Big screens are just management porn, its only for showing off to visitors and be taken pictures in front of.
We have the same in the SOC (Security Operation Center) where I work, and it's always fun watching politicians and other "prominent" people nodding their heads when our manager explains what the screens are showing. The fact is that we never ever use that information ourself, and all the real work is done one our own personal screens.
But it can be made to look impressive, and make sure the money flows our way...:)
Do you mean that the hospital can't use CT- or CAT-scan on a child either? I don't believe that is forbidden, nor do I think that the full body scanner violates that law.
What is a security expert? Is it people who believe that they are experts in one single area, and that area is called security?
I work with IT security for a living, and there are many areas within that field. We have people who are good at network and data analysis, some who can reverse engineer malware, others who do a good forensics job, one group focuses on incident response and others works with standards and procedures. And this is just a few areas. Encryption is a part of this. Tempest too.
So again, what is a security expert? One who is an expert in one or all of this areas? What is DHS looking for?
It is a much better practice to use a "walled garden"[1] to give them a very limited access to the net until they have cleaned up their infection. I have seen examples of this used to give the customers access to anti-virus software and Windows update only, in addition to a set of web pages that explains why they have limited access (and how to get out of it).
This is a much better solution than just blocking the customers access to the net.
Seems like the games included in the emulator, was cracked versions from a group called "Remember". Found a blog with some screenshots of it at this blog.
And you will see that the game has a cracker intro (from a group called REMEMBER)... with greetings to many of the good old cracker groups on the Commodore 64.:)
You summed this up nicely. There is one more thing to add about using electron force microscopy: It takes a huge amount of time. And it is not as accurate as most people seems to think since it is based on the disks inaccuracy on where the bits are written.
How you delete your drive data depends a lot on what level of security you need. One overwrite is enough for most people. Degaussing and/or physical destruction is only needed as a prevention against theoretical recovery techniques.
There is a lot of fuss about the new Swedish law that gives FRA access to snoop on all Internet traffic passing their borders. To be honest, I don't really see the problem here. We have always suspected governments to listen in on Internet traffic, and Sweden is at least open about it.
We all know that as soon as our data goes outside of the network we physically control, we have no guarantee that nobody are tapping the data. This is old news, and we have been aware of it for many years now.
In "the old days" when we wanted to pass messages through "enemy territory", we used something called "encryption". Wouldn't it be an idea to learn from that?
I have been playing most of the MMO games out there, and there is nothing new in the games released now.
WoW was my addiction for a long time, but when I discovered that I was just another hamster running around in the grinding wheel, I got bored. A few examples of this: At level 60 I was participating in all the high level dungeon raids to get "the best" items. When I got them, the expansion came out I decided not to get trapped in the dungeon grinding again, and went for the PvP gear. Every time I got the best PvP gear available, a new set came and I had to start all over again... and now I have given up.
Age of Conan is nothing new. The combat system is different but not revolutionary. The rest is copy/paste from other games. I'm going to try it for a while, but if I see any sign of itemization and dungeon/PvP grinding, I'll leave.
I am more than willing to pay a monthly fee for for a game that let me have fun without looking like work. That means I'm probably not going to spend so much time online (due to grinding), but they will still get money from me every month...
Take a look at 99 Bottles of Beer, a website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. My personal favorite is LOLCODE.:-)
...if it haven't been for you, I would not have noticed Wikileaks and it's mirror sites. Much interesting stuff there. I've also sent them my appreciation via this link:
I am not very concerned about this DRM-thing. I have for a long time said that the market will "fix" this, one way or another. If the customers don't accept DRM, they will get pirated versions without it -- and those who wants to earn money from these potential customers have to adept an acceptable technology.
I wonder why people seem to forget the inventions done by Douglas Engelbart. "What did he do?", you might ask. Or maybe you say something like "oh, the mouse guy, right?". Well, If I was only to point out one thing he did, I would mention what we call "the mother of all demos" which he gave in december 1968. There he demonstrated the use of a mouse, hypertext linking and video conferencing. Again: He demonstrated the use of a mouse and hypertext linking in documents more than 20 years before Tim Berners-Lee "invented" the web.
"We can't have it all, and worse yet the desire to have it all and the illusion that we can is one of the principal sources of torture of modern affluent free and autonomous thinkers."
But I do agree that having the ability to run Windows on my Mac is appealing. I might even try it.:)
"One problem with the services model is that it is based on the idea that you are giving customers crap--because if you give them software that works, what is the point of service?"
Software *is* crap! Period. Why? Because this is still a pretty immature business.
Support is what differentiates good and bad software today. Linus Torvalds is as unreachable to me as Bill Gates is. The biggest difference between those peoples software (to me) is what kind of support I get:
Microsoft offers me free support, but trying it only confirms why you avoid it. So I have to pay someone to give me good support on Microsoft Windows.
