...44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over the Internet. Officials believe it may have been the first Internet-vote worldwide. While the Swiss media seem enthusiastic about the project, I see serious security and privacy concerns. The voters had to enter a 16-digit password, as well as their birthplace, date of birth and another number sent to them by post...
They were investigating the limits of X-ray lithography and discovered that they could control the phase of X-rays by adjusting the gap between a mask and wafer.
So when I had 6 weeks of radation therapy they could have been building a chip out of my own tissue to track me! That's all I needed to know. Packing bags for Idaho ASAP
That's system memory, you mean 30MB should be enough for anybody.
It's rather mind numbing to see the density of today's drives and recall when an entire information system ran in 128K Words (256KB) of memory and on two DEC RP04 88MB hard drives (I performed the offline backups myself, oof)
Besides, Gates denies ever making that statement, but more humorous, "The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."--
Bill Gates, 1984
Three generations mean you can buy SATA three times. The SATA controller I have is only version 1. So I'll stick my neck out and suggest that 2 and three will parallel the release of their respective drives.
Do you really think that companies should be able to avoid all forms of taxes and regulations just by incorporating overseas?
To place the shoe on the other foot, consider how many corporations are based in the United States and small fry like Vanuatu have to put up with that sort of insulation when they have issues with the corporation. Not a thing wrong, as far as I can see with incorporating in sovereign nations. It should be a matter for the Department of Commerce or such to determin which of these are allowed to enter into dealings in the United States.
That said...
The internet has already bypassed by feat laws and borders in a headless movement. Government efforts, like the Great Firewall of China and Bush's upcoming route-everything-through-Washington-D-C, are taking shape. The heady days of the wild west are coming to an end. Eventually any government would be able to restrict access to any IP address with by entering it and activating a block.
The only hope is to subvert such efforts with VPN's and such (which some ISP's are already barring.)
If the IP and ISP are in Australia, the DMCA is so much hot air, unless, of course, the loopy bunch in Canburrah feel like respecting it through some treaty.
MediaForce... Why is it that I visualize a bunch, like Dan Rather, George Will and John McLaughlin in garish skin-tight suits with flowing capes?
(OK, I submitted this, but 97% of my submissions get the circular file so...)
Proving once again that U.S. government and businesses recognize no boundaries, CNN (among others) carries tidings of U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson refusing to drop a copyright infringement suit against Kazaa owner Sharman Networks Ltd. (based in Austrailia, incorporated in Vanuatu) brought by the music (RIAA, no doubt) and movie (MPAA, also, no doubt) industries. Perhaps Sharman Networks spokeswoman, Kelly Larabee, should consider the fate of Manuel Noriega and how 21 million (where do they come up with these numbers?) americans are at risk of subversion by wanton music and movie swapping. Battle of the Coral
The cards stack in favor of denial being a flat out 'No, that's not true.' with no hint at lying.
Thanks to politicians, of course, the popular meaning will probably shift to 'spouting untruths'
sometime early this century.
I thought I had a pretty decent candidate for an Open Source project, using ExtraSensory Perception to communicate with small electronic devices. Through a special antenna the device received brain waves, 'intention', 'wish', 'hope', 'fear', and so on and de-mulitplex the emotes though a bit of code.
Problem is, to communicate required me to get into a fit of begging, pleading, threatening, wheedling, etc. to convey the simples of instructions.
This seems to be a moving target, though with the first vendor or platform that jumps to mind regarding vulnerabilities is a given. I'd say the root class is MicrosoftVulnerability and subclasses are Windows, Explorer, Outlook, Office, etc, all of which should be behind a firewall and virus/worm filters. Exposing an MS workstation to the internet is asking for it. However...
On unixes (including BSD and Linux) there's been the danger of unexpected post commands on webservers, directory access, etc. When I coded a perl search engine, years ago I found I had to absolutely lock down what was accepted as parameters and subsequent values. Frequenly processes ran with root authority, to access all resources. Granted this was probably the fault of the admin, not wanting to devote time and effort to make all necessary resources available to a special account for scripts to run in. Does this hold true today? (Obviously directories are still frequently available, even on CNN:o)
Is it just me, or has everyone else noticed a lack of information about this. What does the patent cover? What software does it apply to?
