They decided not to change the usage of the word SSH as the name of the protocol. What OpenSSH decides to call its binaries is an entirely different decision that the IETF has nothing to do with.
For the record, the decision in the room was somewhat split, leaning about 2:1 towards not changing the name. It's still unclear if the name will be trademarked in the documents, which was the second (replaced?) request made to the IETF secure shell working group.
1) Start napster at my current desk
2) walk into a bathroom stall
3) use the terminal on the back of the door to start playing my newly downloaded song(s)
4) answer the phone there when the RIAA calls?
They should implement bookmarks to searches...
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... because then your bookmarks could be called... dum dum dum "deja googled".
Actually, that should be a new l33t term for "been there, done that" for cool stuff.
You're not thinking far enough into the future! Shopping will change drasticly as voice recognition dominates the market. Therefore, I suggest a patent that claims a patent over shopping sites that accept voice input. No matter how many times the user speaks, my patent will cover it. Shopping by voice is hereby patented by me.
I'm also going to patent one "glance" shopping, where you merely look at sections of the screen to buy things. People that want to implement shopping sites where it's user's vision is monitored in order to make purchases, you'll have to pay me 50% of your royalties!!!
The hardest thing to do in life, it seems, is to stick to your beliefs and not ever go back on them. If you quit now, before they make you sign the paperwork then you're free of this delima.
This, of course, would not be an easy thing to do and I can't even say I'd quit, but it is something you should consider if you feel as strongly as it seems you might.
Also, I would certainly bring up the discussion of the sillyness of the patent if its truly that bad. Even if they won't change their mind, its important that they at least heard your opinion even if it won't be followed.
I, of course, ordered a sturdy dell. Then my co-worker quit so I took the sony he just ordered instead. Unfortunately, I've had more problems with it than you can imagine. If you stare at the plastic funny, it'll break. They are *really* cheaply made. I'll never buy one again. My co-worker, against my advice, just ordered 4 of them for a different department. They arrived last week and he's already told me he wished he'd listened to me.
You know what I love? The fact that they claim that producing them takes so much of the budget that they have to charge > $15 per disk. However, producing a DiVX (DVD) disk and selling them for under $1.00 is possible (I frequently see them at 99 cents).
One of the things that I've loved about unix over the many many years is that I can *pick* between my GUIs. This is certainly even more true now, with KDE and Gnome being so prevelent.
I've loved showing Microsoft advocates how I can change the entire look of my desktop simply by using a different windowing environment. Having multiple options is not a bad thing. It's one of the things I hate most when I use windows. There is only one GUI, and its one I'm not very happy with.
Need a different or missing feature for your window manager? Simply change managers!
Re 1) Yep, I didn't say that the encryption wouldn't help. It would. I hope its strong enough and the route is long (and hence more as to be broken). The remote address is not, however, anonymous. It *is* in the payload. Granted, how do you talk to something that is not addressible? I'd love to see something like a randomly revolving site, where you must do a lookup of something every 5 minutes because it keeps changing its address... Silly, but...
Re 2) If I was a bad guy, I'd never pass on a key request. I'd always assume 100%.
Re 3) University networks (where hackers typically target to perform the tasks I spoke of) have high bandwidth connections. Plus, who cares if the site is slashdot'ed? It's still a DoS which may be all I'm after. If I register every word in the dictionary as a base node, I'll still piss everyone off. Then I can sell them at my own price. Who cares if they're actually usable under my current server. If I'm authortative just because I register for it, I own it regardless of weather I'm serving DNS (or its equivelent) properly for it.
Glancing through the web page quickly I note a few things:
He's basically just adding a seperate data routing layer over the top of the standard IPv4 addressing space. Hence, data doesn't get routed only based on the IPv4 routing tables, but gets routed fairly randomly around above this. This has 2 problems:
You still know the IPv4 address of the destination (regardless of weather or not DNS is protected) and hence can still trace the ownership of that address.
