Fully verifiable is a big claim. I support OSS in every way, but I wouldn't ever claim that. How can you prove that the compiler wasn't trojaned? It's open source too? Well how about the compiler that compiled the compiler before it was self-sustaining? You'd have to trace it all the way back to whoever did the first compiler in the chain, by first compiler, I mean pure machine code. This isn't a new concept.
The bottom line is, you can never, ever have 100% security, ever. You can only get kinda close. I think in this case, paper is still the best bet, and we should forget about using technology for voting, it will inevitably make voting abuse a lot easier than it already is.
I don't really think these are people you want to fuck with. There are stories floating around about people who were beated or killed after travelling to meet these scammers. I wouldn't be surprised if they had ties to organized crime.
One thing they do not seem to be is stupid. Sure, they suck at english, but they aren't going to ever give you their real info. I'm sure they get some patsy to go get the money transfers for them, using high quality fabricated documents such as the ones linked to. They probably wind up scamming those people too.
This guy has written an e-book that is supposedly about his experience baiting the scammers and going as far as to actually follow it through to the end. I have not read it.
You have to think for a minute... If these guys were really that stupid as to give you real info about them just because you trail them along for a little while, don't you think law enforcement would have stopped them by now?
A lot of it can't be automated, not the design in any case.
I work for a manufacturing company, not a tech company, so maybe I have a different perspective from someone doing "pure tech", a lot of what I do all day is a solution to a particular problem that could not be generalized at all. It's the difference between providing a commodity and doing something that is customized. Desktop software is a commodity, and maintaining a desktop computer is commodity labor.
Don't scream about eliminating your job, and support open source in the same breath. Open source has in large part been aimed at eliminating people getting rich from providing what boil down to software commodities, bringing prices down to reasonable levels and restoring control to the consumer. If software has made you a commodity also, then maybe you need to reevaluate what values your skills really had in the first place.
Of course, people really shouldn't worry so much about online credit card theft
Oh... I wouldn't say that. I've been to plenty sites where I log in and go to change my password and it shows the old one in plain text, proving they don't have the slightest idea what a crypto hash is and how to use it.
Other sites show the first or last four digits of your card number, or email it to you after ordering. That's 1/2 of the way to someone stealing my card. It may even be possible to narrow the possible card numbers down drastically after knowing those two parts, due to the checksum that all cards conform to.
Some sites still use mailto: forms to place credit card orders online, or ask you to email them your CC number, and most normal users wouldn't be able to tell a mailto form from an SSL one.
I've even seen some sites that have "protected" areas that rely on client side javascript obfuscating a common password to a value that is passed in through GET. These sites are usually smaller manufacturer sites that have one common login that all non-retail users use to get to see wholesale prices. Needless to say, this is no security at all.
As long as there are people out there designing web sites that are total morons, I worry about my credit card, and I am savvy enough to tell the difference between at least trivially broken security and possibly good security, can you imagine if you were a person who didn't know the difference?
Also, you have to wonder how many sites that appear secure are really trivially broken into by anyone who has more than a passing interest in doing so. (Sequential session IDs in a shopping card app that displays back the CC number come to mind)
B5: -Soap Opera/Drama in Space -Some insightful plots about war and human nature -More from a sociological point of view, than a personal one -Emphasis on interactions with aliens as an analogy to current foreign relations -technology only a backdrop
Star Trek TNG/TOS:
-Compilation of short stories -Each of which is a complete plot -Meant to amuse and sometimes make us look at the bigger picture -Tackling less of the war/alien interaction angle, and more of the impact of technology on ethics (some sociological, some personal)
I don't know if it is really a fair comparison, just because both are about people that fly around in a big spaceship and interact with aliens.
bmarklein writes "Bruce Perens has been fired by HP for "Microsoft-baiting". This was linked in part to the HP- Compaq merger, since Windows is now a much bigger part of HP's business."
Several readers wrote to note the fact that HP has evidently threatened to use the DMCA and computer crime laws against SnoSoft who have found a security flaw in Tru64. The quote from the HP VP is that the accused "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years."
They later backed off the threat... but only because of the huge backlash.
Also, there is talk of HP/Compaq doing some shitty things internally.
I admit, they aren't all bad, their actions are typical of a large company with technically ignorant management, but their record isn't exactly clean either.
Not complying with the GPL means they just had no rights to redistrubute the code, since the GPL is only terms of redistribution. They cannot be forced to accept the GPL. They were in violation of normal old copyright laws.
Releasing their code is one option they could choose, or they could choose to comply with the GPL and get the rights to redistribution it gives.
You have been listening to too much MS FUD if you think companies can be compelled to release source just because they did not comply with the GPL.
I worded this badly, I should have said something like "not have to interpolate any data".
