You sounded credible.....until you revealed that you think programmers *pick* one Window Manager over another when designing applications.
Tell me, did any of the X linux applications out there that are bundled with Redhat and begin with the letter "k" get designed for a particular Window Manager? Or were they designed to function in every destkop environment (Gnome, KDE, CDE, etc.)
it only benefits...the corporate/home MS windows user's really.
So basically PGP only benefits 90% of the Marketplace? As far as being clueful goes, I consider myself to have a clue, and I use PGP instead of GPG because of the extra functionality - seamless integration with email clients, built in firewall, built in IDS, and an encrypted filesystem that integrates seamlessly into the filesystem. How exactly can you secure applications with files spread all over the hard drive (like your Internet Explorer cache) without a feature like that?
Maybe they're just clued in to different clues than you, man.
The question is, how long until the XP version of PGP is released? PGP has been my "killer app" for sticking with Win2k - how can you own a notebook computer without an encrypted filesystem?
Hey, maybe they'll put out a Linux desktop integrated version as well, though who knows which Window Manager they'd pick.
Why weren't your comments on this story posted as a comment? Why did you feel the need to put them in the editorial text of the story?
Was it because you were afraid you'd be moderated to -1 Flamebait?
Does it bother anyone else that Michael has unlimited Moderation points? Can you imagine someone this lunatic fringe with total control over your comments scores?
1) steal it (many means available) 2) as soon as possible, remove the battery. 3) profit
You've correctly interpreted what the article said:
A radio transceiver installed inside the laptop's casing is programmed to identify its owner by means of a small transmitter worn like a wristwatch. This lets the laptop know how far away its master is. Whenever separated by a set distance, automatic encryption of data is triggered.
But the article is almost certainly wrong about the implementation. Look at PGP Security's PGPDisk module. When you boot up, you can open a PGPDisk file, and enter a passphrase. Stored in RAM only, this passphrase is the key to decrypting the disk, which is only kept encrypted and is decrypted at runtime by the PGP software. As soon as you power down the notebook, the key is lost.
My guess is they've beefed up this concept and kept the (much larger keysize) encryption key in an RFid bracelet. The hard drive is encrypted by software, and when you walk away, the key to the encrypted contents of the drive walks away with you.
Unless they're completely incompetent, the article is just plain wrong.
KWTCMA
A million geeks?
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A million geek march... probably not. What about a Million Book March? The DMCA threatens the future of all digital media, and as Lawrence Lessig points out, Adobe eBook reader and its ilk threaten a lot more people than geeks. They threaten librarians, students, and academia. If we could each dump a book on the lawn of the capitol to symbolize the death of the Freedom to Read, now that would be something.
Seriously, when he posted "don't take the word of spammers verbatim" I think he meant "get the other side of the story and publish them in parallel" not "fucking ignore these people". It's a matter of interpretation, which is usually the best place for someone like me to jump in and start pointing fingers.
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
I'm not distorting what you said. I dare you to show me where I did.
You distorted what he said when you said the following :
The point is, you seem to believe the journalist has to do your thinking. That's not right. Our job is to present you the facts as unadulterated as possible, report what other people said, trying to preserve their point of view, and let YOU choose who to believe and what to make of the information. Anything else is the worst kind of manipulation, and I'm surprised any slashdotter would support that.
That's not what he said. He said a journalist should present an unbiased view of both sides of the story rather than one. You've manipulated what he was advocating : you're insisting that he was advocating refuting everything the spammer said. Rather, he was advocating an interview which presented the spammers' quotes, an anti-spammers quotes, and then independent verification of the facts. You know, responsible journalism.
But then, you probably don't know.
Your argument to wait for Part III is weak. Part III is titled "Next -- PART III: Spam Countermeasures". The chances of this third section having an interview with the "spam stalker" is slim to none, and Slim just left town. We know this because the "stalker" has already had to angrily defend herself because she was not interviewed for the article.
Actually, it shows that you didn't read the article/speech.
"That Linux Girl. That little slip of a hippie girl.
She's got open arms, and a threadbare tank top, and unbuttoned jeans. Free Love, that's what it's all about for our Linux Girl. Free like freedom, free like beer, free like, whatever."
Oh, I read it. I just didn't appreciate anyone calling Linux a slut.
The new Nielsens are out, and there's been a bit of a shakeup in the ratings war! Friends is out of its number 1 spot, replaced by the Simpsons and second runner Junkyard Wars... Anime appears to be America's new addiction.
Are European patent examiners graded on the same "points" system as their American counterparts? I believe the points system goes something like "Approval : 1 point, Early Approval : 2 points, Rejection : 0 points plus possible appeal".
