This is so cool! I spend maybe 100,000 hours playing elite back in college in the 80s. If not for this game, I would have graduated on time and never flunked out of the engineering program. Luckily I did, and also discovered computer programming!
This question is posed by David Green of the North American IPv6 Task Force/Army CERDEC/DoD IPv6 Standards WG. A formal reply to the North American IPv6 Task Force would be greatly appreciated!
Will Vista/Longhorn integrate the entire "VPN Suite B" IPsec for IPv6 (And v4)
IPsec:
Protocol ESP [RFC4303]
ESP encryption AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode [AES-CBC]
ESP integrity AES-XCBC-MAC-96 [AES-XCBC-MAC]
IKEv2 Security Management:
Encryption AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode [AES-CBC]
Pseudo-random function AES-XCBC-PRF-128 [AES-XCBC-PRF-128]
Integrity AES-XCBC-MAC-96 [AES-XCBC-MAC]
Diffie-Hellman group MODP 2048-bit [RFC3526]
When will Microsoft integrate secure neighbor discovery (SEND) RFC 3971 and Cryptographic Generated Addresses (CGAs) into products? Microsoft has been a major contributor to these security RFCs!
How about a remote management solution for the host-firewall to create a "Distributed Firewall"?
When I was a student at the University of Texas in the 90s, we pulled a prank on a student in the dorm like this: The "mark" was a pain in the backside who kept pulling stupid pranks like jamming our doors shut with coins and putting Nair hair remover on people's hair when he found them passed out drunk. Said student was known to smoke a certain illegal herb regularly, and had transported it in his car. When he was passed out one night, his roomate gave us his car keys which we copied. We then used the keys to move his car to the other side of the HUGE parking lot a Jester dorm. We hacked the e-mail system (telnetted to the sendmail server that was open) and sent him a fake message from the provost stating that his car had been impounded since the drug dogs detected pot in it. The message gave him a meeting time to come to the campus police chief's office to discuss his future at the university. We also left him a phony answering machine message about the supposed car impoundment and meeting. He got the messages, found his car missing, and spent the morning sweating about all of the trouble he was in. When he left for the "appointment" with the police that afternoon, we moved his car back. The police chief wouldn't see him since he didn't have a real appointment so he came back to the dorm to later find out that the whole thing was an elaborate prank by his "friends".
Of course this set off a whole new series of pranks....
The cost estimate we (Army CERDEC IPv6 Team) have done for the Army IPv6 transition leads us to believe essential $0 acqusitions costs if all IPv6 transition is done within regular tech refresh cycles. If we're buying IT gear anyway, IPv6 comes as regular product improvements over the next 3-5 years. The money DoD is spending at this point is aimed at getting MORE CAPABLE networks and at operations costs to train admins to run two IP stacks (v4 and v6) until we can phase out v4. By more capable, we are referring to new IPv6-only services like network mobility (NEMO) and multihoming (SHIM6).
The IETF tried and failed to regulate morality like this in 2003. It was a brilliant but doomed plan. What makes you think ICANN can do better? There was a brilliant RFC [3514] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt crafted to improve the efficiency and efficacy of network security screening / content filtering by requiring evildoers and ne'er do wells to mark a special IP security flag known as the 'evil bit' in packet headers containing malicious content.
In IPv6 there was to be an malicious content extension header that required evil people/organizations/companies to mark the severity of the evil in the packet with a 128-bit rating scale for severity.
The new scheme failed (of course) as the idea was not adopted by certain evil enterprises that posed as corporations run by high-level government officials. These corporations wanted (and had the political backing to do so) to mask their evil intentions so they failed to mark the 'evil bit' or marked the 'good bit' and disguised their content as in the interest of the common man, in "the service of the Lord", or as necessary in the fight against global terrorism.
In a 2003 IETF draft on the subject, Donald Eastlake discussed many of the philisophical, social, political, and technical difficulties with a http://bgp.potaroo.net/ietf/idref/draft-eastlake-x xx/ Here's an excerpt discussing different moral values in different societies:
" In the U.S.A., obscenity is defined as explicit sexual material that,
among other things, violates "contemporary community standards" -- in
other words, even at the national level, there is no agreed-upon rule
governing what is illegal and what is not. Making matters more knotty
is that there are over 200 United Nations country codes, and in most
of them political subdivisions can impose their own restrictions.
