If I mess up at my profession and am 'encouraged' to leave, the black mark would follow me. Doctors should be the same, if there's some clear indication of incompetence or negligence. I'll presume that that 6% of doctors isn't a matter of 'bad luck,' it's the bottom of the bell curve, and those people shouldn't be doctors.
I'm sorry, but no matter what criteria you have or whatever arbitrary cutoff you place there will always be a bottom 6%.
As far as the screwing up and black marks go, its just bad for the whole business. You see, in our society, doctors have some godlike quality because they make people die when they are old and cannot go to the bathroom for themselves anymore instead of dying "too young". Anyway, back on topic, if 6% of doctors were publicly black marked that would be bad for the rest of the 94%, and I would bet that the other 94% would pay dearly to keep this hush hush so that they don't get questioned. Its about trust and dignity.
I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you serious? This was the first time you had heard about this? I thought this was the fundamental feature for RFID--the idea that the tag doesn't require any kind of battery or other external power supply.
I thought the features of RFID were that they could hold as much or more info than a bar code at about the same cost without the limitation of the bar code -- dependance on line of sight for data transmission. Its pretty handy to be able to inventory an entire warehouse without having to open a single box or crate. Its so easy for us geeks to think about what is neat about a thingy technically without the real world use in mind:)
I'm not that familiar with Debian so I'm wondering what's Debian's unique selling point? What does it do that others don't?
The best package management of any *NIX like system and an overall system that "just works". The install is still a bit rough, and it may not be as "ready for the desktop" as some other distros, but is excellent for a server.
My impression of Debian rightly or wrongly is a rather conservative distro with a very rigid/ideological view on which licenses the will package.
Pretty much sums it up.
Just little things that I like about Debian are its reliance on perl as a tool as a glue to get stuff done vs. say python in RH land. Its no real big deal, but I'm just more familiar with Perl. Also, I like the way Debain utilizes/usr/local. Something that most distros don't seem to recognise. The biggest downfall with Debian is 3rd party support.
Hans Moravec's book "Robot" suggests that 100 teraflops is about the level required for human intelligence.
Yeah. I've been waiting for years for those dumbasses to make a computer that can outperform my ability to perform 100 trillion double precision floating point operations a second flawlessly.
I'm not complaining about anything- my favored strategy in the war on terror would have Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, and parts of Egypt glowing in the dark WITHIN 72 HOURS OF THE TOWERS FALLING.
According to my calculations, this still meets the 99.9999% reliability that MS claims the server to be able to provide
You do realize that 99.9999% _availability_ means your down only 31.5 seconds a year. I believe every is in agreement that a reboot typically takes at least a minute.
On a side note, this could mean 100% reliability if the machine is not needed 24/7 and the reboots happen during non operational hours.
I typically reboot Linux machines about once every 400 days or so, but thats not really a "reboot" but a power loss or hardware configuration change or something out of mine and Linux's control. I just checked a solaris machine and I've rebooted it 23 times since August of 2001. So that works out to be once every 2 months, and only a handful of those were due to patches. The others were again due to hardware or environmental reasons.
I guaruntee no one paid to get Whitesnake or Genisis played;-)
At least here in the US, ASCAP, the licensing company that collects royalties for broadcast music, collects a majority of their royalties from 70s and 80s music.
70s I understand, but 80s, I dunno. I can't believe that people listened to Whitesnake then when it was OK to have big hair and neon.
This new step is another step towards control - remember, that is what this is all about.
Yup. Kinda like me having to login to another box to reply on slashdot because my subnet has had excessive "bad" posts.
I've been fingerprinted when I was arrested once, and I really felt like a criminal, and it freaked me out to know that my prints are now on file with the FBI and their fingerprint scanning software. I would have felt the same way if I were fingerprinted for coming into the US.
Hint: If you want to bypass these control tactics just look like a poor Mexican laborer walking across the US/Mexico border. They don't fingerprint you. You get free helth care. A tax free job, and you may even get social security in the not too distant future. I'm glad our government has beefed up our defenses. We are much safer now.
We want to hide our ID from anyone's eyes who has not identified himself as a lawful officer on duty. With RFID it is hardly possible.
Well said.
I don't have much of a problem showing an ID to someone that asks for it, and I know why and what they are looking for and who they are. But being surveilled to the point that they have a complete ID on me with no physical intervention is a little scary.
