If most of the people you know uses linux and/or are consient about virus, the most probable way for getting the virus is by a careles spammer that has your email in his list.
Or maybe you could get by a list server, a friend of mine got a copy from a list of windows developers. I think it is was cbuider, or something list. Thats for people who think that developers know better.:-P
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I must disagree with you. In my humble opinon a good programer makes realy good apps, and a good suits sell apps (it dosen't realy matter if the app is good or not).
I'm not even sure if a good app makes the life of a suit easier. But I am pretty sure that bells and whistles does make their life easier, and that is why Windows, witch is lousy software that happens to be good enough for a lot of people, is so full of those.
As for following demands, it is my opinion that a good seler creates a demand and not the other way. "oh you don't know how easy your life will after you company gets the new XYZ2000+ new edition"
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
There is a one hundred percent secure criptography called one time tab that consists in choosing a random key of the size of the message you want to transmit. If you can transmit the key securly you can then simply add the key to the message and only the person who has the key can unencript the message (even if an atacker knows part of the message). Without any knowledge of the keysize or the algorithm this could be easely be a one time pad of some sort. -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The bonobo is not yet out. But since I believe it is one of the hottest feature of gnome 2.0 it is a very expected package (by me at least).
My question is about how it will work with non gnome applications. Since it is free software it will, and already have, an open interface, but usualy this is not enougth. Will bonobo interact with other document apis like the one that the KDE folks are working on or even ole and open-doc? -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Does the ps2pdf has "security" features of PDF? This is the main feature of PDF in the opinion of many people. They want to protect their document against print/copy. Of course this protections are limited, but people don't know that, and that is the point. If ps2pdf has those features then it is a winner and could be used by those people I mentioned, otherwise there still a need for a distiler for linux.
By the way I am not an expert in PDF, so how secure are those features anyway? Is the information encripted in any any way in the PDF file? Or is this simply a bit in a fixed position tha says "can copy" and other "can print".
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I can't figure out why this companies goes into the trouble of creating a list of censor URLs when those lists are created only with the aid of bot. The company would profit much more if they simply incorporated the bot/spider into a proxy and it would test every page seen to check if the bot would have it classified as censored, if so it would show a censored page instead. The error rate would be the same and you won't need to manage a ever changing url database of thousands or even millions of URLs. And the best part is that this would work on new pages that were created after the DB was collected, or before the spider find the site.
If you add a table of exceptions then you could lower the error rate, and considering that the spider is good in what it does this would be a much smaller DB.
Of course all I said is only when there is no human interface with the DB, if this spider work by selecting site to be censored so that a Human could review it before actualy cansoring it, then all my arguments above areuseless.:-)
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This is only true if the encription on the monitor is diferent from the encription on the DVD. Once this monitors are common they could change the usual CSS (witch is already broken) with the new encripted monitor signal. It would faster, since the monitor must decript this very fast to be able to display at all, and would not require any CPU from the computer. It would also be easy to play DVD from linux (cat/dev/dvd/dev/encript_monitor?) or any OS for that matter.
The problem I see is that public/private key are very slow to ancript/decript and for that kind of speed it would be very hard to implement. This monitor would have to accept a simetric key that is good for both encription and decription, since the OS must display data in the monitor it would alsready have a key and a encription algorithm. It would be fairly easy to create a brute force atack to the monitor to find out all keys that it recognizes. Am I way off here?
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
If I remember correctly those certificates have laminated holograms, rigth? I think that those when shredded would develop cutting edges that would hurt your hamster, I would be careful.
Hummm, cutting edge that is a danger to someone's health, I guess this look's a lot like what windows after all.:-)
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Wrong, the paying customer has access to a faster server (well, it must be faster after all it is only being acessed by payer custumers). It is like those special lines for customers of service XYZ.
Also this is only true if you're using the automatic updater. Witch is nice but is not realy a wow program.
Red hat releases their fixpack in a public server that is mirrowed by n other publicaly acessed servers. I usualy update my host and I am not a paying customer.:-)
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The article is speaking about thermo-dynamics time-arrow. It basicly says that if one could impose a future boundary condition to a system, as in convincing the air that it should be in the 5 cubic cm in five minutes, the air would act as if it were going back in time in the thermo-dymanic sense.
