I know this whole thread's OT, but I've been wondering about this for a while. Does anybody out there know where I can find stats on drinking and driving related deaths in the US?
I think that just that number alone may be higher, but I haven't seen any sources to back it up..
"Doesn't this lock people down to one aspect of development?"
Yup. We had a project that we did as a group in the program I just finished. We were allowed to set up the group structure in any way we wanted. We set it up so that the people with the least experience in certain areas were doing the most work, 'supervised' by somebody who knew that area. This way, we all learned as much as possible.
Unfortunately, halfway through, we had the prof look over what we had, and it sucked. We threw our prior organization out the window and had to restructure our group to get the finished product done well and done on time.
I didn't learn as much as I could have, but I got a good mark.
If you do a bit-by-bit copy, are you actually circumventing the encryption? You're not actually breaking the copy-protection bit, you're copying it too. That means that your cloned CD would bye copy-protected as well.
This would mostly cover the fair use bit - you can make your backups, etc, but just no mp3's..
Don't forget the reformation that started it all. Theoretically, if religion hadn't been brough to the masses, things would be more than a bit different now.
Oddly enough, my 50ish yr old mom likes listening to her ripped mp3's. She has us kids burn compilation CD's of her favorite songs for listening in the car and in her discman.
A program I just finished required us to build systems in the classroom as part of the learning process. Included in this is downloading patches from vendor's websites. While this could be covered by the prof putting all the info on a network share.. wait.. I forgot where I was going with this.
I used the 'net access mostly to make sure my freeciv was updated..
Maybe the people who made programs like gaim, gnapster, knaptser, kicq, gnomeicu, etc should get thrown in jail for their evil "hacking"? The article mentions that the five-year statute of limitations is retroactively being pulled. Combine this with what was said in another post and it could very easily be done.
but who gets to define what is a crime or not? The pessimist (realist?) in my wants to say it'll be those with the $$ to buy government officials.
I remember back in high school learning that capitalism was a economic system and democracy was a governmental system. I always kept getting confused and thinking that capitalism was a model of government. Maybe I was just ahead of my time..
"I am pretty sure that no where in the specs for DNS or IPv4 is it required that my genome sequence be part of the string being sent out."
So far. Who knows what will come in later. There's been articles and discussion elsewhere about national id cards in the states with DNA sequences on them. Even if you don't get life, when you run your ID card through the airport (or grocery store or high school) scanner, all the bells and whistles go off..
As I read that, somebody down the hall in the office started (and is still) singing along with their Brittney music. Can't hear the music, just the singing.
I really wish he'd stop.
(yes, I know I could ask him, but instead I'm going to put on my headphones and listen to something nice and sane. like my filk cd)
"We not only need more money, we need to change some things, and they've got to be changed at the top," Shelby said.
Sounds like it's time to begin a complete restructuring of the system. It would also be a good time to cut away the extra red tape that's accumulated. It'd be a long, slow, painful process, but I think it'd be worth it in the long run.
Based on the above, the simplest solution would be to get rid of all the smart computer people who write this stuff, and make sure no more are trained.
It would be an effective solution, but I can't claim to endorse it.
Now that I've thought about it a bit more, the above would only notify you of a successful worm. Any ideas out there to positively identify this thing as it comes in? Other than the cluster of 14+ other alerts, that is..
In time (20-100 years from now) we need to be using 100% pure energy, like wind and sun, fission (when it comes) etc... This is not something we can choose not to!
As well, this would reduce the dependance on oil-producing countries, if properly applied.
If somebody, say the Soviets (for example purposes only), threw a few nuclear missiles into a middle eastern country, say Afganistan (for example purposes only), would you be pleased with it? What if you were somebody who couldn't publicly support nuclear weapons, like a major political figure? Would that make you guilty of doing it?
And wasn't Farenheit 451 set in the US? I can't remember right now..
The argument against seems to be "Terrorists used cryptography and stenography, so only terrorists will use them."
But when you turn it around a bit, it just doesn't sit right. "The government will read/hear our e-communciations, so only the government will read/hear them."
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I know this whole thread's OT, but I've been wondering about this for a while. Does anybody out there know where I can find stats on drinking and driving related deaths in the US?
I think that just that number alone may be higher, but I haven't seen any sources to back it up..
At best, that intelligence wouldn't work any more.
From everything I've heard, it doesn't now, that US SS really dropped the ball with this one.
strong evidence has already been released
Where?
"Doesn't this lock people down to one aspect of development?"
