Releasing code early, even when buggy may be a spiteful practice, but its worked for them. They're the most valued corporation on the planet - certainly better off than people who spend six months longer running code through purify until their ears bleed or they starve to death.
like any half decent programmer in any language should.
I love listening to all the so-called "experts" in slashdot tell me I'm a moron unless I re-code everything from my compiler to my libraries.
One day you may actually be on a schedule. Heaven help you when you first manager (I assume you are a greenwing undergrad) finds out that you are re-coding stdio. You'll have that "ass scraping pavement" feeling real quick.
1. Install Be. 2. Realize your stereo is an even better device for playing audio. 3. Uninstall Be.
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Posted by d106ene5:
A server has to be multiuser. Sorry folks, thats the price of admission. Any real server is going to be on a rack in a colocation. You have to be able to get multiple users on there to debug it remotely.
Seatbelt and Helmet laws. People endanger only themselves by not using them. As long as they don't threaten the well being of other people, why does the government bother with enforcing these laws?
I like to think that those laws are also covering the people who have to pick up the pieces when things go wrong - police, ambalance crew, doctors, nurses, bereaved, undertakers, etc...
If you don't want people poking you in public, then you should learn to go anonymous too.
I think you may be missing the point here - if both protagonists were visible then there wouldn't be so much of a problem.
I truely beleive that people should be responsible for their own actions and words. Someone who is posting anonymously is skipping the responsibility bit.
How can you prove someone is using illegal encryption? Even assuming you have access to allegedly encrypted data (which might not be the case if Al Capone is smart and uses steganography), all it is is a bunch of random characters. There's no way to look at an encrypted file and say "Yep, looks like 2048-bit encryption to me". -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
They have a bad crypto track record for two reasons:
1) They don't provide enough. 2) Some of what they have provided it would be better to do without. cf: Office, NT passwords, etc. -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
So what's wrong with the Kennedy ballistics. And keep to the known facts, not the lies and misdirection of Stone's "JFK". -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
instead of encrypting in using a standard form of crypto, it scatters the data around the drive, filling the rest with noise.... except you can have n such partitions; there is no way to tell how many partitions are concealed in this manner, since _SOME_ amount of the bits on that HD are nothing but noise...
check it out (sorry I do not have a url, but freshmeat lists this fs)
the point is such that you can have a few partitions that you dont particularly care if the fbi gets access to, an you never tell them about the one that is sitting there in plain site, diguised as random noise...
that way no prison
PS performance is obvious much worse than ext2, but it is meant for data one wants to conceal, not/usr/bin...
keep the stuff that has to run fast somewhere else.... or use initrd to buffer in ram those bins that need to hide in this fs, to get performance without security compromise...
Then the so called "gun nuts" are right. If they are marginalized, they will be persecuted.
It's a historical fact that giving the government control of a populace's ability to arm themselves leads to suffering, pain and death on a massive scale. ie Nazi occupied europe, Cambodia, Angola, China, etc...
Maybe, by your definition that makes me a gun nut.
I also want my cryptography. I want it as strong as possible I wish we had the hardware to make million bit encryption possible (or at least practical), I don't want my CPU to have an ID number that can be tracked without my consent or knowledge. I don't want a radio beacon placed in my car so that the "authorities" can track me everywhere I go. Maybe that makes me a privacy nut by your definition.
You just want to take our guns, and our privacy. I then regard you as an anti-gun nut, and an anti-privacy nut.
If the Feds can't even prove that there is something available to be decrypted they can't lock you up for hiding the passphrase. Check out steganography. It concerns hiding Data A inside Data B invisibly. Kind of like a digital watermark. -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Think about the Old South. Wealthy slave-owners owners were perfectly free to sell, beat, kill, etc slaves. Was there freedom in the Old South? No.
Same here. BSD affords freedom to a minority, but at the potential expense of the majority. The GPL puts minor restrictions on the minority (must republish mods if binaries are distributed) so that the majority can retain their freedom (access to source code and ability to modify/redistribute).
As for getting the source elsewhere: Not for long, maybe. After several years of secret improvement by Company X, I'd hate to start over with the base BSD code and reverse-engineer everything thing Company X did. -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
"You realize of course that the whole regular VM doesn't have to be put into the Palm because of the unique aspects of the device."
If the full VM isn't implemented, I can't copy my apps from OS A to PalmOS and have them just run--thus defeating the purpose of using Java in the first place.