Well until now there is no problem, since you're forcing the particles to go back in time (in the thermo dynamic sense). But the amazing thing is that regions where future condition could co-exist with regions with past conditions and exchange information without damaging the time arrows.
Well matter going from chaos to order is reverse time in the thermo dynamic sense, but as said there are other ways to define time. For instance you can define past everything that you can remember. The passage of time can be defined by memory and you percieve time passing by comparing what you see with your memory of a few seconds ago.
Even time units are defined by "memory", since they are defined by events that repeat, like for instance the tic-tac of a clock. You can only define this because you have some kind of memory that this event has happen before.
Now my question for the author of this article would be, if someone would step into erverse time regions, would this unfurtunate person begin to forget past events, as it grows younger? That would be in my definition of time a reversed time arrow. If this is true in both directions, than would this be enougth to prove that the two time arrows are in fact one?
Please notice that my definition of memory is more abrangent than simply biological, it could mean computer memory or any other way to store information. -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
IRC bots are one thing, they must reply on demand, usualy with a setence or two. Now picture a email bot that would answer email, it would have more time to "think" but it would have to create a much bigger and conviceble text.
I would picture the bot making web research to answer emails. This would be cool.:-) -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I used to think that our civilization would leave more info about itself then any other. But when I started to think about it I quickly realized that most of the data is in degradable media. And the problem is getting worst, today most of the data we store is in digital format and usualy compressed. Compressed data usualy looks like random bits and even a few bits missing could render the data useless.
Some of the data is already encripted like DVDs (ok bad encription, but it is encription), and soon the USA will make it even easier to everyone encript data by relaxing even more the cripto police.
Also the media is evolving, but usualy it is to accomodate more data. The durability of the data is usualy less important, if the media can survive 5 years then it is more then enouth (after all in 5 years this media will be obsolete).
So what is the memory that our civilization will leave for the future archeology? Tiny little disks, with 1000s of terabytes of encripted and compressed data that will be probably half damaged. Even if they could read the data, remember that is probably in almost atomic level, it would require to find the algoritm of decompression and decription and a key.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Well I guess you're probably rigth but the article does have some interesting points and I guess that at least your example is, in my opinion, wrong. After all I think that a compiler usualy knows the range of the data, at least in strong typed languages like C. Of course there are variations in plataforms but usualy there are aways a way to say that a certain variable is 8, 16 or 32 bits long. So all the compiler have to do is to use the correct type, and the compiler will use the correct register size.
Well, also I understand your point and I am shure there are more then 10000 cases that a human should know his program better then the compiler, after all he is inteligent. But then again there is always ways to make the program easier to be optimized by the compiler.
What I mean here is that, probably, the compilers could create programs that are much faster then they create today. And I am shure that there could be standard ways to hint the compiler what the programer wants with his code so that the compiler could create even more optimization.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Linux is free software and it's success is vital for free-software. So I belive that these anouncements are vital to the success of linux and since linux is vital to success of free software. These annoucements are realy important to free software.:-)
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
When I heard about their full suport to linux I went after info on my scanner (IBM idea scanner) linux suport. Their web site is a maze but I manage to find a suport mail form, I mailed my question and they ansawered that my scanner don't have or will have linux support. I am really pissed off. -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The problem is that no matter how well you hid the key. To use the key you must unhid and decript it into the memory, memory that sometimes is actualy a swap space on the HD, witch usualy is not erased properly after releasing the memory. Got it?
Even if the memory is in actual memory, there are tools to scan the memory itself, all you need is the correct rigths.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I read the article in the nCifer site. And by the looks of it you must have the ability to run software on the server to be able to actualy find a key.
The vulnability described is a way to scan memory and finding a private key in the middle of it. Since most servers, even the NT ones:-), have strict security on who can run and who can access memory this would be no problem for most of the server.