Yup. We had a project that we did as a group in the program I just finished. We were allowed to set up the group structure in any way we wanted. We set it up so that the people with the least experience in certain areas were doing the most work, 'supervised' by somebody who knew that area. This way, we all learned as much as possible.
Unfortunately, halfway through, we had the prof look over what we had, and it sucked. We threw our prior organization out the window and had to restructure our group to get the finished product done well and done on time.
I didn't learn as much as I could have, but I got a good mark.
If you do a bit-by-bit copy, are you actually circumventing the encryption? You're not actually breaking the copy-protection bit, you're copying it too. That means that your cloned CD would bye copy-protected as well.
This would mostly cover the fair use bit - you can make your backups, etc, but just no mp3's..
Don't forget the reformation that started it all. Theoretically, if religion hadn't been brough to the masses, things would be more than a bit different now.
What about during Junkyard Wars? Wouldn't that also attract the type of person they're looking for?
Now I know what to do with all those AOL CD's.. anybody got a handy catapult? Or a bomber?
Oddly enough, my 50ish yr old mom likes listening to her ripped mp3's. She has us kids burn compilation CD's of her favorite songs for listening in the car and in her discman.
A program I just finished required us to build systems in the classroom as part of the learning process. Included in this is downloading patches from vendor's websites. While this could be covered by the prof putting all the info on a network share.. wait.. I forgot where I was going with this.
I used the 'net access mostly to make sure my freeciv was updated..
Maybe the people who made programs like gaim, gnapster, knaptser, kicq, gnomeicu, etc should get thrown in jail for their evil "hacking"?
The article mentions that the five-year statute of limitations is retroactively being pulled. Combine this with what was said in another post and it could very easily be done.
but who gets to define what is a crime or not?
The pessimist (realist?) in my wants to say it'll be those with the $$ to buy government officials.
I remember back in high school learning that capitalism was a economic system and democracy was a governmental system. I always kept getting confused and thinking that capitalism was a model of government. Maybe I was just ahead of my time..
"I am pretty sure that no where in the specs for DNS or IPv4 is it required that my genome sequence be part of the string being sent out."
So far. Who knows what will come in later. There's been articles and discussion elsewhere about national id cards in the states with DNA sequences on them. Even if you don't get life, when you run your ID card through the airport (or grocery store or high school) scanner, all the bells and whistles go off..
Would that make the vulnerability databases like the one at SecurityFocus illegal? Bugtraq?
I've heard the comment in our office that 'if you ever need to prove anything, there's a gartner report out there to back it up'
Sounds like this is a can better left unopened..
It's been done - check the lower scored posts..
As I read that, somebody down the hall in the office started (and is still) singing along with their Brittney music. Can't hear the music, just the singing.
I really wish he'd stop.
(yes, I know I could ask him, but instead I'm going to put on my headphones and listen to something nice and sane. like my filk cd)
"otherwise some idiot with a few FMJ rounds in his pocket is likely to stick them in the gun"
Like, say, a terrorist? No need to smuggle on guns, just need the ammo..
"We not only need more money, we need to change some things, and they've got to be changed at the top," Shelby said.
Sounds like it's time to begin a complete restructuring of the system. It would also be a good time to cut away the extra red tape that's accumulated. It'd be a long, slow, painful process, but I think it'd be worth it in the long run.
Based on the above, the simplest solution would be to get rid of all the smart computer people who write this stuff, and make sure no more are trained.
It would be an effective solution, but I can't claim to endorse it.
Now that I've thought about it a bit more, the above would only notify you of a successful worm. Any ideas out there to positively identify this thing as it comes in? Other than the cluster of 14+ other alerts, that is..
Thanks for that. It was nice to be able to see the actual attack contents.
Wouldn't it be better to look for readme.exe and readme.eml? cmd.exe is, I think, too common to uniquely identify this bug..
In time (20-100 years from now) we need to be using 100% pure energy, like wind and sun, fission (when it comes) etc... This is not something we can choose not to!
As well, this would reduce the dependance on oil-producing countries, if properly applied.
If somebody, say the Soviets (for example purposes only), threw a few nuclear missiles into a middle eastern country, say Afganistan (for example purposes only), would you be pleased with it? What if you were somebody who couldn't publicly support nuclear weapons, like a major political figure? Would that make you guilty of doing it?
And wasn't Farenheit 451 set in the US? I can't remember right now..
The argument against seems to be "Terrorists used cryptography and stenography, so only terrorists will use them."
But when you turn it around a bit, it just doesn't sit right. "The government will read/hear our e-communciations, so only the government will read/hear them."