Same with criminal cases, too, except you have to add willingness or unwillingness of DA to prosecute them in the first place. No one actually updates laws to clarify them with any kind of authority that can be relied upon, lawyers constantly have to argue about applicability of definitions that were unreasonably vague centuries ago when they were made, and are ridiculously anachronistic now.
This is US -- we don't have real laws that get updated with precise description of what is and isn't a crime. "The law" is whatever the last time judge decided after hearing a shouting match between two attorneys.
To not involve educators in the requirements building phase of this was doomed to the same failure. The problem is that it is visible to more people, sad to say. I think, it was important not to involve AMERICAN educators. Thankfully even poorest countries don't have a massive trainwreck of educational system and cultural environment that American schoolchildren are subjected to, so if the alternative was not to have any experts on education or involve American ones, the former was the right choice. The last thing mankind needs is this disease spreading.
Why do you need a "popular" application? Popularity of iTunes does not make it any less inferior to Amarok, that is free and provides the same useful functionality on Linux.
Or do you mean, "popular" applications such as Microsoft Office, that deliberately sabotage compatibility with everything but themselves? Then we are already working on the right solution -- to make those applications, and especially their proprietary formats, unpopular.
I'm a freaking historian. You mean, propaganda worker.
I should know, it's my business. Stalin killed at the very least 75 million of his own countrymen. Source, please. One that is not Solzhenitsyn or some American journalist-turned-historian.
He liquidated the kulaks you moron! "Liquidated kulaks" as a social class -- by forcing people out of their land and sending them to exile. What obviously caused some deaths, but not nearly as many as Solzhenitsyn and American "historians" like to pretend -- they count everyone ever imprisoned or sent to exile as dead.
If you cannot accept that Stalin was an evil evil individual and that he was ten times the evil that Hitler was, you don't deserve to quote dictators in history. Stalin was an evil and cruel person, and many of his policies produced massive amount of harm. Same can be said about many politicians in his time -- he came to power in late 1920s and died in 1953, half a century ago -- that period of history was pretty much total crap everywhere in the world. However it takes an American propaganda worker to claim that consequences of his rule were anywhere comparable to Hitler/Nazi policies of outright racism and genocide.
They don't even know who Josef Stalin is, and if they do, they don't know what he did. They don't know that Stalin was ten times the murderer that Hitler ever was. Confirmed number of people killed by Stalin/Stalinists: about 2 million (from documents in NKVD/KGB archives, not tens or hundred millions like you were told in propaganda works based entirely on Solzhenitsyn's fiction).
Confirmed number of people killed by Hitler/Nazi: more than 50 millions (European WWII death counts, not 6 or 10 millions -- that was only the number of Jews killed specifically in massacres).
the military still need to train for cyberwar There is no "cyberwar". There never was a "cyberwar". There never will be a "cyberwar". What we have now is a bunch of assholes and crooks exploiting idiotic vulnerabilities in systems and procedures that should be never in any way related to anything military, or in any way safety-critical.
Also, I think it would be less inflammatory to simply state that in a given attack, as network selectivity increases, total population decreases. With experience and various models, a commander should be able to dial in with relative accuracy the impact of a given attack. More like, the only way to keep a self-propagating attack running is including systems with lowest of the lowest level of security and users' competence. Exclude them, and you can just as well ping -f your "enemies" from your own web server.
"that military and not computer scientists are running it" Since when the hell did military mean not smart...or is this another one of those braindead ultraliberal repeated lies. The military as a whole has never been more educated and has been responsible for some pretty impressive things in the past. Do you understand how utterly moronic it is to say "Well those stupid DARPA guys aren't computer scientists and can't possibly do this". Uhm...they did it once already...remember that real internet thing? Actually I am against military running it because military is not the right organization to provide protection against criminals and crooks in the time of peace.
