Hmmmph.... Looks like the labour party are trying to use BT as an alternate route for their recently defeated "entitlement card" (read: national ID card). This scheme had a huge backlash because of the privacy implications. Thankfully "Big-Bro" David Blunkett had to drop the thing, with his face red and tail between his legs.
Unfortunatley, the labour party are stuborrn gits who really dont like listening to the public much (e.g. see War on Iraq), so it doesnt suprise me they are using continue to use subterfuge as a battering ram to enstate their "entitlement card".
but the US is not going to join your silly little world government.
Well that's quite allright.
As long as you carry on with that attitude - creating injustice - then people are going to get angry. And they are going to want to blow you up - which you kind of deserve to be honest.
Such tactics as honeypots are probably good methods for prospective risk assesment. It has been used in physical security with some success - I remember the story of Marty Pell (not the lead singer from wet wet wet...).
A few years ago the was a whole succession of major politicol and tabloid leeks to the British press. Talk surfaced of some "Hacker" with an agenda.... Some legal firm (I think) who were a little shady (e.g. contracts with arms companies, MI6 etc) caught him in the end. Such a company has pretty steep security. Everything got shredded. Occasionally, they would leek false documents into their trash, and see if they would appear in the media.
One of their fake stories was published in a broadsheet. Marty Pell was caught on CCTV stealing there trash. The guy was the worlds most prolific dumpster diver - a house full of trash, not the slightest hacking skill.
Makes you wander - is this whole hacking/internet security really just a bit of an academic excersice at times?
Anyway i digress, I was on-topic at some point....
For starters - scripts, scanners, worms, script kiddies arent ever going to notice the difference.
Furthermore, more advanced crackers wouldnt neccessarily be put off by such a box... e.g. they may see a nice unused NT sitting in the corner of a lab, just waiting for her to install that new DDOS tool...
However, I guess leet dudes like us would smell a rat!
first off, we have an anthrapologist suggesting a biological explanation, which is rather novel if not erroneous.
And i'm not sure he knows what he is talking about - Just because when this one gene is mutated it affects language etc. it doesnt mean it is solely (or even partially) responsible for these things.
Although there certainly are biological elements of creativity - we have the basic framework for it, most other animals dont - the biological part isnt necessarily that interesting. Its the actual social constructs - i.e. the sociocultural framework of art - which is far more interesting and tells us far more about ourselves than the minor evolution of some gene at some point in history.
That is what anthropology is all about, so it is wierd to see an anthropologist talking genetics
He's very british in fact... He comes from Northampton, near where I grew up. Friends of friends know him - A hippy-goth type with big hair and beard! His knwoledge of History (esp. local)is pretty frigging good, btw...
Oh deary me.... hey, but wait... Maybe he is on to something:
With a presence in 42 countries and in 19 languages
Which is the point that every one else on this thread has missed: Lycos has a global reach. Yeah, sure, the feds have advertised in Boston and the States - but do you seriously think that Whitey would have remained around for someone to spot him on the street? Here in the UK, I have never heard of him (although I have heard of James Bulger, a british criminal of sorts) - Whitey could be my next door neighbour.
But next time I visit lycos (unklikely...), and I see the banner ad:
I remeber an anecdote about Richard Feynan. He decided that there just werent enough hours in the day (which is true). So he shifted to a 30 hour day, still sleeping 6 or whatever hours in each of his "days". He continued for some time, gradually coming in and out of phase with the work patterns of his colleagues.
And look how brilliant a man he was. Not that his wierd working days was a contributing factor to his greatness, but it was most probably a result of it.
And a less cumbersome keyboard, by the looks of it.
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The law enforcement issue sounds to me to be bogus, if law enforcement really needs such tools they would be best advised to develop them internally and use them sparingly. Genuine vendors of law enforcement tools will typically only sell to law enforcement and verify who they are selling to.
For people who live in democratic western countries - such as ourselves - you would think this to be true.
