Yes, anonymous posters can spread scandalous, libellious drivel - but who listens to them? A few people perhaps, but not many.
The name "Deep Throat" mean anything to you? If not, _please_ study some history.
IMHO Speaking anonymously is fine, as long as you don't libel anyone, then your identity should be able to be revealed. Of course it's not libel if you're telling the truth...
One thing is of note in the article, you can't stop technology once it becomes so widely available and prolific. Processor power increases almost exponentially.. nothing you can do (or want to do IMHO) to stop it - not that I advocate helping the Chinese take advantage of stolen secrets, that's a different thing.
I was playing Civ:CTP last night, and was wondering the same thing. Especially when playing as a corporate democracy(?), or something else that is a free market. I mean, shouldn't the country right next to me want to buy all of my neat stuff and reverse engineer it? That is, in some way other than spying? Course, that would make the game _much_ harder. Taking out phalanxes with my fusion tanks is _so_ easy... Ah well. Can't claim that games accurately simulate life, I guess.
>I can encode 128 kbps mp3's off my cd's at about >8.5x. So if we assume the algorithim scales >linearly for encoding (I have no idea if this is >right or not). With a PIII-450 we could encode >128 * 8.5 = 1068 kbps in realtime...
Nope. MPEG-1 audio layer 3 (aka MP3) only goes up to 320 kbps. Plus, as usual, doing realtime is a slightly different problem from doing non-realtime.
> think we can encode a Real time voice at 64k/sec into a streaming mp3? that would be pretty sweet....:)
Well, I just finished an app that sends live mp3 through the realplayer/realserver. Using mp3 encoding hardware from Telos, there is a delay of about 2 seconds in the hardware alone (between the straight audio input to the encoder and the player on a networked machine). The realsystem adds some more lag. So, if you don't mind waiting at _least_ 4 seconds between what you say and the response you get from the person on the other end... It may get better in the future with faster hardware, but there are other, better, audio encoding formats out there to use for conferencing. Though, yeah, it would be cool.
I cought this on cnn.com, and one of the things that truly amazed me was that the astronomers were publicly admitting that they didn't know what was happening.
You won't see many people admitting to the press that they don't have a clue. I mean when was the last time that you heard someone at any computer company say "Yep, that's a problem. Don't have any idea what it could possibly be"
Most of the time they'll deny that it exists, or just say, "oh, yes, we've been working on that at some time, expect a press release in the near future"
I'm just glad that _someone_ out there admits when they're wrong or clueless.
>i just have this one comment: why does the >government try so hard to try to catch hackers >who do simple nearly harmless things like steal >their internet connection and then they spend >nearly no time catching other interner criminals >like child porn peddlers/distributors, hate group >promoters/supporters, and weapons information >distributors???
Lets see... Stealing is pretty much illegal no matter where in the world you are, or what you steal. Given some things are more worthy of tracking down than others, and I'd think that stealing a connection is pretty far down the list.
Child porn, well that's illegal pretty much everywhere in the world too. There are probably some countries out there where it's OK, but those seem to be the exception, then you get into the international commerce over the Internet argument, which I don't even want to get into.
Hate groups, at least in the US, are perfectly legal, as long as they stay within the bounds of the law. Sometimes I wish it weren't true. But, if I want my freedom to speek, I have to let others have it as well. Like everything else, you gotta take the the good with the bad.
Don't know about the legality of information on Weapons Of Mass Destruction(tm) But there seem to be several books out there containing how-tos on that kind of thing. So, at least in the US, it seems to be OK to have that kind of info, just as long as you don't utilize it in any unlawful way.
Really don't think that encryption ought to be on that list. I mean, how can you make (x^y) mod n (for carefully chosen values of y and n) a national secret?
Actually, I'd think it was kind of cool if I came home from work and found some people just casually hanging out in my apartment. If nothing got damaged, and everyone was polite about it. If someone breaks in, trashes the place, steals my copy of "Genesis: And the word was" I'd be kinda pissed.
Actually, when I was in college, this used to happen alot, and I thought it was great to have people just hanging around. Nothing ever got stolen, or broken, and it was nice to come home from class and have someone offer me a drink.
