Analogies You Probably Won't Find in Great Literature:
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
The man fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets
T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
George Bush was like Albert Einstein at this stage
Operating systems such as z/OS fall in place where others aren't neccessarily useful. The OS is geared mainly (or it seems) for high powered computing, something along the lines like a huge mainframe, which OS' like Linux, or the BSD's cannot be trusted to support.
Not to start a flamewar of any kind but there isn't a company I can think of who would dish out cash for some huge mainframe-like computer solely to let one of their geeks toy with, and install anything other than something proven (or semi-proven via marketing.)
Sure it may be biased on the geek level to discriminate against other Unixes but the fact remains money talks, and the companies using this OS and the servers they run on would be insane to let it happen at this point especially when Linux in my opinion is in such a disarray of distro's. there are no standards on many things, etc.
Take a look at Motorola, they're power computing comes in the form of QNX, ChorusOS, Onea OSE, Integrity, ThreadX, for many high powered stuff. Are these less of an OS than Linux or any other open source based OS out there because its not "geek chic?" Hell no.
Well searching for my own links on Quantum computing, I came across... Quantum Teleportation.
Seems like something out of a movie (its description) but judging by some of the dates on the findings scientists concluded (some dating back to Albert Einstein), would it be safe to say, quantum computing would only see the light of day in government labs?
What is teleportation? A straightforward definition, inspired by science fiction series
on TV would be `transportation from A to B without traversing the intermediate space'. Practically speaking, one should send the complete information of the object from A to B, where clever technicians rebuild the object. But by means of this definition, we already have lots of forms of teleportation. In a fax, a telephone and a television images and sounds are `converted into' information (electrical currents in a cable), sent and translated to comprehensive images and sounds again.
Nothing prevents us from keeping the original image and perhaps `teleport' it to yet another receiver. But then we could have called it `copying' just as well. Intuitively, we want the original object to vanish in the process of real teleportation.
Suppose Alice has an unknown superposition of horizontal and vertical polarization. She can of course send her photon directly to Bob by means of an optical fibre, but then there is the danger of altering the superposition in an unpredictable way due to interactions with the fibre. This effect is called decoherence, and causes severe difficulties when one wants to manipulate quantum states.
Alice can teleport her quantum state to Bob. The information of her state (the exact superposition) must then be dissected into classical and quantum information. It works as follows: Alice and Bob both receive a part of an EPR-pair (one photon for Alice and one for Bob). This EPR-pair will become the transmitter of the quantum information. The classical information can be sent by cable or radio. The EPR-photons are correlated in the way described above: if Alice after a measurement finds her photon in vertical polarization, then Bob's photon is in horizontal polarization and vice versa. But Alice doesn't perform her measurement yet! It is very important that the correlation remains: `the line should be left open,' and a measurement destroys the correlation
Give me twenty atoms and I'll break the RC5 contest."
I'm sure the Czech crew who released the PGP advisory this week would love the same kind of computing. (more historical codebreaking)
Seems entirely over my head (the level of computing obviously) but here would be some nice uses for this level of computing.
An international powerhouse computer to track the DNA mapping databases in one powerful machine. This would help scientists, and their companies to focus solely on those matters as opposed to wondering whether current technology would support them to fullest extent. It may also be networked in order to help assist them in mapping, cataloging information, sorting, etc.
Space Race... Scientists, astronomers, etc., could have a super computer assist them in fully mapping, catalogging the universe, its planets, stars, etc.
I wonder how old I'll be before a computer like this is something like what a c64 is in nowadays. Just think scientists where developing this starting in 1994 (from what I saw on NYTimes), imagine when the level of computing in 20 years, or would it all come crashing down. Scary thought.
Anyone care to reply with links to basic quantum computing information you care to share?
I was making a statement in general, so there was no need to state this, I for one have been using FreeBSD, and OpenBSD since FBSD 3.2 and Open 2.6 so I'm pretty familiar with ports, the purpose of my initial post was to point out what I understood, Gnome wouldn't ship unless it compiled which is what I took it to be.
If I'm not mistaken, you could run Gnome under FreeBSD with Linux compat, so I guess the only news is... Gnome won't be shipped if it doesn't compile? Sounds good but that doesn't do much for downloads of Gnome and all the dependancies, and if your on dialup... (ouch). Either way its nice to see developers still focusing on the BSD's contrary to beliefs that BSD is dying.
But instead, the ``Bluetooth'' demonstration at the world's biggest computer and electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100 transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for visitors with palmtop computers.
<sarcasm>
Must be a Windows thing first Windows bluescreens now this;) </sarcasm>
Bluetooth is seriously hobbled by a lack of standardized code, which means that devices of different brands often can't communicate with each other - a big flaw for a technology hailed as the next step in computer interconnectivity.
Ponder this idea, maybe some of the vendors, in an effort to seem like team players, are not neccessarily tweaking their devices (hardware, software) to work properly with Bluetooth based devices (hw/sw). By attempting to seem as if they're trying to break into the Bluetooth scene, or be "team players", they're using that status to build around Bluetooth, in an attempt to capture on "the next big thing" (could happen).
Major people are banking mega bucks into this technology which in my opinion will be something like firewire, useless to the typical person. The add on (provided your pc isn't bluetoothed already) is a slight bit pricey, provided I could get a used 400mhz for about $200, so why would should I spend on this when technology as I know it changes so fast, by the time I did get it, I'd be looking at something else.