Its not too tough to track someone today after the fact with such things as CC receipts, easypass things, witnesses, phone records, etc. But these things take a warrant, again after the fact. Being criminally investigated in realtime, err, no thank you.
How does this work? If you treat someone like a child, they will act like a child. If you treat someone like a criminal, they will be a good upstanding citizen? I don't think so.
If the feds want to update the passports with electronic technology, use barcodes or something. Actually, the more I think about it, it might be much more stealth to have a reveresed engineered passport RFID tag to say whatever you want. I don't see how this would be illegal because its not fraud or falsifying a document because if anyone asks for the passport, give it to them, but drive by scanning, I'm Homer Simpson and my ssn is 078-05-1120. Thanks for asking.
You draw your own conclusions as to what that will mean.
Its been demonstrated that although people are willing to put up with microsoft products, they are unwilling to "trust" microsoft. Remember Microsoft Passport? Good idea, not too popular.
A similar effect could be achieved by calling the JavaScript on pretty much any event; the vulnerability relies on it being unclear which site caused the dialogue box to pop up. I can see how it could be classed a vulnerability, but it's hardly earth shattering.
I agree. I don't believe that I've ever seen a javascript dialogue box that input text like this before, and I'm sure that no legitimate site would start requiring input on a https page with sensitive information in a box like this. I don't see this as any more of a vulnerability than html email.
Universities are notorious for having poor network security! They typically don't have sufficient staff to maintain such tight control over network access. Why would such sensitive information be kept on inherently vulnerable networks in the first place?
I'm not sure where this info comes from, but in my experience in working at universities they _do_ have sufficient and very good networking staff. University networks are some of the largest that there are. Universities lead networking in terms of things like Internet2, Lambda rail, wireless access, and so on.
Universities are known to hackers as easy targets. Why? Its the university mentality of freedom. On a decent sized campus there are _thousands_ of machines that are directly connected to the internet with little or no firewalling to separate them from the big bad world. Its trivial to automate a network scan looking for vulnerable versions of software and default/lame passwords. Most universities do not have centralized computing, but rather each department has some IT guy of variable quality. Odds are the people that run the main campus' central servers and networks didn't even know about this machine or that there was a machine with so much sensitive data on it. Also, odds are that the central guys also have the same version of the OS of the compromised machine, but it was properly patched or the vulnerable services were blocked or disabled. This research box obviously was not well mainained, and was breached by a "known vulnerability".
My point is that I agree that universities are notorious for poor security, but its not a staffing issue, its more of a political or procederial one.
If you email me and a bunch of other people asking some stupid question that you want me to go to a search engine and answer, I'm going to block email from you.
s/email me/ask.slashdot.org/g s/email from you/posts to ask.slashdot.org/g
Hmm. Do you have ask.slashdot.org blocked from your homepage? (Not that the filters work or anything *cough*).
Actually, this sounds pretty cool to me. I can filter mail quite well, and would not be bothered by such a thing.
I blame the user too. Are these security issues new? Are they fixed? Are there plans to fix them?
The time that people start explicitly telling Microsoft to fix their broken programs or they will go to another vendor will be the time that these things start getting fixed. Not one second before then.
My god, if you were the richest person in the world by selling some of the most popular software products in the world and people kept buying them and they were still the most popular software products in the word despite their problems, what would you do?
I'd take the afternoon off and go sailing or something. I sure wouldn't change anything in my business plan or software design. Its not broken from a business standpoint. Maybe I'd raise the prices so that when I actually had to do some real design changes, I'd have a little extra cash to do some testing, but I wouldn't change a damn thing that would hurt my bottom line if my bottom line was not in jeopardy.
I do wonder though, do you think a job which you are not paid much money for (a little above minimum wage) isn't worth taking pride in and doing your best?
It depends on the person and the job. In my experience, if you go to a used record store and start bsing with the guys there about rock-n-roll, you will stay at least an hour. I've known people that owned these kinds of places and have talked with others, and they are just rock-n-roll junkys. They are also kinda societal outcasts because they don't care about making the bling-bling and all that, but they will talk you an earfull about some music.
Now a cashier at walmart? What pride is there to take and how tough is it "to do your best"? They just say "How are you doing?" (Hint, you have to say fine or OK, they don't care to hear anything else). Then, they transfer the stuff from in front of them across a laser to a place in back of them, listen for a *beep* and optionally put the stuff in a slew of plastic bags.
A nice person will "do better" at this kind of job, but there just isn't much to it.