However, there are many countries with long records of human rights abuses. Many police agencies in such countries would not think twice about using said software.
Even worse - it would appear even our own law-abiding law-enforces are a little dubious. The recent furore over DIRT for instance. Check out this little article on the reg
If you want to know more about DIRT - a snooping/trojan tool produced in the US and used in the 3rd world to plant evidence on suspects computers - you should search theregister.co.uk or the archives at cryptome.org (they even have a link to download a cracked copy, if it hasnt been pulled yet).
When you go to England, you do not suddenly become British. If you are born in Britain, or live there for some time and obtain resident status - then you are British.
Presumably, the same would apply for Mars. However, this would suggest some form of Martian Government/Organisation. Presumably, this would be a form of colloboration or partnership between all interested parties.
Therefore, if you were born on Mars, you could call yourself an "American Martian" or "Chinese Martian", depending on your originating country in the Martian Union. In much the same way that a German could call themselves a German European.
ANd yes, I wouldnt be suprised if he did use it. I have heard that quite a few senior MS employees use windows ports of classic UNIX apps. After all, most UNIX apps take some getting used to - but once you do get to know them, they are unbeatable. As the reg article illustrates, many MS people come from a UNIX background, and it is not really suprising they have taken some of this with them.
It's quite understadable, actually..... US knowledge of the rest of the world being what it is and all that;-)
I agree with what your saying. Tony is very full of himsel, but there are some good eggs in labour - they just get gagged by millbank. I wouldnt be totally suprised if they do actually start to sort it out by the next election. IDS is a reactionary knee-jerker in public, but a little birdie told me he was pretty good behind the scenes. He may actually manage to bring the tories back togethor to form some kinda consensus, apparantly.
Yeah Charles Kennedy is a top bloke, and he may well get my vote next time round cos I cant really see anyone else being at all appealing.
Do you think either of us will get modded off-topic then?
It's nice to see that the europeans (at least........ the UK) have the guts to stand up to Microsoft.
Erm, from where i'm sitting, all I can see is this bizarre threesome consisting George Bush, President Blair and Bill Gates. And Mr. Blair is the GimpBoy peforming ludicrous ass-li.... anyway, i get carried away with myself.
The UK gov have just signed deals with MS for software for parliamant and the National Health Service. Oh, but dont worry..... 'Ol Tony got a great deal from his bestest mate Bill.
Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 27, 2006, @04:22AM
from the Future Dept.
Some twat writes: "Today mozilla.org released the Mozilla 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9 Milestone.
New to this release are improved IE9 interopability, Mac OSIX support, and much, much more. www.mozilla.org and www.mozillazine.org have the full scoop." The build I'm posting with (2006122712) is a little crashy, but most aspects are shaping up very nicely.
I do believe that the DNA/Protein databases have been growing exponentially for around 20 years, since the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics started the SWISS-PROT protein database.
I must admit that the figure I gave was bloated due to the last push to get the human genome, and has probably settled down a little since then. But anyhow, biology/CS have been pretty head-to-head on rate of acceleration for some time, and I cant see any decent reason why either field will slow down for some time yet.
Moore's law has been in effect for some time since then, and the human genome hasn't gotten any bigger in the meantime.
In fact, the EMBL database (all known DNA + protein sequences) nearly tripled in size within the 11 months of Nov. 1999 - Aug. 2000 [Stoesser, 2001]. Shake your Moore's law at that figure, matey.
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Unfortunatley, the labour party are stuborrn gits who really dont like listening to the public much (e.g. see War on Iraq), so it doesnt suprise me they are using continue to use subterfuge as a battering ram to enstate their "entitlement card".
but the US is not going to join your silly little world government.
Well that's quite allright.
As long as you carry on with that attitude - creating injustice - then people are going to get angry. And they are going to want to blow you up - which you kind of deserve to be honest.
yeah haha fucking hilarious dude
something about ESR's site in last weeks ntk.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.goats e.cx
Blurs the lines somewhat: Quite the opposite of running a real server without having to boot into a fully fledged OS.