#1 You don't show your cards too early if you are planning on taking on the likes of Microsoft.
Attacking Linux distros and users would indeed be suicide. Shops which use it heavily might fork over, but you and I would be hard pressed, further, all those people who have downloaded the sources and built would be like chasing dandelion seeds.
If it is indeed Boies then you know the target is a big one, because you don't hire a gun like him to take on pimps.
Sweet, I get to rant about two of my pasions: drink and math:)
Your math is bunk. First of all, [yada yada yada]
As others have indicated, you could simply have pointed out that 16^2 wasn't correct, the assertion I failed to make was the binary representation of 16 bits, or one equal measure of each, excepting the one with nothing (or No Tea, as HHGG might have it) One can't quite expect the bar-monkey to do everything equally, as some drinks require a certain temperature, ice, salt, fruits in various states, etc. Perhaps best would be for one to have more robotic apparati to accomplish more (yet able to clean itself, a self washing appliance...hmm) and remember a patrons preference. It could certainly go far.
That site has been up for months. But wait, if everyone trieds to collect, and the payment is less that $5/ person, then it goes to a charity (I'm guessing the the EFF), not the people. We can't let that happen!;)
Note, there's a cap, per claimant of $20.00, depending upon the number of claims. If the number of claims dilutes the award, per person below $5.00 each then it goes to charities. Most likely the politically popular "inner-city deprived youth music program."
$20 is pretty sad, considering the number of CDs I've bought between 1995 and 2001, approx. 100 I have since curtailed sponsoring the evil empire.
An automobile mechanic is certified and licensed because there are safety issues that can be fatal when a mechanic performs
their duties improperly.
Sounds more like an insurance concern. I.e. You don't prove your employees trained, we don't cover your liability if they still goof.
Similarly, a hair stylist has sanitation concerns that must be met to provide a germ-free and safe environment.
Certainly another case to make for liability. Don't want anyone catching a scalp disease from a non-sanitary trimmer.
Proving the good health of employees is one thing, i.e. restaurant workers or teachers, but certificates beyond health strike me as more of an general level of acceptance. I.e. We do not hire any 'systems engineer' we only hire MCSE. Why? Well the ceritificate demonstrates a level of training. They're still capable of a magnificent foul-up. Try to report or track incompentent workers and see how many lawsuits that gets.
Because if your $100 sink gives way, you can have $50000+ of water damage to contend with....
Besides, it may violate zoning ordinances or homeowner association rules to have a waterfall running out your front door.
whereas on a computer the stakes are usually much lower.
Oh, I dunno, I suppose it's only a matter of time before you have to get a building permit to construct one of those super dual overclocked PC's with all the lights and stuff.
"Where's the environmental impact report on waste heat, you can't overclock without one ya know, and don't let anyone catch you watercooling without a master plumber's oversight."
Regulation of computer repair, ah, the possibilities...
"Your computer doesn't support Palladium, sir, you must 'upgrade' or we'll have to notify the government."
FATAL ERROR - THIS UNIT WAS OPENED/MODIFIED BY NON-CERTIFIED PERSONNEL
"Oh, back in them days we just handed your server off to an available teenage nerd and charged $50/Hr for repairs. Now that all our technicians are board certified it'll be $250/Hr for repairs, but you can rest easier at night."
UNSIGNED DRIVER INSTALLED - U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been notified, please turn yourself in to reduce expense of taxpayer dollars in tracking you down and hitting you repeatedly with a bat, you filthy terrorist!
