To truly certify software as secure is a very huge task. It assumes you understand and have validated every single state the machine can be in, which is practically infinite. Even the state of the power button matters.
I really hate the false sense of (ahem) security that certification gives. They're trying to assure the software is secure, which to is almost an impossible task for any non-trivial system. Anybody who says a system is secure is lying to themselves and others.
With things this complex, security can only be approximated.
Of course, you can certify a design as secure with much less effort but it's the implementation that matters the most.
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Did anybody else find this text at the bottom of the article from Apple funny?
"APPLE EYES ONLY Information section - Apple Need-To-Know Confidential"
Of course, the biggest disadvantage is that mercury is highly toxic.
The second biggest advantage is that even though you have 100 times more telescopes, you have 100 times more devices to monitor. Instead, build a single telescope that can watch 100 times more sky.
First, even though you had to sign over the rights to the invention I do not believe this obligates you to sign a patent.
Second, I would point out to the company that I can only sign for things I have invented and no more. If necessary, even use words like "I do not wish to commit fraud by saying I invented air."
They recommend using PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) transceivers to minimize interference among the many controllers around the competition.
This is a bogus reason, PCM is just as susceptible to interferance as PPM. They're both just different modulation forms of FM.
PCM is, however, sometimes a little better at masking the interference by ignoring signals it can't recognize, but it doesn't mean you still have control.
not decided which university will perform the review, and no information was given on who at the university will actually be performing the review.
Who will do the review is simple: it will be an undercover agent placed in the university to watch the rebelious students. It will help that the agent is probably a network administrator because having access to tap the network makes spying sooo much easier.
Why are these things so popular? Simple, because we all have favorite games and fondly remember the ones that drew us in and kept us up at night. The newer games have multimedia product value up to your artistic assets, but almost none of them seem to be able to push the same adrenaline buttons.
For me, it was Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Dungeon Master on the Amiga. Or Doom, Wing Commander 3 and Half-Life on the PC. Or Avenger on the VIC-20.
We want to experience the same rush we did the first time around, but it's just never the same. Much like your first kiss, even if the second is exactly the same, the experience has lost some of it's magic.
Go play Pong or Gorf. I'm going to go find something I haven't done and expand my experiences.
Carnivore is a crackers dream come true. Imagine a remotely accessible box designed specifically for sniffing and that is required by law.
It's obvious that these boxes will be cracked one day, it's just a mater of time. Carnivore is still just a computer with software written by humans.
Any ISP would be right to refuse a black box on their network. They even might be able to argue that it can unreasonably impact the safety of their business.
Perhaps he has already thought of the escrow idea. Once the initial portion of the novel is out you can bet people will want to pre-order, and Amazon will be happy to take their money. He may have his required cash for the third novel before it's even "published".
Honestly, any predictions of what is going to happen is just a wild guess about uncharted territory. People don't think in terms of the Prisoners Dillema, and if they did everybody would just stop paying once that magic $100,000 point was reached.
I say, just wait and see. The worst thing that happens is it doesn't work and the experiment fails. That's all, no collapse of civilization.
Interesting approach. I remember when I had my Amiga someone wrote a version of Life that was faster than anybody thought was even theoretically possible from an ~7 MhZ processor.
The key was that he didn't use the processor at all. Instead, he took advantage of the blitter coprocessor (copper) and it's ability to bitmask things together and move data. Quite clever.
Yes, the current video cards have massive speciallized processors. I guess the question is that are they so specialized that they make approximations about geometry and color that would make other uses difficult?
What is really happening is parents rights are being taken away. Parents are loosing their right to decide what is appropriate for their own children.
Yes.
The fact is, some parents aren't capable or are unwilling to decide what is appropriate for their children.
The role of government should be to set basic minimum standards about what is appropriate, if for no other reason than to protect the children without caring parents. The problem is that the minimum standard is very debatable and somewhat arbitrary.
Having a forced rating system sucks. But so would being a parent who didn't care enough to keep you innocent for at least a little while.
Did SoF cross the line into being something that isn't appropriate for any child? Do the fact it's pixels instead of video change the appropriateness? I really don't know.
Disclaimer: I living in BC, Quake with the best of 'em, and have no kids (yet).
Every thing I have read dances around the real issue: <b>Do pixels have a different meaning than video?</b>
If as much blood and guts and animal cruelty was portrayed in a fictional film it would probably get a similar rating. Even Rambo and Saving Private Ryan didn't have as much gore.
So why are pixels so precious? The game is fictional, just like film, yet we cry fowl when ratings are imposed on games and don't make a peep for movies.
It can't be that we control the game but videos are passive. If anything it makes it worse. Think like Beavis and Butthead ("heh heh, he's grabbin' his groin! heh Stab him again! heh heh ).
