Cost. Design it for 64-bits now and all the circuitry has to be designed for 64 bits, even though processors can't address that much yet.
Now when 64 bit processors become available and can address that much you'll have to buy a new motherboard anyway (or live with only 32-bit addressable of memory space) so it'll probably come with an integrated ATA card. Might as well wait to design a 64-bit ATA card until then.
Over designing a product is a waste of money.
NOVA had a whole hour on raising obelisks. One method (overly complicated and stupid) failed, one method (sand pits with sand removed from bottom) succeeded. And they have heiroglphyic evidence backing up their method.
It seems to center around software used by the goverment. I think any software funded by public money should be required to be released under the GPL also.
stupid lameness filter won't let you post just numbers, claims it's all caps and that i'm yelling. so this worthless text is solely to get around the lame lameness filter.
To heck with that. The multimedia card is the size of a postage stamp and 32mb is available for $60. My MP3 player takes two, and when larger sizes become available I can upgrade immediately. I've successfully used it floppy like for files from Mac OS & Win2k (none of my linux boxes have a USB port to try this from)
OS X's Darwin is based on FreeBSD. How good a member of the Open Source movement has Apple been? Have they contributed anything back to the FreeBSD project (code/money/t-shirts/etc...)?
I only use protocol 2 & do not allow password authentication.
I must have the users public key installed in their authorized_keys2 file BEFORE they are even allowed. Currently they have to mail it to me on a floppy for me to add it.
However it would still be vulnerable to a man in the middle attack (which is what the paper is about) until i figure out to keep OpenSSH from sending the public key to any client that tries to connect. Instead I want to send them a floppy with the public key on it and use it instead.
Oh and under OpenSSH client it creates a fingerprint of the destinations public key under the first connection, so this attack only works the first time a user connects to the machine. Otherwise the fingerprints won't match.
Actually you can use W2K kerberos to access Unix/Linux kerberos systems. But you can't use Unix/Linux kerberos clients to access W2K servers. Typical Microsoft "embrace-and-extend" crap.
Microsoft used the semi-documented (but not in the official spec) data authorization field in the kerberos ticket to their own purposes and refuses to tell anyone what they did.
It's the method of control that fails. They choose to block porn, fine, but the blocking also blocks web pages on birds, cancer, humor, sites critical of your blocking software, political groups out of the majority (freedom of speech is inherantly a right for the minority -- speech people like doesn't need to be protected).
And while libraries do choose what books they buy, many of the books they buy would be very controversial if anyone at that meeting actually read them. Heck many libraries carry subscriptions to Playboy.
Actually I'm surprised you aren't required to take it. When I got my EE degree (University of Missouri-Rolla) all graduating engineers were required to take the EIT test as part of the school accredition policy.
By the way this test isn't the PE test. It's the EIT test, before taking the PE you'll have to work is a position SUPERVISED BY A PE for at least 4 years.
I took the EIT and am glad I did. I'm eligible to take the PE and so far I haven't.
The EIT is heavily weighted towards book knowledge you learn in school -- take it while it's fresh. The PE has some of this but also more real world stuff (for example the EE part has a lot on the National Electric Code which you won't see on the EIT).
The reason I haven't taken the PE is that is heavily weighted toward Power Electrical Engineers -- designing building electrical distribution systems, fire alarms, etc... Unless they've added significantly more on computers (or add it as a speciality) I won't be taking it.
My advice is to take the EIT now so you don't limit your options. The PE you can decide about later.
Kevin
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USB is patented also. In fact there are lots of patents over USB equipment. Go over to: http://www.patents.ibm.com and search on universal serial bus. You'll find patents for USB speakers, USB microphones, USB connectors, etc....
Firewire is getting low support for 2 reasons - Apple is doing goofy things with the licensing of the patent and no one is sure what the heck is going on. and 2) firewire is intended as a replacement for scsi/ide buses and those systems are coping with current systems pretty well.
Until current needs of average users exceeds the capabilities of scsi or ide you won't see a demand for firewire. and without demand....
Echelon doesn't need a secret backdoor in your source code. It's about intercepting the stream of data as it crosses the network.
The open source part comes from making sure your encryption is pretty darn strong (and not just trusting some one else) -- not in preventing interception.
NSA (and UK & AUS equivalents) has gobs more money and dedicated circuits to use in decrypting messages -- but they aren't light years ahead of everyone else. So I believe estimates as to how long it would take to decrypt an x-bit encrypted messages using xxx method under todays technology are probably good ball park estimates.