Since data is no longer taking the shortest path, it'll get routed many times around the network and hence will increase the overall traffic level of the network at large (possibly sending the data over a given physical segment multiple times).
He's assuming that by routing things around the network using different paths that it'll be harder to pick up all the traffic by way of a sniffer. This may be true if the physical internet truly had different physical routes. I suspect most sniffers you have to worry about are the ones at the end points, not the ones in the middle. It's the box next to mine thats more likely to be sniffing my traffic and hence that this protocol won't help. Now, it will encrypt it multiple times with possibly multiply different keys, but it won't prevent the majority of that traffic being sniffed.
Root domain name ownership is not based on a pricing model. Hence I can:
for i in `cat/usr/dict/words`; do register $i; register $i.$i; done
And the internet is hereby mine!!! Muhahahaa.
Protocols designed by a few people quickly, possibly inexperienced in the world of security, will certainly run into security related implecations they hadn't thought of. I hope that something like this would go through a lot of peer review by cryptologists before being trusted.
"In my day, sonny, we only had a 64kbps connection to my house. Thats right. And that's when I was already an adult. Now every house comes with a standard 40Gbps line. Aren't you special. You don't know what its like to have to wait for your keystrokes to be echoed back to your terminal screen. Oh, sorry, you don't even know what a keyboard is do ya. Get outta here."
While I agree that linux and AmigaOS (and BeOS) are completely different things, none the less linux is still taking users from the older AmigaOS controlled population. You're right that they're completely different, but they are still the "alternative" choices. Mac is quickly going the same way.
I'm really sad that BeOS isn't doing any better. From the day I first heard about it I thought the plans sounded fantastic. Admittedly, though, I haven't tried the OS myself yet.
If you really think about it, there are only X number of people in the world willing to use an alternative operating system. I'd say amiga's OS was it for a long time. There was a lot of development on it by hobbiest and professionals alike. In fact it had the largest number of shareware/freeware programs at one point in time (maybe it's still true?). But since Amiga's collapse a new OS has come around and attracted the majority of the old Amigoids to it: linux. It'll be really hard sucking all those people back. I know I was estatic the first time I got NetBSD running on my A3000. It'd take a lot for me to pull that A3000 out of the box in my closet and turn it back on again (partially because it happens to be broken). I'm, of course, hoping that the linux freenzy will succeed in making a decent desktop that will finally take a decent size chunk out of the Win32 desktop market share. Amiga didn't quite pull it off, which is sad.
Coca-cola announced today that it intended to purchase the planet Mars. We've decided it would be easy to set up a new production site on mars now that there is water available in addition to the recently discovered Space Sugar (soon to be TM). Since thats the two main ingredients for our number one selling soft drink, the rest should be easy to either import, or if we're lucky, find on mars.
In an added bonus, the planet is already Red so little redecoration is needed by our part. We haven't figured out how much paint it will take to paint a white curving stripe across the planet though.
There really should be package streamlining to reduce things like this, but:
Think about how much energy/fuel you waste with the machine just by running it. I bet its far more of a problem. Order a P-133 today. You don't need all that much power most of the time.
I won't go into the amount of junk needed to physically build your box.
Maybe jewel cases should go away in favor of the recycliable cardboard covers (HP did a good job with this).
at least most of the packaging (minus the shrinkwrap) is recyclable. In general, I suggest you recycle most things that come from Microsoft.
Many stores now require larger packaging to help prevent shop lifting. Sigh. Ever seen a package of Pokemon cards from someplace like CostCo? Huge plastic wrapper around a small set of cards. This is my worst pet peeve.
The worst offender of useless packaging needs to go to the fast food places. They waste far too much on packaging.
As I've been considering what it would take to make my parents move to linux, I've had to think of all the things they currently do with their desktop that they couldn't do with a linux system. One of the largest problems has always been Quicken. Wine has never been able to run it sufficiently. The last time I looked at gnucash it wasn't quite up to the job. I'm looking forward to seeing the new version.
