Even an order of magnitude off would make that 0.139%
If my math is correct, that is the equivalent of someone who makes $40,000 / year donating $50. Of course, I may have completely invented a new (and useless) branch of mathematics here, so your $$ may vary.
For example, the EU just made data retention laws mandatory so soon places like The Pirate Bay will be legally required to log the IP addresses of each connection and retain it for a couple of years.
I think that only pertains to the internet service providers.
Thus just pushing it up one step the chain, to TPB's ISP. This is still a vlid concern.
How does all this fit with Sweden being a member state of the EU? Doesn't membership require a great deal of effort towards unifying laws, policies, etc.?
For example, the EU just made data retention laws mandatory so soon places like The Pirate Bay will be legally required to log the IP addresses of each connection and retain it for a couple of years. What if some other EU State sues TPB in an EU court demanding those records? Would you like the UK/German/French/Whatever version of the RIAA/MPAA having a list of records saying you were linking to stuff thru TPB? It may be legal in Sweden, but what about the rest of the EU?
Lucent did it to itself. There was a point in the late 90s where Lucent was the 2nd largest extender of credit in the world, after Bank of Japan. They "sold" billions of $$ in equipment, financed it 100%, to any jerk with a business plan written on a napkin.
When it all crashed, they were left with a crapload of never used, but used equipment. Cisco was smart -- they bought all theirs up and warehoused it. Lucent liquidated it, which totally decimated their new equipment sales. Why buy new when used is $0.30 on the dollar and the equipment has never been touched?
Those wage earners (of which I was one) had great benefits and excellent salaries. "Field engineers", aka the grunts in the field, could easily make $80 - 100,000 / year plus options, discounted ESPP and pension. People with 10+ years in ended up with severence packages that were in the high 5-figures if not 6. Hell, after just 2 years I had over $15,000 in pension, IRA-rollover and stock waiting for me.
As long as those workers didn't have their heads totally up their ass and invested SOMETHING, they came out fine. Hop on unemployment, tighten the belt, look for more work and you have more than enough to survive.
If they went up to their eyeballs in debt (new, bigger house; new car; new computers; etc.) then they paid the piper.
Personal responsibility does have some play, you know.
Lucent is a shadow of what it was. They've laid off over 100,000 people in the past couple of years, and are now looking at another 9,000 or so with this merger. Those aren't exactly "world domination" figures.
I'm currently fighting a DHMO addiction. Every time I think I'm getting close to kicking the habbit, I relapse, just like our corporate overlords want!
You're just a tool. There is no hope for people like you!:-)
I disagree. The article made a good point about becoming jaded. You can be addicted to a game and your wife or girlfriend can still turn you on. But if you watch enough porn, she will not turn you on, and nothing but new and more interesting porn will. It's like you build a tolerance.
I disagree. After being married 15 years and having seen a LOT of porn this has not happened to me. Of course, I'm not addicted, either. I can stop at any time. I CAN! Why are you looking at me like that?!:-)
I see the relationship between a drug addict having a harder and harder time reaching that high and needing more and more porn. Maybe. With the drug it is a direct alteration of brain chemistry, but with porn it isn't.
And, if you're addicted to a game, while your wife/girlfriend may still turn you on, she may not be there when you finally get around to noticing.
Just about ANYTHING can be addictive, so vilifying porn as addictive is just blowing so much smoke. I've seen studies that claim exercise, jogging, gambling, video games, food, sex, etc. are all "addicting".
The issue is people who are susceptible to addiction will get addicted on whatever happens to be available be it porn or Everquest or chocolate or cigarettes.
I see porn as less damaging than gambling as there is so much free porn available there really isn't any reason to blow large chunks of cash on it. It is also less problematic than cigarettes, alcohol or drugs.
As far as damaging relationships, I don't see it as any more damaging that ANY addicted obsession. If some guy spends 6-8 hours a day on the computer playing WoW, he certainly is going to have relationship problems.
So, what harm is there in bundling the browser with the OS shipped on 90% of the retail PCs in the world? What harm is there in integrating the browser into the core of the operating system?
Apparently, if you bundle a half-ass product where only lip service was paid to security, the cost is greater than anyone realizes. IE was crammed in there with the sole purpose of crushing Netscape and dominating the Internet market. It was rushed, with slipshod quality and security only as an afterthough -- and that only by the PR department.