These numbers sound reasonable, at work we have printed poster sized files before, and the DCS2 files are about 600 megs, with 150 megs going to color composite RGB data, and 110-120 megs per CMYK channel.
Sorry, but 28 inch X 42 inch poster is going to require a lot more than 11 megapixels if you want to take a picture and not have to lose any data blowing it up.
28 X 42 X 300 X 300 = 105 million
300 dpi is good enough for most offset printing, 150 dpi line screen, 2400 dpi output res.
Of course, it's going to be rare that a single image fills a whole poster, in which case, your point is valid.
With a few minutes effort, you can turn itinto a nice little blade.
Oh yeah, sharpening a nail file into a blade with the whetstone you happened to carry with you won't attract any attention. God, get real. Have you ever put an egde onto a completely dull piece of metal before? Even with a grinder it takes several minutes to get anything resembling a sharp instrument.
High strength composites would allow a person to carry a blade onto a plane without being detected at all through a metal detector, and the only way it would be found is a strip search.
You may be willing to sell my freedom for your false sense of security, but I sure as hell am not willing to give it up. I would rather risk my life for it. People like you are an insult to all the people who died protecting this country.
Yeah, it was a joke, although I guess you could use OpenMosix with the NUMA interconnects in theory, thought SGI probably has written kernel modifications that are much more efficient.
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These drives are specifically aimed at corporate archival use.
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Fully verifiable is a big claim. I support OSS in every way, but I wouldn't ever claim that. How can you prove that the compiler wasn't trojaned? It's open source too? Well how about the compiler that compiled the compiler before it was self-sustaining? You'd have to trace it all the way back to whoever did the first compiler in the chain, by first compiler, I mean pure machine code. This isn't a new concept.
The bottom line is, you can never, ever have 100% security, ever. You can only get kinda close. I think in this case, paper is still the best bet, and we should forget about using technology for voting, it will inevitably make voting abuse a lot easier than it already is.
Of course, the government even goes as far as openly censoring the results of a vote they do not agree with.
I don't really think these are people you want to fuck with. There are stories floating around about people who were beated or killed after travelling to meet these scammers. I wouldn't be surprised if they had ties to organized crime.
One thing they do not seem to be is stupid. Sure, they suck at english, but they aren't going to ever give you their real info. I'm sure they get some patsy to go get the money transfers for them, using high quality fabricated documents such as the ones linked to. They probably wind up scamming those people too.
This guy has written an e-book that is supposedly about his experience baiting the scammers and going as far as to actually follow it through to the end. I have not read it.
You have to think for a minute... If these guys were really that stupid as to give you real info about them just because you trail them along for a little while, don't you think law enforcement would have stopped them by now?
A lot of it can't be automated, not the design in any case.
I work for a manufacturing company, not a tech company, so maybe I have a different perspective from someone doing "pure tech", a lot of what I do all day is a solution to a particular problem that could not be generalized at all. It's the difference between providing a commodity and doing something that is customized. Desktop software is a commodity, and maintaining a desktop computer is commodity labor.
Don't scream about eliminating your job, and support open source in the same breath. Open source has in large part been aimed at eliminating people getting rich from providing what boil down to software commodities, bringing prices down to reasonable levels and restoring control to the consumer. If software has made you a commodity also, then maybe you need to reevaluate what values your skills really had in the first place.
This made me look fore more info on this guy (Robert Morris), here is an interview [oreillynet.com]. He seems like a good guy in good position.
;)
See, script kiddies can grow up to lead productive lives.
Of course, people really shouldn't worry so much about online credit card theft
Oh... I wouldn't say that. I've been to plenty sites where I log in and go to change my password and it shows the old one in plain text, proving they don't have the slightest idea what a crypto hash is and how to use it.
Other sites show the first or last four digits of your card number, or email it to you after ordering. That's 1/2 of the way to someone stealing my card. It may even be possible to narrow the possible card numbers down drastically after knowing those two parts, due to the checksum that all cards conform to.
Some sites still use mailto: forms to place credit card orders online, or ask you to email them your CC number, and most normal users wouldn't be able to tell a mailto form from an SSL one.
I've even seen some sites that have "protected" areas that rely on client side javascript obfuscating a common password to a value that is passed in through GET. These sites are usually smaller manufacturer sites that have one common login that all non-retail users use to get to see wholesale prices. Needless to say, this is no security at all.
As long as there are people out there designing web sites that are total morons, I worry about my credit card, and I am savvy enough to tell the difference between at least trivially broken security and possibly good security, can you imagine if you were a person who didn't know the difference?
Also, you have to wonder how many sites that appear secure are really trivially broken into by anyone who has more than a passing interest in doing so. (Sequential session IDs in a shopping card app that displays back the CC number come to mind)
B5 was a completely different format.