Fortunately, I don't think many people rely on online-banking connections with Quicken but I suspect this will become more of a stumbling block as time goes on. It would be nice to have a linux app take care of this functionality as well.
Now... If I can only convince them that kmail (or something) is better than Eudora then I could administrate their machine from home rather than having to drive over there all the time.
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They decided not to change the usage of the word SSH as the name of the protocol. What OpenSSH decides to call its binaries is an entirely different decision that the IETF has nothing to do with.
For the record, the decision in the room was somewhat split, leaning about 2:1 towards not changing the name. It's still unclear if the name will be trademarked in the documents, which was the second (replaced?) request made to the IETF secure shell working group.
1) Start napster at my current desk
2) walk into a bathroom stall
3) use the terminal on the back of the door to start playing my newly downloaded song(s)
4) answer the phone there when the RIAA calls?
... because then your bookmarks could be called... dum dum dum "deja googled".
Actually, that should be a new l33t term for "been there, done that" for cool stuff.
Cool. The entire internet has been patented. Think how much that lawsuit could win them!
Cisco's worth quite a bit these days.
You're not thinking far enough into the future! Shopping will change drasticly as voice recognition dominates the market. Therefore, I suggest a patent that claims a patent over shopping sites that accept voice input. No matter how many times the user speaks, my patent will cover it. Shopping by voice is hereby patented by me.
I'm also going to patent one "glance" shopping, where you merely look at sections of the screen to buy things. People that want to implement shopping sites where it's user's vision is monitored in order to make purchases, you'll have to pay me 50% of your royalties!!!
The hardest thing to do in life, it seems, is to stick to your beliefs and not ever go back on them. If you quit now, before they make you sign the paperwork then you're free of this delima.
This, of course, would not be an easy thing to do and I can't even say I'd quit, but it is something you should consider if you feel as strongly as it seems you might.
Also, I would certainly bring up the discussion of the sillyness of the patent if its truly that bad. Even if they won't change their mind, its important that they at least heard your opinion even if it won't be followed.
Just think how much network damage a script running on a unix platform could do once it was launched from the newly ported Outlook.
.vbs support in the next release of the major linux vendors?
Oh God. I just thought of something. Does this mean we'll now have
Wouldn't it be cool to use mindstorm to construct a physical bar graph of the traffic to my webserver?
I, of course, ordered a sturdy dell. Then my co-worker quit so I took the sony he just ordered instead. Unfortunately, I've had more problems with it than you can imagine. If you stare at the plastic funny, it'll break. They are *really* cheaply made. I'll never buy one again. My co-worker, against my advice, just ordered 4 of them for a different department. They arrived last week and he's already told me he wished he'd listened to me.
You know what I love? The fact that they claim that producing them takes so much of the budget that they have to charge > $15 per disk. However, producing a DiVX (DVD) disk and selling them for under $1.00 is possible (I frequently see them at 99 cents).
One of the things that I've loved about unix over the many many years is that I can *pick* between my GUIs. This is certainly even more true now, with KDE and Gnome being so prevelent.
I've loved showing Microsoft advocates how I can change the entire look of my desktop simply by using a different windowing environment. Having multiple options is not a bad thing. It's one of the things I hate most when I use windows. There is only one GUI, and its one I'm not very happy with.
Need a different or missing feature for your window manager? Simply change managers!
Re 1) Yep, I didn't say that the encryption wouldn't help. It would. I hope its strong enough and the route is long (and hence more as to be broken). The remote address is not, however, anonymous. It *is* in the payload. Granted, how do you talk to something that is not addressible? I'd love to see something like a randomly revolving site, where you must do a lookup of something every 5 minutes because it keeps changing its address... Silly, but...
Re 2) If I was a bad guy, I'd never pass on a key request. I'd always assume 100%.
