Physical security is a good road to go down, but it would be just as easy (if not easier) and cheaper to shove the data onto an encrypted file system, and then only mount the file system twice a month (1st & 15th billing cycle(s). The problem with "disconnected media" is that you have to save a queue of client requests. I'll get more into that in a second. I don't have a great solution on a shoestring budget, but I can point out some things to look for...
First define your goals from the customer side. Do you want to allow your customers to decide what day of the month their CC will be billed? Do you want the customer to be able to change their CC#? Do you want the customer to be able to pay for 2/3/6/9/12 months in advance? Do you want to allow you customer to select an option to only 'bill once'? The goal of your application will determine how you store you sensitive data. Someone who wants a 12-month subscription and would like to use the 'bill once' option tends to be okay with updating his/her records every billing cycle. While the month to month guy doesn't want tge hassle from a reputable company.
Also consider (in the case of removable media) that if a customer wants to cancel their account, you as a company want to get rid of their data like a hot potato. If you have to wait for the next tape to be inserted to remove that account, you are still liable for their data. And that is an expense that no company wants or needs. Client request queue's are cumbersome to manage, usually rely on unstable environments, and are certainly not ideal for security. If you had to wait on a tape to mount to add a new account, where are you going to store that account's information until the tape gets inserted? I would think that in any case no matter what the requirements are, a removable media solution is out of the question.
While I'm on the subject, let me point out that nobody is going to do this for you out of the box. The commercial says that 95% of top 60 E-businesses run Oracle, and yet every regular/. reader saw a story last week about a huge security flaw in the new 9i product (I was personally very saddened by this). You're not going to get rock solid security from Microsoft or from the Open Source applications out there (again I'm talking out of the box). Protecting your customer's data can be a full time job. To truly protect your boxes and your data, you have to be aware of new vulnerabilities. You will need to live a security websites; you will have to dedicate yourself to not installing any new commercial (non-home grown) applications on these boxes without putting them to the test on another system first, and you will have to monitor the activity to that machine with a fine tooth comb every day even when it would seem that nothing bad is ever going to happen to the system. I've seen the best of security measures crumble because tech's to did security gat a false sense of security because they where used to not being attacked.
"We haven't been attacked, so we probably never will be.", "they don't know we are here.", and "My machine isn't really connected to the internet." may be statements that is true enough, but that doeesn't allow you to rest on your laurels. Security though Obscurity doesn't work. Trust me, if they want to, they can come though your firewall (usually a Trojan), around/into your NAT tables, and into that box that isn't really on the internet. I don't know of a security tool that can't be fooled (except a person that can make on the fly decisions).
So we come back to 'out of the box security tools'. The correct way to modify them is with education about them. The more you get to know about your firewall(s), and your router(s), or your web server(s), and your [insert long list of hardware/software widgets here], the easier it will be to understand how to protect yourself. It wouldn't hurt to pay for a class on how to make modifications, as this would give you the voice of someone with a broad experience in dealing with your tools.
So, My answer to your question, as long and rambling as it may be, is pretty simple. Stay away from Microsoft OS's as their security holes are much more publicized to the general public than that of the UNIX/Linux world. Use a peer system with ALLOW/DENY rules setup in your boxes. Have your content server(s) connected to a broker server that can then connect to your database. Never access your data on the database from any other machine (no remote ODBC, TNS, etc...). Have the database do it's own lookups and queries. Then use some form of encrypted communications to relay information from the database to the broker. The broker should make an intelligent decision as how and where that data gets sent. If you connect to the clearinghouse via TCP/IP, then have the Broker hand off the data, and not the content server. As far as a customer is concerned all of this is transparent. To the cracker there are layers of walls to break in order to get to the data.
I would love to promote the software that you should run on the Broker machine, but contractually I cannot. Remember as you look for, or develop your broker machine that THAT machine is your security backbone, and should be treated if it was your daughter. I hope this helps, and I wish you the best of luck with your endeavor
Oh yeah, Mr pissy pants? Just think, about what poor Mr. Rhys Weatherly would think if he read your post. No pull your skirt back down, an quite showing everyone your 'I hate microsoft' panties.