So far, consumer demand for Bluetooth has been anemic due to the technical problems and the high prices
The recent case of "space cell phones" shows how controversy can touch upon many aspects of a new communication paradigm. On one hand, we have enthusiastic "early adopters" who represent the tide of new ideas and schematics into the communication technology field. On the other hand,
we have the more experienced, but possibly flawed, viewpoint of the current communication leaders.
Sorry to seem like I'm flaming or starting a flamewar, but I haven't seen anyone, or read an article condemning anything in regards to cellular minus the people attempting to halt drivers from speaking on a cell unless they're hands free for obvious reasons. Maybe a link to what your intending to say would help me out here.
Who is correct? At this point, it's difficult to tell. Some detractors would argue that this technology presents an undue intrusion into existing social models.
Ummm Maybe this should be argued from NASA's standpoint (in relevance to this article), they are the ones who would suffer from intrusion should anyone intercept or hijack one of the sessions. How is NASA, by using this technology snooping on anything, I think your mistaking NASA with NSA.
Perhaps glitches in this untested process may condemn cell phones to a footnote in our history.
How did you mangle this connotation from the article at any point. You've confused me to the extent that...
... well...
I just give up you confused the shit out of me their guy.
I have to wonder if this is really going to be used by NASA for a few reasons well mainly, if you look at the timeline ont he NASA homepage, its about 6 years, and we all know how fast technology changes. 6 years before this is even used? Or did I misread it? Anyways it seems like a cost effective idea but I wonder if anyone knows of more specs on this, e.g.:
GPS receiver; potential other sensors (e.g., accelerometers)
Internet protocol (IP) communications and software tools
GPS is readily available already so unless they're banking on some new hyper technical version, why was this listed? IP communications and software tools... Anyone know of any information on software of specs of the IP side of things, IPv6, v4, what? Also if this comes into play I wonder what will companies like Cisco, and Juniper do in order to capture this market, anyone with links to information like that? It'd be some neat Sunday night reading.
Cloning may reduce genetic variability, Producing many clones runs the risk of creating a population that is entirely the same. This population would be susceptible to the same diseases, and one disease could devastate the entire population. One can easily picture humans being wiped out be a single virus, however, less drastic, but more
probable events could occur from a lack of genetic diversity. For example, if a large percentage of an nation's cattle are identical clones, a virus, such as a particular strain of mad cow disease, could effect the entire population. The result could be catastrophic food shortages in that nation.
Cloning may cause people to settle for the best existing animals, not allowing for improvement of the species. In this way, cloning could potentially interfere with natural evolution.
Cloning is currently an expensive process. Cloning requires large amounts of money and biological expertise. Ian Wilmut and his associates required 277 tries before producing Dolly. A new cloning
technique has recently been developed which is far more reliable. However, even this technique has 2-3% success rate.
There is a risk of disease transfer between transgenic animals and the animal from which the transgenes were derived. If an animal producing drugs in its milk becomes infected by a virus, the animal may transmit the virus to a patient using the drug.
Any research into human cloning would eventually need to be tested on human. The ability to clone humans may lead to the genetic tailoring of offspring. The heart of the cloning debate is concerned with the genetic manipulation of a human embryo before it begins development. It is conceivable that scientists could alter a baby's genetic code to give the individual a certain color of eyes or genetic resistance to certain diseases. This is viewed as inappropriate tampering with "Mother Nature" by many ethicists.
Because clones are derived from an existing adult cell, it has older genes. Will the clone's life expectancy be shorter because of this? Despite this concern, so far, all clones have appeared to be perfectly normal creatures.
A "genetic screening test" could be used to eliminate zygotes of a particular gender, without requiring a later abortion.
Cloning might be used to create a "perfect human," or one with above normal strength and sub-normal intelligence, a genetic underclass. Also, if cloning is perfected in humans, there would be no genetic need for men.
Cloning might have a detrimental effect on familial relationships. A child born from an adult DNA cloning of his father could be considered a delayed identical twin of one of his parents. It is unknown as to how a human might react if he or she knew he or she was an exact duplicate of an older individual.
We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives.
You have given no evidence that this is a misconception... in fact it is likely to be true.
With perfect (or near-perfect) copies of cells, logically treatments can be tested much
more efficently.
Um unless you haven't had a full understanding of this, Dolly was supposed to be the perfect clone of a sheep. Maybe its me misreading or something, but DNA testing holds the fixes for bad DNA and its DNA which makes the building blocks for life. Cloning something out of the blue will not fix any imperfections within anythings DNA
Assumptions and statements such as this are thrown in the loop by those who are in power to gain financially by supporting cloning by attempting to empathize with those suffering.
You don't know that. You CAN'T know their reasons! And again, your suspicions about their empathy have nothing do do with any reason for or against cloning.
Ever notice that those in support of cloning either have extraordinary gains from it, finances, a loved one who is sick or died. Ever notice how they;re the ones to wholeheartedly vie for cloning. Last time I saw anyone outside of these means say "Hey why not just make a clone for the hey of it" was.... never Am I allowed to infer or must my opinion on the matter be revoked because someone doesn't neccessarily like what I say, or maybe misinteprets or misunderstand it?
Maybe I'm just stupid, but that was not a response to the "misconception" at all. DNA research to save endangered species and plants??
It was a misprint but now that you mention it, lets take a close DNA exam of a Panda, how its body is composed, what illnesses is it succeptable to and act from there, you don't neccessarily need to clone an animal to save it if its endangered. You could study up on it and determine better situations for the remaining animals to survive in greater fashions.
