Re:Americans talk about freedom
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"Thursday's actions in Moscow set a new standard even for Stalin - removing and threatening with arrest citizens who in no way disrupt an event and wear clothing that expresses non-disruptive neutral viewpoints such as "Protect Our Civil Liberties," said Yuri Slenko, a former spokesman of the abominable Tsar regime.
When Stalin visited Kiev last month, the Pravda reported that Oleg Rabotchev, 54, was cited for criminal trespassing for blurting out the word "No" after Stalin proclaimed that the bolshevik proletariat had made the world better.
In a separate and unrelated case Thursday, two protesters were arrested in nearby Kiev, outside the historic inn where our beloved leader was spending the night.
A few hundred people were demonstrating peacefully there, but police moved to disperse the crowd after a few protesters allegedly put their hands on police men. City officials said the police fired live rounds over the heads of the crowd to break up the demonstrators.
Last week I was stupid enough to let rice bake to the bottom of my gf's favorite pan. She was upset and told me if I could mess it up then I could clean it up too. Anyway, I set to work on that pan until my elbows began to hurt and then took a rest drooling over the pan filled with little bubbles. I fascinated by the randomness of how the little bubbles of foam popped and dissolved. All of the sudden I wanted to mount a camera over the pan and "harvest" the randomness. This I could probably do by dividing the camera image into squares which are assigned a number and that number gets logged whenever a bubble in that square dissolves.
I wouldn't really trust a hardware random generator but if you have a GSM SIM card you can use it to generate a stream of random values of unknown quality. The GSM standard describing the "Subscriber Identitiy Module", GSM 11.11 defines a card command / "APDU" (Application Protocol Data Unit) called "ASK RANDOM" that will return a random value generated by the card's random number generator. I guess if I needed to create a stream of random bytes I would take the random bytes I obtained from the pan full of bubbles and xor them with random values obtained from a new and unused SIM card which I would for example have obtained as a prepaid GSM card at a vending place that does not demand photo id and paid in cash. I would also send the "ASK RANDOM" command to the card a couple thousand times first and then start logging the values, randomly skipping about a third of them, the randomness of the skipping derived from another pan of foamy bubbles.
Come to think of it, I would also later encrypt the random stream itself as well as the resulting ciphertext with 3DES-OFB.
Thoughts and musings on how to release malicious code onto the internet while being physically present in a state hostile to the United States of America and targetting assets of that hostile state, causing a maximum of damage while making it nearly impossible to be traced or identified.
First of all, access to the internet has to be completely anonymous. Many people have used their personal internet access or the one at work. Malicious code _will_ be traced back to the orginating internet access by security agencies of states hostile against the United States of America.
Anonymous access to the internet is easily possible from: a) unsecured wireless access points b) internet cafes
Since many public and private places in states that are hostile to the United States are nowadays under 24h covert video surveillance, unsecured wireless access points are safest. The safest way to use an unsecured access point would be from a car travelling at the maximum speed possible for a notebook on board to find a path through an unsecured access point to the internet. The malicious code package however should not be released directly to the internet but onto the first vulnerable system after the AP that has access to the internet. When using the AP the physical MAC-address of the wireless adaptor must not be used for obvious reasons, the card should be programmed with a new MAC-address. After releasing the malicious code package the notebook should immediately securely erase all traces of the malicious code package, the delivery system and the secure eraser. The secure erasure of the mentioned components should also be triggerable by a single keypress. The notebook should be kept under sufficient power and in a state where secure erasure can be triggered at all times (disable screensaver, power low standby etc.). The secure erasure should also be triggered when the notebook is about to enter a state where the secure erasure can not be triggered and completed (low power, etc.). The notebook should not be hooked up to the car's battery nor should any antennas or fixtures be evident that reveal the notebook is being actively used in the car. The warmth of the notebook in operation is not explainable therefore appropiate navigational software and a GPS mouse should be present. It is important to avoid areas where the car could leave identifiable tire tracks. If possible avoid entering zones of known video surveillance or zones where searches by hostile forces can be expected. I know this sounds paranoid but shit happens.
The malicious code should be wrapped into an installer that hides the malicious code onto the first vulnerable target after the access point for a period of at least six days and release the malicious code to the internet preferably on the evening of the friday following the minimum six days.
All code, excluding the delivery system and secure erasure code, should hide on the system using state of the art techniques (filesystem filters, hooking registry access, manipulation of NT kernel data areas).
If the malicious code happens to be a worm, a very slow rate of infection is advised as well as a novel vulnerability being exploited. This is in the hope that the worm will over months penetrate into sensitive intranets without being discovered. As the clock of a given node can not be depended on for accurate time/date information the worm instance should not rely on it to measure time. Instead time should be measured by cpu cycles, poweron/poweroff cycles etc. Systems belonging to a state hostile to the United States of America can be recognized through characteristics discovered through prior intelligence.
All development and testing that takes place while located in a state hostile against the United States of America should be confined to one system. Backups must use state of the art encryption must be accounted for and be destroyed after being superseded. If you (unwisely) choose to keep the final version of the code after the attack, encrypt it with a xor of r
No it is not. There is no Microsoft Word for Linux, Open Office comes close and I love it to death but its just not ready yet. There is no god dammed Access...
