Can I just say that I think it is fucking ridiculous that we send troops all over the world, even just lately to Uganda, but yet we let fucking Mexico turn into New Afghanistan before our eyes
It's not ridiculous if you assume that the US government intends to collapse Mexico and annex it in the near future.
Certainly an airline fleet is a massive bit of technology. That it can be grounded by a social engineering attack is something I hadn't considered previously.
TLS? That's backdoored if the client accepts keys signed by one out of a huge list of trusted CAs. And that's pretty much every major client.
Yeah, like I said, "properly configured IMAP/TLS traffic". I think the organized criminals who have hundreds of millions of dollars at stake aren't going to be making these mistakes.
Setting up a CA is trivial at this point, and client-certificate TLS is getting better support. I guess one should inspect his mail client's source to make sure it properly prevents spoofed server connections if a different trusted CA's signed cert for the same host is presented. Thunderbird does the right thing here, I wonder about Android.
The Indian government (among others) will twist arms of any and all carriers to get what they want.
Twisting arms is exactly what it will take to get plaintext from a carrier that's carrying properly configured IMAP/TLS traffic, except it has to be the arm of the user or the server admin - all the carrier can do is block it.
RIM's architecture puts it as the weakest link in the real security model. Serious people have known this for a decade. So much so, that the Indians are only going to catch stupid and small-time criminals.
You don't have any credibility here, 'APK'. Post your real name, your occupation, and your employer, and perhaps people will be willing to discuss your issue.
The alerts I get from US-CERT paint a different picture than you're trying to portray, so you have a long uphill struggle ahead of you. Many won't get past your confrontational style, though. If you aim to convince people, you had better brush up on your persuasion tactics.
That's your persepective. What I took away was "Please provide two cans of Pepsi (not Coke or diet), but don't be surprised if I don't drink them". And that he is verbose and can't help going off on tangents.
Good developers appreciate their re-factoring engineers.
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I seem to recall an EVH interview talking about how the lighting rig or the stage almost collapsed on them at one show. Something like a dozen semis would roll in to set up their stage.
I guess if I were working under 60 tons of glass and metal that was taken down and set up in different locations every few days, I'd want to make sure the details weren't being ignored too.
No. That may be a reason but not an excuse. An excuse implies we might actually excuse the behavior with a "well, that's OK then".
For the sake of argument, assume the accusation is true. Then those who wanted to protect their multi-million dollar hot fusion research budget would have 'excused' the falsification of data in the report as necessary, no?
Hint: the energies aren't right, and it's not. You'll have to put more energy into it than you'll get back in a useful form. No catalyst will ever get you to the point where it takes less energy to split the water than you'd get back by recombining the H and O.
That doesn't matter if you're trying to make drinking water. RO uses lots of energy too, both on the manufacture of the membranes and in the running of the plants.
There is simply no excuse for the scientific establishment's handling of this affair
Sure there is, depending on who you want to believe. There was a fellow who was a science writer for MIT's magazine (with a couple PhD's IIRC) who was receiving the data reports from these experiments as they were done (so he could be ready with the article). He claimed they confirmed excess heat and neutrons.
IIRC his story was that the study was then shut down by the tokamak group and the people who received the millions of dollars per year in funding for same and the published conclusions were drawn in contradiction to the data. He resigned his job in protest.
I'm pretty sure this guy was then randomly murdered in a home invasion a few years later with nothing stolen (details are foggy - it's been a while). Point being, with trillions of dollars at stake, 'no excuse' doesn't mean 'good excuse'.
This device is perfect for those days when breathing is more important than drinking.
Shao-Horn and her collaborators are now working with Nocera, integrating their catalyst with his artificial leaf to produce a self-contained system to generate hydrogen and oxygen when placed in an alkaline solution.
If the reaction rate is good enough then getting water out of this is a matter of re-combining the H and O. I guess the open question is how the energy rates compare with RO.
Can we agree that that hacking into a satellite is, by definition, misuse? That there is no proper use in this scenario?
