So MDA will give this technology away to the rest of the world so we can be safe too? (sorry, I meant 'sell', since pure altruism is not often found in the arms industry).
And of course the research is 'ringfenced' so that it cannot also be used in developing better offensive weapons..?
I doubt this type of defense will help people who used their credit card to sign up for child porn sites
Yeah, they should have got smart and used someone else's card.. If you're the sort of perv who will take the time to search out kiddie porn then searching further for credit card lists has to make a certain sense.
It was fear of -exactly- this that finally got me reading my CCard statements very carefully.
And don't forget that your trash disposal is paid for by taxes, and just like spam the individual cost of disposal per item is tiny, but given the overall amount of trash that unsolicited mail generates, this adds up to a significant amount in the long term. The costs of this are spread across the whole community, even those who are lucky enough not to be targeted by advertisers very much still have to pay a share of this disposal 'stealth cost'.
And since the CD's at least probably end up in a land-fill your great-great grandchildren may still be paying a price (of sorts) in a hundred years.
... and of course, if they are distributing it enough to make sure that this time results in a meaningful 'beta test' for bugs/tweaks etc.. great chance that it will get leaked and massively pirated. So they'd have to keep it under very tight wraps, and I doubt that any signifagent QA improvements will accrue. But a lot of folks will get pissed off.. Still, maximize profits guys, remember, it's the American way.
If I was trying to do this, instead of making it time based (waiting for a clock to count down) I'd have made it page view based.
After, say, 1 Million page views the server crushes itself, first come, first served, so to speak..
PS: Yeah, yeah, make it completed page serves from unique and resolvable IP addresses, to try and avoid the usual trolls scripting page hits to try and crush it too early. Maybe something else, not sure..
A PC case that has the same form-factor as the rest of my HIFI seperates system. Ideally something that looks indistinguishable from a DVD player, so I can stick it in the rack.
I'm sure that the mobo's etc used in modern desktops could be used to give it a decent spec, my TV would make a adequate Monitor for the sorts of uses I have in mind; games/div-x/MP3 Playing, DIgital image viewing etc.. given a front-pane USB/Firewire and cordless mouse/keyboard etc..
I'm sure there is a market for a case like this, but have never seen one outside of a one-off special made by a decent modder (which I could do, but probably rather badly..)
Which proves why posting is best done -after- reading the article. This is achieved by removing the polarising screen from a otherwise normal LCD. It can possibly be made cheaper than than a normal LCD.. though low volumes will doubtless result in a higher cost overall.
And don't forget that they now charge for upgrades to newer PalmOS versions, I'm stuck on 3.1 since I refuse to pay for 3.5/4/4.1. If they were still fixing bugs for 3.1, and providing some real security for it then I could understand charging for the new features in updates. But this is a typical 'You must pay to fix things we screwed up with' scenario.
And Apple are falling into the same trap. Aaargh. Microsoft don't need to be evil anymore, they can just sit back and let the competition screw it up on their own.
I'm not so arrogant that I would deny others the ability to have their menu's look however they wish. But in a windows environment this 'feature' makes it too easy to loose shitloads of references+work.
If this was standard behaviour on -all- applications in Windows it would not be an issue, but it breaks the 'consistency' of the Windows UI. I use lots of different OS's, but I tend to be in a different 'groove' for each one. Mozilla interrupted that groove, there are two good alternatives, I did this consumer thing and chose a product that better fitted my needs. So there.
Hundreds of testers were surprised and dismayed that their entire working set of windows was lost when they renamed a bookmark and then tried to close the bookmark editor.
Including me..
I deleted it off my system that day, I have better things to do than spend 5 minutes getting back to where I was just because some dweeb bunch of GUI weiners think they have an 'improvement'.
If Microsoft 'wins', this sort of attitude will be part of the reason why.
PS. Opera does not do this, getting pissed with Mozilla was why I tried Opera, and I'll need a bloody good reason to try anything else.
However ClearCase has some -very- good features, and here is what I would arrive at (ideally):
1) Make your repository a mountable file system, supporting multiple types of connection, NFS, SMB, Active Directory, FTP, etc.. When connecting you must specify a profile to be used.
2) Make every user have a number of profiles (Min:1) (like ClearCase views), these profiles contain -all- the info needed to access file versions correctly. They should allow sharing ('base my profile X on the profile Y created by user Z'). And support concepts such as labelling, conditional branching, etc..
3) All profiles are managed from a central server (redundancy?) via a web interface (to achive cross-platform conformity) and command-line interface (SSH based) for scripting/power-users.
I could go on forever, but I think the three above points are the things that matter most to me. Obviously you also need security, administration, storage, etc.. but I think that making files available simultaneously via many common file sharing protocols would produce the greatest benefit.
Finally: MAKE DIRECTORIES VERSIONABLE/BRANCHABLE!, yes it causes some potential headaches, but it's benefits easily outweigh them.
But I do understand your point about making things so small as to be harder to handle or easier to lose.
I had a chance to talk to a HW design guy for Motorola's mobile division just after the MicroTAC came out, and he basically said that in a few years (this -was- a few years ago) they would be able to fit the same functionality in something half the size.
