I've been using Checkfree since 5-17-93 according to my archive and I've been happy with it. They pay checks out of their account or transfer out of mine and if there is a negitave balance on my account they cover it for a fee. This is using compuserves network and a DOS based program (that complains that todays date is far in the future).
About web based interfaces, I don't like the bank telling me that I must use 128 bit crypto. I know the risks and I know how to attack SSL and I don't give a damn if its 128 bit or 40 bit becuase thats not the way to break it. I do have a problem tring to use someone elses system that isn't 128 bit and the thing telling me to go away. Hell their phone banking is only 13.2877 bits
The B2 systems I've played with won't even allow you to cut and paste from one window to another that doesn't have the proper level of privs. Keep in mind this isn't as easy as layers as well.
Most B2 systems have several user groups and each are in a different Security Realm. You can be in several Realms and you may be able to copy info from one area to another but generlay you cant go the other way without downgrading the data which of course requires other levels of access. Real access control is not easy to do and is very, very complicated.
When I ran a news server for the AF I used to feed news to a B2 certifed system. I never new if it got the news or not because it never responded. It had a dedicated hunk of hardware that did TCP/IP and simply acked everything. It was like sending bits off into the ether.
OS-9 from miroware used to do CRC16 on code before it would load or run a module on the 6809 (8 bit cpu).
This concept could be extended today but would require a bit more work becuase modern programs don't load in the whole bit of code before running. How would this work? You could add a crypto key to the file header that had a signing key and then MD5 each block but how would the VM system deal with extra data in the blocks? For code blocks you can tell GCC to waste the last 4 bytes of a vm block (as done on the 32016) but it involes a bunch of jumps that new CPUs don't do so well. The other choice is to simply make the VM system load the needed block plus the next bytes off the disk and do an MD5 like thing with the block and signing key and then throw away the block that has the key in it but that blows away any one to one relationship between disk images and memory.
This thing should work a bit more like a dynamic usenet news system.
To learn how Usenet used to work take a read of <a href="http://www.abnormal.com/~thogard/usenet/usen t.html">Rich Salz presentation on Usenet</a> from long ago. <i>(This is dated Aug 92 on my server)</i>
The GPS system isn't as expensive to run and the have to know exactly where those sats are and they have silly key managment issues.
The court has been lead astray from the facts if they were told it cost 1/2 billion a year to run this system. It may cost motorola 1/2 billion but something somewhere is way too far into the dilbert zone.
Of course if this system isn't on autopilot someone messed up the design real bad. If it is on autopilot then the court should let someone else take a stab at running this thing seeing that the R&D has all been paid for. Then if the second buyer (even if they only pay about $1m) can't fix it, then force motorola to deorbit the birds.
You could get a TCP/IP stack for the AT&T 3B2 in about 1985 but the perferred you to use thier 2mb "StarLan". Part of the massive rewrite of system V R4 was for better support of TCP/IP and other networks (which were already going away).
I suspect that novel is with us today because of their early business was to build hardware and software to help connect early military computers to the DARPA network. Some of these were then put on the Internet and some of them still are pingable.
Most of the very early stuff (ip v1, etc) was not done under unix but the rapid growth resulted from the easy access to BSD.
Why don't you write to Mr King about the unfairness to the small eRetailers? I listened to him talk a few days before Halloween a few years ago in St Louis and he spent quite a bit of time bitching about the big money book stores and how they were killing the new authors. He talked about how his wife could always get her books published, not because they were good but because she was his wife. He also thinks that the way modern publishing works people like Mark Twain would never get published at all. He understands the risk of loosing the small book sellers.
80% of farmland is feeding farm animals? Where did that come from?
Have you ever been on a farm? 80% is way, way , way off. Just consider giant gran farms in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. These areas consist of about 1/2 the land in those states and almost none of it is used to feed farm aminals. The grain ratio along the mississippi river can be 100x more than other areas in the US. Maybe some of the scrapland thats useless for growing gran (like parts of Oklahoma) are 80% used to feed cattle but that land wouldn't provide much nutrition for humans unless the cow was involved.