We all know your an angry geek with a flamethrougher for fingers, but sit back and imagie that if Mr. Weatherly wasn't busy with his colossal waste of time he could be a microsoft helping get the product ready to go out the door. You think guys like Weatherly will ever go java? no! it's not in thier blood. So if some can't go java, let them do what they need to add something (no matter how little) to help with linux.
wow, I never thought I would use a slashdot artical as a way to have a chat with someone, but it's like chrismas when a user posts a reply. And the stroy is so old that the moderators will never waste their points modding me off topic (something tells me I'll have -1 off topic before the hour is out). I have had moderator access a couple of times, and I always use my points to mod up (reward a good post). I read on the moderator's how-to page that there is not much point in modding down, so I avoid it knowing that someone else will come along and take care of it. So I think that my judicial use of my limited power is justified, and I dout that I will ever be ranked among those that abuse the right.
However, I have a question about Karma points, and it would seem that you have some knowledge of the operation of such things. I often hear of KarmaWhores, and this thing called a KarmaCap. I can guess by context what a KarmaWhore is. I'm guessing that there is a style of post that mod's like, and people post this type of message for no other reason than to get the extra points. (Sig 11). But it is the KarmaCap that I find hard to figure out. Is there a number that one tops out as? Is there a total number of points that you can get to, and then you can't go any higher? If so what is it, and if not, what is a KarmaCap?
I don't expect you to know, or answer, but I tought that sence you get updates when a reply to a post happens, this might be a good way to ask.
Thanks in advance for any attention that you might put into a reply.
(Yes I know that I can't spell... I'm over it already)
The answer the quick question is 'No'. Handspring, and other PalmOS licensers will not have to shell out any more for devices already sold.
Xerox will no doubt sue Palm/3Com, and if patent laws hold up in court, 3Com will have to pay Xerox restitution for damages. Usually far greater than the profit that was made selling the infringed patent. While the Judge will corn hole 3Com, hand spring and co. have done their jobs. they paid the fees, and so no past infringement judgment will be past to them.
Now to the answer all are wondering. Will the devices cost more. Again the answer is 'No'. 3Com will be left with two options, (both of which will be profitable to Xerox) One is for 3com to stop using UniStroke, a little R&D will produce a nice little keyboard, or Two, 3Com will pay the license fee for the use of the patent.
Option two may seem like it would raise the price of the units, but the actual OS cost passed to the consumer is not worth noticing. Actually what will happen is companies like hand spring will license the UniStroke straight from Xerox and actually lower the cost of the unit.
Fair enough, but want about |\/|icrosoft, M1CR050f7 (or how ever that translates in to 1EE7 speak, or microsucks. What about Marcosoft, Micro-Soft, or Micronsoft. Where legaly is the line drawn. My question is about the law, but about personal opinion. Although if your opinion is anti M$ in nature, I would love to hear it.
would you WMP in a house,
would you WMP with a mounse? ...
I would not buy them in the rain,
I would not buy them on a train,
I would not could not with a mouse,
I would not could not with in a house,
I DO NOT want WMP technology in my DVD player... sam I am!
Hey I was just wondering, were do you park your car at night? If you could, include the address, color, make, model, and licence #. I juat wanted to test your statment...
Thanks
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Introducing the EncryptoFax 10000.
This fax machine ensures 168bit Secure POTs Communications, add to that PGP Fax option to secure the content of your fax. Our patent pending technology grabs new Public/Private keys out of it's own butt, and will work with Phone line. This fax machine will automatically (and instantly) route your direct dial phone call around network problems, and will leave a message on the phone switch just this side of it's destination, so when the person you are sending the fax to gets off the phone, your fax will be delivered by the receiver's own service provider. Also, call now, and we will through in physical security. No need to run to the Fax machine every ten minutes to keep somebody from picking up/reading you secure fax. This fax machine will bind your papers in a iron box password protected and hold onto the box until your credentials are put in...
The number is 555-
Please, tell me again how the fax is inherently more secure?
AT&T owns a high speed cable network. @Home was set up to provide Account Administration,Billing services, customer support, and content. There are more things that @Home provided, and there are sub categorys of the things that I've listed here. One of the most important things IMHO was mail/news/web/etc servers for thier customers. @Home was a service provider, and AT&T was the VAR, or Delivery guy, or what ever...
Somebody will soon come up with a hack to listen to all those files...
Okay, I guess now is a good time to float the idea of a product I am designing, and plan to bring to market. I am still in the R&D phase, so if you want more information, your will have to wait until I type up the white paper and post it to my web site. open source of course.
I am designing a box for the trunk of a car.
