ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An anonymous AOL employee has leaked news that AOL is still working on creating the AIM security hole that will be the main new feature of AIM 4.5. This new hole will reportedly allow spammers every Friday night to identify and spam AIM users who refuse to have their profiles included in the publicly searchable AIM Member Directory. Spammers are expected to have to pay AOL $1000 to be directed to this new hole. Spammers will be asked to handover to AOL any credit card numbers they are given in subsequent transactions. Any credit cards with no AOL account will mysteriously get one without the user's knowledge.
Comparing the post above to my own experience shows me why politics have come to this point. The political spectrum has widened greatly in the past 50 or so years. The very things that frightened voters in Massachusetts were comforting to voters in this southern pro-Bush state.
People here are frightened of Wiccans, and it's not just a matter of ignorance and such. My best friend was Wiccan, and the things he spoke of would horrify any decent person.
I won't go on about how people here are anti-abortion because we all know it. But are we and our leaders against your civil liberties? People here don't think so, in fact we believe the opposite. Bush supporters are just as much for the Constitution and Bill of Rights as any Gore or Nader supporter. Interpretation does differ. Abortion is viewed as murder.
If the gap between the areas of the country continues to grow over the next century, pray we don't end in civil war. The differences in ideology and the geography of the differences do remind me of the way the war came about before. But we're in the slow simmering stage for now.
I can't claim to be an expert, but I'd say you didn't read too well before you posted. He said "the universe tends toward disorder." Not the Earth. The universe IS defined as a closed system. He was writing not simply about evolution, although he mentioned it. He was writing about the Big Bang and the formation of complex particles. If you think about it, it's easy to see how the very dense mass that supposedly started the Big Bang could be considered a lower energy situation than the result of the Big Bang. Assuming that that mass was all that existed in the universe as I've often heard, then the Second Law says it should've stayed one big blackhole. This is not at all an original argument, and it has troubled scientists for quite some time.
Policing school and library computers is something we do need. It's fine if someone wants to look at porn at home in private, and it's not my call as to what you allow your kids to see at home, but when kids go to school it's like giving them up to a government baby-sitter for the day. If I had kids and didn't want them to see porn, I wouldn't let the government let them see it. I'd demand vouchers for a private school to send them to someone who would supervise kids. That's what Bush's proposal is supposed to do- supervise the kids with as little labor as possible. The catch is that it's got to be all or nothing. What good is it to have them look over another kids shoulder at it?
But what I really think you miss here is that this sort of thing is going on in school. A few years ago when I was in high school, I used the school computers and found the history full of sex sites. These computers were in the classroom where a teacher was supposed to be able to supervise the students but didn't. When you send kids to a public school, you lose control and responsibility for the day.
I've seen some posts here say that maybe it's perfectly natural for kids to be sexually active as early as 13. Maybe. But many of us in this society are Christians who believe sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong. I guess it was easier when we were all farmers and craftsmen who could educate kids until 12 or so and marry them off at 13.... I'd like to see things change a bit in society. I think one of our problems is that it's so economically and socially unfeasible to marry before the early to mid 20s.
It's sad that it's going to take another 30 or 40 years before college people today get into the government.
I'm tired of seeing young people not looking at all the options. Today's college students can get into government much sooner. The minimum age to qualify for the House is 25. It's 30 for Senate and 35 for president.
Yes, money is a barrier, but if you're waiting to pull it out of your own pockets you'll never run. That's what donations are for. Even Bush with his record fundraising is getting less than a $1 per person (total raised
If you're at least 25 and aren't running for something, don't gripe about the candidates.
The only thing involving Microsoft that takes longer than the antitrust trial is a little novelty called a development cycle.
But in terms of factors in the final result, this raises the chances that one or more of the current justices could be replaced by choice(s) of our next president before the trial finishes in the Supreme Court. For now, without any news of announced retirements, I'll say the chances of a new justice sitting on the case are slim, but it's something interesting to think about with the election coming.
Worse-case scenario, there are still a few protections left. Let's hope we don't have to rely on them. The FBI is still supposed to be dependent on warrants from the courts for Carnivore (I think I remember that correctly).
In any case involving Carnivore, it will be imperative that the timestamps are double-, triple-, quadruple-checked against each other- timestamps on the computers of the sender and recipient, the warrant issued, and the record from Carnivore. The most blatant abuse will be that the FBI catches an email under an unauthorized filter, then grabs a warrant and changes the timestamp. If anywhere on the backbone (perhaps ISP?) also records a timestamp (however unlikely this is), it would be a key to the defense, considering the suspicion that will be placed on the timestamps from the defendants' computers.
