I am sooooo happy for you! Meanwhile I live in Wisconsin, area code 53010, in a semi rural area (the houses maybe average a half mile to a mile apart) about six miles from the nearest phone switching station. I sure as shit want DSL, but hell, for a month I couldn't even use my modem because the phone line was too bad to connenct but still good enough to make voice calls, and Ameritech/Verizon doesen't guarentee modems to work, only voice!!! I was starting to fantasize doing a Columbine High on their corporate headquarters:-) It's people like me who need broadband the most but are least likely to get it, because the population density is too low to make it profitable. Well, I say we should creata a modern day equivelant fo the the interstate highway system, but with fiber. It will likely have the same long-term impotance. Meanwhile, I feel lucky to connenct at 26k, am currently conected at 24K, and fully expect it to take ten years (or more) to get anything faster.
(And don't mention sattalite, I only work part time! Ironically, I live less than two miles from a cell phone tower, so I might someday be able to get a 2Mb connection that I have read about before DSL, but I ain't holding my breath)
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That American Computer Company is one of the weirdest sites on the net. It seems like just another computer hardware etailer, until you get to the bizarre claims of having alien technology recovered from Roswell that are soooooooo much better than ours. I always appreciated those sites that kept you guessing as to their veracity, and this is one of the best.
It wasn't funny the first time because logically we all knew it meant mega and most people aren't such anal-retentive nitpickers to actually mention it.
So your saying it is only a quantatative difference and not a qualatative difference.
"You could act like not knowing the latest hole in BIND is more dangerous than driving an asbestos-insulated Yugo without seatbelts at 115 MPH through L.A. during rush hour while smoking unfiltered Camels, but it's not."
Could you please clarify what you were tring to say?
Yes, it is better to assume full knowledge when designing security systems, but that doesn't mean that we should do our damndest to make sure as many people as possible have full knowledge. This is what public disclosure does. If I find a security flaw in a peice of software, publicize it, and some jackass uses it to crack a server or something, I am partially responsible, aren't I. If a parent leaves a loaded gun on a table and their young child kills himself or his sister, then the parent is certianly legaly responsible. How is this different?
I have had similar thoughts, myself. I liken it to a safe. You use a safe for strong physical security, but most people hide a safe, because you have to know where it is in order to crack it.
Most people don't tell everyone they know where their safe is and that it has a specific weakness that makes it easily crackable. But this is what this full-disclosure philosophy wants people to do.
I just coneptualize to extremes of security. At one end is am enormouse bank vault that has 10 foot thick titanium and concrete walls. This is put in a public place and the location is advertized heavily. On the other end is hiding some money behind a picture in a frame. You tell no one about it. So I am getting that the latter is "no security at all"
Hell, common sense says that the more people that know about a flaw, the more that will try to use it. Oh no, you say, but more people will also try to fix it. But how does this apply to close sourced operating systems?
In Permutation City, the main charecter has two virtual machines running, one on top of another, for security purposes in order to quarantine executable code in email. She also has a Email screening program with a neural net roughly comparable to a goldfishes brain, that tries to fool the email into thinking it is being seen by a human. The first prediction has come true, I wonder when the second will?
I just want to comment that CPUs are fantastically reliable devices. I had an Celeron 300A at 466 running continuously on a variety of distributed computing clients for almost two years without a problem. Hell, my damn motherboard is what broke. You should be much more worried about hard drives, but even they are remarkably reliable for being mechanical devices.
Actually, the least reliable part of a compurter is either the fans in it (50,000 hours lifetime, usually. I want a fan with a ceramic bearing! One million hours, perhaps?) or the left mouse button, which are usually good for 10 million clicks, which sounds like a lot, but isn't, especially if you play a lot of games like starcraft and such.Anybody know if they make extended life microswitches with perhaps 100 million or even a billion cycle durability?
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It always pisses me off when I hear peolple claiming that the big bad governemnt started the fire at Waco. If they did, why the fuck did they wait so long and try so damn hard to try to get them to leave voluntarily? Why is there videotape of the fire starting independently in three different parts of the building? Why didn't the Waco Wackos LEAVE THE BURNING BUILDING? Because they started the damn fire and wanted to go with it. It all fit into their kooky religious beliefs that the ATF raid was the beginning of the End of the World. They really beleived that! Christ, these people were NOT acting rationally, at least no what we would consider rational, so why is it so hard to think that they started the fire? Its no different than the Other mass suicides that happend before and after, like the one in South Africa, or the most recent one where they had a website.
Not to be boastfull or anything, but I have worked on a farm for almost two years now while going to college, so I am in pretty good shape. Also, all that experiance with cows should lend itself to dealing with the suits. (For those without the benifit of farm experience, cows are REALLY REALLY REALLY STUPID.)