It will listen to FM Broadcast, and encode the signal to MP3 (completely legal) for later listening. Same as a tape recorder on a portable radio.
It will have an auxiliary port so that it can connect to a ~3-watt FM transmitter. The goal is to decode mp3's and broadcast them on a dynamic (clean/open/empty) frequency. This portion of the box, I will have to make available separately as a kit. The U.S. FCC tightly regulates the use of FM transmission frequencies. 3-watts is legal and enough to do the job. I really don't need the legal hassle of selling one complete box. I'm sure that I can get around the legal issue with the obligatory 'The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.'. Of course users would be encouraged to only broadcast 'original' content, but actual usage would be beyond my control.
It will have a (passably a pair of) 802.11b network connections. This would facilitate car to car transfers of songs. And allow for remote control of the unit from your home PC.
Yes, of course this sounds corny, and you think that you will never see it, but I plan on offering an at cost + Shipping and Handling kit version of it within 10 weeks. Right now I'm working on the in car control portion of the unit. I am torn between the higher price of a SVGA LCD, or the lower prices (also lower feature) 2X40 LCD and fixed function buttons. As I resolve my issues I will post them to my web site.
The Idea behind this, is that if market saturation was high enough the system would become autonomous. It would become a mobile hardware version of P2P. Automatically transferring and saving your favorite songs. For the most part untouchable by RIAA. The device would be hard to trace, because the completely legal versions of the units that I would sell, would do all the transmission and receiving. To an agent that happen to be listening for FM broadcast, the scopes would only find a 3 Watt signal that refused to interfere with already established communications on FM Channels. Transmissions over the 802.11b channels will be 128bit encrypted, and so it wouldn't matter what someone overheard. I don't know, It all seems nice in my head, what to do you guys think
This is the part where I float the question. Should I continue on my quest? Would anyone pay the estimated $500 - $700 to have this type of system? Is free music and the freedom of the road worth any money?
My wife and I will have pair, and I may never be able to connect/listen to someone else's box, but I really think the idea is cool.
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Yes, I am fat.
Bingo!!!
I admit to it and don't have a problem admitting that I have a problem.
You call it a problem, and then you go on to say "If I was worried about how big I am, I would probably exercise more..." I'm gessing it might be more of a problem then you think. Don't take my word for it, ask your Johnson. You may need to use a phone to talk to it, and you might want to send it a Hallmark card or something first. My guess is you haven't seen it in a while. I bet it's pretty mad.
I am not the sloth...
LIAR!!!
I eat salads, vegetables, white meat, whole wheat bread, etc. I am not the pig-out fat guy you think I am, I just happen to be large.
What a whiney little b*tch. Don't tell us about your problem. We don't want to know. We just want to laugh at your feeble attempts to regain some self esteem. Something tells me you read/. a lot. You should know by now, there is nothing that feeds us like making targets like you cry... is that a whimper I hear?
I am 6'2 and weigh about 285 lbs. Most people think that I weigh about 225 because of my large frame.
Again, LIAR!!!!
Go home and cry to your mother.
I have made efforts to get out and exercise more, but it is not high on my priorities list.
Surprise? No.
Maybe I need to change this, but I haven't had the time lately. I have the ability, I used to lug myself on 7 and 14 mile hikes, but once you enter the real world and have to get a job, it can be hard to get away if that is not something you love to do.
You call 285 living in the real world? I think characters that round are usually in the comic strips.
...problem I have with that disorder I was telling you about, see, when I have trouble processing...
Is this the point in which I should start to cry? Cause my reaction is more along the lines of laugh. You are a sad little ^H^H^H^H er big man. However, I enjoy watching you wallow in your own pity. I wish there where more of you. I need more targets like you to hone my talons. Practice makes perfect, and I can't wait to find your next post.
Understand that you started this, and I have nothing but time to point out your flaws. So long as you keep'em coming.
Thanks for a great day.
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Wait just a minute! Before you go off on rant, you might want to know why someone like me would have written something like that. However, I don't have the patients to explain it someone like you, so you'll just have to deal with it.
Now, while your diatribe was (cute?) it concerns me. I'm not going to call it slander, but you obviously don't know me. I have never slurped a noodle. However judging by your incessant (flaming?) rage, and the fact that the first sentence is an overt sexual innuendo, I'm sure you know something about that. It's okay, I'm not the type to poke fun at others, but I digress.