I certainly don't want a world full of genetically identical people, but I do know that advances from cloning (and your precious DNA research) are going to improve the world around us. Further, the imperfect cloning technologies of today are also going to improve.
You assume cloning will make things better whereas DNA is already there, its the building blocks of life not some copy or shoddily produce replica of it. So heres for your arguments sake...
Lets create say 10,000 clones to create, watch as they grow, learn, etc. Then lets watch these people (remember they're still people your clones) suffer through sicknesses and diseases while we play with copying life.
Here's some good reading material on cloning I thought I should share from bookmarks. I know I should've posted them before but caffiene deficiency will do that.
The clones that have been produced, they say, often have problems severe enough - developmental delays, heart defects, lung problems and malfunctioning immune systems - to give pause to anyone thinking of cloning a human being. In one example that seems like science fiction come true, some cloned mice that appeared normal suddenly, as young adults, grew grotesquely fat.
Some of the things people tend to either overlook, ignore, or just not know, is that cloning is not creating a perfect replication of life of any form. These findings will now support this.
Misconceptions: We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic
surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives.
Wrong DNA testing will hopefully address issues surrounding health and anyone who uses cloning as an argument is blind to science and the real truth surrounding cloning.
Medical tragedies - Many people have suffered accidental medical tragedies during their lifetimes. Read about a girl who needs a kidney, a burn victim, a girl born with cosmetic deformities, a man who needs a liver, a women who is infertile because of cancer, and a father who lost his only son.
Assumptions and statements such as this are thrown in the loop by those who are in power to gain financially by supporting cloning by attempting to empathize with those suffering.
All these people favor cloning and want the science to proceed. To cure infertility - Infertile people are discriminated against. Men are made to feel like they are not "real men." Women are made to feel as if they are useless barren vessels. Worse, being infertile is often not considered a "real medical problem" and insurance companies and governments are not sympathetic.
Again when dealing with situations like this, people are apt to just fall wholeheartedly into ideas presented by people without knowing underlying factors. No scientist who expects to gain finances will tell someone "We can create a beautiful person who looks like your son, but he will still have all the issues that killed him in the first place for $30,000.00"
Endangered species could be saved - Through the research leading up to human cloning we will
perfect the technology to clone animals, and thus we could forever preserve endangered species, including human beings.Animals and plants could be cloned for medical purposes - Through the research leading up to human cloning, we should discover how to clone animals and plants to produce life-saving medications.
Personally I think DNA research is a better solution. Many people think of cloning as something of a Unix command:
for file in * ; do cat TOBECLONED | sort | uniq | grep -v PROBLEMS >> NEWTHING
AOL has been attempting to block access to AIM via Jabber, GAIM, and other open source projects based on libfaim. Both Jabber.org and Jabber.com have issued statements, and are welcoming AOL to work
together with the community in creating an open server to server interoperability solution that meets their FCC Conditions."
Fact of the matter is aside from the coding of GAIM, FAIM, and others, these clients all need to connect to AOL's servers which can cost AOL a fortune. Sure those who use the clients (FAIM, GAIM, others) will complain about this, but when AOL created their Instant Messenger, they created it with the intentions of having AOL subscribers use it. After a while they opened it up to outside sources.
Now these outside sources (people who don't use AOL) who download the AOL IM program are subjected to advertisements and other gimmicks which creates revenue for AOL. These open source clients bypass all that gooey crap (which IMO is a good thing) so one should see clearly why AOL would want them banned.
With all of this back and forth on the issue from AOL, do we really need to use their system at all?
For entertainment companies marketing to a generation raised on the Internet--teenagers and twentysomethings who regularly comb the Web--good buzz reigns supreme.
Unless that company paying you pulls its IPO and gets sucked under NASDAQ's nasty grip of things this year. Wonderous how for some instances media is one stop short of saying the Internet is dead.
It's a simple process: Tap into any of the big search engines, such as Yahoo or Ask Jeeves, type in the name of a favorite star or movie, and a world of possibilities pops up that includes promotional sites, movie reviews, recent articles, chat rooms and fan sites.
Last time I did a search on any one particular star, I had to sift through about 1gajillion porn links
Because fans crave "real" or unfiltered dialogue with other fans, these unofficial sites are popular and powerful. It is a culture that is ripe for manipulation.
This isn't neccessarily news though, maybe since someone actually wrote up an article about it. Fact of the matter is, most advertising agencies have marketers who profile when, where, and how to market to people by ethnicity, social status, etc. When was the last time you saw an ad for Malt Liquor or Birth Control on Rodeo Drive? Theres nothing new to what the studios are doing. Sure its immoral in a sense, but its no better than some marketer chosing one neighborhood because more "bruthas" live there.
July 18 -
I just tried to connect to America Online. I've heard it is the best online service I can get. They even included a free disk! I'd better hold onto it incase they don't ever send me another one! I can't connect. I don't know what is wrong.
July 19 -
Some guy at the tech support center says my computer needs a modem. I don't see why. He's just
trying to cheat me. How dumb does he think I am?
July 22 -
I bought the modem. I couldn't figure out where it goes. It wouldn't fit in the monitor or the printer. I'm confused.
July 23 -
I finally got the modem in and hooked up. that nine year old next door did it for me. But it still don't work. I cant get online.
