Even worse.. recently I have found places that don't even get you to sign the slip for transactions less than $20.00 but then my credit card has my picture and signature printed on it.
Not to mention, with the proper kind of monorail you don't need *any* stations... There is one company that makes monorails that are suspended under the track, with a stairs that is lowered from the monorail car to the ground below. All you need for a "station" is a flat bit of ground and the monorail track the right height from it. put a platform at the end of the stairs and use it to host/drop wheelchaired people like an elevator.
I have been out of the loop for a few years, we were using McAfee and it had an automatic signature download, but it did not have any report back to the help desk feature.
It still does not help to make your customer an enemy.
AC says: "My personal philosophy is that end-users should be punished severely for security breaches. "
I have found, working in various IT departments, that if your users know they will get whacked for having caught a virus, they will never report the virus until it is hurting them worse than IT will. In that case, the virus has spread through other machines and the mess is bigger to clean up.
Have you seen the ON*Star commercails with the pittieful little kids.."Who will tell us where we are if we are lost?" "Who will save us if the check engine light comes on?", "You wouldn't drive use without strapping my little brother in a car seat? How can you even thing of moving the car without ON*Star watching over us?"
Buy A VOLVO! Your a child abuser! How long before something like ON*Star become mandatory on all cars, "For the children" and it will be illegal to disable it. Like seat belts.
Actually perhaps then the "Service" will be free because the ON*Star button connects directly with the Highway Patrol (or state troopers or whatever.)
ON*Star will interact with your car's main computer, If the main computer can't ping the ON*Star computer the main computer will prevent the car from starting. If the ON*Star computer can't check in with ON*Star Central via the Cell Phone link it will tell the main computer to not let the car start.
If the ON*Star computer can't connect to the cellular network it randomly prevents the car from starting, but will still let it start about 40% of the time (for when you and your card (sorry it's not your car if it has ON*Star) is out of range of the cell towers.
from the new.com.com article: "The problem (the court had) with the surveillance was not based on privacy grounds at all," Sobel said. "It was more interfering with the contractual relationship between the service provider and the customer, to the point that the service was being interrupted. If the surveillance was done in a way that was seamless and undetectable, the court would have no problem with it."
Nothing stops ON*Star from listening in, and nothing stops an FBI agent from standing there too.
Repeat after me... Any Car with ON*Star is not your car, Even if you are paying for it. Even if the title says it's yours.
If someone else can listen in your car without your knowledge, can locate your car without your asking, and propbably stop your car without your permission owns that car, not you.
In the last house I owned I had a whole bedroom wherein I installed plywood work surfaces around all 4 walls, the correct hight for a comfy chair. computers in each corner. Shelves on the long walls, lights underneath. The "tower of diskettes" (10 tall exponents drawer system).. no beer (but then I only drink diet dr pepper).
Two runs of plugstrips underneath the work surfaces, one connected to the switched outlet for lights and monitors, the other connected to a non-swiched outlet for systems.
HA! I've got a "pre-Carly" calculator! an HP-25 (not the C version that came later) Programmable with 49 steps and the numbers glow a nice red color!:^)
perl -e "print -2 + -3" -5 but it's not high on the cunning scale...
Unless you make it a LAW, I'll open a store and undercut you 30-50% and take all your business. I'll also advertise that I don't track my customers private information.
I would not shop at your store, If I wanted to use cash for anonymity it still would not be anonymous. You would have a record of the sale even if I used Cash. Ask Radio Shack about that.
Sure, But the BIOS can be setup not to load any OS that is not signed, Then the OS can check each executable before they are loaded. The TPM chip does not have to "control" the system by itself.
When this is implemented you won't be able to run a non-trusted OS becuase that OS could be breaking copyright. You won't be able to run any non-trusted programs because they could also be breaking copyright.
Programs would have to be signed at compile time by an entity that ensures they can't be used to break copyrights. This means that you cant run your own programs because you can't sign them.
For Linux users this means you can't re-compile your kernel because if it was trusted before once you re-compile it it will become non-trusted (you could have added copyright breaking code into the kernel). You Gentoo Linux users will be really out of luck. What is the use of having the source code if you can't make changes and re-compile?
