Did we really expect them to say, "Our defective car nearly killed you, we are sorry, here is a nice fruit basket?" And remember kids, when you hire an 'independent expert' and pay them yourself, they are not necessarly indepent any more. Renualt sueing the driver is great, you'd think this happened here in the USA.
I am suprised the police did not impound the car and find someone truly independent to run the tests. The black box should have a few minutes of data on the state of the vehicle (accelerator, brake etc.) unless the manufacturer wiped it. If the driver was not lying, the brakes would be usless to stop the vehicle from those speeds and overusing them would warp the rotors and make it even more dangerous.
From what I can find the Renault Vel Satis has more tech in it than a small server room. It is the "flagship" of Renault's car offerings. Quote, "As part of its vision of the top-range car, Renault gives high priority to advanced technology, while at the same time refusing to permit futile complexity or to "show off" with over-obvious technology. However sophisticated and complex, technology must be simple and easy to use." Any wonder why they reaced to CYA.
Via 800mhx ITX machine running IPCOP (customized) Squid & Dansguardian Norton Corp AV 8 All automatic updates engaged (of couse I still need to visit each machine to click of on the EULA for SP2) System policies limiting installations and setting changes File permissions set to prevent the public from Writing and Executing in the same place. About 60 public access machines at 8 different recreation centers on DSL internet.
Seal the new computer room completely, install an air lock and fill the room with CO2. All staff and visitors will need an air supplied respirator to enter the room and will thus be protected from the aroma. As and added bonus, your room will be completly flame retardent!
As the 1980s came to a close, a high tech web browsing tool called LYNX stormed the scene. It was the the browser of choice on my text only VAX account at Wright State University. The arrow keys moved up and down through the links and the spacebar represented the 'click'. I hope microsoft sue on this one, so that they can be laughed out of court. You can still download and use Lynx at http://lynx.isc.org/.
Get one of these super cheap keyboards. A few screws hold this together and the intenals are just printed on plastic sheets. The PCB with the controller is about 2" x 3". Wrap it in electrical tape and just stick it to the back ot the case (or hide it inside). One warning, these keyboards suck, so don't try to actually type on them.
Security must always be judged on a scale. How sensitive is you information against what your are willing to pay to keep it secret. Even naked people working in a plexiglass room could figure out a way to work the system.
Another solution for smuggling a thumb drive into a secure area. Slip a thumb drive into a pocket in a steel toed boot. The steel should block any x-ray detection of the device. Kick your shoes off while you work and deftly slip the device into the back of the PC with your toes (not visible on most security cameras). Spray on a little extra 'foot funk' in you think that they are on to you and wanting to check your shoes.
Another thought, most new machines (with unlocked BIOSs) can boot a USB device. Now rather than trying to sneak your HackMaster 7000 past security, your can load all your apps on your USB key, boot up and hack away on your employer's machine.
Short of launching his own space probe, the only way for this guy to consume a TB a month of storage is a serious porn habit. Just post your 'content' on Edonkey and it will be available when you 'need' it. You likely only watch them once anyway.
I repair computers. What if I repair a computer and notice a filesharing app on the machine? If I return the machine functional, I am interntionally "aiding" in the infringment. How about telling someone how to configure their firewall so that Kazaa works correctly? Sounds like "counsels" to me. What if I install a cd-burner and the customer copies a bunch of copyrighted cds? Heck, the network card I install to download patches can be used to "abet" downloads of "infringing materials".
I am going up to the hills to my bunker stocked with non DRM hard drives and blank CDRs to hide now. Send me an IM when civilization finishes collapsing.
Rules could be: Comes from anonyomus account +2 Mentions (bush,cheney,airplane,searstower, etc.) +1 Encrypted +5 Spam -10 Language other than english +3 Phrase ("the will of allah be done") +5 Email client Pine +1 Microsoft Outlook -20
I envision that they uses a bayesian filter trained to recognize messages based on terrorist words and phrases, common misspellings for groups of non english speakers, retorical phrases used by terror groups, plain text coding styles etc.
