Gp comment still goes: use a normal, local account and then sudo. If you configure your access policies correctly losing the network will still allow you to log in with any locally defined user.
You just keep on using RSA of course. As the article says: it is possible for a spy application running on your machine to get vital information about an RSA enryption process with OpenSSL. So, as long as you make sure your machine is secure there is nothing to worry about.
Most of the time when you hear an encryption scheme is cracked or successfully attacked they mean that it has gotten easier to crack, not that the encryption is totally worthless. Which of course doesn't mean that countermeasures should not be taken, but it also doesn't mean that you have to throw out RSA.
When you're on a tanker that's 200m long you don't worry about things that are very close to you; it has no point since you cannot avoid them anyway. And the LOS-problem does not occur with objects far away.
Only for some tug or pilot operations could this become a problem but then most of these guys also rely on equipment such as gps and radar. Which compensates for the loss that you have in the outside view.
And when needed we can place extra monitors on the bridge wing to generate additional views (such as looking down the side of the ship). This is needed for projects like Meyer Werft - these guys navigate a 150m passenger ship backwards through a very small river (sometimes less then a few inches spare on both sides of the ship). (btw: they do it backwards because of the propellers: the force they produce could drive the front of the ship into the ground, so they sail backwards to avoid that problem)
We have some ship simulators. The largest has 360 deg. view generated by 10 pc's. Output resolution is 1280x1024 (per pc) which gets downscaled to something around 1024x768 by our Barco SIM6 projectors. That doesn't seem much but the image is more than 4.5m high, and you get to look at it from, say 5 to 6 metres away. Then it's still an impressive picture to look at:)
Well, X has been known to crash and burn at times. And whether the guy get this because of hardware issues or bad drivers doesn't matter. What matters is that it happens to him in X and not with his Mac.
Just accept that he likes his Mac instead of accusing him of making stuff up.
As most of the people who will read this, I have no hands-on experience with satellites. So basically I don't think you ask your question to the right audience. Then again, you only want opinions, and that I can give you:)
Question 1. I think you can do a DOS attack, provided that you have a strong transmitter. I have no idea what they cost, but I think you must be pretty badly want to do this, since these kind of transmitters probably won't come cheap.
Probably a weaker tranmitter can do the trick if the distance from the receiver is small. If the receiver is standing at large site, and that site is well secured than this probably won't be a problem.
Question 2. Deciphering the command structure will probably not be that difficult. Especially not if you know what you are looking for (kind of data). As you said before, it is not encrypted.
I figure that if you can afford a receiver/transmitter to sniff the connection, or to do a DOS attack, that deciphering the command structure will be peanuts.
Question 3. If you (or your company) is concerned with illegal access than hooking it up directly to the Internet will probably not be a good idea. Furthermore, it would be wise to implement your own level of encryption over IPSec so that you can easly implement stronger encryption when needed.
Most importantly: is it worth it? I think not. Transmitters/receivers are specialised equipment (thus also probably very expensive). When you succeed to hack/crack a satallite then what? You have access to gigabytes of mostly useless data...
This goes for Joe Hacker. If you're talking corporate-espionage that's a completly different story... But I also don't think it is really worth the trouble for them...
First a correction: cancer and alzheimer are _not_ modern diseases. They have been around for ages. AFAIK
And yes: I believe people really DO want to live forever. Just look at the worlds religions. They all result in eternity. If it's not for the body, than it is for the soul.
Also our western science is hopelessly trying to find the key to eternal life. That's what the research for this gene is all about: trying to let humans life forever.
You are probably right when an avarage guy at this moment discovers that he's immortal: he would get bored eventually, or get very paranoid.
However, I do think that when the human mind is provided with enough chalanges he can live forever without getting bored. And look at the universe: there is enough to be discoverd.
So, in my opinion people should NOT stop believing in God or science (or whatever it is that provides them with the hope of eternity), because this hope is what drives the human mind to discover new things (which is something unique among the creatures that live on this planet).
I just wondered: how much bandwidth do most US DSL providers deliver (and at what cost)?
I know that in The Netherlands you can choose between 512Kbit down/64Kbit up and 1024Kbit down/256 Kbit up. The first will cost you about 45 euro's (thats around $40 I guess) and the second costs 80 euro's (around $70).
At this moment my cable provider (UPC/Chello) delivers me an uplink speed of 14KB/s (128Kbit ~ double ISDN) and a max. downlink of 160KB/s. Thats more than the cheapest ADSL connection can deliver, at a slightly lower price...