But the design folks were already saying that the format had gotten as small as people were comfortable with. Therefore they would focus on putting more features and longer life into the same size factor. Looking at the current high-end phone market this appears to be exactly what is happening, lots more features but no pen-sized phones..
I've been told this on several occasions by people who -are- well up on card security. The PIN is certainly stored on the card in some applications.
The PIN is obviously -not- stored plaintext, but as a DES encrypted number somehow. This may not be true for all systems but if you look halfway down here or here You will get the general idea.
On the other hand, other sites tell you differently.
If the transactions are in plain-text, is there any checksumming etc.. that takes place.
It occurs to me that what you could do is be able to intercept (or pre-empt) and replace data in valid transactions.
Then sit in the car-park, and substitute a different card number in to any refund transactions encountered. Create an account specifically for this, and drain it before any fraud is likely to be detected, easy money.
All of this is assuming that the systems do not use basic checksumming double-verification etc.. but given that they already transmit them wirelessly and unencrypted, what chance is there that they take even basic protections against false data beiong injected into the network.
Sure, the PIN number may be picked up over a wireless network
Not necesserily.. the PIN is stored on the card itself (one-way encrypted or sumething.. I'm not well-up on crypto stuff). So therefore the whole pin-processing can go on within the POS (Point-Of-Sale) terminal which just needs to return a success or denial message.
Someone with mod points push the parent higer please, some incompetent loser can't tell 'Funny' from 'Flaimbait' (Probably confused because they start with the same letter).
...But will appeal claiming that a processor they brought in Japan, whilst looking Identical to one brought in Britain, in fact used a different clock speed. Therefore they are not liable and it should retain it's bronze medal.
Slashdot Mirror
This is true..
So MDA will give this technology away to the rest of the world so we can be safe too? (sorry, I meant 'sell', since pure altruism is not often found in the arms industry).
And of course the research is 'ringfenced' so that it cannot also be used in developing better offensive weapons..?
The best use of arms is for hugging.
Yeah! that right!!! The good 'ole US of A never does that..
What was it that a certain D Rumsfeld sold to Saddam many moons ago, when he was a 'good' dictator, begins with an 'A', almost rhymes with 'Tampax'..
Wouldn't it be nice if humanity could do this super cool stuff without the ultimate aim being to find more efficient ways of killing people.
The arms industry often shocks me, rarely awe's me.
Even if the entire OS shipped with no GUI, how much of the software you want would work with it?
It's a server platform.. Work it out.
I doubt this type of defense will help people who used their credit card to sign up for child porn sites
Yeah, they should have got smart and used someone else's card.. If you're the sort of perv who will take the time to search out kiddie porn then searching further for credit card lists has to make a certain sense.
It was fear of -exactly- this that finally got me reading my CCard statements very carefully.
And don't forget that your trash disposal is paid for by taxes, and just like spam the individual cost of disposal per item is tiny, but given the overall amount of trash that unsolicited mail generates, this adds up to a significant amount in the long term. The costs of this are spread across the whole community, even those who are lucky enough not to be targeted by advertisers very much still have to pay a share of this disposal 'stealth cost'.
And since the CD's at least probably end up in a land-fill your great-great grandchildren may still be paying a price (of sorts) in a hundred years.
Is it just me who thinks this is all screwed up?
... and of course, if they are distributing it enough to make sure that this time results in a meaningful 'beta test' for bugs/tweaks etc.. great chance that it will get leaked and massively pirated. So they'd have to keep it under very tight wraps, and I doubt that any signifagent QA improvements will accrue. But a lot of folks will get pissed off..
Still, maximize profits guys, remember, it's the American way.
Don't you mean 'There is no texture.' ;-)
Actually, that reminds me of a Lasagne I had the other day.
Ah! So it will be the second ion powered craft. Being second to achieve a major space milestone is something you should really identify with.
If I was trying to do this, instead of making it time based (waiting for a clock to count down) I'd have made it page view based.
After, say, 1 Million page views the server crushes itself, first come, first served, so to speak..
PS: Yeah, yeah, make it completed page serves from unique and resolvable IP addresses, to try and avoid the usual trolls scripting page hits to try and crush it too early. Maybe something else, not sure..
A PC case that has the same form-factor as the rest of my HIFI seperates system. Ideally something that looks indistinguishable from a DVD player, so I can stick it in the rack.
I'm sure that the mobo's etc used in modern desktops could be used to give it a decent spec, my TV would make a adequate Monitor for the sorts of uses I have in mind; games/div-x/MP3 Playing, DIgital image viewing etc.. given a front-pane USB/Firewire and cordless mouse/keyboard etc..
I'm sure there is a market for a case like this, but have never seen one outside of a one-off special made by a decent modder (which I could do, but probably rather badly..)
The cost of polarized system is too high
Which proves why posting is best done -after- reading the article. This is achieved by removing the polarising screen from a otherwise normal LCD. It can possibly be made cheaper than than a normal LCD.. though low volumes will doubtless result in a higher cost overall.