Re 3) University networks (where hackers typically target to perform the tasks I spoke of) have high bandwidth connections. Plus, who cares if the site is slashdot'ed? It's still a DoS which may be all I'm after. If I register every word in the dictionary as a base node, I'll still piss everyone off. Then I can sell them at my own price. Who cares if they're actually usable under my current server. If I'm authortative just because I register for it, I own it regardless of weather I'm serving DNS (or its equivelent) properly for it.
You know, I meant to mention that in my note... Thanks for pointing it out.
It seems to me that they should be more transport independant in the first place. It shouldn't be IPv4 or IPv6 centric.
- for i in `cat
/usr/dict/words`; do register $i; register $i.$i; done
And the internet is hereby mine!!! Muhahahaa."In my day, sonny, we only had a 64kbps connection to my house. Thats right. And that's when I was already an adult. Now every house comes with a standard 40Gbps line. Aren't you special. You don't know what its like to have to wait for your keystrokes to be echoed back to your terminal screen. Oh, sorry, you don't even know what a keyboard is do ya. Get outta here."
Actually the power supply died. So, I spent the $95 to replace that and it still doesn't boot for some reason (black screen, never changes color).
While I agree that linux and AmigaOS (and BeOS) are completely different things, none the less linux is still taking users from the older AmigaOS controlled population. You're right that they're completely different, but they are still the "alternative" choices. Mac is quickly going the same way.
I'm really sad that BeOS isn't doing any better. From the day I first heard about it I thought the plans sounded fantastic. Admittedly, though, I haven't tried the OS myself yet.
If you really think about it, there are only X number of people in the world willing to use an alternative operating system. I'd say amiga's OS was it for a long time. There was a lot of development on it by hobbiest and professionals alike. In fact it had the largest number of shareware/freeware programs at one point in time (maybe it's still true?). But since Amiga's collapse a new OS has come around and attracted the majority of the old Amigoids to it: linux. It'll be really hard sucking all those people back. I know I was estatic the first time I got NetBSD running on my A3000. It'd take a lot for me to pull that A3000 out of the box in my closet and turn it back on again (partially because it happens to be broken). I'm, of course, hoping that the linux freenzy will succeed in making a decent desktop that will finally take a decent size chunk out of the Win32 desktop market share. Amiga didn't quite pull it off, which is sad.
Coca-cola announced today that it intended to purchase the planet Mars. We've decided it would be easy to set up a new production site on mars now that there is water available in addition to the recently discovered Space Sugar (soon to be TM). Since thats the two main ingredients for our number one selling soft drink, the rest should be easy to either import, or if we're lucky, find on mars.
In an added bonus, the planet is already Red so little redecoration is needed by our part. We haven't figured out how much paint it will take to paint a white curving stripe across the planet though.
...came from outer space?
We've been subjected to alien influence!
The worst offender of useless packaging needs to go to the fast food places. They waste far too much on packaging.
1000 Gig/5 MB-Average-MP3-file-size = 200 mp3 files (mf).
The good:
I think slashdot needs a solid color gif of just a skin tone color for it's new cencorship icon.
As I've been considering what it would take to make my parents move to linux, I've had to think of all the things they currently do with their desktop that they couldn't do with a linux system. One of the largest problems has always been Quicken. Wine has never been able to run it sufficiently. The last time I looked at gnucash it wasn't quite up to the job. I'm looking forward to seeing the new version.
Fortunately, I don't think many people rely on online-banking connections with Quicken but I suspect this will become more of a stumbling block as time goes on. It would be nice to have a linux app take care of this functionality as well.
Now... If I can only convince them that kmail (or something) is better than Eudora then I could administrate their machine from home rather than having to drive over there all the time.
"Excuse me, do you happen to sell a U-238 Space Modulator?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm not sure. I'll have to check the catalog. I'm a lowly paid employee way out of my leauge for such technical questions."