"Where do you want to go today?" seems to have found an answer......let's stop by your bank and credit card accounts on the way to an organized crime hangout and/or third-world country! Fun!
And you didn't install the OS yourself from something "known good" (or at least believed good, like a generic windows install CD bought at best buy or your other favorite local rip-off shop) you're an idiot.
Irrelevant.
BIOS has gotten to the point that it can "phone home" before you even get to the OS. A small modification to hardware or firmware can make it so the system inserts key packets into the network stream, sending covert messages out to the equivalent of electronic "dead drops".
We aren't talking about always-on-a-secure-network PCs, but laptops that'll be jacked into hotels, Starbucks and other insecure networks at some point.
Unless you jack those machines in behind a traffic analyzer/router that captures every packet, then analyze *each* packet that goes out of the machine, you'll never be 100% sure the hardware isn't trojaned.
Ping is nice and innocuous. Are you sure you know what that 56-byte payload contains? Have you ever looked? What about DNS requests? They happen ALL the time. Did you analyze each one to make sure they aren't requesting TXT-records that get forwarded over to a Chinese-owned server in the U.S.?
All of this is one of the reasons I switched the few servers I have over to OpenBSD. Trustix was nice, especially if you are used to the Linux SysV way as opposed to the evil that is BSD's rc system.:-)
Because it is a positive identifier that can be used when describing an individual.
When asked to describe a person, if you witness a crime or even just trying to pass the info onto someone else, some of the easiest and best info to give is:
gender skin color/racial type hair color & style height (even if approx. like "short" or "tall") build (skinny, medium, chubby, fat, muscular, etc.) eye color tattoos, scars or other identifying marks
What data will ID cards store? Fears have been raised by opponents of identity cards about the amount of information which could be stored on the database. Here is the full list of the 49 types of information which the Identity Cards Bill says should be on the register.
Personal information
* full name
* other names by which person is or has been known
* date of birth
* place of birth
* gender
* address of principal place of residence in the United Kingdom
* the address of every other place in the United Kingdom where person has a place of residence.
Identifying information
* a photograph of head and shoulders
* signature
* fingerprints
* other biometric information
Residential status
* nationality
* entitlement to remain in the United Kingdom where that entitlement derives from a grant of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, the terms and conditions of that leave
Personal reference numbers
* National Identity Registration Number
* the number of any ID card issued
* allocated national insurance number
* the number of any relevant immigration document
* the number of their United Kingdom passport
* the number of any passport issued to the individual by or on behalf of the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or by or on behalf of an international organisation
* the number of any document that can be used by them (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport;
* the number of any identity card issued to him/her by the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom
* any reference number allocated to him/her by the secretary of state in connection with an application made by him for permission to enter or to remain in the United Kingdom
* the number of any work permit relating to him/her;
* any driver number given to him/her by a driving licence;
* the number of any designated document which is held by him/her and is a document the number of which does not fall within any of the preceding sub-paragraphs
* the date of expiry or period of validity of a document the number of which is recorded by virtue of this paragraph.
Record history
* information falling within the preceding paragraphs that has previously been recorded about him/her in the Register
* particulars of changes affecting that information and of changes made to his/her entry in the Register
* date of death.
Registration and ID card history
* the date of every application for registration made by him/her
* the date of every application by him/her for a modification of the contents of his entry
* the date of every application by him/her confirming the contents of his entry (with or without changes)
* the reason for any omission from the information recorded in his/her entry
* particulars (in addition to its number) of every ID card issued to him/her
* whether each such card is in force and, if not, why not
If the article is true, and prime numbers can be gleaned from quantum stuff, and quantum computers are just around the corner... will that obsolete all our public key encryption tools?
IIRC, Elliptic Curve crypto is based on Discreet Logs and not large primes. Thus, figuring out a rapid way to factor primes will not totally obsolete PKI -- just the PKI that relies on prime keys.
Quantum encryption is a different animal, more related to quantum teleportation of keys than anything else. It is the idea of getting a key from point A to point C *WITHOUT* going thru point B, thus rendering a MITM attack superfluous because there IS NO middle.
I'll bet their objections stem more from the realization that a lot of organizations download the latest rules and trust them blindly, installing them automatically. It is pretty trivial to create a server-side filter to provide "custom" rules based on the client or requesting IP address, thus "infiltrating" a particular organization.
