Oh and actually just to be on city council you have to be 21. So no, you can't run for public office. Governor is 25 I believe.
This varies by state.
Go screw yourself on the draft, congress can reinitialise it any day.
Technically they can - but they won't. Evidence? They haven't done it in over thirty years, even at the height of the cold war, or for the first conflict in Iraq.
Oh and drunken riots, those don't seem to happen as often in countries with much lower drinking ages such as everywhere but here.
Ever watched soccer in England? Ever seen them riot and burn stuff? Think alcohol might have been involved?
Which kind of points out a simple fact, tell rebellious college kids, they can't do something, and they will. I know people that did drugs just because they are soo rebellious to do.
Gee, that's a good reason to legalize it - just because people will want to do it if it's illegal. Maybe we should legalize murder and rape too - maybe that will cut down on those crimes because people probably only do that to be rebellious. Here's a tip: maybe try saying things should be legalized because they shouldn't be illegal in the first place. Especially with drugs this is an easier argument to defend. Just saying "people do it to be rebellious" isn't a good rationale for anything except pointing out that people, on the whole, are stupid - especially teenagers.
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American 1940's WWW2 propaganda.
Actually the World Wide Web 2 propaganda in the 1940s was a communist plot from insurgents in Hollywood. Luckily McCarthy took care of it.
Some people have $100k worth of loans for a degree that they cannot get a job with simply because Congress allowed floods of H1B's. The degree no longer pays for itself by a wide margin.
Well perhaps that was a poor choice in University and degree program if it was so expensive and no one wants to hire you after graduating from it. That is hardly the H1B's fault.
Out sourcing shit to India is BAD
Because it gets the project done for less?
BUT H1B's are WORSE because they take away a job from an American right here on American soil. Atleast with out sourcing, you still have Americans running the project and usually integrating with the deliverables.
Well maybe those Americans that are displaced should consider a different field. Who is winning these projects that are being worked by H1Bs? Who is profiting the most from it? Whose buisnesses are expanding by allowing them a greater profit margin on labor (allowing them to hire more workers and invest in new technology or research)? Here's a hin: it's probably not the H1B workers.
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All this I understand except -- how did it all add up for 4 1/2 years? [...]Was Mitnick partly responsible?
Depends on who you ask. Another factor in delay until trial was that Mitnick and his lawyers needed access to the evidence to be used against him, including over 9GB of electronic data. The government didn't want to provide access to a computer for Mitnick to use for examining the evidence. Another issue was the government monitoring his (and his lawyer's use) of the computers while examining the data. This could clue the government in on certain pieces of info that they hadn't noticed earlier - or perhaps the strategy the defense would use. So this issue took quite some time to sort out. A quick look through the news section on freekevin.com shows his attorney filed a motion for discovery on Nov 24, 1998 based on a court order to make the evidence available. The last mention I saw of this situation was March 31, 1999 - again, I did only a quick scan of the archive, more careful analysis may come up with better information.
The reason I say "depends on who you ask," is that some would say it was his fault for wanting to see the evidence. However, I believe the blame should be pointed towards the government for failing in their constitutional duties to provide for a fair trial.
With this decision they will apparently be deciding if and when an actual non-profit organization can have a.org domain(what the top-level domain was designed for) and stop companies from buying.org addrs to go with their net and com ones.
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
On another note, if this hacker convention is so well publicized, why aren't there hordes of policemen preparing to descend upon the unsuspecting hackers?
These conventions usually populated by members of the military and law enforcement. They go there to recruit people. With the lack of security people working for the government, the cons serve as a recruitment rich environment. Problem is, they won't hire people with a record usually. And anything sensitive will require a background investigation. But just being there is nice publicity for them.
Reading this I really understand why you would use this protocol for DOS attacks...
First, the-binary doesn't use protocol 11 for the DoSes (they use SYN flood, Jolt 2, and a DNS flood).
Second, the authors of the-binary didn't implement NVP-II, they just stuck "11" in the protocol field (probably so they could avoid blockage/detection by firewalls/IDSes).
I talk to the guy that worte this on IRC. He included a day's worth of shell use into the corpus. So, his algorithm should produce a layout that is better for shell commands (as well as other typing.)
The only reason those commands "feel right" to you (as far as shells go) is because you use them that way all the time. 'cd' for example - two letters consecuativly with the same finger, moving between rows (on QWERTY.) That isn't comfortable or fast. 'pwd' isn't that good either (moving pinky up and back, moving another finger up and back, and then a home row letter.)
Much better is to go to their page and list securecomputing.com as "Criminal Skills" (I would have said "Hate Speech" but it's further down the list). That'll teach 'em.
This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
It was disheartening to find out that this is not the case, the registrars will sell one to anyone
I have a.org. I am not a commercial entity or a ISP (although I wanted mydomain.net - it was acquired about a month before i registered mydomain.org). I'm not really an organization either, but I guess I am fairly organized. Perhaps I should have a regional domain, but a TLD is easier to work with.
Even so, the damage that could be caused by replacing a company's public key on their website or a keyserver would be slim to none. Only the people who download the new key before the change is caught would be effected.
My worry is modifying the key in transport. Picture a person able to control the link between you and the website or keyserver. They monitor a request for a particular key, then they perform a man-in-the-middle attack to replace the key en route. The end user thinks he has the right key, but it's really my key - that I signed the hacked packages I supply.
It's hard to use keys securely. You've got to verify the fingerprint and such with the person via a good method.
Are you sure the authors aren't part of the united states government?
The US government developed SHA and SHA-1 (two widely popular hash algorithms), and they had input on DES (which was/is a widely used encryption algorithm). Both algorithms have held up to yeas or cryptanalysis - both developed by the US government.