I personally think a "R" rating may be more appropriate as an advisory for parents, but that doesn't change the fact are hypocrites when we treat pixels different than video.
Really, it's hard to tell. I think the aerodynamic forces at Mach 4 may be more important than silly old gravity. The effect of lift generated from the low-pressure region the craft is tilted away from may be enough to coorece it back by itself. In essence, the tilt makes it behave like a big wing.
It might work, it might not. The question is why doesn't this guy build a prototype before strapping himself into it? Make in 1/10th scale and see what happens.
You avoid death by doing a prototype - releasing a sucky graphics engine because you discovered voxels have unmaskable artifacts half-way through would get you lynched. (hypothetical example)
The x86 is hardly obsolete, except maybe in our own little world. For parts of the world that don't have the income to lease a new SUV every two years, the cheap x86 clones are cutting-edge technology and will continue to be around for quite a long time.
It's cool to have newer, faster, better hardware but does it actually let you get more work done or have more fun? For a few individuals, yes, but the vast majority of us have had computers faster than we can type for a long, long time.
Don't make something obsolete when something better comes along - make it obsolete when it ceases to be useful. I still use a 486 as a simple mail and web server just fine, thank you.
I bought a motorcycle and went to get a learner's permit. They said I had a speeding ticket that needed to be paid, from a city I have never driven in 1000 km and a ferry ride away.
After some digging and waiting it turned out the ticket was for someone with the same last name and a drivers license number similar to mine.
When I wrote a formal complaint that it wasn't me they sent the form back saying I needed to "nominate" the person who was actually doing the driving. How do I know, I wasn't there?! And they could see from the ticket the guy signed that it obviously wasn't me!
So I sent another letter politely explaining that the person processing the form must have been slightly drunk, and the ticket was promptly removed from my file.
My wife and I are adopting soon, and a criminal record check is required. I've never done anything that would cause me to have a record, but for some reason this story makes me nervous.
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I've been quite happy with Canada Trusts web banking and it seems to work fine under Linux and Solaris.
However, Canada Trust just merged with Toronto Dominion. With any luck, they'll both start using the Canada Trust web banking (EasyWeb).
Extinction is permanent, so if it something can be brought back is it really extinction?
"No," said the Parrot ", I'm just resting".
The registration is for the NY Times article. The "directly to the site" link has absolute nothing to do with getting around registering at NY Times.
To truly certify software as secure is a very huge task. It assumes you understand and have validated every single state the machine can be in, which is practically infinite. Even the state of the power button matters.
I really hate the false sense of (ahem) security that certification gives. They're trying to assure the software is secure, which to is almost an impossible task for any non-trivial system. Anybody who says a system is secure is lying to themselves and others.
With things this complex, security can only be approximated.
Of course, you can certify a design as secure with much less effort but it's the implementation that matters the most.
Did anybody else find this text at the bottom of the article from Apple funny?
"APPLE EYES ONLY Information section - Apple Need-To-Know Confidential"
Of course, the biggest disadvantage is that mercury is highly toxic.
The second biggest advantage is that even though you have 100 times more telescopes, you have 100 times more devices to monitor. Instead, build a single telescope that can watch 100 times more sky.
First, even though you had to sign over the rights to the invention I do not believe this obligates you to sign a patent.
Second, I would point out to the company that I can only sign for things I have invented and no more. If necessary, even use words like "I do not wish to commit fraud by saying I invented air."
They recommend using PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) transceivers to minimize interference among the many controllers around the competition.
This is a bogus reason, PCM is just as susceptible to interferance as PPM. They're both just different modulation forms of FM.
PCM is, however, sometimes a little better at masking the interference by ignoring signals it can't recognize, but it doesn't mean you still have control.
Pet names are not new. Think biff.
No, silly, submaries ping.
not decided which university will perform the review, and no information was given on who at the university will actually be performing the review.
Who will do the review is simple: it will be an undercover agent placed in the university to watch the rebelious students. It will help that the agent is probably a network administrator because having access to tap the network makes spying sooo much easier.
Why are these things so popular? Simple, because we all have favorite games and fondly remember the ones that drew us in and kept us up at night. The newer games have multimedia product value up to your artistic assets, but almost none of them seem to be able to push the same adrenaline buttons.
For me, it was Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Dungeon Master on the Amiga. Or Doom, Wing Commander 3 and Half-Life on the PC. Or Avenger on the VIC-20.
We want to experience the same rush we did the first time around, but it's just never the same. Much like your first kiss, even if the second is exactly the same, the experience has lost some of it's magic.
Go play Pong or Gorf. I'm going to go find something I haven't done and expand my experiences.
Carnivore is a crackers dream come true. Imagine a remotely accessible box designed specifically for sniffing and that is required by law.
It's obvious that these boxes will be cracked one day, it's just a mater of time. Carnivore is still just a computer with software written by humans.