Why aren't fish meat? Because they aren't cute? Our salt water fisheries are the first thing thats going to disapprear. Were killing the egg laying grounds in the reef in the Red Sea and off of Australia.
Check out the US goverment farm grants. They are money to NOT make any more food. The US has so much of some grains that they just rot.
You can get all the stats you can ever twist around at the USDA website.
A chess grandmaster will decide on good moves by only truly considering a few thousand move permutations. Deep Blue won by looking at numbers of moves above the trillions. Where is its intelligence? It doens't have any, it just is a good fast guesser.
People need to get over the term AI and use the proper term Fake Intelligence.
There have been major advancments in FI since it was strated in about 1965.
Check out the CERN server notes/newsgroups/docs back in last quarter of 1993.
Before some of us started hacking the server there was no context but the ip numbers. If I remember right it took a seperate server per ip number and at that time that did mean a seperate interface.
Talk to the people who did the early virtual IP addresses as this was discussesed.
Too bad deja* isn't that old. (why does it have all my '95 postings but not all the '96 or current postings? and aparently broken html on the new(TM) power search)
Its my understanding that JMS was well off when he started his crusade and had proper legal assistance when the original GPL came out. Now his little.org has quite a bit of clout and I don't think for a second he would pull off something like this with out lots of good lawyers involved.
Now it has 100M eithernet port. When you buy yours at the local mega-store you'll find out it uses a nice usb port for everything from joystick to mouse to disk to network. When I got my cable modem installed, I had the choice of 10mb eithernet (ick! I need a switch) or USB (ugggh!) so and I know there are USB adsl adpters too so why go to the expense of standards complient eithernet when you can go with usb and help get people locked into a "solution"?
Fosters -- Canadian for beer! The Fosters brothers were two Americans who set up shop in Melbourne after beer was made illegal in the US. Once they could start selling beer back in the US they went back or they ended up in Canada.
So I guess we must Blame Canada.
Some how I don't think Rob will have any shortage of people to show him how and what to drink here. Too bad I can't find the picture of speakers table at CALU to link here...
CmrdTaco should find his way to the southern cost to see the Pengiuns in the wild. It could be great PR and lots of fun too and it would be easy to get a huge group of/.'ers rounded up.
There won't be any more corrections because of the leap-second concept. They can added up to 4 times a year. Typicaly there is 1.5 leap seconds per year so two seconds are added to every other year at the end of Dec or Jun.
It is a bit odd seeing data thats time stamped 23:59:61
In case you haven't noticed the radio station may pay for rights to broadcast some things but in general they don't. If they do pay it gets put in the "promotion" side of the budget which means no roylaties for the artist. Its just like the cutouts, once that happens the only ones to make any cash are the distributers. The artist only make some money on some CDs sold at normal prices.
I heard that one of the problems with faster disks is that the magnetic coating wouldn't stay in the proper place because of centripetal force. Talk about data migration.
Its full of cool sequences. All the major random number polynomials are there. Any standard useful polynomial that I know about is there. I wonder how many of the poor crypto systems have their core sequences in there already. I know where I'm going the next time I've got a few numbers I don't understand. I just wish it had the floating point sequences for things like taylor series factors for cosine.
The Aussie censoship board (the ones who say hard core stuff can only be sold in places without windows) has decied that some of the womens magazine show too much nudity and need a rating that is something like a PG-13.
I don't think we are going to be making any major breakthrough in astro physics for a while becuase I think we've gone too far past reality with the theorys. I suspect our current gravity theorys are simply wrong at some fundimental level and thats holding us back. Right now we can predict some relitivity and subatomic detals down the 30th decimal place but I dont see that as proof of correctness. We've got GPS sats that have clocks that just aren't doing what supposed to be doing in orbit. Gravity probe B's gyroscope isn't spinning down at the correct rate and gravitational geoid modles just don't fit proplery. Zero-G experiments bring up more questions than answers.