Its more specialty items where you find the lower paid ppl that are interesting and good. Quinten Tarantino (sp?) used to work as a movie clerk at a rental place. One of the guys that works at the record store I was talking about also worked at a movie rental place. This is not the guy I was talking about, but he is a college graduate from a good school, and doesn't care too much about money except to buy music and whatnot.
Sometimes I wish I had a "lower standard of living" so I could just quit a job and get a new one at the drop of a hat, or move more easily and freely. Its hard to explain to "normal" people that I cannot just get a labor job, because I would go hungry. This is mainly due to student loans. However, I could move to australia and not have the US Dept of Education tax anymore. Hmmmm
He also has a vested interest in making you feel liked and coming back.
The guy makes not much more than minimum wage, and gets no commision. I knew the then owner of the store, etc. He was being honest, he probably just got sick of selling rap music that day.
If Walmart wins will that pass the savings on to the consumer or do something for their horribly treated workers like give them health care?
They will probably pass some on to the end buyer. The corner record store will go out of business its employees will be unemployed, the horribly treated workers will not get health care, and the record label will make less profit.
The kind of CDs you will listen to for a month or two and then forget. How is that kind of CD worth $15?
I believe it was the last time that I bought more than 1 cd at a time at a local record store, the guy was ringing up my stuff, and commented "Its rare to see someone buy good music, most people just buy crap" or something like that.
Anyway, this was a real record store, it sells used CDs and stuff, and hires employees that actually know things about music, they play music in the store, etc. You know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, my point is that the crap is what subsidizes the real music. Afterall, your average person is only average.
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If I mess up at my profession and am 'encouraged' to leave, the black mark would follow me. Doctors should be the same, if there's some clear indication of incompetence or negligence. I'll presume that that 6% of doctors isn't a matter of 'bad luck,' it's the bottom of the bell curve, and those people shouldn't be doctors.
I'm sorry, but no matter what criteria you have or whatever arbitrary cutoff you place there will always be a bottom 6%.
As far as the screwing up and black marks go, its just bad for the whole business. You see, in our society, doctors have some godlike quality because they make people die when they are old and cannot go to the bathroom for themselves anymore instead of dying "too young". Anyway, back on topic, if 6% of doctors were publicly black marked that would be bad for the rest of the 94%, and I would bet that the other 94% would pay dearly to keep this hush hush so that they don't get questioned. Its about trust and dignity.
I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you serious? This was the first time you had heard about this? I thought this was the fundamental feature for RFID--the idea that the tag doesn't require any kind of battery or other external power supply.
:)
I thought the features of RFID were that they could hold as much or more info than a bar code at about the same cost without the limitation of the bar code -- dependance on line of sight for data transmission. Its pretty handy to be able to inventory an entire warehouse without having to open a single box or crate. Its so easy for us geeks to think about what is neat about a thingy technically without the real world use in mind
I'm not that familiar with Debian so I'm wondering what's Debian's unique selling point? What does it do that others don't?
/usr/local. Something that most distros don't seem to recognise. The biggest downfall with Debian is 3rd party support.
The best package management of any *NIX like system and an overall system that "just works". The install is still a bit rough, and it may not be as "ready for the desktop" as some other distros, but is excellent for a server.
My impression of Debian rightly or wrongly is a rather conservative distro with a very rigid/ideological view on which licenses the will package.
Pretty much sums it up.
Just little things that I like about Debian are its reliance on perl as a tool as a glue to get stuff done vs. say python in RH land. Its no real big deal, but I'm just more familiar with Perl. Also, I like the way Debain utilizes
Does the idea of putting artifical intelligence into a killing machine make anyone else a little nervous?
Any kind of intelligence added to the military would be an improvement.
Hans Moravec's book "Robot" suggests that 100 teraflops is about the level required for human intelligence.
Yeah. I've been waiting for years for those dumbasses to make a computer that can outperform my ability to perform 100 trillion double precision floating point operations a second flawlessly.
I'm not complaining about anything- my favored strategy in the war on terror would have Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, and parts of Egypt glowing in the dark WITHIN 72 HOURS OF THE TOWERS FALLING.
Kill em all, let God sort em out!
I love it.
When will this buffer enforcement be available for gcc!?!?
k Guard/ or ProPolice http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/.
As soon as you do a search for StackGuard http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/Stac
According to my calculations, this still meets the 99.9999% reliability that MS claims the server to be able to provide
You do realize that 99.9999% _availability_ means your down only 31.5 seconds a year. I believe every is in agreement that a reboot typically takes at least a minute.