I hope they find an old Apple I (Yes: 1, as in the predicessor to the 2) or an Altair still in use at some buisness somewhere... We used to have an Apple ][+, but the motherboard died about 6 years ago.
I still have an old Apple ]I[ Yes, the Apple 3. Never cought on fire. Bet I could still fire that thing up. Used it until about '93. Never cought on fire, blew up, or anything. Man, I miss that machine. Beat zork 1, 2, and 3 on it...
All Biometrics require some kind of hardware. Most require specialized hardware, fingerprint scanners, retinal scanners, etc. Creating drivers for them for most OSes are a pain in the ass. There are facial-recognition algorithms that can use standard cameras. Under windows, there is a standardized API for cameras, paralell port, PCI-card interface, etc. Under Linux, you have to have a driver for each individual camera. So you have to tailor your software to a specific vendor's camera. Under windows, you just need to access the generalized API, and you're done.
I don't know if the same thing goes for sound cards and microphones, but I think you get the idea.
Biometrics are expensive, mostly due to the hardware costs. This is about as true for Windows as it is for Linux.
From a strictly corporate view, most Linux users are college kids and home users. College kids don't have much money, and home users don't have much of a need for that level of security.
If I was a biometrics company (and I've programmed for one, btw.) I'd aim all my development $$ at an OS that'll give me a lot of customers. That's Windows.
There are also some people that develop Biometrics as grad or Phd projects, those are kinda hard to find, since most of those people go and start their own company with what they have. Met about 5 of 'em.
Anyways, the basic point of this is to say that Biometrics are expensive, and most people view Linux users as non-corporate types, and free ones are hard to get. I believe that there are some books that have the algorithms in them. That's all well and good, but the problem is that there are a _lot_ of constants that need tuning to get to a point where it is usable.
So, wait a few years and there ought to be more of a market out there.
It would be interesting to see what kind of hardware/os MovieFone was using for its pages and phone service. Also to get some traffic stats as well. We hear all kinds of talk about the kinds of traffic that all FOO-brand servers can handle, let's see some real-world data.
I'd also like to see what killed the Victoria's Secret servers a couple of months ago.
>I don't care about animations, but (for example) Alpha Centauri is quite annoying on my hardware (under Windows). [as an aside: I found Alpha Centauri kind of boring compared to Civ2, the landscape has no personality and the advances are all too theoretical/contrived]
I can completely agree with that. The first couple of times through, and even after reading the manual to figure out what everything was, I still didn't feel like I had a great idea of what was going on in the game. Civ: CTP seems a lot more familiar, and gives you some frame of reference. I did like Master of Orion (MOO) and MOO2, but things there were a lot more straightforward, and explained better.
the joy of mp3s is having access to all my muisc bits without those annoying cd atoms. 40 megs, 10 songs? great, now i'd need as many smart cards as cd's.
More, actually, many, many, many more. The latest I heard on SmartCards (pick your vendor) was that there were cards that could hold 128k. These were referred to as *large*. Yeah! One second of audio! whoopee! Of course, it would take around a minute to read all the data off of it, as well. Damn things are slow, and a pain in the ass to write code for. Apparently 1mb cards were in the works, but still...
1. If you choose to be different, expect to be treated differently.
I grew up in the suburbs of Philly, I was teased and ridiculed for being diabetic (the only reason that I can think of, then again, there doesn't nessisarily need to be a reason). I didn't choose to be different.
Because I was teased, I started to act differently from everyone, dressed differently, I read, I played chess. I got angry _very_ quickly.
Outside of school, I had friends, hung out, and did normal young-male things.
I didn't choose to be different, in school, I felt like I was forced into it. I don't think that what happened was right in any way, and I can't imagine doing it, but I know what it feels like to be exclueded. Fortunately college and high school changed that for me, but I think I was lucky in those regards.
I was treated differently, therefore I acted differently.
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Yes, anonymous posters can spread scandalous, libellious drivel - but who listens to them? A few people perhaps, but not many.
The name "Deep Throat" mean anything to you?
If not, _please_ study some history.
IMHO Speaking anonymously is fine, as long as you don't libel anyone, then your identity should be able to be revealed. Of course it's not libel if you're telling the truth...
