I remember reading a long time ago about a couple of programmers who needed a strong encryption routine so they improvised one.
They pointed a web cam at a lava lamp(!). The pictures are the hash source for the random number generator. Their theory was something like, "What could be more random then a Lava Lamp?!" Here's a link to something similar but I won't say it's -the- one I'm talking about since I honestly cant remember where I saw it originally. "Me Ted"
RTFA. If I didn't explain why I'd be flaming you so here goes:
Anti-Virus "experts" always assumed that they could apply biological models to computer viruses. But Mellissa != Polio. The reason (which they just figured out) is because there's always a computer that isn't protected but is connected to an infected computer, via the internet. I guess it's statistically inevitable.
The signifcance of it is that those small percentage (less then 1%) Mellissa infections maintain a persistence unlike meatspace viruses, which eventually go away when the numbers are that low. You have to admit that changes the scene a little for AV makers.
That's really the basic rundown of it but NewsBytes.com has a better write up of it . It seems more geared towards people like us. SecurityPortal reported this about a week ago. But check out the link I posted. Maybe it wont seem so boring. "Me Ted"
Newt? Pig? Sloth? Which animal? (dork reference - ask your programmers if you dont get it)
Rumor has it O'Reilly & Associates Software division is going belly up in the next two months or so. Apparently they've been laying people off left and right, too... Let me just take this moment to mention that their webserver product, WebSite (which included ColdFusion v1.0 free in 1995), is one of the things that started me on this whole wacky programming-on-the-web thing... (thats the second company today i regret having to write about... blah)
When: 3/5/2001
Company: O'Reilly & Associates
Severity: 25
Points: 125
Maybe I should sell my FuckedCompany stocks in protest.:)
I used to use a program that very recently instituted a policy very similar to what you describe. The program is called Peer Genius and was really a more robust version of Napster. It did auto resuming, multiplexing of downloads from diff hosts. It made for some slammin transfer rates, and best of all, searches by checksums (they call it eDNA) so searches are REALLY fast. I'm extolling Peer Genius but I thought of it as 'Napster Done Right'.
At any rate, it was a good source for every media format in existence and now the whitelist is enabled there's nothing to download anymore. I would call it nothing more then a better version of FilePlanet but it depends on the hosts hosting all those files, not servers. My point is that in effect the PG network is now a POS not only because I cant d/l music through them but cuz it's only a source of shareware/freeware which I can get off the web (which I'd rather do) instead of using a custom app that has no guarentee that someone will host the file I want and (more importantly) give me a decent transfer rate. "Me Ted"
What does it mean to "Encode" the file names?
The Aimster Pig Encoder encodes the file names by simply changing the words in the file name very slightly. For example, "Music" becomes "usicM", "Hello" becomes "elloH", and you can guess what becomes "uckF ouY, ouY pyS astardsB". Is it considered reverse engineering a scheme if said scheme is advertised (ok not advertised but spelled out) on their web page?
RIAA: "We didn't reverse engineer anything, you told us how to do it." "Me Ted"
While I can understand where you come from, I would have to say I disagree. The OC community is so far in the minority of chip buyers that it's laughable. IOW, the ratio of OC'ers:Non-OC'ers is so low that Intel/AMD don't even care. It's like the record industry going after kids for watching DVD's on their linux boxes. oops....:-)
seriously though, I see OC'ers hurting Intel's/AMD profits as the same as a kid who spits in the atlantic and worrys about coastal flooding. Besides, if it was such a big deal that it was hurting profits, Intel/AMD would go after mobo makers. /me knocks on wood "Me Ted"
or some other method of compensation but that's an aside. The fact remains that if I am bound by a contract I expect to be compensated for it in some way/shape/form. Why shouldn't it extend to an NDA, especially if a No-Compete clause is thrown in. Anytime my obligations are dictated by something I was asked to sign I had better be able to realize a gain of some sort. A contract that benefits only one side is a raw deal.
I hope you didn't mean American judges in that post. You have it completly wrong.
But, primarily it is to determine which laws, if any, may have been broken.
The judges role in any case (criminal or civil) is to make sure the trial follows the courts procedures. It's not his/her job to decide what laws a defendant has broken, or what civil action they are liable for; that privaledge is given to the people, represented by the district attorneys or (in a civil case) the party that are enacting the law suit (respectively). In a criminal case it's the Judge's job to hand out an appropriate sentence if a guilty verdict is reached. In a civil case the judge might instruct the jury as to what the law says they can award to the litigant they side with.
