Like most information intelligence agencies, NSA has two parts; they're prominently featured on the main webpage as "Information Assurance" and "Signals Intelligence." They are simultaneously a spy agency (in the SIGINT mission) and the government's security agency (in the INFOSEC mission.)
...for not understanding core principles of Ethernet.
Although it's tangential to the topic, you can't "ban by MAC addresses". Not unless you're on the same ethernet segment as the attacker. Try it the next time you've got access to a few machines separated by at least one router. Ping from two different machines to a third on another network and run tcpdump to inspect the MAC addresses on the packets. Let me know how it turns out. (hint: they'll have the MAC address of the router)
I'm selling ballpoint pens at $5 each. Each of you should buy them if you need something to write with.
What, it's too expensive? You can get pens cheaper somewhere else?
Damn it, you're costing me millions!
Re:Not hard to figure out why LoTR is #1.
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While 4 commentary tracks is nice, the Extended Editions aren't by any means the first or only DVD with four. My Fight Club Special Edition has four commentary tracks.
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Why are you spending your time reading Slashdot, then? You should be out busting your ass for Habitat for Humanity, canvassing for all those charities you listed, volunteering at a soup kitchen, and clothing the naked.
Seriously. Drop what you're doing, now.... wait, you're willing to fritter away your time reading technology news and chatter? Time ~= money. You've demonstrated your willingness to contribute your time to something that isn't saving the world or neutering the un-neutered - how is contributing a few bucks any different?
'A declaration of independence from a stagnant web' STAGNANT WEB? No, ALIVE web, STAGNANT browsers because noone really wants to adopt endless new stnadards which can't be embraced for 5 years anyway.
... I know all these words, but it just doesn't make sense. What, exactly, were you trying to say?
The Foundation has been incorporated as a California not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Mozilla project continues to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property and funds and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in open-source software projects. [...] The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)3. Donations are tax deductible.
Dunno about Via Rail, but you can certainly access the hotspots in Air Canada's premium lounges at Trudeau Airport in Montreal from nearby gate waiting areas...
As anything other than an academic exercise, this is silly if not outright dangerous.
Want to compromise any cryptographic system that uses this "pure" RNG? Man-in-the-middle the data connection, or just spoof DNS/IP addresses. Suddenly, you're in control of session key generation...
Most of those points (with the possible exception of 2) apply to western democracies in general. Look at countries like Canada, Sweden, Germany, Britain, or even Japan. They're all liberal democracies with essentially the same freedoms and advantages that you listed for the United States. However, nobody's flying planes into the CN Tower or blowing up German embassies abroad. Must be something other than envy.
I'd select as a likely candidate an overwhelming American attitude problem: "Does not play well with others." It's their way or the highway, and the good ol' US of A is in the military and economic position to back up their attitude and agenda with whatever force required.
They need oil? They'll threaten or coerce (odd or even days) $GOVERNMENT to get it. Domestic farmers and steel producers need help? They'll violate the spirit of NAFTA and the WTO to prop them up. Worried that good ol' American GIs might be called to account for their actions? Boycott the International Criminal Court! These issues, however untoward, are not what terrorists are concerned over. They're more pissed off about the US throwing its weight around in the Middle East.
Oh, and FWIW...
... but the US still owes the UN $INORDINATE_AMOUNT in back payments.
... and 'help' provided to countries that don't need it, but the US feels needs to get back in line.
... right, because the people voted for Bush two years ago.... wait, no...
... not if religious fundamentalists like Ashcroft get their way. The woman's place is in the home and all that rot.
... take a walk through the choicer parts of LA or Birmingham sometime and we'll see about that racial co-operation.
... this is a function more of the sheer bulk of the American economy and less any special characteristic of the USA.
... oh, please. Have you *seen* the state of the American public education system, or compared it to some of the other liberal democracies I listed above?
... newsflash: America Not Only Refugee Destination In The World. Toronto happens to be the second-most-popular destination for immigrants in North America.
... and happens to consume most of that food on its own soil, being the largest per-capita consumer of food and other resources in the world as well.
... perhaps not shot, but if you're being anti-American or committing the grievous sin of having dark skin, you could look forward to months of prison without trial or appeal. Land of the free (white anglo-saxon protestant).
... Making Clinton jokes does not qualify as political dissent, did you know?
You're making the fallacious assumption that they *can* monitor small, dynamic groups. It's easy to hide a couple hundred people in an exclusive club on the internet. This is just as good as the 'bad old days' mechanisms of private FTP sites, upload/download ratios, rings of passwords, etc. It worked well enough back then. The software has changed, but the principles remain the same.
And if they send a cease and desist letter, the mechanisms shut down and pop up somewhere else two weeks later. We've seen this before, folks. It worked as well as could be expected back then, and it'll work tomorrow too.
What's your 6-year-old doing playing Doom? Don't you know that'll turn him into a Murderous Rampaging Killer bent on eradicating his classmates and anyone else he can get his hands on?
Mmm. Having used some of that Sun hardware, I wouldn't recommend paying a non-trivial sum of money (>$50) for anything less than an Ultra 5... I mean, if someone's selling off a Sparc 20 or an Ultra 1 for cheap, sure, but I'd go for at least an Ultra 5 or a 10. the Ultra 2s rather suck.
Sparc Tip 'o the Week: An Ultra 60, while sounding considerably more impressive than the modest 10, isn't worth much more than a 10 unless it has either the Elite 3D graphics card or dual processors.
