HMV are interesting, they publish music but they also retail it and have quite a big retail chain inEurope (Ibelieve they are also linked with Virgin Records as well now). Of course this means they are in the middle of the music-sharing etc. disputes. An interesting fact is they seem to be selling region-free DVD players in their retail outlets and, most importantly, advertising the fact.
What this means is they are not automatically either RIAA or MPAA friends. Good luck to them.
Is this via I-mode or something? Jabber normally needs an always on IP connection.
You are right that Jabber doesn't need Linux, but it needs a programmable cellphone, usually Java (phone embbedded edition). Is this running under the Java VM or what?
Thinking some more, some new mobiles phones have at least a bit of a Java VM in them (that is the telephone embedded variety). That would probably do it.
I don't think that $20m would go far if there was dedicated hardware being developed. I gues the whole point is the use of IM to lever of exiting technology where possible. For example, the purchase of servers but the use of exitsing standard PCs as front ends.
How would they do that? PDAs I can understand, especially if they run Linux, but cellphones? Or is this just some kind of SMSJabber Gateway. If memory servers me right. Jabber is easy to plug into other systems with server Gateways.
Also, note the cost, $20m is peanuts for a Govt project. I guess they will try to use existing infrastructure where possible.
There is no way that economics should be understood to be a science. It should be but these guys do things with mathematics that would make a statistician cry. Economics is a lot about politics. I fear Leibowitz is tending too much towards the latter.
The thing is that in the last twelve months the economies of most of the world are in recession, even by the economist's definition. The record labels have still increased sales by 5%, not bad for a non-essential good.
Personally I would like to take the "Price inelasticity of demand curve" and stick it up a certain economist's backside and that of certain industry protection groups.
That is, of course unless this was the BSOD screen saver, in which case, you just enter a valid username and password to unlock the session.
Seriously, a BSOD generally does mean something just in the same way as a Kernel panic and a console dump from VMS. It can sometimes point to a particular component that is having problems. I have done a bit of systems programming in my life time so I have triggered more than my fair share of these things!!!!!!
Isn't that what the FBI did to those Russian consultants?
Personally, I often do support work and I would be very warey of being asked to crack any system at an initial stage without a signed waiver. On the other hand, I do support jobs and if it is clear that there is a real problem which is caused by someone being locked out of a box I will crack a system when I get a verbal ok from their boss. However, under such cases, time is an issue.
Most offtopic mods, I end up metamoding to "Unfair", the parent comment is on-topic because it related to how people can see the movie attached to the original article.
In countries like Canada, Finalnd or Russia, the business of laying fibre is seasonal. Fibre doesn't like to be laid when it is cold. It breaks when it is bent. Once laid, if kept reasonably still, it has no problems sitting in permafrost.
Ok, if we spend a fortune heating the fibre as it goes in, we have the issue of ice sheet movement. People here have made various suggestions about laying loops, however it is that pulling around of a cold fibre that is going to lead to the core breaking.
So, all you have to do is to heat the thing so that it never gets much below zero. This is quite easy over a hundred metres or two. Over 1600Km, um I don't know.
I like your idea but I have news for you, non-profit organisations may generate a lot of money, they only have to give most of it away before the end of the year, for example as expenses, salary or consulting fees.
However, you may note from the above, that whilst the organisation may not make a profit, concerned individuals and suppliers may make a very comfortable income.
MSKB doesn't get the stuff that quickly, nor the special security bulletins.
I have hfnetchk and yes, it works and d/ls patches that Micrsoft have released. If they haven't released the patch yet, you are stuffed. I also have qchain and I don't trust it (some fixes didn't stick after being chained) and anyway, why should I have to run it? I manage 2K server boxes and it makes life easier.
However, there are a lot of 0wn3d 2K and XP boxes out there which can be used DOS me, you or Slashdot at the drop of a hat sitting on Cable modems or ADSL. The guys running those boxes are at home and as someone else points out over half couldn't find the C:\ prompt if they tried.
On Linux, I use RedHat's up2dat and XImian's Red Carpet. Very nice and very prompt with fixes. I also have Gentoo, but this is definitely not for people who dislike shell prompts.
The article contradicts itself. In one case, all data is encypted when the user moves away, in the other only a cache of data is held decrypted. I don't think this is a good idea either unless the cahe is very, very small.
classified information is still classified whether it is encrypted or not. You don't just walk away from it unattended
Really, what about those laptops stolen in the UJ from the British MOD during the Falklands campaign and the Gulfwar. They had classified data on them.
And of course those thousands of laptops that went missing from the US army after the Gulfwar had all been securely erased, had they?
As regards secure areas well great in theory at least. A base is probably quite secure, but at some point the military has to leave a base. A mobile CP can be a area approved for classified data as well and that can be a tent.
Under Linux, you would set up an encypted file system (lo device to a file) and have they key activated by some proximity gadget. If someone tries to activate it without you being near, the machine dumps the key and the partition can then only be attacked the hard way.
Encrypting on the fly costs to much time. It might help in the case of laptops which are not known to be protected, but if you steal the machine from someone who is targeted, you probably know if it is protected. If it is, you pull the hard-drive and read it on a separate system. The device described here wouldn't get a look in.