But then there was the Crypto AG incident - where the US influenced a german crypto company to build in backdoors for them.
So for balance - trust but verify the US government.
Respect other country's privacy for once. Stop being a bunch of international bullies/control freaks.
First - I support my country monitoring any foreign national in a foreign land to the fullest extent needed to obtain useful intelligence. I have no expectation of privacy from foreign nations - actually I don't have much of one from my own nation (that's another topic).
There are limits to what a foreign nation (especially a hostile one) can do with information they gather on me. Germany, for example, cannot throw me in jail for putting a Nazi artifact up for bid. Iran cannot jail me for advocating education for women. Foreign countries have very little power over me - so foreign monitoring is limited in the results it can have against me.
My own nation can throw me in jail. That's why host nation monitoring is such a terrible thing.
That said, I will use methods to secure my communications. Monitoring encrypted bits is pretty fruitless.
Seems pretty useless to me. Why waste time setting up yet another system when you could be spending that time securing or scanning your system more? A honeypot is marginally useful for security.
I saw this the other day - and was about to submit it. But then I figured - who cares? It's just one week. This is a BSD section thing at best - certainly not front page.
1048576 bit encryption and would take the timespan of a few universes to crack
This is pointless. Because there is no perfect encryption (save the one time pad), the trick is to use a key that is big enough to withstand attack longer than the usefulness of the data. Data to fly this plane is only useful for hours or a day at the most - so using a key that big will only limit how much data you can transmit (because it will take forever to encrypt/decrypt).
the responsible authorities were too clueless to fix it, so he fixed it for them.
From the article:
He thought about complaining to Caltrans. But he figured his suggestion would get lost in the huge state bureaucracy. Instead, Ankrom decided to take matters into his own hands by adding a simple "North 5" to an existing sign.
So the responsible authorties may not have been aware of their mistake. The least this guy could have done is report it. After exhausting legal means to fix it, then maybe I can understand what he did.
I'm still failing to see why this is so arty. I mean, he took published specifications and implemented them. Any high-way sign company/contractor does the same thing. He just took his own money and own time and did it without compensation.
I'm sick of people deciding what's too "advanced" for our children.
Some things are too advanced. Your daughter isn't studying OS internals is she? She dosen't calculate the exact force on the bridge she crosses to get to school does she? She dosen't determine the optimum gasoline formula for her bus does she? She can do all these things if she has a broad and strong basic knowledge of things that she can apply to more advanced studies.
Children's brains are like great gaping holes that you can pour information into.
There are only so many hours in the day. You can only pour so much info in. I think education time can be better spent on foundation skills that can be used for advanced studies than specializing everything early. Teach math and physics and english - then you can take on advanced study in computer science, mechnacial engineering, journalism, politics, what have you.
How many kids can organize their thoughts and think logically?
Not enough, and the ones that can can always be better. This is partially a failure in the school system, and more so a failure in the parental system.
Don't you think learning a programming language would help?
Sure. But I think learning to read and analyze well would help more. Learning to write logically and effectivly would help more. Learning physics and chemistry and biology would help more. Programming teaches logic, but I think there are more valuable ways to teach children logic and organization skills.
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The reason I say "depends on who you ask," is that some would say it was his fault for wanting to see the evidence. However, I believe the blame should be pointed towards the government for failing in their constitutional duties to provide for a fair trial.
walk in to the local Guns'R'Us and buy a handgun
I personally shop at AmuNation.
That's the same combination I have on my luggage!
What do you know, the number for the voice mail was 1-800-DRUIDIA
Second, the authors of the-binary didn't implement NVP-II, they just stuck "11" in the protocol field (probably so they could avoid blockage/detection by firewalls/IDSes).
It's all spelled out here.
I talk to the guy that worte this on IRC. He included a day's worth of shell use into the corpus. So, his algorithm should produce a layout that is better for shell commands (as well as other typing.)
The only reason those commands "feel right" to you (as far as shells go) is because you use them that way all the time. 'cd' for example - two letters consecuativly with the same finger, moving between rows (on QWERTY.) That isn't comfortable or fast. 'pwd' isn't that good either (moving pinky up and back, moving another finger up and back, and then a home row letter.)
Much better is to go to their page and list securecomputing.com as "Criminal Skills" (I would have said "Hate Speech" but it's further down the list). That'll teach 'em.
RFC 1591 states: It was disheartening to find out that this is not the case, the registrars will sell one to anyone
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It's hard to use keys securely. You've got to verify the fingerprint and such with the person via a good method.
But then there was the Crypto AG incident - where the US influenced a german crypto company to build in backdoors for them.
So for balance - trust but verify the US government.
There are limits to what a foreign nation (especially a hostile one) can do with information they gather on me. Germany, for example, cannot throw me in jail for putting a Nazi artifact up for bid. Iran cannot jail me for advocating education for women. Foreign countries have very little power over me - so foreign monitoring is limited in the results it can have against me.
My own nation can throw me in jail. That's why host nation monitoring is such a terrible thing.
That said, I will use methods to secure my communications. Monitoring encrypted bits is pretty fruitless.
Seems pretty useless to me. Why waste time setting up yet another system when you could be spending that time securing or scanning your system more? A honeypot is marginally useful for security.
I saw this the other day - and was about to submit it. But then I figured - who cares? It's just one week. This is a BSD section thing at best - certainly not front page.
If networks would refuse to route traffic that isn't legitimate from their network then this wouldn't be an issue.
I'm still failing to see why this is so arty. I mean, he took published specifications and implemented them. Any high-way sign company/contractor does the same thing. He just took his own money and own time and did it without compensation.