I understand the freight transport bit, but there is a missing detail here.
WTF happens when the freight makes its way to the Seward Peninsula via Little Diomede? It is still 500 miles as the crow flies over to Fairbanks. Exactly how much will it cost and how long will it take to build that section?
Our building shook a bit at first. Enough for me to look out the window for a big truck. Then it shook harder. That one was enough to knock some books off the shelf and get everyone to evacuate.
Everyone picked up their cell phones at the same time and overloaded all the networks. Only Sprint worked. They must have so few customers left it doesn't matter. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon were all useless. That includes forcing the phones to use 2G only.
I think I need to re-new my Ham license, just in case.
The implied question of the grandparent was if all there were was Adam and Eve, Cain and Able -- whom did Cain marry?
Also derived would be exactly why did Cain need a mark of protection from God? Who else was out there for Cain to worry about?
It is a dig at the literalistic interpretation of Genesis 4 popular with some Evangelical groups.
And, I must say. After having the opportunity of sitting in on some Evangelical Christian sessions of Bible reading and interpretation, I fully understand the early Catholic policy of forbidding on pain of death the unassisted reading of the Bible by the laity.
I do. I still have nightmares about December 1999 when the version of DomainOS we were running did its equivalent of Y2K.
Part of the boot code used signed ints, part unsigned. In early December their counter rolled over and part of the boot process thought it was like 4,000 B.C.. And...it was waiting until 30 seconds after it started, in December of 1999 before continuing.
A 6,000 year delay loop isn't good for boot times.
Our vendor notified us the day before Thanksgiving. The bastard.
Not true. As defined by NIST 800-60 and FIPS 199, you aren't talking about an application, but rather an "information system". NIST 800-53 defines minimum security requirement.
The system includes physical security, physical computers, etc. and not just a software application. The equipment, location and methods used by AWS would need to be evaluated as part of these information systems.
While that can't be done without the application, there are parts of 800-53's minimum security requirements that would apply exclusively to the components provided by AWS.
Despite the vague phrasing of the article, AWS GovCloud hasn't yet received any FISMA certification which means they're going to have a very hard time getting anyone in gov't to use them seriously.
ID is for dealing with people you don't know, not friends and family. Not all interaction is in depth enough for you to have to establish personal knowledge.
Online sales are something you really just need to sometimes know Bob is Bob without having to learn his family history.
What you're looking for is a Firefox Plugin called Certificate Patrol. It will let you know if a certificate changed since it was first seen.
So, if I've been using a certificate for Bank of America signed by Versign for the last year. (Work with me here. Assume Verisign isn't already a front for the NSA.:-) And all of a sudden the certificate changes to one signed by someone else, it'll warn me. Even if it is signed by the same CA, but the hash or signature changes, it'll warn me. Hell, you even get an extra warning if the certificate was renewed, but not close to expiring before!
As that paragon of virtue, Joseph Satain once said: "doveryai, no proveryai" Or as Ronald Reagan put it: "Trust, but verify."
That isn't correct. They are regulating the sale of alcohol directly, though this is limited to local governments. It has absolutely nothing to do with your identification.
I understand being wary over the ever increasing demand for personal identifiers. I believe you're referring the Real ID Act. But I'm not advocating that the gov't take sole control of issuing online identities. I'd be happy to see the big boys in the game as well. Users could choose which of them to trust.
Hell, they can do that NOW. Feel free to delete the root CAs you don't trust.
You have a healthy distrust of governments. That's a good think, but you shouldn't let it blind you. You just need to limit your trust to the minimum necessary to get the job done.
Corruption and the ability to misuse power isn't limited to government. The CDDB fiasco comes to mind, for one.
Short of proxying every external connection, transparently intercepting every SSL transaction and substituting the certificates on the fly, I'm not sure how what you're describing is possible.
Fraud and corruption exists virtually everywhere. International bodies are subject to pressure just as national ones are. If you think the UN is totally objective and doesn't respond to various national interests, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
The articles aren't really discussing absolute trust, they are talking about only one aspect of SSL -- identification.