One of the things that justified copyright in my mind is that it was meant to equate physical ownership of something tangible to ownership of something intangible.
If you invent a machine, you patent it, exploit it, and either someone invents something better or they dont. On the other hand, you create a cartoon character (an expression of thought), exploit it, someone else should try to outmarket you. Just as the machine will be obselete in however long it takes, so would the cartoon character by becoming public domain.
The thing is though that it seems unfair (for lack of a better term) to me to say that Disney should give up Mickey Mouse. He's still their bread and butter and seeing things like Mickey Chinese Food and Mickey Rolling Papers don't serve public interests. On the other hand, no one should own Mozart. If I want to produce a recital I shouldn't have to pay a licensing fee. I guess my point is that copyright is awfully subjective but it serves some purpose.
I'd have to say on some levels I agree with you but if I had to decide against permanent copyrights I would
I posted that cuz I read the article and didn't have a clue as to what Eldred v Reno was. So I figured I would look and see for myself and realized someone else might be interested.
From the Open Law db Under the copyright regime existing before the Sonny Bono Act, works created by individuals, say J. D. Salinger or Elvis Presley, enjoyed protection for the life of their creators plus an additional 50 years. Works created by so-called "corporate authors," such as Disney and the New York Times, received protection for 75 years from the date of their creation.
The Sonny Bono Act adds 20 years to both terms of protection, giving individual authors protection for life plus 70 years and corporate authors protection for 95 years. Thus, a symphony created by a 5 year-old modern Mozart who lives to be 85 will not be available in the public domain for the first 150 years of its existence.
Eric Eldred and we at the Berkman Center think the Sonny Bono Act robs the American public of the rich and diverse public domain guaranteed by the Constitution.
"Me Ted"
Let's trademark every letter in the alphabet! That way we can sue whoever uses our trademarks. We'd make a fortune!
Next you'll say "I'll trademark the trademark symbol! Then anyone who trademarks anything will violate my trademark and I'll sue them for trademark infringement." (that idea is trademarked btw. And so are the three letters btw)
Now lets all have a good laugh while our mod points die. "Me Ted"
I'm not sure if you meant whether or not the white noise generators would stop tempest snooping or if "The Man" can get a warrant based only on suspicion. So I'll take a stab the computer part since I'm lazy. The FCC says that all electronic equipment licensed for use in the home can't interfere with any other equipment. Any equipment capable of interfering electronically with anything else needs to be licensed, like your TV remote or Nomad Jukebox. My computer doesn't interfere with the TV that I own, or the cordless telephone that I don't own but my neighbor just bought. Tempest snooping works by monitoring/interpreting EM emissions from your computer. Computers output a poop load of EMR(r for radiation) and the only way to sheild it is by putting enough insulation between it and the rest of the world. A friend of mine was in the military and one of his biggest complaints (other then working on 386's only 2 years ago) was that they were HEAVY as hell. When I asked why he said, "They're sheilded in case of a directed EMP." btw, directed emp really means 'In case we get nuked." "Me Ted"
Other companies have been making HDDs that are bad-ass sturdy for years, they're used by the USAF in warplanes (I believe that Seagate makes most of them).
I'm afraid to ask what the USAF pays for those drives. I would guess it's at least as much as a P4 would cost you now. The "news" factor IMO is the fact that it's cheap. I get to picturing where this could used and I think of all those scientist types that camp out in Antarctica in tents the size of catering halls. I hope it's only a matter of time before maxtor applies this technique to laptop drives. Cheaper equals more gooder! "Me Ted"
SHOCK
Operating Mechanical Shock 30 Gs, 2 ms, no errors
Non-operating Mechanical Shock 300 Gs, 2 ms, no damage
This could be pretty usefull for a lot of industries like robotics (esp battlebots!), mobile research stations, and my favorite, space exploration. "Me Ted"
I read the FAQ when I first started posting here (can you believe that?). What I never understood is if no one can see your karma why institute a cap at all? "Me Ted"
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I remember reading a long time ago about a couple of programmers who needed a strong encryption routine so they improvised one.
They pointed a web cam at a lava lamp(!). The pictures are the hash source for the random number generator. Their theory was something like, "What could be more random then a Lava Lamp?!" Here's a link to something similar but I won't say it's -the- one I'm talking about since I honestly cant remember where I saw it originally.
"Me Ted"
What do you a call a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters anyway? I'm sure there's some wiz-bang, aint-it-cool catchy name.
