Use something like the Linux kernel. The code ends up significantly different from anyone else's build almost every single time depending on what modules you compile in, what compiler version you use, what chipset you compile for, what optimisations you choose, or how much stolen SCO code got included in the build.. Umm.. ignore that last part:)
Here's a better analogy; you pay '$fuckknows' per month to a storage company to keep your stuff safe in a storage locker. One day you turn up to check on it and there's a note about the storage company's lack of security from someone who has obviously had access to your storage locker. Would you prefer not to know, and wait until someone else comes along and takes stuff?
I don't know.. hardly seen the guy since. I was quite keen to hot-melt them all to a wall like fish scales, or something. Never mind, I'm sure I could get a bunch more if I was really keen to do something with them.
I managed to collect just over a thousand CD's a few years back, well over 800 of them AOL CD's. This is quite an achievement given that AOL has no point of presence in New Zealand, so I have no idea why those CD's were here in the first place. I was planning to make a CD launcher using a pair of small rubber wheels, but in the end I gave the whole lot to a friend for part of an art project.
One of the options that our teleco offers is a pin-number based toll-tracking. You get two or more pin numbers for everyone who's going to make toll calls, and a correct pin number has to be dialled before the call will go through. At the end of the month the total for each pin number is listed separately on the bill. Since basically nobody dials long-distance for their internet connection, there's no reason to have a valid pin number anywhere in the computer, so your average porn dialler is going to be SOL (or if they catch on, at least it's going to have to make a LOT of calls before it finds a pin that works.. and the teleco could check for repeat-pin-failures and start reporting them to the customer if it ever became a significant problem.)
But of course your own teleco also makes a profit on these calls, so there's not all that much incentive for them to find a real solution to the problem.
I used to have 6 'webcams' around my house, a little hardware circuit that would switch between them, and a script that constantly scanned them all and sent the images via my dialup connection back to a webserver. It managed to scan and upload all 6 cameras every 10 seconds, which was fast enough that it didn't miss much. Nobody ever broke in and stole my computer, but quite a few times I did phone home and tell the kids to stop bouncing on the couch, etc.
That was all done with a P200 from a dumpster, a BT848 card and some cheap cameras I got off an auction site.. If you actually wanted to spend money you could probably do a lot better.
Way too much to ask. MSIE does NOT even handle CSS1 properly yet. Every time I design a page (validated xhtml1.0 and minimal CSS1 for layout) I have to do a special layout page just for MSIE, wrapped in conditional comments, to make it render the page properly. I don't think that I'm getting my CSS wrong; I work directly from the w3c documentation, and EVERY other browser manages a fairly close approximation of what I had in mind.
'fixed background' is a particularly glaring example, but I've also had MSIE render a simple '5px' border as 15px along the bottom edge. No reason given, it just decided to do it that way..
I already have 'unlimited' storage (currently 50G free, but I could easily drop another drive in the server if I felt it was getting short) for my email, with pop3, imap and squirrelmail access to it from anywhere.
I'm not sure how good squirrelmail is at searching through the old mail; perhaps I should look into that. If it's that important I can always ssh in and grep through the mail directories anyway:)
My suggestion was that everyone is given a unique but non-sequential number at voting time. After the election, all the numbers and corresponding votes are made visible. Anyone can tally the votes and compare them with the official result. Any individual voter can confirm their own vote.
Under duress, they can also pick someone else's number who voted 'the right way' and claim that it's their own.
It's an interesting system, but there are lots of potential problems with it.
After a LOT of thought I've decided that a human-readable paper ballot, handled and counted in an 'openly secure' fashion is still the best solution.
Here's a better suggestion (for a school PC lab, not a single donated imac). Set up ldap so that every student can log in and have their own preferred settings, which they can change however they like, and which will be consistent on every PC they log into.
Then have a standard 'ghost' image on CD so that if any of the computers gets really screwed up you can easily restore it. You probably should have one already, since this is really the only sensible solution when you need to install many identical copies of Windows.
" No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system."
- Bill Gates, from "Programmers at Work" by Microsoft Press.
If there were no copyrights, the ONLY way corporates could profit from software would be using a combination of closed-source and product activation.