A root CA doesn't tell me "you can trust example.com", it tells me that example.com really is example.com. The root CA supposedly put the effort in to making sure the domain owner provided supporting documentation to prove they are who they say they are.
This is analogous to what States do in requiring proving identity before issuing a driver's licenses. Or, as Federal Governments do before issuing passports.
We trust the governments with this function now. I don't see what the big issue is in trusting them with the digital version.
Considering MS is second only to Apple in outright denials of things they're actively pursuing and ready to pull the trigger on, how long until Microsoft just outright buys Nokia?
I'm more interested in the death of roaming profiles. In most cases, they are a total waste of resources and greatly degrade the boot process on office PCs.
We've finally done away with them at our office, and it makes a noticeable difference. Once we realized almost no one uses a computer that isn't theirs, we couldn't figure out a good reason to keep them. Instead, they were replaced with folder redirection and the half-dozen people who frequently logged on to conference room computers were told to save their presentations to a shared folder instead of on their desktop.
The article says a single sheet of aluminum foil would be enough to stop the radiation from thorium. Unless you're English, then it would be a single sheet of aluminium foil.
The world's first mechanically augmented athlete...
He's fought hard to prove they provide no advantage...
augmented - Adjective 1. Having been made greater in size or value.
If, by definition, he has been made greater in value by the addition of the prosthesis, how could he prove they provide no advantage? This is a logical paradox.
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I understand the freight transport bit, but there is a missing detail here.
WTF happens when the freight makes its way to the Seward Peninsula via Little Diomede? It is still 500 miles as the crow flies over to Fairbanks. Exactly how much will it cost and how long will it take to build that section?
And yet many people here in D.C. got "maximum number of retries exceeded" messages from their Verizon Blackberries.
It took about 15 minutes for service to get restored to the point data and SMS was available. Slightly longer for voice.
Sprint worked, though. For both customers.
Our building shook a bit at first. Enough for me to look out the window for a big truck. Then it shook harder. That one was enough to knock some books off the shelf and get everyone to evacuate.
Everyone picked up their cell phones at the same time and overloaded all the networks. Only Sprint worked. They must have so few customers left it doesn't matter. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon were all useless. That includes forcing the phones to use 2G only.
I think I need to re-new my Ham license, just in case.
The implied question of the grandparent was if all there were was Adam and Eve, Cain and Able -- whom did Cain marry?
Also derived would be exactly why did Cain need a mark of protection from God? Who else was out there for Cain to worry about?
It is a dig at the literalistic interpretation of Genesis 4 popular with some Evangelical groups.
And, I must say. After having the opportunity of sitting in on some Evangelical Christian sessions of Bible reading and interpretation, I fully understand the early Catholic policy of forbidding on pain of death the unassisted reading of the Bible by the laity.
Currently just under 30,000 signed up. Let's see what the Slashdot effect does.
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The YouTube video in the first link is already yanked.
I do. I still have nightmares about December 1999 when the version of DomainOS we were running did its equivalent of Y2K.
Part of the boot code used signed ints, part unsigned. In early December their counter rolled over and part of the boot process thought it was like 4,000 B.C.. And...it was waiting until 30 seconds after it started, in December of 1999 before continuing.
A 6,000 year delay loop isn't good for boot times.
Our vendor notified us the day before Thanksgiving. The bastard.
Thanks. I had only read the parent to that and hadn't yet dug into the whitepaper.
Your quote confirms what I suspected might be the case: FISMA low with medium being pursued. Interesting...
Not true. As defined by NIST 800-60 and FIPS 199, you aren't talking about an application, but rather an "information system". NIST 800-53 defines minimum security requirement.
The system includes physical security, physical computers, etc. and not just a software application. The equipment, location and methods used by AWS would need to be evaluated as part of these information systems.
