Welcome on board this new AirbusXXX equipped with the latest safety technology....
In the event of the plain being hijacked the plain will be remotely switched off to prevent minimal collateral damage. You will all be considered as martyrs if you convert now. Note to all atheist a conversion booklet to the religion of your choice will drop from a compartment above your head. Please convert yourself before trying to convert any other passengers that travel with you.
Managed to login earlier.... pointed it out to a colleague... and got a page saying to put your e-mail in because they have blocked registration momentarily...
I remember during my last year in university taking people through 1st year labs. Just to get some for loops toghether in C++... nothing fancy.
A lot of them wanted me to teach them how to hack because that was cool, I was getting questions about how do you make a mail bomb and things like that.
My answer was clear.... Learn to code first, then some of your programs may hack once you learn more about it.
Hacking can be seen as the quint-escence of programming because besides being a good developer you need to know well your platform.
People just want to be fashionable and say they are hackers. We all have done that as teenagers only in my day it was to be a metaller not a hacker to be cool.
Let the moron in peace if they are that stupid. Hopefully they will learn... also remember their name just in case they land at a desk near you... then you know you are in trouble even if they are in marketing.
Is this the embrio of what would be required to invade China?
Looks sacry if you start policying internationally about ideas too. Not that it is any good doing on petrol like the US is doing in Nigeria, Afganistan and Iraq.
I live in Birmingham and I do not have an iPod however even if I had a 5 walkman I wouldn't be listening to it on the street. Wearing headphones in the West Midlands is asking fro trouble. I don't even pick up my mobile phone. If I am out and about, on the piss, I only carry cash and a single piece of id and my keys. That id Has not ogt my address on it it has my lat one. So no problems...
I may be being over cuatious but I haven't had a single problem sinced I moved here.
I mean... We already have a problem with Bush and the war and american tourists over here.... so the last thing I want is to have a pop up on my computer saying vote Bush... I may sue them for kicking my monitor with a very blunt object if I see one...
Wow, I did not know that what I was doing to get beer money through my university fixing all sorts of computers for my parents friends and others was a trendy profession....
Blimmy I may even drop out of my PhD and become a trendy digititian
How can I be stressed if I get to my office in a public university. Spend 3 hours reading every single news paper out there. If I do not speak the language it is written in. No problems, just babel fish. Then I adjurn for a two hour luch... eventually in the local pub.
Then I eventually reply my e-mails or read slashdot. Or if my supervisor is around I start MATLAB and make a couple of pretty 3D graphs....
At which time I adjurn until the next day....
Technology stressing me? Not a chance I have the time to read/.
It works in the UK because the UK is the number one investor in CCTV, and distributed surveiallance, systems. I do happen to be doing research in that field and the are a lot of active groups in the UK. I do not know how things are over in the States but down here it is a very active field.
Thgere is one thing that seems to be missing in the article. Even If Ross Anderson is on the acknoledgements they have eluded two quite clear points in the strategy of how the trust system works.
Keys are issued and can expire not only for content but also for software.
So lets imagine: I with a group of friends decide to implement a P2P system that runs on trustworthy platforms. Fine, we write the code, debug, test - several thousands of beers later - we want to release it. If we want to have it available for download and for it to run on all other computers a key has to be supplied. So we scratch our pockets and go see Bill and try to ge the software validated - Valdation mechanism is pricy yet simple for any normal vendor.
We are lucky, we say its not for file sharing but for officeware collaboration, only the amount of files at your disposal is kind of unlimited and there is no real restriction on who you connect to.
Ok we put it out to the mirrors and people and their grand-mas start using for P2P filesharing.
M$ can revoke the key at any time!!! So even if we get to that stage: We can't do anything if they hold the keys, and the music industry stands behind them.
I have read we should not consider TCPA evil. Well its the closest I was planning to get on this earth.
I started using win95 back when I stated my degree in 96/97 took me 3 months to get reed of it and move to NT I was a happy user of NT until things got to heavy for my box PI 166 40 megs of ram that was around SP4 which was among the worst thing I have seen in the planet as a patch.
After that and since most of the work I had to do for University was just programming in C++ and Java I decided I did no longer need the whole of the VC++ and the like. Vi and Makefiles do wonders for me. About the graphical stuff never got bothered with it until Swing came around it was all useless. *Nix operating systems in diferent flavours just supplied me with the tools I wanted for development. And when we got to learn about OS's the example was Unix the project was system programming in Unix. Changed to amore MS aware university and they could simply not provide a systems programming module. Well there is one but it was running on a old Solaris box. Wonder why.
It is true that corporate accpetability is what makes companies go one way or the oder in the choice of their tools. But Ihad two choices either be a MS computer scientist (e.g. a power user) Or really play and understang what goes on inside a computer and how the things actually do happen. The later is forbidden under MS so I had to go *Nix they forced to move out of them because I had no idea about how their OS worked and getting information about it was hard at the beggining. I's rather be an absolute geek and understand what goes on in my box (helps me be a better developper) than just be a mouse click junkie with no idea of what happens.
