The 13 mil number mostly comes from people that are too far from phone exchanges. The thing is they will also be too far down the line to get any use from BPL.
If BPL turns out to be evil, will that conflict with googles basic principle?
I just got burned by a dead spare Cisco router that was waiting for the one of the production ones to die. It turns out that I can't find a way to get it repaired and Cisco won't touch it without a service contract. I hate to just trash a $3000 bit of gear but with the service contracts costing $900 per router per year, I'm still better off over the last 5 and I can replace it via ebay for maybe $500.
Maybe this is why most of our stuff is run the google way, use lots of cheap hardware and don't buy the support contracts. It took a bit of rigging to make sure that the whole system would keep going and not lose anything if any thing failed at the wrong time but now its in place and I don't care which bit of hardware dies, I've got live backups ready to pick up the slack.
Northrop wanted to license it for toys which is close to sporting goods which are also toys so the courts may have decided they were in the same class.
Trademark law clearly allows you to use a common word to label your product if you don't conflict with other products names. The odd thing is were there any sporting goods using Stealth in their name when the trademark was issued?
It turns out that most older cars (and trucks) with speed limiters did nasty things to the engine or environment once you get slightly past the limit. Combine that with drivers driving with their foot all the way down and the car will be running at limit most of the time which means the limiter will kick in and out constantly.
how can it be better when its not fail safe? all it takes is subing into a program that doesn't look at $SHELL and your screwed. If you want wimpy non unix behavior, don't use 'rm'
I know the theory. I know the real world isn't as nice. I've been dealing with routing issues since the days of the uumaps collapsing and I've seen where IPv6 is headed.
If the *NICs were dishing out only/24s then you could do the same thing with 16 megabits of memory per interface. For a typical largish dual homed company that means they need nearly 4 megabytes of ram to hold the current routing state. Now that assume that routers used content addressable ram which they don't.
IPv6 won't fix the distribution problem. The problem is the limited resource is unique routes in key routers and it comes down to the fact that an core exchange router can't cope with millions of networks that would like to be dual homed. The result is you can only truly dual home if you get your own/19 but most of the groups I know would be happy if they could dual home a/26
We already have have about 2^48 IPv4 addresses for things using SVC records.
The real reason we ran out of IPv4 address is that cisco routers can't cope with a full routing table. Some how quadrupling the amount of memory the same routing table needs isn't going fix the problem.
All the SET mark says is that it works in the common case (i.e. the test case), not that the oddball cases which showed up once more and more products got certified. Common problems include holes that allowed merchant fraud as well as MIM attacks in some of the banking back end systems. The crypto wasn't done right either in most cases but that was never part of the certification process.
If anyone has ever seen the USB HID keyboard spec they will know that a modern USB keyboard pretends to be a early 80's style 8051 based IBM keyboard with all its odd ball scan codes. This means that about 20 keys have hard coded special meanings and you can't even build a keyboard with a Euro button or a Japanese symbols water fall. In the case of the Euro about all you can do is get a keyboard that sends Alt-Shift-5 or whatever windows sees as a Euro.
Its a shame that the cheap keyboards are are killing all the high end ones but its hard to build a keyboard with a 100 decent switches when there are $2 keyboards that are just membrane switches with keycap tops. A top of the line bucking hall effect keyswitch is nearly $2 each.
I've been building a flight sim based around X-plane and its very annoying to find a keyboard that can do cording (hitting more than one key at a time) and be able to send a lower case j and an upper case K at the same time. At least I can do most of the functions as joy stick buttons which are much easier to hack since I can buy a good USB joystick for less than $20 and add my own key switches and var resistors to it. Too bad Austin won't allow every keyboard and menu function to be selected via a joystick button.
Parts of the fault line in that area tend to move about 1/2 meter a year but have been known to move 1/2 in 3 months. That kind of movement isn't good for cables of anytype.
Chip and pin... There is no plausible deniability with it so if it gets owned, the card holder pays.
So its better for the thieves (and merchant).
How do you hack it? Its trivial if you've got access to say a large supermarket. You watch for a card being inserted into the machine and then you run an auth transaction with that card number and the pin 0000. Then you do it again with 0001 and you record it because there is a 2 in 10,000 chance they both failed and you want to keep track of the numbers you've guesed. You don't do it a 3rd time incase the card gets locked out but the user is then asked to enter their pin and they get their groceries with only a 4 second delay and two extra auths that the merchant pays for. While that means a single card holder has to come back to the shop an average of 2500 more times before you find their pin, there may be 2500 people who visit the store ever week
Your attitude is why Visa hasn't come clean on this. A third party processor that used MS Windows was hacked and MasterCard was the only company with the balls to put out a press release letting people know there was a problem. This effected every other major card brand since the processor dealt with all other brands which means about 30% of the stolen details were MasterCard, 60% were Visa and the rest were Discover, Amex and Diners.
