From what I understand, the NTFS situation is as much a legal problem as it is a technical issue. There are several people willing to hack the NTFS code, but they're currently under NDAs with MS, and as such, can't do anything about fixing the code. However, many of those NDAs are expiring, and people are beginning to hack the filesystem so that write support actually works. As it stands, reading from an NTFS partition works, but writing requires a chkdsk when you next boot Windows, but YMMV.
Yep, you're right. Produced by the Skunk Works, quite possibly the greatest aircraft engineering team ever. The boys in Burbank, and later Palmdale, really knew how to put together a plane. They've even got a decent amount of input into the manufacturing of the B-2; Northrup uses Lockheeds plant for the final assembly.
aka the blackbird. Titanium body, sustained speed and altitude specs that still (so far as I know) can't be beat. Mothballed a few years ago... bet they'd come in handy for some surveillance jobs right about now.
From what I've heard, they've recommissioned the SR-71 for specialty surveilance missions. It's just that the bird is way too expensive to fly for most jobs. For the run of the mill missions, we use spy satelites, and another middle-aged platform that has seen everything, the U-2.
It's a testament to the brilliant aviation engineers of the fifties that two of the most kickass planes from that era are still at the top of their game. You don't hear about the Air Force sending in the F-86es or the F-104s into a combat zone, but you do hear about them sending in the U-2s to ge an idea of what the turf looks like, and a B-52 to make that turf look like a parking lot.
Probably not. All indications are that these bacterium are extremophiles, and that earth's environment may be toxic to them, if they exist at all. There's very little life that can withstand the extreme differences between Europa's environment and much of Earth's environment. Though it is possible they'd have interesting affects near the sulphur vents.
Ooops, used the wrong category of malware there. I knew it was a trojan, just a momentary lapse in that orb on the top of my neck.
Though I still feel that the chances of this thing getting out into the wild are fairly decent. Like you said, the FBI's got to entice the suspect into opening the attatchment. I'm simply saying that chances are, the FBI's going to send it out to at least one person who's going to pass it on to someone else. Or, the FBI will underestimate the suspect's vigilance and intellect, and the disassembled source leaks out. Its very hard to keep a program like this a secret; all I'm saying is its going to come out, sooner or later.
The average citizen or even seasoned geek doesn't have much to worry about.
I'd have to disagree, this has a better than average chance of getting out into the "wild". Much of the problem with this system is in the implementation. The FBI is counting on social engineering to propogate this virus; if they're halfway decent, then the virus has a good chance of being passed on like any forwarded email. I am concerned about any threat to privacy, especially with regards to a tool like this, which can be fairly easily co-opted if it gets into the wrong hands.
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No, if I want Quake, UT, and MP3s, I'll run Linux, not Windows. Every single one of those programs run under Linux, quite well, mind you. And I bet if he ran a recent version of wine, he'd be able to run the GPS software as well. Yeah, you need a fine chisel to work around the rough edges, but far from the big hammer you seem to recommend. Linux is much more capable of running in this situation than you seem to think.
They're not going to die. Bankruptcy doesn't always mean that the company is folding; sometimes they declare bankruptcy so they have a chance to catch their breath and refocus. Sales are still pretty decent, they just had a couple bad years and they need a bit of relief.
You'd be surprised on how many companies are running under Chapter 11 protection. There are a lot more than you'd think.
Being one who enjoys science fiction, especially science fiction dealing with "fringe" subjects such as alternate genders, I'm definitely going to have to check this book out. If anything, it'll be a fun read.
As an aside, I remember a sci-fi book with a similar theme where a race of people would alternate between male and female until they came of age at which point they would be forced to choose a gender, or they would be thrown out of society. Anybody remember the title of this book?
Yep, they got it fixed. The whole reason for the delay of the shuttle's launch was to fix that problem before they got up there. Dunno if they had to do a spacewalk to fix it, though.
