They're at it once again: They think the servers on their customer's machines are to blame for every evil. If they configured *their* network to limit the number of email messages from a customer to say 100/day they might actually stem the flow.
My email addr is chappel + @ + home.com and I get spam cc'd to c*@home.com. They could block this sort of thing out (and I have asked them to) but their claim it is that it is beyond their control.
There is no real difference btwn 40bits posing as 128 and a back door--security is compromised.
Also, ever heard of a "foreign sales corporation?" The WTO ruled against the US tax break of which Microsoft was a big benificiary. It is designed to assist companies to export products. It is also used by successful exporters too (can't blame 'em either.) Why did MS sponser the Seattle WTO conference? Hmmmm....Tough luck about the riots.
The NSA, etc. *does* have a history of breaking software for non-US markets. Lotus Notes et al. One can hardly believe that W2K is *not* broken in some way.
If I (or you) were running the NSA I'd make damn sure that there would be at least 10 unrelated back doors in W2K before MS got $.01 in export subsidies or an export licence. This would allow easy access through the entire life of the product given that some holes will be discovered.
The NSA key by itself is probably not a back door by itself, but used in conjunction with other parts it may be. With all 29 million lines of closed source, who can tell for sure?
IMHO it is irresponsible for certain departments of *any* Non-US government to use W2K, for information deemed sensitive.
The main difference is that most Open Source contributers are individuals and could not fork over the winnings of a major award. Many are poor (students!) and are spread across many countries; companies are insured and have assets.
Big Rich Company licence: "We are *not* liable." GPL: "We are *not* liable."
Lawyers know where the gold is. Which will they widdle away at?
RedHat might worry, but the rest of us are safe. -B
I think the protesters do have strong anti-corporation values, but does that mean by default individualist?
Personally, I believe most want government regs to control the power of "trans-nationals" on many issues. (environment etc..)
It premature to encorporate the protesters into the individualist camp. (Much as I'd like to also.)
Claiming that these protests are empty callbacks to the sixties *is* a display of 'Baby Boomer' arrogance. As it is often stated, most of these people "weren't-there-so-how-could-they-know-what-the-six ties-were-about." Most of those there, were not alive at the time, and are more concerned with current issues. (It pains me to agree with a 'not there' doctrine.)
To me, even the popularity of things like "Woodstock II" is not even evidence of a 60s callback phenonemon. That was not dreamed up, financed, promoted, and organized by 20 somethings, but by the music industry.
Those folks do have valid concernes, right or wrong. We do deserve better run Int'l organizations. Running the WTO like the Int'l Olympic committee is going to get them in trouble and they ought to have realized it.
I just don't have it in me to protest on the street, but in the spirit of the week:
1) Let us all hope for a more open, transparent WTO. Sure allow labour goups in, but also consumer groups too. It was so lame to see the WTO official claiming that they were currently trying to end trade restrictions on the poorest countries. Instant populists!
2) Let us all hope for less reporting of a window breaking incident. It had to be the most reported crime this year. Normally it should be reported, but it is so unrepresentative of the 000s of people there. (I don't like to see this happen either, but here it is not the issue.)
3) Let us call on government agencies to respect the right to peaceful protest. These are not terrorists. In many ways the peacefull politically active are the most responsible of citizens. So beat on them a little less.
4) It has been said that rights are valid only if they cannot be temporarily revoked. Let us work to limit the power to limit protest. For instance, civic, state or national political embarassment is not a valid reason to limit the right of protest.
Add to that cheap phillips disposible mechanisms which hold the laser in place. Lots of plastic. If one checks out some of the audiophile records---they are awesome. Even with moderate equipment. Cheers, Bobzibub
In J++ auto-dropdown can be a real pest. You type "class.
....but your view of all the code around it is blocked by a big window. Also, on bigger projects, the system freezes (PIII@400/w128M!) for a few seconds while it digs up all the methods. Avoid typing periods. ; )
Anyone know how to change the font size in J++? If the font of the window was smaller it would be cool too.
At school, we're making a simple search engine..IE to scrounge web pages (No not Java calls, using COM is a course requirement) and Access for the db. The PCs were donated by "Microsoft Research", so we *nixers were thrust upon the COM/OLE world. Interesting to see what its like 'tho.
What good is a private sector that is thwarted by corrupt government officials? China and Russia are excellent examples of this. To do business, one must bribe, bribe, bribe. Be it the local crime bosses or the bureaucrats, it doesn't really matter. Neither place has the tradition of political rights which will hold the politician's feet to the fire--and keep them mostly honest.
You are correct in stating that economic rights are being rolled back. The same goes with political rights--and in many cases they really are the same.
Take the simple right to vote. Many share holders vote as well as many citizens. Are Chinese citizens not shareholders in their government, and do they not deserve a say in how it is run?