The major problem I see is the virtual servers that hold many sites into a single machine. Every site owner have access to run programs in the machine, if those sites are not properly secured one site owner could be able to exploit some known hole to be able to scan memory is search for other site owner's keys.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
There are simetric encription smart cards that have the capacity of creating/storing a pair of public/private key and is only possible to read the public one from the outside-world.
Unfortunaly some of those were already cracked by the use of high-precision measuraments (I don't know exactly what was being measured) of the device to read the private key. Those cards also have a protection against brute force, if you open them up they would blow them self up.:-) -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The human mind is something that no one realy knows how it works. Do I belive that this games, movies and the like that are violent could make a person go out and kill? Yes and no. This games could influence them as much as tetris or any other game for that matter. Any game have the ability to frustate a player, you probably already felt this way by one or two games. This is also true for movies, a movie could trigger something in one person that wouldn't exist in almost everyone else. A romantic movie could trigger a frustation of a viewer.
Should tertris or the romantic movie be banned? My answer is no, since the danger is in the person and not the game or movie that trigered the reaction. Ban one triger and other thing would trigger the feeling is just a matter of time.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The answer to this is, it will not be enforced. Here in Brasil there are two laws. The one written by the govern and the one written by the people, and by people I am not talking about drug dealers or gangs or any type of criminal characther. The people here does not have knowledge of the laws, this is true even for police man.
To understand Brasil you must understand that the real law here is the "Brasilian way" (to those that understand portuguese this is the "jeitinho Brasileiro"). If you are stoped by a policeman say with maryjuana, what happens? The policeman will terrorize you, but unless you're poor he will not touch you, he might take you to a station where they will terrorize you even more. Then you or your father you pay a beer to the policeman and you are free to go.
I know this sounds off-topic, but it is realy on topic, most of the games here in brazil are actualy non-licensed (this maybe changing now due to terror inflicting campaings in the media like a mouse that the cord is handcuffing the hand that is using it). When the carmagedon, here named armagedon, was forbiden what actualy happend was that the game got more popular then he would ever be.
Then why ban games or anything for that matter? Like many already mentioned before, it is simply a media stunt. And by the way yesterday I went to a mall near my home, and surprize I saw normal store selling quake II and many more violent games.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This post is about the cartoon mentioned above. The cartoon makes the reader believe that the fact that evolution is taught in schools and the fact that schools does not teach religion are to blame for the facts that some kids turn into killer.
This kind of speech make simply mad. I don't have anything against religion itself. What make me realy mad is the way some people uses it to try to silence science.
The fact that some kids in the EUA are turning into killers there is nothing to do with the evolution or the way religion is taughted in schools. In Brasil, where I live, we learn evolution in school and there is no religion in school, unless of course you study in a religious school. We don't have killer kids. I belive that the same is true in almost every other country.
In my opinion, and I am not trying to start a flame war here, is that what turns this kids into murderes are the restriction that they have to live by (this are imposed by the church, by the bullies and now by the FBI). -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This post is about the cartoon mentioned above. The cartoon makes the reader believe that the fact that evolution is taught in schools and the fact that schools does not teach religion are to blame for the facts that some kids turn into killer.
This kind of speech make simply mad. I don't have anything against religion itself. What make me realy mad is the way some people uses it to try to silence science.
The fact that some kids in the EUA are turning into killers there is nothing to do with the evolution or the way religion is taughted in schools. In Brasil, where I live, we learn evolution in school and there is no religion in school, unless of course you study in a religious school. We don't have killer kids. I belive that the same is true in almost every other country.
In my opinion, and I am not trying to start a flame war here, is that what turns this kids into murderes are the restriction that they have to live by (this are imposed by the church, by the bullies and now by the FBI). -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I would like to say that by the same reasoning minors could not modify the program, for this they must agree to the contract, witch they can't. I don't know all the GPL by heart, but I think that it says that every one can modify the program, and here is the catch 22 again.
-- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
A virus could have be written to demonstrate a security flaw. Since for some big companies, like the one we all love, security flaws are only security flaws when there is a exploit available a virus writer could force a patch to be made a real good deed.:-)
seriously though, usualy a virus is not "used" by anyone, the virus infects persons without their knowledge (I myself never saw a pop up "installing virus, please wait...":-) ). Usualy the only person that realy "uses" the virus is the creator itself when he starts the spreading, and in my opinion that is the unlawful action.
Imagine the folloing, someone creates a virus to test a design or a virus-scan technique, uses it in his lab only and never sets it free. Then a lab janitor, that happen to be a cracker, cracks the lab stoles the virus and sets it free. Who is the criminal?
In a few words my opinion is that to code a virus is not a crime itself, but spreading it to world is. -- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
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If most of the people you know uses linux and/or are consient about virus, the most probable way for getting the virus is by a careles spammer that has your email in his list.
:-P
Or maybe you could get by a list server, a friend of mine got a copy from a list of windows developers. I think it is was cbuider, or something list. Thats for people who think that developers know better.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I must disagree with you. In my humble opinon a good programer makes realy good apps, and a good suits sell apps (it dosen't realy matter if the app is good or not).
I'm not even sure if a good app makes the life of a suit easier. But I am pretty sure that bells and whistles does make their life easier, and that is why Windows, witch is lousy software that happens to be good enough for a lot of people, is so full of those.
As for following demands, it is my opinion that a good seler creates a demand and not the other way. "oh you don't know how easy your life will after you company gets the new XYZ2000+ new edition"
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The best way to promote berlin is to port GTK+ and/or qt to it, if you do this you got automagicaly a bunch of application that run on it.
There could be a compatibility layer (reads an X server) that would make all the other work, maybe not as fast, but work.
Done!
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
There is a one hundred percent secure criptography called one time tab that consists in choosing a random key of the size of the message you want to transmit. If you can transmit the key securly you can then simply add the key to the message and only the person who has the key can unencript the message (even if an atacker knows part of the message). Without any knowledge of the keysize or the algorithm this could be easely be a one time pad of some sort.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The bonobo is not yet out. But since I believe it is one of the hottest feature of gnome 2.0 it is a very expected package (by me at least).
My question is about how it will work with non gnome applications. Since it is free software it will, and already have, an open interface, but usualy this is not enougth. Will bonobo interact with other document apis like the one that the KDE folks are working on or even ole and open-doc?
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Does the ps2pdf has "security" features of PDF? This is the main feature of PDF in the opinion of many people. They want to protect their document against print/copy. Of course this protections are limited, but people don't know that, and that is the point. If ps2pdf has those features then it is a winner and could be used by those people I mentioned, otherwise there still a need for a distiler for linux.
By the way I am not an expert in PDF, so how secure are those features anyway? Is the information encripted in any any way in the PDF file? Or is this simply a bit in a fixed position tha says "can copy" and other "can print".
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I can't figure out why this companies goes into the trouble of creating a list of censor URLs when those lists are created only with the aid of bot. The company would profit much more if they simply incorporated the bot/spider into a proxy and it would test every page seen to check if the bot would have it classified as censored, if so it would show a censored page instead. The error rate would be the same and you won't need to manage a ever changing url database of thousands or even millions of URLs. And the best part is that this would work on new pages that were created after the DB was collected, or before the spider find the site.
:-)
If you add a table of exceptions then you could lower the error rate, and considering that the spider is good in what it does this would be a much smaller DB.
Of course all I said is only when there is no human interface with the DB, if this spider work by selecting site to be censored so that a Human could review it before actualy cansoring it, then all my arguments above areuseless.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This is only true if the encription on the monitor is diferent from the encription on the DVD. Once this monitors are common they could change the usual CSS (witch is already broken) with the new encripted monitor signal. It would faster, since the monitor must decript this very fast to be able to display at all, and would not require any CPU from the computer. It would also be easy to play DVD from linux (cat /dev/dvd /dev/encript_monitor?) or any OS for that matter.
The problem I see is that public/private key are very slow to ancript/decript and for that kind of speed it would be very hard to implement. This monitor would have to accept a simetric key that is good for both encription and decription, since the OS must display data in the monitor it would alsready have a key and a encription algorithm. It would be fairly easy to create a brute force atack to the monitor to find out all keys that it recognizes. Am I way off here?