I am stooping down to your puny-brained level and speaking in a language that you can understand
Thanks I guess, it gets lonely down here, and its refreshing to hear such clear English. It was concise and easily understood. You've truly made my day.
Why don't you take your puny little ass and go throw it off a cliff along with all your other worthless ass, braindead friends
My, My. Now I'm not a physicist, but how exactly can one 'throw' ones self? It would seem some sort of impossibility. This perplexes me. However, I did notice the reference to my posterior. Freudian Slip? I think not. I really would appreciate it if you could please cease your admiration of my anatomy.
Now as to all my " worthless ass, braindead friends"......... What?
Put yourself out of the gene pool so you cannot pass your utter stupidity on to the next generation
Ouch! To late, I have a 3 yr old little girl already, and if you check, you might find that I left a 'Best of Breed' in the womb of your mommy. Think about it. She's such a sweet heart.
I know, I know, you're probably just some little fourteen year old, pimply kid...
Yeah, that's it. I wish I were fourteen again. I wouldn't have to come to this dreary (albeit well paying) job, with nothing to do except draw a check, and post reply comment to ubbers like you.
but if you keep talking like that about someone who weighs only 200 lbs
350lbs! Please, read the comment.
...ready to hand you your ass on a plate. (Why can't it be me?)
Again with the homo thing... I get it, I'm not interested. Flattered, but really really not in to that.
Well, I hope you have a pleasant day
Oh, you have no idea. I'll enjoy spending the rest of my day showing my co-workers how angry a little gay man can get, and how much time he can spend on something so stupid.
and remember, even though you may think I'll have to catch you to **** your ass first, remember, you have to sleep sometime.
Enough already!!!! I'm not into that.
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Or, you could read the pretty flash images that says it can support the weight of 3 SUVs. Your rotund ass couldn't be as bad as that.
But alas, bellys as round as yours should forgo ANY mode of assisted transportation. Try travel via Doc. Martin.
a black hole which would fall into the center of the Earth and consume it.... even if it did make a black hole it would be a small one that would "evaporate" instead of being able to grow and consume the Earth.
I'm not up on black holes, but does the black hole eat it way to the center of the earth? Like consume all the engery/matter/stuff in it's path? If this was the case, and using the black hole as a source of energy was a concern, couldn't we use black holes, to drill for resources that are deep below the earths crust/mantle/core? Better Yet, I've seen/. articals about mining the moon/astroids/meteors/rosie o'donald huge ass. Wouldn't that be a great way to punch the holes to the payload? I might be on the wrong track. I have never accused of being right in the head
Remember the word emulation. You might want to look it up, it's really important to the discussion here. You're concerns about power are 'cute' at best. Boring, and poorly planned describe it better.
First off, let me quail your jabber. Have you noticed that Intel's Pentium Processors consume more power than the Transmeta chips? Follow my logic here, if the Transmeta chips can emulate the x86 chips while using less power, couldn't they emulate Alpha chips and continue with the lower power consumption trend? OH YEAH!!! That sounds right, huh? (clues are free, you should get one before you try to rip me a new a-hole.)
Now, the history of Alpha, as I remember it (I only worked on the test team for 3yrs) was to be able to handle multiple architectural chip emulation simultaneously. Now imagine that. A chip that was designed to emulate multiple chips, and a chip that emulates other types of chips.
They could have. R&D on 64 bit imulation chips proved cost proibitive. This will be another company that had very valuable parts, but the parts didn't complement each other. The buyer will more than likly brake up the company and sell the parts for more than the whole.
I guess what I'm about to say should be taken with a grain of salt, because we've all seen the quote 'Sci Fi of today, is Sci Fact of tomorrow.' But it seems to me that the bugs in ST lived off the land, under the support of a seemingly endless food supply. The difference here, is that while these people survive in the land, they don't survive off the land. They are a poor people, and as such can't replenish the supplies they use in their efforts to defend/police their way of life. The only way they will be able to eat is if we allow that. It's easy enough to lob bombs in there and never suffer the life of an ally to be lost. But it is easier to allow them to starve. Our technology isn't to only hope we have to to win this war.
Also, please note that our forces are well equipped to deal with mines of that nature. The HTQ-67 & 68 land mines that the Soviets placed are expected to be 99% inoperable now. We have means to expose the few remaining mines that the US gave to them.