On a side note, this could mean 100% reliability if the machine is not needed 24/7 and the reboots happen during non operational hours.
I typically reboot Linux machines about once every 400 days or so, but thats not really a "reboot" but a power loss or hardware configuration change or something out of mine and Linux's control. I just checked a solaris machine and I've rebooted it 23 times since August of 2001. So that works out to be once every 2 months, and only a handful of those were due to patches. The others were again due to hardware or environmental reasons.
Its not very widely known that allergies are due to proteins. So, no this will not cause allergies.
Other irratations, possible but doubtful because this is just carbon.
I love it when people say they are allergic to smoke. I call BS. Irritated maybe, but not allergic.
I guaruntee no one paid to get Whitesnake or Genisis played ;-)
At least here in the US, ASCAP, the licensing company that collects royalties for broadcast music, collects a majority of their royalties from 70s and 80s music.
70s I understand, but 80s, I dunno. I can't believe that people listened to Whitesnake then when it was OK to have big hair and neon.
Even though it sounds distasteful, it's recycling done right. /i.
Basically all drinking water is recycled from toilets to some degree.
It still seems ooky.
This new step is another step towards control - remember, that is what this is all about.
Yup. Kinda like me having to login to another box to reply on slashdot because my subnet has had excessive "bad" posts.
I've been fingerprinted when I was arrested once, and I really felt like a criminal, and it freaked me out to know that my prints are now on file with the FBI and their fingerprint scanning software. I would have felt the same way if I were fingerprinted for coming into the US.
Hint: If you want to bypass these control tactics just look like a poor Mexican laborer walking across the US/Mexico border. They don't fingerprint you. You get free helth care. A tax free job, and you may even get social security in the not too distant future. I'm glad our government has beefed up our defenses. We are much safer now.
We want to hide our ID from anyone's eyes who has not identified himself as a lawful officer on duty. With RFID it is hardly possible.
Well said.
I don't have much of a problem showing an ID to someone that asks for it, and I know why and what they are looking for and who they are. But being surveilled to the point that they have a complete ID on me with no physical intervention is a little scary.
Its not too tough to track someone today after the fact with such things as CC receipts, easypass things, witnesses, phone records, etc. But these things take a warrant, again after the fact. Being criminally investigated in realtime, err, no thank you.
How does this work? If you treat someone like a child, they will act like a child. If you treat someone like a criminal, they will be a good upstanding citizen? I don't think so.
If the feds want to update the passports with electronic technology, use barcodes or something. Actually, the more I think about it, it might be much more stealth to have a reveresed engineered passport RFID tag to say whatever you want. I don't see how this would be illegal because its not fraud or falsifying a document because if anyone asks for the passport, give it to them, but drive by scanning, I'm Homer Simpson and my ssn is 078-05-1120. Thanks for asking.
You draw your own conclusions as to what that will mean.
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Its been demonstrated that although people are willing to put up with microsoft products, they are unwilling to "trust" microsoft. Remember Microsoft Passport? Good idea, not too popular.
Some relevant urls:
http://yahoo.pcworld.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,6324
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/22777/
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/18366.html
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/software/150
A similar effect could be achieved by calling the JavaScript on pretty much any event; the vulnerability relies on it being unclear which site caused the dialogue box to pop up. I can see how it could be classed a vulnerability, but it's hardly earth shattering.
I agree. I don't believe that I've ever seen a javascript dialogue box that input text like this before, and I'm sure that no legitimate site would start requiring input on a https page with sensitive information in a box like this. I don't see this as any more of a vulnerability than html email.
Universities are notorious for having poor network security! They typically don't have sufficient staff to maintain such tight control over network access. Why would such sensitive information be kept on inherently vulnerable networks in the first place?
I'm not sure where this info comes from, but in my experience in working at universities they _do_ have sufficient and very good networking staff. University networks are some of the largest that there are. Universities lead networking in terms of things like Internet2, Lambda rail, wireless access, and so on.
Universities are known to hackers as easy targets. Why? Its the university mentality of freedom. On a decent sized campus there are _thousands_ of machines that are directly connected to the internet with little or no firewalling to separate them from the big bad world. Its trivial to automate a network scan looking for vulnerable versions of software and default/lame passwords. Most universities do not have centralized computing, but rather each department has some IT guy of variable quality. Odds are the people that run the main campus' central servers and networks didn't even know about this machine or that there was a machine with so much sensitive data on it. Also, odds are that the central guys also have the same version of the OS of the compromised machine, but it was properly patched or the vulnerable services were blocked or disabled. This research box obviously was not well mainained, and was breached by a "known vulnerability".