One thing is of note in the article, you can't stop technology once it becomes so widely available and prolific. Processor power increases almost exponentially .. nothing you can do (or want to do IMHO) to stop it - not that I advocate helping the Chinese take advantage of stolen secrets, that's a different thing.
I was playing Civ:CTP last night, and was wondering the same thing. Especially when playing as a corporate democracy(?), or something else that is a free market. I mean, shouldn't the country right next to me want to buy all of my neat stuff and reverse engineer it? That is, in some way other than spying? Course, that would make the game _much_ harder. Taking out phalanxes with my fusion tanks is _so_ easy... Ah well. Can't claim that games accurately simulate life, I guess.
>Actually, this isn't as bad as it sounds. Only >users who are dumb enough to actually run email >attachments would use up cpu on it,
Now you're assuming that end users aren't dumb?!!
Show me one (corporate or edu.) sysadmin who _doesn't_ think all of their users are idiots.
>everyone else would just ignore it. Not that I am >suggesting somebody actually goes out and writes >one...
>I can encode 128 kbps mp3's off my cd's at about >8.5x. So if we assume the algorithim scales >linearly for encoding (I have no idea if this is >right or not). With a PIII-450 we could encode >128 * 8.5 = 1068 kbps in realtime...
Nope. MPEG-1 audio layer 3 (aka MP3) only goes up to 320 kbps. Plus, as usual, doing realtime is a slightly different problem from doing non-realtime.
> think we can encode a Real time voice at 64k/sec into a streaming mp3? that would be pretty sweet.... :)
Well, I just finished an app that sends live mp3 through the realplayer/realserver. Using mp3 encoding hardware from Telos, there is a delay of about 2 seconds in the hardware alone (between the straight audio input to the encoder and the player on a networked machine). The realsystem adds some more lag. So, if you don't mind waiting at _least_ 4 seconds between what you say and the response you get from the person on the other end... It may get better in the future with faster hardware, but there are other, better, audio encoding formats out there to use for conferencing. Though, yeah, it would be cool.
I cought this on cnn.com, and one of the things that truly amazed me was that the astronomers were publicly admitting that they didn't know what was happening.
You won't see many people admitting to the press that they don't have a clue. I mean when was the last time that you heard someone at any computer company say "Yep, that's a problem. Don't have any idea what it could possibly be"
Most of the time they'll deny that it exists, or just say, "oh, yes, we've been working on that at some time, expect a press release in the near future"
I'm just glad that _someone_ out there admits when they're wrong or clueless.
sistern
;)
Um, according to Websters, there's no such word.
There is 'cistern', but I don't think that's what you were looking for
>i just have this one comment: why does the
>government try so hard to try to catch hackers
>who do simple nearly harmless things like steal
>their internet connection and then they spend
>nearly no time catching other interner criminals
>like child porn peddlers/distributors, hate group
>promoters/supporters, and weapons information
>distributors???
Lets see... Stealing is pretty much illegal no matter where in the world you are, or what you steal. Given some things are more worthy of tracking down than others, and I'd think that stealing a connection is pretty far down the list.
Child porn, well that's illegal pretty much everywhere in the world too. There are probably some countries out there where it's OK, but those seem to be the exception, then you get into the international commerce over the Internet argument, which I don't even want to get into.
Hate groups, at least in the US, are perfectly legal, as long as they stay within the bounds of the law. Sometimes I wish it weren't true. But, if I want my freedom to speek, I have to let others have it as well. Like everything else, you gotta take the the good with the bad.
Don't know about the legality of information on Weapons Of Mass Destruction(tm) But there seem to be several books out there containing how-tos on that kind of thing. So, at least in the US, it seems to be OK to have that kind of info, just as long as you don't utilize it in any unlawful way.
Really don't think that encryption ought to be on that list. I mean, how can you make (x^y) mod n (for carefully chosen values of y and n) a national secret?
Actually, I'd think it was kind of cool if I came home from work and found some people just casually hanging out in my apartment. If nothing got damaged, and everyone was polite about it. If someone breaks in, trashes the place, steals my copy of "Genesis: And the word was" I'd be kinda pissed.
