given the fact that a software is required to be signed with a key to run on a palladium-enabled motherboard/cpu, I wonder how much it will take to crack that key. I know it's public key cryptography, but I think that given a fair amount of computer power such aforementioned key could be cracked (think about distributed.net). Once it is cracked, at least the same app can run and be exploited via "regular" exploits, and access to memory/disk/cpu power would be unlocked. Of course it will be illegal and punisheable with death sentence by then, but that's not an issue:)
given also this previous slashdot story, the root servers must join and sue microsoft for DDOS attacks against them. Windows clients send TOO much shit to any dns - check your dnscache log to see that. Don't have a dnscache? Bad! You're flooding your preferred DNS server with a shitload of useless or meaningless queries. Looks like they have read some websites some years ago and then decided to steal words like "domain", thus confusing a nt-domain and a REAL domain name. The rest is pure mess because nt-domains are queried with DNS. Pretty crappy isn't it?
this is a laptop trying to find a network share on the server (which is called server2000.[mydomain].it). It is querying [mydomain], not [mydomain].it as I set up the laptop (default domain, network identification). Imagine if I did not have a dnscache but set up all PCs to use an external dns server....
I think that this is definitively something that cannot be done under a different business model, such as those used by profit-only companies (obviously) selling closed-source software.
Is this another example of the robustness of the open-source companies strength?
"[...]the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure".
Am I the only one who sees a contradiction here? The article plainly states "On a recent Friday, the globe showed more than 16,000 attempted break-ins originating from the United States, which often ranks as the world's top launching pad for computer hackers. Brazil ranked No. 4 with 722 attacks. South Korea, Japan, Germany and Taiwan also frequently appear on Symantec's top 10 list for malicious computer activity."
So unless the Bush administration wants to protect OTHER countries from US "hackers", we have a problem here...
[on a side note, I don't see any of the "axes of evil"'s countries in the list.. ]
I fear that they will put this new shell only into new OSes, or into service packs with strong licenses that will allow them to, say, apply DRM on your data without your agreement.
Then the vast majority of slashdotters will rant to defend their privacy, but will install it because it's useful or it's required at work, thus giving up another bit of their rights.
The topic is surely very interesting, but I'm asking myself what does it has to do with slashdot - besides the fact that many docs are available online.
I'm not saying that this topic is good, bad or ugly - I'm just saying that maybe it's been asked in the wrong place.
1. benefiting from Microsoft isn't actually a bad issue. After all, if it wasn't for M$ we wouldn't have such cheap PCs, nor Linux installed on them. This may seem a weak point, but I think that it could help to simplify the issue. The real point, now, is that Microsoft is in such a position that they can force Transmeta not to support Linux on their CPU.
2. Maybe Transmeta should have waited few more years, and jump out with a brand new processor when all other Bigs would be "forced" to build Palladium- CPUs.
The American Constitution, or the Government, whatever, should be sued for giving citizens the right to sue anyone and to waste money in that. Because such lawsuits are making more harm in terms of time, money and human resources spent on them than anything else.
"Saddam's inbox also contained several solicitations from American companies hoping to do business with Iraq -- despite U.S. prohibitions and United Nations trade sanctions."
now I really hope that spam companies will send spam mail to accounts in 'forbidden' countries, thus marking themselves as illegal. It would be fun:)
"We will accomplish this by first reforming state law, opting out of federal mandates, and finally negotiating directly with the federal government for appropriate political autonomy"
Yes, until some president will decide to bomb them because they settle a danger for the entire nation he's leading. Imagine the fun if this 'president' won't be the US president, but some other nation's president! Maybe their political autonomy will lead to things that are considered unfair and dangerous in a muslim nation. Now what..?:)
ok just kidding. But the idea is fun anyway... it shows how the uncontent people in the US aren't really willing to moving anywhere... they will wait and be quiet until things are gone bananas.
1. I wonder if any lawyer can make a lawsuit out of this. If they do, they must have read "The Thing", and thus can be jailed. Why a lawsuit? I don't know, but lawsuits in the US seem to be the only way to say something or prove it. 2. I'm sure RedHat folks will be called terrorists. After all, the "Red" in the Hat (and the fact that they are Kernel HACKERS) says it all...
it's called Gardaland. They project a story on a 'wall' made by water shot at high-pressure all around. Nothing much.. but the fog was a good idea. I wonder if they can keep the fog in a glass sphere and then use lasers to make certain point inside the sphere (in a 3d plan) to be colored, thus obtaining a hologram. Maybe fog can be substituted by a more transparent gas, just to improve definition.