Even for legal nude modeling, age restrictions differ. They're
commonly 18 years of age, but only 17 years of age in one
Scandinavian country. A photographer there conducting what's viewed
as a legal and proper photo shoot would be branded a felon and child
pornographer in the U.S.A. In yet other countries and groups, the
entire concept of nude photography or even any photography of a
person in any form may be religiously unacceptable.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to
have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark.
Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter
their Internet connection and have created a government agencies to
protect their society from web sites that officials view as immoral.
Their views on what should be included in a.sex domain would hardly
be identical to those in liberal western nations.
Those wildly different opinions on sexual material make it
inconceivable that a global consensus can ever be reached on what is
appropriate or inappropriate for a.sex or.adult top-level domain."
Vint was not able to testify before Congress since he and Bob Kahn were busy that day recieving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House for their (DARPANET,TCP/IP,Internet) pioneering efforts. This link was widely distributed to the North American IPv6 Task Force and IPv6 Forum where I believe the majority of engineers strongly support Vint's Views.
Vint couldn't attend in person since he was recieving the Presidential Medal of Freedom that day for his DARPANET/Internet pioneering efforts. This link was widely disseminated in the North American IPv6 Task Force and IPv6 Forum where I believe most members strongly support Vint's views.
Before/. killed it, I'd swear it was a picture of an old MAC! Perhaps that's how my conciousness perceives the perfect computer. Funny, I've never owned a MAC - I've always been a PC man after Commodore died. I'd think the collective (un)conciousness would draw a Windows PC....
In the 6 Million Dollar Man, the bionic implants used a small nuclear power supply - in one episode it had to be replaced. How do you supply power for any kind of extended operation for a bionic hand? It seems that like many mobile/implantable technologies, the ability to provide an extended power source is lagging. The batteries for a 24 hour operating capability probably weigh several times more than all of the electronics, sensors, and electro-elastic polymer "motors".
At Tuesday's IETF meeting in Vancouver the vote for consensus was many for and none against elevating the IPv6 Protocol Standards from "draft Standard" to "Internet Standard" and make them part of the everyday production Internet. The IPv6 WG is even shutting down as it has accomplished its mission and designed a good working protcol. The wired and wireless networks provided for the engineers at the IETF is running IPv6 and we are regularly using it to get information from our working group colloboration sites like: www.v6ops.euro6ix.net/
Don't fear, the IETF V6 Operations (V6OPS) team and the IPv6 Forum will continue work to better clarify how to deploy IPv6 and to help build new network services around the new features. Most of the new network services groups in the IETF are basing new services on the features of IPv6 - early examples are Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Network Mobility (NEMO) both of which are being extended to offer IPv4 access through IPv6 tunnels in order to get IPv4 native service through IPv4 NAT.
If you actually have useful comments or design alternatives for IPv6, bring it up in IETF working group mailing lists [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html%5D. If you don't understand because of FUD, please read up on our North American IPv6 Task Force website website [ www.nav6tf.org/ ] or the similar European/Asian sites.
Actually by changing to more efficient CIDR addressing [RFC 1519] IPv4 address allocation was made more efficient. That, along with the temporary aberration that was NAT, has made IPv4 last longer.
NetRangerrr is a member of NAV6TF see www.nav6tf.org
Lots of people do this today with broadband and P2P apps. The smart ones have "personal firewalls" on their end-nodes. We are testing the MS Vista firewall http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/eval uate/feat/secfeat.mspx#EEAA and Linux IPChains as IPv6 firewalls. For ave Joe user, an ISP managed or security admin managed group policy for host firewalls is the way to keep IPv6 E2E connctions secure.
If broadband routers can't make native IPv6 connections, ISPs can deploy IPv6 Tunnel brokers [RFC 3053] so customers can tunnel over the old routers. A tunneling software patch (tunnel setup protocol) sets up tunnels from customer computers to an IPv6 tunnel router. Tunnel brokers can also be deployed with a "prefix delegation" patch that can be applied to broadband routers to make them a simple IPv6 routers.