And don't forget that they now charge for upgrades to newer PalmOS versions, I'm stuck on 3.1 since I refuse to pay for 3.5/4/4.1. If they were still fixing bugs for 3.1, and providing some real security for it then I could understand charging for the new features in updates. But this is a typical 'You must pay to fix things we screwed up with' scenario.
And Apple are falling into the same trap. Aaargh. Microsoft don't need to be evil anymore, they can just sit back and let the competition screw it up on their own.
However not quite long enough to remove the chip from the shoulder obviously
Be British, Go to America, make a comment about 'Visiting the Colonies', listen to reaction, smile knowingly to yourself.
Be American, Go to Britain, make a comment about 'Having to save your asses in every war', listen to reaction, smile knowingly to yourself.
Trolling had a long aural tradition before Usenet was invented.
I'm not so arrogant that I would deny others the ability to have their menu's look however they wish. But in a windows environment this 'feature' makes it too easy to loose shitloads of references+work.
If this was standard behaviour on -all- applications in Windows it would not be an issue, but it breaks the 'consistency' of the Windows UI. I use lots of different OS's, but I tend to be in a different 'groove' for each one. Mozilla interrupted that groove, there are two good alternatives, I did this consumer thing and chose a product that better fitted my needs. So there.
Hundreds of testers were surprised and dismayed that their entire working set of windows was lost when they renamed a bookmark and then tried to close the bookmark editor.
Including me..
I deleted it off my system that day, I have better things to do than spend 5 minutes getting back to where I was just because some dweeb bunch of GUI weiners think they have an 'improvement'.
If Microsoft 'wins', this sort of attitude will be part of the reason why.
PS. Opera does not do this, getting pissed with Mozilla was why I tried Opera, and I'll need a bloody good reason to try anything else.
From petitiononline:
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The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center
3598 Total Signatures
Ha! Hysterical. Is this whole petition just a troll?
HaHa!! So your the one responsible for all that targeted direct mailings i get!
Yeah, So we'll look at your address and come round to break your legs!
Err, Can I licence doing that from you please?
I'm a ClearCase specialist so I'm biased.
However ClearCase has some -very- good features, and here is what I would arrive at (ideally):
1) Make your repository a mountable file system, supporting multiple types of connection, NFS, SMB, Active Directory, FTP, etc.. When connecting you must specify a profile to be used.
2) Make every user have a number of profiles (Min:1) (like ClearCase views), these profiles contain -all- the info needed to access file versions correctly. They should allow sharing ('base my profile X on the profile Y created by user Z'). And support concepts such as labelling, conditional branching, etc..
3) All profiles are managed from a central server (redundancy?) via a web interface (to achive cross-platform conformity) and command-line interface (SSH based) for scripting/power-users.
I could go on forever, but I think the three above points are the things that matter most to me. Obviously you also need security, administration, storage, etc.. but I think that making files available simultaneously via many common file sharing protocols would produce the greatest benefit.
Finally: MAKE DIRECTORIES VERSIONABLE/BRANCHABLE!, yes it causes some potential headaches, but it's benefits easily outweigh them.
But I do understand your point about making things so small as to be harder to handle or easier to lose.
I had a chance to talk to a HW design guy for Motorola's mobile division just after the MicroTAC came out, and he basically said that in a few years (this -was- a few years ago) they would be able to fit the same functionality in something half the size.
But the design folks were already saying that the format had gotten as small as people were comfortable with. Therefore they would focus on putting more features and longer life into the same size factor. Looking at the current high-end phone market this appears to be exactly what is happening, lots more features but no pen-sized phones..
I've been told this on several occasions by people who -are- well up on card security. The PIN is certainly stored on the card in some applications.
The PIN is obviously -not- stored plaintext, but as a DES encrypted number somehow. This may not be true for all systems but if you look halfway down here or here
You will get the general idea.
On the other hand, other sites tell you differently.
If the transactions are in plain-text, is there any checksumming etc.. that takes place.
It occurs to me that what you could do is be able to intercept (or pre-empt) and replace data in valid transactions.
Then sit in the car-park, and substitute a different card number in to any refund transactions encountered. Create an account specifically for this, and drain it before any fraud is likely to be detected, easy money.
All of this is assuming that the systems do not use basic checksumming double-verification etc.. but given that they already transmit them wirelessly and unencrypted, what chance is there that they take even basic protections against false data beiong injected into the network.
Sure, the PIN number may be picked up over a wireless network
Not necesserily.. the PIN is stored on the card itself (one-way encrypted or sumething.. I'm not well-up on crypto stuff). So therefore the whole pin-processing can go on within the POS (Point-Of-Sale) terminal which just needs to return a success or denial message.
Someone with mod points push the parent higer please, some incompetent loser can't tell 'Funny' from 'Flaimbait' (Probably confused because they start with the same letter).
...But will appeal claiming that a processor they brought in Japan, whilst looking Identical to one brought in Britain, in fact used a different clock speed. Therefore they are not liable and it should retain it's bronze medal.
Oops, sorry wrong sport, season and country..