"Me Ted"
Find out where TI (they make dsp chips remember?) stands on this. Another industry veteren on OS' side would be otay!
Can you imagine Ross Perot advocating open source? lol!
"Me Ted"
RTFA. If I didn't explain why I'd be flaming you so here goes:
Anti-Virus "experts" always assumed that they could apply biological models to computer viruses. But Mellissa != Polio. The reason (which they just figured out) is because there's always a computer that isn't protected but is connected to an infected computer, via the internet. I guess it's statistically inevitable.
The signifcance of it is that those small percentage (less then 1%) Mellissa infections maintain a persistence unlike meatspace viruses, which eventually go away when the numbers are that low. You have to admit that changes the scene a little for AV makers.
That's really the basic rundown of it but NewsBytes.com has a better write up of it . It seems more geared towards people like us. SecurityPortal reported this about a week ago. But check out the link I posted. Maybe it wont seem so boring.
"Me Ted"
That they now yell "CLAP ON" instead of clapping on?
"Me Ted"
e)CowboyNeal
"Me Ted"
Daamn!
"Me Ted"
Newt? Pig? Sloth? Which animal? (dork reference - ask your programmers if you dont get it) Rumor has it O'Reilly & Associates Software division is going belly up in the next two months or so. Apparently they've been laying people off left and right, too... Let me just take this moment to mention that their webserver product, WebSite (which included ColdFusion v1.0 free in 1995), is one of the things that started me on this whole wacky programming-on-the-web thing... (thats the second company today i regret having to write about... blah)
:)
When: 3/5/2001
Company: O'Reilly & Associates
Severity: 25
Points: 125
Maybe I should sell my FuckedCompany stocks in protest.
"Me Ted"
I used to use a program that very recently instituted a policy very similar to what you describe. The program is called Peer Genius and was really a more robust version of Napster. It did auto resuming, multiplexing of downloads from diff hosts. It made for some slammin transfer rates, and best of all, searches by checksums (they call it eDNA) so searches are REALLY fast. I'm extolling Peer Genius but I thought of it as 'Napster Done Right'.
At any rate, it was a good source for every media format in existence and now the whitelist is enabled there's nothing to download anymore. I would call it nothing more then a better version of FilePlanet but it depends on the hosts hosting all those files, not servers. My point is that in effect the PG network is now a POS not only because I cant d/l music through them but cuz it's only a source of shareware/freeware which I can get off the web (which I'd rather do) instead of using a custom app that has no guarentee that someone will host the file I want and (more importantly) give me a decent transfer rate.
"Me Ted"
What does it mean to "Encode" the file names? The Aimster Pig Encoder encodes the file names by simply changing the words in the file name very slightly. For example, "Music" becomes "usicM", "Hello" becomes "elloH", and you can guess what becomes "uckF ouY, ouY pyS astardsB".
Is it considered reverse engineering a scheme if said scheme is advertised (ok not advertised but spelled out) on their web page?
RIAA: "We didn't reverse engineer anything, you told us how to do it."
"Me Ted"
While I can understand where you come from, I would have to say I disagree. The OC community is so far in the minority of chip buyers that it's laughable. IOW, the ratio of OC'ers:Non-OC'ers is so low that Intel/AMD don't even care. It's like the record industry going after kids for watching DVD's on their linux boxes. oops....:-)
seriously though, I see OC'ers hurting Intel's/AMD profits as the same as a kid who spits in the atlantic and worrys about coastal flooding. Besides, if it was such a big deal that it was hurting profits, Intel/AMD would go after mobo makers.
/me knocks on wood
"Me Ted"
or some other method of compensation but that's an aside. The fact remains that if I am bound by a contract I expect to be compensated for it in some way/shape/form. Why shouldn't it extend to an NDA, especially if a No-Compete clause is thrown in. Anytime my obligations are dictated by something I was asked to sign I had better be able to realize a gain of some sort. A contract that benefits only one side is a raw deal.
"Me Ted"
I hope you didn't mean American judges in that post. You have it completly wrong.
But, primarily it is to determine which laws, if any, may have been broken.
The judges role in any case (criminal or civil) is to make sure the trial follows the courts procedures. It's not his/her job to decide what laws a defendant has broken, or what civil action they are liable for; that privaledge is given to the people, represented by the district attorneys or (in a civil case) the party that are enacting the law suit (respectively). In a criminal case it's the Judge's job to hand out an appropriate sentence if a guilty verdict is reached. In a civil case the judge might instruct the jury as to what the law says they can award to the litigant they side with.