B5:
-Soap Opera/Drama in Space
-Some insightful plots about war and human nature
-More from a sociological point of view, than a personal one
-Emphasis on interactions with aliens as an analogy to current foreign relations
-technology only a backdrop
Star Trek TNG/TOS:
-Compilation of short stories
-Each of which is a complete plot
-Meant to amuse and sometimes make us look at the bigger picture
-Tackling less of the war/alien interaction angle, and more of the impact of technology on ethics (some sociological, some personal)
I don't know if it is really a fair comparison, just because both are about people that fly around in a big spaceship and interact with aliens.
Where would the writers of the Matrix gotten a plot otherwise?
Lobster and all that.
I don't think it is even possible to get a computer card or motherboard with TV-Out that does not have macrovision.
University of Phoenix online, if you want to blow a load of cash that mostly goes to advertising, and work with mostly MS compatible web sites.
Baker.edu for reasonable prices.
Neither require you ever go anywhere except online.
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bmarklein writes "Bruce Perens has been fired by HP for "Microsoft-baiting". This was linked in part to the HP- Compaq merger, since Windows is now a much bigger part of HP's business."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/31
Several readers wrote to note the fact that HP has evidently threatened to use the DMCA and computer crime laws against SnoSoft who have found a security flaw in Tru64. The quote from the HP VP is that the accused "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years."
They later backed off the threat... but only because of the huge backlash.
Also, there is talk of HP/Compaq doing some shitty things internally.
I admit, they aren't all bad, their actions are typical of a large company with technically ignorant management, but their record isn't exactly clean either.
Not complying with the GPL means they just had no rights to redistrubute the code, since the GPL is only terms of redistribution. They cannot be forced to accept the GPL. They were in violation of normal old copyright laws.
Releasing their code is one option they could choose, or they could choose to comply with the GPL and get the rights to redistribution it gives.
You have been listening to too much MS FUD if you think companies can be compelled to release source just because they did not comply with the GPL.
I better correct myself before someone else does.
not have to lose any data blowing it up.
I worded this badly, I should have said something like "not have to interpolate any data".
These numbers sound reasonable, at work we have printed poster sized files before, and the DCS2 files are about 600 megs, with 150 megs going to color composite RGB data, and 110-120 megs per CMYK channel.
Sorry, but 28 inch X 42 inch poster is going to require a lot more than 11 megapixels if you want to take a picture and not have to lose any data blowing it up.
28 X 42 X 300 X 300 = 105 million
300 dpi is good enough for most offset printing, 150 dpi line screen, 2400 dpi output res.
Of course, it's going to be rare that a single image fills a whole poster, in which case, your point is valid.
First CMOS, then Silicon, then Gallium (what ever happened GaAs anyway?), then Coppermine, and now back to CMOS with a silicon fin....
You must not have watched Sesame Street as a child.
Which of these things doesn't belong?
With HP's recent actions, it looks like Epson might be the printer/scanner of choice for conscientious buyers now.
It's good to see a company make an honest effort to comply with the GPL.
Well, having 6 minutes of battle and 16 minutes of filler was a big part of why it sucked.
For reference, with our imagesetter, 2400dpi output res, 150 LPI line screen is used with digital images that are 300 dpi.
When monitors hit 300 dpi, they are the same quality as most printed materials.
(It would be nice to have a monitor to view our digital files at true size!)
If you are willing to die so you can carry a nail clipper onto an airplane, you're foolish beyond belief.
If someone ever manages to take over a plane with a goddamn nail clipper, I will willingly kill myself. How's that?
If you have to ask, then yes you can. Fall in line citizen.
Oh shit! You got to wear a little star of david on your shirt all the time! What is this country coming to?
With a few minutes effort, you can turn itinto a nice little blade.
Oh yeah, sharpening a nail file into a blade with the whetstone you happened to carry with you won't attract any attention. God, get real. Have you ever put an egde onto a completely dull piece of metal before? Even with a grinder it takes several minutes to get anything resembling a sharp instrument.
High strength composites would allow a person to carry a blade onto a plane without being detected at all through a metal detector, and the only way it would be found is a strip search.
You may be willing to sell my freedom for your false sense of security, but I sure as hell am not willing to give it up. I would rather risk my life for it. People like you are an insult to all the people who died protecting this country.
Yeah, it was a joke, although I guess you could use OpenMosix with the NUMA interconnects in theory, thought SGI probably has written kernel modifications that are much more efficient.
I guess one of the essentials of blogging is to use crappy MS windows software to write book reviews?
, today announced Maxtor MaXLineTM, its newest generation of ATA drives designed specifically for rapidly emerging enterprise storage applications including near-line, media storage and network storage. The MaXLine family features two critical differentiators: huge capacities up to 320 GB for corporate archiving and media recording;
These drives are specifically aimed at corporate archival use.
I've created files in ext2/3 that are over 10GB. What are you talking about? These problems were fixed over a year ago.