Now instead of being able to do a whois from my firewall to figure out what domains port scans are coming from and and who to contact I have to do the extra step of going to another machine and looking it via netscape. Thanks alot Internic!:{p
unlike AmEx's stupid idea of a credit card swiper on your PC,
Do you actually understand how their smart card will work? Hmmm, because you don't seem to. First It is a smart card, and ISO-7816 smart card to be more specific.
Second the cards will have have certificates on them which will contain IIRC a set of 1 public and 1 private key which will be used to encrypt sessions, I personally feel it is a bit better then ssl since it is on the card and not on the system.
So this is at worst at least as good as ssl and it is much more convienent. I don't understand all the details of how they will implemented but it may even be better then ssl. So pls, try to understand a technology before you go off on it.
Well, consider something, I don't think we yet have the technology to allow something that small to record the information, so that means it has to transmit it, so that means it should relativly easy to discover one in at least a closed envirorment, so it is not that much of a concern, we will just have literal bug detectors, *ba dump bump*.
Although once technology allows us to record at that small a scale then, the suggestions for anit-robo fly flies is probably the way to go.
What exactly is the big deal about speeds in the GHz? May be a mile stone, but it's only logical progression.
Well I think the big deal at least with this test is that it actually scaled very well, I personally found it impressive the amount of performance gain that it actually acheived. It basically means 1) Intel probably can do Ghz soon w/o much problem 2) the Coppermine architecure is pretty solid 3) We don't know if AMD can scale as well, which means Intel might catch up sooner then AMD would like
Well the simpliest way to avoid hacks like this is have the internal system keep track of temperature deltas and if the delta is too large then they can take actions like shutting the machine down, sounding and alarm, etc...
Of course, one of the things I find amusing-yet-scary is how nuts all the little kiddies are going over Darth Maul. Yeah, that's a wonderful role model...;)
Hmm , not sure of you point here, I mean people went crazy over Boba Fett(sp?) as well. I mean bad guys are usually slicker and more attractive in many ways.
4) The NSA just wants to make it easy for them and if MS didn't screw up probably no one would know. Who the hell wants to hack into a box when you can have a backdoor. Also there is nothing saying a foriegn agency of some sort couldn't make NT less hackable, although IMHO they would be using Unix in first place but you never know.
Of course this assumes the who thing is really what it looks like.
I think people are missing his point. His key example was a mother who even though she had no objection to her children seeing the movie had the right to decide taken away from her by the theater. What that is, is people right being arbitrarily taken away at whim because of basically powerful lobbying groups. If people could get read what he is saying, although a bit verbosely is, this is not a singular event and nothing prevents other rights from being taken away virtually by these powerful lobbying groups. Unfortunatlly we really don't live in a free country are rights are seemingly control not by the constitution but by the powerful and even worse in many times a whimsical fashion. In the end it is the non powerful people (read: us) suffer and have to deal with this. What, just because in this instance it is children it is not as important? In most cases these children are going to see these movies with the full permission of their guardians who are in the end who are responsible for them, mainly since they realize that what they are seeing in the movies, well is nothing new to them, any parents that believe otherwise should open their eyes. Yeah children are going to be upset, this is arbitrary and silly if if you bothered to read what many of them wrote they made pretty damn mature points, but it seems so many of you just want to see them as whinning children. It is sad that people wish delegate their rights to whatever powerful lobbying groups wish to control them. This is supposedly a country for the people by the people but in reality it is a country of many controlled by the few. If none of you can see that was mainly his point then you are sadly blind to the world around you. Instead of seeing his point, people have choosen to take the common media presentation of this subject, that the people that are complaining are children that are just upset they can't see the movies, this is a capatilistic free soceity and if you don't like it don't go to the movies and of course since the movie business is not going out of business from people not going then these people complaining are radicals or bratty kids. How can argue with that logic? But this is not simply a text book capatilistic or even a free soceity so the basic premise is already false. For more information read Noam Chomsky , although he does not really talk about issues like this he does talk about how the US soceity really works.
But that is part of the problem the goverment doesn't want the "hundled masses" to participate. In fact they fear our participation because they are the elite and we don't know what are the right decisions and if we make our own decisions we will be doomed. Although this is not all of goverment it is enough of it. To find out more read Noam Chomsky especially Necessary Illusions and "Manufacturing Consent"
Well you are a bit misinformed. The idustry is not directly regulated at all. The SEC can ONLY recommened they don't have direct control like the FCC does over AT&T. Both the NYSE and NASDAQ are self-regulated bodies. E*Trade has come under pressure by stories of people who have never traded becoming bankrupt to implement stricter checking policies. It was their choice and theirs alone to implement such policies. But it is true that they are really only attempting to protect inexpereiced invenstors from being screwed.