There is. It's just that these apps still need to be licensed if you absolutely can't switch to OpenOffice or Sun's commercial StarOffice. Many distroes, such as SuSE Linux Desktop use Crossover Office and that will run Microsoft Office.
With Codeweaver's Crossover Office you get to run:
Microsoft Office XP, 2000 and 97
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Project
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Visio
Lotus Notes 5.0 and 6.5.1
Quicken
Various Web Browser Plugins
QuickTime
Shockwave Director
Windows Media Player 6.4
though it probably illustrates the power of the API emulation I can't see the value in MSIE and the windows media player.
I will however admit that Crossover Office / Wine will not run _every_ custom Visual Basic app on the planet... but if you don't have them then there is no technical reason you could not switch to Linux.
... [don't] forget user training, the cost of changing hardware that isn't supported to Linux etc....
Yes, it is true. Your users will need to adjust to the new desktop, but most products I've seen such as SuSE Linux Desktop make Windows users feel right at home.
I'm not trolling, I like Linux I think it is great for the home and for a hobby but its just not ready for the mainstream. Perhaps in a few years, but not today.
I'm not shilling for SuSE or Codeweavers but they do have great products fully capable of blowing Windows off the corporate (and home!) desktop. Btw, you can download a 30 day trial of Crossover Office here. While you're at it, see if it will run your custom VB app too...
"It's going to have to chose between AMD-64 and Intel-64..."Computer manufacturers such as IBM and HP are discontinuing IA64:
HP knifes Itanium, cans IA-64 workstations 09/24/2004
Although I can't back this one up for obvious reasons, I've seen an internal IBM roadmap for xSeries and IBM BladeCenter (there is btw a PPC blade, the JS20) which was hammered out with Intel to concentrate a while on IA32 Xeon until Intel finishes switching over to the AMD-64 model. In addition to this IBM uses AMD Opteron processors on certain blades.
The AMD-64 is a much better choice for the X86 world because it simply expands on the existing model by making registers 64 bits wide much in the same way the 16-bit 8086/80186/80286 registers ax-dx were expanded to 32-bit registers in the 80386 eax-edx. IA64 "Itanium" never really caught on in the X86 world because it did not really relate to the X86 model and in order to get any significant performance out of the chip Intel compilers and toolkits were needed.
You still however have to choose between AMD-64 and PPC, though:-)
"We will actually modify the way the printer puts marks on the paper," Chiu said. "This method is very difficult to get around because information about the internal workings of specific printers is not commonly available, even on the Internet."
How long before this changes and people start soldering modchips into their printer circuitboards?
Southampton had the top three performers -- but also a load of utter failures at the bottom of the table who sacrificed themselves for the good of the team.
Which is exactly where most of the lower ranks of secret societies end up. Start your own secret society, it is fun, educational and above all it is profitable.
If you want to join MY secret society then during your initation you will be expected to first stick your left thumb into your ass, the other in your mouth and then the left thumb into your mouth and the other into your ass and then back again over and over while chanting:
"NOS ES TURBATUS UT RECOLLIGO VICTUS PRO NOSTRUM CANI!"
Of course I have a lot of other initation rites for you to go through but these I have to keep secret from the unitiated and depend on your sex.
I was aiming for a +2 funny here. This is in no way "interesting" because you can not be sued for thinking out aloud about sueing someone, but IANAL, maybe libel and slander laws or stock exchange regulations apply when you put a large ad into the NY times that you are going to sue someone but don't follow through on it and they lose business and their stock drops. I protest this moderation, it is unfair. Unless of course, I've been giving someone ideas, in which case I demand a share in the profits.
Assuming you could sue sombody for saying they want to sue you, what if somebody said they are going to sue your for saying you were going to sue them and you sued them back for saying they were going to sue you when you said you were going to sue them when they are talking about sueing you?
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
Well said, citizen, those Yankees still have a lot to learn. Now step over here so we can laser a barcode across your forehead.
One quick way around this is to treat the sitefinder A records the same as if no results were found.
USA == Europe evaluates to TRUE.
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I live here in Germany in the economy and one thing for sure, I'm in no way better off here than I would be in the US. The ruling socialist party has decided to stop unemployment benefits altogether after the year of unemployment insurance is up and have decided to switch those unemployed over to the welfare system where they all get a monthly EUR 345 ($360) and even less in the eastern part of Germany. In addition to the $360 they get another modest housing allowance which is capped at around $250. Personally, if I were out of luck I wouldn't even qualify for their welfare because I would have to report all of my and my wife's property and income which is not allowed to exceed $7000 for people our age.
You lose your bet: If a person here stops going through the unemployment or welfare system then they are dropped from the statistics. The labor department actually works hard to bring unemployment statistics down by actively expelling people from the system whenever and by whatever means they can.
The newest development over here is workfare where they plan on putting millions of qualified people to work in menial jobs for welfare money.
Looks like we're comparing oranges and oranges here.
Finally you don't care how much worse Europe is. Think of it this way.. Europe is another place you can not escape US unemployment. Wouldn't it be great to be able to say, fuck you, Bush I am taking my business elsewhere? I would sure as hell love to say Fick Dich, Schroeder you fucken sierra club commie!