NAT makes it very expensive to deploy most innovative new IP applications (VOIP, IPTV, Peer-to-peer) as each app typeically needs some type of gateway "middlebox" to get around NAT in order to connect users. In the old ARPANET they retired NCP in favor of IP [See RFC 801] to move to an end-to-end model so it would be easier (and cheaper) to deploy new applications. NAT has broken that model.
Sig: Netrangerrr is the North American IPv6 Task Force Transition Technology Director See: http://www.nav6tf.org/
I for one welcome our IE browser overlords. This type of forced standardization by government experts is exactly what we need. It's too confusing to support more than one operating system and browser when writing evil attacks.
Why don't we actually put some decent resources/manpower towards hunting down and destroying the Al Qaeda leadership? Oh, it seems were got distracted and ended up spending it all in Iraq and on expensive "feel good" security at home.
Not really a fascist state - more of a corporate state. The war is big business! Imagine how much money anyone in the oil industry is making now! If you are an oilman, and your friends are oilmen, destabilizing world oil prices is a stroke of pure get-rich GENIUS! More money for less product. US Defense contractors are also rolling in dough while our soldiers and the locals in Iraq are getting shafted.
IMHO: Real CS should treat programming as a tool. CS is about understanding computers, how they work, and how to solve real-world problems apply the strengths of computers (speed searching, fast repetive comparisons/calculations, massive storage) to solve problems and present the answers. Programming in-depth in a particular language and specific vocational skills like GUI design should be taught through project work and independent study projects. All of the CS students I know who did a decent thesis research project are making 6 figure salaries while those who slinked by on the minimum coursework and became programmers are not doing nearly as well.
"The only ones protecting anybody is the New York Police Department, and the Soldiers in Iraq." How about the Soldiers in Afganistan and the Special Ops guys in Pakistan trying to find and kill the Al Qaeda leadership? Oops, we got distracted and forgot about Bin Laden!
$212 million could put an armed & trained police officer on every train and loading platform in NYC for about 2 years. Train them on the profile and MO of terrorists and have them question people who match the profile (no random search crap) that would be real "boots on the ground" security. You might actually PREVENT an attack.
Call it a "rail launcher" and fire satellite payloads into orbit. Of course you'll have to slow down the velocity or the payload will ionize in the atmosphere upon launch. Rail launchers are more practical in a vacuum, as there is no atmosphere to interfere with hypervolocity launches. Perfect for chunking mined ore from the Moon to Earth?
I'll bet this railgun on fires a few millimeters because they have problems with longer magnetic "barrels" exploding from the shockwave produced by an object moving "at the speed the Earth moves through space".
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This is so cool! I spend maybe 100,000 hours playing elite back in college in the 80s. If not for this game, I would have graduated on time and never flunked out of the engineering program. Luckily I did, and also discovered computer programming!
I tried browsing using an IPv6 connection.
Got a message saying that "we've been slashdotted"...
Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?
This question is posed by David Green of the North American IPv6 Task Force/Army CERDEC/DoD IPv6 Standards WG. A formal reply to the North American IPv6 Task Force would be greatly appreciated!
Will Vista/Longhorn integrate the entire "VPN Suite B" IPsec for IPv6 (And v4)
IPsec:
Protocol ESP [RFC4303]
ESP encryption AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode [AES-CBC]
ESP integrity AES-XCBC-MAC-96 [AES-XCBC-MAC]
IKEv2 Security Management:
Encryption AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode [AES-CBC]
Pseudo-random function AES-XCBC-PRF-128 [AES-XCBC-PRF-128]
Integrity AES-XCBC-MAC-96 [AES-XCBC-MAC]
Diffie-Hellman group MODP 2048-bit [RFC3526]
When will Microsoft integrate secure neighbor discovery (SEND) RFC 3971 and Cryptographic Generated Addresses (CGAs) into products? Microsoft has been a major contributor to these security RFCs!
How about a remote management solution for the host-firewall to create a "Distributed Firewall"?