Carnivore should be required to record the exact filters that it was operating under at the time of a catch, any code allowing filters not specific to a single email address or IP should be removed (as in no filters to search keywords like "FBI", "drugs", "bomb", etc.), and the people at MIT who rejected the Carnivore review should have to dream up and implement ways to prevent modifications to the Carnivore code and detect any modification attempts. These modifications from MIT should not be disclosed to the FBI (security through obscurity works both ways, FBI). Obviously, a Carnivore machine where a code alteration is attempted would become inadmissible in court, and this record of code alteration must appear on the record of intercepted traffic. Unfortunately, I think MIT would have their work cut out for them.
Most, if not all, of the discussion seems to focus on the interoperability at the networking level and the openness/lack thereof of the AIM servers. This is obviously crucial to being able to communicate between services, but I think an important point is being ignored.
What happens to the interoperability of features and it's effects on innovation once the networks are interconnected? What happens if I'm on ICQ and want to chat with someone on AIM using the IRC-style (where text appears as soon as typed)? What happens when my AIM client wants to send one of these little user-set identifying icons to a friend on ICQ? And how is my AIM going to distinguish between an N/A message and a DND message from ICQ? How about when Company X decides to add a completely original feature to get a niche in the market? How will ICQ handle AIM's talk feature? Sure, we can have something such as W3C establishing standards as with HTML, but do we really want a repeat of the IE and Netscape bungled implementations/proprietary standards/lack of support? Think before you leap.
What will be really interesting is when electronic ink technology matures enough to be used in a notebook. That will do as much or more than Transmeta for reducing power.
As far as reducing consumption in drives, I bet it's only a matter of time before those brains at IBM quit messing with glass platters and find some way to significantly help power.
If I'm remembering correctly from the big coming out party, Transmeta said "up to 8 hours". Who knows exactly what condition they intended would reach 8 hours? A reasonable effort to lower consumption elsewhere? For one thing, Transmeta did reply that Toshiba's notebook was too heavy. Also, the comparisons Transmeta gave at the time obviously was to the then-current market chips. At the time, things like SpeedStep were just entering the lines for Intel and AMD.
Transmeta's power claims must be somewhat reasonable. With the discussions between AMD and Transmeta, it appears that AMD would be conceding at least a niche (iApps or more?) in the market to Transmeta, and help reaching 1 Ghz would be a step towards compensating for the per-clock slowness of the Crusoe which should have been (and mostly was) expected at the first mention of code-morphing.
On the code-morphing side, Transmeta loses some speed initially but anticipates a likely move away from x86 so long term it looks good. For example, what happens if (huge if) Itanium catches on and trickles down to the consumer level in the long run? The VLIWs of Itanium may actually be closer to native for the Crusoe than x86 is, and if not it's not losing speed that it had on x86. I seriously doubt the success of Itanium, but sooner or later someone's going to find a way to move us off x86. Actually, my personal thoughts are that no one will make the jump until they do it either with Transmeta-style code-morphing plus native code availability or something like AMD's approach to SledgeHammer (virtually dual procs I hear).
Um, it'd be fascist to deny a group the right to assembly, the right to free speech concerning their views, etc, which would be the effect of not allowing a convention. Regardless of citizenship.
It is not fascist to remind someone that they are connecting themselves with another person in a way that reflects poorly on that person. It wasn't "Take out that sig before i deny you your rights."
Don't want child molestors? How about womanizers? I don't think I should have to tell you who you should be looking out for, and I don't want to flamebait so I won't.
Now, to why I actually decided to post:
"Why do you consider the republicrats citizens, when they are engaged in the demonstrably treasonous activity of selling out the government of the country to the highest bidder?"
That's stepping over the line. Sure, the Republican candidate did a bad thing and took $70+ million dollars in soft money, but that doesn't mean every Republican believes that was right or that money should flow freely. McCain wouldn't still be Republican if there wasn't some hope to the contrary. Bush's official position is that he'll stop taking big business money when the Donkeys stop taking big union money. Don't associate party supporters with every opinion of a candidate or official, and I won't suggest (wrongly) that people like Lieberman agree with Clinton's actions.
I know Republicans are associated with business, and that corporations own approximately 90% of American money, but "the business of America is business." Businesses pay people and create jobs, and pro-business policies- within limits (no sweatshops, etc.)- help people, like those hungry people some here have worried about.
