On June 25th, just a few days ago, the original UKUSA agreement that set up Echelon was declassified and published. It includes a number of supporting documents as well.
You do know they're talking about doing this to water, electric, utilities, gas and railroad infrastructure, right? "Critical infrastructure", such as traffic control centers, the power grids, gas grid and the like. You aren't critical infrastructure. WoW certainly as hell shouldn't be running on critical infrastructure. Traffic in those network SHOULD be watched and coordinated. The companies can either let the NSA do it or purchase the equipment and do it themselves.
Last I knew, those "proprietary systems" (example here) were Linux-based using libpcap but on screaming fast hardware. Proprietary analysis software is used to baseline traffic patterns and look for anomalies.
That was a FISH sammich. We're talking about separate patents for HAM, TURKEY, ROAST BEEF, etc. Don't even get me started on the patents for more than one meat topping, and then NON-meat toppings.
It takes 5 seconds from "click" to the first screen, and another 6-7 before I can type and start. Going to "www.youtube.com" took 5 seconds from hitting enter to the page fully loaded. Flash is enabled with the "YouTube enabler" plugin. I picked a video at random and played it twice. Once in the window, another time full screen. 5-6 seconds for the page to load and get the little spinner in the flash box. The video played with one small hiccup, about 20 seconds in. The rest was smooth with no stuttering and synced audio. (Tron Legacy 2 trailer)
As fast as my desktop, no. But fully usable without any major complaints. I was connected via WiFi at the time.
Early IBM PCs were only robust if you wanted to run a tank over the case or bludgeon someone to death with a keyboard.
If you ever worked in tech support, you'd realize just how often that situation came up.
While the movie may be vapid and childish, the early scene in Wanted where the kid unplugs the keyboard and totally decks his jerk coworker with it ranks right up there with the scene from Office Space with the mob-style slaying of the laser printer.
Whereas you trust your browser manufacturer to trust a root CA like Verisign to tell you they trust your bank to be who they really are. I just cut out the middlemen.
I fully understand the function of the certificate. You seem to not want to acknowledge that the identification portion can be separate from the encryption-so-there-is-no-sniffing portion.
Feel free to explain to me why EV is valid beyond the initial contact with a website. More valid than a normal cert, that is.
And of course, once the code is in the wild it pretty much doesn't matter that it's removed from the original source, Sony's lawyers might be busy playing Whac-a-mole for years to come.
And they have every legal right to.
Whac-A-Mole was invented in 1971 by Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering, Inc. [citation needed] Fechter designed the first Whac-a-Mole and was persuaded to sell it outright to a carnival operator who, in turn, sold it to Bob's Space Racers. Fechter did not patent the invention.
Rigor is one of the foundation of science. We need to repeat that boobs experiment another few hundred thousand times to get proper data points before we declare it a success or failure. To be thorough, we need a proper range of sizes and colors, properly logged and categorized.
Hmmm...I wonder if I could squeeze a thesis out of this?
Probably, but it looks like they have a case. It will hinge on whether Comcast is considered a "public utility".
Michigan Constitution, Article 7, Paragraph 29:
No person, partnership, association or corporation, public or private, operating a public utility shall have the right to the use of the highways, streets, alleys or other public places of any county, township, city or village for wires, poles, pipes, tracks, conduits or other utility facilities, without the consent of the duly constituted authority of the county, township, city or village; or to transact local business therein without first obtaining a franchise from the township, city or village. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the right of all counties, townships, cities and villages to the reasonable control of their highways, streets, alleys and public places is hereby reserved to such local units of government.
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I wish Lucasarts stopped being creative and released one of their old style games, when you knew when you saw their logo, you were in for a good time.
Ballblazer! Fuck yeah!
Not to mention Rebel Assault and the whole Monkey Island series. Good times.
Close enough for government work.
aka
"Mars Polar Lander"
At least in Farmville you can actually have a virtual lawn where your avatar can stand and shake his fist at the kids.
The 5th Annual World eBook Fair is currently underway from July 04 - August 04 with over 3,500,000 PDF eBooks available for, ahem, FREE.
Speaking of which...
On June 25th, just a few days ago, the original UKUSA agreement that set up Echelon was declassified and published. It includes a number of supporting documents as well.
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ukusa.shtml
If by "stretch" you mean "already done", then you're right.
http://slashdot.org/~chill/journal/252992
You do know they're talking about doing this to water, electric, utilities, gas and railroad infrastructure, right? "Critical infrastructure", such as traffic control centers, the power grids, gas grid and the like. You aren't critical infrastructure. WoW certainly as hell shouldn't be running on critical infrastructure. Traffic in those network SHOULD be watched and coordinated. The companies can either let the NSA do it or purchase the equipment and do it themselves.