While that can't be done without the application, there are parts of 800-53's minimum security requirements that would apply exclusively to the components provided by AWS.
Despite the vague phrasing of the article, AWS GovCloud hasn't yet received any FISMA certification which means they're going to have a very hard time getting anyone in gov't to use them seriously.
ID is for dealing with people you don't know, not friends and family. Not all interaction is in depth enough for you to have to establish personal knowledge.
Online sales are something you really just need to sometimes know Bob is Bob without having to learn his family history.
Buying Nokia would get Microsoft a nice patent pool, which seems to be the name of the game today.
What you're looking for is a Firefox Plugin called Certificate Patrol. It will let you know if a certificate changed since it was first seen.
So, if I've been using a certificate for Bank of America signed by Versign for the last year. (Work with me here. Assume Verisign isn't already a front for the NSA. :-) And all of a sudden the certificate changes to one signed by someone else, it'll warn me. Even if it is signed by the same CA, but the hash or signature changes, it'll warn me. Hell, you even get an extra warning if the certificate was renewed, but not close to expiring before!
As that paragon of virtue, Joseph Satain once said: "doveryai, no proveryai" Or as Ronald Reagan put it: "Trust, but verify."
That isn't correct. They are regulating the sale of alcohol directly, though this is limited to local governments. It has absolutely nothing to do with your identification.
I understand being wary over the ever increasing demand for personal identifiers. I believe you're referring the Real ID Act. But I'm not advocating that the gov't take sole control of issuing online identities. I'd be happy to see the big boys in the game as well. Users could choose which of them to trust.
Hell, they can do that NOW. Feel free to delete the root CAs you don't trust.
You have a healthy distrust of governments. That's a good think, but you shouldn't let it blind you. You just need to limit your trust to the minimum necessary to get the job done.
Corruption and the ability to misuse power isn't limited to government. The CDDB fiasco comes to mind, for one.
Resolving is DNS, not SSL.
Short of proxying every external connection, transparently intercepting every SSL transaction and substituting the certificates on the fly, I'm not sure how what you're describing is possible.
Fraud and corruption exists virtually everywhere. International bodies are subject to pressure just as national ones are. If you think the UN is totally objective and doesn't respond to various national interests, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
Actually, that is a good idea.
The articles aren't really discussing absolute trust, they are talking about only one aspect of SSL -- identification.
A root CA doesn't tell me "you can trust example.com", it tells me that example.com really is example.com. The root CA supposedly put the effort in to making sure the domain owner provided supporting documentation to prove they are who they say they are.
This is analogous to what States do in requiring proving identity before issuing a driver's licenses. Or, as Federal Governments do before issuing passports.
We trust the governments with this function now. I don't see what the big issue is in trusting them with the digital version.
Considering MS is second only to Apple in outright denials of things they're actively pursuing and ready to pull the trigger on, how long until Microsoft just outright buys Nokia?
I'm more interested in the death of roaming profiles. In most cases, they are a total waste of resources and greatly degrade the boot process on office PCs.
We've finally done away with them at our office, and it makes a noticeable difference. Once we realized almost no one uses a computer that isn't theirs, we couldn't figure out a good reason to keep them. Instead, they were replaced with folder redirection and the half-dozen people who frequently logged on to conference room computers were told to save their presentations to a shared folder instead of on their desktop.
6 seconds? Bah! Had you not heard of BattDisk? That would cut your time in half!
I think Dean (of DKB) has a /. account and sometimes shows up here.
The article says a single sheet of aluminum foil would be enough to stop the radiation from thorium. Unless you're English, then it would be a single sheet of aluminium foil.
English motherfucker! Do you speak it?
augmented - Adjective
1. Having been made greater in size or value.
If, by definition, he has been made greater in value by the addition of the prosthesis, how could he prove they provide no advantage? This is a logical paradox.
Assume it is multiple layers of synthetic diamond or sapphire. Sapphire crystal is used to make some damn impervious stuff.
How do you think something like that would hold up to your scenarios?