July 25 -
That nine year old kid next door hooked me up to America Online for me. He's so smart. I told the kid he was a prodigy. But he says that's just another service. What a modest kid. He's so smart and he does these services for people. Anyway he's smarter then the jerks who sold me the modem. They
didn't even tell me about communications software. Bet they didn't know. And why do they put two
telephone jack holes in the back of a modem when you only need one? And why do they have one labeled phone when you are not suppose to hook it to the phone jack on the wall? I thought the dial
tone sounded funny! Boy, are modem makers dumb! But the kid figured it out by the sound.
July 26 -
What's the internet? I thought I was on America Online. Not this internet thing. I'm confused.
July 27 -
The nine year old kid next door showed me how to use this America Online stuff. I told him he must
be a genius. He says that he is compared to me. Maybe he's not so modest after all.
July 28 -
I tried to use chat today. I tried to talk into my computer but nothing happened. maybe I need to buy
a microphone.
July 29 -
I found this thing called usenet. I got out of it because I'm connected to America Online not usenet.
July 30 -
These people in this usenet thing keep using capital letters. How do they do that? I never figured out how to type capital letters. Maybe they have a different type of keyboard.
JULY 31 -
I CALLED THE COMPUTER MAKER I BOUGHT IT FROM TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING A CAPITOL LETTER KEY. THE TECH SUPPORT GUY SAID IT WAS THIS CAPS LOCK KEY. WHY DIDN'T THEY SPELL IT OUT? I TOLD HIM I GOT A CHEAP KEYBOARD AND WANTED A BETTER ONE. AND ONE OF MY SHIFT KEYS ISNT THE SAME SIZE AS THE OTHER. HE SAID THATS A STANDARD. I TOLD HIM I DIDN'T WANT A STANDARD KEYBOARD BUT ANOTHER BRAND. I MUST HAVE HAD AN IMPORTANT COMPLAINT BECAUSE I HEARD HIM TELL THE OTHER SUPPORT GUYS TO LISTEN IN ON OUR CONVERSATION.
AUGUST 1 -
I FOUND THIS THING CALLED THE USENET ORACLE. IT SAYS THAT IT CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS I ASK IT. I SENT IT 44 SEPARATE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERNET. I HOPE IT RESPONDS SOON.
AUGUST 2 -
I FOUND A GROUP CALLED REC.HUMOR. I DECIDED TO POST THIS JOKE ABOUT THE CHICKEN THAT CROSSED THE ROAD. TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE! HA! HA! I WASNT SURE I POSTED IT RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 56 MORE TIMES.
AUGUST 3 -
I KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB. I DON'T NOW SPIDERS GREW THAT LARGE.
AUGUST 4 -
THE ORACLE RESPONDED TO MY QUESTIONS TODAY. GEEZ IT WAS RUDE. I WAS SO ANGRY THAT I POSTED AN ANGRY MESSAGE ABOUT IT TO REC.HUMOR.ORACLE. I WASNT SURE IF I POSTED RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 22 MORE TIMES.
AUGUST 5 -
SOMEONE TOLD ME TO READ THE FAQ. GEEZ THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO USE PROFANITY.
AUGUST 6 -
SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME TO STOP SHOUTING IN ALL MY MESSAGES. WHAT A STUPID JERK. IM NOT SHOUTING! IM NOT EVEN TALKING! JUST TYPING! HOW CAN THEY LET THESE RUDE JERKS GO ON THE INTERNET?
August 7 -
Why have a Caps Lock key if you're not suppose to use it? Its probably an extra feature that costs
more money.
August 8 -
I just read this post called make money fast. I'm so exited. I'm going to make lots of money. I followed his instructions and posted it to every newsgroup I could find.
August 9 -
I just made my signature file. Its only 6 pages long. I will have to work on it some more.
August 10 -
I just looked at a group called alt.aol.sucks. I read a few posts and I really believe that aol should be wiped off the face of the earth. I wonder what an aol is.
August 11 -
I was asking where to find some information about something. Some guy told me to check out ftp.netcom.com. I've looked and looked but I can't find that group.
August 12 -
I sent a post to every usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. hopefully someone will help. I cant ask the kid next door. His parents said that when he comes back from my house he's laughing so hard he can't eat or sleep or do his homework. So they wont let him come over anymore. I do have a great sense of humor. I don't know why the rec.humor group didn't like my chicken joke. Maybe they only like dirty stuff. Some people sent me posts about my 56 posts of the joke and they used bad words.
August 13 -
I sent another post to every usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. I had
forgot yesterday to include my new signature file which is only 8 pages long. I know everyone will
want to read my favorite poem so I included it. I'm also going to add that short story I like.
August 14 -
Some guy suspended my account because of what I was doing. I told him I don't have an account at
his bank. He's so dumb.
Ok so I wouldn't use AOL if they paid me to, but one has to be concerned, especially if they're an AOL user and by chance reading here. Users are supposed to have a right to privacy, judging by this article the interviewed person should be sued for violating someone's privacy rights while hiding under TOS bs. Surely I can see he states he is doing his "job" but how much of his "job" would be to post about older women and their cats. I would not be upset if I heard about AOL suing this moron for NDA based stuff.
Sure you can moderate this down and troll it to a -3 wouldn't matter, the facts remain, I'm sure even the typical user would expect to have some form of privacy when using their ISP.
Thanks to $INSERT_DIETY_HERE for PGP, stunnel, SSL, PPTP, Outguess
Its not a bad move by Bush to protect his personal information from being subjected to ridicule via way of the FOIA. Its the same people who passed this law that has used it against many people often abusing it and hiding under the curtain of the FOIA.