Who grades your performance, and how?
I think I know one of the reasons so many projects remain unfinished. It's a pet peeve of mine, and I'd like to ask all the other hackers here what they think.
Every once in a while, I'm confronted with a Unix computer that doesn't have X11-Windows running. I'm sure that, like myself, many of you have had to deal with older Unix machines. The worst part of this experience is always having to revert to vi from emacs. Below is a short list of the reasons we need to push for universal adoption of emacs and the dumping of the 'vi standard':
vi requires you to hit "Escape" to shift modes, but doesn't give any visual feedback of the mode change. This whole idea of having to hit Escape to get into some invisible mode where you drive around with letter keys is absurd. We have arrow keys on the keyboard now. Let's move into the twentienth century.
vi doesn't do syntax highlighting. Let's face it, we use editors to write code. Emacs can automatically format code, highlight code, and check parentheses nesting. vi can't. therefore, we need to bag vi ASAP.
vi doesn't support X-windows. X-Windows has been around, what, decades? Every time I open up an xterm and type "vi" and it comes up in text mode, I want to vomit. I'm sure you've all had this (painful) experience before. Sadly vi is what we're all stuck with, and it's time for a change.
vi doesn't have internal scripting capabilities. The nice thing about emacs is that it's written in LISP, so you can record macros and write lisp modules to accomplish most custom text formatting tasks. vi supports... nothing.
Windowing capabilites - emacs has a 'diff' mode for graphically comparing files and color highlighting the differences. vi doesn't.
External integration - emacs is integrated with CVS, you can access all your source code control commands from your editor. How useful! Of course, if you're stuck with vi, you're screwed.
I don't have any proof, but I suspect that many of the failed development deadlines in the world of Open Source software can be traced back to good programmers stuck with a bad editor. It's time to bag vi. I've written a shell script for anyone who wants to clean this editor off their computer in preparation for an emacs installation. This script is bound by the GPL; feel free to redistribute:
My experience is that while some new programmers are destined to become good programmers, experienced programmers who don't write code rarely improve. My advice is to make sure there is tons of visibility and documentation early as to who is actually doing the work - and make sure management has access to this visibility. From that point, it's the responsibility of management to do their job and manage the resources they have. Taking this role upon yourself is usually a mistake.
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It does have some email encryption abilities however, so if that is your intended purpose, go to it. It's Free as in Speech!
KWTCMA
You sounded credible... ..until you revealed that you think programmers *pick* one Window Manager over another when designing applications.
Tell me, did any of the X linux applications out there that are bundled with Redhat and begin with the letter "k" get designed for a particular Window Manager? Or were they designed to function in every destkop environment (Gnome, KDE, CDE, etc.)
Just curious.
, how will that help if your laptop gets stolen, do you haev to enter the PGP password do boot windows?
No, but you have to enter the PGP password to steal all the work I've done for my company. The notebook itself is worthless by comparison.
it only benefits...the corporate/home MS windows user's really.
So basically PGP only benefits 90% of the Marketplace? As far as being clueful goes, I consider myself to have a clue, and I use PGP instead of GPG because of the extra functionality - seamless integration with email clients, built in firewall, built in IDS, and an encrypted filesystem that integrates seamlessly into the filesystem. How exactly can you secure applications with files spread all over the hard drive (like your Internet Explorer cache) without a feature like that?
Maybe they're just clued in to different clues than you, man.
The question is, how long until the XP version of PGP is released? PGP has been my "killer app" for sticking with Win2k - how can you own a notebook computer without an encrypted filesystem?
Hey, maybe they'll put out a Linux desktop integrated version as well, though who knows which Window Manager they'd pick.
Why weren't your comments on this story posted as a comment? Why did you feel the need to put them in the editorial text of the story?
Was it because you were afraid you'd be moderated to -1 Flamebait?
Does it bother anyone else that Michael has unlimited Moderation points? Can you imagine someone this lunatic fringe with total control over your comments scores?
1) steal it (many means available)
2) as soon as possible, remove the battery.
3) profit
You've correctly interpreted what the article said:
A radio transceiver installed inside the laptop's casing is programmed to identify its owner by means of a small transmitter worn like a wristwatch. This lets the laptop know how far away its master is. Whenever separated by a set distance, automatic encryption of data is triggered.
But the article is almost certainly wrong about the implementation. Look at PGP Security's PGPDisk module. When you boot up, you can open a PGPDisk file, and enter a passphrase. Stored in RAM only, this passphrase is the key to decrypting the disk, which is only kept encrypted and is decrypted at runtime by the PGP software. As soon as you power down the notebook, the key is lost.