I have to take issue with you over this; I don't believe that the point of Craig's post is about some governing entity trying to dissuade our 1st amendment rights online, so much as that same government ability to try to persuade other groups to respect our free speech. Take, for instance, ATT@HOME, Microsoft, or AOL. If there is nothing tangible about their actions over the web, what court can stop them from infringing on our right to free speech? What keeps Cisco from updating IOS to disallow any traffic to './'? What court could Taco go to have this changed....
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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated
Physical security is a good road to go down, but it would be just as easy (if not easier) and cheaper to shove the data onto an encrypted file system, and then only mount the file system twice a month (1st & 15th billing cycle(s). The problem with "disconnected media" is that you have to save a queue of client requests. I'll get more into that in a second. I don't have a great solution on a shoestring budget, but I can point out some things to look for... /. reader saw a story last week about a huge security flaw in the new 9i product (I was personally very saddened by this). You're not going to get rock solid security from Microsoft or from the Open Source applications out there (again I'm talking out of the box). Protecting your customer's data can be a full time job. To truly protect your boxes and your data, you have to be aware of new vulnerabilities. You will need to live a security websites; you will have to dedicate yourself to not installing any new commercial (non-home grown) applications on these boxes without putting them to the test on another system first, and you will have to monitor the activity to that machine with a fine tooth comb every day even when it would seem that nothing bad is ever going to happen to the system. I've seen the best of security measures crumble because tech's to did security gat a false sense of security because they where used to not being attacked.
First define your goals from the customer side. Do you want to allow your customers to decide what day of the month their CC will be billed? Do you want the customer to be able to change their CC#? Do you want the customer to be able to pay for 2/3/6/9/12 months in advance? Do you want to allow you customer to select an option to only 'bill once'? The goal of your application will determine how you store you sensitive data. Someone who wants a 12-month subscription and would like to use the 'bill once' option tends to be okay with updating his/her records every billing cycle. While the month to month guy doesn't want tge hassle from a reputable company.
Also consider (in the case of removable media) that if a customer wants to cancel their account, you as a company want to get rid of their data like a hot potato. If you have to wait for the next tape to be inserted to remove that account, you are still liable for their data. And that is an expense that no company wants or needs. Client request queue's are cumbersome to manage, usually rely on unstable environments, and are certainly not ideal for security. If you had to wait on a tape to mount to add a new account, where are you going to store that account's information until the tape gets inserted? I would think that in any case no matter what the requirements are, a removable media solution is out of the question.
While I'm on the subject, let me point out that nobody is going to do this for you out of the box. The commercial says that 95% of top 60 E-businesses run Oracle, and yet every regular
"We haven't been attacked, so we probably never will be.", "they don't know we are here.", and "My machine isn't really connected to the internet." may be statements that is true enough, but that doeesn't allow you to rest on your laurels. Security though Obscurity doesn't work. Trust me, if they want to, they can come though your firewall (usually a Trojan), around/into your NAT tables, and into that box that isn't really on the internet. I don't know of a security tool that can't be fooled (except a person that can make on the fly decisions).
So we come back to 'out of the box security tools'. The correct way to modify them is with education about them. The more you get to know about your firewall(s), and your router(s), or your web server(s), and your [insert long list of hardware/software widgets here], the easier it will be to understand how to protect yourself. It wouldn't hurt to pay for a class on how to make modifications, as this would give you the voice of someone with a broad experience in dealing with your tools.
So, My answer to your question, as long and rambling as it may be, is pretty simple. Stay away from Microsoft OS's as their security holes are much more publicized to the general public than that of the UNIX/Linux world. Use a peer system with ALLOW/DENY rules setup in your boxes. Have your content server(s) connected to a broker server that can then connect to your database. Never access your data on the database from any other machine (no remote ODBC, TNS, etc...). Have the database do it's own lookups and queries. Then use some form of encrypted communications to relay information from the database to the broker. The broker should make an intelligent decision as how and where that data gets sent. If you connect to the clearinghouse via TCP/IP, then have the Broker hand off the data, and not the content server. As far as a customer is concerned all of this is transparent. To the cracker there are layers of walls to break in order to get to the data.
I would love to promote the software that you should run on the Broker machine, but contractually I cannot. Remember as you look for, or develop your broker machine that THAT machine is your security backbone, and should be treated if it was your daughter. I hope this helps, and I wish you the best of luck with your endeavor
Oh yeah, Mr pissy pants? Just think, about what poor Mr. Rhys Weatherly would think if he read your post. No pull your skirt back down, an quite showing everyone your 'I hate microsoft' panties.