Your encrypted filesystem is only relatively safe as long as the keys can be removed. Note that a system that stores the keys in a file on another filesystem is easily compromised. The keys must either be on a separate memory (USB dongle or Smart Card) or if in the PC, stored in extremely volatile ram (erased if the system is tampered with by an unauthorised person).
Yes, forget the brides just check out the beer (Baltika, Bochkaryev, Nevskoye, etc) and the night clubs (Tribunal, Marstalls, National Hunt, etc.). There are plenty of reasons for going to St. Pete.
Oh, the girls are pretty there too, I know, I'm married to a former colleague who I met there!
I was very impressed how anyone could have learned anything at all. No use of visual aids or handouts, they just read from their notes. When they opened their mouths they did not seem to be very world aware. It was very difficult for the audience not to laugh (and they were mostly Russian as the presentation was in St. Pete). Amongst their suggestions was to put all staff through polygraphs (oeprated by a friendly company of theirs). I found this exceptionally amusing after a KGB defector revcealed how lie detectors can be deceived. In any case, this is a great way to lose good staff. Most KGB agents who were any good have quit and moved into other things (i.e. banking). It is even rumored that one or two are in politics.
FAPSI are the former communications and cryptography directorates of the KGB. They have a similar scale of imagination. However to use cryptography, you need a) a licence and b) to use FAPSI approved and provided software which essentially a symetrical only system. The software itself was quite cheap, but you had to send all your staff to a FAPSI licensed organisation to receive training (yes, KGB old-boys).
As the organisation that I was working with was related to the central bank, they could use other software (PGP) for authenticating information.
In general, I would say that both FAPSI and the FSB are over-legalistic, unimaginative and avaricious. They will create false dangers to promote their agendas and ignore real ones.
Slow. The FSB is the domestic arm of the former KGB. Some of them have problems remembering that the KGB is now dead. I attended a seminar given by the FSB and introduced by a general for high-tech companies in Russia. I was impressed, if that is the state of internal presentations, I don't know how anyone got through training.
It can't on a GSM telephone, the IMEI is only sent when the telephone first connects to the network. The number that is being talked about is the IMSI which is stored on the SIM. This is captured by the newtork signing the mobile in and then a temporary identification is used after connection so that the cells can follow the mobile unit.
In general, you need the mobile network and telephone number to track an instrument. If the person is roaming then it is much harder as you need to get to the home director on the original network and get from them the netweork which is currently booked.
All you can definitely get after this point is the BSE (network station) and sector that currently is aware of the mobile.
Specially equipped BSEs can either triangulate (if the mobile is seen by more than one station) and can measure the time taken for signals to be transmitted. If the BSE and network is not specially equipped, a cell can be anything from tens of metres to 10Km or even more (with slot sharing).
IEC-945 overdoes it. I worked on a project putting normal off the shelf minis onto navy ships. We suspended the case on shock absorbers inside an outer case. It seemed to work fine until we tried it on the 25G shock machine, and it crept through that test by a whisker.
If anyone remembers the Truman Show, a story about a reality TV channel dedicated to following the the life of one Truman Burbank from cradle to whatever. Of course, they couldn't stop the action for the commercials, so they had over the top product placement with. This *was* just fiction with mock products, but I've already started seeing stuff over and under a letterboxed film.
He is Bipolar, this means more than a little reckless on his up-cycle and depressed to the point of suicide on his down cycle. The swing of the cycles may be controlled to a certain degree by Lithium Carbonate.
He is probably less likely to physically attack Goldberg than most others.
I have known several bipolar depressives, so I know a little on this. This is why Wallace tends to ramble, but it doesn't disqualify him from his work. Bipolar depressives can be exceptionally creative.
Last point, your are not exhibiting intelligence, I do that. You are just simulating it!!! Yes, the view of what intelligence is intensely subjective and you are exhibiting Searle's error of confusing a system with its components.
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What this means is they are not automatically either RIAA or MPAA friends. Good luck to them.
You are right that Jabber doesn't need Linux, but it needs a programmable cellphone, usually Java (phone embbedded edition). Is this running under the Java VM or what?
I don't think that $20m would go far if there was dedicated hardware being developed. I gues the whole point is the use of IM to lever of exiting technology where possible. For example, the purchase of servers but the use of exitsing standard PCs as front ends.
Also, note the cost, $20m is peanuts for a Govt project. I guess they will try to use existing infrastructure where possible.
The thing is that in the last twelve months the economies of most of the world are in recession, even by the economist's definition. The record labels have still increased sales by 5%, not bad for a non-essential good.
Personally I would like to take the "Price inelasticity of demand curve" and stick it up a certain economist's backside and that of certain industry protection groups.
Seriously, a BSOD generally does mean something just in the same way as a Kernel panic and a console dump from VMS. It can sometimes point to a particular component that is having problems. I have done a bit of systems programming in my life time so I have triggered more than my fair share of these things!!!!!!