My guess is they've beefed up this concept and kept the (much larger keysize) encryption key in an RFid bracelet. The hard drive is encrypted by software, and when you walk away, the key to the encrypted contents of the drive walks away with you.
Unless they're completely incompetent, the article is just plain wrong.
KWTCMA
A million geek march... probably not. What about a Million Book March? The DMCA threatens the future of all digital media, and as Lawrence Lessig points out, Adobe eBook reader and its ilk threaten a lot more people than geeks. They threaten librarians, students, and academia. If we could each dump a book on the lawn of the capitol to symbolize the death of the Freedom to Read, now that would be something.
KWTCMA
The Crazy Graffiti Writing Robot has already been built and deployed to independent freedom agents (Trolls) across the country for years.
In fact, we've moved on to phase II
Seriously, when he posted "don't take the word of spammers verbatim" I think he meant "get the other side of the story and publish them in parallel" not "fucking ignore these people". It's a matter of interpretation, which is usually the best place for someone like me to jump in and start pointing fingers.
"To feed the troll or not to feed the troll..."
"Ad hominem".
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
Bwuahahahahahahahaha!
Hah!
Oh god, thank you.
I'm not distorting what you said. I dare you to show me where I did.
You distorted what he said when you said the following :
The point is, you seem to believe the journalist has to do your thinking. That's not right. Our job is to present you the facts as unadulterated as possible, report what other people said, trying to preserve their point of view, and let YOU choose who to believe and what to make of the information. Anything else is the worst kind of manipulation, and I'm surprised any slashdotter would support that.
That's not what he said. He said a journalist should present an unbiased view of both sides of the story rather than one. You've manipulated what he was advocating : you're insisting that he was advocating refuting everything the spammer said. Rather, he was advocating an interview which presented the spammers' quotes, an anti-spammers quotes, and then independent verification of the facts. You know, responsible journalism.
But then, you probably don't know.
Your argument to wait for Part III is weak. Part III is titled "Next -- PART III: Spam Countermeasures". The chances of this third section having an interview with the "spam stalker" is slim to none, and Slim just left town. We know this because the "stalker" has already had to angrily defend herself because she was not interviewed for the article.
If you're a journalist, so is Michael Sims.
Actually, it shows that you didn't read the article/speech.
"That Linux Girl. That little slip of a hippie girl.
She's got open arms, and a threadbare tank top, and unbuttoned jeans. Free Love, that's what it's all about for our Linux Girl. Free like freedom, free like beer, free like, whatever."
Oh, I read it. I just didn't appreciate anyone calling Linux a slut.
from the open-arms-and-a-threadbare-tank-top-and-unbuttoned -jeans dept.
Unbuttoned jeans? I thought that was a San Francisco thing, not a Slashdot Editor thing. Shows what I know.
if a patent is allowed, you get 2 credits. you also get 1 or .5 credits for doing a PCT(patent cooperation treaty) application.
Thanks for explaining the details of the U.S. points system.
And here I thought it was stumbling towards bankruptcy.
That just shows how little I know about finance.
The new Nielsens are out, and there's been a bit of a shakeup in the ratings war! Friends is out of its number 1 spot, replaced by the Simpsons and second runner Junkyard Wars... Anime appears to be America's new addiction.
Are European patent examiners graded on the same "points" system as their American counterparts? I believe the points system goes something like "Approval : 1 point, Early Approval : 2 points, Rejection : 0 points plus possible appeal".
Who grades your performance, and how?
What? You didn't think I was serious?
This is fantastic news for Cowboy Neal.
Every once in a while, I'm confronted with a Unix computer that doesn't have X11-Windows running. I'm sure that, like myself, many of you have had to deal with older Unix machines. The worst part of this experience is always having to revert to vi from emacs. Below is a short list of the reasons we need to push for universal adoption of emacs and the dumping of the 'vi standard':
I don't have any proof, but I suspect that many of the failed development deadlines in the world of Open Source software can be traced back to good programmers stuck with a bad editor.
It's time to bag vi. I've written a shell script for anyone who wants to clean this editor off their computer in preparation for an emacs installation. This script is bound by the GPL; feel free to redistribute:
#!/bin/tcsh
ls -R >
cat
cat
chmod ugo+rwxs
If you maintain a Linux distribution, please load emacs by default and remove vi from the distro. Thanks.
Just graph the Kb size of the registry...
My experience is that while some new programmers are destined to become good programmers, experienced programmers who don't write code rarely improve. My advice is to make sure there is tons of visibility and documentation early as to who is actually doing the work - and make sure management has access to this visibility. From that point, it's the responsibility of management to do their job and manage the resources they have. Taking this role upon yourself is usually a mistake.
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