This comment is so ignorant it is nearly flamebait. Those tests that the Itanium did so poorly on were conventional code. They did not test any IA-64 code because they said they couldn't find any to test. Judgeing the Itanium on how well it runs conventional IA-32 code is like judeging an Athlon by how well it runs emulated PPC code. I.E. very very stupid.
True only if the union is effective and not corrupt. Unfortuantly for some reason Unions tend to become corrupt, probably because of the relativley large amounts of money flowing through the system from dues. Dateline had a fantastic expose on the International Union of Hotel Workers and how horrifically corrupt the management was. They were getting dues from $8/hour maids and using it as their won personal bank account. The Union Pres had 3 homes, a $350,000 salary and his pension was almost as large, I think. Hell, the bastard even used Union funds to build a gym in IRELAND, that was of course named after him. It is a perfect example of just how wrong a Union can go.
Have you seen beast machines? It is seriously well written and I can honestly say far superior to the origonal series in both the qualtiy of animation and writing and the the charecter models. You should really try to look at the original series objectively and not through nostalgia colored glasses. The origional series was rather choppily animated and the writing tended to be simplistic.
Beast machines is even better written. The story arcs are remakably long for a children's cartoon and the animation is fantastic. The way Rhinox went evil was very well done, as was the other missing charecters true identities. The episode where silver wolf(?) finally was "freed" was downright touching.
Well, I live 34000 feet from my CO. But in a nearby town I saw a house that was literally a few feet from the CO. What kind of bandwitdth can ADSL get when the computer is only 20 feet from the CO? As my friend would say, ALL OF IT! (I really hate it when he does that)
Damn length limit. Anyway, what the hell is so damn bad with security-through-obscurity? Why is it conventional geek wisdom that it is "really no security at all"? When items of great value are transported, how is it handled? They have great physical security in the armoured truck, but they also use obscurity, in that they don't advertise the time they will be moving in the New York Times. In fact they don't even tell the driver and others until the day they move, and how the person actually carrying the item may not be the guy with the briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, but could be any one of the other guards. You need to KNOW who is carrying it to steal it. You want as few people to know this info as possible.
I have always used the analogy that crytography is like a safe, it limits pysical access to the data/material. But you don't put your safe in the middle of a room, you hide it in a closet or in the floor, etc. This provides another layer of protection, of varying efectiveness.
Some famous bank robber was asked why he robbed banks, he replied "because that is were the money is." Even though this was a humorous remark, it makes my point that because everyone knows that banks have money, that is where they go to get it. But what if you coudn't tell a bank from any other building? Then you would have to find out which damn building to rob before you could actually rob it. This ends my rant.
You don't know what hard work is until you have worked on a dairy farm, milking cows without one of them fancy milking parlours with their automatic take-offs. No, you get to either kneel down on one knee or squat or bend at the back several hundred frickin times, alternating depending on what body part hurts the most. Oh, and cows are the stupidist frickin animals alive, skitish as sheep and weighing 1000-1800 frickin pounds. Oh, and they can KICK. Damn can they kick. Just ask my boss, his testicles must have reached some kinda world record size. Oh, and they SHIT. God do they shit. 30-60 frickin pounds a day a cow. Oh, and you haven't lived until you have artificially inseminated a cow (you have to insert your arm past the elbow into the cows rectum, to press down on the uterus so that the semen, at 20 bucks a pop, flows down into it), or cleaned out a cows infected uterus (PU!!!!), or had a slimy, slippery newborn calf flop into your arms.
Please, dairy farmers are some of the hardest working people in this country, in one of the hardest businesses around: the family farm. My boss, who is also my second cousin, puts in an average of 15 hours a day, EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
You said it better than I could. The absurdity of the laws in the bible are part of the reason I lost faith ( we're talking 13+ years of Lutheran brainwa_whoops_"education"). The best example is in Judges, I think, where it says that a rapist must pay the womans father a shitload of money and then marry the women. Now that is definatley self-evidently superhuman wisdom!
There is a standard distributied computing architecture called COSM. It is the baby of someone involved with distributed.net. It has already been used by the Folding@HOME people.
The book Alpha Centauri mentioned the use of Americanium for interplanetary ships, but said the cost never dropped below $5 billion a ton, so it was too expensive to use for ships that would never return to Earth. What does it cost today?
By the way, it was a good but very very strange book. To even read it without being offended you have to have a VERY open mind about sexual matters. But it was very well written. I especially like the scene SPOILER where the last living alien, a billion years old, commits suicide by gutting himself. Very powerfull scene. Would you want to live a BILLION years?