We all know your an angry geek with a flamethrougher for fingers, but sit back and imagie that if Mr. Weatherly wasn't busy with his colossal waste of time he could be a microsoft helping get the product ready to go out the door. You think guys like Weatherly will ever go java? no! it's not in thier blood. So if some can't go java, let them do what they need to add something (no matter how little) to help with linux.
Oh yeah, by the way, what have you contributed?
wow, I never thought I would use a slashdot artical as a way to have a chat with someone, but it's like chrismas when a user posts a reply. And the stroy is so old that the moderators will never waste their points modding me off topic (something tells me I'll have -1 off topic before the hour is out). I have had moderator access a couple of times, and I always use my points to mod up (reward a good post). I read on the moderator's how-to page that there is not much point in modding down, so I avoid it knowing that someone else will come along and take care of it. So I think that my judicial use of my limited power is justified, and I dout that I will ever be ranked among those that abuse the right.
However, I have a question about Karma points, and it would seem that you have some knowledge of the operation of such things. I often hear of KarmaWhores, and this thing called a KarmaCap. I can guess by context what a KarmaWhore is. I'm guessing that there is a style of post that mod's like, and people post this type of message for no other reason than to get the extra points. (Sig 11). But it is the KarmaCap that I find hard to figure out. Is there a number that one tops out as? Is there a total number of points that you can get to, and then you can't go any higher? If so what is it, and if not, what is a KarmaCap?
I don't expect you to know, or answer, but I tought that sence you get updates when a reply to a post happens, this might be a good way to ask.
Thanks in advance for any attention that you might put into a reply.
(Yes I know that I can't spell... I'm over it already)
wow, that bitchslap page is quite a tell...
The answer the quick question is 'No'. Handspring, and other PalmOS licensers will not have to shell out any more for devices already sold.
Xerox will no doubt sue Palm/3Com, and if patent laws hold up in court, 3Com will have to pay Xerox restitution for damages. Usually far greater than the profit that was made selling the infringed patent. While the Judge will corn hole 3Com, hand spring and co. have done their jobs. they paid the fees, and so no past infringement judgment will be past to them.
Now to the answer all are wondering. Will the devices cost more. Again the answer is 'No'. 3Com will be left with two options, (both of which will be profitable to Xerox) One is for 3com to stop using UniStroke, a little R&D will produce a nice little keyboard, or Two, 3Com will pay the license fee for the use of the patent.
Option two may seem like it would raise the price of the units, but the actual OS cost passed to the consumer is not worth noticing. Actually what will happen is companies like hand spring will license the UniStroke straight from Xerox and actually lower the cost of the unit.
Fair enough, but want about |\/|icrosoft, M1CR050f7 (or how ever that translates in to 1EE7 speak, or microsucks. What about Marcosoft, Micro-Soft, or Micronsoft. Where legaly is the line drawn. My question is about the law, but about personal opinion. Although if your opinion is anti M$ in nature, I would love to hear it.
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I would not buy them in the rain,
I would not buy them on a train,
I would not could not with a mouse,
I would not could not with in a house,
I DO NOT want WMP technology in my DVD player... sam I am!
Hey I was just wondering, were do you park your car at night? If you could, include the address, color, make, model, and licence #. I juat wanted to test your statment...
Thanks
Call now, only a limited supply remain...
Introducing the EncryptoFax 10000.
This fax machine ensures 168bit Secure POTs Communications, add to that PGP Fax option to secure the content of your fax. Our patent pending technology grabs new Public/Private keys out of it's own butt, and will work with Phone line. This fax machine will automatically (and instantly) route your direct dial phone call around network problems, and will leave a message on the phone switch just this side of it's destination, so when the person you are sending the fax to gets off the phone, your fax will be delivered by the receiver's own service provider. Also, call now, and we will through in physical security. No need to run to the Fax machine every ten minutes to keep somebody from picking up/reading you secure fax. This fax machine will bind your papers in a iron box password protected and hold onto the box until your credentials are put in...
The number is 555-
Please, tell me again how the fax is inherently more secure?