The Linux side of the story? I have free support through a huge number of mailing lists, and are forced to navigate carefully between them (a lot of those "support people" bites your head off if you do something wrong). Getting free support for Linux, takes a lot of time. So I have to pay someone to give me good support on Linux.
What's the difference between Microsoft Windows and Linux? Price on the software.
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A world dominated by Linux will be no better than a world dominated by Windows.
Exactly! This is a point that many people are missing. Yes, we would have an open source operating system, but it does not give any guaranties that the applications would be open source. The companies can still lock the users into closed data formats -- and we would be back to square one.
What we really need is several operating systems sharing the market between them. Then the commercial application developers must start thinking about capability between each other on the data format level, or have a port to all major operating systems (which hopefully would be to much hassle).
Uh, so you're saying it's not useful to see on the screen exactly what will be printed? It's just useless flash?
If you want to misunderstand me, please do it correctly.:-)
I don't believe that WYSIWYG is the best way to present information when you are using it. Maybe before you print it, but not while you are working with it.
I mean, can you show me a mail client as powerful and easy to use as Outlook Express? How about a word processor with the feature set of Word (and I know a lot of/. readers think of a spell checker as "bloatware", but some of us like having a lot of options we can configure).
IMHO is Gnus far more powerful than Outlook Express. It can be configured to do exactly what you want it to do. Of course it's not as beginnerfriendly as Outlook, but far more userfriendly.
When it comes to Word, I will like to repeat something Douglas Engelbart said (from my memory): "Here we have a computer and it's capable to present us the information the way each individual want it. And what do we do? Reinventing paper on screen (WYSIWYG)!"
As users we have to learn to see beyond the fancy user interfaces, and and focus more on the usability of the information we are producing.
To be honest, I'm very skeptical to this "emulating windows"-thing. Remember OS/2? Why should people develop for OS/2 when it was able to run windows programs? Isn't it possible that the same thing can happen to Linux too, if it become capable of emulating windows?
I said skeptical, not afraid - this because I thrust the Linux/Open Source community to be able to avoid the trap... one way or another...:-)
If I'm not to wrong, the initial reason for having domain names was that it was much easier to remember that IP addresses.
Then the marketing people discovered Internet, and everything changed. Suddenly it was much more important to tie domain names to products and use trademark laws to protect the domain name in all possible languages. When are people going to understand that a domain names aren't the same as product names? Never I guess....
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Big screens are just management porn, its only for showing off to visitors and be taken pictures in front of.
We have the same in the SOC (Security Operation Center) where I work, and it's always fun watching politicians and other "prominent" people nodding their heads when our manager explains what the screens are showing. The fact is that we never ever use that information ourself, and all the real work is done one our own personal screens.
But it can be made to look impressive, and make sure the money flows our way... :)
Do you mean that the hospital can't use CT- or CAT-scan on a child either? I don't believe that is forbidden, nor do I think that the full body scanner violates that law.
What is a security expert? Is it people who believe that they are experts in one single area, and that area is called security?
I work with IT security for a living, and there are many areas within that field. We have people who are good at network and data analysis, some who can reverse engineer malware, others who do a good forensics job, one group focuses on incident response and others works with standards and procedures. And this is just a few areas. Encryption is a part of this. Tempest too.
So again, what is a security expert? One who is an expert in one or all of this areas? What is DHS looking for?
It is a much better practice to use a "walled garden"[1] to give them a very limited access to the net until they have cleaned up their infection. I have seen examples of this used to give the customers access to anti-virus software and Windows update only, in addition to a set of web pages that explains why they have limited access (and how to get out of it).
This is a much better solution than just blocking the customers access to the net.
Seems like the games included in the emulator, was cracked versions from a group called "Remember". Found a blog with some screenshots of it at this blog.
...and then type:
LOAD "*",8,1
RUN
And you will see that the game has a cracker intro (from a group called REMEMBER)... with greetings to many of the good old cracker groups on the Commodore 64. :)
"You'll love our fun-filled resort on beautiful Guantanamo Bay!"
You summed this up nicely. There is one more thing to add about using electron force microscopy: It takes a huge amount of time. And it is not as accurate as most people seems to think since it is based on the disks inaccuracy on where the bits are written.
How you delete your drive data depends a lot on what level of security you need. One overwrite is enough for most people. Degaussing and/or physical destruction is only needed as a prevention against theoretical recovery techniques.
Ah, this discussion reminds me of those we have when the subject is Linux, Windows or OSX. Or in the old days when we debated vi and emacs...
There is a lot of fuss about the new Swedish law that gives FRA access to snoop on all Internet traffic passing their borders. To be honest, I don't really see the problem here. We have always suspected governments to listen in on Internet traffic, and Sweden is at least open about it.
We all know that as soon as our data goes outside of the network we physically control, we have no guarantee that nobody are tapping the data. This is old news, and we have been aware of it for many years now.
In "the old days" when we wanted to pass messages through "enemy territory", we used something called "encryption". Wouldn't it be an idea to learn from that?