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I am sooooo happy for you! Meanwhile I live in Wisconsin, area code 53010, in a semi rural area (the houses maybe average a half mile to a mile apart) about six miles from the nearest phone switching station. I sure as shit want DSL, but hell, for a month I couldn't even use my modem because the phone line was too bad to connenct but still good enough to make voice calls, and Ameritech/Verizon doesen't guarentee modems to work, only voice!!! I was starting to fantasize doing a Columbine High on their corporate headquarters :-) It's people like me who need broadband the most but are least likely to get it, because the population density is too low to make it profitable. Well, I say we should creata a modern day equivelant fo the the interstate highway system, but with fiber. It will likely have the same long-term impotance. Meanwhile, I feel lucky to connenct at 26k, am currently conected at 24K, and fully expect it to take ten years (or more) to get anything faster.
(And don't mention sattalite, I only work part time! Ironically, I live less than two miles from a cell phone tower, so I might someday be able to get a 2Mb connection that I have read about before DSL, but I ain't holding my breath)
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Like the Jim Crow laws or Nazi Germany? The people aren't always right, either.
That American Computer Company is one of the weirdest sites on the net. It seems like just another computer hardware etailer, until you get to the bizarre claims of having alien technology recovered from Roswell that are soooooooo much better than ours. I always appreciated those sites that kept you guessing as to their veracity, and this is one of the best.
Hey, if its good enough for Star Trek, its good enough for Slashdot.
It wasn't funny the first time because logically we all knew it meant mega and most people aren't such anal-retentive nitpickers to actually mention it.
So your saying it is only a quantatative difference and not a qualatative difference. "You could act like not knowing the latest hole in BIND is more dangerous than driving an asbestos-insulated Yugo without seatbelts at 115 MPH through L.A. during rush hour while smoking unfiltered Camels, but it's not." Could you please clarify what you were tring to say?
Yes, it is better to assume full knowledge when designing security systems, but that doesn't mean that we should do our damndest to make sure as many people as possible have full knowledge. This is what public disclosure does. If I find a security flaw in a peice of software, publicize it, and some jackass uses it to crack a server or something, I am partially responsible, aren't I. If a parent leaves a loaded gun on a table and their young child kills himself or his sister, then the parent is certianly legaly responsible. How is this different?
You, Ser, are a true geek. A very funny Mystery Science Theater version of this most awful novel can be found here
I have had similar thoughts, myself. I liken it to a safe. You use a safe for strong physical security, but most people hide a safe, because you have to know where it is in order to crack it. Most people don't tell everyone they know where their safe is and that it has a specific weakness that makes it easily crackable. But this is what this full-disclosure philosophy wants people to do. I just coneptualize to extremes of security. At one end is am enormouse bank vault that has 10 foot thick titanium and concrete walls. This is put in a public place and the location is advertized heavily. On the other end is hiding some money behind a picture in a frame. You tell no one about it. So I am getting that the latter is "no security at all" Hell, common sense says that the more people that know about a flaw, the more that will try to use it. Oh no, you say, but more people will also try to fix it. But how does this apply to close sourced operating systems?
In Permutation City, the main charecter has two virtual machines running, one on top of another, for security purposes in order to quarantine executable code in email. She also has a Email screening program with a neural net roughly comparable to a goldfishes brain, that tries to fool the email into thinking it is being seen by a human. The first prediction has come true, I wonder when the second will?
I just want to comment that CPUs are fantastically reliable devices. I had an Celeron 300A at 466 running continuously on a variety of distributed computing clients for almost two years without a problem. Hell, my damn motherboard is what broke. You should be much more worried about hard drives, but even they are remarkably reliable for being mechanical devices. Actually, the least reliable part of a compurter is either the fans in it (50,000 hours lifetime, usually. I want a fan with a ceramic bearing! One million hours, perhaps?) or the left mouse button, which are usually good for 10 million clicks, which sounds like a lot, but isn't, especially if you play a lot of games like starcraft and such.Anybody know if they make extended life microswitches with perhaps 100 million or even a billion cycle durability?
It always pisses me off when I hear peolple claiming that the big bad governemnt started the fire at Waco. If they did, why the fuck did they wait so long and try so damn hard to try to get them to leave voluntarily? Why is there videotape of the fire starting independently in three different parts of the building? Why didn't the Waco Wackos LEAVE THE BURNING BUILDING? Because they started the damn fire and wanted to go with it. It all fit into their kooky religious beliefs that the ATF raid was the beginning of the End of the World. They really beleived that! Christ, these people were NOT acting rationally, at least no what we would consider rational, so why is it so hard to think that they started the fire? Its no different than the Other mass suicides that happend before and after, like the one in South Africa, or the most recent one where they had a website.