AT&T owns a high speed cable network. @Home was set up to provide Account Administration,Billing services, customer support, and content. There are more things that @Home provided, and there are sub categorys of the things that I've listed here. One of the most important things IMHO was mail/news/web/etc servers for thier customers. @Home was a service provider, and AT&T was the VAR, or Delivery guy, or what ever...
Okay, I guess now is a good time to float the idea of a product I am designing, and plan to bring to market. I am still in the R&D phase, so if you want more information, your will have to wait until I type up the white paper and post it to my web site. open source of course.
I am designing a box for the trunk of a car.
Yes, of course this sounds corny, and you think that you will never see it, but I plan on offering an at cost + Shipping and Handling kit version of it within 10 weeks. Right now I'm working on the in car control portion of the unit. I am torn between the higher price of a SVGA LCD, or the lower prices (also lower feature) 2X40 LCD and fixed function buttons. As I resolve my issues I will post them to my web site.
The Idea behind this, is that if market saturation was high enough the system would become autonomous. It would become a mobile hardware version of P2P. Automatically transferring and saving your favorite songs. For the most part untouchable by RIAA. The device would be hard to trace, because the completely legal versions of the units that I would sell, would do all the transmission and receiving. To an agent that happen to be listening for FM broadcast, the scopes would only find a 3 Watt signal that refused to interfere with already established communications on FM Channels. Transmissions over the 802.11b channels will be 128bit encrypted, and so it wouldn't matter what someone overheard. I don't know, It all seems nice in my head, what to do you guys think
This is the part where I float the question. Should I continue on my quest? Would anyone pay the estimated $500 - $700 to have this type of system? Is free music and the freedom of the road worth any money?
My wife and I will have pair, and I may never be able to connect/listen to someone else's box, but I really think the idea is cool.
Yes, I am fat.
/. a lot. You should know by now, there is nothing that feeds us like making targets like you cry... is that a whimper I hear?
...problem I have with that disorder I was telling you about, see, when I have trouble processing...
Bingo!!!
I admit to it and don't have a problem admitting that I have a problem.
You call it a problem, and then you go on to say "If I was worried about how big I am, I would probably exercise more..." I'm gessing it might be more of a problem then you think. Don't take my word for it, ask your Johnson. You may need to use a phone to talk to it, and you might want to send it a Hallmark card or something first. My guess is you haven't seen it in a while. I bet it's pretty mad.
I am not the sloth...
LIAR!!!
I eat salads, vegetables, white meat, whole wheat bread, etc. I am not the pig-out fat guy you think I am, I just happen to be large.
What a whiney little b*tch. Don't tell us about your problem. We don't want to know. We just want to laugh at your feeble attempts to regain some self esteem. Something tells me you read
I am 6'2 and weigh about 285 lbs. Most people think that I weigh about 225 because of my large frame.
Again, LIAR!!!!
Go home and cry to your mother.
I have made efforts to get out and exercise more, but it is not high on my priorities list.
Surprise? No.
Maybe I need to change this, but I haven't had the time lately. I have the ability, I used to lug myself on 7 and 14 mile hikes, but once you enter the real world and have to get a job, it can be hard to get away if that is not something you love to do.
You call 285 living in the real world? I think characters that round are usually in the comic strips.
Is this the point in which I should start to cry? Cause my reaction is more along the lines of laugh. You are a sad little ^H^H^H^H er big man. However, I enjoy watching you wallow in your own pity. I wish there where more of you. I need more targets like you to hone my talons. Practice makes perfect, and I can't wait to find your next post.
Understand that you started this, and I have nothing but time to point out your flaws. So long as you keep'em coming.
Thanks for a great day.
Wait just a minute! Before you go off on rant, you might want to know why someone like me would have written something like that. However, I don't have the patients to explain it someone like you, so you'll just have to deal with it.
... ... What?
...ready to hand you your ass on a plate. (Why can't it be me?)
Now, while your diatribe was (cute?) it concerns me. I'm not going to call it slander, but you obviously don't know me. I have never slurped a noodle. However judging by your incessant (flaming?) rage, and the fact that the first sentence is an overt sexual innuendo, I'm sure you know something about that. It's okay, I'm not the type to poke fun at others, but I digress.
I am stooping down to your puny-brained level and speaking in a language that you can understand
Thanks I guess, it gets lonely down here, and its refreshing to hear such clear English. It was concise and easily understood. You've truly made my day.
