Before the breakup, AT&T was funded by an internal "R&D Tax". 10% of all income for a department went off to Bell Labs with no say on what it was to be used for. The director of the lab was isolated from the politics by rules that made it effectively a life time position. The result was one of the most productive research centers of all time. It would be interesting if congress would figure out that model was very good for the US and provide some sort of tax break for companies that had strong independent R&D labs.
Maybe its time the HP share holders sue the current board for offering her 21 million to leave. Shes gone, and its clear that the stock holders thought she was very bad for the company. Shes been fired and that ends it -- no more payments. If she had it in her contract, so what... she cost the stock holders 7 billion in value. Maybe its time that the payouts only happen if they did good things for the company. Its time to show boards that the huge golden handshakes are over.
I use Freebsd. I've been using BSD in one form or another for a about 2 decades. I don't want a OS that is developed by people that would make the kind of statement on the contest page.
You see, I don't care if the OS has a better market share. It does what I need it to do and it does it well. As it increases its market share and becomes more mainstream, the amount of useless crud that gets added increases and I don't want that because it decreases the security. If I wanted bloat and cute, I would have linux on my servers. If I wanted strong corporate image, I would have solaris on my servers. As it is, I'm a real unix hacker and freebsd is the best out there for my needs and the daemon logo fits in just fine.
Their current page is claiming they aren't ready for new logos yet. Too bad... I was going to submit their old one.
For a while on Aussie TV, sasame street was telling kids here to dial 911 in emergencies. The problem is that 000 is the number they need to dial. Most mobiles will direct 112 to 000 as well. Most nokias will dial 000 if their keypad lock is on. The result is there are lots of false calls to the emergency number. While the current number plan has added a 9 to the front of all the old 7 digit urban numbers, 911 is still reserved. Most PBX systems also require you to dial 0 to get an outside line. The international prefix is 0011. If your used to dialing from work that would be 00011... if you go home and dial an international number... 000 opps!
I think the point is that with the US system, mobile call charges will drop below land line charges but that isn't going to happen other places due to the fact that callers have no choice on the rate to a 3rd party mobile phone company. From Australia I can call the US or UK for AU$.05/min as a standard rate. If I call a US cell phone, it only costs me AU$.05/min while if I call a UK mobile phone its going to be at least AU$.20/min if not several times that.
Its sort of like that cool graphics chip used in the N64. That no one ever took advantage of except for the spinning N at the start of some games and I understand that was written by the SGI guys as demo.
From what I can see, all this special hardware that gets tacked on modern game systems never gets used because a game developer can either use it and lock their game to one platform or ignore it and have something they can also sell to the PC market.
I have code to disprove your theory for the 1:1 There are other keys that can work. In fact two working keys can be combined to form a third. See one of my other posts for an example.
Better safety is good as long as its not considered impossible to attack and the way most banks see things, nearly any trivial electronic thing is already impossible to attack. Its sort of like the theories that RSA is hard to break because its keys are a result of large primes. That only holds true if the the public key to private key ratio is 1:1 and it isn't yet I have never seen such a claim published in a paper. There are potential weaknesses in any system and I don't want the bank to be quoting the party line of "thats not hackable, you must have authorized the transaction"
This is because several Aussie banks have been burned by the wired money scam. It goes like this... Order comes from dodgy part of the world. The client is told that company won't take credit card payments from that country. Client says "ok, I'll wire the money" and wires in the amount. Client wires $1000 to company and $10 to his cousin who is in the country and has a bank account with the same bank. Money is in companies bank account so the goods get shipped. As soon as the fedex tracking system says its out of the country the client then goes to their bank and says there must be a mistake since their cousin didn't their money. International banking rules allow backing out the transaction and the cash disappears with the goods.
So if someone does crack that system, you have no plausible deniability do you? With 90% of the people out there trusting computer output without fail, I like to be able to question the paper trail.
I've got 200 or so analog web phones sitting in a warehouse (make me an offer suckers?) that had a voice modem and handset and a web browser and touch screen. The software developers went broke before it ever got all the bugs out (like ssl -- what ssl?) and so the phones sit in their boxes.
The voice modem option of the ones I have should be fast enough to do voip (if they had an ethernet interface but that never happened either) or run linux but I never got around to hacking them in any useful way.
There was lots of technology from a few years back that was hunting for a market that they never found.
Your problem is someone else feature. SMTP allows things such as anonymous mail which was considered important in emails early days. The real problem is someone sees anonymity as a business venture and the suckers fall for it. If you remove that, then the spamers will just lead longer paper trails which will cost them slightly more but wont stop anything. After all these guys are going out and paying cash for T3 setups fees and monthly fees in advance for a circuit they expect to get a few days use out of. They will be happy to comply with any sill new rules an advanced email system will provide.
