why would NSA need a back door?
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an intentional buffer overflow or other common bug that they could exploit would be enough. and easy enough that it could be hidden, or another one could be reintroduced whenever needed. but NSA wouldn't do that. they'd have someone else submit that patch, so it couldn't be traced to them.
besides, if NSA wanted to backdoor systems, doing it to apache or something would work better: network traffic is normal. its easier to remotely connect, probably less eyes looking at apache than at the linux kernel.
i don't believe NSA would do this, but if they did, i think they wouldn't put some elaborate backdoor into the kernel.
"In quantum physics, individual particles have no precise location and can coexist in more than one place at a time. Even distantly separated particles can share nonlocal correlations in a relationship known as "quantum entanglement." The entangled particles in the Los Alamos study are photons the basic particles of light engineered in such a way that they always have correlated polarizations. Polarization is the direction in which the photon's electric field vibrates."
anyone else think this sounds a lot like philotics and ansibles from Enders Game?:)
charge us $100 per month! and implement security in the same manner as css (or ROT13 hehe). at that outragious price, peolple will have it cracked in a week... and what if napster decides not to pursue anyone who cracks their encryption?
is the RIAA gonna chase people for cracking NAPSTER'S weak encryption?
yes, i'm a moron. this was only meant to be taken seriously by lawyers!
but what if....
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the spirit of tennis is to hit the ball back and forth, hopefully to a spot where the opponent can't get to it.
i don't think that topspin, backspin and slicing were part of the original tennis design specs.
if everyone has the same opportunity, without any extra equipment (bots), and it doesn't harm the server, then i don't see how it can be considered cheating?
take q2 for example.
run around or walk around. those are your two speeds. if you want to run away or catch up with someone, the end result amounts to who can cut corners better. does that model real life? do you run as fast as these guys down in sydney?
now, take strafe jumping, which is seen as cheating by some. however, it can be done by anyone, and introduces a new dimention to gameplay. all of a sudden, being "better" doesn't just mean "can twitch faster." suddenly, you *can* catch up with that guy running away from you, because you can strafe-jump better than he can. or you can beat that guy chasing you with a rocket launcher to a package of health. or you can jump from one ledge to another so you can cut someone off, or come up in surprise behind someone else. or even if you see someone not strafe-jumping, you can guess that it might be a newbie, and instead of just railing his ass to gibs, you might go a little easier on him, so as to not scare him away from the game.
i see differences in ability a *good* thing. some people say bunny-hoppers look silly. well, so does everyone running around at exactly the same speed.
i was gonna post something big and long, but i just accidentally hit escape and zapped it all.
suffice it to say that the visor OS is in ROM. Palm linux is possible.
I'm running out of the house, so i didn't read the article, or any other comments. But upon reading the/. post, this was my first thought: seeing how Intel plans this processor in about a year, its a good thing Transmeta kept Crusoe so secret until it was able to ship. This way, crusoe has a chance to establish itself in the embedded and mobile market before Intel can even get a competitor injected in.
heh. i was just gonna say that. but i wonder how it'd be distributed. "okay, your workblock: find out numbers 1 through 1000000. next person, you do numbers 1000001 through 9000000. next person, you do..." pi can be found to enough digits on just one processor, and i haven't really seen many algorithms that would do well paralellized. i did find an algorithm that finds n digits in ln n time... it sounds fast, but i was stuck with the gmp library, and didn't feel like writing my own arbitrary precision stuff.
its probably been thought before, but why can't someone take a Debian distro, branch it (we love GPL, don't we:)), and attempt to make a niche "C2 certifiable distribution", exactly as MS has done.
Start small- kernel patches (maybe submit them to linus for integration even), and the bare basic tools, all modified for this specific distro.
if Mandrake can target performance, surely another distro can target security. and if everythings GPLed (as it would have to be if based on debian), changes could gradually be integrated back into the main tree. it'd take a while for *that* to happen, but in the mean time, the linux community could point to this distro and claim C2 certificationability (to noun a word:))
forgive the incompleteness of this post- i need this browser window, so i'm just posting now:)
one way i found is to use cheat codes from a game, intermingled with non-alphanumeric keys... A post here mentioned converting it to 3l337-speak, which could also be a good idea. it'll still be relatively easy to remember...
another method i use helps me remember it, and also helps me be lazy: I have one of the old AnyKey keyboards from gateway- the ones that are programmable.
i've programmed in some of my 8+ character passwords to type themselves in if you press a 3-key combo on my keyboard. not at all very likely to be found accidentally, and very secure... unless someone hacks my keyboard... and if you spend your time hacking keyboards... well... you have less of a life than I do.
