important parts of its DNA. How or even if this then triggers a self-destruct process in the cell is not really understood. Perhaps cloning can be used to study this.
Is it possible to upgrade to RH 6.0 from 5.2? I know that it was possible to upgrade from 5.X to 5.2- there was an upgrade option in the RH installer. Is it still there? Would I be better off just upgrading the kernal?
It is interesting to note that the interstate highway system was also built as a backup runway system for the US military.
Evidence: interstate highways, especially the early ones, are mainly straight with few turns, have trees far back from the side of the road to accomodate wide airplane wings, are divided to provide a parallel road for military traffic, have controled access and are thus easy to close off.
That catfood quote is from the episode where Lisa is friends with the Smart Girl. They play a game where one forms anagrams from a famous persons name that describes the famous person. They ask Ralph to play and he responds, "my cat's breath smells like catfood." Is it an anagram?
BTW, if you have no idea what I'm talking about turn on sigs and look at PHroD's sig
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No one figured out that backdoor until Microsoft forgot to remove the explicit name NSA_Key in NT SP 5? What kind of joke is this? Or is it a programmer at Microsoft that's covertly working for the Open Source movement? :)
It could be a joke. It could be nothing at all. But why are there two keys- and why was this kept hidden? Sure, if it is the NSA that has backdoored Windows- that is a Bad Thing(tm). But I don't care if a janitor that put it in there- a backdoor is a backdoor is a backdoor.
Also, I think that this would be exactly the way that the NSA would invade our privacy- through collusion. Why spend the time cracking an OS when you can have Bill and his boys save you the trouble? If you need another example, look at Echelon. Don't spy on your own people, spy on the others and trade the information. Same idea.
It's a decoy. The NSA has a backdoor somewhere else, much less obvious, and this is meant to make us believe the NSA backdoor has been found.
This is a real possibility, but I don't think so. Why bother making a decoy if the source is closed? We may have never found it had not someone droped the ball with SP5. I'm not saying there aren't other backdoors elsewhere, for all I know the entire TCP/IP stack is rigged, but thanks to closed source and unethical collusion it's likely no one will ever know.
On a similar thread.. Does anyone know of good graduate schools that are doing research into stuff like Nanotechnology, Cybernetics, Biocomputing or anything equally uber-hitech? Or do you know of any specific researchers at an institution doing this sort of thing? (I know thats probably not quite computer science... or even computer engineering... sorry). I just no idea where to even start looking for schools doing research in these areas...
You're thinking of MacOS X Server (previously known as Rhapsody). As for MacOS X Consumer (or Workstation, or whatever you want to call it) I think it's a few months away.
And hopefully It's price will be much much lower than $400.... ;)
Who invented the computer?
Answer: Al Gore.
I have had lots of luck with Display Doctor when trying to get weird graphics cards to work. You can download it from here. I think its a 30 day demo or something and its pretty cheap to buy it. I have no idea if it will work with the eMachine's chipset, but hey, worth a shot.
If life does exist on other planets, I hope (for their sake) that we never meet them.
--CS Lewis (roughly quoted ;) reflecting on Europe's encounters with indigenous peoples.
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Hell, I bet It won't work with W2K.
8. Can E-Stamp be used internationally? Initially, the E-Stamp Internet Postage service is only available in the U.S. However, we do intend to make the service available in other countries in the future. In fact, we have already had discussions with a number of postal authorities and corporations around the globe, including several in Europe.
Or if another country starts doing this I can print foreign stamps....
12. Do digital stamps expire? The postage you purchase does not "expire" since it's the same as currency. However, once you print it onto an envelope, label, or document, U.S. Postal Service regulations require that you mail it within 24 hours.
So... In effect... They do expire...
I'm not sure if it has been proven that a random mutation has added new information to a genetic structure- but it is certainly possible and (depending on what you believe the rate of random mutations to be) even likely that a given trait came into existance from a mutation.
Of course, it is not likely that a particular random mutation will produce a favorable trait. It is much more likely that a mutation will cause a gene to become random garbage and cause the death of the organism. Life has evolved many mechanisms to prevent mutations from ever occuring. And, if a mutation does occur, there are mechanisms in place to detect and repair the mutated gene before it can be passed on to offspring.
Even so, some mutations inevitably get through and become a part of the genome. Most will cause death (cancer maybe) or reduce the ability of the organism to breed effectively and thus not get passed on from generation to generation. However, when a beneficial mutation does occur it is passed on very rapidly. (Ok, so "rapidly" means hundreds or thousands of years :)
You know, this sounds a lot like, "given enough monkeys banging on typewriters you can produce the complete works of Shakespeare". And I guess it is. Mathematically, both are reasonable. It just takes a really long time!
Gibson's novels are very descriptive. I won't argue with you there. He deals with subjects that are extremely difficult to describe (take "cyberspace" for example. Can you describe it convincingly?). And yet he describes his metaphysical worlds very well.