"by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations". Ok...you are obviously not clear as to how the internet came to be or exists today. By all means...go poke around with RIPE and ARIN and tell me if you can't target particular organizations. For fucks sake there are lists all over the net that show specific US military installations IP ranges. Any piece of malware needs hordes of personal computers to run on. So if you write one you have to make it use every opportunity to infect a vulnerable computer, or it will fail to survive. This means, no "but we won't let it run on AMERICAN computers!" stupidity. Not that it would be any less illegal.
When it comes to targets of DDoS, targeting a range of addresses is pointless -- the whole point of attack is large number of computers creating a traffic to a single target that can't be distinguished from legitimate traffic, and drowns it.
So no, if you want to distribute self-propagating malware, you distribute malware that exploits everyone, and therefore you have to break the law to be effective. Not a good thing for a government organization to do.
"that military and not computer scientists are running it" Since when the hell did military mean not smart...or is this another one of those braindead ultraliberal repeated lies. The military as a whole has never been more educated and has been responsible for some pretty impressive things in the past. Do you understand how utterly moronic it is to say "Well those stupid DARPA guys aren't computer scientists and can't possibly do this". Uhm...they did it once already...remember that real internet thing? Actually I am against military running it because military is not the right organization to provide protection against criminals and crooks in the time of peace. "by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations". Ok...you are obviously not clear as to how the internet came to be or exists today. By all means...go poke around with RIPE and ARIN and tell me if you can't target particular organizations. For fucks sake there are lists all over the net that show specific US military installations IP ranges. Any piece of malware needs hordes of personal computers to run on. So if you write one you have to make it use every opportunity to infect a vulnerable computer, or it will fail to survive. This means, no "but we won't let it run on AMERICAN computers!" stupidity.
When it comes to targets of DDoS, targeting a range of addresses is pointless -- the whole point of attack is large number of computers creating a traffic to a single target that can't be distinguished from legitimate traffic, and drowns it.
So no, if you want to distribute self-propagating malware, you distribute malware that exploits everyone, and therefore you have to break the law to be effective. Not a good thing for a government organization to do.
Other than a stupid name -- both an overlap with NCR (that was supposed to be National Cash Register) company name, and the use of a word "cyber" in a way that suggests a sister project National Yiff Range, and the fact that military and not computer scientists are running it, of course.
Something has to provide an environment where potential damage from various existing kinds of malware and attacks, and effectiveness of various countermeasures, can be evaluated without waiting for those things to happen in the real-world Internet. It can be a valuable simulation tool, the only thing that makes me really concerned is the licensing of Windows for countless virtual machines that have to be involved in it -- that may singlehandedly double Microsoft's OS-related revenue unless government will find a way to avoid paying for it. However it's stupid to pretend that such a thing will be useful for creating worms and viruses specifically for damaging "enemy" users because by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations -- its power is in non-specific attacks and in using least-secure, poorly maintained computers to create large-scale effect. Claiming that military is either going to concoct a worm that only infects, say, computers in China, or that it intends to perpetrate computer fraud on a massive scale as a part of some idiotic DDoS on web site that it does not like is stupid, and it discredits the whole project.
Let's write hundreds of responses decrying supposed oppressiveness of its look and purposes (compared to, say, Pentagon, a symbol of efficient, transparent and peace-loving government).
But seriously your complaints all sound like objections to the long-defunct Windows9x kernel. When Dave Cutler wrote the VMS kernel the second time and called it "NT" he did a good job. While NT has evolved from there, and not necessarily for the better, your complaints seem completely trollish. He did a good job creating a better environment for Win32 to run on. There is a Unix-like layer on top of it (OpenNT/Interix/...) and it's pretty terrible. Win32 remained being the crap that it is, and further development of the kernel more or less negated whatever supposedly sane ideas were introduced in it.
One article decries the amount of control school (aka evil government) officials have over OLPC computers specifically made for schools, specifically designed to prevent theft and subsequent conversion into general-purpose business/entertainment devices.