Okay just a bit of perspective here. First of all no one is not going to see it in the movies because it is out on the net. So the IMHO ridiculous argument that they lose money is nothing more then air and warm at that. A good point though it how much money did they spend going through this whole process? So they spent money toooo? Stop losing money they are not really losing? As well nothing prevent people from hiding till the coast is clear and I am sure they don't want to spend the money to monitor forever. Also I would like to seem then sue outside of the US. I dunno I think companies are losing money because they try so hard to stop this stuff when if they just ignored it they could go on raking in the money and everyone would be happy.
I surely hope the Net will not be based on ldap, ldap although it has it's place is only a subset of X.500 a REAL directory standard which unfortunatly for many reasons never took off like it should have. You can check out this article on X.500 and LDAP for more detailed info. But basically IMHO everyone working on LDAP is just recreating X.500 with no real added innovations to it.
Well you can start by understanding the system by which the goverment and media controls information and attitudes. I would strongly suggest reading Noam Chomsky , I personally recommend reading The Chomsky Trilogy, Deterring Democracy and Manufacturing Consent
Now you are mixing apples and oranges here. You could compare virus protection software as a hospital but you can not compare MS to a hospital. the logic is all wrong. MS is a product producer a hospital is a service provider. There is a huge huge difference. The first anology was although faulty, it was logical.
And no they are not demonstrating that MS does not make a better mouse trap. Windows is a well estahblished product that most of the world uses and as it has been shown by Mellissa(sp?) et al that means one hole can cause major major world wide problems. So _it is_ MS's responsibility to deal with these issues better then they currently are and if they need to embaress MS by relasing products like BO 2000 to get that done then they will.
It is great maybe in 25 or 50 years we will be able to replace failing organs and such but what will the impact on soceity be? Example if you can now replace dying organs, conceivably we could live many decades longer. So for a criminal with a life sentence, should we extend his life? I mean but are we really extending his life? Would we not just be treating an illness, failure of organs, tissue, etc... so it would really not be elective it would be standard life saving procedures. This is not the only possible dilemma, either. Most people don't talk about issues like this, so I thought I would throw it out.
Well by that logic why bother with Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.. Engineering, it is all engineering and there are more engineering jobs in general. I mean I would assume general programming is the basis of this degree if it is not then it is worthless.
It is biased but, the point to GPL is not to have companies jump on it but to protect code that authors want to keep free and open to everyone. I don't anyone really has a problem with a company using BSD style licencing it is at least a step in the right direction. Basically GPL protects those who wish to their code to be protected.
Well I would assume alot of that information is proprietary and I doubt they would really give away their trade secrets that easily, but I could be wrong.
Yeah but Slashdot will topple Team EvangeList from overall 1st place at this rate in about a year (if the contest lasts that long). AnandTech, even if they double their rate it would take them 3 years to catch up.
Well it is a game of statistics really, things like the bombers and cannons have very little defense (1), this offsets their offensive power and represents their strategic use hit and run. I mean if you think about it realistically you don't have cannons and bombers out there all by themselves they are part of units. But all in all Civ games are not meant to be direclty realistic. If you try to take the game realistically there are so many problems it is ridiculous. It is fun game don't think about the reality, it hurts too much:{).
An evil AI? I would be more afraid of an AI that is completely devoid of emotions which is much more likely then an AI that has emotions. If we where devoid of emotions and acted completely rationally then this would be a truely different and probably scarey world. In T2 or The Matrix I don't think the AI was ever conotated as being evil, do we as modern day human being consider their actions evil, yes, but in the to AI in both movies I believe the intent was to show that they where devoid of the concepts of good and evil they where just rational, they where superior and they took advantage of it. It is survivial of the fittest, animals that have no clue what good an evil is do this every day.
An interesting point to this is that even though most people probably do pirate business software the joe smoe is not where these companies make their money. They make their bread and butter from businesses and it is the business piracy that really hurts them. In the US it is not really bad most mid to large companies are very sensitive to piracy but outside of the US and Eastern Europe businesses pirate much much more. The real problem is getting countries to enforce laws against the companies, it is because there is stronger law enforcement in the US that businesses are more piracy aware.
The Joe Smoe is important to these companies since when they do work they will ask for the software they are most familar with and you know what it is going to be the stuff they pirated in collage and high school anyway who argues against that is in denial. Collage student who use the software for learning are doing the companies a favor, well unless their software sucks.
Piracy is never going to go away so the software companies could at least focus on the real issues instead of quoting ridiculous numbers so that the goverment and clueless people feel bad for them.