Such tactics as honeypots are probably good methods for prospective risk assesment. It has been used in physical security with some success - I remember the story of Marty Pell (not the lead singer from wet wet wet...).
A few years ago the was a whole succession of major politicol and tabloid leeks to the British press. Talk surfaced of some "Hacker" with an agenda.... Some legal firm (I think) who were a little shady (e.g. contracts with arms companies, MI6 etc) caught him in the end. Such a company has pretty steep security. Everything got shredded. Occasionally, they would leek false documents into their trash, and see if they would appear in the media.
One of their fake stories was published in a broadsheet. Marty Pell was caught on CCTV stealing there trash. The guy was the worlds most prolific dumpster diver - a house full of trash, not the slightest hacking skill.
Makes you wander - is this whole hacking/internet security really just a bit of an academic excersice at times?
Anyway i digress, I was on-topic at some point....
Doesnt need to look lived in...
For starters - scripts, scanners, worms, script kiddies arent ever going to notice the difference.
Furthermore, more advanced crackers wouldnt neccessarily be put off by such a box... e.g. they may see a nice unused NT sitting in the corner of a lab, just waiting for her to install that new DDOS tool...
However, I guess leet dudes like us would smell a rat!
first off, we have an anthrapologist suggesting a biological explanation, which is rather novel if not erroneous.
And i'm not sure he knows what he is talking about - Just because when this one gene is mutated it affects language etc. it doesnt mean it is solely (or even partially) responsible for these things.
Although there certainly are biological elements of creativity - we have the basic framework for it, most other animals dont - the biological part isnt necessarily that interesting. Its the actual social constructs - i.e. the sociocultural framework of art - which is far more interesting and tells us far more about ourselves than the minor evolution of some gene at some point in history.
That is what anthropology is all about, so it is wierd to see an anthropologist talking genetics
An American writing about Victorian England?
He's very british in fact... He comes from Northampton, near where I grew up. Friends of friends know him - A hippy-goth type with big hair and beard! His knwoledge of History (esp. local)is pretty frigging good, btw...
"It's a comic by Alan Moore"
Easily his best work was Watchman... why do they allways option his worst comics? (swamp thing, anyone?...)
Oh deary me....
hey, but wait... Maybe he is on to something:
With a presence in 42 countries and in 19 languages
Which is the point that every one else on this thread has missed: Lycos has a global reach. Yeah, sure, the feds have advertised in Boston and the States - but do you seriously think that Whitey would have remained around for someone to spot him on the street? Here in the UK, I have never heard of him (although I have heard of James Bulger, a british criminal of sorts) - Whitey could be my next door neighbour.
But next time I visit lycos (unklikely...), and I see the banner ad:
"America's most wanted: If you see this man
: -)
you could win a million dollars"
Then yeah, I might pay attention
I remeber an anecdote about Richard Feynan. He decided that there just werent enough hours in the day (which is true). So he shifted to a 30 hour day, still sleeping 6 or whatever hours in each of his "days". He continued for some time, gradually coming in and out of phase with the work patterns of his colleagues.
And look how brilliant a man he was. Not that his wierd working days was a contributing factor to his greatness, but it was most probably a result of it.
hehe..... new toy so good you have to take it to bed with you..... you little kid you ;-)
I'd like to see a ... better s reen res
And a less cumbersome keyboard, by the looks of it.
The law enforcement issue sounds to me to be bogus, if law enforcement really needs such tools they would be best advised to develop them internally and use them sparingly. Genuine vendors of law enforcement tools will typically only sell to law enforcement and verify who they are selling to.
For people who live in democratic western countries - such as ourselves - you would think this to be true.
However, there are many countries with long records of human rights abuses. Many police agencies in such countries would not think twice about using said software.