Another article makes all kinds of references to the OLPC program, and cites examples of general-purpose computers in unrestricted setting being misused.
Neither article mentions the fact that OLPC specifically made an effort to design software that improves learning, and promotes students' and teachers' participation in the further development of that software.
Neither article mentions that an attempt to placate Windows fanboys in some (pretty oppressive in my book) governments by offering Windows on OLPC-supplied laptops was seen by most of developers as an idiotic proposal and abandonment of the project goals.
And, of course, this is posted on Slashdot, where countless trolls and Microsoft employees posted their demand to provide Windows on those machines.
Have you used both system APIs? Yes. Nothing that I ever encountered in my life was designed worse than Win32.
of course, everyone thinks that the way they already know is best, but there's nothing hard about using win32 to write to a file, or wait on a mutex, or set an environemnt variable. Heck, you can even sleep/wait with a granularity of milliseconds, and critical sections are much faster than mutexes when you can use them. Apparently you have absolutely no idea how much Unix design differs from Windows. Outside Windows in most situations you don't encounter mutexes because unless you really handle shared resource in memory (what you usually don't), you use multiple processes synchronized through interprocess communications primitives. This can't be done in Windows because of severely crippled interprocess communications, inefficient scheduler and braindead virtual memory. In anything unixlike multiple threads are one of many choices that are used when design requires it, however in Windows they are the only choice whenever program uses any kind of concurrency.
As for sleeping with granularity of milliseconds, you are not supposed to ever need that (you are supposed to wait for things to happen and react immediately, not go into blind-and-deaf state until a timer expires and then expect something to be changed while you weren't looking), however this is what you get by calling poll() with empty set of descriptors.
If you intend to program using Windows techniques, indeed no system would be significantly better than Windows -- because the whole Windows design is a massive engineering failure, and so is everything that ever comes from it.
It's a cornerstone of US ideology that the most important freedom a person can have is freedom to use his property to reduce freedom of others and control others to his advantage.
After all, this country was pretty big on slavery, and still supports aristocracy and big businesses' entitlement to profit, colonialism and other practices based on this idea.
A group of African-American explorers attacks rumored to be invulnerable Goatse fortress, only to be beaten up by its sole inhabitant Uwe Boll. Over 9000 little girls are saved from pedobear invasion by a clever pizza delivery guy. Detectives are investigating incidents that started with Gaia city inhabitants receiving anonymous letters threatening to "hang them on their own longcat scarves". The crew of Dongcopter is missing in action.
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Why would anyone ebay an account that has my real name on it since the beginning on the site?
Same with criminal cases, too, except you have to add willingness or unwillingness of DA to prosecute them in the first place. No one actually updates laws to clarify them with any kind of authority that can be relied upon, lawyers constantly have to argue about applicability of definitions that were unreasonably vague centuries ago when they were made, and are ridiculously anachronistic now.
This is US -- we don't have real laws that get updated with precise description of what is and isn't a crime. "The law" is whatever the last time judge decided after hearing a shouting match between two attorneys.
What is and what isn't the human nature is not for propaganda ideologues to decide.
Why do you need a "popular" application? Popularity of iTunes does not make it any less inferior to Amarok, that is free and provides the same useful functionality on Linux.
Or do you mean, "popular" applications such as Microsoft Office, that deliberately sabotage compatibility with everything but themselves? Then we are already working on the right solution -- to make those applications, and especially their proprietary formats, unpopular.
Confirmed number of people killed by Hitler/Nazi: more than 50 millions (European WWII death counts, not 6 or 10 millions -- that was only the number of Jews killed specifically in massacres).
Now shut up and never talk about history again.
Headlines are real.
Stories are not.
When it comes to targets of DDoS, targeting a range of addresses is pointless -- the whole point of attack is large number of computers creating a traffic to a single target that can't be distinguished from legitimate traffic, and drowns it.