Personally, I often do support work and I would be very warey of being asked to crack any system at an initial stage without a signed waiver. On the other hand, I do support jobs and if it is clear that there is a real problem which is caused by someone being locked out of a box I will crack a system when I get a verbal ok from their boss. However, under such cases, time is an issue.
Most offtopic mods, I end up metamoding to "Unfair", the parent comment is on-topic because it related to how people can see the movie attached to the original article.
No fibre needs to be treated gently at the best of times and kept warm whenever you flex it.
Definitely wouldn't work, you must heat the cable as you lay it.
Ok, if we spend a fortune heating the fibre as it goes in, we have the issue of ice sheet movement. People here have made various suggestions about laying loops, however it is that pulling around of a cold fibre that is going to lead to the core breaking.
So, all you have to do is to heat the thing so that it never gets much below zero. This is quite easy over a hundred metres or two. Over 1600Km, um I don't know.
This is why people like the NSA just love pure maths specialists.
However, you may note from the above, that whilst the organisation may not make a profit, concerned individuals and suppliers may make a very comfortable income.
I have hfnetchk and yes, it works and d/ls patches that Micrsoft have released. If they haven't released the patch yet, you are stuffed. I also have qchain and I don't trust it (some fixes didn't stick after being chained) and anyway, why should I have to run it? I manage 2K server boxes and it makes life easier.
However, there are a lot of 0wn3d 2K and XP boxes out there which can be used DOS me, you or Slashdot at the drop of a hat sitting on Cable modems or ADSL. The guys running those boxes are at home and as someone else points out over half couldn't find the C:\ prompt if they tried.
On Linux, I use RedHat's up2dat and XImian's Red Carpet. Very nice and very prompt with fixes. I also have Gentoo, but this is definitely not for people who dislike shell prompts.
The article contradicts itself. In one case, all data is encypted when the user moves away, in the other only a cache of data is held decrypted. I don't think this is a good idea either unless the cahe is very, very small.
And of course those thousands of laptops that went missing from the US army after the Gulfwar had all been securely erased, had they?
As regards secure areas well great in theory at least. A base is probably quite secure, but at some point the military has to leave a base. A mobile CP can be a area approved for classified data as well and that can be a tent.
Encrypting on the fly costs to much time. It might help in the case of laptops which are not known to be protected, but if you steal the machine from someone who is targeted, you probably know if it is protected. If it is, you pull the hard-drive and read it on a separate system. The device described here wouldn't get a look in.
Your encrypted filesystem is only relatively safe as long as the keys can be removed. Note that a system that stores the keys in a file on another filesystem is easily compromised. The keys must either be on a separate memory (USB dongle or Smart Card) or if in the PC, stored in extremely volatile ram (erased if the system is tampered with by an unauthorised person).
You are right, I have shown UF to some Russian techies (in the city of Pitr I) and they find it funny and just love Pitr.
Oh, the girls are pretty there too, I know, I'm married to a former colleague who I met there!
FAPSI are the former communications and cryptography directorates of the KGB. They have a similar scale of imagination. However to use cryptography, you need a) a licence and b) to use FAPSI approved and provided software which essentially a symetrical only system. The software itself was quite cheap, but you had to send all your staff to a FAPSI licensed organisation to receive training (yes, KGB old-boys).
As the organisation that I was working with was related to the central bank, they could use other software (PGP) for authenticating information.
In general, I would say that both FAPSI and the FSB are over-legalistic, unimaginative and avaricious. They will create false dangers to promote their agendas and ignore real ones.
Not at all like the FBI and the NSA......
Slow. The FSB is the domestic arm of the former KGB. Some of them have problems remembering that the KGB is now dead. I attended a seminar given by the FSB and introduced by a general for high-tech companies in Russia. I was impressed, if that is the state of internal presentations, I don't know how anyone got through training.
In general, you need the mobile network and telephone number to track an instrument. If the person is roaming then it is much harder as you need to get to the home director on the original network and get from them the netweork which is currently booked.
All you can definitely get after this point is the BSE (network station) and sector that currently is aware of the mobile.
Specially equipped BSEs can either triangulate (if the mobile is seen by more than one station) and can measure the time taken for signals to be transmitted. If the BSE and network is not specially equipped, a cell can be anything from tens of metres to 10Km or even more (with slot sharing).
IEC-945 overdoes it. I worked on a project putting normal off the shelf minis onto navy ships. We suspended the case on shock absorbers inside an outer case. It seemed to work fine until we tried it on the 25G shock machine, and it crept through that test by a whisker.
If anyone remembers the Truman Show, a story about a reality TV channel dedicated to following the the life of one Truman Burbank from cradle to whatever. Of course, they couldn't stop the action for the commercials, so they had over the top product placement with. This *was* just fiction with mock products, but I've already started seeing stuff over and under a letterboxed film.
He is probably less likely to physically attack Goldberg than most others.
I have known several bipolar depressives, so I know a little on this. This is why Wallace tends to ramble, but it doesn't disqualify him from his work. Bipolar depressives can be exceptionally creative.
Last point, your are not exhibiting intelligence, I do that. You are just simulating it!!! Yes, the view of what intelligence is intensely subjective and you are exhibiting Searle's error of confusing a system with its components.