Although I trust the KPN and their ADSL technology more than UPC/Chello (lots of downtime, very restrictive EULAs and uneducated technicians)
I think I saw it in the Atomium (in Belgium): there they had a microscope that was completly holographic (floating in the air). You could actually see a magnified sample though it! It was a static holograph (IIRC), but apart from that I found it very impressive. That is the kind of holographs I would like to see computer generated...:)
WAP will no doubt make it in Europe (at least in The Netherlands, where I live). All of the phones you buy here that have Internet capabilities are WAP phones. I even hadn't heard of iMode until this article. So there wont be a "Big Cell Fight". There is nothing to battle over, everybody in Europe already has a WAP phone...
However, I'm not sure what will happen next. UMTS licenses are being auctioned now in different European contries, and the telecom companies are offering huge ammount of money, so we'll probably see a mone for UMTS phones anytime soon...
In Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, where I live they are now installing new traffic lights and traffic managment stuff to aid cyclists get faster from point a to b. More and more intersections have intelligent systems that "know" how many cars are heading in their direction (they can communicate with other intersections). The traffic managment system can then use this information to give a better flow of the traffic. I don't know the details of the system, but I have indeed noticed that at a number of intersections the light for cyclists goes faster and longer to green then before... The system doesn't just waits a number of minutes, but changes the lights directly when the last car has passed.
Indeed; WINE seems to be a project that is very interesting, but kinda unneeded since Linux has much more acceptance now than when the project started. More and more desktop applications appear native for the Linux platform, hence, many Windows products now have a Linux counterpart. For what I have heard many people use/used WINE for Windows programs such as Agent and Eudora. Now with the arrival of Pan, and many GUI email clients/groupware applications in the works (for instance Evolution) many people will stop using the Windows programs, and switch to native Linux applications. So, as time passes, WINE will probably be used less and less...
"Do what you're being paid to do, and nothing else, and you have no reason to be paranoid."
Whoo... Comments like this make me paranoid. As far as I understand, these kind of "Big brother is watching you" things are legal in the US. I'm glad I live in the Netherlands. Here, spying on employees is considered a bad thing.
In the Netherlands there was great controversy about placing security camara's in public places (mostly in city centre's with large amounts of bars in the neighborhood). They even created special privacy rules for police officers that were watching the pictures.
I do understand that employers want to know what their employees are doing, but I believe spying on them is not a good way to increase their productivty. Giving employees a bit of responsibility works usually better than treating them as bad guys on forehand.
I should have stressed in my writing that my point goes in general. Corel could have a point, but to me it comes as the next story in a long line on/. about companies suing each other. It looks like the lawsuites are getting bigger and come more often...
We are going to the point that even large companies can go broke when someone sues them. Maybe the judges should ask themself whether or not it is right to grant some of the extremly large ammounts of money to the prosecutor.
Note: this is what I see in the US in general, it's not specifically about the Corel case... -- Eon.
It seems to me that the US (& maybe Canadian) law systems should be changed. I live in the Netherlands, and each time I read a story in the newspapers about someone suing someone else about the most rediculous things (and then winning even more rediculous amounts of money) it is always in the US... It looks more like the US law system is for providing lawyers a large salary than doing justice to those that deserve it. Anyway, my 2 cents... -- Eon.
It indeed does the job, any yes, better than other Office suites, but it still has many flaws. Standard text documents are converted fairly good, but it goes wrong when you used pictures, etc. in your documents. Also margins tend to get mangled. There are other things that go wrong, but these I encounter the most...
Hmm... I find this attitude very common under Americans. No personal offence, but the world consists of more than North-America. There's more out there, and they are using the metric system. So, this "bunch of foreigners" of yours happen to be the whole damn world population. You speak about the cost of moving to the metric system, but did you take into account the costs involved in *keeping* the imperial system? The tooling and equipment needed to convert between the two systems, etc. etc. costs huge ammounts of money each year again. Instead, if you go to the metric system you will have a one-time cost (which can be spread over multiple years of course), and after that... No more! Anyway, my 2cents... Grtz, Eon.
Early this morning (CET) I found that, although my DNS server & cache gave the correct values, Netscape led me to the redirection page. Does Netscape has a DNS cache of its own? I tried cleaning up the cache (disk & memory) but it didn't help. Now it displays correctly, but nslookup already gave me correct values in the morning...
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Gp comment still goes: use a normal, local account and then sudo. If you configure your access policies correctly losing the network will still allow you to log in with any locally defined user.
You bring your electric toothbrush with you when you go to the dentist?
You just keep on using RSA of course. As the article says: it is possible for a spy application running on your machine to get vital information about an RSA enryption process with OpenSSL. So, as long as you make sure your machine is secure there is nothing to worry about.