Don't use Winblows, use OpenBSD. All your security worries will just vanish into the night.:D
Not true. While OpenBSD is infinitely more secure than windows, thats only a small portion of the problem. You've got to train people to use decent passwords, audit the data so that you can tell exactly where the info is coming from, and design a contingency plan so that if someone does get through, the damage done is minimal. OBSD may be a better foundation, but it's far from being a magic bullet. Much of OpenBSDs security comes from the fact that the admins start with a sense of paranoia; it's very possible to have the same security level with other OSes, its just you've got to know what you're doing.
Sounds like the rate of increasing performance is starting to drop. Isn't it supposed to double every 18 months?
Repeat after me: Moore's Law had nothing to do with performance. Moore's law states that the amount of transistors doubles every 18 months, not performance. If performance doubled every 18 months, then we would have much, much faster computers today.
But with all of the recent advances in technology of this nature, I doubt that we will ever see this hit the market.
Actually, this stuff probably will hit the market. It takes time for any new invention to get to a usable point, and the fact that they've got transistors working right now means they're well on their way to making microprocessors on this stuff. From my understanding of any technology, the products on the market are usually using the underlying technology developed several years ago; it takes that long to implement the product. Which is exactly why exotic items such as fiber optic interconnects and quantum computing will take a while to trickle down to the desktop. Making microprocessors is tough, especially with the kinds of sizes we're dealing with.
You would think Apple would easily be able to port over Quicktime to Linux and want to give it away in order to keep M$ from dominating yet another market.
It wouldn't be easy at all. The base for each of the OSes are the same, but the windowing system, which is where the most difficult parts of the coding would be, are totally different. Aqua is Display PDF, and is incompatible with X; the design philosophy is nearly 100% different. This would be no easier of a port than before Apple migrated to Unix.
Though I do agree with you that Apple should make their product available under Linux. They wouldn't be losing any marketshare by doing so - there is very little overlap between Mac and Linux user demographics, and those that are in those overlapping markets probably already use both systems.
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Maybe not a Go employee. Go's a webmail service; anyone can get an @go.com addy. Though you are right about it being kinda fishy. Of course, the whole IT/Ginger project has been secretive, bizarre and filled with unneeded secrecy. This could be simply another bit of that obfuscation.
Anyway, the site looks very cool. Lots of interesting proggies, including full source to a shitload of programs.
I love the old school programs and programmers. Its simply amazing the stuff that they were doing with a 2 Mhz processor and 64k of RAM. I may even go ebaying to find a real system to run some of this stuff on, instead of simply emulating it.
Yeah, but they were playing for different charities - Wil wanted the loot to go to the EFF and so he would try his damndest to make sure that it did get there. He may not have personally benefitted, but he did have a good amount of motivation.
Yes, I know most remotes are IR. However, the phenomena I'm talking about is fairly well documented; there are several faqs floating around on the internet discussing the subject. Because of how AM radios work, any localized source of radiation of sufficient strength, no matter what the frequency, will cause interference. Its similar to how a thunderstorm will cause pops when listening to the radio.
That problem could be fixed. It's just a matter of time and ingenuity. There's no such thing as can't be done...
the problem is, with the amount of engineering you'd need to do, it would be cheaper and easier to set up a maildrop in either Canada or Mexico, and have one of the many radio transmitter manufacturers send you their full power kit to that address. It would simply be way too much work to redesign a CRT to put out enough interference to broadcast to a further distance. On top of that, before you could use it, you'd have to get it tested to make sure that it complies with the FCCs emf interference standards. Since the whole point of this design is to increase those emissions for your own uses, the application for your design would be denied. If you decide to go without getting regulated, the FCC would more than likely pop you once they start getting complaints from your neighbors that their TVs, radios, etc, are playing some weird broadcast. Believe me, the FCC has all their bases covered in situations like this - can't have the common man cheapening Clear Channel's airwaves, can we?
chrisd is just making a swipe at the "unusual" topics frequently discussed on Art's program. He's just saying that using an AM radio to listen to a rendition of fur Elise performed by a CRT is more fascinating than listening to Art Bell.