If we look back to all areas of science, we see a trend: 1) make a theory that fits the general case 2) expand it till it works for all cases 3) throw the thing out once someone see the light 4) have a simply theory that works. this has happend so many times in the past and the only consistant lession is that we will repeat the trend.
One of my theorys is gravity does push. These are lots of reasons why this can't happen and there are some easy to read accounts of the reasons in Dr Fineman's books but all those reasons are based on a gravity particle concept that we know isn't right. Calculus was invented because Newton was tring to prove the math behind gravity. It turns out that he couldn't integrate gravity pushing but he could do it if he decided gravity pulled and we have been using that theory since. So how does one prove if gravity pushes or pulls?
Here on OZ, it can cost AU$15 to see a second run movie (they were run in the US first months before). They are typicaly $12.50 ($US8.12) in Melbourne. In New Zealand they are much cheaper and more in line with US pricing.
Funny thing is New Zealand makes Region Coding of DVD's illegal. They understand that the only ones who benifit from region coding are US movie companies.
I'm wondering if the DVD region coding could be made illegal in Oz based on the discrimination of other cultures.
Game machines aren't going to run 1Ghz 808x CPUs. They are going to run something very very custom that may be based around a fast risk chip core.
Silicon chips costs are based on pincount, silicon area, a factor for the linewidth and design costs. If you take a write off on the design cost, a million transitor chip can cost a few dollars.
No one is making games for special hardware. Its too difficult and a developer gets a lump of non-portable code for their R&D budget. Most games use what is common on all consoles and won't use specail features. Most of the major players alreay have gaming engines that do most of the hardwae specific stuff and just layer the rest of the game on top. Thats why the vector unit on the N64 has never been used in a game. Keep in mind the way the N64 emulator works isn't by emulating the machine but by running the open gl code that is common in all games for both the PC and the N64.
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> You mean languages like C? :-)
C isn't dead but apparently helloworld.c died recently.
I've been using Checkfree since 5-17-93 according to my archive and I've been happy with it. They pay checks out of their account or transfer out of mine and if there is a negitave balance on my account they cover it for a fee. This is using compuserves network and a DOS based program (that complains that todays date is far in the future).
About web based interfaces, I don't like the bank telling me that I must use 128 bit crypto. I know the risks and I know how to attack SSL and I don't give a damn if its 128 bit or 40 bit becuase thats not the way to break it. I do have a problem tring to use someone elses system that isn't 128 bit and the thing telling me to go away. Hell their phone banking is only 13.2877 bits
The B2 systems I've played with won't even allow you to cut and paste from one window to another that doesn't have the proper level of privs. Keep in mind this isn't as easy as layers as well.
Most B2 systems have several user groups and each are in a different Security Realm. You can be in several Realms and you may be able to copy info from one area to another but generlay you cant go the other way without downgrading the data which of course requires other levels of access. Real access control is not easy to do and is very, very complicated.
When I ran a news server for the AF I used to feed news to a B2 certifed system. I never new if it got the news or not because it never responded. It had a dedicated hunk of hardware that did TCP/IP and simply acked everything. It was like sending bits off into the ether.
OS-9 from miroware used to do CRC16 on code before it would load or run a module on the 6809 (8 bit cpu).
This concept could be extended today but would require a bit more work becuase modern programs don't load in the whole bit of code before running. How would this work? You could add a crypto key to the file header that had a signing key and then MD5 each block but how would the VM system deal with extra data in the blocks? For code blocks you can tell GCC to waste the last 4 bytes of a vm block (as done on the 32016) but it involes a bunch of jumps that new CPUs don't do so well. The other choice is to simply make the VM system load the needed block plus the next bytes off the disk and do an MD5 like thing with the block and signing key and then throw away the block that has the key in it but that blows away any one to one relationship between disk images and memory.
The ultmate covert channel exploit seems to be watching the pizza delivery dudes in Washington DC.
This thing should work a bit more like a dynamic
n t.html">Rich Salz presentation on Usenet</a> from long ago. <i>(This is dated Aug 92 on my server)</i>
usenet news system.