Today's TPM needs to be stopped before it becomes tomorrows TPM. I hear the TPM apollogists saying "TPM is just a chip" but the stated goal of trusted computing is to prevent copyright infringement. To do that they will need tomorrows BIOS enables OS enhanced TPM. Then you have a choice,,, Software Freedom (free as in Speech) or Internet and Digital Media use.
P.S. "We will just break TPM" does not sound like a good answer to me, laws like DCMA can be enacted to make it illegal to own a machine with no TPM or broken TPM.
Just because Apple used DRM to protect their OS does not make them that bad... DRM itself is eeeevil and will alway be.
If DRM/Palladium becomes prevalent, the time will come where DRM must be enabled to get onto the Internet. DRM will be required to play music or show movies.
This is pretty bad, I was applying for a job - I was contacted by someone who said they were with a large employer here in CA, after some short question and answer they emailed me some forms that I was to print out and fill in, and fax back. Part of the process before any real interviews was a "background check" form. That form had everything an identity theif needs, ssn, old addresses, Jobs, Date of Birth all kinds of thinks. That added to the fact that these people's email address differed from the employer the said they were from.. It turns out that the applications and the Job was on the up and up, but I wonder...
I hope they look close and think hard about that bit of tile, the nose is one of the "hot" areas, perhaps the damage is far enough back for it not to matter, perhaps not.
Had they perfected a way to repair critial tiles on orbit?
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Even worse.. recently I have found places that don't even get you to sign the slip for transactions less than $20.00
but then my credit card has my picture and signature printed on it.
He meant to say ' ... good copy protection, you can have only so much functionality for the user"
Not to mention, with the proper kind of monorail you don't need *any* stations... There is one company that makes monorails that are suspended under the track, with a stairs that is lowered from the monorail car to the ground below. All you need for a "station" is a flat bit of ground and the monorail track the right height from it. put a platform at the end of the stairs and use it to host/drop wheelchaired people like an elevator.
I have been out of the loop for a few years, we were using McAfee and it had an automatic signature download, but it did not have any report back to the help desk feature.
It still does not help to make your customer an enemy.
AC says: "My personal philosophy is that end-users should be punished severely for security breaches. "
I have found, working in various IT departments, that if your users know they will get whacked for having caught a virus, they will never report the virus until it is hurting them worse than IT will. In that case, the virus has spread through other machines and the mess is bigger to clean up.
Have you seen the ON*Star commercails with the pittieful little kids.."Who will tell us where we are if we are lost?" "Who will save us if the check engine light comes on?", "You wouldn't drive use without strapping my little brother in a car seat? How can you even thing of moving the car without ON*Star watching over us?"
Buy A VOLVO! Your a child abuser! How long before something like ON*Star become mandatory on all cars, "For the children" and it will be illegal to disable it. Like seat belts.
Actually perhaps then the "Service" will be free because the ON*Star button connects directly with the Highway Patrol (or state troopers or whatever.)
In future..
ON*Star will interact with your car's main computer, If the main computer can't ping the ON*Star computer the main computer will prevent the car from starting. If the ON*Star computer can't check in with ON*Star Central via the Cell Phone link it will tell the main computer to not let the car start.
If the ON*Star computer can't connect to the cellular network it randomly prevents the car from starting, but will still let it start about 40% of the time (for when you and your card (sorry it's not
your car if it has ON*Star) is out of range of the cell towers.
MOD UP ! too bad your AC! I wonder how many cars would be stolen on the second or third night?
from the new.com.com article: "The problem (the court had) with the surveillance was not based on privacy grounds at all," Sobel said. "It was more interfering with the contractual relationship between the service provider and the customer, to the point that the service was being interrupted. If the surveillance was done in a way that was seamless and undetectable, the court would have no problem with it."
Nothing stops ON*Star from listening in, and nothing stops an FBI agent from standing there too.
Repeat after me...
Any Car with ON*Star is not your car, Even if you are paying for it. Even if the title says it's yours.
If someone else can listen in your car without your knowledge, can locate your car without your asking, and propbably stop your car without your permission owns that car, not you.