Actually, they did release IE2... and it *was* ugly. IE3 was the version that had the bitmapped swirly-things behind the button bar. IE2 looked like... well... crap. the button bar was the same looking as the regular explorer button bar- the ugly square buttons. (sorry i don't have any more technical details other than what the buttons looked like- but it was still at the point where the AOL web browswer was better.../me pukes)
ie2 came with the initial release of Win95... OSR2 started giving out IE3 (which billy boy was so proud of, he put it in their bootscreen bmp.) :) i suspect the original IE was a win31 app that no one cared about, because a) the web wasn't big way back in that day, and b) netscape and mosaic stilled ruled the (small) market.
does anyone know of any portable CD players that can play MP3s? (Diskman-type?) do they exist? is there some technological block preventing Sony/Aiwa/Panasonic/you-name-it from shipping one? I mean, who here WOULDN'T object to 100+songs (10+ hours) of portable music on one CD?
didn't AOL release their TOC protocol documentation? isn't that what GAIM, FAIM, and all the other clones are based on? it says on the GAIM page that it wasn't reverse-engineered. so whats the big deal about MS using it? it was legal, i suppose. (on the other hand, we all know what MS is going to try to do, once it has a foothold in the market)
yeah, i think a good RFC is needed, as stated by many above.
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an intentional buffer overflow or other common bug that they could exploit would be enough. and easy enough that it could be hidden, or another one could be reintroduced whenever needed. but NSA wouldn't do that. they'd have someone else submit that patch, so it couldn't be traced to them.
besides, if NSA wanted to backdoor systems, doing it to apache or something would work better: network traffic is normal. its easier to remotely connect, probably less eyes looking at apache than at the linux kernel.
i don't believe NSA would do this, but if they did, i think they wouldn't put some elaborate backdoor into the kernel.
buffer overflow a signed app. can the new, arbitrary, (malicious) code be mistaken for signed code?
"In quantum physics, individual particles have no precise location and can coexist in more than one place at a time. Even distantly separated particles can share nonlocal correlations in a relationship known as "quantum entanglement." The entangled particles in the Los Alamos study are photons the basic particles of light engineered in such a way that they always have correlated polarizations. Polarization is the direction in which the photon's electric field vibrates."
:)
anyone else think this sounds a lot like philotics and ansibles from Enders Game?
charge us $100 per month! and implement security in the same manner as css (or ROT13 hehe). at that outragious price, peolple will have it cracked in a week... and what if napster decides not to pursue anyone who cracks their encryption?
is the RIAA gonna chase people for cracking NAPSTER'S weak encryption?
yes, i'm a moron. this was only meant to be taken seriously by lawyers!
but what if....
the spirit of tennis is to hit the ball back and forth, hopefully to a spot where the opponent can't get to it.
i don't think that topspin, backspin and slicing were part of the original tennis design specs.
if everyone has the same opportunity, without any extra equipment (bots), and it doesn't harm the server, then i don't see how it can be considered cheating?
take q2 for example.
run around or walk around. those are your two speeds. if you want to run away or catch up with someone, the end result amounts to who can cut corners better. does that model real life? do you run as fast as these guys down in sydney?
now, take strafe jumping, which is seen as cheating by some. however, it can be done by anyone, and introduces a new dimention to gameplay. all of a sudden, being "better" doesn't just mean "can twitch faster." suddenly, you *can* catch up with that guy running away from you, because you can strafe-jump better than he can. or you can beat that guy chasing you with a rocket launcher to a package of health. or you can jump from one ledge to another so you can cut someone off, or come up in surprise behind someone else. or even if you see someone not strafe-jumping, you can guess that it might be a newbie, and instead of just railing his ass to gibs, you might go a little easier on him, so as to not scare him away from the game.
i see differences in ability a *good* thing. some people say bunny-hoppers look silly. well, so does everyone running around at exactly the same speed.