In all the raids against Al queda, iraq, ahganistan and others, I am sure that they have enough source material to train a filter to pick up messages by members of those groups. Short coded emails will still slip by ("the ice cream has blue sprinkles" = "Detonate") but anything containing some plan text or coded (but not encyrpted) messages of length should be picked up. One confirmed message and all mail to/from those addresses should be flagged forever.
Quoteth the parent: In other words, I doubt they have any techniques that allow them to take the entire firehose of email and sip out a manageable amount based just on the text.
Cough Spam Assasin Cough
I have a program that sorts the messages I care about from the ones I don't. Why can't the NSA? The software is the same, the rules are different, and they probally have a bigger box to run it on.
Get one of these dongles and you can roll your own light board. Comes with all the C libraries you'll need. Or if your feeling extra macho build your DMX frames by hand in VI.
Code every thing to render in Lynx! You kids and your fancy [blink] tags don't know how good you have it. Back in the day we did not have "pop ups" and "flash". A couple of tags and some actual content was all we had to design pages with. The web went down the toilet when they introduced Mosiac.
Seriously, however you format your pages, always fire up Lynx and check your work, a text reader usually sees the web as Lynx does.
I am dismayed by the lack of usable suggestions. Here is some more practical.
1. Purchase a very large fan 2. Get a 12v to 120v inverter 3. Purchase one of these turbines 4. Install the turbine on the rack and wire up the inverter to your gear 5. Plug in the fan and enjoy your creativity (Great cooling performance is a bonus)
Think outside the box? I believe that the is no box!
My point was that the defination of a 501(c)(3) seems to exclude loansharks. I can say that I am King of Ohio but the doesn't necesarily hold water either.
I got a telemarketing call "from a 501 3c" who was offering me a loan at "a great rate". As this particular "charity" was not listed with the IRS, I reported them for both a DNC violation (calling me) and a fraud violation (claiming to be a charity but not). I hope those a-holes fry.
Voter goes in to booth Touches Screen to record Votes The the recorded votes are padded with som extra data, zipped and encrypted with the Board of Elections's Public Key Two reciepts are printed (with a 3d barcode perhaps) one for the Board and one For the voter Voter is safe from a shakedown as long as the Private key is protected Encrypted votes are sent to the tabulator at the board Only the 'Master Computer' with the private key can manipulate the votes The board has a paper record of each vote and can recount if needed
We need to get to work right away. Forget Iraq, lets spend 87 Billion on a new "Super Orion" class space destroyer. We could get an old Battleship and refit it with a pusher plate and the necessary accessories and have money to spare. Where do I sign up, I want to run the ABM laser cannons.
The missing part is "access to copyrighted material". Simple solution:
Set up an autoreply that sends your copyrighted poem/short story/ascii art to everone that makes it through your filter. The the spam that bypasses you filter is unlocking your infomation.
1. Sue Spammers 2. ???? 3. Profit!?!
Judges should at least be allowed to have spammers sterilized. At least we could keep some of the floaters out of the gene pool.
Instruct the engineers to rectally insert them when not in use. You'll be safe from everything but a cavity search. Large files can be spanned across multiple devices, just find someone with extra capacity available. (The Goat.se dude could be your new server).
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Did we really expect them to say, "Our defective car nearly killed you, we are sorry, here is a nice fruit basket?" And remember kids, when you hire an 'independent expert' and pay them yourself, they are not necessarly indepent any more. Renualt sueing the driver is great, you'd think this happened here in the USA.
I am suprised the police did not impound the car and find someone truly independent to run the tests. The black box should have a few minutes of data on the state of the vehicle (accelerator, brake etc.) unless the manufacturer wiped it. If the driver was not lying, the brakes would be usless to stop the vehicle from those speeds and overusing them would warp the rotors and make it even more dangerous.