However most of the people actually need Windows so let them have it in the desktop let them Have Mac OS X The frontend is nice but the backend where only profesionals work does not have to be the same as for computer Iliterate staff.
The same way as you you would make sure that the guys that are in the table are not replacing you ballot paper with one from another party.
About trojans you are suming that the democracy is strong enought to make sure thoise things are purelly electronical or are not networked and that they are checked. You checking in such a system it is not safe but paper voting isn't either. At the end of the day you can allways buy the people in one area. So...
Paranoia mode can be productive but it has to have an off switch.
Belgium which has the reputation of not being among the brightest of the European Countries has allready an electronic voting system. Instead of usind paper they use magnetic cards. The systems goes as follows:
you go to the control desk of the pooling station
after succesfull identification by using an id card or passport they give you a magnetic card.
You may then proceed to the booth in which a touch screen computer is waiting for you.
You insert the card in the appropiate oriffice of the box
the program opens up and gives you a list of candidate or the option to vote for one party (Belgian Law).
once you have casted your vote you just take out the card and put it in a sealed box.
The card is read as it passes through the whole in the box which allows for the results to be avaliable just after clossing time.
In the event of discrepancy or for the results to be re-checked the box is opened and the cards can be re read again.
If a tiny country like Belgium can. Why couldn't the allmighty stars protected States?
I am envolved in a research project in my uni to generate crowd scenes.
Only to get them to walk and avoid is bad enough from the AI point of view.
I wonder what kind of pardigm they use. Agents or purelly stochastic? Has anyone else got a clue about that?
I agree but I would see it better as an off-spin of what the Yellow box was.
Yellow box is a development tool that was supposed to be running on NEXT but that never quite picked up with the box.
I saw it running on Rhapsody one of the little research OS by apple 4 years ago and I was flipping out. You just drag and drop and bind the elements toghether code is made for you.
Beside forte runs on Linux so I guess you could develop application with the look and feel of Q\t and KDE from java.
I dunno but I would like it
Specially if it solves the cut and paste problem Yellow box or here
Was it actually required to generate automatic assembly code for some kind of self modifying program or something of the sort?
Or is it just an overkill being bored?
I can see this kind of stuff usefull if you do embeded stuff and have scripts to generate code but then it wont be x86 or would it?
Once they got it stable and runing:
Can you imagine how cheap a Beaowulf could become.
Alpha, Sparc, Intel, All runing on the same libraries, And the same protocols.
I am starting to save to buy a Sun Box
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome on board this new AirbusXXX equipped with the latest safety technology....
In the event of the plain being hijacked the plain will be remotely switched off to prevent minimal collateral damage. You will all be considered as martyrs if you convert now. Note to all atheist a conversion booklet to the religion of your choice will drop from a compartment above your head. Please convert yourself before trying to convert any other passengers that travel with you.
Managed to login earlier.... pointed it out to a colleague... and got a page saying to put your e-mail in because they have blocked registration momentarily...
Is slashdot mightier than Google?
I remember during my last year in university taking people through 1st year labs. Just to get some for loops toghether in C++... nothing fancy.
A lot of them wanted me to teach them how to hack because that was cool, I was getting questions about how do you make a mail bomb and things like that.
My answer was clear.... Learn to code first, then some of your programs may hack once you learn more about it.
Hacking can be seen as the quint-escence of programming because besides being a good developer you need to know well your platform.
People just want to be fashionable and say they are hackers. We all have done that as teenagers only in my day it was to be a metaller not a hacker to be cool.
Let the moron in peace if they are that stupid. Hopefully they will learn... also remember their name just in case they land at a desk near you... then you know you are in trouble even if they are in marketing.
effectively switching the phone off when you throw it agains a wall. Or will it just phone the emergency company therapist.
Is this the embrio of what would be required to invade China?
Looks sacry if you start policying internationally about ideas too. Not that it is any good doing on petrol like the US is doing in Nigeria, Afganistan and Iraq.
What a world.
That is In Birmingham... West Midlands..
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/
So that you guys can check what I am talking about.
Does one of the avatars appear with a drill if he is trying an exploit on the web server?
I though I was in trouble. IFPI could have meant International Federation of the Pronography Industry.... that would be worrying....
I live in Birmingham and I do not have an iPod however even if I had a 5 walkman I wouldn't be listening to it on the street. Wearing headphones in the West Midlands is asking fro trouble. I don't even pick up my mobile phone. If I am out and about, on the piss, I only carry cash and a single piece of id and my keys. That id Has not ogt my address on it it has my lat one. So no problems...
I may be being over cuatious but I haven't had a single problem sinced I moved here.