People over here are comparing their situation to four years ago before the socialist party took over. They voted for the fascist party in the state elections.
Sad to hear that:-)In the long run it matters, though, when you want to continue making that living instead of merely postponing starvation, as you will be competing with a bunch of kids that only recently switched from "wind0ze" to "k3wl linux".
"_That_ is the real problem with these conspiracy theories. Real conspiracies and secrets tend to not stay that secret, once more than 2-3 people are involved. Conspiracies which involve millions of people? Heh. Dream on."
Maybe that's what is at the center of it that gets people like you upset. It is true, most of what happens in the world is not kept secret but simply given the correct "spin", omitting the important parts of the news, deemphasizing and emphasizing bits of it as required and tossing the occasional scapegoat to the people. The biggest "conspiracy" of them all, even though I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy" myself is this process where a group of people actively and on a large scale shape society to their own needs. This is also where your millions of people are involved, for they are for the most part people like you who unthinkingly regurgitate the facts and attitudes they have been provided with and are unwittingly accomplices to this. I don't care about your "Soviet miracle spammer", who I agree is very most likely a fraud. I care a bit about your kneejerk reactions, though.
As far as miracle cures are concerned... common sense should tell you that "certain interests" are "not at all amused" if their power base is threatened.
Rational? Maybe, the more CPUs your machine has the exponentially higher the cost. Your organization is probably not (no longer) the demographics Sun is targetting their offerings at. I'm sorry if I can't be more sympathetic with your organization's plight but you see, the less and less money data processing costs, the more management learns that they can get away with spending less and less money. And less money means there will be less money for you and me in the pot. I hope your Linux cluster fails miserably. Not because I somehow dislike you personally or because I'm aqainst Linux but simply because businesses obviously have to find out the hard way that data processing has its cost and a bunch of Intel PCs running Linux in an IBM BladeCenter can not replace a cluster of Sun E10Ks. Don't forget: You and me make a living from all this so we better get them used to paying what we're due:-)
And if there was one [cure], those same pharma companies could patent it and have a monopoly on magic wands for 20 years straight. The one who had a magic wand that cures, say, diabetes, could sell it for a fortune per milligram, and make one helluva lot more profit from that than from being the 100'th guy selling cheap generic insulin.
This would not be very profitable at all in the long run because it cures the disease. Over his or her lifetime the average diabetic spends at least a six-figure amount not only on insulin but also on many other offerings of the diabetes industry, such as blood sugar test strips, syringes, medical consulation etc. It is evident that the existing markets have to be preserved. This means a cure for diabetes or even cancer (there is another industry built around cancer) would have to be restricted to a select group of people. This could be best achieved by artificially pricing it so high as to be unaffordable for at least 80% of all diabetics. Doing something like that, however, would be a tremendous threat to social stability. People IN A LARGE SCALE would most likely start to violently demand access to the cure. This we can't have for a number of reasons:
First of all, we can not let the people question the Pharma/Healthcare industries motives IN A LARGE SCALE. The benign concept most people have of healthcare in general is one that is carefully fostered and reinforced.
Second of all, and this is the most important reason of them all, we can not let people learn that they can make changes to system. We sometimes encourage protest and half-hearted acts of violence, because it gives us an opportunity to reinforce the most important lessons of them all: Nothing ever changes no matter what people do. If we allowed the cure to be distributed to an exclusive group of people we would also need to resort to the most extreme measures to keep the status quo.
Plus if there was one, what do you thing would happen the first time a pharma executive, or doctor or pharmacist got a fatal disease? Do you expect me to believe they'd just patiently await their own death, rather than threaten their profits? Better yet, that millions of doctors and pharmacists _all_ keep the secret rather than save their own lives or the lives of their children.
Most of the people you consider important such as CEOs, political leaders etc. are expendable and expended if need be. Most of the people who consider themselves important and informed are serfs and disinformed. I will not confirm whether cures for diseases like cancer, rheumatism or diabetes exist, but consider this, serf, if we can hold the going-ons and details on an entire Airforce Base secret from you, don't you think we can hide a lot of other things from you??
Dude, there is no amount of money in the world that could buy that.
Pal, for you money is a carrot to waste your life chasing after. To us it's a vegetable we grow to feed our cattle.
If you're a business, then this is my advice to you:
16 CPU license: $20000 8 CPU license: $6000 4 CPU license: $999 2 CPU license: $249 1 CPU license: $99
Keep all 10 CPUs, or take out 2, 6, 8, or 9 of them and pay up. Don't whine: Data processing is not for free, and even if some of the software you use is open source, no matter whether it is GPL or BSD, consulting and training is not free either.
If you're a Solaris 'enthusiast' or a consultant who keeps a machine like that around to experiment on:
Hide the machine in your home and never mind the license. Tell you what, somebody I know, knows someone whose best friend is the boyfriend of a girl whose younger brother has heard of some people that listened to a conversation at a bus stop in Alaska that some people in Buenos Aires use a couple of Sun machines in their basement to play around with Veritas Cluster & Volume Manager in a non-production environment in their spare time using product keys copied from their client's machines.