After all, VRT-certified rules require a subscription and how many places have the expertiese and time to validate them?
I figure someone at the Pentagon asked the simple question "Hey, do we use Snort?" and got the answer "Yeah, it is everywhere. Why?" and just about had heart failure.
You need the Session Saver extension for Firefox. I got sick and tired of listening to my wife whine "Where did it all go now? I just closed the tab!" No...you closed the application.
Now, she just re-opens Firefox and it is all back -- half completed forms and all.
To further your analogy, this is like some company selling you a hearing aid, you take it to a Greatful Dead concert, but you still can't make out the words clearly...so you sue the band instead of the people who made the poorly performing product.
No no no, you don't understand.
This is America. You sue the band for making you need the hearing aid in the first place AND sue the hearing aid company for a poorly performing product. If you're good, you also sue the venue and the band's promoter. If you're real good, sue the city who gave them a permit to perform in the first place! After all, their loud music damages hearing (see case #1 for the precident) and thus is a known dangerous product.:-)
Then go with an NL-series instead of an N-series. Same basic board, just no connectors (only headers). It also has a connector for an LVDS or DVI daughtercard ($35-40 extra).
What is with the VGA port? Are they that much more expensive than DVI? It seems that basically all boards with integrated graphics have this failing, and it is extremely annoying. While a DVI-VGA adapter is about $5, this choice alone excludes a huge chunk of the market.
Nope. The N-series has those ports you see but the NL-series has no ports, just headers. That includes an adapter for an LVDS or DVI connection. There is a miniPCI slot on bottom if you want to install a wireless card or something else miniPCI. The boards already include MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and crypto accelerators along with video (inc. an HDTV converter), audio (S/PDIF), USB 2.0 and ethernet (10/100).
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And how much did you donate?
.01% of my annual income.
Significantly more than
10,000 / 72,000,000 = 0.000139 or 0.0139%
Even an order of magnitude off would make that 0.139%
If my math is correct, that is the equivalent of someone who makes $40,000 / year donating $50. Of course, I may have completely invented a new (and useless) branch of mathematics here, so your $$ may vary.
-Charles
If iTunes is "unusable," what IS usable?
Emacs!
Let me rephrase it to be clearer:
Some national court in another EU nation, which then demands records from the Swedish ISP using the EU member status as a pretext.
How has the development and growth of the EU affected trans-national legal disputes?
For example, the EU just made data retention laws mandatory so soon places like The Pirate Bay will be legally required to log the IP addresses of each connection and retain it for a couple of years.
I think that only pertains to the internet service providers.
Thus just pushing it up one step the chain, to TPB's ISP. This is still a vlid concern.
How does all this fit with Sweden being a member state of the EU? Doesn't membership require a great deal of effort towards unifying laws, policies, etc.?
For example, the EU just made data retention laws mandatory so soon places like The Pirate Bay will be legally required to log the IP addresses of each connection and retain it for a couple of years. What if some other EU State sues TPB in an EU court demanding those records? Would you like the UK/German/French/Whatever version of the RIAA/MPAA having a list of records saying you were linking to stuff thru TPB? It may be legal in Sweden, but what about the rest of the EU?
-Charles
Lucent did it to itself. There was a point in the late 90s where Lucent was the 2nd largest extender of credit in the world, after Bank of Japan. They "sold" billions of $$ in equipment, financed it 100%, to any jerk with a business plan written on a napkin.
When it all crashed, they were left with a crapload of never used, but used equipment. Cisco was smart -- they bought all theirs up and warehoused it. Lucent liquidated it, which totally decimated their new equipment sales. Why buy new when used is $0.30 on the dollar and the equipment has never been touched?
Those wage earners (of which I was one) had great benefits and excellent salaries. "Field engineers", aka the grunts in the field, could easily make $80 - 100,000 / year plus options, discounted ESPP and pension. People with 10+ years in ended up with severence packages that were in the high 5-figures if not 6. Hell, after just 2 years I had over $15,000 in pension, IRA-rollover and stock waiting for me.
As long as those workers didn't have their heads totally up their ass and invested SOMETHING, they came out fine. Hop on unemployment, tighten the belt, look for more work and you have more than enough to survive.
If they went up to their eyeballs in debt (new, bigger house; new car; new computers; etc.) then they paid the piper.
Personal responsibility does have some play, you know.