This is perfectly legal. All electronic equipment is spec'ed to a certain amount of interference it can radiate. What this hack is working on is the fact that a monitor should be sending out a pretty fixed frequency that can be picked up by an AM radio, similar to how you can hear a repetitive beeping sound if you hold a remote next to an AM receiver in just the right spot. The FCC doesn't care because unless you do some heavy tweaking to your monitor, this isn't going to affect more than the 10-15 foot radius a monitor would normally slightly affect. You're allowed to microbroadcast that amount of distance.
That's less than 5% of the population... Is that correct?
Most of the people in China are in extremely primitive rural areas which probably won't even see a light bulb for decades, let alone a computer, so an internet-capable population of 27 million users is believable. Besides, with all of the filtering China does, they are sure to keep close tabs on who exactly is seeing what.
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From what I understand, the NTFS situation is as much a legal problem as it is a technical issue. There are several people willing to hack the NTFS code, but they're currently under NDAs with MS, and as such, can't do anything about fixing the code. However, many of those NDAs are expiring, and people are beginning to hack the filesystem so that write support actually works. As it stands, reading from an NTFS partition works, but writing requires a chkdsk when you next boot Windows, but YMMV.
A bit OT, but while looking for the Lockheed-U2 connection, I found out a place to cover that old U2 you've got lying around. just thought it would be handy =3.
From what I've heard, they've recommissioned the SR-71 for specialty surveilance missions. It's just that the bird is way too expensive to fly for most jobs. For the run of the mill missions, we use spy satelites, and another middle-aged platform that has seen everything, the U-2.
It's a testament to the brilliant aviation engineers of the fifties that two of the most kickass planes from that era are still at the top of their game. You don't hear about the Air Force sending in the F-86es or the F-104s into a combat zone, but you do hear about them sending in the U-2s to ge an idea of what the turf looks like, and a B-52 to make that turf look like a parking lot.
Probably not. All indications are that these bacterium are extremophiles, and that earth's environment may be toxic to them, if they exist at all. There's very little life that can withstand the extreme differences between Europa's environment and much of Earth's environment. Though it is possible they'd have interesting affects near the sulphur vents.
Though I still feel that the chances of this thing getting out into the wild are fairly decent. Like you said, the FBI's got to entice the suspect into opening the attatchment. I'm simply saying that chances are, the FBI's going to send it out to at least one person who's going to pass it on to someone else. Or, the FBI will underestimate the suspect's vigilance and intellect, and the disassembled source leaks out. Its very hard to keep a program like this a secret; all I'm saying is its going to come out, sooner or later.
I'd have to disagree, this has a better than average chance of getting out into the "wild". Much of the problem with this system is in the implementation. The FBI is counting on social engineering to propogate this virus; if they're halfway decent, then the virus has a good chance of being passed on like any forwarded email. I am concerned about any threat to privacy, especially with regards to a tool like this, which can be fairly easily co-opted if it gets into the wrong hands.
No, if I want Quake, UT, and MP3s, I'll run Linux, not Windows. Every single one of those programs run under Linux, quite well, mind you. And I bet if he ran a recent version of wine, he'd be able to run the GPS software as well. Yeah, you need a fine chisel to work around the rough edges, but far from the big hammer you seem to recommend. Linux is much more capable of running in this situation than you seem to think.
You'd be surprised on how many companies are running under Chapter 11 protection. There are a lot more than you'd think.
As an aside, I remember a sci-fi book with a similar theme where a race of people would alternate between male and female until they came of age at which point they would be forced to choose a gender, or they would be thrown out of society. Anybody remember the title of this book?
Yep, they got it fixed. The whole reason for the delay of the shuttle's launch was to fix that problem before they got up there. Dunno if they had to do a spacewalk to fix it, though.