Why don't you take your puny little ass and go throw it off a cliff along with all your other worthless ass, braindead friends
My, My. Now I'm not a physicist, but how exactly can one 'throw' ones self? It would seem some sort of impossibility. This perplexes me. However, I did notice the reference to my posterior. Freudian Slip? I think not. I really would appreciate it if you could please cease your admiration of my anatomy.
Now as to all my " worthless ass, braindead friends"...
Put yourself out of the gene pool so you cannot pass your utter stupidity on to the next generation
Ouch! To late, I have a 3 yr old little girl already, and if you check, you might find that I left a 'Best of Breed' in the womb of your mommy. Think about it. She's such a sweet heart.
I know, I know, you're probably just some little fourteen year old, pimply kid...
Yeah, that's it. I wish I were fourteen again. I wouldn't have to come to this dreary (albeit well paying) job, with nothing to do except draw a check, and post reply comment to ubbers like you.
but if you keep talking like that about someone who weighs only 200 lbs
350lbs! Please, read the comment.
Again with the homo thing... I get it, I'm not interested. Flattered, but really really not in to that.
Well, I hope you have a pleasant day
Oh, you have no idea. I'll enjoy spending the rest of my day showing my co-workers how angry a little gay man can get, and how much time he can spend on something so stupid.
and remember, even though you may think I'll have to catch you to **** your ass first, remember, you have to sleep sometime.
Enough already!!!! I'm not into that.
Or, you could read the pretty flash images that says it can support the weight of 3 SUVs. Your rotund ass couldn't be as bad as that.
But alas, bellys as round as yours should forgo ANY mode of assisted transportation. Try travel via Doc. Martin.
a black hole which would fall into the center of the Earth and consume it. ... even if it did make a black hole it would be a small one that would "evaporate" instead of being able to grow and consume the Earth.
/. articals about mining the moon/astroids/meteors/rosie o'donald huge ass. Wouldn't that be a great way to punch the holes to the payload? I might be on the wrong track. I have never accused of being right in the head
I'm not up on black holes, but does the black hole eat it way to the center of the earth? Like consume all the engery/matter/stuff in it's path? If this was the case, and using the black hole as a source of energy was a concern, couldn't we use black holes, to drill for resources that are deep below the earths crust/mantle/core? Better Yet, I've seen
See, that's YOUR opinion...
and a fact
You have to be careful what you market to /.'ers. I would hate to see it jump the shark
stern fans will understand
Remember the word emulation. You might want to look it up, it's really important to the discussion here. You're concerns about power are 'cute' at best. Boring, and poorly planned describe it better.
First off, let me quail your jabber. Have you noticed that Intel's Pentium Processors consume more power than the Transmeta chips? Follow my logic here, if the Transmeta chips can emulate the x86 chips while using less power, couldn't they emulate Alpha chips and continue with the lower power consumption trend? OH YEAH!!! That sounds right, huh? (clues are free, you should get one before you try to rip me a new a-hole.)
Now, the history of Alpha, as I remember it (I only worked on the test team for 3yrs) was to be able to handle multiple architectural chip emulation simultaneously. Now imagine that. A chip that was designed to emulate multiple chips, and a chip that emulates other types of chips.
Yeah, I see some kind of promise in that merge.
They could have. R&D on 64 bit imulation chips proved cost proibitive. This will be another company that had very valuable parts, but the parts didn't complement each other. The buyer will more than likly brake up the company and sell the parts for more than the whole.
I wish they had been able to buy aplha's tech. It seems like they could have used it.
>two powerful air conditioners in my living room
How in the hell would you know what your computers even sound like?
>I'm too busy drooling
Is the drooling caused by the same brain damage that made you post this self defecating garbage?
>I don't think it's loud
Great, your retarded AND deaf
You honestly expect me to care?
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
Also, please note that our forces are well equipped to deal with mines of that nature. The HTQ-67 & 68 land mines that the Soviets placed are expected to be 99% inoperable now. We have means to expose the few remaining mines that the US gave to them.
I have to take issue with you over this; I don't believe that the point of Craig's post is about some governing entity trying to dissuade our 1st amendment rights online, so much as that same government ability to try to persuade other groups to respect our free speech. Take, for instance, ATT@HOME, Microsoft, or AOL. If there is nothing tangible about their actions over the web, what court can stop them from infringing on our right to free speech? What keeps Cisco from updating IOS to disallow any traffic to './'? What court could Taco go to have this changed....