-Charles
Lucent is a shadow of what it was. They've laid off over 100,000 people in the past couple of years, and are now looking at another 9,000 or so with this merger. Those aren't exactly "world domination" figures.
-Charles
If they are 98.3% skewed towards males, where is all the front page pr0n?
I'm currently fighting a DHMO addiction. Every time I think I'm getting close to kicking the habbit, I relapse, just like our corporate overlords want!
:-)
You're just a tool. There is no hope for people like you!
I disagree. The article made a good point about becoming jaded. You can be addicted to a game and your wife or girlfriend can still turn you on. But if you watch enough porn, she will not turn you on, and nothing but new and more interesting porn will. It's like you build a tolerance.
:-)
I disagree. After being married 15 years and having seen a LOT of porn this has not happened to me. Of course, I'm not addicted, either. I can stop at any time. I CAN! Why are you looking at me like that?!
I see the relationship between a drug addict having a harder and harder time reaching that high and needing more and more porn. Maybe. With the drug it is a direct alteration of brain chemistry, but with porn it isn't.
And, if you're addicted to a game, while your wife/girlfriend may still turn you on, she may not be there when you finally get around to noticing.
Just about ANYTHING can be addictive, so vilifying porn as addictive is just blowing so much smoke. I've seen studies that claim exercise, jogging, gambling, video games, food, sex, etc. are all "addicting".
The issue is people who are susceptible to addiction will get addicted on whatever happens to be available be it porn or Everquest or chocolate or cigarettes.
I see porn as less damaging than gambling as there is so much free porn available there really isn't any reason to blow large chunks of cash on it. It is also less problematic than cigarettes, alcohol or drugs.
As far as damaging relationships, I don't see it as any more damaging that ANY addicted obsession. If some guy spends 6-8 hours a day on the computer playing WoW, he certainly is going to have relationship problems.
-Charles
So, what harm is there in bundling the browser with the OS shipped on 90% of the retail PCs in the world? What harm is there in integrating the browser into the core of the operating system?
...let's stop by your bank and credit card accounts on the way to an organized crime hangout and/or third-world country! Fun!
Apparently, if you bundle a half-ass product where only lip service was paid to security, the cost is greater than anyone realizes. IE was crammed in there with the sole purpose of crushing Netscape and dominating the Internet market. It was rushed, with slipshod quality and security only as an afterthough -- and that only by the PR department.
"Where do you want to go today?" seems to have found an answer...
-Charles
And you didn't install the OS yourself from something "known good" (or at least believed good, like a generic windows install CD bought at best buy or your other favorite local rip-off shop) you're an idiot.
Irrelevant.
BIOS has gotten to the point that it can "phone home" before you even get to the OS. A small modification to hardware or firmware can make it so the system inserts key packets into the network stream, sending covert messages out to the equivalent of electronic "dead drops".
We aren't talking about always-on-a-secure-network PCs, but laptops that'll be jacked into hotels, Starbucks and other insecure networks at some point.
Unless you jack those machines in behind a traffic analyzer/router that captures every packet, then analyze *each* packet that goes out of the machine, you'll never be 100% sure the hardware isn't trojaned.
Ping is nice and innocuous. Are you sure you know what that 56-byte payload contains? Have you ever looked? What about DNS requests? They happen ALL the time. Did you analyze each one to make sure they aren't requesting TXT-records that get forwarded over to a Chinese-owned server in the U.S.?
-Charles
All of this is one of the reasons I switched the few servers I have over to OpenBSD. Trustix was nice, especially if you are used to the Linux SysV way as opposed to the evil that is BSD's rc system. :-)
Because it is a positive identifier that can be used when describing an individual.
When asked to describe a person, if you witness a crime or even just trying to pass the info onto someone else, some of the easiest and best info to give is:
gender
skin color/racial type
hair color & style
height (even if approx. like "short" or "tall")
build (skinny, medium, chubby, fat, muscular, etc.)
eye color
tattoos, scars or other identifying marks
-Charles
What data will ID cards store?
Fears have been raised by opponents of identity cards about the amount of information which could be stored on the database. Here is the full list of the 49 types of information which the Identity Cards Bill says should be on the register.
Personal information
* full name
* other names by which person is or has been known
* date of birth
* place of birth
* gender
* address of principal place of residence in the United Kingdom
* the address of every other place in the United Kingdom where person has a place of residence.