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i was gonna post something big and long, but i just accidentally hit escape and zapped it all. suffice it to say that the visor OS is in ROM. Palm linux is possible.
parody is fair use, set by court decisions.
gotta stop procrastinating and get on this project!
but the question remains: does Karnov benefit from fullscreen antialiasing?
thats why crusher.dm2 and the Q3 equivilent are most often benchmarked.
I'm running out of the house, so i didn't read the article, or any other comments. But upon reading the /. post, this was my first thought: seeing how Intel plans this processor in about a year, its a good thing Transmeta kept Crusoe so secret until it was able to ship. This way, crusoe has a chance to establish itself in the embedded and mobile market before Intel can even get a competitor injected in.
heh. i was just gonna say that. but i wonder how it'd be distributed. "okay, your workblock: find out numbers 1 through 1000000. next person, you do numbers 1000001 through 9000000. next person, you do ..." pi can be found to enough digits on just one processor, and i haven't really seen many algorithms that would do well paralellized. i did find an algorithm that finds n digits in ln n time... it sounds fast, but i was stuck with the gmp library, and didn't feel like writing my own arbitrary precision stuff.
its probably been thought before, but why can't someone take a Debian distro, branch it (we love GPL, don't we :)), and attempt to make a niche "C2 certifiable distribution", exactly as MS has done.
:))
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Start small- kernel patches (maybe submit them to linus for integration even), and the bare basic tools, all modified for this specific distro.
if Mandrake can target performance, surely another distro can target security. and if everythings GPLed (as it would have to be if based on debian), changes could gradually be integrated back into the main tree. it'd take a while for *that* to happen, but in the mean time, the linux community could point to this distro and claim C2 certificationability (to noun a word
forgive the incompleteness of this post- i need this browser window, so i'm just posting now
one way i found is to use cheat codes from a game, intermingled with non-alphanumeric keys... A post here mentioned converting it to 3l337-speak, which could also be a good idea. it'll still be relatively easy to remember...
another method i use helps me remember it, and also helps me be lazy: I have one of the old AnyKey keyboards from gateway- the ones that are programmable.
i've programmed in some of my 8+ character passwords to type themselves in if you press a 3-key combo on my keyboard. not at all very likely to be found accidentally, and very secure... unless someone hacks my keyboard... and if you spend your time hacking keyboards... well... you have less of a life than I do.
Actually, they did release IE2... and it *was* ugly. IE3 was the version that had the bitmapped swirly-things behind the button bar. IE2 looked like... well... crap. the button bar was the same looking as the regular explorer button bar- the ugly square buttons. (sorry i don't have any more technical details other than what the buttons looked like- but it was still at the point where the AOL web browswer was better... /me pukes)
ie2 came with the initial release of Win95... OSR2 started giving out IE3 (which billy boy was so proud of, he put it in their bootscreen bmp.)
:)
i suspect the original IE was a win31 app that no one cared about, because a) the web wasn't big way back in that day, and b) netscape and mosaic stilled ruled the (small) market.
its a feature, not a bug... that simulates polititians. :)
main(int argc,char *argv[]){
:)
char question[2048];
scanf("%s",question);
printf("I honestly don't know...\n");
return 0;
}
i'll take cash, please.
Asus originally cancelled its k7 motherbaird after intel called them. THey decided to bite the bullet and and ship it
is this true? the part that i will hold out for on my K7 is an Asus mobo... can anyone confirm what he said?
"and how long you stay there." oh s**t i'm screwed. :)
i use screen to telnet to a chat daemon on localhost. so long as the chat stays up, there's a port open. :)
does anyone know of any portable CD players that can play MP3s? (Diskman-type?) do they exist? is there some technological block preventing Sony/Aiwa/Panasonic/you-name-it from shipping one? I mean, who here WOULDN'T object to 100+songs (10+ hours) of portable music on one CD?
didn't AOL release their TOC protocol documentation? isn't that what GAIM, FAIM, and all the other clones are based on? it says on the GAIM page that it wasn't reverse-engineered. so whats the big deal about MS using it? it was legal, i suppose. (on the other hand, we all know what MS is going to try to do, once it has a foothold in the market)
yeah, i think a good RFC is needed, as stated by many above.
what happened to their portal site that they released a few months ago? that was semi-useful!
/. for my homepage. (either that, or about:blank)
oh well, back to using