Not true. While OpenBSD is infinitely more secure than windows, thats only a small portion of the problem. You've got to train people to use decent passwords, audit the data so that you can tell exactly where the info is coming from, and design a contingency plan so that if someone does get through, the damage done is minimal. OBSD may be a better foundation, but it's far from being a magic bullet. Much of OpenBSDs security comes from the fact that the admins start with a sense of paranoia; it's very possible to have the same security level with other OSes, its just you've got to know what you're doing.
Repeat after me: Moore's Law had nothing to do with performance. Moore's law states that the amount of transistors doubles every 18 months, not performance. If performance doubled every 18 months, then we would have much, much faster computers today.
It wouldn't be easy at all. The base for each of the OSes are the same, but the windowing system, which is where the most difficult parts of the coding would be, are totally different. Aqua is Display PDF, and is incompatible with X; the design philosophy is nearly 100% different. This would be no easier of a port than before Apple migrated to Unix.
Though I do agree with you that Apple should make their product available under Linux. They wouldn't be losing any marketshare by doing so - there is very little overlap between Mac and Linux user demographics, and those that are in those overlapping markets probably already use both systems.
Maybe not a Go employee. Go's a webmail service; anyone can get an @go.com addy. Though you are right about it being kinda fishy. Of course, the whole IT/Ginger project has been secretive, bizarre and filled with unneeded secrecy. This could be simply another bit of that obfuscation.
resistant, lions are non-striped felines. Now Britney as a tigress, or an ocelot, now that would rock. Britney as an ocelot girl, mrrr.
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Anyway, the site looks very cool. Lots of interesting proggies, including full source to a shitload of programs.
I love the old school programs and programmers. Its simply amazing the stuff that they were doing with a 2 Mhz processor and 64k of RAM. I may even go ebaying to find a real system to run some of this stuff on, instead of simply emulating it.
Yeah, but they were playing for different charities - Wil wanted the loot to go to the EFF and so he would try his damndest to make sure that it did get there. He may not have personally benefitted, but he did have a good amount of motivation.
Yes, I know most remotes are IR. However, the phenomena I'm talking about is fairly well documented; there are several faqs floating around on the internet discussing the subject. Because of how AM radios work, any localized source of radiation of sufficient strength, no matter what the frequency, will cause interference. Its similar to how a thunderstorm will cause pops when listening to the radio.
the problem is, with the amount of engineering you'd need to do, it would be cheaper and easier to set up a maildrop in either Canada or Mexico, and have one of the many radio transmitter manufacturers send you their full power kit to that address. It would simply be way too much work to redesign a CRT to put out enough interference to broadcast to a further distance. On top of that, before you could use it, you'd have to get it tested to make sure that it complies with the FCCs emf interference standards. Since the whole point of this design is to increase those emissions for your own uses, the application for your design would be denied. If you decide to go without getting regulated, the FCC would more than likely pop you once they start getting complaints from your neighbors that their TVs, radios, etc, are playing some weird broadcast. Believe me, the FCC has all their bases covered in situations like this - can't have the common man cheapening Clear Channel's airwaves, can we?
chrisd is just making a swipe at the "unusual" topics frequently discussed on Art's program. He's just saying that using an AM radio to listen to a rendition of fur Elise performed by a CRT is more fascinating than listening to Art Bell.
This is perfectly legal. All electronic equipment is spec'ed to a certain amount of interference it can radiate. What this hack is working on is the fact that a monitor should be sending out a pretty fixed frequency that can be picked up by an AM radio, similar to how you can hear a repetitive beeping sound if you hold a remote next to an AM receiver in just the right spot. The FCC doesn't care because unless you do some heavy tweaking to your monitor, this isn't going to affect more than the 10-15 foot radius a monitor would normally slightly affect. You're allowed to microbroadcast that amount of distance.
Most of the people in China are in extremely primitive rural areas which probably won't even see a light bulb for decades, let alone a computer, so an internet-capable population of 27 million users is believable. Besides, with all of the filtering China does, they are sure to keep close tabs on who exactly is seeing what.
I know this message is half in jest, but use links instead. It does everything lynx does, plus leaves your breath minty fresh, too.