Oh, and about that article, did anyone else notice that this guy obviously started out as a reporter on assignment to cover the convention? Now I don't know what kind of journalist this guy is, but that protesting/near-arrest stuff doesn't fly at a mainstream media outlet. I know journalists have a reputation for being liberal, but this realy makes me suspicious of his intention/honesty/such/and/such. Not to mention he "recognized an activist" and "gave him a couple of contacts." If you're really so worried about your freedom, start giving a second thought to the trustworthiness of your media.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - An anonymous AOL employee has leaked news that AOL is still working on creating the AIM security hole that will be the main new feature of AIM 4.5. This new hole will reportedly allow spammers every Friday night to identify and spam AIM users who refuse to have their profiles included in the publicly searchable AIM Member Directory. Spammers are expected to have to pay AOL $1000 to be directed to this new hole. Spammers will be asked to handover to AOL any credit card numbers they are given in subsequent transactions. Any credit cards with no AOL account will mysteriously get one without the user's knowledge.
Comparing the post above to my own experience shows me why politics have come to this point. The political spectrum has widened greatly in the past 50 or so years. The very things that frightened voters in Massachusetts were comforting to voters in this southern pro-Bush state.
People here are frightened of Wiccans, and it's not just a matter of ignorance and such. My best friend was Wiccan, and the things he spoke of would horrify any decent person.
I won't go on about how people here are anti-abortion because we all know it. But are we and our leaders against your civil liberties? People here don't think so, in fact we believe the opposite. Bush supporters are just as much for the Constitution and Bill of Rights as any Gore or Nader supporter. Interpretation does differ. Abortion is viewed as murder.
If the gap between the areas of the country continues to grow over the next century, pray we don't end in civil war. The differences in ideology and the geography of the differences do remind me of the way the war came about before. But we're in the slow simmering stage for now.
I can't claim to be an expert, but I'd say you didn't read too well before you posted. He said "the universe tends toward disorder." Not the Earth. The universe IS defined as a closed system. He was writing not simply about evolution, although he mentioned it. He was writing about the Big Bang and the formation of complex particles. If you think about it, it's easy to see how the very dense mass that supposedly started the Big Bang could be considered a lower energy situation than the result of the Big Bang. Assuming that that mass was all that existed in the universe as I've often heard, then the Second Law says it should've stayed one big blackhole. This is not at all an original argument, and it has troubled scientists for quite some time.
Policing school and library computers is something we do need. It's fine if someone wants to look at porn at home in private, and it's not my call as to what you allow your kids to see at home, but when kids go to school it's like giving them up to a government baby-sitter for the day. If I had kids and didn't want them to see porn, I wouldn't let the government let them see it. I'd demand vouchers for a private school to send them to someone who would supervise kids. That's what Bush's proposal is supposed to do- supervise the kids with as little labor as possible. The catch is that it's got to be all or nothing. What good is it to have them look over another kids shoulder at it?
But what I really think you miss here is that this sort of thing is going on in school. A few years ago when I was in high school, I used the school computers and found the history full of sex sites. These computers were in the classroom where a teacher was supposed to be able to supervise the students but didn't. When you send kids to a public school, you lose control and responsibility for the day.
I've seen some posts here say that maybe it's perfectly natural for kids to be sexually active as early as 13. Maybe. But many of us in this society are Christians who believe sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong. I guess it was easier when we were all farmers and craftsmen who could educate kids until 12 or so and marry them off at 13.... I'd like to see things change a bit in society. I think one of our problems is that it's so economically and socially unfeasible to marry before the early to mid 20s.
I'm tired of seeing young people not looking at all the options. Today's college students can get into government much sooner. The minimum age to qualify for the House is 25. It's 30 for Senate and 35 for president.
Yes, money is a barrier, but if you're waiting to pull it out of your own pockets you'll never run. That's what donations are for. Even Bush with his record fundraising is getting less than a $1 per person (total raised
If you're at least 25 and aren't running for something, don't gripe about the candidates.
The only thing involving Microsoft that takes longer than the antitrust trial is a little novelty called a development cycle.
But in terms of factors in the final result, this raises the chances that one or more of the current justices could be replaced by choice(s) of our next president before the trial finishes in the Supreme Court. For now, without any news of announced retirements, I'll say the chances of a new justice sitting on the case are slim, but it's something interesting to think about with the election coming.
Worse-case scenario, there are still a few protections left. Let's hope we don't have to rely on them. The FBI is still supposed to be dependent on warrants from the courts for Carnivore (I think I remember that correctly).
In any case involving Carnivore, it will be imperative that the timestamps are double-, triple-, quadruple-checked against each other- timestamps on the computers of the sender and recipient, the warrant issued, and the record from Carnivore. The most blatant abuse will be that the FBI catches an email under an unauthorized filter, then grabs a warrant and changes the timestamp. If anywhere on the backbone (perhaps ISP?) also records a timestamp (however unlikely this is), it would be a key to the defense, considering the suspicion that will be placed on the timestamps from the defendants' computers.