When I was a student at the University of Texas in the 90s, we pulled a prank on a student in the dorm like this:
The "mark" was a pain in the backside who kept pulling stupid pranks like jamming our doors shut with coins and putting Nair hair remover on people's hair when he found them passed out drunk. Said student was known to smoke a certain illegal herb regularly, and had transported it in his car. When he was passed out one night, his roomate gave us his car keys which we copied. We then used the keys to move his car to the other side of the HUGE parking lot a Jester dorm. We hacked the e-mail system (telnetted to the sendmail server that was open) and sent him a fake message from the provost stating that his car had been impounded since the drug dogs detected pot in it. The message gave him a meeting time to come to the campus police chief's office to discuss his future at the university. We also left him a phony answering machine message about the supposed car impoundment and meeting. He got the messages, found his car missing, and spent the morning sweating about all of the trouble he was in. When he left for the "appointment" with the police that afternoon, we moved his car back. The police chief wouldn't see him since he didn't have a real appointment so he came back to the dorm to later find out that the whole thing was an elaborate prank by his "friends".
Of course this set off a whole new series of pranks....
The cost estimate we (Army CERDEC IPv6 Team) have done for the Army IPv6 transition leads us to believe essential $0 acqusitions costs if all IPv6 transition is done within regular tech refresh cycles. If we're buying IT gear anyway, IPv6 comes as regular product improvements over the next 3-5 years. The money DoD is spending at this point is aimed at getting MORE CAPABLE networks and at operations costs to train admins to run two IP stacks (v4 and v6) until we can phase out v4. By more capable, we are referring to new IPv6-only services like network mobility (NEMO) and multihoming (SHIM6).
The IETF tried and failed to regulate morality like this in 2003. It was a brilliant but doomed plan. What makes you think ICANN can do better? There was a brilliant RFC [3514] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt crafted to improve the efficiency and efficacy of network security screening / content filtering by requiring evildoers and ne'er do wells to mark a special IP security flag known as the 'evil bit' in packet headers containing malicious content.
In IPv6 there was to be an malicious content extension header that required evil people/organizations/companies to mark the severity of the evil in the packet with a 128-bit rating scale for severity.
The new scheme failed (of course) as the idea was not adopted by certain evil enterprises that posed as corporations run by high-level government officials. These corporations wanted (and had the political backing to do so) to mask their evil intentions so they failed to mark the 'evil bit' or marked the 'good bit' and disguised their content as in the interest of the common man, in "the service of the Lord", or as necessary in the fight against global terrorism.
In a 2003 IETF draft on the subject, Donald Eastlake discussed many of the philisophical, social, political, and technical difficulties with a http://bgp.potaroo.net/ietf/idref/draft-eastlake-x xx/ .sex domain would hardly .sex or .adult top-level domain."
Here's an excerpt discussing different moral values in different societies:
" In the U.S.A., obscenity is defined as explicit sexual material that,
among other things, violates "contemporary community standards" -- in
other words, even at the national level, there is no agreed-upon rule
governing what is illegal and what is not. Making matters more knotty
is that there are over 200 United Nations country codes, and in most
of them political subdivisions can impose their own restrictions.
Even for legal nude modeling, age restrictions differ. They're
commonly 18 years of age, but only 17 years of age in one
Scandinavian country. A photographer there conducting what's viewed
as a legal and proper photo shoot would be branded a felon and child
pornographer in the U.S.A. In yet other countries and groups, the
entire concept of nude photography or even any photography of a
person in any form may be religiously unacceptable.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Northern Nigeria, and China are not likely to
have the same liberal views as, say, the Netherlands or Denmark.
Saudi Arabia and China, like some other nations, extensively filter
their Internet connection and have created a government agencies to
protect their society from web sites that officials view as immoral.
Their views on what should be included in a
be identical to those in liberal western nations.
Those wildly different opinions on sexual material make it
inconceivable that a global consensus can ever be reached on what is
appropriate or inappropriate for a
Vint Cerf (Co-Father of the Internet) wrote a deposition to Congress to speak out against the plan supported by Bellsouth. The text is posted here:o ut_on_internet_neutrality/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_speaking_
Vint was not able to testify before Congress since he and Bob Kahn were busy that day recieving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House for their (DARPANET,TCP/IP,Internet) pioneering efforts. This link was widely distributed to the North American IPv6 Task Force and IPv6 Forum where I believe the majority of engineers strongly support Vint's Views.