Free software would have no protection at all beyond the goodwill and high standards of ethical behaviour that we've come to expect from Propriatory Software Monoplies.
My own point of view is that the original term of copyright (14 years) is appropriate for artistic works. A much shorter term (perhaps 5 years) would be adequate protection for software; any software that hasn't been substantially rewritten in 5 years is practically obsolete anyhow.
Exceptional abuse of copyright, such as that of Microsoft and the RIAA, should be declared unconstitutional. "to PROMOTE the sciences and useul arts". The quickest way to remedy this harm would be for the courts to revoke these companies copyrights. Simply stop enforcing them.
There's an implied deal in the constitution; "you give the world something new, we'll give you some temporary protection so you can make a buck from it." Microsoft and the RIAA aren't holding their end of the deal.
If you use screen, it also has a copy-and-paste system. From memory, press ctrl-A C to start copy mode.. move the cursor to the start of the selection, press enter, highlight, press enter again. ctrl-A V pastes.
I agree with a previous poster; just because you have several options doesn't mean you have to go using ALL of them and confuse yourself. If you're used to using ^X/^C/^V like in Windows, use that. I can't think of any apps offhand that it doesn't work for.
If you prefer highlight/middle-click, go ahead.
I tend to use both; the traditional 'X' way (middle-click) is quicker but sometimes I want to paste things using highlight and replace, in which case the 'Redmond' way works better.
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Use something like the Linux kernel. The code ends up significantly different from anyone else's build almost every single time depending on what modules you compile in, what compiler version you use, what chipset you compile for, what optimisations you choose, or how much stolen SCO code got included in the build.. Umm.. ignore that last part :)
Here's a better analogy; you pay '$fuckknows' per month to a storage company to keep your stuff safe in a storage locker. One day you turn up to check on it and there's a note about the storage company's lack of security from someone who has obviously had access to your storage locker. Would you prefer not to know, and wait until someone else comes along and takes stuff?
Probably. :-)
8 levels, 3 bits per molecule. Hmm.
The cow says \115 \157 \157
I don't know.. hardly seen the guy since. I was quite keen to hot-melt them all to a wall like fish scales, or something. Never mind, I'm sure I could get a bunch more if I was really keen to do something with them.
BTW; 1000 CD's is a stack about 4ft high, just in case you were wondering. It was quite impressive.
I managed to collect just over a thousand CD's a few years back, well over 800 of them AOL CD's. This is quite an achievement given that AOL has no point of presence in New Zealand, so I have no idea why those CD's were here in the first place. I was planning to make a CD launcher using a pair of small rubber wheels, but in the end I gave the whole lot to a friend for part of an art project.
One of the options that our teleco offers is a pin-number based toll-tracking. You get two or more pin numbers for everyone who's going to make toll calls, and a correct pin number has to be dialled before the call will go through. At the end of the month the total for each pin number is listed separately on the bill. Since basically nobody dials long-distance for their internet connection, there's no reason to have a valid pin number anywhere in the computer, so your average porn dialler is going to be SOL (or if they catch on, at least it's going to have to make a LOT of calls before it finds a pin that works.. and the teleco could check for repeat-pin-failures and start reporting them to the customer if it ever became a significant problem.)
But of course your own teleco also makes a profit on these calls, so there's not all that much incentive for them to find a real solution to the problem.
I used to have 6 'webcams' around my house, a little hardware circuit that would switch between them, and a script that constantly scanned them all and sent the images via my dialup connection back to a webserver. It managed to scan and upload all 6 cameras every 10 seconds, which was fast enough that it didn't miss much. Nobody ever broke in and stole my computer, but quite a few times I did phone home and tell the kids to stop bouncing on the couch, etc.
That was all done with a P200 from a dumpster, a BT848 card and some cheap cameras I got off an auction site.. If you actually wanted to spend money you could probably do a lot better.
I say we bomb the place. .. again.
I have three internal 56K hardware modems, and 2 external ones. They're all sitting on my shelf; I'm on ADSL.