Most of the time when you hear an encryption scheme is cracked or successfully attacked they mean that it has gotten easier to crack, not that the encryption is totally worthless. Which of course doesn't mean that countermeasures should not be taken, but it also doesn't mean that you have to throw out RSA.
Just one example I had trouble with last week: the Linux 2.6 megaraid driver.
Half-assed because it only works when you disable ACPI on your shiny new Dell PowerEdge 6850.
Google replies in m^6, NOT cubic foot. Try "gallon in cubic foot" and see the result: 1 US gallon = 0.133680556 cubic foot.
When you're on a tanker that's 200m long you don't worry about things that are very close to you; it has no point since you cannot avoid them anyway. And the LOS-problem does not occur with objects far away.
Only for some tug or pilot operations could this become a problem but then most of these guys also rely on equipment such as gps and radar. Which compensates for the loss that you have in the outside view.
And when needed we can place extra monitors on the bridge wing to generate additional views (such as looking down the side of the ship). This is needed for projects like Meyer Werft - these guys navigate a 150m passenger ship backwards through a very small river (sometimes less then a few inches spare on both sides of the ship). (btw: they do it backwards because of the propellers: the force they produce could drive the front of the ship into the ground, so they sail backwards to avoid that problem)
So don't look at it from that close :)
:)
We have some ship simulators. The largest has 360 deg. view generated by 10 pc's. Output resolution is 1280x1024 (per pc) which gets downscaled to something around 1024x768 by our Barco SIM6 projectors. That doesn't seem much but the image is more than 4.5m high, and you get to look at it from, say 5 to 6 metres away. Then it's still an impressive picture to look at
Well, X has been known to crash and burn at times. And whether the guy get this because of hardware issues or bad drivers doesn't matter. What matters is that it happens to him in X and not with his Mac.
Just accept that he likes his Mac instead of accusing him of making stuff up.
As most of the people who will read this, I have no hands-on experience with satellites. So basically I don't think you ask your question to the right audience. Then again, you only want opinions, and that I can give you :)
Question 1. I think you can do a DOS attack, provided that you have a strong transmitter. I have no idea what they cost, but I think you must be pretty badly want to do this, since these kind of transmitters probably won't come cheap.
Probably a weaker tranmitter can do the trick if the distance from the receiver is small. If the receiver is standing at large site, and that site is well secured than this probably won't be a problem.
Question 2. Deciphering the command structure will probably not be that difficult. Especially not if you know what you are looking for (kind of data). As you said before, it is not encrypted.
I figure that if you can afford a receiver/transmitter to sniff the connection, or to do a DOS attack, that deciphering the command structure will be peanuts.
Question 3. If you (or your company) is concerned with illegal access than hooking it up directly to the Internet will probably not be a good idea. Furthermore, it would be wise to implement your own level of encryption over IPSec so that you can easly implement stronger encryption when needed.
Most importantly: is it worth it? I think not. Transmitters/receivers are specialised equipment (thus also probably very expensive). When you succeed to hack/crack a satallite then what? You have access to gigabytes of mostly useless data...
This goes for Joe Hacker. If you're talking corporate-espionage that's a completly different story... But I also don't think it is really worth the trouble for them...
I won't say that these file sizes won't be used in the future, but can someone point me to an application that would really benefit from it right now?
... but does someone needs it?
So I think
:)
You see? He said I think. He didn't think for you
First a correction: cancer and alzheimer are _not_ modern diseases. They have been around for ages. AFAIK
And yes: I believe people really DO want to live forever. Just look at the worlds religions. They all result in eternity. If it's not for the body, than it is for the soul.
Also our western science is hopelessly trying to find the key to eternal life. That's what the research for this gene is all about: trying to let humans life forever.
You are probably right when an avarage guy at this moment discovers that he's immortal: he would get bored eventually, or get very paranoid.
However, I do think that when the human mind is provided with enough chalanges he can live forever without getting bored. And look at the universe: there is enough to be discoverd.
So, in my opinion people should NOT stop believing in God or science (or whatever it is that provides them with the hope of eternity), because this hope is what drives the human mind to discover new things (which is something unique among the creatures that live on this planet).
I just wondered: how much bandwidth do most US DSL providers deliver (and at what cost)?
I know that in The Netherlands you can choose between 512Kbit down/64Kbit up and 1024Kbit down/256 Kbit up. The first will cost you about 45 euro's (thats around $40 I guess) and the second costs 80 euro's (around $70).
At this moment my cable provider (UPC/Chello) delivers me an uplink speed of 14KB/s (128Kbit ~ double ISDN) and a max. downlink of 160KB/s. Thats more than the cheapest ADSL connection can deliver, at a slightly lower price...
