That's it. It is a painful task because you have to filter hat is relevant to your installation.
In this 2.0 world, it is odd that we do not have some machine-parsable (hint: XML) format for security information. In an ideal world, I could gather that from various vendors, filter it to fit my installation, feed it to Nagios, and automatically get an alert when I have a pending update for a security alert.
you read one or more risks digests (which used to be a name for a thing, dunno if it still is)
That's it. And this is a painful task since you have to filter the information relevant to you.
In this 2.0 world, it is suprising we did not managed to create some machine-parsable security alert feed (hint: XML), which could be gathered from various vendors and filtered to get the information relevant to a specific installation. In an ideal world, Nagios would get that and send me an alert when I have a pending update for a security alert
I would not take that for granted. We have a first hand testimony of the problem though Daniel Cordier's excellent book Alias Caracalla. He was Jean Moulin's secretary between 1940 and 1943, an horribly dangerous job despite the modest title. The book shows rival FFI groups with antagonist political positions like nationalists and communists, and FFI chiefs that hate each others.
De Gaulle best tool to gather them is money that the british government landed him, plus the extreme motivation of people like Jean Moulin or Daniel Cordier that answered to his call from London.
That is why countries contract with the US NSA. Say what you like, its a world class intelligence agency.
Well, recent revelations had shown that NSA hold its secret only by terror. One just have to work 3 months as a sysadmin for NSA supplier to get access to a trove of secrets. Is that good intelligence?
We actually catered to the man's ego when we let him enter liberated Paris first. As if he had anything meaningful to do with its liberation.
That is not obvious but he did have something to do with it, as he was able to unite France's interior resistant movements (FFI) under his commandment. Jean Moulin did the dirty work inside France for him, but the result is that de Gaulle was indeed recognized as the de facto leader by all the FFI movements. Without that, balkanized FFI would have had trouble to raise the insurrection against the germans, and even if they had managed to do it, it would have been impossible for de Gaulle to take power. Without the work coordinated by de Gaullle, the AMGOT would have been able to administer the country just like planned by the US.
Don't like the arrangement? Provide your own security. French tried that and they didn't like being out in the cold.
Unfortunately, this looks more like a leader personality rather than long term politics. France had an autonomous defense policy because president de Gaulle wanted it, and that was scraped because presidents Sarkozy and Hollande do not believe in their own nation potential.
That look strange but it is a consequence of France's political institutions, where the president has a lot of powers, and parliament is weak. That lack of counter powers is often mocked as a "republican monarchy". It was built by de Gaulle, for de Gaulle, and recent presidents are obviously too weak for the position.
While it is nice for the persons in charge of this obscure software to be notified about a problem on Slashdot, I am not sure I would be very happy to see that generalized.
But that leads to a real question: how do you learn about vulnerabilities for the softwares you are in charge?
Roman roads and some buildings would be better examples.
I had our modern civilization in mind, and the question of how long concrete will last
I think it is safe to say that if the Bonobos inherited the Earth and got to the point where we are today, they'd have some good evidence that there was something before.
I am not sure bonobos would be interested in that question, as it does not involves sex!:-)
Switching off and on the hardware will wear it out for various reasons: power supply are more likely to fail when switching on, hard disks mechanical parts suffer from hot/cold cycles. It means switching off for power saving cause the hardware to be more replaced, which also has an environmental cost. I did not read TFA, but from the summary, I understand that the benefit outweights the cost, is that correct?
Almost 70 years after, bunkers from the Atlantic wall are still there. Some have fallen from their original location, but do not show extreme erosion like we see in Gunkanjima. This means concrete can last longer than that. Perhaps there is just a quality issue here.
I forsee that in ten years, computers tracking my behavior will be able to tell me I have some disease, but the doctor will not be able to spot it. Except perhaps if the cloud will spam him with targeted pharma advertisements.
Connectors are interfaces. I am convinced an interface should not be patentable (nor protected by any IP). whether it is a physical connector, or a software API.
I see some private entities that would have great interest at pouring money in that kind of projects: insurances, and finance institutions that deal with derivative products from insurance.
Are STEM freshmen mature enough to think about the good or bad consequences of what science and engineering makes possible? Same question, a bit more frightening, with medicine freshmen.
The opinion of the Advocate General is a preliminary document, a recommendationn, not a ruling of the Court. A recommendation to the European Court that is often followed by the Court. Legal grounds is the current EU directive
Well, sometimes the legal ground is the own EU court opinion. Do you remember the Directive on services in the internal market?
There was the question of what labor laws applies when a worker was sent from a country to another, Should minimal wage be enforced from laws of the worker's country or of the country where the work was done? Version submitted by the commission had a clause that allowed to use the worker's country law. The European parliament chose to remove that clause. Later the EU court decided that the worker's country law could be used since nothing was written explicitly about it in the directive.
Slashdot title is bad. Of course the font is breakable, and the author even acknowledges it in TFA:
Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.
"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
This is a bad title. The font is of course breakable, and author tells about it in TFA::
Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.
"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
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In a real class, spotting the struggling student is obvious. Teachers already do what the proposed system acheive
It is interesting for a MOOC. But if MOOC teachers have to handle struggling students, I fear it will destroy MOOC viability
you read one or more risks digests
That's it. It is a painful task because you have to filter hat is relevant to your installation.
In this 2.0 world, it is odd that we do not have some machine-parsable (hint: XML) format for security information. In an ideal world, I could gather that from various vendors, filter it to fit my installation, feed it to Nagios, and automatically get an alert when I have a pending update for a security alert.
you read one or more risks digests (which used to be a name for a thing, dunno if it still is)
That's it. And this is a painful task since you have to filter the information relevant to you.