Where did you work at Intel? The PR Department? Intel very much wants to keep the competition down and government control of monopolies have always been a farce on both sides of the Atlantic. Just one word: Microsoft.
One way to acquire and retain full control of a market is by turning it into a captive group of consumers and keeping competitors out. The best way to do this is obviously by legislation, in the case of Intel this means making SecurePC hardware and other related projects mandatory by law and also using the law to keep true competitors out (patents, certifications etc.).
Projects like SecurePC or whatever it is that Intel calls it this week to dodge watchdog groups, projects like that lead us down a slippery slope.
Big business has always thrived in police states, businesses like IG Farben, Krupp, Siemens immediately come to mind. As a side note, Germany's welfare system is right now being almost completely shutdown. By the end of this year, German unemployment payment recipients will receive in average 66% less benefits and long term unemployed will be required by law to work for businesses at 1 EUR an hour in addition to a monthly payment of EUR 340 (Unemployment benefits currently average 850 EUR. The reform itself was crafted by a group of government and big business people, led by the Chief Human Resources Director at Volkswagen, Professor Peter Hartz. The reform is officially referred to as the Hartz reform. The Volkswagen Group (Audi, VW, Skoda) is made up of 100,000+ people worldwide who like their privacy and freedom just as much as everybody else, to use some of your words. The management doesn't give a shit.
As far as your argument is concerned that a police state slows down the economy, for your information, the German economy boomed in the 3rd Reich. But, regardless of your, my and everybody else's conditioning that only a booming economy promises wealth and prosperity, that may not be what our glorious and courageous leaders, Fuehrers, Presidents, CEOs and banks have in mind for us. The only thing that matters to them is their own personal wealth and comfort and that they remain on top. They are already departing from the paradigm of stability through economic expansion that they put in place after WWII. Nowadays the key words are "sustainabilty", "environment" and a lot of words that start with "over-". Prepare to see the same people in charge proclaim themselves "stewards and preservers". They don't care about what the consequences are for you me and the rest of us, nor that we wont be able to purchase a $300 computer. The only thing they're interested is staying on top and staying comfortable.
When companies turn into monopolies or almost-monopolies they dont vye for market share, instead they start bullying the market, they kill of their competition and anyone else who tries to enter the market. Both Intel and Microsoft are at the point where they can start shaping the market into the market they want and that, my friend, is a VERY BAD THING.
Yes, I want to make more money myself, that is entirely correct, but I personally will not work for a client that does animal experimentation or one that manufactures land mines. While I have some sort of (sometimes twisted) moral compass, Intel does not have any qualms about making any which way they can and they will gleefully and happily rip off a captive group of consumers whenever they get the chance.
I am complaining, buddy, because I do NOT like what other people, the "Government" or companies do and I will not SHUT THE FUCK UP, because, to put it into your words, I don't want "positive" ideas and hardware and programs that fix problems like free speech and "radical freedoms" and moves us forward to a police state, like Intel does.
I congratulate whoever modded it "overrated", so if you're doing metamoderation let this decision stand.
My post was mostly just regurgitated opinion, and about things that are highly obvious and I could have gone on to rant about how a "Intelnet" would be the perfect platform for implementing all the stuff we absolutely hate (censorship, taxation, DRM etc...) and forcing us to buy stuff we don't want (Intel, Microsoft...). Tell you the truth, an "Intelnet" would really just be perfect for this kind of shit, kind of like the MSN (Market Suffocation Network) Gates always wanted. Well... who gives a shit.
We will always have peer to peer communication even if it means routing IP packets through a tunnel that connects for example two SparcStation/10s (we'll be using these if they really give us "Secure" PCs) through a software modem "hooked" up to your broadband VOIP service. The only thing they will eventually succeed with, after investing billion of dollars into "new technology" is making us pay for porn and worthless RIAA trash we can do without. (Quit jerking off in front of a CRT and get yourself a gf, goddammit!)
Uh... I guess I've ranted again... well I got Karma to burn:-)
Btw, first off: Fuck you Intel! Second: This is prior art, assholes, I thought of the term "Intelnet" first.
No need to "up the pay" at the patent office, they already "upped their pay" tremendously. Ever wonder why the patent office gives out patents so freely on patents that have tons of prior art? The answer is: Because they get money for them. The real problem to be addressed is elsewhere, sitting on a mahagony chair with velvet cushoning and smoking $100 cigars.
He can afford to spend more than you and your friends and their neighbors make in a year just on patents. If they don't hold up in court, the patent office does not care, HE doesn't care either, he just gets new ones along with new and better lawyers.
Taking innovation out of the market (Innovation is killing the RIAA, remember?) and charging for access to the market is so old a business model, you could call it ancient. Back in the middle ages and probably even earlier people couldn't just bring their goods and skills to the market because they had something or could do something. They had to buy permission to do that such as by joining a guild or paying the local authorities extra (for the small peasant largely unaffordable) market taxes.
... built a GUI on DOS and called it Windows and that sucked. What the internet needs right now is more and more bandwidth both on the backbone networks, in the near future more bandwidth to individual workstations and maybe in five years from now IPV6. What the Internet does not need is censorship, TCPA/Palladium Digital Rights Management, Taxes, Microsoft and least of all Intel.