So no, if you want to distribute self-propagating malware, you distribute malware that exploits everyone, and therefore you have to break the law to be effective. Not a good thing for a government organization to do.
When it comes to targets of DDoS, targeting a range of addresses is pointless -- the whole point of attack is large number of computers creating a traffic to a single target that can't be distinguished from legitimate traffic, and drowns it.
So no, if you want to distribute self-propagating malware, you distribute malware that exploits everyone, and therefore you have to break the law to be effective. Not a good thing for a government organization to do.
No, but I have heard that frogs occasionally live there...
Accepting a change in sensors data from something that is not a sensor?
Other than a stupid name -- both an overlap with NCR (that was supposed to be National Cash Register) company name, and the use of a word "cyber" in a way that suggests a sister project National Yiff Range, and the fact that military and not computer scientists are running it, of course.
Something has to provide an environment where potential damage from various existing kinds of malware and attacks, and effectiveness of various countermeasures, can be evaluated without waiting for those things to happen in the real-world Internet. It can be a valuable simulation tool, the only thing that makes me really concerned is the licensing of Windows for countless virtual machines that have to be involved in it -- that may singlehandedly double Microsoft's OS-related revenue unless government will find a way to avoid paying for it. However it's stupid to pretend that such a thing will be useful for creating worms and viruses specifically for damaging "enemy" users because by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations -- its power is in non-specific attacks and in using least-secure, poorly maintained computers to create large-scale effect. Claiming that military is either going to concoct a worm that only infects, say, computers in China, or that it intends to perpetrate computer fraud on a massive scale as a part of some idiotic DDoS on web site that it does not like is stupid, and it discredits the whole project.
Let's write hundreds of responses decrying supposed oppressiveness of its look and purposes (compared to, say, Pentagon, a symbol of efficient, transparent and peace-loving government).
One article decries the amount of control school (aka evil government) officials have over OLPC computers specifically made for schools, specifically designed to prevent theft and subsequent conversion into general-purpose business/entertainment devices.
Another article makes all kinds of references to the OLPC program, and cites examples of general-purpose computers in unrestricted setting being misused.
Neither article mentions the fact that OLPC specifically made an effort to design software that improves learning, and promotes students' and teachers' participation in the further development of that software.
Neither article mentions that an attempt to placate Windows fanboys in some (pretty oppressive in my book) governments by offering Windows on OLPC-supplied laptops was seen by most of developers as an idiotic proposal and abandonment of the project goals.
And, of course, this is posted on Slashdot, where countless trolls and Microsoft employees posted their demand to provide Windows on those machines.
Yeah, makes sense.
Too bad, it was a typo for "generic".
So that were all seemingly-relevant arguments you had, and now you are back to genetic trolling?
As for sleeping with granularity of milliseconds, you are not supposed to ever need that (you are supposed to wait for things to happen and react immediately, not go into blind-and-deaf state until a timer expires and then expect something to be changed while you weren't looking), however this is what you get by calling poll() with empty set of descriptors.
If you intend to program using Windows techniques, indeed no system would be significantly better than Windows -- because the whole Windows design is a massive engineering failure, and so is everything that ever comes from it.
What?
Microsoft shills are really busy today.
It's a cornerstone of US ideology that the most important freedom a person can have is freedom to use his property to reduce freedom of others and control others to his advantage.
After all, this country was pretty big on slavery, and still supports aristocracy and big businesses' entitlement to profit, colonialism and other practices based on this idea.
Waltz is for spaceships!
Polka, on the other hand... Yes, THAT polka.
...the series:
A group of African-American explorers attacks rumored to be invulnerable Goatse fortress, only to be beaten up by its sole inhabitant Uwe Boll. Over 9000 little girls are saved from pedobear invasion by a clever pizza delivery guy. Detectives are investigating incidents that started with Gaia city inhabitants receiving anonymous letters threatening to "hang them on their own longcat scarves". The crew of Dongcopter is missing in action.