Way too much to ask. MSIE does NOT even handle CSS1 properly yet. Every time I design a page (validated xhtml1.0 and minimal CSS1 for layout) I have to do a special layout page just for MSIE, wrapped in conditional comments, to make it render the page properly. I don't think that I'm getting my CSS wrong; I work directly from the w3c documentation, and EVERY other browser manages a fairly close approximation of what I had in mind.
'fixed background' is a particularly glaring example, but I've also had MSIE render a simple '5px' border as 15px along the bottom edge. No reason given, it just decided to do it that way..
Obviously you're not a lawyer, otherwise you'd be well familiar with the typeface "4-point legal flyspot". It's used all over the place..
:)
(also not a lawyer, but I have fairly good vision
I already have 'unlimited' storage (currently 50G free, but I could easily drop another drive in the server if I felt it was getting short) for my email, with pop3, imap and squirrelmail access to it from anywhere.
:)
I'm not sure how good squirrelmail is at searching through the old mail; perhaps I should look into that. If it's that important I can always ssh in and grep through the mail directories anyway
<img src="images/not-msie.png" alt=""
<![endif]>
<!--[if ie]>
<img src="images/msie.png" alt=""
<![end if]-->
And a quick grep grep of "not-msie.*MSIE" in the apache logs is quite enlightening.
Don't know about 'all' of theme, but the vast majority of spam comes from a relatively small list of documented, well-known 'hard-line spammers'.
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/
My suggestion was that everyone is given a unique but non-sequential number at voting time. After the election, all the numbers and corresponding votes are made visible. Anyone can tally the votes and compare them with the official result. Any individual voter can confirm their own vote.
Under duress, they can also pick someone else's number who voted 'the right way' and claim that it's their own.
It's an interesting system, but there are lots of potential problems with it.
After a LOT of thought I've decided that a human-readable paper ballot, handled and counted in an 'openly secure' fashion is still the best solution.
"Silicon Hills" huh.. funny, but high-tech isn't the first thing that came into my mind :)
That's great.
;-}
Tell us the domain name, and we'll let you know how well you did on security.
"every reboot" is silly.
Here's a better suggestion (for a school PC lab, not a single donated imac). Set up ldap so that every student can log in and have their own preferred settings, which they can change however they like, and which will be consistent on every PC they log into.
Then have a standard 'ghost' image on CD so that if any of the computers gets really screwed up you can easily restore it. You probably should have one already, since this is really the only sensible solution when you need to install many identical copies of Windows.
Yes, but Ken Brown is a fucktard.
" No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system."
- Bill Gates, from "Programmers at Work" by Microsoft Press.
You reading this, Mr Brown?
You planning to split it evenly? $500 for Santa Claus and $500 for the tooth fairy?
What a coincidence; the only programming language I was ever any good with was written by a dumpster-diver.
I think the FSF's thinking is flawed.
If there were no copyrights, the ONLY way corporates could profit from software would be using a combination of closed-source and product activation.
Free software would have no protection at all beyond the goodwill and high standards of ethical behaviour that we've come to expect from Propriatory Software Monoplies.
My own point of view is that the original term of copyright (14 years) is appropriate for artistic works. A much shorter term (perhaps 5 years) would be adequate protection for software; any software that hasn't been substantially rewritten in 5 years is practically obsolete anyhow.
Exceptional abuse of copyright, such as that of Microsoft and the RIAA, should be declared unconstitutional. "to PROMOTE the sciences and useul arts". The quickest way to remedy this harm would be for the courts to revoke these companies copyrights. Simply stop enforcing them.
There's an implied deal in the constitution; "you give the world something new, we'll give you some temporary protection so you can make a buck from it." Microsoft and the RIAA aren't holding their end of the deal.
If you use screen, it also has a copy-and-paste system. From memory, press ctrl-A C to start copy mode.. move the cursor to the start of the selection, press enter, highlight, press enter again. ctrl-A V pastes.
I agree with a previous poster; just because you have several options doesn't mean you have to go using ALL of them and confuse yourself. If you're used to using ^X/^C/^V like in Windows, use that. I can't think of any apps offhand that it doesn't work for.
If you prefer highlight/middle-click, go ahead.
I tend to use both; the traditional 'X' way (middle-click) is quicker but sometimes I want to paste things using highlight and replace, in which case the 'Redmond' way works better.