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Cost. Design it for 64-bits now and all the circuitry has to be designed for 64 bits, even though processors can't address that much yet. Now when 64 bit processors become available and can address that much you'll have to buy a new motherboard anyway (or live with only 32-bit addressable of memory space) so it'll probably come with an integrated ATA card. Might as well wait to design a 64-bit ATA card until then. Over designing a product is a waste of money.
NOVA Obelisk Episode
They also did one on raising the Easter Island statues.
NOVA Easter Island
crap. shouldn't!
the freedom of software act SHOULDN'T destroy national security.
The NSA has published some software:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
Other national security level software should be placed under the appropriate secret/top secret/etc... classifications.
The freedom of information act didn't destroy national security. The freedom of software act should either.
kevin
It seems to center around software used by the goverment. I think any software funded by public money should be required to be released under the GPL also.
stupid lameness filter won't let you post just numbers, claims it's all caps and that i'm yelling. so this worthless text is solely to get around the lame lameness filter.
my guess: 2001-09-04 01:01:01
To heck with that. The multimedia card is the size of a postage stamp and 32mb is available for $60. My MP3 player takes two, and when larger sizes become available I can upgrade immediately. I've successfully used it floppy like for files from Mac OS & Win2k (none of my linux boxes have a USB port to try this from)
OS X's Darwin is based on FreeBSD. How good a member of the Open Source movement has Apple been? Have they contributed anything back to the FreeBSD project (code/money/t-shirts/etc...)?
I'll keep my existing PowerPC Debian Linux servers, but I'll use OS X on my desktop machine for the applications.
Kevin
I only use protocol 2 & do not allow password authentication.
I must have the users public key installed in their authorized_keys2 file BEFORE they are even allowed. Currently they have to mail it to me on a floppy for me to add it.
However it would still be vulnerable to a man in the middle attack (which is what the paper is about) until i figure out to keep OpenSSH from sending the public key to any client that tries to connect. Instead I want to send them a floppy with the public key on it and use it instead.
Oh and under OpenSSH client it creates a fingerprint of the destinations public key under the first connection, so this attack only works the first time a user connects to the machine. Otherwise the fingerprints won't match.
Kevin
Actually you can use W2K kerberos to access Unix/Linux kerberos systems. But you can't use Unix/Linux kerberos clients to access W2K servers. Typical Microsoft "embrace-and-extend" crap.
Microsoft used the semi-documented (but not in the official spec) data authorization field in the kerberos ticket to their own purposes and refuses to tell anyone what they did.
It's the method of control that fails. They choose to block porn, fine, but the blocking also blocks web pages on birds, cancer, humor, sites critical of your blocking software, political groups out of the majority (freedom of speech is inherantly a right for the minority -- speech people like doesn't need to be protected).
And while libraries do choose what books they buy, many of the books they buy would be very controversial if anyone at that meeting actually read them. Heck many libraries carry subscriptions to Playboy.
Kevin
Actually I'm surprised you aren't required to take it. When I got my EE degree (University of Missouri-Rolla) all graduating engineers were required to take the EIT test as part of the school accredition policy.
By the way this test isn't the PE test. It's the EIT test, before taking the PE you'll have to work is a position SUPERVISED BY A PE for at least 4 years.
I took the EIT and am glad I did. I'm eligible to take the PE and so far I haven't.
The EIT is heavily weighted towards book knowledge you learn in school -- take it while it's fresh. The PE has some of this but also more real world stuff (for example the EE part has a lot on the National Electric Code which you won't see on the EIT).
The reason I haven't taken the PE is that is heavily weighted toward Power Electrical Engineers -- designing building electrical distribution systems, fire alarms, etc... Unless they've added significantly more on computers (or add it as a speciality) I won't be taking it.
My advice is to take the EIT now so you don't limit your options. The PE you can decide about later.
Kevin
http://www.patents.ibm.com
and search on universal serial bus. You'll find patents for USB speakers, USB microphones, USB connectors, etc....
Firewire is getting low support for 2 reasons - Apple is doing goofy things with the licensing of the patent and no one is sure what the heck is going on. and 2) firewire is intended as a replacement for scsi/ide buses and those systems are coping with current systems pretty well.
Until current needs of average users exceeds the capabilities of scsi or ide you won't see a demand for firewire. and without demand....
kevin
Echelon doesn't need a secret backdoor in your source code. It's about intercepting the stream of data as it crosses the network.
The open source part comes from making sure your encryption is pretty darn strong (and not just trusting some one else) -- not in preventing interception.
NSA (and UK & AUS equivalents) has gobs more money and dedicated circuits to use in decrypting messages -- but they aren't light years ahead of everyone else. So I believe estimates as to how long it would take to decrypt an x-bit encrypted messages using xxx method under todays technology are probably good ball park estimates.