Right, and my point was that you would get no such plesantness from US Customs if they were even slightly suspicious of you:)
Walking across Rainbow(?) Bridge between Canada and the US at niagra falls.. at the US side, you enter a small room, the door locks beind you, you present your papers (Australian passport with valid US Visa waiver) to the armed Customs goon behind a bullproof glass counter, who, if you're lucky and answer his questions correctly (Name? Occupation? Reason for visit? duration?), will unlock the other door for you and let you out into the crap that is Buffalo-Niagara.
Going back into Canada.. wave Australian passport with stamp in it at Customs guy sitting behind a 1970s era desk, reading the paper and listening to the radio.. Get asked if you're bring drugs, alcohol or weapons back in.. nope? Have a good day..
And did these Canadian border nazi's have guns drawn and force you to lay face down on the road while handcuffed while they were searching you?
No?
Right.
From experience, if as a foreign devil you were to enter the US in a large group of youngsters like you did to Canada, you will likely end up with that treatment.
She refers to the Fuhrer, term which is almost exclusively associated with the Nazi party of 1930 and 1940s germany. But it's immaterial, this is more of a parody than the original one. the company supposedly acted like buttwipes, and now PA is saying as much:D
Than that of Dr Donald Knuth. In a bygone era, he would be grave robbing to find parts to bring his creations to life. Fortunately, we was born into the 20th century, and thus has spent his life on programming and algorithms.
Well, aside from the bit, where after he didn't like the typesetting of his first book, he wrote a typesetting language and designed fonts for it, rewrote the book in TeX, a language of much evil and dark arts and had it printed again. Then retired to make it his lifes' work to perfect his books, "The Art of Computer Programming", or TAOCP
I had some IBM 75GXP "DeathStars" in a RAID device at work.. we contacted our supplier and they gave us 3 x maxtor drives to use instead.. I wasn't necessarily happy, but I thought I'd give it a go.. apparently not however.. the RAID device was smart enough to recognise these were maxtors and so pretended not to see them;>
( they all sat in front of me at LCA this year.. so cute and well behaved.. I bet they've been to a lot of things like this already;) If I have kids I hope they're like them )
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When I suspect he means is including the decryption keys in the library or libraries and not distributing the key in the source form of the libraries.. so you need to "hide" it in a configuration file, or a non GPL library.
Since if the key is part of the library, and the library is GPL, the key must be in the source. Not a huge hurdle to get around, but it would stop someone distributing a set top box with a modified version of "cp" that has keys hidden in it.. they would need to modify "cp" to call another binary to do secret stuff, and then provide the source for the modification of cp, which shows how the secret binary is called, but not actuall yhte secret binary.
Saying "you can't develop DRM for linux!" is like saying "you can't use this software in a government that sponsors or is involved with the oppression of human rights".. it's a free operating system.. what are you going to do? Not sell it to them?
This isn't exactly new either, as I recall, IBM's thinkpads which had linux pre-installed had a macrovision.o kernel module;)
What about if you're in the military or another network where the computers will never be connected to anything that is connected to the internet or PSTN? So yes, a local server could do it, but then you'ld just have a pirate local server software install floating around (again, thousands of copies to business/msdn), and anti MS people like myself in IT holding off introduction of any OS that requires this by pointing out the cost of box + windows server + license server software;)
There's any number of situations which would absolutely rule out anything that ever needs to phone home.
Every pirate version of windows going around is a VLK - Volume License Key - copy of XP Professional, distributed to thousands of businesses world wide. It's not hacked XP Home or hacked XP professional.
Businesses will always need VLK versions, and business IT staf will always have one or two warez weenies who release it, and there will always be serial number generators. (or anyone with an MSDN subscription.. we have about 50 different windows install CDs at work.. everything from 98 ->.net server betas, in most cases there is a non-activation version too)
I have heard that Safari v64 is VERY buggy.. corrupted page display tops that list.. also often seems to keep headers and put them in inappropriate places..
Hopefully v67 will fix these things and help advance towards another public release.