But maybe I just like that sort of thing. I like Joseph Conrad too.
I'd like to get a beowulf cluster of those...
oh...
I shouldn't be biting for such an obvious troll, but if you don't like roblimo you dont have to ever read a post by him again.
It's called log in and edit your prefs.
Personally, I hope they don't reveal how the AI's took control and enslaved humanity. Sure, the idea of humanity bringing this upon themselves is pretty scary, but it has been done before (T2, for example)
But what if, as far as the humans could tell, the AI's had always been in power. Forever and ever. What if the "reality" that the humans were experiencing had never really existed- it was completely fabricated by the AI's! Now that scares me....
And lets not forget non-linear editing and non-linear books (a la Choose Your Own Adventure (TM))
I hereby invent the non-linear line! (TM)
I've actually worked with the glow-in-the-dark mice before. Apparently the gene for, well, _glowing_ came from plankton.
The lab I worked at studied ways to keep skin grafts from being rejected. Skin was transplanted from one mouse to another. Glow in the dark skin made for a good marker!
I remember hearing somewhere that Gatorade is like the accecpted treatment for some Disease-found-in-Africa (dysentary or something- I forget). A relief agency wanted to contract with Gatorade to supply them with the stuff and they in turn would give gatorade good press.
Gatorade would not hear of it, and in fact did all they could to distance themselves from diseases.
I guess that could be an urban ledgend... oh well.
The spammer send a message to the account that I use only for distributed.net. The address has even changed slightly (the old address will still deliver mail) and the only place that I have not updated adresses is distributed.net.....
Circuit City pushed DIVX like there was no tomorrow. It was quite disgusting. Their sales people would show DIVX players if you asked to see a DVD player or sometimes even a VCR. And, at least at my hometown Circuit City, every single computer in the store had a screensaver saying "ASK ABOUT DIVX!" (of course it had a password... ;)
well it turns out there are patron saints for nearly everything from 'the patron saint for victims of volcanos' to 'the patron saint for tv repair men'
and no, im not kidding...
They accidentally sent out blank emails last night.
The real story here isn't the cancelation of the final episode of a TV show- its about the power of the Internet. I think we all know deep down how powerfull it is- therein lies the huge draw for so many of us.
I wont assume to preach to the choir on this point, but I will illustrate with an anecdote. One of my friends runs a fairly major X-files website and listserv. A whole culture has developed around this with people submiting scripts and info on shows in advance (I think they pull them off of satelites or something...) I suspect this is much like the buffy crowd.
The Internet poses a phantom menace for any and all who censor. We are seeing some censoring already. I.E. Australian censorship, or in Shangh ai, or those slowly disapearing textfiles.
Let us hope that the Internet continues to be successful as an outlet for free speach.
Interesting point. But wouldn't it just be like having offspring when one is older in life. If someone sired offspring when they were 70 would their offspring have an older "genetic age"? I don't think so. The only problem that I can see is that Dolly may reach an age where she is too old to have offspring- three years earlier!
Its been known for some time now that most cells don't live forever. I think it has actually been calcualted that human cells will only devide X numer of times before they stop working very well (where X is a number around 7x10^5 or so).
Some cells don't have this problem- noteably stem cells (the cells in your bone marrow from which all other cells come from) and cancerous cells. (!!!) I would have thought that Dolly would have been cloned from a stem cell. Maybe this was not possible when she was, uh, created.
The part of the article about telomeres is fairly accurate. Due to the way that DNA replicates, the ends of the chromosomes are not copied properly. There is an enzyme called telomerase that adresses this problem by capping the ends of the chromosome on each replication. (This also keeps the ends of the DNA from being degraded by enzymes in the cell's endoplasm). But telomerase doesn't do its job perfectly and the chromosome eventually starts to loose important parts of its DNA. How or even if this then triggers a self-destruct process in the cell is not really understood. Perhaps cloning can be used to study this.
Is it possible to upgrade to RH 6.0 from 5.2? I know that it was possible to upgrade from 5.X to 5.2- there was an upgrade option in the RH installer. Is it still there? Would I be better off just upgrading the kernal?
It is interesting to note that the interstate highway system was also built as a backup runway system for the US military.
Evidence: interstate highways, especially the early ones, are mainly straight with few turns, have trees far back from the side of the road to accomodate wide airplane wings, are divided to provide a parallel road for military traffic, have controled access and are thus easy to close off.
You know, I've always wondered...
That catfood quote is from the episode where Lisa is friends with the Smart Girl. They play a game where one forms anagrams from a famous persons name that describes the famous person. They ask Ralph to play and he responds, "my cat's breath smells like catfood." Is it an anagram?
BTW, if you have no idea what I'm talking about turn on sigs and look at PHroD's sig