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
If I remember correctly those certificates have laminated holograms, rigth? I think that those when shredded would develop cutting edges that would hurt your hamster, I would be careful.
:-)
Hummm, cutting edge that is a danger to someone's health, I guess this look's a lot like what windows after all.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Wrong, the paying customer has access to a faster server (well, it must be faster after all it is only being acessed by payer custumers). It is like those special lines for customers of service XYZ.
:-)
Also this is only true if you're using the automatic updater. Witch is nice but is not realy a wow program.
Red hat releases their fixpack in a public server that is mirrowed by n other publicaly acessed servers. I usualy update my host and I am not a paying customer.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Well until now there is no problem, since you're forcing the particles to go back in time (in the thermo dynamic sense). But the amazing thing is that regions where future condition could co-exist with regions with past conditions and exchange information without damaging the time arrows.
Well matter going from chaos to order is reverse time in the thermo dynamic sense, but as said there are other ways to define time. For instance you can define past everything that you can remember. The passage of time can be defined by memory and you percieve time passing by comparing what you see with your memory of a few seconds ago.
Even time units are defined by "memory", since they are defined by events that repeat, like for instance the tic-tac of a clock. You can only define this because you have some kind of memory that this event has happen before.
Now my question for the author of this article would be, if someone would step into erverse time regions, would this unfurtunate person begin to forget past events, as it grows younger? That would be in my definition of time a reversed time arrow. If this is true in both directions, than would this be enougth to prove that the two time arrows are in fact one?
Please notice that my definition of memory is more abrangent than simply biological, it could mean computer memory or any other way to store information.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
IRC bots are one thing, they must reply on demand, usualy with a setence or two. Now picture a email bot that would answer email, it would have more time to "think" but it would have to create a much bigger and conviceble text.
:-)
I would picture the bot making web research to answer emails. This would be cool.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Some of the data is already encripted like DVDs (ok bad encription, but it is encription), and soon the USA will make it even easier to everyone encript data by relaxing even more the cripto police.
Also the media is evolving, but usualy it is to accomodate more data. The durability of the data is usualy less important, if the media can survive 5 years then it is more then enouth (after all in 5 years this media will be obsolete).
So what is the memory that our civilization will leave for the future archeology? Tiny little disks, with 1000s of terabytes of encripted and compressed data that will be probably half damaged. Even if they could read the data, remember that is probably in almost atomic level, it would require to find the algoritm of decompression and decription and a key.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Well, also I understand your point and I am shure there are more then 10000 cases that a human should know his program better then the compiler, after all he is inteligent. But then again there is always ways to make the program easier to be optimized by the compiler.
What I mean here is that, probably, the compilers could create programs that are much faster then they create today. And I am shure that there could be standard ways to hint the compiler what the programer wants with his code so that the compiler could create even more optimization.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Linux is free software and it's success is vital for free-software. So I belive that these anouncements are vital to the success of linux and since linux is vital to success of free software. These annoucements are realy important to free software. :-)
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
When I heard about their full suport to linux I went after info on my scanner (IBM idea scanner) linux suport. Their web site is a maze but I manage to find a suport mail form, I mailed my question and they ansawered that my scanner don't have or will have linux support. I am really pissed off.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
Even if the memory is in actual memory, there are tools to scan the memory itself, all you need is the correct rigths.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The vulnability described is a way to scan memory and finding a private key in the middle of it. Since most servers, even the NT ones :-), have strict security on who can run and who can access memory this would be no problem for most of the server.
The major problem I see is the virtual servers that hold many sites into a single machine. Every site owner have access to run programs in the machine, if those sites are not properly secured one site owner could be able to exploit some known hole to be able to scan memory is search for other site owner's keys.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
There are simetric encription smart cards that have the capacity of creating/storing a pair of public/private key and is only possible to read the public one from the outside-world.