I have been playing most of the MMO games out there, and there is nothing new in the games released now.
WoW was my addiction for a long time, but when I discovered that I was just another hamster running around in the grinding wheel, I got bored. A few examples of this: At level 60 I was participating in all the high level dungeon raids to get "the best" items. When I got them, the expansion came out I decided not to get trapped in the dungeon grinding again, and went for the PvP gear. Every time I got the best PvP gear available, a new set came and I had to start all over again... and now I have given up.
Age of Conan is nothing new. The combat system is different but not revolutionary. The rest is copy/paste from other games. I'm going to try it for a while, but if I see any sign of itemization and dungeon/PvP grinding, I'll leave.
I am more than willing to pay a monthly fee for for a game that let me have fun without looking like work. That means I'm probably not going to spend so much time online (due to grinding), but they will still get money from me every month...
Take a look at 99 Bottles of Beer, a website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. My personal favorite is LOLCODE. :-)
I'm using Linux to do Work, Mac to play games and Windows when I work on the secure network. You can laugh, but I'm crying... because it's true.
...if it haven't been for you, I would not have noticed Wikileaks and it's mirror sites. Much interesting stuff there. I've also sent them my appreciation via this link:
http://www.juliusbaer.com/global/en/contact/contactform/Pages/default.aspx
I am not very concerned about this DRM-thing. I have for a long time said that the market will "fix" this, one way or another. If the customers don't accept DRM, they will get pirated versions without it -- and those who wants to earn money from these potential customers have to adept an acceptable technology.
"Disruptive technology" anyone?
I wonder why people seem to forget the inventions done by Douglas Engelbart. "What did he do?", you might ask. Or maybe you say something like "oh, the mouse guy, right?". Well, If I was only to point out one thing he did, I would mention what we call "the mother of all demos" which he gave in december 1968. There he demonstrated the use of a mouse, hypertext linking and video conferencing. Again: He demonstrated the use of a mouse and hypertext linking in documents more than 20 years before Tim Berners-Lee "invented" the web.
Some references for those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
http://www.bootstrap.org/
Seriously, you should really listen to this presentation from Barry Schwartz called "Less is more": http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail252.htm l
"We can't have it all, and worse yet the desire to have it all and the illusion that we can is one of the principal sources of torture of modern affluent free and autonomous thinkers."
But I do agree that having the ability to run Windows on my Mac is appealing. I might even try it. :)
Software *is* crap! Period. Why? Because this is still a pretty immature business.
Support is what differentiates good and bad software today. Linus Torvalds is as unreachable to me as Bill Gates is. The biggest difference between those peoples software (to me) is what kind of support I get:
- Microsoft offers me free support, but trying it only confirms why you avoid it. So I have to pay someone to give me good support on Microsoft Windows.
- The Linux side of the story? I have free support through a huge number of mailing lists, and are forced to navigate carefully between them (a lot of those "support people" bites your head off if you do something wrong). Getting free support for Linux, takes a lot of time. So I have to pay someone to give me good support on Linux.
What's the difference between Microsoft Windows and Linux? Price on the software."Unless Linux violates IP rights, it will fail to deliver innovation over the long run."
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween3.php
Exactly! This is a point that many people are missing. Yes, we would have an open source operating system, but it does not give any guaranties that the applications would be open source. The companies can still lock the users into closed data formats -- and we would be back to square one.
What we really need is several operating systems sharing the market between them. Then the commercial application developers must start thinking about capability between each other on the data format level, or have a port to all major operating systems (which hopefully would be to much hassle).
If you want to misunderstand me, please do it correctly. :-)
I don't believe that WYSIWYG is the best way to present information when you are using it. Maybe before you print it, but not while you are working with it.
Take a look at Engelbarts sessions at http://stanford- online.stanford.edu/engelbart/colloquium/main.html
IMHO is Gnus far more powerful than Outlook Express. It can be configured to do exactly what you want it to do. Of course it's not as beginnerfriendly as Outlook, but far more userfriendly.
When it comes to Word, I will like to repeat something Douglas Engelbart said (from my memory): "Here we have a computer and it's capable to present us the information the way each individual want it. And what do we do? Reinventing paper on screen (WYSIWYG)!"
As users we have to learn to see beyond the fancy user interfaces, and and focus more on the usability of the information we are producing.
To be honest, I'm very skeptical to this "emulating windows"-thing. Remember OS/2? Why should people develop for OS/2 when it was able to run windows programs? Isn't it possible that the same thing can happen to Linux too, if it become capable of emulating windows?
:-)
I said skeptical, not afraid - this because I thrust the Linux/Open Source community to be able to avoid the trap... one way or another...
If I'm not to wrong, the initial reason for having domain names was that it was much easier to remember that IP addresses.
Then the marketing people discovered Internet, and everything changed. Suddenly it was much more important to tie domain names to products and use trademark laws to protect the domain name in all possible languages. When are people going to understand that a domain names aren't the same as product names? Never I guess....