For the folks comfortably placed in the West, we are very lucky to be able to have the freedom to enjoy the wealth we earn. For example, in some countries one cannot legally drink alcohol. Alcohol is common at parties, but afterwards one gets home by avoiding the police at all costs. It is an unpopular rule but the citizens cannot voice their opinions by secret ballot. Civil rights prevent (well slow) motivated extremists from gaining and staying in power.
With rulers which are unaccountable, the average citizen finds money is tougher to earn, tougher to keep, tougher to spend. What then, is the benefit of wealth accumulation?
If Intel wanted to lessen IC theft, why wouldn't tell the world their intentions? This would be a true deterrant to stealing CPUs -- Intel could distrubute freely available tools to verify the ownership of a processor. A prospective buyer could find out immediately whether the chip was hot. But they did none of this! If Intel even used this information in court to catch a chip thief, this fact is then in the public domain. I don't believe that Intel ever attempted this before the story broke. Their overwelming commercial interest was to make it all public.
No, I'm afraid this is too much like the Notes' crippled 40bit encryption, and the Windoze GUID. Intel, Lotus, IBM, and other US firms get large tax rebates for overseas sales, versus US sales. There are many other techniques which branches of the US Gov't can use as well. These are very big sticks, and one can assume all major software from US owned companies (and probably Canadian, and English companies too) have these IDing/NonEncrypting 'features'.
Suggestion: Try at least to place words in context! narcotics^iraq^nuclear war will not fool this system-- it is unlikely that they have much to do with each other.
It appears that context is very important. Try to use a *few* words *in context* in a short paragraph. Attach *that* to your regular email message and the system is more likely to be false positive.
The paper referenced by another poster was interesting. http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec7/papers/nsa-rev.p df ( cute. "Iraq" was one of the example words.)
Personally, I would have placed the keywords in a Binary tree based on alpha order for speed purposes. Perhaps this paper would describe an effective system for a *second* check of any messages flagged by an alpha tree system. Or maybe they have hardware of the gods and don't need to? ; )
The spooks's methods are not the only method of limiting and containing folks like that Abu dude. How 'bout some good foreign policy too? Try taming that Berlin embassy for one. ; ) I'd bet that int'l terrorism will subside as foreign policy objectives move to actual peace from East block containment. One must wait a few decades for the anger of many to subside tho'.
Why is it that we (the good folks of the West) once spied mainly on the "enemies" of the West, but now we mainly spy on friends? Did we have too much cash to spend?
The US case is where internal terrorism will likely be much more prevalent. Most of these (survivalists?) believe that their government is out to get them already--spying with systems like Echeon simply flame these fears.
In short, the West can grant more freedom to its citizens and make genuine attempts to improve the well being of foreigners. Both cut at the heart of terrorism.
Please protect we ignorant sponges oh gate keepers of knowledge! We long to hear your voice!
Most media presents similar views. 10 stories/day on the issue-de-jour in all the papers; 5 of the same stories/day on each of the networks./W the net, we do not have to follow their yellow brick road. If this is "the ultimate balkanization" then so be it. "not a great way to maintain an open mind." gimme a break!
I think that Clauswitz is not rolling over in his grave quite yet. Considering the huge potential military value in electronic deception, and that the US has by far the most ability to perform such acts: I suggest that the Pentagon is claiming that this would be a 'war crime' so that any prospective opponents will not prepare against such attack. Cheers, all! Bobzibub.
I remembered at the beginning of the war, the US was playing up the cyber-war stuff. They were openly talking about attacking Milosovich's (sp?) foreign bank accounts. Suddenly they went into silent mode. I bet it happened when the diplomatic notes arrived from countries which held those accounts: 'Attacking our banks is attacking *our* countries--what kind of allies are you?'
Then the US Military thought: hmmmm... Maybe its not such a good idea after all.
OK. Technically they have an 'oligopoly.' This does not change anything.
They still use their market position (monopoly or not) to manipulate other markets to their own benefit.
A market penetration of 90% is very close to 100%. Realistically they could never get *everyone* to switch to their OS.
Governments have a responsibility to the maintenance of markets, and today's events are truely are step in the right direction for free markets.
Many protest that the "government controlling the IT industry" but that is much better than one private company controlling the industry. Gov't control is much weaker than private control in this case.
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Is that on your Residence a/cs???
-B
35 million LOC / 15 people = over 2 million loc per person.
Yeah right.
-B
Slash dotted!
-B
And I thought DVD players had good quality video outs.
They're at it once again: They think the servers on their customer's machines are to blame for every evil. If they configured *their* network to limit the number of email messages from a customer to say 100/day they might actually stem the flow.
My email addr is chappel + @ + home.com and I get spam cc'd to c*@home.com. They could block this sort of thing out (and I have asked them to) but their claim it is that it is beyond their control.
clowns!