Lets be realistic here if possible about the situation, and shoot from the hip should you think its conspiracy based. We all theoretically have the right to Freedom of Speech and privacy, and many go about daily having these rights violated without even knowing. Cookies, spam resellers, telemarketers, etc., etc..
Sure we have crypto here, but let us not forget these same people who believe in a persons right to privacy tried to secretly shaft us with HR46 late last quarter.
But wait before someone rebutts with a "That was a bill for criminals who use crypto", lets take a hi tech case to a courtroom trial shall we. Jury based, in theory a jury of ones own peers. Does anyone honestly believe they will get a jury of their own peers, or rather a jury of retired computer-phobic e-misfits who sit home watching Oprah and Judge Judy? This is the sad reality is that privacy is very limited in the United States although many would love to dispute this.
Anyways I don't feel like rambling on more than I already do.
You should read the article... Think about the CA business really good for a second.
CA sells certificates to ensure your data is encrypted between client and server. You, yourself as a vendor can create your own certificate which costs nothing. Now... do you know entirely that the CA company is entirely secure, simply because they claim to be?
Things to think about:
Who gave the right to these companies to issue certificates, their is no governing entity to monitor these companies security policies. Are their employees trustworthy, is their network trustworthy, whats the difference between seeing a "Trust-E" certificate and "Vendor Company" certificate?
Most people aren't really keen on whats going on between SSL on the client and server side, and when was the last time those who did know check the validity of a cert or the company that issued it?
So you mean to tell me you would dish out a couple of grand because a company "says its so and xxx certificate is the definitive line on secure services?"
No thank you I would rather create, monitor, and control our own certs in house, and ensure that our information is to be used by our company solely.
Certificates provide an attractive business model. They cost almost nothing to make, and if you can convince someone to buy a certificate each year for $5, that times the population of the Internet is a big yearly income. If you can convince someone to purchase a private CA and pay you a fee for every certificate he issues, you're also in good shape. It's no wonder so many companies are trying to cash in on this potential market. With that much money at stake, it is also no wonder
that almost all the literature and lobbying on the subject is produced by PKI vendors. And this literature leaves some pretty basic questions unanswered: What good are certificates anyway? Are they secure? For what? In this essay, we hope to explore some of those
questions.
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure By Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier
Very informative (mirrored) document explaining this question and others in detail.
CHILDREN UNDER 13. Please note that the ICQ API as well as the ICQ service, Software, network, system, Web site, servers, various directories and listings, various message and news boards, tools, information and databases, are NOT FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE. If it comes to ICQ Inc.'s attention through reliable means that a registered user is a child under 13 years of age, ICQ Inc. will cancel that user's account.
This has to be one of the funniest and stupidest statements I've seen. For those who use ICQ/LICQ/MICQ/etc/etc when was the last time anything you did via the client was validated by the server. It sounds all good to parents and law makers who don't know any better, but my info states I'm about 12 years old, I live in Lithuania, etc., so much bogus information it'd make a wanted felon cry with envy. This is like (in my opinion) the case with some of these online cigarette companies, who were selling tobacco to kids under the age solely because they ordered with a credit card. Well sure if they have a credit card they must be legal, just don't verify they might have gotten the credit card number from their parents... Sure.... no need to verify, step right up for your Marlboros
If you are not a citizen of the USA, then the laws of the State of Israel, excluding its conflicts-of-law rules, shall govern this Agreement.
I wonder how those who oppose Israel's (sometimes harsh) laws will feel about this. I think I'll go do some patent research and sue someone, anyone, for the sake of popularity.
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Analogies You Probably Won't Find in Great Literature:
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
The man fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
George Bush was like Albert Einstein at this stage
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Operating systems such as z/OS fall in place where others aren't neccessarily useful. The OS is geared mainly (or it seems) for high powered computing, something along the lines like a huge mainframe, which OS' like Linux, or the BSD's cannot be trusted to support.
Not to start a flamewar of any kind but there isn't a company I can think of who would dish out cash for some huge mainframe-like computer solely to let one of their geeks toy with, and install anything other than something proven (or semi-proven via marketing.)
Sure it may be biased on the geek level to discriminate against other Unixes but the fact remains money talks, and the companies using this OS and the servers they run on would be insane to let it happen at this point especially when Linux in my opinion is in such a disarray of distro's. there are no standards on many things, etc.
Take a look at Motorola, they're power computing comes in the form of QNX, ChorusOS, Onea OSE, Integrity, ThreadX, for many high powered stuff. Are these less of an OS than Linux or any other open source based OS out there because its not "geek chic?" Hell no.
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read on... quantum crypto
I'm sure the Czech crew who released the PGP advisory this week would love the same kind of computing. (more historical codebreaking)
Seems entirely over my head (the level of computing obviously) but here would be some nice uses for this level of computing.
I wonder how old I'll be before a computer like this is something like what a c64 is in nowadays. Just think scientists where developing this starting in 1994 (from what I saw on NYTimes), imagine when the level of computing in 20 years, or would it all come crashing down. Scary thought. Anyone care to reply with links to basic quantum computing information you care to share?
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I was making a statement in general, so there was no need to state this, I for one have been using FreeBSD, and OpenBSD since FBSD 3.2 and Open 2.6 so I'm pretty familiar with ports, the purpose of my initial post was to point out what I understood, Gnome wouldn't ship unless it compiled which is what I took it to be.
