Anyone who thinks steganography is a useful tool for secure communication over the long haul really needs to get past the "gee whiz" stage (read: get his head out of his ass) and read the relevant material in Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography or some other reputable source.
To be fair, a Jon Katz type would do better to read Schneier's Secrets and Lies, which approaches network / computer security issues at a higher level, and (if I recall correctly) even includes the giraffe picture trading example you use.
. ..I like to always be trying out new stuff and be tweaking things. This is a really bad trait to give into as a sysadmin
Nonsense. These are great things for a sysadmin, as long as trying new stuff and tweaking isn't happening on the production systems. New technology is constantly appearing and wanting to be implemented (at least for the systems I administer), and it's much better to make all your stupid mistakes in advance on a noncritical system.
The biggest pain is trying to get OpenBSD to work with PCMCIA cards - haven't yet managed to get this working, so if you want OpenBSD you may be better off with a desktop/tower type PC.
At least on my machine - toshiba p75 - PCMCIA ethernet cards just plain work, with absolutely no effort required.
Mind you, this was with release 2.8, so I don't know if there were problems in the past.
Living like Americans inherently includes having the same below-replacement birthrate as Americans. Try to think through the implications of your statements.
So? Americans use, on average, several orders of magnitude more resources than residents of third world countries. Birthrates have nothing to do with the short-term problem that would be created by having the majority of the world's populations use 100x more resources than they currently do. Who's not thinking about implications now, mr. smug american?
I would suggest either the latest version of iPlanet, Apache's JServ. ..
If you're going to do servlet / JSP stuff with an Apache tool, use tomcat - that's where the majority of the development has been focused for the last year or so.
And you assume your air supply and environment are your _private_property_ ? Wow. Talk about misconception.
I don't know where you see anyone saying this - the point is that clean air is a public resource, and there is reason to prevent damage to it, even if individual rights are thus limited. If you have trouble grasping this concept, think of other forms of public property (say, a park) and the laws that prevent vandalism of that property.
Just imagine what it will be like in a couple of years when Mexican trucks will be able to drive all across the US & Canada instead of only within a few miles of the border. And they don't have to follow our safety or pollution standards at all. fun, fun, fun.
Wow, I'm continually amazed at the benefits America has reaped from NAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc. Thanks for pointing out yet another.
. ..in the race to earn profits, corporations have to please people. Only by pleasing people can corporations earn money.
Only in an ideal world. In our world, corporations can use monopoly powers to crush opponents, send high-priced lawyers to silence critics, bribe government officials to write advantageous laws, etc. None of this "pleases people" in the sense you indicate.
How can a corporation infringe on your rights unless the government gives them that right?
That's what people are saying: the government gives corporations the ability to infringe on citizen's rights. Why? Because the majority of elected officials have been bought out by corporate money, and no longer respond to the interests of those they allegedly represent.
Move to a Eurpoean country and have a lot of taxes goto healthcare. Sorry, I would rather not have to pay 50% of my wages to pay for someone else's care.
You're right, much better to stay in America, where your tax dollars instead go to a military that props up totalitarian states friendly to US business interests, thus ensuring your continued access to cheap goods at the cost of innocent lives?
I hate it when alleged cryptographers make silly comments like this.
What he obviously means is "if somebody figures out a shortcut to factoring the product of two large primes" - as the mathematical impossibility of this is the basis for the RSA algorithm.
Speaking of silly comments, you've made one yourself. You really want to say that no one has yet found such a shortcut - there's no way to prove that it's "impossible" to easily factor the product of two large primes.
market leading products will not be produced because parts of that product will not be "sexy" enough to develop.
Wrong. Whatever you consider "market leading" to mean, OpenBSD is an excellent counterexample; it is clearly the most secure network OS available, and it reached that status via a non-sexy path: digging through every line of the code, over and over.
Unless by "market leading" you mean "buzzword enhanced", which is another story entirely.
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oh well, good show anyway.
Is it really so hard to actually write a printing system from scratch that is of some use to man or beast?
Quit your bitching and do it then.