-B
There is no real difference btwn 40bits posing as 128 and a back door--security is compromised.
Also, ever heard of a "foreign sales corporation?" The WTO ruled against the US tax break of which Microsoft was a big benificiary. It is designed to assist companies to export products. It is also used by successful exporters too (can't blame 'em either.) Why did MS sponser the Seattle WTO conference? Hmmmm....Tough luck about the riots.
-B
The NSA, etc. *does* have a history of breaking software for non-US markets. Lotus Notes et al. One can hardly believe that W2K is *not* broken in some way.
If I (or you) were running the NSA I'd make damn sure that there would be at least 10 unrelated back doors in W2K before MS got $.01 in export subsidies or an export licence. This would allow easy access through the entire life of the product given that some holes will be discovered.
The NSA key by itself is probably not a back door by itself, but used in conjunction with other parts it may be. With all 29 million lines of closed source, who can tell for sure?
IMHO it is irresponsible for certain departments of *any* Non-US government to use W2K, for information deemed sensitive.
-B
The main difference is that most Open Source contributers are individuals and could not fork over the winnings of a major award. Many are poor (students!) and are spread across many countries; companies are insured and have assets.
Big Rich Company licence: "We are *not* liable."
GPL: "We are *not* liable."
Lawyers know where the gold is. Which will they widdle away at?
RedHat might worry, but the rest of us are safe.
-B
he he..
With lots of "he he"s and "ha ha"s...
kinda fun, entertaining a member of borg....I hear they don't see the sun much.
-b
They gotta have hopes too no?
he he...
I think the protesters do have strong anti-corporation values, but does that mean by default individualist?
x ties-were-about." Most of those there, were not alive at the time, and are more concerned with current issues. (It pains me to agree with a 'not there' doctrine.)
Personally, I believe most want government regs to control the power of "trans-nationals" on many issues. (environment etc..)
It premature to encorporate the protesters into the individualist camp. (Much as I'd like to also.)
Claiming that these protests are empty callbacks to the sixties *is* a display of 'Baby Boomer' arrogance. As it is often stated, most of these people "weren't-there-so-how-could-they-know-what-the-si
To me, even the popularity of things like "Woodstock II" is not even evidence of a 60s callback phenonemon. That was not dreamed up, financed, promoted, and organized by 20 somethings, but by the music industry.
Those folks do have valid concernes, right or wrong. We do deserve better run Int'l organizations. Running the WTO like the Int'l Olympic committee is going to get them in trouble and they ought to have realized it.
I just don't have it in me to protest on the street, but in the spirit of the week:
1)
Let us all hope for a more open, transparent WTO. Sure allow labour goups in, but also consumer groups too. It was so lame to see the WTO official claiming that they were currently trying to end trade restrictions on the poorest countries. Instant populists!
2)
Let us all hope for less reporting of a window breaking incident. It had to be the most reported crime this year. Normally it should be reported, but it is so unrepresentative of the 000s of people there. (I don't like to see this happen either, but here it is not the issue.)
3)
Let us call on government agencies to respect the right to peaceful protest. These are not terrorists. In many ways the peacefull politically active are the most responsible of citizens. So beat on them a little less.
4)
It has been said that rights are valid only if they cannot be temporarily revoked. Let us work to limit the power to limit protest. For instance, civic, state or national political embarassment is not a valid reason to limit the right of protest.
That is all.
B.
Add to that cheap phillips disposible mechanisms which hold the laser in place. Lots of plastic. If one checks out some of the audiophile records---they are awesome. Even with moderate equipment. Cheers, Bobzibub
ummmm, I think you're right. ; )
-B
In J++ auto-dropdown can be a real pest. You type "class.
....but your view of all the code around it is blocked by a big window. Also, on bigger projects, the system freezes (PIII@400/w128M!) for a few seconds while it digs up all the methods. Avoid typing periods. ; )
Anyone know how to change the font size in J++? If the font of the window was smaller it would be cool too.
At school, we're making a simple search engine..IE to scrounge web pages (No not Java calls, using COM is a course requirement) and Access for the db.
The PCs were donated by "Microsoft Research", so we *nixers were thrust upon the COM/OLE world. Interesting to see what its like 'tho.
Cheers,
B.
Ummmm.. They already bought Rational.
-B
What good is a private sector that is thwarted by corrupt government officials?
China and Russia are excellent examples of this. To do business, one must bribe, bribe, bribe. Be it the local crime bosses or the bureaucrats, it doesn't really matter. Neither place has the tradition of political rights which will hold the politician's feet to the fire--and keep them mostly honest.
You are correct in stating that economic rights are being rolled back. The same goes with political rights--and in many cases they really are the same.