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Now instead of being able to do a whois from my firewall to figure out what domains port scans are coming from and and who to contact I have to do the extra step of going to another machine and looking it via netscape. Thanks alot Internic! :{p
unlike AmEx's stupid idea of a credit card swiper on your PC,
Do you actually understand how their smart card will work? Hmmm, because you don't seem to. First It is a smart card, and ISO-7816 smart card to be more specific.
Second the cards will have have certificates on them which will contain IIRC a set of 1 public and 1 private key which will be used to encrypt sessions, I personally feel it is a bit better then ssl since it is on the card and not on the system.
So this is at worst at least as good as ssl and it is much more convienent. I don't understand all the details of how they will implemented but it may even be better then ssl. So pls, try to understand a technology before you go off on it.
Well, consider something, I don't think we yet have the technology to allow something that small to record the information, so that means it has to transmit it, so that means it should relativly easy to discover one in at least a closed envirorment, so it is not that much of a concern, we will just have literal bug detectors, *ba dump bump*.
Although once technology allows us to record at that small a scale then, the suggestions for anit-robo fly flies is probably the way to go.
What exactly is the big deal about speeds in the GHz? May be a mile stone, but it's only logical progression.
Well I think the big deal at least with this test is that it actually scaled very well, I personally found it impressive the amount of performance gain that it actually acheived. It basically means 1) Intel probably can do Ghz soon w/o much problem 2) the Coppermine architecure is pretty solid 3) We don't know if AMD can scale as well, which means Intel might catch up sooner then AMD would like
Well the simpliest way to avoid hacks like this is have the internal system keep track of temperature deltas and if the delta is too large then they can take actions like shutting the machine down, sounding and alarm, etc...
Of course, one of the things I find amusing-yet-scary is how nuts all the little kiddies are going over Darth Maul. Yeah, that's a wonderful role model ... ;)
Hmm , not sure of you point here, I mean people went crazy over Boba Fett(sp?) as well. I mean bad guys are usually slicker and more attractive in many ways.
Good points but:
4) The NSA just wants to make it easy for them and
if MS didn't screw up probably no one would know. Who the hell wants to hack into a box
when you can have a backdoor. Also there is
nothing saying a foriegn agency of some sort
couldn't make NT less hackable, although
IMHO they would be using Unix in first place
but you never know.
Of course this assumes the who thing is really what it looks like.
who knows these days, eh?
I think people are missing his point. His key example was a mother who even though she had no objection to her children seeing the movie had the right to decide taken away from her by the theater. What that is, is people right being arbitrarily taken away at whim because of basically powerful lobbying groups. If people could get read what he is saying, although a bit verbosely is, this is not a singular event and nothing prevents other rights from being taken away virtually by these powerful lobbying groups. Unfortunatlly we really don't live in a free country are rights are seemingly control not by the constitution but by the powerful and even worse in many times a whimsical fashion. In the end it is the non powerful people (read: us) suffer and have to deal with this. What, just because in this instance it is children it is not as important? In most cases these children are going to see these movies with the full permission of their guardians who are in the end who are responsible for them, mainly since they realize that what they are seeing in the movies, well is nothing new to them, any parents that believe otherwise should open their eyes. Yeah children are going to be upset, this is arbitrary and silly if if you bothered to read what many of them wrote they made pretty damn mature points, but it seems so many of you just want to see them as whinning children. It is sad that people wish delegate their rights to whatever powerful lobbying groups wish to control them. This is supposedly a country for the people by the people but in reality it is a country of many controlled by the few. If none of you can see that was mainly his point then you are sadly blind to the world around you. Instead of seeing his point, people have choosen to take the common media presentation of this subject, that the people that are complaining are children that are just upset they can't see the movies, this is a capatilistic free soceity and if you don't like it don't go to the movies and of course since the movie business is not going out of business from people not going then these people complaining are radicals or bratty kids. How can argue with that logic? But this is not simply a text book capatilistic or even a free soceity so the basic premise is already false. For more information read Noam Chomsky , although he does not really talk about issues like this he does talk about how the US soceity really works.
But that is part of the problem the goverment doesn't want the "hundled masses" to participate. In fact they fear our participation because they are the elite and we don't know what are the right decisions and if we make our own decisions we will be doomed. Although this is not all of goverment it is enough of it. To find out more read Noam Chomsky especially Necessary Illusions and "Manufacturing Consent"
Well you are a bit misinformed. The idustry is not directly regulated at all. The SEC can ONLY recommened they don't have direct control like the FCC does over AT&T. Both the NYSE and NASDAQ are self-regulated bodies. E*Trade has come under pressure by stories of people who have never traded becoming bankrupt to implement stricter checking policies. It was their choice and theirs alone to implement such policies. But it is true that they are really only attempting to protect inexpereiced invenstors from being screwed.