From what I can find the Renault Vel Satis has more tech in it than a small server room. It is the "flagship" of Renault's car offerings. Quote, "As part of its vision of the top-range car, Renault gives high priority to advanced technology, while at the same time refusing to permit futile complexity or to "show off" with over-obvious technology. However sophisticated and complex, technology must be simple and easy to use." Any wonder why they reaced to CYA.
SD
Via 800mhx ITX machine running IPCOP (customized)
Squid & Dansguardian
Norton Corp AV 8
All automatic updates engaged (of couse I still need to visit each machine to click of on the EULA for SP2)
System policies limiting installations and setting changes
File permissions set to prevent the public from Writing and Executing in the same place.
About 60 public access machines at 8 different recreation centers on DSL internet.
Almost perfect...
SD
I bet Saddam bought it so that he could rain WMDs from space. I'm glad we invaded and save the world.
SD
Seal the new computer room completely, install an air lock and fill the room with CO2. All staff and visitors will need an air supplied respirator to enter the room and will thus be protected from the aroma. As and added bonus, your room will be completly flame retardent!
SD
As the 1980s came to a close, a high tech web browsing tool called LYNX stormed the scene. It was the the browser of choice on my text only VAX account at Wright State University. The arrow keys moved up and down through the links and the spacebar represented the 'click'. I hope microsoft sue on this one, so that they can be laughed out of court. You can still download and use Lynx at http://lynx.isc.org/.
SD
I hear that McDonald's in India is hiring.
SD
Get one of these super cheap keyboards. A few screws hold this together and the intenals are just printed on plastic sheets. The PCB with the controller is about 2" x 3". Wrap it in electrical tape and just stick it to the back ot the case (or hide it inside). One warning, these keyboards suck, so don't try to actually type on them.
SD
Security must always be judged on a scale. How sensitive is you information against what your are willing to pay to keep it secret. Even naked people working in a plexiglass room could figure out a way to work the system.
Another solution for smuggling a thumb drive into a secure area. Slip a thumb drive into a pocket in a steel toed boot. The steel should block any x-ray detection of the device. Kick your shoes off while you work and deftly slip the device into the back of the PC with your toes (not visible on most security cameras). Spray on a little extra 'foot funk' in you think that they are on to you and wanting to check your shoes.
Another thought, most new machines (with unlocked BIOSs) can boot a USB device. Now rather than trying to sneak your HackMaster 7000 past security, your can load all your apps on your USB key, boot up and hack away on your employer's machine.
SD
Short of launching his own space probe, the only way for this guy to consume a TB a month of storage is a serious porn habit. Just post your 'content' on Edonkey and it will be available when you 'need' it. You likely only watch them once anyway.
SD
I repair computers. What if I repair a computer and notice a filesharing app on the machine? If I return the machine functional, I am interntionally "aiding" in the infringment. How about telling someone how to configure their firewall so that Kazaa works correctly? Sounds like "counsels" to me. What if I install a cd-burner and the customer copies a bunch of copyrighted cds? Heck, the network card I install to download patches can be used to "abet" downloads of "infringing materials".
I am going up to the hills to my bunker stocked with non DRM hard drives and blank CDRs to hide now. Send me an IM when civilization finishes collapsing.
SD
Which button controls Internet Explorer?
Nothing like a little in-race pr0n to get the motor running.
It seems like some buttons are missing. Proposed new controls:
DOS
EMP
NOS
SD
You all laughed at The Core , but now the effects of the government expierements are rising to the surface. Stock up now on unobtanium now, the market will go through the roof soon. Forget your foil hats (they attract electrical discharges anyway) crack out the asbestos underpants and the SPF 1000. And don't forget to send those Apocolypse Day Cards.
SD
IMDB link for the clueless.
Rules could be:
Comes from anonyomus account +2
Mentions (bush,cheney,airplane,searstower, etc.) +1
Encrypted +5
Spam -10
Language other than english +3
Phrase ("the will of allah be done") +5
Email client Pine +1
Microsoft Outlook -20
I envision that they uses a bayesian filter trained to recognize messages based on terrorist words and phrases, common misspellings for groups of non english speakers, retorical phrases used by terror groups, plain text coding styles etc.