Dear mr. Gillmor,
you've seen a lot of things happening in Silicon Valley so far, from the VC-financed dot-com big-blow to the latest enforcement of "security" and "digital rights management" to other less known things.
Now, being an EU citizen, I fear that Europe may slowly want to catch up with the "famous" Silicon Valley in terms of technology, state of mind, rate of growth, and so on. Manager are fascinated by the possibilities of 'making money', young students in Economics are told that Silicon Valley Was A Good Thing No Matter What, et cetera.
What do you think will happen over here? Will Europe take just the good ideas from the Silicon Valley (grass-root movements, improvements in technology just for the sake of it, improvements to the whole mankind) or will we all become subject to EULAs and draconian laws imposed by some multinational company?
What can be done to avoid the dangers that a too-obtuse management class can do? (don't suggest "move to another country" please:) )
Slashdot Mirror
...mood organ anyone?
given the fact that a software is required to be signed with a key to run on a palladium-enabled motherboard/cpu, I wonder how much it will take to crack that key. :)
I know it's public key cryptography, but I think that given a fair amount of computer power such aforementioned key could be cracked (think about distributed.net). Once it is cracked, at least the same app can run and be exploited via "regular" exploits, and access to memory/disk/cpu power would be unlocked.
Of course it will be illegal and punisheable with death sentence by then, but that's not an issue
or maybe I am completely wrong.
I think that under a probability level nobody will send you a mail SO full of $59.99 or $9.99 or $10.99 offers.
The trick to remove spam is to delete mails that contain more than 2 '9' on a row, possibly preceeded by a $ sign.
...in fact, in few months they will start selling upgrades to 2Gb, 6Gb, 10Gb, 20Gb.
given also this previous slashdot story, the root servers must join and sue microsoft for DDOS attacks against them.
Windows clients send TOO much shit to any dns - check your dnscache log to see that. Don't have a dnscache? Bad! You're flooding your preferred DNS server with a shitload of useless or meaningless queries.
Looks like they have read some websites some years ago and then decided to steal words like "domain", thus confusing a nt-domain and a REAL domain name. The rest is pure mess because nt-domains are queried with DNS. Pretty crappy isn't it?
Look at that (dnscache log):
@400000003e329b973170f1bc tx 0 33 _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.[mydomain]. . 97010201
@400000003e329b973874c81c tx 0 33 _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.[mydomain]. . 97010201 97010101
@400000003e329b981c3f8394 tx 0 33 _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs.[mydomain]. . 97010101
this is a laptop trying to find a network share on the server (which is called server2000.[mydomain].it). It is querying [mydomain], not [mydomain].it as I set up the laptop (default domain, network identification). Imagine if I did not have a dnscache but set up all PCs to use an external dns server....
I think that this is definitively something that cannot be done under a different business model, such as those used by profit-only companies (obviously) selling closed-source software.
Is this another example of the robustness of the open-source companies strength?
...and then you'll be marked as a "terrorist". :)
Sorry man
"[...]the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure".
Am I the only one who sees a contradiction here? The article plainly states "On a recent Friday, the globe showed more than 16,000 attempted break-ins originating from the United States, which often ranks as the world's top launching pad for computer hackers. Brazil ranked No. 4 with 722 attacks. South Korea, Japan, Germany and Taiwan also frequently appear on Symantec's top 10 list for malicious computer activity."
So unless the Bush administration wants to protect OTHER countries from US "hackers", we have a problem here...
[on a side note, I don't see any of the "axes of evil"'s countries in the list.. ]
...if so, the key would probably be 42.
I fear that they will put this new shell only into new OSes, or into service packs with strong licenses that will allow them to, say, apply DRM on your data without your agreement.
Then the vast majority of slashdotters will rant to defend their privacy, but will install it because it's useful or it's required at work, thus giving up another bit of their rights.
will now the MPAA and RIAA have a new weapon against pirates? :)
And if they do, executing remote code using a vulnerability will be legal?
[just provoking]
The topic is surely very interesting, but I'm asking myself what does it has to do with slashdot - besides the fact that many docs are available online.