Even worse - it would appear even our own law-abiding law-enforces are a little dubious. The recent furore over DIRT for instance. Check out this little article on the reg
If you want to know more about DIRT - a snooping/trojan tool produced in the US and used in the 3rd world to plant evidence on suspects computers - you should search theregister.co.uk or the archives at cryptome.org (they even have a link to download a cracked copy, if it hasnt been pulled yet).
It makes scary reading, look into it.
So when we go to mars we become Martians???
No.
When you go to England, you do not suddenly become British. If you are born in Britain, or live there for some time and obtain resident status - then you are British.
Presumably, the same would apply for Mars. However, this would suggest some form of Martian Government/Organisation. Presumably, this would be a form of colloboration or partnership between all interested parties.
Therefore, if you were born on Mars, you could call yourself an "American Martian" or "Chinese Martian", depending on your originating country in the Martian Union. In much the same way that a German could call themselves a German European.
I wouldn't be surprised if he [Bill Gates] _still_ uses vi, maybe even under Cygwin
No need. He can use vi for windows.
ANd yes, I wouldnt be suprised if he did use it. I have heard that quite a few senior MS employees use windows ports of classic UNIX apps. After all, most UNIX apps take some getting used to - but once you do get to know them, they are unbeatable. As the reg article illustrates, many MS people come from a UNIX background, and it is not really suprising they have taken some of this with them.
No Problem :-)
;-)
It's quite understadable, actually..... US knowledge of the rest of the world being what it is and all that
I agree with what your saying. Tony is very full of himsel, but there are some good eggs in labour - they just get gagged by millbank. I wouldnt be totally suprised if they do actually start to sort it out by the next election. IDS is a reactionary knee-jerker in public, but a little birdie told me he was pretty good behind the scenes. He may actually manage to bring the tories back togethor to form some kinda consensus, apparantly.
Yeah Charles Kennedy is a top bloke, and he may well get my vote next time round cos I cant really see anyone else being at all appealing.
Do you think either of us will get modded off-topic then?
fsck it, its only karma.
Erm, it was a joke dude.
I live in the UK man.
you mean to say you dont think ol' tony ISNT going around acting like he thinks he is a president?
It's nice to see that the europeans (at least ........ the UK) have the guts to stand up to Microsoft.
Erm, from where i'm sitting, all I can see is this bizarre threesome consisting George Bush, President Blair and Bill Gates. And Mr. Blair is the GimpBoy peforming ludicrous ass-li.... anyway, i get carried away with myself.
The UK gov have just signed deals with MS for software for parliamant and the National Health Service. Oh, but dont worry..... 'Ol Tony got a great deal from his bestest mate Bill.
ffs
Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 27, 2006, @04:22AM
from the Future Dept.
Some twat writes: "Today mozilla.org released the Mozilla 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9 Milestone.
New to this release are improved IE9 interopability, Mac OSIX support, and much, much more. www.mozilla.org and www.mozillazine.org have the full scoop." The build I'm posting with (2006122712) is a little crashy, but most aspects are shaping up very nicely.
personally I just put a little bit of script into rc.6, so that every time i reboot it cat's the output of 'cookie' into the boot message.
Hey Presto, new proverb every time you reboot.
For some bizarre reason, this is actually a facsinating read
I do believe that the DNA/Protein databases have been growing exponentially for around 20 years, since the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics started the SWISS-PROT protein database.
I must admit that the figure I gave was bloated due to the last push to get the human genome, and has probably settled down a little since then. But anyhow, biology/CS have been pretty head-to-head on rate of acceleration for some time, and I cant see any decent reason why either field will slow down for some time yet.
Moore's law has been in effect for some time since then, and the human genome hasn't gotten any bigger in the meantime.
In fact, the EMBL database (all known DNA + protein sequences) nearly tripled in size within the 11 months of Nov. 1999 - Aug. 2000 [Stoesser, 2001]. Shake your Moore's law at that figure, matey.