MasterCards security Audit is nearly exactly the same as Visas. Until a few months ago Linux systems weren't capable of meeting the system level auditing needed to pass (in my option)
1st of all what was taken was not peoples personal info but a banks data.
The other thing is with a law like you proposed, the fee for using your credit card would go from about 2% to about 10% and very few systems would be more secure.
This is a 3rd party processor that I expect processes payments from someplace like retail stores. Anyone that used any credit card at those merchants may have had their card recorded.
I worked for SETCO. The reason SET died was that no one built a system that didn't have either provable problems or worked just like systems that did have provable security problems. The system was too complex for most companies to implement properly.
Considering how many school girls bought the spice singles to put them in the #1 spot so many times, I'm guessing that school yard copies are hurting sales.
I'm also guessing that many fewer people are going out to buy the new track when they can find out it sucks from a friend 1st.
Didn't steve get some of the early mac developers to provide the specs of a mouse driven spreadsheet to Microsoft? At the time he wanted something to steal people away from visi-calc and the people who were moving to Lotus 123
No matter what you do with an F-4, its still just a brick with enough thrust to get it moving very fast and even with modifications, its not an ideal candidate for the research that was done. The research shows that sonic booms will go away in the future.
I watched all the the moon landing Saturn V take off and I knew many of the people in the early NASA program. That was when NASA had the attitude that we are building the best we can but at the end of the day, you light the candle and go for the ride of your life. At some point in the last 30 years NASA went from pushing the envelope to being the most expensive bus drivers in history.
I still want to see a shuttle take off. I've heard its impressive but somehow I don't think it will compare to Apollo 17 which turned the night sky blue.
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The 13 mil number mostly comes from people that are too far from phone exchanges. The thing is they will also be too far down the line to get any use from BPL.
If BPL turns out to be evil, will that conflict with googles basic principle?
I just got burned by a dead spare Cisco router that was waiting for the one of the production ones to die. It turns out that I can't find a way to get it repaired and Cisco won't touch it without a service contract. I hate to just trash a $3000 bit of gear but with the service contracts costing $900 per router per year, I'm still better off over the last 5 and I can replace it via ebay for maybe $500.
Maybe this is why most of our stuff is run the google way, use lots of cheap hardware and don't buy the support contracts. It took a bit of rigging to make sure that the whole system would keep going and not lose anything if any thing failed at the wrong time but now its in place and I don't care which bit of hardware dies, I've got live backups ready to pick up the slack.
Northrop wanted to license it for toys which is close to sporting goods which are also toys so the courts may have decided they were in the same class.
Trademark law clearly allows you to use a common word to label your product if you don't conflict with other products names. The odd thing is were there any sporting goods using Stealth in their name when the trademark was issued?
It turns out that most older cars (and trucks) with speed limiters did nasty things to the engine or environment once you get slightly past the limit. Combine that with drivers driving with their foot all the way down and the car will be running at limit most of the time which means the limiter will kick in and out constantly.
how can it be better when its not fail safe? all it takes is subing into a program that doesn't look at $SHELL and your screwed. If you want wimpy non unix behavior, don't use 'rm'
I know the theory.
I know the real world isn't as nice. I've been dealing with routing issues since the days of the uumaps collapsing and I've seen where IPv6 is headed.
If the *NICs were dishing out only /24s then you could do the same thing with 16 megabits of memory per interface. For a typical largish dual homed company that means they need nearly 4 megabytes of ram to hold the current routing state. Now that assume that routers used content addressable ram which they don't.
IPv6 won't fix the distribution problem. The problem is the limited resource is unique routes in key routers and it comes down to the fact that an core exchange router can't cope with millions of networks that would like to be dual homed. The result is you can only truly dual home if you get your own /19 but most of the groups I know would be happy if they could dual home a /26
Thats why they invented SVC DNS records.
We already have have about 2^48 IPv4 addresses for things using SVC records.
The real reason we ran out of IPv4 address is that cisco routers can't cope with a full routing table. Some how quadrupling the amount of memory the same routing table needs isn't going fix the problem.
till a subshell didn't pick up the hint.
Try:
alias del rm -i
its failsafe.