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"Thursday's actions in Moscow set a new standard even for Stalin - removing
and threatening with arrest citizens who in no way disrupt an event and wear
clothing that expresses non-disruptive neutral viewpoints such as
"Protect Our Civil Liberties," said Yuri Slenko, a former spokesman of the abominable Tsar regime.
When Stalin visited Kiev last month, the Pravda reported that
Oleg Rabotchev, 54, was cited for criminal trespassing for blurting out the
word "No" after Stalin proclaimed that the bolshevik proletariat had made
the world better.
In a separate and unrelated case Thursday, two protesters were arrested in
nearby Kiev, outside the historic inn where our beloved leader was spending the
night.
A few hundred people were demonstrating peacefully there, but police moved
to disperse the crowd after a few protesters allegedly put their hands on police men. City officials said the police fired live rounds over the heads of the crowd to break up the demonstrators.
One thing you should know about cheap PCs:
They're not upgradeable. Some of these they even solder the CPU to the motherboard.
Last week I was stupid enough to let rice bake to the bottom of my gf's favorite pan. She was upset and told me if I could mess it up then I could clean it up too. Anyway, I set to work on that pan until my elbows began to hurt and then took a rest drooling over the pan filled with little bubbles. I fascinated by the randomness of how the little bubbles of foam popped and dissolved. All of the sudden I wanted to mount a camera over the pan and "harvest" the randomness. This I could probably do by dividing the camera image into squares which are assigned a number and that number gets logged whenever a bubble in that square dissolves.
I wouldn't really trust a hardware random generator but if you have a GSM SIM card you can use it to generate a stream of random values of unknown quality. The GSM standard describing the "Subscriber Identitiy Module", GSM 11.11 defines a card command / "APDU" (Application Protocol Data Unit) called "ASK RANDOM" that will return a random value generated by the card's random number generator. I guess if I needed to create a stream of random bytes I would take the random bytes I obtained from the pan full of bubbles and xor them with random values obtained from a new and unused SIM card which I would for example have obtained as a prepaid GSM card at a vending place that does not demand photo id and paid in cash. I would also send the "ASK RANDOM" command to the card a couple thousand times first and then start logging the values, randomly skipping about a third of them, the randomness of the skipping derived from another pan of foamy bubbles.
Come to think of it, I would also later encrypt the random stream itself as well as the resulting ciphertext with 3DES-OFB.
Thoughts and musings on how to release malicious code onto the internet while being physically present in a state hostile to the United States of America and targetting assets of that hostile state, causing a maximum of damage while making it nearly impossible to be traced or identified.
First of all, access to the internet has to be completely anonymous. Many people have used their personal internet access or the one at work. Malicious code _will_ be traced back to the orginating internet access by security agencies of states hostile against the United States of America.
Anonymous access to the internet is easily possible from:
a) unsecured wireless access points
b) internet cafes
Since many public and private places in states that are hostile to the United States are nowadays under 24h covert video surveillance, unsecured wireless access points are safest. The safest way to use an unsecured access point would be from a car travelling at the maximum speed possible for a notebook on board to find a path through an unsecured access point to the internet. The malicious code package however should not be released directly to the internet but onto the first vulnerable system after the AP that has access to the internet. When using the AP the physical MAC-address of the wireless adaptor must not be used for obvious reasons, the card should be programmed with a new MAC-address. After releasing the malicious code package the notebook should immediately securely erase all traces of the malicious code package, the delivery system and the secure eraser. The secure erasure of the mentioned components should also be triggerable by a single keypress. The notebook should be kept under sufficient power and in a state where secure erasure can be triggered at all times (disable screensaver, power low standby etc.). The secure erasure should also be triggered when the notebook is about to enter a state where the secure erasure can not be triggered and completed (low power, etc.). The notebook should not be hooked up to the car's battery nor should any antennas or fixtures be evident that reveal the notebook is being actively used in the car. The warmth of the notebook in operation is not explainable therefore appropiate navigational software and a GPS mouse should be present. It is important to avoid areas where the car could leave identifiable tire tracks. If possible avoid entering zones of known video surveillance or zones where searches by hostile forces can be expected. I know this sounds paranoid but shit happens.
The malicious code should be wrapped into an installer that hides the malicious code onto the first vulnerable target after the access point for a period of at least six days and release the malicious code to the internet preferably on the evening of the friday following the minimum six days.
All code, excluding the delivery system and secure erasure code, should hide on the system using state of the art techniques (filesystem filters, hooking registry access, manipulation of NT kernel data areas).
If the malicious code happens to be a worm, a very slow rate of infection is advised as well as a novel vulnerability being exploited. This is in the hope that the worm will over months penetrate into sensitive intranets without being discovered. As the clock of a given node can not be depended on for accurate time/date information the worm instance should not rely on it to measure time. Instead time should be measured by cpu cycles, poweron/poweroff cycles etc. Systems belonging to a state hostile to the United States of America can be recognized through characteristics discovered through prior intelligence.