If I'm not mistaken, you could run Gnome under FreeBSD with Linux compat, so I guess the only news is... Gnome won't be shipped if it doesn't compile? Sounds good but that doesn't do much for downloads of Gnome and all the dependancies, and if your on dialup ... (ouch). Either way its nice to see developers still focusing on the BSD's contrary to beliefs that BSD is dying.
csh-2.04# uname -snrm
FreeBSD ritalin.deficiency.org 4.1-RELEASE i386
Must be a Windows thing first Windows bluescreens now this
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Ponder this idea, maybe some of the vendors, in an effort to seem like team players, are not neccessarily tweaking their devices (hardware, software) to work properly with Bluetooth based devices (hw/sw). By attempting to seem as if they're trying to break into the Bluetooth scene, or be "team players", they're using that status to build around Bluetooth, in an attempt to capture on "the next big thing" (could happen).
Major people are banking mega bucks into this technology which in my opinion will be something like firewire, useless to the typical person. The add on (provided your pc isn't bluetoothed already) is a slight bit pricey, provided I could get a used 400mhz for about $200, so why would should I spend on this when technology as I know it changes so fast, by the time I did get it, I'd be looking at something else.
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Sorry to seem like I'm flaming or starting a flamewar, but I haven't seen anyone, or read an article condemning anything in regards to cellular minus the people attempting to halt drivers from speaking on a cell unless they're hands free for obvious reasons. Maybe a link to what your intending to say would help me out here.
Ummm Maybe this should be argued from NASA's standpoint (in relevance to this article), they are the ones who would suffer from intrusion should anyone intercept or hijack one of the sessions. How is NASA, by using this technology snooping on anything, I think your mistaking NASA with NSA.
How did you mangle this connotation from the article at any point. You've confused me to the extent that...
... well...
I just give up you confused the shit out of me their guy.
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I have to wonder if this is really going to be used by NASA for a few reasons well mainly, if you look at the timeline ont he NASA homepage, its about 6 years, and we all know how fast technology changes. 6 years before this is even used? Or did I misread it? Anyways it seems like a cost effective idea but I wonder if anyone knows of more specs on this, e.g.:
GPS receiver; potential other sensors (e.g., accelerometers)
Internet protocol (IP) communications and software tools
GPS is readily available already so unless they're banking on some new hyper technical version, why was this listed? IP communications and software tools... Anyone know of any information on software of specs of the IP side of things, IPv6, v4, what? Also if this comes into play I wonder what will companies like Cisco, and Juniper do in order to capture this market, anyone with links to information like that? It'd be some neat Sunday night reading.
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Windows - Rubbermaid = Trash
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Conceiving a clone
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Um unless you haven't had a full understanding of this, Dolly was supposed to be the perfect clone of a sheep. Maybe its me misreading or something, but DNA testing holds the fixes for bad DNA and its DNA which makes the building blocks for life. Cloning something out of the blue will not fix any imperfections within anythings DNA
Ever notice that those in support of cloning either have extraordinary gains from it, finances, a loved one who is sick or died. Ever notice how they;re the ones to wholeheartedly vie for cloning. Last time I saw anyone outside of these means say "Hey why not just make a clone for the hey of it" was.... never Am I allowed to infer or must my opinion on the matter be revoked because someone doesn't neccessarily like what I say, or maybe misinteprets or misunderstand it?
It was a misprint but now that you mention it, lets take a close DNA exam of a Panda, how its body is composed, what illnesses is it succeptable to and act from there, you don't neccessarily need to clone an animal to save it if its endangered. You could study up on it and determine better situations for the remaining animals to survive in greater fashions.
You assume cloning will make things better whereas DNA is already there, its the building blocks of life not some copy or shoddily produce replica of it. So heres for your arguments sake...
Lets create say 10,000 clones to create, watch as they grow, learn, etc. Then lets watch these people (remember they're still people your clones) suffer through sicknesses and diseases while we play with copying life.
You have such a great idea
Here's some good reading material on cloning I thought I should share from bookmarks. I know I should've posted them before but caffiene deficiency will do that.
D.N.Army: the Implications of Human Cloning on Future Military Forces
Bioethics of Cloning
HumanCloning.org
I have a shitload more so if anyone wants any email me for em. (you surely can find my email address now can you)
Well I know it has little to do with Dolly, but many people have taken the wrong views and assumptions of what cloning really is.
Speedy's not a clone
Some of the things people tend to either overlook, ignore, or just not know, is that cloning is not creating a perfect replication of life of any form. These findings will now support this.
Misconceptions:
We may be able to cure cancer if cloning leads to a better understanding of cell differentiation. Theories exist about how cloning may lead to a cure for heart attacks, a revolution in cosmetic surgery, organs for organ transplantation, and predictions abound about how cloning technology will save thousands of lives.
Wrong DNA testing will hopefully address issues surrounding health and anyone who uses cloning as an argument is blind to science and the real truth surrounding cloning.
Medical tragedies - Many people have suffered accidental medical tragedies during their lifetimes. Read about a girl who needs a kidney, a burn victim, a girl born with cosmetic deformities, a man who needs a liver, a women who is infertile because of cancer, and a father who lost his only son.
Assumptions and statements such as this are thrown in the loop by those who are in power to gain financially by supporting cloning by attempting to empathize with those suffering.
All these people favor cloning and want the science to proceed. To cure infertility - Infertile people are discriminated against. Men are made to feel like they are not "real men." Women are made to feel as if they are useless barren vessels. Worse, being infertile is often not considered a "real medical problem" and insurance companies and governments are not sympathetic.