All the SET mark says is that it works in the common case (i.e. the test case), not that the oddball cases which showed up once more and more products got certified. Common problems include holes that allowed merchant fraud as well as MIM attacks in some of the banking back end systems. The crypto wasn't done right either in most cases but that was never part of the certification process.
If anyone has ever seen the USB HID keyboard spec they will know that a modern USB keyboard pretends to be a early 80's style 8051 based IBM keyboard with all its odd ball scan codes. This means that about 20 keys have hard coded special meanings and you can't even build a keyboard with a Euro button or a Japanese symbols water fall. In the case of the Euro about all you can do is get a keyboard that sends Alt-Shift-5 or whatever windows sees as a Euro.
Its a shame that the cheap keyboards are are killing all the high end ones but its hard to build a keyboard with a 100 decent switches when there are $2 keyboards that are just membrane switches with keycap tops. A top of the line bucking hall effect keyswitch is nearly $2 each.
I've been building a flight sim based around X-plane and its very annoying to find a keyboard that can do cording (hitting more than one key at a time) and be able to send a lower case j and an upper case K at the same time. At least I can do most of the functions as joy stick buttons which are much easier to hack since I can buy a good USB joystick for less than $20 and add my own key switches and var resistors to it. Too bad Austin won't allow every keyboard and menu function to be selected via a joystick button.
Parts of the fault line in that area tend to move about 1/2 meter a year but have been known to move 1/2 in 3 months. That kind of movement isn't good for cables of anytype.
If done right, it just looks like a bunch of bad pin pads.
Chip and pin... There is no plausible deniability with it so if it gets owned, the card holder pays.
So its better for the thieves (and merchant).
How do you hack it? Its trivial if you've got access to say a large supermarket. You watch for a card being inserted into the machine and then you run an auth transaction with that card number and the pin 0000. Then you do it again with 0001 and you record it because there is a 2 in 10,000 chance they both failed and you want to keep track of the numbers you've guesed. You don't do it a 3rd time incase the card gets locked out but the user is then asked to enter their pin and they get their groceries with only a 4 second delay and two extra auths that the merchant pays for. While that means a single card holder has to come back to the shop an average of 2500 more times before you find their pin, there may be 2500 people who visit the store ever week
Your attitude is why Visa hasn't come clean on this. A third party processor that used MS Windows was hacked and MasterCard was the only company with the balls to put out a press release letting people know there was a problem. This effected every other major card brand since the processor dealt with all other brands which means about 30% of the stolen details were MasterCard, 60% were Visa and the rest were Discover, Amex and Diners.
MasterCards security Audit is nearly exactly the same as Visas. Until a few months ago Linux systems weren't capable of meeting the system level auditing needed to pass (in my option)
1st of all what was taken was not peoples personal info but a banks data.
The other thing is with a law like you proposed, the fee for using your credit card would go from about 2% to about 10% and very few systems would be more secure.
Your not limited to the standard 3 file handles. In complex shell based systems, its common to see scripts passing around half a dozen file handles.
The problem is that no one ever came up with a good naming convention that works well with the traditional shell syntax.
No it wasn't just US cards.
This is a 3rd party processor that I expect processes payments from someplace like retail stores. Anyone that used any credit card at those merchants may have had their card recorded.
I worked for SETCO. The reason SET died was that no one built a system that didn't have either provable problems or worked just like systems that did have provable security problems. The system was too complex for most companies to implement properly.
Considering how many school girls bought the spice singles to put them in the #1 spot so many times, I'm guessing that school yard copies are hurting sales.
I'm also guessing that many fewer people are going out to buy the new track when they can find out it sucks from a friend 1st.
Didn't steve get some of the early mac developers to provide the specs of a mouse driven spreadsheet to Microsoft? At the time he wanted something to steal people away from visi-calc and the people who were moving to Lotus 123
No matter what you do with an F-4, its still just a brick with enough thrust to get it moving very fast and even with modifications, its not an ideal candidate for the research that was done. The research shows that sonic booms will go away in the future.
I watched all the the moon landing Saturn V take off and I knew many of the people in the early NASA program. That was when NASA had the attitude that we are building the best we can but at the end of the day, you light the candle and go for the ride of your life. At some point in the last 30 years NASA went from pushing the envelope to being the most expensive bus drivers in history.
I still want to see a shuttle take off. I've heard its impressive but somehow I don't think it will compare to Apollo 17 which turned the night sky blue.
- No viruses/worms (yet)
Thats because none of the known buffer overflows are usable to get code running -- on a PPC. I expect the 1st OS X virus to be out with in the month.