I wonder if ON*Star can be turned off.
You did not mention the "comfy chair"..
In the last house I owned I had a whole bedroom wherein I installed plywood work surfaces around all 4 walls, the correct hight for a comfy chair. computers in each corner. Shelves on the long walls, lights underneath. The "tower of diskettes" (10 tall exponents drawer system).. no beer (but then I only drink diet dr pepper).
Two runs of plugstrips underneath the work surfaces, one connected to the switched outlet for lights and monitors, the other connected to a non-swiched outlet for systems.
Perhaps if he promises to ship his furniture via FEDEX next time he has to move.
Actually Fed Ex should play this up... Look how STRONG these boxes are, you can make FURNITURE with them.
HA! I've got a "pre-Carly" calculator! an HP-25 (not the C version that came later) Programmable with 49 steps and the numbers glow a nice red color! :^)
perl -e "print -2 + -3"
-5
but it's not high on the cunning scale...
My HP calculator tells me:
2 chs enter 3 chs + negative 5
If two people tell you negative information, you know even less than if you had only listened to one or the other.
Unless you make it a LAW, I'll open a store and undercut you 30-50% and take all your business. I'll also advertise that I don't track my customers private information.
I would not shop at your store, If I wanted to use cash for anonymity it still would not be anonymous. You would have a
record of the sale even if I used Cash. Ask Radio Shack about
that.
"come on, you apes - you want to live forever?"
--Lt. Razak
Sure, But the BIOS can be setup not to load any OS that is not signed, Then the OS can check each executable before they are loaded. The TPM chip does not have to "control" the system by itself.
When this is implemented you won't be able to run a non-trusted OS becuase that OS could be breaking copyright. You won't be able to run any non-trusted programs because they could also be breaking copyright.
Programs would have to be signed at compile time by an entity that ensures they can't be used to break copyrights. This means that you cant run your own programs because you can't sign them.
For Linux users this means you can't re-compile your kernel because if it was trusted before once you re-compile it it will become non-trusted (you could have added copyright breaking code into the kernel). You Gentoo Linux users will be really out of luck. What is the use of having the source code if you can't make changes and re-compile?
Today's TPM needs to be stopped before it becomes tomorrows TPM. I hear the TPM apollogists saying "TPM is just a chip" but the stated goal of trusted computing is to prevent copyright infringement. To do that they will need tomorrows BIOS enables OS enhanced TPM. Then you have a choice,,, Software Freedom (free as in Speech) or Internet and Digital Media use.
P.S. "We will just break TPM" does not sound like a good answer to me, laws like DCMA can be enacted to make it illegal to own a machine with no TPM or broken TPM.
Getcha non DRM Macintoshes here!!!
http://www.sunrem.com/
obdisclaimer- I don't work for them.
Just because Apple used DRM to protect their OS does not make them that bad... DRM itself is eeeevil and will alway be.
If DRM/Palladium becomes prevalent, the time will come where DRM must be enabled to get onto the Internet. DRM will be required to play music or show movies.
To: Poptones
From: Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group
Subject: Thank You
Thank you for your support, Your check is in the mail.
Signed
Bill
This is pretty bad, I was applying for a job - I was contacted by someone who said they were with a large employer here in CA, after some short question and answer they emailed me some forms that I was to print out and fill in, and fax back. Part of the process before any real interviews was a "background check" form. That form had everything an identity theif needs, ssn, old addresses, Jobs, Date of Birth all kinds of thinks. That added to the fact that these people's email address differed from the employer the said they were from.. It turns out that the applications and the Job was on the up and up, but I wonder...
as long as you don't use your "multifunction office printer/scanner" to do the copy?
I suppose if one were going to use the printer to break the law, one should steal the printer from someplace far away from one's home.
[note to police I have receipts for all my printers]
Hey, Let's all go out and buy a printer model xyz at our local
office depot, then we will all meet someplace and swap printers.
I hope they look close and think hard about that bit of tile, the nose is one of the "hot" areas, perhaps the damage is far enough back for it not to matter, perhaps not.
Had they perfected a way to repair critial tiles on orbit?
It's Puppy Linux
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.plsid=05/03/08/