OTOH, many people tout Java's easier networking code as a reason to use it. That's as may be for a normal machine, but even 64KB sounds like a pretty big networking abstraction layer on a 2MB device.
-- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
3Com announces that the "PalmPilot" will henceforth be known as the "HeavyArmfulPilot". Seriously, Pilot apps already have to be tiny, why add the dubious benefits of a large, slow Java VM? It seems unlikely that apps will port over all that well anyway, considering the completely different UI. -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Why is it that anyone who has a strong position on an issue is called a nut? Privacy nuts, gun nuts, animal rights nuts, et al. Why do you feel the need to belittle and affix degrading labels to people?
I think it says alot more about you than it does them.
In the future it will be no more difficult for the knowledgeable to retain anonymity. Even with logging. It isn't important how, but it can be done.
From the comments of others (who apparently read the paper *ahem*) it sounds like my description is way off base.
On the other hand, I think I might like my idea better... -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
"radially expanding"? Could they have made this description more confusing?
From the pictures (I'm not even going to try to read the text) this looks pretty simple and neat. Here's a better description:
Imagine a very fat doughnut. So fat that the top surface is nearly flat and inner circle is really just a small disk. There is a virtual screen on the surface of this doughnut. You view the doughnut so that the inner disk is in the center of the screen. You bring hidden areas into view by rotating the doughnuts surface in towards the disk.
What seems to make this better than regular virtual desktops is that all areas are more easily accessible. You don't need a desktop manager because you just "scroll the doughnut" until the item you want is in view.
The problem, as I see it, is that the intended small devices have low resolutions--that's the very problem they are trying to solve. Low resolutions don't work very well with non-90 degree angles. -- "Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
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Posted by d106ene5:
Bottom line - some languages are simply more prone to certain failures that open up security holes.
C/C++ makes bounds checking optional, which means no one does it.
Posted by d106ene5:
Releasing code early, even when buggy may be a spiteful practice, but its worked for them. They're the most valued corporation on the planet - certainly better off than people who spend six months longer running code through purify until their ears bleed or they starve to death.
Posted by d106ene5:
like any half decent programmer in any language should.
I love listening to all the so-called "experts" in slashdot tell me I'm a moron unless I re-code everything from my compiler to my libraries.
One day you may actually be on a schedule. Heaven help you when you first manager (I assume you are a greenwing undergrad) finds out that you are re-coding stdio. You'll have that "ass scraping pavement" feeling real quick.
Posted by d106ene5:
1. Install Be.
2. Realize your stereo is an even better device for playing audio.
3. Uninstall Be.
Posted by d106ene5:
A server has to be multiuser. Sorry folks, thats the price of admission. Any real server is going to be on a rack in a colocation. You have to be able to get multiple users on there to debug it remotely.
Posted by d106ene5:
Whatever. Unless you haven't figured it out by now, everyone in here has a degree or doesn't need one. You're not impressing anyone.
Posted by stodge:
I wouldnt put it as strongly as you did, but I dony think its that good a movie.
Posted by wMaVerick:
Seatbelt and Helmet laws. People endanger only themselves by not using them. As long as they don't threaten the well being of other people, why does the government bother with enforcing these laws?
I like to think that those laws are also covering the people who have to pick up the pieces when things go wrong - police, ambalance crew, doctors, nurses, bereaved, undertakers, etc...
Pete
Posted by wMaVerick:
If you don't want people poking you in public, then you should learn to go anonymous too.
I think you may be missing the point here - if both protagonists were visible then there wouldn't be so much of a problem.
I truely beleive that people should be responsible for their own actions and words. Someone who is posting anonymously is skipping the responsibility bit.
Pete
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
How can you prove someone is using illegal encryption? Even assuming you have access to allegedly encrypted data (which might not be the case if Al Capone is smart and uses steganography), all it is is a bunch of random characters. There's no way to look at an encrypted file and say "Yep, looks like 2048-bit encryption to me".
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by wMaVerick:
Regarding Mindcraft, et al.
Who cares if it's faster under certain conditions, if it's not secure, or easily securable.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
They have a bad crypto track record for two reasons:
1) They don't provide enough.
2) Some of what they have provided it would be better to do without. cf: Office, NT passwords, etc.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
So what's wrong with the Kennedy ballistics. And keep to the known facts, not the lies and misdirection of Stone's "JFK".