Identifying information
* a photograph of head and shoulders
* signature
* fingerprints
* other biometric information
Residential status
* nationality
* entitlement to remain in the United Kingdom where that entitlement derives from a grant of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, the terms and conditions of that leave
Personal reference numbers
* National Identity Registration Number
* the number of any ID card issued
* allocated national insurance number
* the number of any relevant immigration document
* the number of their United Kingdom passport
* the number of any passport issued to the individual by or on behalf of the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or by or on behalf of an international organisation
* the number of any document that can be used by them (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport;
* the number of any identity card issued to him/her by the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom
* any reference number allocated to him/her by the secretary of state in connection with an application made by him for permission to enter or to remain in the United Kingdom
* the number of any work permit relating to him/her;
* any driver number given to him/her by a driving licence;
* the number of any designated document which is held by him/her and is a document the number of which does not fall within any of the preceding sub-paragraphs
* the date of expiry or period of validity of a document the number of which is recorded by virtue of this paragraph.
Record history
* information falling within the preceding paragraphs that has previously been recorded about him/her in the Register
* particulars of changes affecting that information and of changes made to his/her entry in the Register
* date of death.
Registration and ID card history
* the date of every application for registration made by him/her
* the date of every application by him/her for a modification of the contents of his entry
* the date of every application by him/her confirming the contents of his entry (with or without changes)
* the reason for any omission from the information recorded in his/her entry
* particulars (in addition to its number) of every ID card issued to him/her
* whether each such card is in force and, if not, why not
*ahem* almost, but not quite totally useless
If the article is true, and prime numbers can be gleaned from quantum stuff, and quantum computers are just around the corner... will that obsolete all our public key encryption tools?
IIRC, Elliptic Curve crypto is based on Discreet Logs and not large primes. Thus, figuring out a rapid way to factor primes will not totally obsolete PKI -- just the PKI that relies on prime keys.
Quantum encryption is a different animal, more related to quantum teleportation of keys than anything else. It is the idea of getting a key from point A to point C *WITHOUT* going thru point B, thus rendering a MITM attack superfluous because there IS NO middle.
-Charles
Check Point firewalls are prohibited in a lot of government departments, including the Pentagon and most of the DoD. There are exceptions, of course.
I'll bet their objections stem more from the realization that a lot of organizations download the latest rules and trust them blindly, installing them automatically. It is pretty trivial to create a server-side filter to provide "custom" rules based on the client or requesting IP address, thus "infiltrating" a particular organization.
After all, VRT-certified rules require a subscription and how many places have the expertiese and time to validate them?
I figure someone at the Pentagon asked the simple question "Hey, do we use Snort?" and got the answer "Yeah, it is everywhere. Why?" and just about had heart failure.
-Charles
You need the Session Saver extension for Firefox. I got sick and tired of listening to my wife whine "Where did it all go now? I just closed the tab!" No...you closed the application.
Now, she just re-opens Firefox and it is all back -- half completed forms and all.
-Charles
To further your analogy, this is like some company selling you a hearing aid, you take it to a Greatful Dead concert, but you still can't make out the words clearly...so you sue the band instead of the people who made the poorly performing product.
:-)
No no no, you don't understand.
This is America. You sue the band for making you need the hearing aid in the first place AND sue the hearing aid company for a poorly performing product. If you're good, you also sue the venue and the band's promoter. If you're real good, sue the city who gave them a permit to perform in the first place! After all, their loud music damages hearing (see case #1 for the precident) and thus is a known dangerous product.
Then go with an NL-series instead of an N-series. Same basic board, just no connectors (only headers). It also has a connector for an LVDS or DVI daughtercard ($35-40 extra).
What is with the VGA port? Are they that much more expensive than DVI? It seems that basically all boards with integrated graphics have this failing, and it is extremely annoying. While a DVI-VGA adapter is about $5, this choice alone excludes a huge chunk of the market.
Nope. The N-series has those ports you see but the NL-series has no ports, just headers. That includes an adapter for an LVDS or DVI connection. There is a miniPCI slot on bottom if you want to install a wireless card or something else miniPCI. The boards already include MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and crypto accelerators along with video (inc. an HDTV converter), audio (S/PDIF), USB 2.0 and ethernet (10/100).
In stock at Logic Supply. In the UK, Mini-ITX.com claims to have limited supplies on hand.
-Charles