I'm not saying that this topic is good, bad or ugly - I'm just saying that maybe it's been asked in the wrong place.
all software is equal, but some software is more equal.
to dd it to a hard disk.
:)
cheers
...they had a nuclear-like reactor on their back, and they felt SO cool.
So would I with a nuclear-powered laptop (how much battery life do you have? Oh, a couple thousand years).
As long as I won't drop it (you'll notice if I will).
cheers
1. benefiting from Microsoft isn't actually a bad issue. After all, if it wasn't for M$ we wouldn't have such cheap PCs, nor Linux installed on them. This may seem a weak point, but I think that it could help to simplify the issue. The real point, now, is that Microsoft is in such a position that they can force Transmeta not to support Linux on their CPU.
2. Maybe Transmeta should have waited few more years, and jump out with a brand new processor when all other Bigs would be "forced" to build Palladium- CPUs.
Just few thoughts.
The American Constitution, or the Government, whatever, should be sued for giving citizens the right to sue anyone and to waste money in that. Because such lawsuits are making more harm in terms of time, money and human resources spent on them than anything else.
:)
Oh, the sweet taste of paradoxes!
from the article:
:)
"Saddam's inbox also contained several solicitations from American companies hoping to do business with Iraq -- despite U.S. prohibitions and United Nations trade sanctions."
now I really hope that spam companies will send spam mail to accounts in 'forbidden' countries, thus marking themselves as illegal. It would be fun
"We will accomplish this by first reforming state law, opting out of federal mandates, and finally negotiating directly with the federal government for appropriate political autonomy"
:)
:)
Yes, until some president will decide to bomb them because they settle a danger for the entire nation he's leading. Imagine the fun if this 'president' won't be the US president, but some other nation's president! Maybe their political autonomy will lead to things that are considered unfair and dangerous in a muslim nation. Now what..?
ok just kidding. But the idea is fun anyway... it shows how the uncontent people in the US aren't really willing to moving anywhere... they will wait and be quiet until things are gone bananas.
yes, I'm trolling.
I thought that only cops and/or FBI agents hacking russian computers were exempted from violating laws.. maybe the categories will become more. Cool.
Bill: Dear son, after having told me Where do You Want to Go Today, now What do You Want to Be Tomorrow?
Bill's son: A RIAA agent!
Bill: D'oh..
1. I wonder if any lawyer can make a lawsuit out of this. If they do, they must have read "The Thing", and thus can be jailed. Why a lawsuit? I don't know, but lawsuits in the US seem to be the only way to say something or prove it.
:)
2. I'm sure RedHat folks will be called terrorists. After all, the "Red" in the Hat (and the fact that they are Kernel HACKERS) says it all...
smile, it's fun
surely you'll have to be 21 to drive an alcohol-propelled engine. or maybe will they lower the drinking age at 16..?
[just kidding]
it's called Gardaland. They project a story on a 'wall' made by water shot at high-pressure all around. Nothing much.. but the fog was a good idea. I wonder if they can keep the fog in a glass sphere and then use lasers to make certain point inside the sphere (in a 3d plan) to be colored, thus obtaining a hologram.
Maybe fog can be substituted by a more transparent gas, just to improve definition.
oh well, just ideas.
cheers
Dear mr. Gillmor, :) )
you've seen a lot of things happening in Silicon Valley so far, from the VC-financed dot-com big-blow to the latest enforcement of "security" and "digital rights management" to other less known things.
Now, being an EU citizen, I fear that Europe may slowly want to catch up with the "famous" Silicon Valley in terms of technology, state of mind, rate of growth, and so on. Manager are fascinated by the possibilities of 'making money', young students in Economics are told that Silicon Valley Was A Good Thing No Matter What, et cetera.
What do you think will happen over here? Will Europe take just the good ideas from the Silicon Valley (grass-root movements, improvements in technology just for the sake of it, improvements to the whole mankind) or will we all become subject to EULAs and draconian laws imposed by some multinational company?
What can be done to avoid the dangers that a too-obtuse management class can do? (don't suggest "move to another country" please
thanks
or at least this is what I think:
http://robots.cnn.com
however, I still think that the best medium for broadcast is not an interactive media like the Internet, but a one-way media like radio or TV;
Anyway, I would rather prefer a text-only information source like during the Gulf War the BBC did on IRC. But I may be wrong on that.