Okay just a bit of perspective here. First of all no one is not going to see it in the movies because it is out on the net. So the IMHO ridiculous argument that they lose money is nothing more then air and warm at that. A good point though it how much money did they spend going through this whole process? So they spent money toooo? Stop losing money they are not really losing? As well nothing prevent people from hiding till the coast is clear and I am sure they don't want to spend the money to monitor forever. Also I would like to seem then sue outside of the US. I dunno I think companies are losing money because they try so hard to stop this stuff when if they just ignored it they could go on raking in the money and everyone would be happy.
I surely hope the Net will not be based on ldap, ldap although it has it's place is only a subset of X.500 a REAL directory standard which unfortunatly for many reasons never took off like it should have. You can check out this article on X.500 and LDAP for more detailed info. But basically IMHO everyone working on LDAP is just recreating X.500 with no real added innovations to it.
Well you can start by understanding the system by which the goverment and media controls information and attitudes. I would strongly suggest reading Noam Chomsky , I personally recommend reading The Chomsky Trilogy, Deterring Democracy and Manufacturing Consent
Now you are mixing apples and oranges here. You could compare virus protection software as a hospital but you can not compare MS to a hospital. the logic is all wrong. MS is a product producer a hospital is a service provider. There is a huge huge difference. The first anology was although faulty, it was logical.
And no they are not demonstrating that MS does not make a better mouse trap. Windows is a well estahblished product that most of the world uses and as it has been shown by Mellissa(sp?) et al that means one hole can cause major major world wide problems. So _it is_ MS's responsibility to deal with these issues better then they currently are and if they need to embaress MS by relasing products like BO 2000 to get that done then they will.
nuff said
No no, hamster power is the way to go
It is great maybe in 25 or 50 years we will be able to replace failing organs and such but what will the impact on soceity be? Example if you can now replace dying organs, conceivably we could live many decades longer. So for a criminal with a life sentence, should we extend his life? I mean but are we really extending his life? Would we not just be treating an illness, failure of organs, tissue, etc... so it would really not be elective it would be standard life saving procedures. This is not the only possible dilemma, either. Most people don't talk about issues like this, so I thought I would throw it out.
Well by that logic why bother with Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.. Engineering, it is all engineering and there are more engineering jobs in general. I mean I would assume general programming is the basis of this degree if it is not then it is worthless.
It is biased but, the point to GPL is not to have companies jump on it but to protect code that authors want to keep free and open to everyone. I don't anyone really has a problem with a company using BSD style licencing it is at least a step in the right direction. Basically GPL protects those who wish to their code to be protected.
Well I would assume alot of that information is proprietary and I doubt they would really give away their trade secrets that easily, but I could be wrong.
Yeah but Slashdot will topple Team EvangeList from overall 1st place at this rate in about a year (if the contest lasts that long). AnandTech, even if they double their rate it would take them 3 years to catch up.
Well it is a game of statistics really, things like the bombers and cannons have very little defense (1), this offsets their offensive power and represents their strategic use hit and run. I mean if you think about it realistically you don't have cannons and bombers out there all by themselves they are part of units. But all in all Civ games are not meant to be direclty realistic. If you try to take the game realistically there are so many problems it is ridiculous. It is fun game don't think about the reality, it hurts too much :{).
Borland always made better products it didn't help them then, MS has never been afraid of better products they have better marketing.
Okay lets insert some common sense here, the board is just about bigger then 2 CPUs, which IMHO is not really that tall.
An evil AI? I would be more afraid of an AI that is completely devoid of emotions which is much more likely then an AI that has emotions. If we where devoid of emotions and acted completely rationally then this would be a truely different and probably scarey world. In T2 or The Matrix I don't think the AI was ever conotated as being evil, do we as modern day human being consider their actions evil, yes, but in the to AI in both movies I believe the intent was to show that they where devoid of the concepts of good and evil they where just rational, they where superior and they took advantage of it. It is survivial of the fittest, animals that have no clue what good an evil is do this every day.
An interesting point to this is that even though most people probably do pirate business software the joe smoe is not where these companies make their money. They make their bread and butter from businesses and it is the business piracy that really hurts them. In the US it is not really bad most mid to large companies are very sensitive to piracy but outside of the US and Eastern Europe businesses pirate much much more. The real problem is getting countries to enforce laws against the companies, it is because there is stronger law enforcement in the US that businesses are more piracy aware.
The Joe Smoe is important to these companies since when they do work they will ask for the software they are most familar with and you know what it is going to be the stuff they pirated in collage and high school anyway who argues against that is in denial. Collage student who use the software for learning are doing the companies a favor, well unless their software sucks.
Piracy is never going to go away so the software companies could at least focus on the real issues instead of quoting ridiculous numbers so that the goverment and clueless people feel bad for them.