It may be 'unauthorized' but there's a fair bit of difference between your unauthorized presence on my porch and your lighting a bag of dog shit on fire on it.
one would hope they don't have the documentation needed to form the command syntax
This is different than saying, "and they don't have the command signing key, so it doesn't matter what they throw at it." Security through obscurity then?
Is there enough fuel onboard that we should worry?
Right now I'm looking at creating a wireless bridge to my house. Airlive sells a 2 watt Wifi Router for $70
How wooded are you? I started out with WiFi and wound up running VDSL for all but very short hops. It was fine in the winter, but when the leaves came out everything stopped working.
I would have gladly paid $30/mo for pole space - I wound up on ladders installing standoffs on random trees in the woods, usually on rocky footing.
Are there telephone poles? Can you get pole space to pull wire to run VDSL? You'll be in for about a thousand bucks for wire and modems. If there's conduit do the same.
If you can't get pole space, blame your local government - they dictate rights of way and grant monopolies to people who couldn't care if you live or breathe.
The price of everything else is up 20% in the past few years (other than salaries), so why not Redbox? Netflix raised their base price 60%, and fumbled with Qwickster - different story.
It would be great if the value of the dollar were stable, but it's not, so prices rise. Thanks, Helicopter Ben.
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Can I just say that I think it is fucking ridiculous that we send troops all over the world, even just lately to Uganda, but yet we let fucking Mexico turn into New Afghanistan before our eyes
It's not ridiculous if you assume that the US government intends to collapse Mexico and annex it in the near future.
Watch out, Canada.
Certainly an airline fleet is a massive bit of technology. That it can be grounded by a social engineering attack is something I hadn't considered previously.
How is this not news for nerds?
TLS? That's backdoored if the client accepts keys signed by one out of a huge list of trusted CAs. And that's pretty much every major client.
Yeah, like I said, "properly configured IMAP/TLS traffic". I think the organized criminals who have hundreds of millions of dollars at stake aren't going to be making these mistakes.
Setting up a CA is trivial at this point, and client-certificate TLS is getting better support. I guess one should inspect his mail client's source to make sure it properly prevents spoofed server connections if a different trusted CA's signed cert for the same host is presented. Thunderbird does the right thing here, I wonder about Android.
ROFL! Which leftist was that who first proposed TSA? It was that famous lefty George Bush.
Yeah, so what was the point of your post?
Because Ron Paul is a nutjob. Yeah, he's good for 5 minutes, but then he keeps on talking, and then you realize just how nuts he is.
On which issues specifically is he a nut-job?
"Take the train you unpatriotic, small-dicked paranoid liberal!"
Is this what they meant by, "A long train of abuses and usurpations"?
The Indian government (among others) will twist arms of any and all carriers to get what they want.
Twisting arms is exactly what it will take to get plaintext from a carrier that's carrying properly configured IMAP/TLS traffic, except it has to be the arm of the user or the server admin - all the carrier can do is block it.
RIM's architecture puts it as the weakest link in the real security model. Serious people have known this for a decade. So much so, that the Indians are only going to catch stupid and small-time criminals.
It certainly wouldn't influence me to excuse them.
I'd say we're well into a game of semantics here :-)
Agreed on both counts.
The parking in handicapped spots occurred 30 years ago - no one ever saw that after he returned to Apple. (The campus has much better parking.)
Why do you lie to protect your cult leader?
Fast memory bus, nothing special needed to use ECC RAM, good work/watt, and low prices all help win AMD for most clusters.
If you're aiming for a Top-500 slot and you have server money but not real estate money, then Intel is the logical choice.
You don't have any credibility here, 'APK'. Post your real name, your occupation, and your employer, and perhaps people will be willing to discuss your issue.
The alerts I get from US-CERT paint a different picture than you're trying to portray, so you have a long uphill struggle ahead of you. Many won't get past your confrontational style, though. If you aim to convince people, you had better brush up on your persuasion tactics.