In this 2.0 world, it is suprising we did not managed to create some machine-parsable security alert feed (hint: XML), which could be gathered from various vendors and filtered to get the information relevant to a specific installation. In an ideal world, Nagios would get that and send me an alert when I have a pending update for a security alert
3. [FFI] union would have happened regardless.
I would not take that for granted. We have a first hand testimony of the problem though Daniel Cordier's excellent book Alias Caracalla. He was Jean Moulin's secretary between 1940 and 1943, an horribly dangerous job despite the modest title. The book shows rival FFI groups with antagonist political positions like nationalists and communists, and FFI chiefs that hate each others.
De Gaulle best tool to gather them is money that the british government landed him, plus the extreme motivation of people like Jean Moulin or Daniel Cordier that answered to his call from London.
That is why countries contract with the US NSA. Say what you like, its a world class intelligence agency.
Well, recent revelations had shown that NSA hold its secret only by terror. One just have to work 3 months as a sysadmin for NSA supplier to get access to a trove of secrets. Is that good intelligence?
We actually catered to the man's ego when we let him enter liberated Paris first. As if he had anything meaningful to do with its liberation.
That is not obvious but he did have something to do with it, as he was able to unite France's interior resistant movements (FFI) under his commandment. Jean Moulin did the dirty work inside France for him, but the result is that de Gaulle was indeed recognized as the de facto leader by all the FFI movements. Without that, balkanized FFI would have had trouble to raise the insurrection against the germans, and even if they had managed to do it, it would have been impossible for de Gaulle to take power. Without the work coordinated by de Gaullle, the AMGOT would have been able to administer the country just like planned by the US.
Don't like the arrangement? Provide your own security. French tried that and they didn't like being out in the cold.
Unfortunately, this looks more like a leader personality rather than long term politics. France had an autonomous defense policy because president de Gaulle wanted it, and that was scraped because presidents Sarkozy and Hollande do not believe in their own nation potential.
That look strange but it is a consequence of France's political institutions, where the president has a lot of powers, and parliament is weak. That lack of counter powers is often mocked as a "republican monarchy". It was built by de Gaulle, for de Gaulle, and recent presidents are obviously too weak for the position.
While it is nice for the persons in charge of this obscure software to be notified about a problem on Slashdot, I am not sure I would be very happy to see that generalized.
But that leads to a real question: how do you learn about vulnerabilities for the softwares you are in charge?
Roman roads and some buildings would be better examples.
I had our modern civilization in mind, and the question of how long concrete will last
I think it is safe to say that if the Bonobos inherited the Earth and got to the point where we are today, they'd have some good evidence that there was something before.
I am not sure bonobos would be interested in that question, as it does not involves sex! :-)
It is amazing how fast land of freedom became a surveillance state worse than what existed in the soviet bloc.
At some time we will have to think about US citizen responsability for their failure to monitor their government. How could it happen?
Switching off and on the hardware will wear it out for various reasons: power supply are more likely to fail when switching on, hard disks mechanical parts suffer from hot/cold cycles. It means switching off for power saving cause the hardware to be more replaced, which also has an environmental cost. I did not read TFA, but from the summary, I understand that the benefit outweights the cost, is that correct?
Almost 70 years after, bunkers from the Atlantic wall are still there. Some have fallen from their original location, but do not show extreme erosion like we see in Gunkanjima. This means concrete can last longer than that. Perhaps there is just a quality issue here.
I forsee that in ten years, computers tracking my behavior will be able to tell me I have some disease, but the doctor will not be able to spot it. Except perhaps if the cloud will spam him with targeted pharma advertisements.
Connectors are interfaces. I am convinced an interface should not be patentable (nor protected by any IP). whether it is a physical connector, or a software API.
I see some private entities that would have great interest at pouring money in that kind of projects: insurances, and finance institutions that deal with derivative products from insurance.
The nice thing with having the same language on client and server is that it helps a lot for code injection...
Are STEM freshmen mature enough to think about the good or bad consequences of what science and engineering makes possible? Same question, a bit more frightening, with medicine freshmen.
The opinion of the Advocate General is a preliminary document, a recommendationn, not a ruling of the Court. A recommendation to the European Court that is often followed by the Court. Legal grounds is the current EU directive
Well, sometimes the legal ground is the own EU court opinion. Do you remember the Directive on services in the internal market?
There was the question of what labor laws applies when a worker was sent from a country to another, Should minimal wage be enforced from laws of the worker's country or of the country where the work was done? Version submitted by the commission had a clause that allowed to use the worker's country law. The European parliament chose to remove that clause. Later the EU court decided that the worker's country law could be used since nothing was written explicitly about it in the directive.
University Herlald article is not worth reading. No word on how it works.
quantum tunneling, in which electrons given the right incentive can travel faster than light,
I know stuff can go faster than light, provided no information does, but I am not sure that happens in tunneling. Does it?
Microsoft + Oracle: the bad meets the ugly. But who is the bad and who is the ugly?
Here we discover the hidden part of 1st amendment. You have free speech, but using it will put you on a terror list.
Neither slashdot summary nor TFA give me a clear idea of what this stuff is about. Am I getting old or is it just too early in the morning?
At least I understood this is about giving Google some personal data. But that (Google + personal data) is a easy finding
Slashdot title is bad. Of course the font is breakable, and the author even acknowledges it in TFA:
Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.
"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
This is a bad title. The font is of course breakable, and author tells about it in TFA::
Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.
"This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
I guaranteed that they'll end up suing Barr. For something. It doesn't really matter what, as long as he can't afford to defend himself.
Here would be an interesting usage of crowd funding