Before jumping into how, try asking why? What good does an ID card do? So that after the plane explodes you can figure out who was on it?
The major problem with airport security and the reason why it will always be a joke is that 99.999999% of the population is allowed to fly. Trying to find the 1 in 1,000,000 person who is a terrorist (who does not carry a little terrorist ID card) and screen them out is impossible.
Military bases and other high security areas can check ID cards and have this be a useful security measure because 99.9% of the population is NOT allowed in.
Checking of IDs is, at best, simply a stupid idea thought up by bureaucrats to make it look like something is being done. At worst it is another step on the road to a complete police state (Show me your papers!)
It archives off/Developer and it appears to whack the non-user info portion of netinfo (at least I lost my NFS mounts, I didn't have much else non-user stuff in netinfo so I not sure what else it whacked and what it saved from there).
One issue I have with all of these studies is that they don't examine how people read non-Roman (and closely related like Cyrillic and Greek) scripts. Reading ideographs (Chinese characters/kanji) is quite different from reading a phonetic script. One of the things I've always hated about psychology (I have a B.A. in Cognitive Science. so I've suffered through plenty of psych classes) is the willingness to draw sweeping conclusions from tiny, homogenous sample sets (a typical psychology study uses 10 college students for its sample).
No, we're running TCP/IP because ISO just plain sucked. Back in the late '80's I attended a Usenet lecture on the OSI RPC mechanism (I think it was called ROSE). I saw a lot of strange stuff in it, especially some things that caused it to have performance problems on RISC processors. After the lecture I asked the speaker, who was one of the authors of the standard, how he thought it compared against Sun RPC (which was then the most well known RPC mechanism). He said that he had never looked at the Sun RPC specs or implementation. Arrogance again leads to downfall.
Seriously, after you've hacked a Windows box, where do you go? It's hard to do anything remotely as we all bitch about so it's not very interesting. Once you get root on a Linux box you can play with all kinds of fun stuff, start sniffers easily, etc.
You know, I often leave my windows open and my door unlocked. Adrian Lamo would often come in and sleep on my couch during the night and help himself to beers from my refrigerator. I'm so thankful that a "white hat" hacker took the time to show me that my house is not totally secure. I don't know what I would do without him.
If I want someone to check my security I will HIRE them. I'll take my risks with "black hats" breaking into my networks or premises and "white hats" can stay out or run the same risks as the "black hats" with regards to federal pound me in the ass penitentiary.
The RIAA is starting to go after the people who have files available for "sharing". However, making a file available for "sharing" isn't really distributing it, is it? The person who downloaded it has made the copy, not the person who made it available.
If I had all my (legit) music files on an SMB share and somebody left the port on the firewall open so that SMB was enabled, have I committed a copyright infringement?
The ones I put together look better than the one in the picture. What's the point of shelling out the big bucks for something that doesn't even look good?
People have been talking about "push" for a number of years but when you actually look at most of the technologies they're really polling based. Client side e-mail is polling based (POP, IMAP) so what's the difference between polling e-mail servers and polling RSS servers?
RSS must put a lot less load on the network than me checking out the CNN web page 2 or 3 times a day to see what's going on.
I didn't see any video so I can't say for sure, but here in Japan we don't parallel park that often. Not much street parking available (when you do street park you're usually double or triple parked). What people do do, almost obsessively, is back into parking spaces. That's probably what the Prius was doing.
A few years ago there was a push on to provide home users with "safe" connections with the ISP running a firewall and virus scanning. What ever happened to this? While this would not fix everything it would help a lot, especially for inexperienced users. The current situation is kind of like making people do their own water purification at home.
doesn't mean they're cheap. Let's get realistic here, USD 100M to launch a rocket? Imagine where we'd be if it cost 100M dollars to fly a 747 across the Pacific. We're not going anywhere with those kind of costs. NASA needs to start contracting out for space access the way the Post Office did and let smart people take some risks to get us all a payoff.
The real problem with software patents is that the field is too young to support them. It's as though people were able to take out patents on "the wheel" and "fire". The patent office has completely abdicated its responsibilities as well and allows too many patents that are obvious to any competent practitioner. Ideas no longer have to be reduced to practice (i.e. implemented) which allows for a vast number of frivolous patents to be filed for.