Slashdot Mirror
[Re: BBC] Sometimes it takes longer for the news to make it to that side of the pond.
hasn't-anyone-heard-of-deja-vu
Doesn't Taco actually read his own site anymore? Maybe there's should be a utility for scrubbing embarassing duplicate stories from Slashdot. ;-)
The Result:
31% Pepperoni
26% Sausage
17% Mushroom
15% Cheese
6% Capers
5% CowboyNeal's BBQ'd Bits -o- Spam
Just think, all that untapped market of people playing games at their desks...
So when I had 6 weeks of radation therapy they could have been building a chip out of my own tissue to track me! That's all I needed to know. Packing bags for Idaho ASAP
When Appliances Revolt... The book: Codgerspace by Alan Dean Foster
That's system memory, you mean 30MB should be enough for anybody.
It's rather mind numbing to see the density of today's drives and recall when an entire information system ran in 128K Words (256KB) of memory and on two DEC RP04 88MB hard drives (I performed the offline backups myself, oof)
Besides, Gates denies ever making that statement, but more humorous, "The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."-- Bill Gates, 1984
Three generations mean you can buy SATA three times. The SATA controller I have is only version 1. So I'll stick my neck out and suggest that 2 and three will parallel the release of their respective drives.
Moer keli a ulBe enSerc fo! iaBnr gaDmae
"You'll be OK after we get the next service pack, honest!"
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!
.
To place the shoe on the other foot, consider how many corporations are based in the United States and small fry like Vanuatu have to put up with that sort of insulation when they have issues with the corporation. Not a thing wrong, as far as I can see with incorporating in sovereign nations. It should be a matter for the Department of Commerce or such to determin which of these are allowed to enter into dealings in the United States.
That said...
The internet has already bypassed by feat laws and borders in a headless movement. Government efforts, like the Great Firewall of China and Bush's upcoming route-everything-through-Washington-D-C, are taking shape. The heady days of the wild west are coming to an end. Eventually any government would be able to restrict access to any IP address with by entering it and activating a block.
The only hope is to subvert such efforts with VPN's and such (which some ISP's are already barring.)
If the IP and ISP are in Australia, the DMCA is so much hot air, unless, of course, the loopy bunch in Canburrah feel like respecting it through some treaty.
MediaForce... Why is it that I visualize a bunch, like Dan Rather, George Will and John McLaughlin in garish skin-tight suits with flowing capes?
Urgh.
Not .. much .. time .. must .. take .. medication.
Proving once again that U.S. government and businesses recognize no boundaries, CNN (among others) carries tidings of U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson refusing to drop a copyright infringement suit against Kazaa owner Sharman Networks Ltd. (based in Austrailia, incorporated in Vanuatu) brought by the music (RIAA, no doubt) and movie (MPAA, also, no doubt) industries. Perhaps Sharman Networks spokeswoman, Kelly Larabee, should consider the fate of Manuel Noriega and how 21 million (where do they come up with these numbers?) americans are at risk of subversion by wanton music and movie swapping. Battle of the Coral
Denial: Please see 'No comment'
I thought I had a pretty decent candidate for an Open Source project, using ExtraSensory Perception to communicate with small electronic devices. Through a special antenna the device received brain waves, 'intention', 'wish', 'hope', 'fear', and so on and de-mulitplex the emotes though a bit of code.
Problem is, to communicate required me to get into a fit of begging, pleading, threatening, wheedling, etc. to convey the simples of instructions.
Sorta like Graffiti works already. :-/
Doesn't deny mean they are considering ... Well, at least they are not lying.
Denial usually means they are lying. i.e.
Cheney, advised by Enron execs on energy policy did nothing improper and releasing notes of the meeting would jeopardize national security
Willy: "I did not have sex with that woman"
North Korea: We are a peace loving nation
This seems to be a moving target, though with the first vendor or platform that jumps to mind regarding vulnerabilities is a given. I'd say the root class is MicrosoftVulnerability and subclasses are Windows, Explorer, Outlook, Office, etc, all of which should be behind a firewall and virus/worm filters. Exposing an MS workstation to the internet is asking for it. However...