All development and testing that takes place while located in a state hostile against the United States of America should be confined to one system. Backups must use state of the art encryption must be accounted for and be destroyed after being superseded. If you (unwisely) choose to keep the final version of the code after the attack, encrypt it with a xor of r
There is. It's just that these apps still need to be licensed if you absolutely can't switch to OpenOffice or Sun's commercial StarOffice. Many distroes, such as SuSE Linux Desktop use Crossover Office and that will run Microsoft Office.
With Codeweaver's Crossover Office you get to run:
Microsoft Office XP, 2000 and 97
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Project
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Visio
Lotus Notes 5.0 and 6.5.1
Quicken
Various Web Browser Plugins
QuickTime
Shockwave Director
Windows Media Player 6.4 though it probably illustrates the power of the API emulation I can't see the value in MSIE and the windows media player.
... [don't] forget user training, the cost of changing hardware that isn't supported to Linux etc. ...
Yes, it is true. Your users will need to adjust to the new desktop, but most products I've seen such as SuSE Linux Desktop make Windows users feel right at home.
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I will however admit that Crossover Office / Wine will not run _every_ custom Visual Basic app on the planet... but if you don't have them then there is no technical reason you could not switch to Linux.
I'm not trolling, I like Linux I think it is great for the home and for a hobby but its just not ready for the mainstream. Perhaps in a few years, but not today. I'm not shilling for SuSE or Codeweavers but they do have great products fully capable of blowing Windows off the corporate (and home!) desktop. Btw, you can download a 30 day trial of Crossover Office here. While you're at it, see if it will run your custom VB app too
"It's going to have to chose between AMD-64 and Intel-64..."Computer manufacturers such as IBM and HP are discontinuing IA64:
:-)
HP knifes Itanium, cans IA-64 workstations 09/24/2004 Although I can't back this one up for obvious reasons, I've seen an internal IBM roadmap for xSeries and IBM BladeCenter (there is btw a PPC blade, the JS20) which was hammered out with Intel to concentrate a while on IA32 Xeon until Intel finishes switching over to the AMD-64 model. In addition to this IBM uses AMD Opteron processors on certain blades.
The AMD-64 is a much better choice for the X86 world because it simply expands on the existing model by making registers 64 bits wide much in the same way the 16-bit 8086/80186/80286 registers ax-dx were expanded to 32-bit registers in the 80386 eax-edx. IA64 "Itanium" never really caught on in the X86 world because it did not really relate to the X86 model and in order to get any significant performance out of the chip Intel compilers and toolkits were needed.
You still however have to choose between AMD-64 and PPC, though
"We will actually modify the way the printer puts marks on the paper," Chiu said. "This method is very difficult to get around because information about the internal workings of specific printers is not commonly available, even on the Internet." How long before this changes and people start soldering modchips into their printer circuitboards?
Southampton had the top three performers -- but also a load of utter failures at the bottom of the table who sacrificed themselves for the good of the team. Which is exactly where most of the lower ranks of secret societies end up. Start your own secret society, it is fun, educational and above all it is profitable. If you want to join MY secret society then during your initation you will be expected to first stick your left thumb into your ass, the other in your mouth and then the left thumb into your mouth and the other into your ass and then back again over and over while chanting: "NOS ES TURBATUS UT RECOLLIGO VICTUS PRO NOSTRUM CANI!" Of course I have a lot of other initation rites for you to go through but these I have to keep secret from the unitiated and depend on your sex.
I was aiming for a +2 funny here. This is in no way "interesting" because you can not be sued for thinking out aloud about sueing someone, but IANAL, maybe libel and slander laws or stock exchange regulations apply when you put a large ad into the NY times that you are going to sue someone but don't follow through on it and they lose business and their stock drops. I protest this moderation, it is unfair. Unless of course, I've been giving someone ideas, in which case I demand a share in the profits.
Assuming you could sue sombody for saying they want to sue you, what if somebody said they are going to sue your for saying you were going to sue them and you sued them back for saying they were going to sue you when you said you were going to sue them when they are talking about sueing you?
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
Well said, citizen, those Yankees still have a lot to learn. Now step over here so we can laser a barcode across your forehead.
One quick way around this is to treat the sitefinder A records the same as if no results were found.
I live here in Germany in the economy and one thing for sure, I'm in no way better off here than I would be in the US. The ruling socialist party has decided to stop unemployment benefits altogether after the year of unemployment insurance is up and have decided to switch those unemployed over to the welfare system where they all get a monthly EUR 345 ($360) and even less in the eastern part of Germany. In addition to the $360 they get another modest housing allowance which is capped at around $250. Personally, if I were out of luck I wouldn't even qualify for their welfare because I would have to report all of my and my wife's property and income which is not allowed to exceed $7000 for people our age.
You lose your bet: If a person here stops going through the unemployment or welfare system then they are dropped from the statistics. The labor department actually works hard to bring unemployment statistics down by actively expelling people from the system whenever and by whatever means they can.
The newest development over here is workfare where they plan on putting millions of qualified people to work in menial jobs for welfare money.
Looks like we're comparing oranges and oranges here.
Finally you don't care how much worse Europe is. Think of it this way.. Europe is another place you can not escape US unemployment. Wouldn't it be great to be able to say, fuck you, Bush I am taking my business elsewhere? I would sure as hell love to say Fick Dich, Schroeder you fucken sierra club commie!