It's unlikely that we'll be able to get rid of software patents entirely, but perhaps some changes could be made that would make the world better for us all. A peer review panel to reject obvious patents would be a good start along with some changes outlawing overly broad patents.
When some doofus screws up the "next ID" field and a bunch of items get duplicate ID numbers? Creation of unique ID's is a PITA problem and I don't think that the average manufacturer is going to get it right for some time.
Tags will get broken. Tags will misscan or fail to scan. Databases will crash and lose the day's transactions. Someone will manage to switch tags from the green towels (3 for $5) on to the blender ($50). The computer systems will be down for some reason and the store manager will have to make a decision to either close the doors or try to handle things manually - cleaning up after that will not be fun. Items will get wedged under shelves and show up on the scan of the shelf but the count will always be mysteriously off by 1 when they go to physically verify it. Door scanners will get "broken" and merchandise will walk out. Merchandise will walk out after hours while the systems are down for maintenance. People will drop items that they brought into the store with RFID's on them that will get scanned.
Not quite - usually you just keep how many of a particular product, like 50 green towels, in the database, not 50 rows with the unique ID for each towel in the store.
This is another level of bean counting that is going to drive everyone insane. Everytime the inventory gets out of sync someone is going to have to account for it.
If you can get Darwin up and running, Mac OS X will run. I've replaced the OS X kernel with a kernel compiled from the Darwin sources (on a Mac, mind you) and it all works just fine. The trick will getting all of the drivers to work properly. Objective-C, anyone?
There's no magic Mac ROMs anymore. That's been dead for so long it's ridiculous. I used to work on the OS team at Apple - I _know_.
My wife plays minesweeper all the time and denies it. I keep offering to put something on her computer that she might like, like SimCity but she refuses.
Crap, that means I have to junk the giant ski jump and space craft I've been building in the backyard. At least I had the satisfaction of putting together my list of who gets to go and who gets to stay behind.
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Before jumping into how, try asking why? What good does an ID card do? So that after the plane explodes you can figure out who was on it?
The major problem with airport security and the reason why it will always be a joke is that 99.999999% of the population is allowed to fly. Trying to find the 1 in 1,000,000 person who is a terrorist (who does not carry a little terrorist ID card) and screen them out is impossible.
Military bases and other high security areas can check ID cards and have this be a useful security measure because 99.9% of the population is NOT allowed in.
Checking of IDs is, at best, simply a stupid idea thought up by bureaucrats to make it look like something is being done. At worst it is another step on the road to a complete police state (Show me your papers!)
It archives off /Developer and it appears to whack the non-user info portion of netinfo (at least I lost my NFS mounts, I didn't have much else non-user stuff in netinfo so I not sure what else it whacked and what it saved from there).
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Excellent! Party on dudes!
One issue I have with all of these studies is that they don't examine how people read non-Roman (and closely related like Cyrillic and Greek) scripts. Reading ideographs (Chinese characters/kanji) is quite different from reading a phonetic script. One of the things I've always hated about psychology (I have a B.A. in Cognitive Science. so I've suffered through plenty of psych classes) is the willingness to draw sweeping conclusions from tiny, homogenous sample sets (a typical psychology study uses 10 college students for its sample).
How much longer until a major newpaper picks it up?
No, we're running TCP/IP because ISO just plain sucked. Back in the late '80's I attended a Usenet lecture on the OSI RPC mechanism (I think it was called ROSE). I saw a lot of strange stuff in it, especially some things that caused it to have performance problems on RISC processors. After the lecture I asked the speaker, who was one of the authors of the standard, how he thought it compared against Sun RPC (which was then the most well known RPC mechanism). He said that he had never looked at the Sun RPC specs or implementation. Arrogance again leads to downfall.
You hope - why assume that someone who can't secure a wireless access point has any clue of securing an ATM network?
Seriously, after you've hacked a Windows box, where do you go? It's hard to do anything remotely as we all bitch about so it's not very interesting. Once you get root on a Linux box you can play with all kinds of fun stuff, start sniffers easily, etc.
I downloaded every Metallica track I could find.
You know, I often leave my windows open and my door unlocked. Adrian Lamo would often come in and sleep on my couch during the night and help himself to beers from my refrigerator. I'm so thankful that a "white hat" hacker took the time to show me that my house is not totally secure. I don't know what I would do without him.