"Me Ted"
I'll look myself, but try to beat me to it.
"Me Ted"
One of the things that justified copyright in my mind is that it was meant to equate physical ownership of something tangible to ownership of something intangible.
If you invent a machine, you patent it, exploit it, and either someone invents something better or they dont. On the other hand, you create a cartoon character (an expression of thought), exploit it, someone else should try to outmarket you. Just as the machine will be obselete in however long it takes, so would the cartoon character by becoming public domain.
The thing is though that it seems unfair (for lack of a better term) to me to say that Disney should give up Mickey Mouse. He's still their bread and butter and seeing things like Mickey Chinese Food and Mickey Rolling Papers don't serve public interests. On the other hand, no one should own Mozart. If I want to produce a recital I shouldn't have to pay a licensing fee. I guess my point is that copyright is awfully subjective but it serves some purpose.
I'd have to say on some levels I agree with you but if I had to decide against permanent copyrights I would
"Me Ted"
I posted that cuz I read the article and didn't have a clue as to what Eldred v Reno was. So I figured I would look and see for myself and realized someone else might be interested.
in conclusion, fuck you.
"Me Ted"
From the Open Law db
Under the copyright regime existing before the Sonny Bono Act, works created by individuals, say J. D. Salinger or Elvis Presley, enjoyed protection for the life of their creators plus an additional 50 years. Works created by so-called "corporate authors," such as Disney and the New York Times, received protection for 75 years from the date of their creation. The Sonny Bono Act adds 20 years to both terms of protection, giving individual authors protection for life plus 70 years and corporate authors protection for 95 years. Thus, a symphony created by a 5 year-old modern Mozart who lives to be 85 will not be available in the public domain for the first 150 years of its existence. Eric Eldred and we at the Berkman Center think the Sonny Bono Act robs the American public of the rich and diverse public domain guaranteed by the Constitution.
"Me Ted"
Show me a bill that would revamp said copyrights or STFU and keep your promises.
"Me Ted"
Let's trademark every letter in the alphabet! That way we can sue whoever uses our trademarks. We'd make a fortune!
Next you'll say "I'll trademark the trademark symbol! Then anyone who trademarks anything will violate my trademark and I'll sue them for trademark infringement." (that idea is trademarked btw. And so are the three letters btw)
Now lets all have a good laugh while our mod points die.
"Me Ted"
Does anyone know if that would work?
I'm not sure if you meant whether or not the white noise generators would stop tempest snooping or if "The Man" can get a warrant based only on suspicion. So I'll take a stab the computer part since I'm lazy.
The FCC says that all electronic equipment licensed for use in the home can't interfere with any other equipment. Any equipment capable of interfering electronically with anything else needs to be licensed, like your TV remote or Nomad Jukebox. My computer doesn't interfere with the TV that I own, or the cordless telephone that I don't own but my neighbor just bought. Tempest snooping works by monitoring/interpreting EM emissions from your computer. Computers output a poop load of EMR(r for radiation) and the only way to sheild it is by putting enough insulation between it and the rest of the world.
A friend of mine was in the military and one of his biggest complaints (other then working on 386's only 2 years ago) was that they were HEAVY as hell. When I asked why he said, "They're sheilded in case of a directed EMP."
btw, directed emp really means 'In case we get nuked."
"Me Ted"
I meant on the KDE suggestion forum... too much alcohol
"Me Ted"
I mean come on, this is a good cause.
i should change my sig to "fsck karma"
"Me Ted"
Other companies have been making HDDs that are bad-ass sturdy for years, they're used by the USAF in warplanes (I believe that Seagate makes most of them).
I'm afraid to ask what the USAF pays for those drives. I would guess it's at least as much as a P4 would cost you now. The "news" factor IMO is the fact that it's cheap. I get to picturing where this could used and I think of all those scientist types that camp out in Antarctica in tents the size of catering halls. I hope it's only a matter of time before maxtor applies this technique to laptop drives.
Cheaper equals more gooder!
"Me Ted"
SHOCK
Operating Mechanical Shock 30 Gs, 2 ms, no errors Non-operating Mechanical Shock 300 Gs, 2 ms, no damage
This could be pretty usefull for a lot of industries like robotics (esp battlebots!), mobile research stations, and my favorite, space exploration.
"Me Ted"
I read the FAQ when I first started posting here (can you believe that?). What I never understood is if no one can see your karma why institute a cap at all?
"Me Ted"