Sort of.. I think Cisco would like a larger takeup in the SoHo aea of their Aironet products.. yet still price them at 5 x normal WAP prices.. they also have small ISDN routers which aren't too expensive (people still use ISDN?:)
The Palm Computing Platform Device, aka Palm, decides when and if it wants to talk to the PC, not the other way around. A PC cannot force a Palm connected to it via either USB or Serial to conduct a hotsync, the Palm must request it.
So basically, you can't do it that way. You could however write a program for the palm which queries the serial port on it's base every once in a while.. but it's a complex task:) Have a look at AvantGo or CSpotRun
I once saw a network intrusion detection systems (IDS) with agents that talk to each other over the network.. in cleartext.. the messages, no joke, were sequences of "QUACK", "HONK" and "FLAP".. bandwidth intensive, but still an amusing comms method.. "HONK QUACK QUACK FLAP HONK HONK HONK QUACK QUACK FLAP FLAP":>
Apple's solution however doesn't involve blocks of wood next to high speed and therefore hot devices...
It's also comparing Apples to oranges.. the Apple XServe RAID has an FC interface to the host controller, ie the XServe, but only uses ATA HDDs internally. Apple's is expensive, yes, but for 2.4TB, it's a pretty damn good price.
You're kidding right? You want a university's terms and conditions of use to require that administrative access to privately owned machines is given to the reznet admins?
People like you are the reason that student unions/councils are a good idea.
Many asian countries (HK, China? oh wait.. ) police have their sidearms connected to their belt with a 1 metre (3 ft) metal cable, to prevent anyone taking the gun very far. It's a pretty reasonable idea I think.
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Capture it to disk in your format of choice, then archive it off to SuperDLT ;) 200+GB per tape with about 20 year retention.. luvley :D
Right, and my point was that you would get no such plesantness from US Customs if they were even slightly suspicious of you :)
Walking across Rainbow(?) Bridge between Canada and the US at niagra falls.. at the US side, you enter a small room, the door locks beind you, you present your papers (Australian passport with valid US Visa waiver) to the armed Customs goon behind a bullproof glass counter, who, if you're lucky and answer his questions correctly (Name? Occupation? Reason for visit? duration?), will unlock the other door for you and let you out into the crap that is Buffalo-Niagara.
Going back into Canada.. wave Australian passport with stamp in it at Customs guy sitting behind a 1970s era desk, reading the paper and listening to the radio.. Get asked if you're bring drugs, alcohol or weapons back in.. nope? Have a good day..
And did these Canadian border nazi's have guns drawn and force you to lay face down on the road while handcuffed while they were searching you?
No?
Right.
From experience, if as a foreign devil you were to enter the US in a large group of youngsters like you did to Canada, you will likely end up with that treatment.
She refers to the Fuhrer, term which is almost exclusively associated with the Nazi party of 1930 and 1940s germany. But it's immaterial, this is more of a parody than the original one. the company supposedly acted like buttwipes, and now PA is saying as much :D
Than that of Dr Donald Knuth. In a bygone era, he would be grave robbing to find parts to bring his creations to life. Fortunately, we was born into the 20th century, and thus has spent his life on programming and algorithms.
Well, aside from the bit, where after he didn't like the typesetting of his first book, he wrote a typesetting language and designed fonts for it, rewrote the book in TeX, a language of much evil and dark arts and had it printed again. Then retired to make it his lifes' work to perfect his books, "The Art of Computer Programming", or TAOCP
Scary but brilliant man -> http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html
Who needs penguins when you have ducks :P
I had some IBM 75GXP "DeathStars" in a RAID device at work.. we contacted our supplier and they gave us 3 x maxtor drives to use instead.. I wasn't necessarily happy, but I thought I'd give it a go.. apparently not however.. the RAID device was smart enough to recognise these were maxtors and so pretended not to see them ;>
As were the three little torvald daughters ;>
;) If I have kids I hope they're like them )
( they all sat in front of me at LCA this year.. so cute and well behaved.. I bet they've been to a lot of things like this already
When I suspect he means is including the decryption keys in the library or libraries and not distributing the key in the source form of the libraries.. so you need to "hide" it in a configuration file, or a non GPL library.