Again when dealing with situations like this, people are apt to just fall wholeheartedly into ideas presented by people without knowing underlying factors. No scientist who expects to gain finances will tell someone "We can create a beautiful person who looks like your son, but he will still have all the issues that killed him in the first place for $30,000.00"
Endangered species could be saved - Through the research leading up to human cloning we will perfect the technology to clone animals, and thus we could forever preserve endangered species, including human beings.Animals and plants could be cloned for medical purposes - Through the research leading up to human cloning, we should discover how to clone animals and plants to produce life-saving medications.
Personally I think DNA research is a better solution. Many people think of cloning as something of a Unix command:
for file in * ; do cat TOBECLONED | sort | uniq | grep -v PROBLEMS >> NEWTHING
Samples were taken from HumanCloning.org
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Tripwire is now a pay for play product, so I suggest using something like this which is open source/free and just as good
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Fact of the matter is aside from the coding of GAIM, FAIM, and others, these clients all need to connect to AOL's servers which can cost AOL a fortune. Sure those who use the clients (FAIM, GAIM, others) will complain about this, but when AOL created their Instant Messenger, they created it with the intentions of having AOL subscribers use it. After a while they opened it up to outside sources.
Now these outside sources (people who don't use AOL) who download the AOL IM program are subjected to advertisements and other gimmicks which creates revenue for AOL. These open source clients bypass all that gooey crap (which IMO is a good thing) so one should see clearly why AOL would want them banned. I'm hoping this was a sarcastic question.
NCR Codebreakers (Enigma machines)
I was being sarcastic hence the link to QNX's Neutrino ;\
Unless that company paying you pulls its IPO and gets sucked under NASDAQ's nasty grip of things this year. Wonderous how for some instances media is one stop short of saying the Internet is dead.
Last time I did a search on any one particular star, I had to sift through about 1gajillion porn links
This isn't neccessarily news though, maybe since someone actually wrote up an article about it. Fact of the matter is, most advertising agencies have marketers who profile when, where, and how to market to people by ethnicity, social status, etc. When was the last time you saw an ad for Malt Liquor or Birth Control on Rodeo Drive? Theres nothing new to what the studios are doing. Sure its immoral in a sense, but its no better than some marketer chosing one neighborhood because more "bruthas" live there.
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Diary of an AOL (l)User.
July 18 - I just tried to connect to America Online. I've heard it is the best online service I can get. They even included a free disk! I'd better hold onto it incase they don't ever send me another one! I can't connect. I don't know what is wrong.
July 19 - Some guy at the tech support center says my computer needs a modem. I don't see why. He's just trying to cheat me. How dumb does he think I am?
July 22 - I bought the modem. I couldn't figure out where it goes. It wouldn't fit in the monitor or the printer. I'm confused.
July 23 - I finally got the modem in and hooked up. that nine year old next door did it for me. But it still don't work. I cant get online.
July 25 - That nine year old kid next door hooked me up to America Online for me. He's so smart. I told the kid he was a prodigy. But he says that's just another service. What a modest kid. He's so smart and he does these services for people. Anyway he's smarter then the jerks who sold me the modem. They didn't even tell me about communications software. Bet they didn't know. And why do they put two telephone jack holes in the back of a modem when you only need one? And why do they have one labeled phone when you are not suppose to hook it to the phone jack on the wall? I thought the dial tone sounded funny! Boy, are modem makers dumb! But the kid figured it out by the sound.
July 26 - What's the internet? I thought I was on America Online. Not this internet thing. I'm confused.
July 27 - The nine year old kid next door showed me how to use this America Online stuff. I told him he must be a genius. He says that he is compared to me. Maybe he's not so modest after all.
July 28 - I tried to use chat today. I tried to talk into my computer but nothing happened. maybe I need to buy a microphone.
July 29 - I found this thing called usenet. I got out of it because I'm connected to America Online not usenet.
July 30 - These people in this usenet thing keep using capital letters. How do they do that? I never figured out how to type capital letters. Maybe they have a different type of keyboard.
JULY 31 - I CALLED THE COMPUTER MAKER I BOUGHT IT FROM TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING A CAPITOL LETTER KEY. THE TECH SUPPORT GUY SAID IT WAS THIS CAPS LOCK KEY. WHY DIDN'T THEY SPELL IT OUT? I TOLD HIM I GOT A CHEAP KEYBOARD AND WANTED A BETTER ONE. AND ONE OF MY SHIFT KEYS ISNT THE SAME SIZE AS THE OTHER. HE SAID THATS A STANDARD. I TOLD HIM I DIDN'T WANT A STANDARD KEYBOARD BUT ANOTHER BRAND. I MUST HAVE HAD AN IMPORTANT COMPLAINT BECAUSE I HEARD HIM TELL THE OTHER SUPPORT GUYS TO LISTEN IN ON OUR CONVERSATION.
AUGUST 1 - I FOUND THIS THING CALLED THE USENET ORACLE. IT SAYS THAT IT CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS I ASK IT. I SENT IT 44 SEPARATE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERNET. I HOPE IT RESPONDS SOON.
AUGUST 2 - I FOUND A GROUP CALLED REC.HUMOR. I DECIDED TO POST THIS JOKE ABOUT THE CHICKEN THAT CROSSED THE ROAD. TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE! HA! HA! I WASNT SURE I POSTED IT RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 56 MORE TIMES.
AUGUST 3 - I KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB. I DON'T NOW SPIDERS GREW THAT LARGE.