To learn how Usenet used to work take a read of <a href="http://www.abnormal.com/~thogard/usenet/use
The GPS system isn't as expensive to run and the have to know exactly where those sats are and they have silly key managment issues.
The court has been lead astray from the facts if they were told it cost 1/2 billion a year to run this system. It may cost motorola 1/2 billion but something somewhere is way too far into the dilbert zone.
Of course if this system isn't on autopilot someone messed up the design real bad. If it is on autopilot then the court should let someone else take a stab at running this thing seeing that the R&D has all been paid for. Then if the second buyer (even if they only pay about $1m) can't fix it, then force motorola to deorbit the birds.
You could get a TCP/IP stack for the AT&T 3B2 in about 1985 but the perferred you to use thier 2mb "StarLan". Part of the massive rewrite of system V R4 was for better support of TCP/IP and other networks (which were already going away).
I suspect that novel is with us today because of their early business was to build hardware and software to help connect early military computers to the DARPA network. Some of these were then put on the Internet and some of them still are pingable.
Most of the very early stuff (ip v1, etc) was not done under unix but the rapid growth resulted from the easy access to BSD.
While were talking about current developments:
Trojans have recently been found in things like wuarchive ftp.
Why don't you write to Mr King about the unfairness to the small eRetailers? I listened to him talk a few days before Halloween a few years ago in St Louis and he spent quite a bit of time bitching about the big money book stores and how they were killing the new authors. He talked about how his wife could always get her books published, not because they were good but because she was his wife. He also thinks that the way modern publishing works people like Mark Twain would never get published at all. He understands the risk of loosing the small book sellers.
80% of farmland is feeding farm animals? Where did that come from?
Have you ever been on a farm? 80% is way, way , way off. Just consider giant gran farms in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. These areas consist of about 1/2 the land in those states and almost none of it is used to feed farm aminals. The grain ratio along the mississippi river can be 100x more than other areas in the US. Maybe some of the scrapland thats useless for growing gran (like parts of Oklahoma) are 80% used to feed cattle but that land wouldn't provide much nutrition for humans unless the cow was involved.
Why aren't fish meat? Because they aren't cute? Our salt water fisheries are the first thing thats going to disapprear. Were killing the egg laying grounds in the reef in the Red Sea and off of Australia.
Check out the US goverment farm grants. They are money to NOT make any more food. The US has so much of some grains that they just rot.
You can get all the stats you can ever twist around at the USDA website.
A chess grandmaster will decide on good moves by only truly considering a few thousand move permutations. Deep Blue won by looking at numbers of moves above the trillions. Where is its intelligence? It doens't have any, it just is a good fast guesser.
People need to get over the term AI and use the proper term Fake Intelligence.
There have been major advancments in FI since it was strated in about 1965.
Check out the CERN server notes/newsgroups/docs back in last quarter of 1993.
Before some of us started hacking the server there was no context but the ip numbers. If I remember right it took a seperate server per ip number and at that time that did mean a seperate interface.
Talk to the people who did the early virtual IP addresses as this was discussesed.
Too bad deja* isn't that old. (why does it have all my '95 postings but not all the '96 or current postings? and aparently broken html on the new(TM) power search)
Its my understanding that JMS was well off when he started his crusade and had proper legal assistance when the original GPL came out. Now his little .org has quite a bit of clout and I don't think for a second he would pull off something like this with out lots of good lawyers involved.
I don't like this one. I want a BSD style documentation license!
</flamewar bait>
Now it has 100M eithernet port. When you buy yours at the local mega-store you'll find out it uses a nice usb port for everything from joystick to mouse to disk to network.
When I got my cable modem installed, I had the choice of 10mb eithernet (ick! I need a switch) or USB (ugggh!) so and I know there are USB adsl adpters too so why go to the expense of standards complient eithernet when you can go with usb and help get people locked into a "solution"?
Fosters -- Canadian for beer!
/.'ers rounded up.