That's your persepective. What I took away was "Please provide two cans of Pepsi (not Coke or diet), but don't be surprised if I don't drink them". And that he is verbose and can't help going off on tangents.
Good developers appreciate their re-factoring engineers.
I seem to recall an EVH interview talking about how the lighting rig or the stage almost collapsed on them at one show. Something like a dozen semis would roll in to set up their stage.
I guess if I were working under 60 tons of glass and metal that was taken down and set up in different locations every few days, I'd want to make sure the details weren't being ignored too.
sounds like a serious security problem with Skype's design
^this. Microsoft threatening when they should be coding? Never.
No. That may be a reason but not an excuse. An excuse implies we might actually excuse the behavior with a "well, that's OK then".
For the sake of argument, assume the accusation is true. Then those who wanted to protect their multi-million dollar hot fusion research budget would have 'excused' the falsification of data in the report as necessary, no?
If they do this and it can withstand 10 psi of pressure on a 000 steel wool wad for 500 strokes witout any damage, I am suddenly very interested.
I'm trying to think of any time I've ever used steel wool on an electronic gizmo's glass...
Hint: the energies aren't right, and it's not. You'll have to put more energy into it than you'll get back in a useful form. No catalyst will ever get you to the point where it takes less energy to split the water than you'd get back by recombining the H and O.
That doesn't matter if you're trying to make drinking water. RO uses lots of energy too, both on the manufacture of the membranes and in the running of the plants.
There is simply no excuse for the scientific establishment's handling of this affair
Sure there is, depending on who you want to believe. There was a fellow who was a science writer for MIT's magazine (with a couple PhD's IIRC) who was receiving the data reports from these experiments as they were done (so he could be ready with the article). He claimed they confirmed excess heat and neutrons.
IIRC his story was that the study was then shut down by the tokamak group and the people who received the millions of dollars per year in funding for same and the published conclusions were drawn in contradiction to the data. He resigned his job in protest.
I'm pretty sure this guy was then randomly murdered in a home invasion a few years later with nothing stolen (details are foggy - it's been a while). Point being, with trillions of dollars at stake, 'no excuse' doesn't mean 'good excuse'.
This device is perfect for those days when breathing is more important than drinking.
If the reaction rate is good enough then getting water out of this is a matter of re-combining the H and O. I guess the open question is how the energy rates compare with RO.
Can we agree that that hacking into a satellite is, by definition, misuse? That there is no proper use in this scenario?
It may be 'unauthorized' but there's a fair bit of difference between your unauthorized presence on my porch and your lighting a bag of dog shit on fire on it.
one would hope they don't have the documentation needed to form the command syntax
This is different than saying, "and they don't have the command signing key, so it doesn't matter what they throw at it." Security through obscurity then?
Is there enough fuel onboard that we should worry?
Right now I'm looking at creating a wireless bridge to my house. Airlive sells a 2 watt Wifi Router for $70
How wooded are you? I started out with WiFi and wound up running VDSL for all but very short hops. It was fine in the winter, but when the leaves came out everything stopped working.
I would have gladly paid $30/mo for pole space - I wound up on ladders installing standoffs on random trees in the woods, usually on rocky footing.
There is no acknowledgement that some customers might have trouble with the extra cents and have to cut back.
That's implicit with every price rise, especially when costs are rising faster than salaries (yay, depressions).
Redbox probably will do fewer rentals (though I guess less than 20%) but they can't operate at a loss either or there's no Redbox.
Are there telephone poles? Can you get pole space to pull wire to run VDSL? You'll be in for about a thousand bucks for wire and modems. If there's conduit do the same.
If you can't get pole space, blame your local government - they dictate rights of way and grant monopolies to people who couldn't care if you live or breathe.
The price of everything else is up 20% in the past few years (other than salaries), so why not Redbox? Netflix raised their base price 60%, and fumbled with Qwickster - different story.
It would be great if the value of the dollar were stable, but it's not, so prices rise. Thanks, Helicopter Ben.