People over here are comparing their situation to four years ago before the socialist party took over. They voted for the fascist party in the state elections.
Sad to hear that :-)In the long run it matters, though, when you want to continue making that living instead of merely postponing starvation, as you will be competing with a bunch of kids that only recently switched from "wind0ze" to "k3wl linux".
"_That_ is the real problem with these conspiracy theories. Real conspiracies and secrets tend to not stay that secret, once more than 2-3 people are involved. Conspiracies which involve millions of people? Heh. Dream on."
Maybe that's what is at the center of it that gets people like you upset. It is true, most of what happens in the world is not kept secret but simply given the correct "spin", omitting the important parts of the news, deemphasizing and emphasizing bits of it as required and tossing the occasional scapegoat to the people. The biggest "conspiracy" of them all, even though I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy" myself is this process where a group of people actively and on a large scale shape society to their own needs. This is also where your millions of people are involved, for they are for the most part people like you who unthinkingly regurgitate the facts and attitudes they have been provided with and are unwittingly accomplices to this. I don't care about your "Soviet miracle spammer", who I agree is very most likely a fraud. I care a bit about your kneejerk reactions, though.
As far as miracle cures are concerned... common sense should tell you that "certain interests" are "not at all amused" if their power base is threatened.
En contraire, mon ami, I am very much aware of the business side of charity... Go ahead and enter "charity business into google.
Rational? Maybe, the more CPUs your machine has the exponentially higher the cost. Your organization is probably not (no longer) the demographics Sun is targetting their offerings at. I'm sorry if I can't be more sympathetic with your organization's plight but you see, the less and less money data processing costs, the more management learns that they can get away with spending less and less money. And less money means there will be less money for you and me in the pot. I hope your Linux cluster fails miserably. Not because I somehow dislike you personally or because I'm aqainst Linux but simply because businesses obviously have to find out the hard way that data processing has its cost and a bunch of Intel PCs running Linux in an IBM BladeCenter can not replace a cluster of Sun E10Ks. Don't forget: You and me make a living from all this so we better get them used to paying what we're due :-)
They are obligated to pay you because employment contracts usually obligate the employer to the payment of a monthly _flat_ _rate_ salary.
This would not be very profitable at all in the long run because it cures the disease. Over his or her lifetime the average diabetic spends at least a six-figure amount not only on insulin but also on many other offerings of the diabetes industry, such as blood sugar test strips, syringes, medical consulation etc. It is evident that the existing markets have to be preserved. This means a cure for diabetes or even cancer (there is another industry built around cancer) would have to be restricted to a select group of people. This could be best achieved by artificially pricing it so high as to be unaffordable for at least 80% of all diabetics. Doing something like that, however, would be a tremendous threat to social stability. People IN A LARGE SCALE would most likely start to violently demand access to the cure. This we can't have for a number of reasons:
First of all, we can not let the people question the Pharma/Healthcare industries motives IN A LARGE SCALE. The benign concept most people have of healthcare in general is one that is carefully fostered and reinforced.
Second of all, and this is the most important reason of them all, we can not let people learn that they can make changes to system. We sometimes encourage protest and half-hearted acts of violence, because it gives us an opportunity to reinforce the most important lessons of them all: Nothing ever changes no matter what people do. If we allowed the cure to be distributed to an exclusive group of people we would also need to resort to the most extreme measures to keep the status quo.
Plus if there was one, what do you thing would happen the first time a pharma executive, or doctor or pharmacist got a fatal disease? Do you expect me to believe they'd just patiently await their own death, rather than threaten their profits? Better yet, that millions of doctors and pharmacists _all_ keep the secret rather than save their own lives or the lives of their children.
Most of the people you consider important such as CEOs, political leaders etc. are expendable and expended if need be. Most of the people who consider themselves important and informed are serfs and disinformed. I will not confirm whether cures for diseases like cancer, rheumatism or diabetes exist, but consider this, serf, if we can hold the going-ons and details on an entire Airforce Base secret from you, don't you think we can hide a lot of other things from you??
Dude, there is no amount of money in the world that could buy that.
Pal, for you money is a carrot to waste your life chasing after. To us it's a vegetable we grow to feed our cattle.
If you're a business, then this is my advice to you:
16 CPU license: $20000
8 CPU license: $6000
4 CPU license: $999
2 CPU license: $249
1 CPU license: $99
Keep all 10 CPUs, or take out 2, 6, 8, or 9 of them and pay up. Don't whine: Data processing is not for free, and even if some of the software you use is open source, no matter whether it is GPL or BSD, consulting and training is not free either.
If you're a Solaris 'enthusiast' or a consultant who keeps a machine like that around to experiment on:
Hide the machine in your home and never mind the license. Tell you what, somebody I know, knows someone whose best friend is the boyfriend of a girl whose younger brother has heard of some people that listened to a conversation at a bus stop in Alaska that some people in Buenos Aires use a couple of Sun machines in their basement to play around with Veritas Cluster & Volume Manager in a non-production environment in their spare time using product keys copied from their client's machines.