The Fosters brothers were two Americans who set up shop in Melbourne after beer was made illegal in the US. Once they could start selling beer back in the US they went back or they ended up in Canada.
So I guess we must Blame Canada.
Some how I don't think Rob will have any shortage of people to show him how and what to drink here. Too bad I can't find the picture of speakers table at CALU to link here...
CmrdTaco should find his way to the southern cost to see the Pengiuns in the wild. It could be great PR and lots of fun too and it would be easy to get a huge group of
There won't be any more corrections because of the leap-second concept. They can added up to 4 times a year. Typicaly there is 1.5 leap seconds per year so two seconds are added to every other year at the end of Dec or Jun.
It is a bit odd seeing data thats time stamped 23:59:61
In case you haven't noticed the radio station may pay for rights to broadcast some things but in general they don't. If they do pay it gets put in the "promotion" side of the budget which means no roylaties for the artist. Its just like the cutouts, once that happens the only ones to make any cash are the distributers. The artist only make some money on some CDs sold at normal prices.
I heard that one of the problems with faster disks is that the magnetic coating wouldn't stay in the proper place because of centripetal force. Talk about data migration.
Its full of cool sequences. All the major random number polynomials are there. Any standard useful polynomial that I know about is there. I wonder how many of the poor crypto systems have their core sequences in there already. I know where I'm going the next time I've got a few numbers I don't understand. I just wish it had the floating point sequences for things like taylor series factors for cosine.
The Aussie censoship board (the ones who say hard core stuff can only be sold in places without windows) has decied that some of the womens magazine show too much nudity and need a rating that is something like a PG-13.
I don't think we are going to be making any major breakthrough in astro physics for a while becuase I think we've gone too far past reality with the theorys. I suspect our current gravity theorys are simply wrong at some fundimental level and thats holding us back. Right now we can predict some relitivity and subatomic detals down the 30th decimal place but I dont see that as proof of correctness. We've got GPS sats that have clocks that just aren't doing what supposed to be doing in orbit. Gravity probe B's gyroscope isn't spinning down at the correct rate and gravitational geoid modles just don't fit proplery. Zero-G experiments bring up more questions than answers.
If we look back to all areas of science, we see a trend:
1) make a theory that fits the general case
2) expand it till it works for all cases
3) throw the thing out once someone see the light
4) have a simply theory that works.
this has happend so many times in the past and the only consistant lession is that we will repeat the trend.
One of my theorys is gravity does push. These are lots of reasons why this can't happen and there are some easy to read accounts of the reasons in Dr Fineman's books but all those reasons are based on a gravity particle concept that we know isn't right. Calculus was invented because Newton was tring to prove the math behind gravity. It turns out that he couldn't integrate gravity pushing but he could do it if he decided gravity pulled and we have been using that theory since. So how does one prove if gravity pushes or pulls?
Here on OZ, it can cost AU$15 to see a second run movie (they were run in the US first months before). They are typicaly $12.50 ($US8.12) in Melbourne. In New Zealand they are much cheaper and more in line with US pricing.
Funny thing is New Zealand makes Region Coding of DVD's illegal. They understand that the only ones who benifit from region coding are US movie companies.
I'm wondering if the DVD region coding could be made illegal in Oz based on the discrimination of other cultures.
Game machines aren't going to run 1Ghz 808x CPUs. They are going to run something very very custom that may be based around a fast risk chip core.
Silicon chips costs are based on pincount, silicon area, a factor for the linewidth and design costs. If you take a write off on the design cost, a million transitor chip can cost a few dollars.
No one is making games for special hardware. Its too difficult and a developer gets a lump of non-portable code for their R&D budget. Most games use what is common on all consoles and won't use specail features. Most of the major players alreay have gaming engines that do most of the hardwae specific stuff and just layer the rest of the game on top. Thats why the vector unit on the N64 has never been used in a game. Keep in mind the way the N64 emulator works isn't by emulating the machine but by running the open gl code that is common in all games for both the PC and the N64.