Unfortunaly some of those were already cracked by the use of high-precision measuraments (I don't know exactly what was being measured) of the device to read the private key. Those cards also have a protection against brute force, if you open them up they would blow them self up. :-)
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The human mind is something that no one realy knows how it works. Do I belive that this games, movies and the like that are violent could make a person go out and kill? Yes and no. This games could influence them as much as tetris or any other game for that matter. Any game have the ability to frustate a player, you probably already felt this way by one or two games. This is also true for movies, a movie could trigger something in one person that wouldn't exist in almost everyone else. A romantic movie could trigger a frustation of a viewer.
Should tertris or the romantic movie be banned? My answer is no, since the danger is in the person and not the game or movie that trigered the reaction. Ban one triger and other thing would trigger the feeling is just a matter of time.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
The answer to this is, it will not be enforced. Here in Brasil there are two laws. The one written by the govern and the one written by the people, and by people I am not talking about drug dealers or gangs or any type of criminal characther. The people here does not have knowledge of the laws, this is true even for police man.
To understand Brasil you must understand that the real law here is the "Brasilian way" (to those that understand portuguese this is the "jeitinho Brasileiro"). If you are stoped by a policeman say with maryjuana, what happens? The policeman will terrorize you, but unless you're poor he will not touch you, he might take you to a station where they will terrorize you even more. Then you or your father you pay a beer to the policeman and you are free to go.
I know this sounds off-topic, but it is realy on topic, most of the games here in brazil are actualy non-licensed (this maybe changing now due to terror inflicting campaings in the media like a mouse that the cord is handcuffing the hand that is using it). When the carmagedon, here named armagedon, was forbiden what actualy happend was that the game got more popular then he would ever be.
Then why ban games or anything for that matter? Like many already mentioned before, it is simply a media stunt. And by the way yesterday I went to a mall near my home, and surprize I saw normal store selling quake II and many more violent games.
--
"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This post is about the cartoon mentioned above. The cartoon makes the reader believe that the fact that evolution is taught in schools and the fact that schools does not teach religion are to blame for the facts that some kids turn into killer.
This kind of speech make simply mad. I don't have anything against religion itself. What make me realy mad is the way some people uses it to try to silence science.
The fact that some kids in the EUA are turning into killers there is nothing to do with the evolution or the way religion is taughted in schools. In Brasil, where I live, we learn evolution in school and there is no religion in school, unless of course you study in a religious school. We don't have killer kids. I belive that the same is true in almost every other country.
In my opinion, and I am not trying to start a flame war here, is that what turns this kids into murderes are the restriction that they have to live by (this are imposed by the church, by the bullies and now by the FBI).
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
This post is about the cartoon mentioned above. The cartoon makes the reader believe that the fact that evolution is taught in schools and the fact that schools does not teach religion are to blame for the facts that some kids turn into killer.
This kind of speech make simply mad. I don't have anything against religion itself. What make me realy mad is the way some people uses it to try to silence science.
The fact that some kids in the EUA are turning into killers there is nothing to do with the evolution or the way religion is taughted in schools. In Brasil, where I live, we learn evolution in school and there is no religion in school, unless of course you study in a religious school. We don't have killer kids. I belive that the same is true in almost every other country.
In my opinion, and I am not trying to start a flame war here, is that what turns this kids into murderes are the restriction that they have to live by (this are imposed by the church, by the bullies and now by the FBI).
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
I would like to say that by the same reasoning minors could not modify the program, for this they must agree to the contract, witch they can't. I don't know all the GPL by heart, but I think that it says that every one can modify the program, and here is the catch 22 again.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"
seriously though, usualy a virus is not "used" by anyone, the virus infects persons without their knowledge (I myself never saw a pop up "installing virus, please wait...":-) ). Usualy the only person that realy "uses" the virus is the creator itself when he starts the spreading, and in my opinion that is the unlawful action.
Imagine the folloing, someone creates a virus to test a design or a virus-scan technique, uses it in his lab only and never sets it free. Then a lab janitor, that happen to be a cracker, cracks the lab stoles the virus and sets it free. Who is the criminal?
In a few words my opinion is that to code a virus is not a crime itself, but spreading it to world is.
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"take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"