In all the raids against Al queda, iraq, ahganistan and others, I am sure that they have enough source material to train a filter to pick up messages by members of those groups. Short coded emails will still slip by ("the ice cream has blue sprinkles" = "Detonate") but anything containing some plan text or coded (but not encyrpted) messages of length should be picked up. One confirmed message and all mail to/from those addresses should be flagged forever.
SD
Quoteth the parent:
In other words, I doubt they have any techniques that allow them to take the entire firehose of email and sip out a manageable amount based just on the text.
Cough Spam Assasin Cough
I have a program that sorts the messages I care about from the ones I don't. Why can't the NSA? The software is the same, the rules are different, and they probally have a bigger box to run it on.
SD
All my favorite recipes are right here. There is nothing like a nice Pulse-Discharge Pancake to start the day off right. Everything tastes better with my Cook-O-Matic Electro Range.
SD
Get one of these dongles and you can roll your own light board. Comes with all the C libraries you'll need. Or if your feeling extra macho build your DMX frames by hand in VI.
SD
Code every thing to render in Lynx! You kids and your fancy [blink] tags don't know how good you have it. Back in the day we did not have "pop ups" and "flash". A couple of tags and some actual content was all we had to design pages with. The web went down the toilet when they introduced Mosiac.
Seriously, however you format your pages, always fire up Lynx and check your work, a text reader usually sees the web as Lynx does.
SD
I am dismayed by the lack of usable suggestions. Here is some more practical.
1. Purchase a very large fan
2. Get a 12v to 120v inverter
3. Purchase one of these turbines
4. Install the turbine on the rack and wire up the inverter to your gear
5. Plug in the fan and enjoy your creativity (Great cooling performance is a bonus)
Think outside the box? I believe that the is no box!
SD
Some possible replacement pairs that have been missed.
Govenator / Gropee
Michael Jackson / Small Boy
Forest Fire / House
Hummer / VW Rabbit
Bubba / The Gimp
SD
My point was that the defination of a 501(c)(3) seems to exclude loansharks. I can say that I am King of Ohio but the doesn't necesarily hold water either.
SD
I got a telemarketing call "from a 501 3c" who was offering me a loan at "a great rate". As this particular "charity" was not listed with the IRS, I reported them for both a DNC violation (calling me) and a fraud violation (claiming to be a charity but not). I hope those a-holes fry.
SD
Here is a secure solution.
Voter goes in to booth
Touches Screen to record Votes
The the recorded votes are padded with som extra data, zipped and encrypted with the Board of Elections's Public Key
Two reciepts are printed (with a 3d barcode perhaps) one for the Board and one For the voter
Voter is safe from a shakedown as long as the Private key is protected
Encrypted votes are sent to the tabulator at the board
Only the 'Master Computer' with the private key can manipulate the votes
The board has a paper record of each vote and can recount if needed
How hard is it
We need to get to work right away. Forget Iraq, lets spend 87 Billion on a new "Super Orion" class space destroyer. We could get an old Battleship and refit it with a pusher plate and the necessary accessories and have money to spare. Where do I sign up, I want to run the ABM laser cannons.
SD
The missing part is "access to copyrighted material". Simple solution:
Set up an autoreply that sends your copyrighted poem/short story/ascii art to everone that makes it through your filter. The the spam that bypasses you filter is unlocking your infomation.
1. Sue Spammers
2. ????
3. Profit!?!
Judges should at least be allowed to have spammers sterilized. At least we could keep some of the floaters out of the gene pool.
SD
Buy a bunch of these 2gb Flash Drives
Instruct the engineers to rectally insert them when not in use. You'll be safe from everything but a cavity search. Large files can be spanned across multiple devices, just find someone with extra capacity available. (The Goat.se dude could be your new server).
SD