On unixes (including BSD and Linux) there's been the danger of unexpected post commands on webservers, directory access, etc. When I coded a perl search engine, years ago I found I had to absolutely lock down what was accepted as parameters and subsequent values. Frequenly processes ran with root authority, to access all resources. Granted this was probably the fault of the admin, not wanting to devote time and effort to make all necessary resources available to a special account for scripts to run in. Does this hold true today? (Obviously directories are still frequently available, even on CNN :o)
#1 You don't show your cards too early if you are planning on taking on the likes of Microsoft.
Attacking Linux distros and users would indeed be suicide. Shops which use it heavily might fork over, but you and I would be hard pressed, further, all those people who have downloaded the sources and built would be like chasing dandelion seeds.
If it is indeed Boies then you know the target is a big one, because you don't hire a gun like him to take on pimps.
Your math is bunk. First of all, [yada yada yada]
As others have indicated, you could simply have pointed out that 16^2 wasn't correct, the assertion I failed to make was the binary representation of 16 bits, or one equal measure of each, excepting the one with nothing (or No Tea, as HHGG might have it) One can't quite expect the bar-monkey to do everything equally, as some drinks require a certain temperature, ice, salt, fruits in various states, etc. Perhaps best would be for one to have more robotic apparati to accomplish more (yet able to clean itself, a self washing appliance...hmm) and remember a patrons preference. It could certainly go far.
Note, there's a cap, per claimant of $20.00, depending upon the number of claims. If the number of claims dilutes the award, per person below $5.00 each then it goes to charities. Most likely the politically popular "inner-city deprived youth music program."
$20 is pretty sad, considering the number of CDs I've bought between 1995 and 2001, approx. 100 I have since curtailed sponsoring the evil empire.
Harry Mudd - Mudd's Women
And, with all the excitement of cloning these days, how topical!
A Linux powered people maker.
"Hair: Blonde, Eyes: Blue, Breasts: Medium and pert, Lips: full, uh, oh nothing honey, I didn't see you come in, no i'm not doi
NO CARRIER
16^2-16 = 240. Where'd the rest of them go? :-)
Now imagine if you will, a Linux powered lunch counter cook...
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Oh, wait, it's already been predicted. Nevermind.
Sounds more like an insurance concern. I.e. You don't prove your employees trained, we don't cover your liability if they still goof.
Similarly, a hair stylist has sanitation concerns that must be met to provide a germ-free and safe environment.
Certainly another case to make for liability. Don't want anyone catching a scalp disease from a non-sanitary trimmer.
Proving the good health of employees is one thing, i.e. restaurant workers or teachers, but certificates beyond health strike me as more of an general level of acceptance. I.e. We do not hire any 'systems engineer' we only hire MCSE. Why? Well the ceritificate demonstrates a level of training. They're still capable of a magnificent foul-up. Try to report or track incompentent workers and see how many lawsuits that gets.
Besides, it may violate zoning ordinances or homeowner association rules to have a waterfall running out your front door.
whereas on a computer the stakes are usually much lower.
Oh, I dunno, I suppose it's only a matter of time before you have to get a building permit to construct one of those super dual overclocked PC's with all the lights and stuff.
"Where's the environmental impact report on waste heat, you can't overclock without one ya know, and don't let anyone catch you watercooling without a master plumber's oversight."
"Your computer doesn't support Palladium, sir, you must 'upgrade' or we'll have to notify the government."
FATAL ERROR - THIS UNIT WAS OPENED/MODIFIED BY NON-CERTIFIED PERSONNEL
"Oh, back in them days we just handed your server off to an available teenage nerd and charged $50/Hr for repairs. Now that all our technicians are board certified it'll be $250/Hr for repairs, but you can rest easier at night."
UNSIGNED DRIVER INSTALLED - U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been notified, please turn yourself in to reduce expense of taxpayer dollars in tracking you down and hitting you repeatedly with a bat, you filthy terrorist!
It's a brave new world...
Let me know when they have a patch which bypasses this flaw.
Thank goodness for the filthy old untrustworthy BIOS on my current motherboard.