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Evidently you've never been involved in a long-distance relationship, where phone bills (even with thousand-minute or larger rate packages) can get stupidly huge.
When the tradeoff is between 99.999% reliability (or whatever the phone companies claim these days) and $200/mon in phone bills, or 95% reliability and essentially free (you're paying for the broadband internet access anyway), the advantages become clear.
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Uh, no.
Like most information intelligence agencies, NSA has two parts; they're prominently featured on the main webpage as "Information Assurance" and "Signals Intelligence." They are simultaneously a spy agency (in the SIGINT mission) and the government's security agency (in the INFOSEC mission.)
...for not understanding core principles of Ethernet.
Although it's tangential to the topic, you can't "ban by MAC addresses". Not unless you're on the same ethernet segment as the attacker. Try it the next time you've got access to a few machines separated by at least one router. Ping from two different machines to a third on another network and run tcpdump to inspect the MAC addresses on the packets. Let me know how it turns out. (hint: they'll have the MAC address of the router)
Digital cameras. Particularly high-end prosumer and professional digital cameras. Canon EOS 20D, EOS 1Ds Mk II, Nikon D70, D2X, etc.
I'm selling ballpoint pens at $5 each. Each of you should buy them if you need something to write with.
What, it's too expensive? You can get pens cheaper somewhere else?
Damn it, you're costing me millions!
While 4 commentary tracks is nice, the Extended Editions aren't by any means the first or only DVD with four. My Fight Club Special Edition has four commentary tracks.
It's from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Check it out. ISBN 0-553-38095-8.
By Stephenson. ISBN 0-553-38095-8
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You're not cleared for this. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Why are you spending your time reading Slashdot, then? You should be out busting your ass for Habitat for Humanity, canvassing for all those charities you listed, volunteering at a soup kitchen, and clothing the naked.
... wait, you're willing to fritter away your time reading technology news and chatter? Time ~= money. You've demonstrated your willingness to contribute your time to something that isn't saving the world or neutering the un-neutered - how is contributing a few bucks any different?
Seriously. Drop what you're doing, now.
Seriously, people. Facts are facts.
From http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/:
The Foundation has been incorporated as a California not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Mozilla project continues to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property and funds and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in open-source software projects.
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The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)3. Donations are tax deductible.
Gin? I thought you'd just been playing too much KoL.
Dunno about Via Rail, but you can certainly access the hotspots in Air Canada's premium lounges at Trudeau Airport in Montreal from nearby gate waiting areas...
is start hiring ractors to play the NPCs - who wants to listen to the same pre-recorded dialogue bits over and over again, anyway?
And where do you get the random numbers to generate your (ostensibly secure) session keys for the public key transaction, huh? ;)
As anything other than an academic exercise, this is silly if not outright dangerous.
Want to compromise any cryptographic system that uses this "pure" RNG? Man-in-the-middle the data connection, or just spoof DNS/IP addresses. Suddenly, you're in control of session key generation...
You mean Stephen Baxter.
And the novel is called "Manifold: Time" - part of the Manifold trilogy, the other two of which are "Manifold: Space" and "Manifold: Origin"
I'd select as a likely candidate an overwhelming American attitude problem: "Does not play well with others." It's their way or the highway, and the good ol' US of A is in the military and economic position to back up their attitude and agenda with whatever force required.
They need oil? They'll threaten or coerce (odd or even days) $GOVERNMENT to get it. Domestic farmers and steel producers need help? They'll violate the spirit of NAFTA and the WTO to prop them up. Worried that good ol' American GIs might be called to account for their actions? Boycott the International Criminal Court! These issues, however untoward, are not what terrorists are concerned over. They're more pissed off about the US throwing its weight around in the Middle East.
Oh, and FWIW...
You're making the fallacious assumption that they *can* monitor small, dynamic groups. It's easy to hide a couple hundred people in an exclusive club on the internet. This is just as good as the 'bad old days' mechanisms of private FTP sites, upload/download ratios, rings of passwords, etc. It worked well enough back then. The software has changed, but the principles remain the same.
And if they send a cease and desist letter, the mechanisms shut down and pop up somewhere else two weeks later. We've seen this before, folks. It worked as well as could be expected back then, and it'll work tomorrow too.
If this suit passes in favor of the RIAA, then the terrorists have won.
I only wish there was an ending to the Xanth novels... they just keep putting out more of them!
What's your 6-year-old doing playing Doom? Don't you know that'll turn him into a Murderous Rampaging Killer bent on eradicating his classmates and anyone else he can get his hands on?
Mmm. Having used some of that Sun hardware, I wouldn't recommend paying a non-trivial sum of money (>$50) for anything less than an Ultra 5... I mean, if someone's selling off a Sparc 20 or an Ultra 1 for cheap, sure, but I'd go for at least an Ultra 5 or a 10. the Ultra 2s rather suck.
Sparc Tip 'o the Week: An Ultra 60, while sounding considerably more impressive than the modest 10, isn't worth much more than a 10 unless it has either the Elite 3D graphics card or dual processors.
Evidently you've never been involved in a long-distance relationship, where phone bills (even with thousand-minute or larger rate packages) can get stupidly huge.
When the tradeoff is between 99.999% reliability (or whatever the phone companies claim these days) and $200/mon in phone bills, or 95% reliability and essentially free (you're paying for the broadband internet access anyway), the advantages become clear.