My point is that I agree that universities are notorious for poor security, but its not a staffing issue, its more of a political or procederial one.
If you email me and a bunch of other people asking some stupid question that you want me to go to a search engine and answer, I'm going to block email from you.
s/email me/ask.slashdot.org/g
s/email from you/posts to ask.slashdot.org/g
Hmm. Do you have ask.slashdot.org blocked from your homepage? (Not that the filters work or anything *cough*).
Actually, this sounds pretty cool to me. I can filter mail quite well, and would not be bothered by such a thing.
Blame it on the user.
I blame the user too. Are these security issues new? Are they fixed? Are there plans to fix them?
The time that people start explicitly telling Microsoft to fix their broken programs or they will go to another vendor will be the time that these things start getting fixed. Not one second before then.
My god, if you were the richest person in the world by selling some of the most popular software products in the world and people kept buying them and they were still the most popular software products in the word despite their problems, what would you do?
I'd take the afternoon off and go sailing or something. I sure wouldn't change anything in my business plan or software design. Its not broken from a business standpoint. Maybe I'd raise the prices so that when I actually had to do some real design changes, I'd have a little extra cash to do some testing, but I wouldn't change a damn thing that would hurt my bottom line if my bottom line was not in jeopardy.
Alpha was quite a bit quicker then x86 in it's day; it was a full 64-bit system from the start and the processors were clocked pretty aggressively.
Alpha's are still pretty damn fast. You can get 1.2GHz chips now. But yeah, back in the day like 1994 was when the Alpha broke 300MHz.
Didn't Microsft use to have an old version of NT that ran on the Alpha before?
Yeah, back about 1995 or so. FWIW, there was a powerpc version as well. Too little demand, and way too little hardware support.
You know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Ah, but this is not a pipe!
I do wonder though, do you think a job which you are not paid much money for (a little above minimum wage) isn't worth taking pride in and doing your best?
It depends on the person and the job. In my experience, if you go to a used record store and start bsing with the guys there about rock-n-roll, you will stay at least an hour. I've known people that owned these kinds of places and have talked with others, and they are just rock-n-roll junkys. They are also kinda societal outcasts because they don't care about making the bling-bling and all that, but they will talk you an earfull about some music.
Now a cashier at walmart? What pride is there to take and how tough is it "to do your best"? They just say "How are you doing?" (Hint, you have to say fine or OK, they don't care to hear anything else). Then, they transfer the stuff from in front of them across a laser to a place in back of them, listen for a *beep* and optionally put the stuff in a slew of plastic bags.
A nice person will "do better" at this kind of job, but there just isn't much to it.
Its more specialty items where you find the lower paid ppl that are interesting and good. Quinten Tarantino (sp?) used to work as a movie clerk at a rental place. One of the guys that works at the record store I was talking about also worked at a movie rental place. This is not the guy I was talking about, but he is a college graduate from a good school, and doesn't care too much about money except to buy music and whatnot.
Sometimes I wish I had a "lower standard of living" so I could just quit a job and get a new one at the drop of a hat, or move more easily and freely. Its hard to explain to "normal" people that I cannot just get a labor job, because I would go hungry. This is mainly due to student loans. However, I could move to australia and not have the US Dept of Education tax anymore. Hmmmm
He also has a vested interest in making you feel liked and coming back.
The guy makes not much more than minimum wage, and gets no commision. I knew the then owner of the store, etc. He was being honest, he probably just got sick of selling rap music that day.
If Walmart wins will that pass the savings on to the consumer or do something for their horribly treated workers like give them health care?
They will probably pass some on to the end buyer. The corner record store will go out of business its employees will be unemployed, the horribly treated workers will not get health care, and the record label will make less profit.
In summary, everybody but walmart looses.
The kind of CDs you will listen to for a month or two and then forget. How is that kind of CD worth $15?
I believe it was the last time that I bought more than 1 cd at a time at a local record store, the guy was ringing up my stuff, and commented "Its rare to see someone buy good music, most people just buy crap" or something like that.
Anyway, this was a real record store, it sells used CDs and stuff, and hires employees that actually know things about music, they play music in the store, etc. You know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, my point is that the crap is what subsidizes the real music. Afterall, your average person is only average.