Since if the key is part of the library, and the library is GPL, the key must be in the source. Not a huge hurdle to get around, but it would stop someone distributing a set top box with a modified version of "cp" that has keys hidden in it.. they would need to modify "cp" to call another binary to do secret stuff, and then provide the source for the modification of cp, which shows how the secret binary is called, but not actuall yhte secret binary.
Saying "you can't develop DRM for linux!" is like saying "you can't use this software in a government that sponsors or is involved with the oppression of human rights" .. it's a free operating system.. what are you going to do? Not sell it to them?
;)
This isn't exactly new either, as I recall, IBM's thinkpads which had linux pre-installed had a macrovision.o kernel module
Australia is even cheaper.. and we don't have anything inbetween :>
Hahah good work :)
*high fives*
What about if you're in the military or another network where the computers will never be connected to anything that is connected to the internet or PSTN? So yes, a local server could do it, but then you'ld just have a pirate local server software install floating around (again, thousands of copies to business/msdn), and anti MS people like myself in IT holding off introduction of any OS that requires this by pointing out the cost of box + windows server + license server software ;)
There's any number of situations which would absolutely rule out anything that ever needs to phone home.
Every pirate version of windows going around is a VLK - Volume License Key - copy of XP Professional, distributed to thousands of businesses world wide. It's not hacked XP Home or hacked XP professional.
.net server betas, in most cases there is a non-activation version too)
Businesses will always need VLK versions, and business IT staf will always have one or two warez weenies who release it, and there will always be serial number generators. (or anyone with an MSDN subscription.. we have about 50 different windows install CDs at work.. everything from 98 ->
I have heard that Safari v64 is VERY buggy.. corrupted page display tops that list.. also often seems to keep headers and put them in inappropriate places..
Hopefully v67 will fix these things and help advance towards another public release.
Steve Jobs is a outspoken democrat, I suspect he highly approves of this :)
Sort of.. I think Cisco would like a larger takeup in the SoHo aea of their Aironet products.. yet still price them at 5 x normal WAP prices.. they also have small ISDN routers which aren't too expensive (people still use ISDN? :)
So Alan's significant other Telsa Gwynne is half penguin?
:)
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The Palm Computing Platform Device, aka Palm, decides when and if it wants to talk to the PC, not the other way around. A PC cannot force a Palm connected to it via either USB or Serial to conduct a hotsync, the Palm must request it.
:) Have a look at AvantGo or CSpotRun
So basically, you can't do it that way. You could however write a program for the palm which queries the serial port on it's base every once in a while.. but it's a complex task
I once saw a network intrusion detection systems (IDS) with agents that talk to each other over the network.. in cleartext.. the messages, no joke, were sequences of "QUACK", "HONK" and "FLAP".. bandwidth intensive, but still an amusing comms method.. "HONK QUACK QUACK FLAP HONK HONK HONK QUACK QUACK FLAP FLAP" :>
Apple's solution however doesn't involve blocks of wood next to high speed and therefore hot devices...
It's also comparing Apples to oranges.. the Apple XServe RAID has an FC interface to the host controller, ie the XServe, but only uses ATA HDDs internally. Apple's is expensive, yes, but for 2.4TB, it's a pretty damn good price.
You're kidding right? You want a university's terms and conditions of use to require that administrative access to privately owned machines is given to the reznet admins?
People like you are the reason that student unions/councils are a good idea.
Keeping guns out of criminal hands - short term
Many asian countries (HK, China? oh wait.. ) police have their sidearms connected to their belt with a 1 metre (3 ft) metal cable, to prevent anyone taking the gun very far. It's a pretty reasonable idea I think.
Smart Cards will protect themselves to some extent, but the oft quoted voltage draw analysys is something they can't protect against..
What you really need for a physically secure device is an IBM 4758 CryptoCard.. of course, for it to be useful, you need it protected against key recovery attacks.
I'm on the other side of the country to them.. altronics is ok, but NOTHING like Active Surplus ;)