Carnivore should be required to record the exact filters that it was operating under at the time of a catch, any code allowing filters not specific to a single email address or IP should be removed (as in no filters to search keywords like "FBI", "drugs", "bomb", etc.), and the people at MIT who rejected the Carnivore review should have to dream up and implement ways to prevent modifications to the Carnivore code and detect any modification attempts. These modifications from MIT should not be disclosed to the FBI (security through obscurity works both ways, FBI). Obviously, a Carnivore machine where a code alteration is attempted would become inadmissible in court, and this record of code alteration must appear on the record of intercepted traffic. Unfortunately, I think MIT would have their work cut out for them.
Most, if not all, of the discussion seems to focus on the interoperability at the networking level and the openness/lack thereof of the AIM servers. This is obviously crucial to being able to communicate between services, but I think an important point is being ignored.
What happens to the interoperability of features and it's effects on innovation once the networks are interconnected? What happens if I'm on ICQ and want to chat with someone on AIM using the IRC-style (where text appears as soon as typed)? What happens when my AIM client wants to send one of these little user-set identifying icons to a friend on ICQ? And how is my AIM going to distinguish between an N/A message and a DND message from ICQ? How about when Company X decides to add a completely original feature to get a niche in the market? How will ICQ handle AIM's talk feature? Sure, we can have something such as W3C establishing standards as with HTML, but do we really want a repeat of the IE and Netscape bungled implementations/proprietary standards/lack of support? Think before you leap.
What will be really interesting is when electronic ink technology matures enough to be used in a notebook. That will do as much or more than Transmeta for reducing power.
As far as reducing consumption in drives, I bet it's only a matter of time before those brains at IBM quit messing with glass platters and find some way to significantly help power.
If I'm remembering correctly from the big coming out party, Transmeta said "up to 8 hours". Who knows exactly what condition they intended would reach 8 hours? A reasonable effort to lower consumption elsewhere? For one thing, Transmeta did reply that Toshiba's notebook was too heavy. Also, the comparisons Transmeta gave at the time obviously was to the then-current market chips. At the time, things like SpeedStep were just entering the lines for Intel and AMD.
Transmeta's power claims must be somewhat reasonable. With the discussions between AMD and Transmeta, it appears that AMD would be conceding at least a niche (iApps or more?) in the market to Transmeta, and help reaching 1 Ghz would be a step towards compensating for the per-clock slowness of the Crusoe which should have been (and mostly was) expected at the first mention of code-morphing.
On the code-morphing side, Transmeta loses some speed initially but anticipates a likely move away from x86 so long term it looks good. For example, what happens if (huge if) Itanium catches on and trickles down to the consumer level in the long run? The VLIWs of Itanium may actually be closer to native for the Crusoe than x86 is, and if not it's not losing speed that it had on x86. I seriously doubt the success of Itanium, but sooner or later someone's going to find a way to move us off x86. Actually, my personal thoughts are that no one will make the jump until they do it either with Transmeta-style code-morphing plus native code availability or something like AMD's approach to SledgeHammer (virtually dual procs I hear).
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Um, it'd be fascist to deny a group the right to assembly, the right to free speech concerning their views, etc, which would be the effect of not allowing a convention. Regardless of citizenship. It is not fascist to remind someone that they are connecting themselves with another person in a way that reflects poorly on that person. It wasn't "Take out that sig before i deny you your rights." Don't want child molestors? How about womanizers? I don't think I should have to tell you who you should be looking out for, and I don't want to flamebait so I won't. Now, to why I actually decided to post: "Why do you consider the republicrats citizens, when they are engaged in the demonstrably treasonous activity of selling out the government of the country to the highest bidder?" That's stepping over the line. Sure, the Republican candidate did a bad thing and took $70+ million dollars in soft money, but that doesn't mean every Republican believes that was right or that money should flow freely. McCain wouldn't still be Republican if there wasn't some hope to the contrary. Bush's official position is that he'll stop taking big business money when the Donkeys stop taking big union money. Don't associate party supporters with every opinion of a candidate or official, and I won't suggest (wrongly) that people like Lieberman agree with Clinton's actions. I know Republicans are associated with business, and that corporations own approximately 90% of American money, but "the business of America is business." Businesses pay people and create jobs, and pro-business policies- within limits (no sweatshops, etc.)- help people, like those hungry people some here have worried about. Oh, and about that article, did anyone else notice that this guy obviously started out as a reporter on assignment to cover the convention? Now I don't know what kind of journalist this guy is, but that protesting/near-arrest stuff doesn't fly at a mainstream media outlet. I know journalists have a reputation for being liberal, but this realy makes me suspicious of his intention/honesty/such/and/such. Not to mention he "recognized an activist" and "gave him a couple of contacts." If you're really so worried about your freedom, start giving a second thought to the trustworthiness of your media.