Take the simple right to vote. Many share holders vote as well as many citizens. Are Chinese citizens not shareholders in their government, and do they not deserve a say in how it is run?
For the folks comfortably placed in the West, we are very lucky to be able to have the freedom to enjoy the wealth we earn. For example, in some countries one cannot legally drink alcohol. Alcohol is common at parties, but afterwards one gets home by avoiding the police at all costs. It is an unpopular rule but the citizens cannot voice their opinions by secret ballot. Civil rights prevent (well slow) motivated extremists from gaining and staying in power.
With rulers which are unaccountable, the average citizen finds money is tougher to earn, tougher to keep, tougher to spend. What then, is the benefit of wealth accumulation?
-B
If Intel wanted to lessen IC theft, why wouldn't tell the world their intentions? This would be a true deterrant to stealing CPUs -- Intel could distrubute freely available tools to verify the ownership of a processor. A prospective buyer could find out immediately whether the chip was hot. But they did none of this! If Intel even used this information in court to catch a chip thief, this fact is then in the public domain. I don't believe that Intel ever attempted this before the story broke. Their overwelming commercial interest was to make it all public.
No, I'm afraid this is too much like the Notes' crippled 40bit encryption, and the Windoze GUID. Intel, Lotus, IBM, and other US firms get large tax rebates for overseas sales, versus US sales. There are many other techniques which branches of the US Gov't can use as well. These are very big sticks, and one can assume all major software from US owned companies (and probably Canadian, and English companies too) have these IDing/NonEncrypting 'features'.
Open source anyone?
Cheers,
Bobzibub.
Suggestion:
p df
Try at least to place words in context! narcotics^iraq^nuclear war will not fool this system-- it is unlikely that they have much to do with each other.
It appears that context is very important. Try to use a *few* words *in context* in a short paragraph. Attach *that* to your regular email message and the system is more likely to be false positive.
The paper referenced by another poster was interesting.
http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec7/papers/nsa-rev.
( cute. "Iraq" was one of the example words.)
Personally, I would have placed the keywords in a Binary tree based on alpha order for speed purposes. Perhaps this paper would describe an effective system for a *second* check of any messages flagged by an alpha tree system. Or maybe they have hardware of the gods and don't need to? ; )
Bobzibub
(The Happy Slacker)
I would suggest, as clarification:
Freedom(of individual) * Freedom(of government) = K
=and=
Security(of individual) * Security(of government) = K2
Add these two to get Niven's formula.
The spooks's methods are not the only method of limiting and containing folks like that Abu dude. How 'bout some good foreign policy too? Try taming that Berlin embassy for one. ; ) I'd bet that int'l terrorism will subside as foreign policy objectives move to actual peace from East block containment. One must wait a few decades for the anger of many to subside tho'.
Why is it that we (the good folks of the West) once spied mainly on the "enemies" of the West, but now we mainly spy on friends? Did we have too much cash to spend?
The US case is where internal terrorism will likely be much more prevalent. Most of these (survivalists?) believe that their government is out to get them already--spying with systems like Echeon simply flame these fears.
In short, the West can grant more freedom to its citizens and make genuine attempts to improve the well being of foreigners. Both cut at the heart of terrorism.
cheers,
Bobzibub.
Please protect we ignorant sponges oh gate keepers of knowledge! We long to hear your voice!
Most media presents similar views. 10 stories/day on the issue-de-jour in all the papers; 5 of the same stories/day on each of the networks.
"not a great way to maintain an open mind." gimme a break!
-B
I'll celebrate some more if they send the letter from Janet Reno (which they'll get) to dev/null.
he he.
-bobzibub
I think that Clauswitz is not rolling over in his grave quite yet. Considering the huge potential military value in electronic deception, and that the US has by far the most ability to perform such acts: I suggest that the Pentagon is claiming that this would be a 'war crime' so that any prospective opponents will not prepare against such attack. Cheers, all! Bobzibub.
I remembered at the beginning of the war, the US was playing up the cyber-war stuff. They were openly talking about attacking Milosovich's (sp?) foreign bank accounts.
Suddenly they went into silent mode. I bet it happened when the diplomatic notes arrived from countries which held those accounts: 'Attacking our banks is attacking *our* countries--what kind of allies are you?'
Then the US Military thought: hmmmm... Maybe its not such a good idea after all.
OK. Technically they have an 'oligopoly.' This does not change anything.
They still use their market position (monopoly or not) to manipulate other markets to their own benefit.
A market penetration of 90% is very close to 100%. Realistically they could never get *everyone* to switch to their OS.
Governments have a responsibility to the maintenance of markets, and today's events are truely are step in the right direction for free markets.
Many protest that the "government controlling the IT industry" but that is much better than one private company controlling the industry. Gov't control is much weaker than private control in this case.
Cheers all!
Bobzibub.