X.400 fixed all the problems. You can buy a pateneted solution today that fixes all your email problem but it costs several tens of thousands of dollars per year in license fees alone to run an x.400 system.
If 5 mil is nothing to them, then we need to get them to stop. The only way to do that is nail them where it hurts most, their stock price. The only way to do that is blacklist them and let wall street know its going to happen and make sure that it does happen.
What needs to happen is that on Apr 1, we make fools of them by taking down their entire network. This is going to take massive planning because they run such a major part of it. The real problem is most name servers are still on it as well as many of the main web sites.
So for this to work, everyone running mail servers will need to to have a RBL type blacklist in place that gives out the same message that is clear and to the point. Then Web sites should return pages explaining the issue clearly. The idea is full up every ISP call centers with questions to the point that anyone paying MCI will be screaming at them. The result is that mci will either get their act together with the spamers or the net will prove that a permanent blacklist won't be so bad.
This is very difficult to do in a corporate environment. however sometime the big bosses can be convinced by letting them know just how much the spam and viruses are costing and don't forget the fraud. Remind them of the people who siphon millions out of large companies to help their new buddies in Nigeria.
You let the case go on and have the defendant add "defamation of the dead" with some large $$$ to the counter suit. Let the judge figure it out. If the judge is annoyed with people screwing with the system, he might just award all recent RIAA winnings to the defendant.
One of the tricks of MIX was that it could be a binary computer or a decimal computer. You never knew which it was at any one time so it challenged some assumptions. Too bad the MMIX is a binary beast.
Why Sveasoft? For most applications, the default stuff works just fine. If your looking for low cost clients, minitar's have better radios and are cheaper.
The cheap solution is cat6 and run it at 10mb. If the distance is too far, put a cheap switch in between. I run over 250m on cat 6 at 10mb with no errors and thats running very close to lots of power lines up an elevator shaft.
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Before the breakup, AT&T was funded by an internal "R&D Tax". 10% of all income for a department went off to Bell Labs with no say on what it was to be used for. The director of the lab was isolated from the politics by rules that made it effectively a life time position. The result was one of the most productive research centers of all time. It would be interesting if congress would figure out that model was very good for the US and provide some sort of tax break for companies that had strong independent R&D labs.
Maybe its time the HP share holders sue the current board for offering her 21 million to leave. Shes gone, and its clear that the stock holders thought she was very bad for the company. Shes been fired and that ends it -- no more payments. If she had it in her contract, so what... she cost the stock holders 7 billion in value. Maybe its time that the payouts only happen if they did good things for the company. Its time to show boards that the huge golden handshakes are over.
I use Freebsd. I've been using BSD in one form or another for a about 2 decades. I don't want a OS that is developed by people that would make the kind of statement on the contest page.
You see, I don't care if the OS has a better market share. It does what I need it to do and it does it well. As it increases its market share and becomes more mainstream, the amount of useless crud that gets added increases and I don't want that because it decreases the security. If I wanted bloat and cute, I would have linux on my servers. If I wanted strong corporate image, I would have solaris on my servers. As it is, I'm a real unix hacker and freebsd is the best out there for my needs and the daemon logo fits in just fine.
Their current page is claiming they aren't ready for new logos yet. Too bad... I was going to submit their old one.
Rule #1, don't risk the entire project by going too far over the edge.
For a while on Aussie TV, sasame street was telling kids here to dial 911 in emergencies. The problem is that 000 is the number they need to dial. Most mobiles will direct 112 to 000 as well. Most nokias will dial 000 if their keypad lock is on. The result is there are lots of false calls to the emergency number. While the current number plan has added a 9 to the front of all the old 7 digit urban numbers, 911 is still reserved. Most PBX systems also require you to dial 0 to get an outside line. The international prefix is 0011. If your used to dialing from work that would be 00011... if you go home and dial an international number... 000 opps!
I think the point is that with the US system, mobile call charges will drop below land line charges but that isn't going to happen other places due to the fact that callers have no choice on the rate to a 3rd party mobile phone company. From Australia I can call the US or UK for AU$.05/min as a standard rate. If I call a US cell phone, it only costs me AU$.05/min while if I call a UK mobile phone its going to be at least AU$.20/min if not several times that.
What ever it is, it would need to deal with huge magnetic fields. The pulsar in the crab nebula puts out about 4000 times as much energy as our sun.
As scary as your post is, your right.
To the religious right, advanced astrophysics is useless but being 1st to the moon shows that divine providence is still alive.
And don't discount the Zoggs... a large number of religious nuts also seem to believe in UFOs.
Its sort of like that cool graphics chip used in the N64. That no one ever took advantage of except for the spinning N at the start of some games and I understand that was written by the SGI guys as demo.