Not to be boastfull or anything, but I have worked on a farm for almost two years now while going to college, so I am in pretty good shape. Also, all that experiance with cows should lend itself to dealing with the suits. (For those without the benifit of farm experience, cows are REALLY REALLY REALLY STUPID.)
This comment is so ignorant it is nearly flamebait. Those tests that the Itanium did so poorly on were conventional code. They did not test any IA-64 code because they said they couldn't find any to test. Judgeing the Itanium on how well it runs conventional IA-32 code is like judeging an Athlon by how well it runs emulated PPC code. I.E. very very stupid.
True only if the union is effective and not corrupt. Unfortuantly for some reason Unions tend to become corrupt, probably because of the relativley large amounts of money flowing through the system from dues. Dateline had a fantastic expose on the International Union of Hotel Workers and how horrifically corrupt the management was. They were getting dues from $8/hour maids and using it as their won personal bank account. The Union Pres had 3 homes, a $350,000 salary and his pension was almost as large, I think. Hell, the bastard even used Union funds to build a gym in IRELAND, that was of course named after him. It is a perfect example of just how wrong a Union can go.
Have you seen beast machines? It is seriously well written and I can honestly say far superior to the origonal series in both the qualtiy of animation and writing and the the charecter models. You should really try to look at the original series objectively and not through nostalgia colored glasses. The origional series was rather choppily animated and the writing tended to be simplistic.
Beast machines is even better written. The story arcs are remakably long for a children's cartoon and the animation is fantastic. The way Rhinox went evil was very well done, as was the other missing charecters true identities. The episode where silver wolf(?) finally was "freed" was downright touching.
Well, I live 34000 feet from my CO. But in a nearby town I saw a house that was literally a few feet from the CO. What kind of bandwitdth can ADSL get when the computer is only 20 feet from the CO? As my friend would say, ALL OF IT! (I really hate it when he does that)
Damn length limit. Anyway, what the hell is so damn bad with security-through-obscurity? Why is it conventional geek wisdom that it is "really no security at all"? When items of great value are transported, how is it handled? They have great physical security in the armoured truck, but they also use obscurity, in that they don't advertise the time they will be moving in the New York Times. In fact they don't even tell the driver and others until the day they move, and how the person actually carrying the item may not be the guy with the briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, but could be any one of the other guards. You need to KNOW who is carrying it to steal it. You want as few people to know this info as possible.
I have always used the analogy that crytography is like a safe, it limits pysical access to the data/material. But you don't put your safe in the middle of a room, you hide it in a closet or in the floor, etc. This provides another layer of protection, of varying efectiveness.
Some famous bank robber was asked why he robbed banks, he replied "because that is were the money is." Even though this was a humorous remark, it makes my point that because everyone knows that banks have money, that is where they go to get it. But what if you coudn't tell a bank from any other building? Then you would have to find out which damn building to rob before you could actually rob it. This ends my rant.
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You don't know what hard work is until you have worked on a dairy farm, milking cows without one of them fancy milking parlours with their automatic take-offs. No, you get to either kneel down on one knee or squat or bend at the back several hundred frickin times, alternating depending on what body part hurts the most. Oh, and cows are the stupidist frickin animals alive, skitish as sheep and weighing 1000-1800 frickin pounds. Oh, and they can KICK. Damn can they kick. Just ask my boss, his testicles must have reached some kinda world record size. Oh, and they SHIT. God do they shit. 30-60 frickin pounds a day a cow. Oh, and you haven't lived until you have artificially inseminated a cow (you have to insert your arm past the elbow into the cows rectum, to press down on the uterus so that the semen, at 20 bucks a pop, flows down into it), or cleaned out a cows infected uterus (PU!!!!), or had a slimy, slippery newborn calf flop into your arms.
Please, dairy farmers are some of the hardest working people in this country, in one of the hardest businesses around: the family farm. My boss, who is also my second cousin, puts in an average of 15 hours a day, EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
You said it better than I could. The absurdity of the laws in the bible are part of the reason I lost faith ( we're talking 13+ years of Lutheran brainwa_whoops_"education"). The best example is in Judges, I think, where it says that a rapist must pay the womans father a shitload of money and then marry the women. Now that is definatley self-evidently superhuman wisdom!
There is a standard distributied computing architecture called COSM. It is the baby of someone involved with distributed.net. It has already been used by the Folding@HOME people.
The book Alpha Centauri mentioned the use of Americanium for interplanetary ships, but said the cost never dropped below $5 billion a ton, so it was too expensive to use for ships that would never return to Earth. What does it cost today? By the way, it was a good but very very strange book. To even read it without being offended you have to have a VERY open mind about sexual matters. But it was very well written. I especially like the scene SPOILER where the last living alien, a billion years old, commits suicide by gutting himself. Very powerfull scene. Would you want to live a BILLION years?