I mean... We already have a problem with Bush and the war and american tourists over here.... so the last thing I want is to have a pop up on my computer saying vote Bush... I may sue them for kicking my monitor with a very blunt object if I see one...
Wow, I did not know that what I was doing to get beer money through my university fixing all sorts of computers for my parents friends and others was a trendy profession....
Blimmy I may even drop out of my PhD and become a trendy digititian
How can I be stressed if I get to my office in a public university. Spend 3 hours reading every single news paper out there. If I do not speak the language it is written in. No problems, just babel fish. Then I adjurn for a two hour luch... eventually in the local pub.
/.
Then I eventually reply my e-mails or read slashdot. Or if my supervisor is around I start MATLAB and make a couple of pretty 3D graphs....
At which time I adjurn until the next day....
Technology stressing me? Not a chance I have the time to read
Whey they refer to 0->7 years is of mental age. My brain is normally so fried out at the end of the day I think like a 7 year old.
Watching the teletubies is about the only thing I can do. And of couse playing with lego.
It works in the UK because the UK is the number one investor in CCTV, and distributed surveiallance, systems. I do happen to be doing research in that field and the are a lot of active groups in the UK. I do not know how things are over in the States but down here it is a very active field.
Thgere is one thing that seems to be missing in the article. Even If Ross Anderson is on the acknoledgements they have eluded two quite clear points in the strategy of how the trust system works.
Keys are issued and can expire not only for content but also for software.
So lets imagine: I with a group of friends decide to implement a P2P system that runs on trustworthy platforms. Fine, we write the code, debug, test - several thousands of beers later - we want to release it. If we want to have it available for download and for it to run on all other computers a key has to be supplied. So we scratch our pockets and go see Bill and try to ge the software validated - Valdation mechanism is pricy yet simple for any normal vendor.
We are lucky, we say its not for file sharing but for officeware collaboration, only the amount of files at your disposal is kind of unlimited and there is no real restriction on who you connect to.
Ok we put it out to the mirrors and people and their grand-mas start using for P2P filesharing.
M$ can revoke the key at any time!!! So even if we get to that stage: We can't do anything if they hold the keys, and the music industry stands behind them.
I have read we should not consider TCPA evil. Well its the closest I was planning to get on this earth.
I started using win95 back when I stated my degree in 96/97 took me 3 months to get reed of it and move to NT I was a happy user of NT until things got to heavy for my box PI 166 40 megs of ram that was around SP4 which was among the worst thing I have seen in the planet as a patch.
After that and since most of the work I had to do for University was just programming in C++ and Java I decided I did no longer need the whole of the VC++ and the like. Vi and Makefiles do wonders for me. About the graphical stuff never got bothered with it until Swing came around it was all useless. *Nix operating systems in diferent flavours just supplied me with the tools I wanted for development. And when we got to learn about OS's the example was Unix the project was system programming in Unix. Changed to amore MS aware university and they could simply not provide a systems programming module. Well there is one but it was running on a old Solaris box. Wonder why.
It is true that corporate accpetability is what makes companies go one way or the oder in the choice of their tools. But Ihad two choices either be a MS computer scientist (e.g. a power user) Or really play and understang what goes on inside a computer and how the things actually do happen. The later is forbidden under MS so I had to go *Nix they forced to move out of them because I had no idea about how their OS worked and getting information about it was hard at the beggining. I's rather be an absolute geek and understand what goes on in my box (helps me be a better developper) than just be a mouse click junkie with no idea of what happens.
However most of the people actually need Windows so let them have it in the desktop let them Have Mac OS X The frontend is nice but the backend where only profesionals work does not have to be the same as for computer Iliterate staff.
About trojans you are suming that the democracy is strong enought to make sure thoise things are purelly electronical or are not networked and that they are checked.
You checking in such a system it is not safe but paper voting isn't either.
At the end of the day you can allways buy the people in one area. So...
Paranoia mode can be productive but it has to have an off switch.
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Instead of usind paper they use magnetic cards.
The systems goes as follows:
If a tiny country like Belgium can.
Why couldn't the allmighty stars protected States?
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Only to get them to walk and avoid is bad enough from the AI point of view.
I wonder what kind of pardigm they use. Agents or purelly stochastic? Has anyone else got a clue about that?
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Signed Bacteria INC.
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Yellow box is a development tool that was supposed to be running on NEXT but that never quite picked up with the box.
I saw it running on Rhapsody one of the little research OS by apple 4 years ago and I was flipping out. You just drag and drop and bind the elements toghether code is made for you.
Beside forte runs on Linux so I guess you could develop application with the look and feel of Q\t and KDE from java.
I dunno but I would like it
Specially if it solves the cut and paste problem
Yellow box or here
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Once they got it stable and runing: Can you imagine how cheap a Beaowulf could become. Alpha, Sparc, Intel, All runing on the same libraries, And the same protocols. I am starting to save to buy a Sun Box