AUGUST 4 - THE ORACLE RESPONDED TO MY QUESTIONS TODAY. GEEZ IT WAS RUDE. I WAS SO ANGRY THAT I POSTED AN ANGRY MESSAGE ABOUT IT TO REC.HUMOR.ORACLE. I WASNT SURE IF I POSTED RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 22 MORE TIMES.
AUGUST 5 - SOMEONE TOLD ME TO READ THE FAQ. GEEZ THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO USE PROFANITY.
AUGUST 6 - SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME TO STOP SHOUTING IN ALL MY MESSAGES. WHAT A STUPID JERK. IM NOT SHOUTING! IM NOT EVEN TALKING! JUST TYPING! HOW CAN THEY LET THESE RUDE JERKS GO ON THE INTERNET?
August 7 - Why have a Caps Lock key if you're not suppose to use it? Its probably an extra feature that costs more money.
August 8 - I just read this post called make money fast. I'm so exited. I'm going to make lots of money. I followed his instructions and posted it to every newsgroup I could find.
August 9 - I just made my signature file. Its only 6 pages long. I will have to work on it some more.
August 10 - I just looked at a group called alt.aol.sucks. I read a few posts and I really believe that aol should be wiped off the face of the earth. I wonder what an aol is.
August 11 - I was asking where to find some information about something. Some guy told me to check out ftp.netcom.com. I've looked and looked but I can't find that group.
August 12 - I sent a post to every usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. hopefully someone will help. I cant ask the kid next door. His parents said that when he comes back from my house he's laughing so hard he can't eat or sleep or do his homework. So they wont let him come over anymore. I do have a great sense of humor. I don't know why the rec.humor group didn't like my chicken joke. Maybe they only like dirty stuff. Some people sent me posts about my 56 posts of the joke and they used bad words.
August 13 - I sent another post to every usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. I had forgot yesterday to include my new signature file which is only 8 pages long. I know everyone will want to read my favorite poem so I included it. I'm also going to add that short story I like.
August 14 - Some guy suspended my account because of what I was doing. I told him I don't have an account at his bank. He's so dumb.
More AOL humor
YOUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY INVADED
Ok so I wouldn't use AOL if they paid me to, but one has to be concerned, especially if they're an AOL user and by chance reading here. Users are supposed to have a right to privacy, judging by this article the interviewed person should be sued for violating someone's privacy rights while hiding under TOS bs. Surely I can see he states he is doing his "job" but how much of his "job" would be to post about older women and their cats. I would not be upset if I heard about AOL suing this moron for NDA based stuff.
Sure you can moderate this down and troll it to a -3 wouldn't matter, the facts remain, I'm sure even the typical user would expect to have some form of privacy when using their ISP.
Thanks to $INSERT_DIETY_HERE for PGP, stunnel, SSL, PPTP, Outguess
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Its not a bad move by Bush to protect his personal information from being subjected to ridicule via way of the FOIA. Its the same people who passed this law that has used it against many people often abusing it and hiding under the curtain of the FOIA.
Lets be realistic here if possible about the situation, and shoot from the hip should you think its conspiracy based. We all theoretically have the right to Freedom of Speech and privacy, and many go about daily having these rights violated without even knowing. Cookies, spam resellers, telemarketers, etc., etc..
Sure we have crypto here, but let us not forget these same people who believe in a persons right to privacy tried to secretly shaft us with HR46 late last quarter.
But wait before someone rebutts with a "That was a bill for criminals who use crypto", lets take a hi tech case to a courtroom trial shall we. Jury based, in theory a jury of ones own peers. Does anyone honestly believe they will get a jury of their own peers, or rather a jury of retired computer-phobic e-misfits who sit home watching Oprah and Judge Judy? This is the sad reality is that privacy is very limited in the United States although many would love to dispute this.
Anyways I don't feel like rambling on more than I already do.
The Big Breach
You should read the article... Think about the CA business really good for a second.
CA sells certificates to ensure your data is encrypted between client and server. You, yourself as a vendor can create your own certificate which costs nothing. Now... do you know entirely that the CA company is entirely secure, simply because they claim to be?
Things to think about:
Who gave the right to these companies to issue certificates, their is no governing entity to monitor these companies security policies. Are their employees trustworthy, is their network trustworthy, whats the difference between seeing a "Trust-E" certificate and "Vendor Company" certificate?
Most people aren't really keen on whats going on between SSL on the client and server side, and when was the last time those who did know check the validity of a cert or the company that issued it?
So you mean to tell me you would dish out a couple of grand because a company "says its so and xxx certificate is the definitive line on secure services?"
No thank you I would rather create, monitor, and control our own certs in house, and ensure that our information is to be used by our company solely.
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Ten Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure By Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier
Very informative (mirrored) document explaining this question and others in detail.
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This has to be one of the funniest and stupidest statements I've seen. For those who use ICQ/LICQ/MICQ/etc/etc when was the last time anything you did via the client was validated by the server. It sounds all good to parents and law makers who don't know any better, but my info states I'm about 12 years old, I live in Lithuania, etc., so much bogus information it'd make a wanted felon cry with envy. This is like (in my opinion) the case with some of these online cigarette companies, who were selling tobacco to kids under the age solely because they ordered with a credit card. Well sure if they have a credit card they must be legal, just don't verify they might have gotten the credit card number from their parents... Sure.... no need to verify, step right up for your Marlboros
I wonder how those who oppose Israel's (sometimes harsh) laws will feel about this. I think I'll go do some patent research and sue someone, anyone, for the sake of popularity.
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