Although I trust the KPN and their ADSL technology more than UPC/Chello (lots of downtime, very restrictive EULAs and uneducated technicians)
I think I saw it in the Atomium (in Belgium): there they had a microscope that was completly holographic (floating in the air). You could actually see a magnified sample though it! It was a static holograph (IIRC), but apart from that I found it very impressive. That is the kind of holographs I would like to see computer generated... :)
WAP will no doubt make it in Europe (at least in The Netherlands, where I live). All of the phones you buy here that have Internet capabilities are WAP phones. I even hadn't heard of iMode until this article. So there wont be a "Big Cell Fight". There is nothing to battle over, everybody in Europe already has a WAP phone...
However, I'm not sure what will happen next. UMTS licenses are being auctioned now in different European contries, and the telecom companies are offering huge ammount of money, so we'll probably see a mone for UMTS phones anytime soon...
In Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, where I live they are now installing new traffic lights and traffic managment stuff to aid cyclists get faster from point a to b. More and more intersections have intelligent systems that "know" how many cars are heading in their direction (they can communicate with other intersections). The traffic managment system can then use this information to give a better flow of the traffic.
I don't know the details of the system, but I have indeed noticed that at a number of intersections the light for cyclists goes faster and longer to green then before... The system doesn't just waits a number of minutes, but changes the lights directly when the last car has passed.
Grtz,
Eon.
Indeed; WINE seems to be a project that is very interesting, but kinda unneeded since Linux has much more acceptance now than when the project started.
More and more desktop applications appear native for the Linux platform, hence, many Windows products now have a Linux counterpart.
For what I have heard many people use/used WINE for Windows programs such as Agent and Eudora. Now with the arrival of Pan, and many GUI email clients/groupware applications in the works (for instance Evolution) many people will stop using the Windows programs, and switch to native Linux applications.
So, as time passes, WINE will probably be used less and less...
"Do what you're being paid to do, and nothing else, and you have no reason to be paranoid."
Whoo... Comments like this make me paranoid. As far as I understand, these kind of "Big brother is watching you" things are legal in the US. I'm glad I live in the Netherlands. Here, spying on employees is considered a bad thing.
In the Netherlands there was great controversy about placing security camara's in public places (mostly in city centre's with large amounts of bars in the neighborhood). They even created special privacy rules for police officers that were watching the pictures.
I do understand that employers want to know what their employees are doing, but I believe spying on them is not a good way to increase their productivty. Giving employees a bit of responsibility works usually better than treating them as bad guys on forehand.
Why isn't this whole damn flamebait tree set to -1? OR -99999 for that matter?
I should have stressed in my writing that my point goes in general. Corel could have a point, but to me it comes as the next story in a long line on /. about companies suing each other.
It looks like the lawsuites are getting bigger and come more often...
We are going to the point that even large companies can go broke when someone sues them. Maybe the judges should ask themself whether or not it is right to grant some of the extremly large ammounts of money to the prosecutor.
Note: this is what I see in the US in general, it's not specifically about the Corel case...
--
Eon.
It seems to me that the US (& maybe Canadian) law systems should be changed. I live in the Netherlands, and each time I read a story in the newspapers about someone suing someone else about the most rediculous things (and then winning even more rediculous amounts of money) it is always in the US... It looks more like the US law system is for providing lawyers a large salary than doing justice to those that deserve it. Anyway, my 2 cents... -- Eon.
It indeed does the job, any yes, better than other Office suites, but it still has many flaws. Standard text documents are converted fairly good, but it goes wrong when you used pictures, etc. in your documents. Also margins tend to get mangled. There are other things that go wrong, but these I encounter the most...
Hmm... I find this attitude very common under Americans. No personal offence, but the world consists of more than North-America. There's more out there, and they are using the metric system. So, this "bunch of foreigners" of yours happen to be the whole damn world population. You speak about the cost of moving to the metric system, but did you take into account the costs involved in *keeping* the imperial system? The tooling and equipment needed to convert between the two systems, etc. etc. costs huge ammounts of money each year again. Instead, if you go to the metric system you will have a one-time cost (which can be spread over multiple years of course), and after that... No more! Anyway, my 2cents... Grtz, Eon.
Early this morning (CET) I found that, although my DNS server & cache gave the correct values, Netscape led me to the redirection page. Does Netscape has a DNS cache of its own? I tried cleaning up the cache (disk & memory) but it didn't help. Now it displays correctly, but nslookup already gave me correct values in the morning...
Somebody who knows more?
Eon.