Last I knew, those "proprietary systems" (example here) were Linux-based using libpcap but on screaming fast hardware. Proprietary analysis software is used to baseline traffic patterns and look for anomalies.
So what happens to the roads after a few years when the nitrogen dissolves the road surface and you have to re-pave?
Uh..you re-pave? Was that a trick question?
But, I *loved* Howard the Duck! Are you saying there was something wrong with that movie?
Do I need to do that to play the game?
But if anything ever needed the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag, this was it.
Wow, cool! Let's nuke it and see what happens!
The mind boggles.
That was a FISH sammich. We're talking about separate patents for HAM, TURKEY, ROAST BEEF, etc. Don't even get me started on the patents for more than one meat topping, and then NON-meat toppings.
No, that isn't true. Double-tap is "smart zoom". Use the hardware volume keys to zoom in and out in increments.
This isn't even close to the experience I get.
It takes 5 seconds from "click" to the first screen, and another 6-7 before I can type and start. Going to "www.youtube.com" took 5 seconds from hitting enter to the page fully loaded. Flash is enabled with the "YouTube enabler" plugin. I picked a video at random and played it twice. Once in the window, another time full screen. 5-6 seconds for the page to load and get the little spinner in the flash box. The video played with one small hiccup, about 20 seconds in. The rest was smooth with no stuttering and synced audio. (Tron Legacy 2 trailer)
As fast as my desktop, no. But fully usable without any major complaints. I was connected via WiFi at the time.
Cool! Do you happen to have another anecdote to add to the grand pile of once in the last, what, 9 years?
Anything? Bueller?
But they go so well with the karaoke function!
Early IBM PCs were only robust if you wanted to run a tank over the case or bludgeon someone to death with a keyboard.
If you ever worked in tech support, you'd realize just how often that situation came up.
While the movie may be vapid and childish, the early scene in Wanted where the kid unplugs the keyboard and totally decks his jerk coworker with it ranks right up there with the scene from Office Space with the mob-style slaying of the laser printer.
Whereas you trust your browser manufacturer to trust a root CA like Verisign to tell you they trust your bank to be who they really are. I just cut out the middlemen.
I fully understand the function of the certificate. You seem to not want to acknowledge that the identification portion can be separate from the encryption-so-there-is-no-sniffing portion.
Feel free to explain to me why EV is valid beyond the initial contact with a website. More valid than a normal cert, that is.
Ubuntu Christian Edition? What's the matter? Jesux wasn't holier-than-thou enough?
Robert McNamara, the Sec. of Defense for Kennedy and Johnson. SecDef during the Cuban Missile Crisis and much of the Vietnam War.
As this is an issue in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader and you don't have either of them installed, you're not affected by this bug.
Would that this were so. One of the issues was with the PDF spec itself. Other PDF tools, such as Fox-It, were affected as well and patched recently.
And of course, once the code is in the wild it pretty much doesn't matter that it's removed from the original source, Sony's lawyers might be busy playing Whac-a-mole for years to come.
And they have every legal right to.
Whac-A-Mole was invented in 1971 by Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering, Inc. [citation needed] Fechter designed the first Whac-a-Mole and was persuaded to sell it outright to a carnival operator who, in turn, sold it to Bob's Space Racers. Fechter did not patent the invention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole
Rigor is one of the foundation of science. We need to repeat that boobs experiment another few hundred thousand times to get proper data points before we declare it a success or failure. To be thorough, we need a proper range of sizes and colors, properly logged and categorized.
Hmmm...I wonder if I could squeeze a thesis out of this?
How about NOT embedding PDF viewers and Flash in the browser itself? The two most malware-ridden security holes in computers today.
Probably, but it looks like they have a case. It will hinge on whether Comcast is considered a "public utility".
Michigan Constitution, Article 7, Paragraph 29:
No person, partnership, association or corporation, public or private, operating a public utility shall have the right to the use of the highways, streets, alleys or other public places of any county, township, city or village for wires, poles, pipes, tracks, conduits or other utility facilities, without the consent of the duly constituted authority of the county, township, city or village; or to transact local business therein without first obtaining a franchise from the township, city or village. Except as otherwise provided in this constitution the right of all counties, townships, cities and villages to the reasonable control of their highways, streets, alleys and public places is hereby reserved to such local units of government.