If I want someone to check my security I will HIRE them. I'll take my risks with "black hats" breaking into my networks or premises and "white hats" can stay out or run the same risks as the "black hats" with regards to federal pound me in the ass penitentiary.
The RIAA is starting to go after the people who have files available for "sharing". However, making a file available for "sharing" isn't really distributing it, is it? The person who downloaded it has made the copy, not the person who made it available.
If I had all my (legit) music files on an SMB share and somebody left the port on the firewall open so that SMB was enabled, have I committed a copyright infringement?
The ones I put together look better than the one in the picture. What's the point of shelling out the big bucks for something that doesn't even look good?
People have been talking about "push" for a number of years but when you actually look at most of the technologies they're really polling based. Client side e-mail is polling based (POP, IMAP) so what's the difference between polling e-mail servers and polling RSS servers?
RSS must put a lot less load on the network than me checking out the CNN web page 2 or 3 times a day to see what's going on.
I didn't see any video so I can't say for sure, but here in Japan we don't parallel park that often. Not much street parking available (when you do street park you're usually double or triple parked). What people do do, almost obsessively, is back into parking spaces. That's probably what the Prius was doing.
A few years ago there was a push on to provide home users with "safe" connections with the ISP running a firewall and virus scanning. What ever happened to this? While this would not fix everything it would help a lot, especially for inexperienced users. The current situation is kind of like making people do their own water purification at home.
doesn't mean they're cheap. Let's get realistic here, USD 100M to launch a rocket? Imagine where we'd be if it cost 100M dollars to fly a 747 across the Pacific. We're not going anywhere with those kind of costs. NASA needs to start contracting out for space access the way the Post Office did and let smart people take some risks to get us all a payoff.
The real problem with software patents is that the field is too young to support them. It's as though people were able to take out patents on "the wheel" and "fire". The patent office has completely abdicated its responsibilities as well and allows too many patents that are obvious to any competent practitioner. Ideas no longer have to be reduced to practice (i.e. implemented) which allows for a vast number of frivolous patents to be filed for.
It's unlikely that we'll be able to get rid of software patents entirely, but perhaps some changes could be made that would make the world better for us all. A peer review panel to reject obvious patents would be a good start along with some changes outlawing overly broad patents.
When some doofus screws up the "next ID" field and a bunch of items get duplicate ID numbers? Creation of unique ID's is a PITA problem and I don't think that the average manufacturer is going to get it right for some time.
Pieces of fine art and rare books are not enhanced by slapping a bar code label on them.
Remind me not to use software that you write :-)
Tags will get broken. Tags will misscan or fail to scan. Databases will crash and lose the day's transactions. Someone will manage to switch tags from the green towels (3 for $5) on to the blender ($50). The computer systems will be down for some reason and the store manager will have to make a decision to either close the doors or try to handle things manually - cleaning up after that will not be fun. Items will get wedged under shelves and show up on the scan of the shelf but the count will always be mysteriously off by 1 when they go to physically verify it. Door scanners will get "broken" and merchandise will walk out. Merchandise will walk out after hours while the systems are down for maintenance. People will drop items that they brought into the store with RFID's on them that will get scanned.
What can go wrong? The mind boggles.
UPS' do that so that when LOSERS unplug them by accident everyone knows.
Not quite - usually you just keep how many of a particular product, like 50 green towels, in the database, not 50 rows with the unique ID for each towel in the store.
This is another level of bean counting that is going to drive everyone insane. Everytime the inventory gets out of sync someone is going to have to account for it.
If you can get Darwin up and running, Mac OS X will run. I've replaced the OS X kernel with a kernel compiled from the Darwin sources (on a Mac, mind you) and it all works just fine. The trick will getting all of the drivers to work properly. Objective-C, anyone?
There's no magic Mac ROMs anymore. That's been dead for so long it's ridiculous. I used to work on the OS team at Apple - I _know_.
My wife plays minesweeper all the time and denies it. I keep offering to put something on her computer that she might like, like SimCity but she refuses.
Crap, that means I have to junk the giant ski jump and space craft I've been building in the backyard. At least I had the satisfaction of putting together my list of who gets to go and who gets to stay behind.