Where did you work at Intel? The PR Department? Intel very much wants to keep the competition down and government control of monopolies have always been a farce on both sides of the Atlantic. Just one word: Microsoft.
One way to acquire and retain full control of a market is by turning it into a captive group of consumers and keeping competitors out. The best way to do this is obviously by legislation, in the case of Intel this means making SecurePC hardware and other related projects mandatory by law and also using the law to keep true competitors out (patents, certifications etc.). Projects like SecurePC or whatever it is that Intel calls it this week to dodge watchdog groups, projects like that lead us down a slippery slope.
Big business has always thrived in police states, businesses like IG Farben, Krupp, Siemens immediately come to mind. As a side note, Germany's welfare system is right now being almost completely shutdown. By the end of this year, German unemployment payment recipients will receive in average 66% less benefits and long term unemployed will be required by law to work for businesses at 1 EUR an hour in addition to a monthly payment of EUR 340 (Unemployment benefits currently average 850 EUR. The reform itself was crafted by a group of government and big business people, led by the Chief Human Resources Director at Volkswagen, Professor Peter Hartz. The reform is officially referred to as the Hartz reform. The Volkswagen Group (Audi, VW, Skoda) is made up of 100,000+ people worldwide who like their privacy and freedom just as much as everybody else, to use some of your words. The management doesn't give a shit.
As far as your argument is concerned that a police state slows down the economy, for your information, the German economy boomed in the 3rd Reich. But, regardless of your, my and everybody else's conditioning that only a booming economy promises wealth and prosperity, that may not be what our glorious and courageous leaders, Fuehrers, Presidents, CEOs and banks have in mind for us. The only thing that matters to them is their own personal wealth and comfort and that they remain on top. They are already departing from the paradigm of stability through economic expansion that they put in place after WWII. Nowadays the key words are "sustainabilty", "environment" and a lot of words that start with "over-". Prepare to see the same people in charge proclaim themselves "stewards and preservers". They don't care about what the consequences are for you me and the rest of us, nor that we wont be able to purchase a $300 computer. The only thing they're interested is staying on top and staying comfortable.
When companies turn into monopolies or almost-monopolies they dont vye for market share, instead they start bullying the market, they kill of their competition and anyone else who tries to enter the market. Both Intel and Microsoft are at the point where they can start shaping the market into the market they want and that, my friend, is a VERY BAD THING.
Yes, I want to make more money myself, that is entirely correct, but I personally will not work for a client that does animal experimentation or one that manufactures land mines. While I have some sort of (sometimes twisted) moral compass, Intel does not have any qualms about making any which way they can and they will gleefully and happily rip off a captive group of consumers whenever they get the chance.
I am complaining, buddy, because I do NOT like what other people, the "Government" or companies do and I will not SHUT THE FUCK UP, because, to put it into your words, I don't want "positive" ideas and hardware and programs that fix problems like free speech and "radical freedoms" and moves us forward to a police state, like Intel does.
I congratulate whoever modded it "overrated", so if you're doing metamoderation let this decision stand.
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My post was mostly just regurgitated opinion, and about things that are highly obvious and I could have gone on to rant about how a "Intelnet" would be the perfect platform for implementing all the stuff we absolutely hate (censorship, taxation, DRM etc...) and forcing us to buy stuff we don't want (Intel, Microsoft...). Tell you the truth, an "Intelnet" would really just be perfect for this kind of shit, kind of like the MSN (Market Suffocation Network) Gates always wanted. Well... who gives a shit.
We will always have peer to peer communication even if it means routing IP packets through a tunnel that connects for example two SparcStation/10s (we'll be using these if they really give us "Secure" PCs) through a software modem "hooked" up to your broadband VOIP service. The only thing they will eventually succeed with, after investing billion of dollars into "new technology" is making us pay for porn and worthless RIAA trash we can do without. (Quit jerking off in front of a CRT and get yourself a gf, goddammit!)
Uh... I guess I've ranted again... well I got Karma to burn
Btw, first off: Fuck you Intel! Second: This is prior art, assholes, I thought of the term "Intelnet" first.
No need to "up the pay" at the patent office, they already "upped their pay" tremendously. Ever wonder why the patent office gives out patents so freely on patents that have tons of prior art? The answer is: Because they get money for them. The real problem to be addressed is elsewhere, sitting on a mahagony chair with velvet cushoning and smoking $100 cigars.
He can afford to spend more than you and your friends and their neighbors make in a year just on patents. If they don't hold up in court, the patent office does not care, HE doesn't care either, he just gets new ones along with new and better lawyers.
Taking innovation out of the market (Innovation is killing the RIAA, remember?) and charging for access to the market is so old a business model, you could call it ancient. Back in the middle ages and probably even earlier people couldn't just bring their goods and skills to the market because they had something or could do something. They had to buy permission to do that such as by joining a guild or paying the local authorities extra (for the small peasant largely unaffordable) market taxes.
... built a GUI on DOS and called it Windows and that sucked. What the internet needs right now is more and more bandwidth both on the backbone networks, in the near future more bandwidth to individual workstations and maybe in five years from now IPV6. What the Internet does not need is censorship, TCPA/Palladium Digital Rights Management, Taxes, Microsoft and least of all Intel.