From what I can see, all this special hardware that gets tacked on modern game systems never gets used because a game developer can either use it and lock their game to one platform or ignore it and have something they can also sell to the PC market.
Sometimes they are smaller. That code was written to show this to someone who wanted to do the same thing by hand.
I have code to disprove your theory for the 1:1 There are other keys that can work. In fact two working keys can be combined to form a third. See one of my other posts for an example.
RSA keys are 1 to many. This code shows it
Better safety is good as long as its not considered impossible to attack and the way most banks see things, nearly any trivial electronic thing is already impossible to attack. Its sort of like the theories that RSA is hard to break because its keys are a result of large primes. That only holds true if the the public key to private key ratio is 1:1 and it isn't yet I have never seen such a claim published in a paper. There are potential weaknesses in any system and I don't want the bank to be quoting the party line of "thats not hackable, you must have authorized the transaction"
This is because several Aussie banks have been burned by the wired money scam.
It goes like this...
Order comes from dodgy part of the world. The client is told that company won't take credit card payments from that country. Client says "ok, I'll wire the money" and wires in the amount. Client wires $1000 to company and $10 to his cousin who is in the country and has a bank account with the same bank. Money is in companies bank account so the goods get shipped. As soon as the fedex tracking system says its out of the country the client then goes to their bank and says there must be a mistake since their cousin didn't their money. International banking rules allow backing out the transaction
and the cash disappears with the goods.
So if someone does crack that system, you have no plausible deniability do you? With 90% of the people out there trusting computer output without fail, I like to be able to question the paper trail.
Since thats nearly dead....
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I've got 200 or so analog web phones sitting in a warehouse (make me an offer suckers?) that had a voice modem and handset and a web browser and touch screen. The software developers went broke before it ever got all the bugs out (like ssl -- what ssl?) and so the phones sit in their boxes.
The voice modem option of the ones I have should be fast enough to do voip (if they had an ethernet interface but that never happened either) or run linux but I never got around to hacking them in any useful way.
There was lots of technology from a few years back that was hunting for a market that they never found.
Your problem is someone else feature. SMTP allows things such as anonymous mail which was considered important in emails early days. The real problem is someone sees anonymity as a business venture and the suckers fall for it. If you remove that, then the spamers will just lead longer paper trails which will cost them slightly more but wont stop anything. After all these guys are going out and paying cash for T3 setups fees and monthly fees in advance for a circuit they expect to get a few days use out of. They will be happy to comply with any sill new rules an advanced email system will provide.
X.400 fixed all the problems. You can buy a pateneted solution today that fixes all your email problem but it costs several tens of thousands of dollars per year in license fees alone to run an x.400 system.
If 5 mil is nothing to them, then we need to get them to stop.
The only way to do that is nail them where it hurts most, their stock price. The only way to do that is blacklist them and let wall street know its going to happen and make sure that it does happen.
What needs to happen is that on Apr 1, we make fools of them by taking down their entire network. This is going to take massive planning because they run such a major part of it. The real problem is most name servers are still on it as well as many of the main web sites.
So for this to work, everyone running mail servers will need to to have a RBL type blacklist in place that gives out the same message that is clear and to the point. Then Web sites should return pages explaining the issue clearly. The idea is full up every ISP call centers with questions to the point that anyone paying MCI will be screaming at them. The result is that mci will either get their act together with the spamers or the net will prove that a permanent blacklist won't be so bad.
This is very difficult to do in a corporate environment. however sometime the big bosses can be convinced by letting them know just how much the spam and viruses are costing and don't forget the fraud. Remind them of the people who siphon millions out of large companies to help their new buddies in Nigeria.
You let the case go on and have the defendant add "defamation of the dead" with some large $$$ to the counter suit. Let the judge figure it out. If the judge is annoyed with people screwing with the system, he might just award all recent RIAA winnings to the defendant.
Aussie price on the MNWAPB is about $60 vs $135 for the WRT54G.
One of the tricks of MIX was that it could be a binary computer or a decimal computer. You never knew which it was at any one time so it challenged some assumptions. Too bad the MMIX is a binary beast.
The one exercise reducing a NP problem to a P problem has me stumped and I can't quite figure it out. Other than that, I've got most of them.
Why Sveasoft? For most applications, the default stuff works just fine.
If your looking for low cost clients, minitar's have better radios and are cheaper.
The cheap solution is cat6 and run it at 10mb. If the distance is too far, put a cheap switch in between. I run over 250m on cat 6 at 10mb with no errors and thats running very close to lots of power lines up an elevator shaft.
The plants are lonely so the idea is to give some of the smarter ones a laptop and teach them how to troll /.