Anyone who thinks steganography is a useful tool for secure communication over the long haul really needs to get past the "gee whiz" stage (read: get his head out of his ass) and read the relevant material in Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography or some other reputable source.
To be fair, a Jon Katz type would do better to read Schneier's Secrets and Lies, which approaches network / computer security issues at a higher level, and (if I recall correctly) even includes the giraffe picture trading example you use.
There are probably other more pressing issues with OpenBSD (such as a more updated X11)
How could XFree86 4.0.3 be more updated?
For shame. www.captured.com. I barely even have time to play games anymore, but at least I can virtually enjoy them through kerbuffel & crew.
I see... you know what's really going on, because you saw a sci-fi flick.
. . .I like to always be trying out new stuff and be tweaking things. This is a really bad trait to give into as a sysadmin
Nonsense. These are great things for a sysadmin, as long as trying new stuff and tweaking isn't happening on the production systems. New technology is constantly appearing and wanting to be implemented (at least for the systems I administer), and it's much better to make all your stupid mistakes in advance on a noncritical system.
So you're into using DOS? What a glutton for punishment.
The biggest pain is trying to get OpenBSD to work with PCMCIA cards - haven't yet managed to get this working, so if you want OpenBSD you may be better off with a desktop/tower type PC.
At least on my machine - toshiba p75 - PCMCIA ethernet cards just plain work, with absolutely no effort required.
Mind you, this was with release 2.8, so I don't know if there were problems in the past.
Living like Americans inherently includes having the same below-replacement birthrate as Americans. Try to think through the implications of your statements.
So? Americans use, on average, several orders of magnitude more resources than residents of third world countries. Birthrates have nothing to do with the short-term problem that would be created by having the majority of the world's populations use 100x more resources than they currently do. Who's not thinking about implications now, mr. smug american?
What was the original? I saw the "remix" linked to from blue's (which was hella funny) but don't know what the original was...
Then there weren't any votes at all. If you think that machines are infallible, you're an idiot.
(or more likely, a troll)
I don't suppose other people coming to point #2 has anything to do with the state of affairs in #1?
Easy. Aurthur Anderson was going to sue them into the stone age if they didn't change.
If you're going to do servlet / JSP stuff with an Apache tool, use tomcat - that's where the majority of the development has been focused for the last year or so.
I don't know where you see anyone saying this - the point is that clean air is a public resource, and there is reason to prevent damage to it, even if individual rights are thus limited. If you have trouble grasping this concept, think of other forms of public property (say, a park) and the laws that prevent vandalism of that property.
Wow, I'm continually amazed at the benefits America has reaped from NAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc. Thanks for pointing out yet another.
Do you mean to say that not every position features "competitive pay and a fun workplace"?
Only in an ideal world. In our world, corporations can use monopoly powers to crush opponents, send high-priced lawyers to silence critics, bribe government officials to write advantageous laws, etc. None of this "pleases people" in the sense you indicate.
That's what people are saying: the government gives corporations the ability to infringe on citizen's rights. Why? Because the majority of elected officials have been bought out by corporate money, and no longer respond to the interests of those they allegedly represent.
You're right, much better to stay in America, where your tax dollars instead go to a military that props up totalitarian states friendly to US business interests, thus ensuring your continued access to cheap goods at the cost of innocent lives?
At least unlike some sites (Tom's), Anand gives you an index on each page so you can skip portions of
the test that don't interest you.
What he obviously means is "if somebody figures out a shortcut to factoring the product of two large primes" - as the mathematical impossibility of this is the basis for the RSA algorithm.
Speaking of silly comments, you've made one yourself. You really want to say that no one has yet found such a shortcut - there's no way to prove that it's "impossible" to easily factor the product of two large primes.
Who's this "we", white man?
Wrong. Whatever you consider "market leading" to mean, OpenBSD is an excellent counterexample; it is clearly the most secure network OS available, and it reached that status via a non-sexy path: digging through every line of the code, over and over.
Unless by "market leading" you mean "buzzword enhanced", which is another story entirely.