Actually, when I was in college, this used to happen alot, and I thought it was great to have people just hanging around. Nothing ever got stolen, or broken, and it was nice to come home from class and have someone offer me a drink.
I hope they find an old Apple I (Yes: 1, as in the predicessor to the 2) or an Altair still in use at some buisness somewhere...
We used to have an Apple ][+, but the motherboard died about 6 years ago.
I still have an old Apple ]I[ Yes, the Apple 3. Never cought on fire. Bet I could still fire that thing up. Used it until about '93. Never cought on fire, blew up, or anything. Man, I miss that machine. Beat zork 1, 2, and 3 on it...
All Biometrics require some kind of hardware. Most require specialized hardware, fingerprint scanners, retinal scanners, etc. Creating drivers for them for most OSes are a pain in the ass. There are facial-recognition algorithms that can use standard cameras. Under windows, there is a standardized API for cameras, paralell port, PCI-card interface, etc. Under Linux, you have to have a driver for each individual camera. So you have to tailor your software to a specific vendor's camera. Under windows, you just need to access the generalized API, and you're done.
I don't know if the same thing goes for sound cards and microphones, but I think you get the idea.
Biometrics are expensive, mostly due to the hardware costs. This is about as true for Windows as it is for Linux.
From a strictly corporate view, most Linux users are college kids and home users. College kids don't have much money, and home users don't have much of a need for that level of security.
If I was a biometrics company (and I've programmed for one, btw.) I'd aim all my development $$ at an OS that'll give me a lot of customers. That's Windows.
There are also some people that develop Biometrics as grad or Phd projects, those are kinda hard to find, since most of those people go and start their own company with what they have. Met about 5 of 'em.
Anyways, the basic point of this is to say that Biometrics are expensive, and most people view Linux users as non-corporate types, and free ones are hard to get. I believe that there are some books that have the algorithms in them. That's all well and good, but the problem is that there are a _lot_ of constants that need tuning to get to a point where it is usable.
So, wait a few years and there ought to be more of a market out there.
It would be interesting to see what kind of hardware/os MovieFone was using for its pages and phone service. Also to get some traffic stats as well. We hear all kinds of talk about the kinds of traffic that all FOO-brand servers can handle, let's see some real-world data.
I'd also like to see what killed the Victoria's Secret servers a couple of months ago.
Taking this to the logical extreme, we ought to have one of these in each home around..
break out the envelope:
assume 56k now, doubling every, what 1.5 years? that would 1tb in about 15 iterations, 15*1.5 = 22.5 years. I can wait for that.
>I don't care about animations, but (for example) Alpha Centauri is quite annoying on my hardware (under Windows). [as an aside: I found Alpha Centauri kind of boring compared to Civ2, the landscape has no personality and the advances are all too theoretical/contrived]
I can completely agree with that. The first couple of times through, and even after reading the manual to figure out what everything was, I still didn't feel like I had a great idea of what was going on in the game. Civ: CTP seems a lot more familiar, and gives you some frame of reference. I did like Master of Orion (MOO) and MOO2, but things there were a lot more straightforward, and explained better.
the joy of mp3s is having access to all my muisc bits without those annoying cd atoms. 40 megs, 10 songs? great, now i'd need as many smart cards as cd's.
More, actually, many, many, many more. The latest I heard on SmartCards (pick your vendor) was that there were cards that could hold 128k. These were referred to as *large*. Yeah! One second of audio! whoopee! Of course, it would take around a minute to read all the data off of it, as well. Damn things are slow, and a pain in the ass to write code for. Apparently 1mb cards were in the works, but still...
1. If you choose to be different, expect to be treated differently.
I grew up in the suburbs of Philly, I was teased and ridiculed for being diabetic (the only reason that I can think of, then again, there doesn't nessisarily need to be a reason). I didn't choose to be different.
Because I was teased, I started to act differently from everyone, dressed differently, I read, I played chess. I got angry _very_ quickly.
Outside of school, I had friends, hung out, and did normal young-male things.
I didn't choose to be different, in school, I felt like I was forced into it. I don't think that what happened was right in any way, and I can't imagine doing it, but I know what it feels like to be exclueded. Fortunately college and high school changed that for me, but I think I was lucky in those regards.
I was treated differently, therefore I acted differently.