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by Forward The Light Brigade:
/usr/bin...
the steganographic filestystem does one better;
instead of encrypting in using a standard form of crypto, it scatters the data around the drive, filling the rest with noise.... except you can have n such partitions; there is no way to tell how many partitions are concealed in this manner, since _SOME_ amount of the bits on that HD are nothing but noise...
check it out (sorry I do not have a url, but freshmeat lists this fs)
the point is such that you can have a few partitions that you dont particularly care if the fbi gets access to, an you never tell them about the one that is sitting there in plain site, diguised as random noise...
that way no prison
PS performance is obvious much worse than ext2, but it is meant for data one wants to conceal, not
keep the stuff that has to run fast somewhere else.... or use initrd to buffer in ram those bins that need to hide in this fs, to get performance without security compromise...
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Troubleshooting/diagnostic reasons.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Then the so called "gun nuts" are right. If they are marginalized, they will be persecuted.
It's a historical fact that giving the government control of a populace's ability to arm themselves leads to suffering, pain and death on a massive scale. ie Nazi occupied europe, Cambodia, Angola, China, etc...
Maybe, by your definition that makes me a gun nut.
I also want my cryptography. I want it as strong as possible I wish we had the hardware to make million bit encryption possible (or at least practical), I don't want my CPU to have an ID number that can be tracked without my consent or knowledge. I don't want a radio beacon placed in my car so that the "authorities" can track me everywhere I go. Maybe that makes me a privacy nut by your definition.
You just want to take our guns, and our privacy. I then regard you as an anti-gun nut, and an anti-privacy nut.
LK
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
If the Feds can't even prove that there is something available to be decrypted they can't lock you up for hiding the passphrase. Check out steganography. It concerns hiding Data A inside Data B invisibly. Kind of like a digital watermark.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
"Their choice. That's freedom."
Yes, but only for them.
Think about the Old South. Wealthy slave-owners owners were perfectly free to sell, beat, kill, etc slaves. Was there freedom in the Old South? No.
Same here. BSD affords freedom to a minority, but at the potential expense of the majority. The GPL puts minor restrictions on the minority (must republish mods if binaries are distributed) so that the majority can retain their freedom (access to source code and ability to modify/redistribute).
As for getting the source elsewhere: Not for long, maybe. After several years of secret improvement by Company X, I'd hate to start over with the base BSD code and reverse-engineer everything thing Company X did.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
"You realize of course that the whole regular VM doesn't have to be put into the Palm because of the unique aspects of the device."
If the full VM isn't implemented, I can't copy my apps from OS A to PalmOS and have them just run--thus defeating the purpose of using Java in the first place.
OTOH, many people tout Java's easier networking code as a reason to use it. That's as may be for a normal machine, but even 64KB sounds like a pretty big networking abstraction layer on a 2MB device.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
3Com announces that the "PalmPilot" will henceforth be known as the "HeavyArmfulPilot".
Seriously, Pilot apps already have to be tiny, why add the dubious benefits of a large, slow Java VM? It seems unlikely that apps will port over all that well anyway, considering the completely different UI.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Why is it that anyone who has a strong position on an issue is called a nut? Privacy nuts, gun nuts, animal rights nuts, et al. Why do you feel the need to belittle and affix degrading labels to people?
I think it says alot more about you than it does them.
In the future it will be no more difficult for the knowledgeable to retain anonymity. Even with logging. It isn't important how, but it can be done.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
A simple script executed by cron would be sweet for that.
LK
Posted by Dahakbert:
Didn't find a URL, but I'd like one... if anyone finds one, please post it.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
From the comments of others (who apparently read the paper *ahem*) it sounds like my description is way off base.
On the other hand, I think I might like my idea better...
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
"radially expanding"? Could they have made this description more confusing?
From the pictures (I'm not even going to try to read the text) this looks pretty simple and neat. Here's a better description:
Imagine a very fat doughnut. So fat that the top surface is nearly flat and inner circle is really just a small disk. There is a virtual screen on the surface of this doughnut. You view the doughnut so that the inner disk is in the center of the screen. You bring hidden areas into view by rotating the doughnuts surface in towards the disk.
What seems to make this better than regular virtual desktops is that all areas are more easily accessible. You don't need a desktop manager because you just "scroll the doughnut" until the item you want is in view.
The problem, as I see it, is that the intended small devices have low resolutions--that's the very problem they are trying to solve. Low resolutions don't work very well with non-90 degree angles.
--
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." - Rob Malda