Any ISP would be right to refuse a black box on their network. They even might be able to argue that it can unreasonably impact the safety of their business.
Ah yes, another classic Simpsons moment. On-topic even.
Perhaps he has already thought of the escrow idea. Once the initial portion of the novel is out you can bet people will want to pre-order, and Amazon will be happy to take their money. He may have his required cash for the third novel before it's even "published".
Honestly, any predictions of what is going to happen is just a wild guess about uncharted territory. People don't think in terms of the Prisoners Dillema, and if they did everybody would just stop paying once that magic $100,000 point was reached.
I say, just wait and see. The worst thing that happens is it doesn't work and the experiment fails. That's all, no collapse of civilization.
Interesting approach. I remember when I had my Amiga someone wrote a version of Life that was faster than anybody thought was even theoretically possible from an ~7 MhZ processor.
The key was that he didn't use the processor at all. Instead, he took advantage of the blitter coprocessor (copper) and it's ability to bitmask things together and move data. Quite clever.
Yes, the current video cards have massive speciallized processors. I guess the question is that are they so specialized that they make approximations about geometry and color that would make other uses difficult?
What is really happening is parents rights are being taken away. Parents are loosing their right to decide what is appropriate for their own children.
Yes.
The fact is, some parents aren't capable or are unwilling to decide what is appropriate for their children.
The role of government should be to set basic minimum standards about what is appropriate, if for no other reason than to protect the children without caring parents. The problem is that the minimum standard is very debatable and somewhat arbitrary.
Having a forced rating system sucks. But so would being a parent who didn't care enough to keep you innocent for at least a little while.
Did SoF cross the line into being something that isn't appropriate for any child? Do the fact it's pixels instead of video change the appropriateness? I really don't know.
Disclaimer: I living in BC, Quake with the best of 'em, and have no kids (yet).
Every thing I have read dances around the real issue: <b>Do pixels have a different meaning than video?</b>
If as much blood and guts and animal cruelty was portrayed in a fictional film it would probably get a similar rating. Even Rambo and Saving Private Ryan didn't have as much gore.
So why are pixels so precious? The game is fictional, just like film, yet we cry fowl when ratings are imposed on games and don't make a peep for movies.
It can't be that we control the game but videos are passive. If anything it makes it worse. Think like Beavis and Butthead ("heh heh, he's grabbin' his groin! heh Stab him again! heh heh ).
I personally think a "R" rating may be more appropriate as an advisory for parents, but that doesn't change the fact are hypocrites when we treat pixels different than video.
pee colon
No snickering!
Really, it's hard to tell. I think the aerodynamic forces at Mach 4 may be more important than silly old gravity. The effect of lift generated from the low-pressure region the craft is tilted away from may be enough to coorece it back by itself. In essence, the tilt makes it behave like a big wing.
It might work, it might not. The question is why doesn't this guy build a prototype before strapping himself into it? Make in 1/10th scale and see what happens.
You avoid death by doing a prototype - releasing a sucky graphics engine because you discovered voxels have unmaskable artifacts half-way through would get you lynched. (hypothetical example)
Excellent! A few very simple bits of sed or Perl and I can turn must C# programs into Java. :-)
Hey, I was just looking for a colo in Vancouver,BC... email with info to sheldon_young@yahoo.com. Thanks.
Oh come on now, let's be Realistic. :-)
I hope Realistic isn't just a Canadian Radio Shack brand or I'll look pretty foolish. I guess for the Americans I can always do:
Oh come on now, let's be Optimustic.
The x86 is hardly obsolete, except maybe in our own little world. For parts of the world that don't have the income to lease a new SUV every two years, the cheap x86 clones are cutting-edge technology and will continue to be around for quite a long time.
It's cool to have newer, faster, better hardware but does it actually let you get more work done or have more fun? For a few individuals, yes, but the vast majority of us have had computers faster than we can type for a long, long time.
Don't make something obsolete when something better comes along - make it obsolete when it ceases to be useful. I still use a 486 as a simple mail and web server just fine, thank you.
I bought a motorcycle and went to get a learner's permit. They said I had a speeding ticket that needed to be paid, from a city I have never driven in 1000 km and a ferry ride away.
After some digging and waiting it turned out the ticket was for someone with the same last name and a drivers license number similar to mine.
When I wrote a formal complaint that it wasn't me they sent the form back saying I needed to "nominate" the person who was actually doing the driving. How do I know, I wasn't there?! And they could see from the ticket the guy signed that it obviously wasn't me!
So I sent another letter politely explaining that the person processing the form must have been slightly drunk, and the ticket was promptly removed from my file.
My wife and I are adopting soon, and a criminal record check is required. I've never done anything that would cause me to have a record, but for some reason this story makes me nervous.