Vint Cerf (Father of the Internet) sent a deposition to the US Congress on this legislation. See:
o ut_on_internet_neutrality/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_speaking_
Vint couldn't attend in person since he was recieving the Presidential Medal of Freedom that day for his DARPANET/Internet pioneering efforts.
This link was widely disseminated in the North American IPv6 Task Force and IPv6 Forum where I believe most members strongly support Vint's views.
Before /. killed it, I'd swear it was a picture of an old MAC! Perhaps that's how my conciousness perceives the perfect computer. Funny, I've never owned a MAC - I've always been a PC man after Commodore died. I'd think the collective (un)conciousness would draw a Windows PC....
In the 6 Million Dollar Man, the bionic implants used a small nuclear power supply - in one episode it had to be replaced. How do you supply power for any kind of extended operation for a bionic hand? It seems that like many mobile/implantable technologies, the ability to provide an extended power source is lagging. The batteries for a 24 hour operating capability probably weigh several times more than all of the electronics, sensors, and electro-elastic polymer "motors".
At Tuesday's IETF meeting in Vancouver the vote for consensus was many for and none against elevating the IPv6 Protocol Standards from "draft Standard" to "Internet Standard" and make them part of the everyday production Internet. The IPv6 WG is even shutting down as it has accomplished its mission and designed a good working protcol. The wired and wireless networks provided for the engineers at the IETF is running IPv6 and we are regularly using it to get information from our working group colloboration sites like: www.v6ops.euro6ix.net/
. If you don't understand because of FUD, please read up on our North American IPv6 Task Force website website [ www.nav6tf.org/ ] or the similar European/Asian sites.
Don't fear, the IETF V6 Operations (V6OPS) team and the IPv6 Forum will continue work to better clarify how to deploy IPv6 and to help build new network services around the new features. Most of the new network services groups in the IETF are basing new services on the features of IPv6 - early examples are Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Network Mobility (NEMO) both of which are being extended to offer IPv4 access through IPv6 tunnels in order to get IPv4 native service through IPv4 NAT.
If you actually have useful comments or design alternatives for IPv6, bring it up in IETF working group mailing lists [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html%5D
Actually by changing to more efficient CIDR addressing [RFC 1519] IPv4 address allocation was made more efficient. That, along with the temporary aberration that was NAT, has made IPv4 last longer.
NetRangerrr is a member of NAV6TF
see www.nav6tf.org
Lots of people do this today with broadband and P2P apps.l uate/feat/secfeat.mspx#EEAA
The smart ones have "personal firewalls" on their
end-nodes. We are testing the MS Vista firewall
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/eva
and Linux IPChains as IPv6 firewalls. For ave Joe user, an ISP
managed or security admin managed group policy for host firewalls is the way to
keep IPv6 E2E connctions secure.
If broadband routers can't make native IPv6 connections, ISPs can deploy IPv6 Tunnel brokers [RFC 3053] so customers can tunnel over the old routers. A tunneling software patch (tunnel setup protocol) sets up tunnels from customer computers to an IPv6 tunnel router. Tunnel brokers can also be deployed with a "prefix delegation" patch that can be applied to broadband routers to make them a simple IPv6 routers.
NAT makes it very expensive to deploy most innovative new IP applications (VOIP, IPTV, Peer-to-peer) as each app typeically needs some type of gateway "middlebox" to get around NAT in order to connect users. In the old ARPANET they retired NCP in favor of IP [See RFC 801] to move to an end-to-end model so it would be easier (and cheaper) to deploy new applications. NAT has broken that model.
Sig: Netrangerrr is the North American IPv6 Task Force Transition Technology Director
See: http://www.nav6tf.org/
Shhhhhhhhh - - be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wouters....
I for one welcome our IE browser overlords. This type of forced standardization by government experts is exactly what we need. It's too confusing to support more than one operating system and browser when writing evil attacks.
Why don't we actually put some decent resources/manpower towards hunting down and destroying the Al Qaeda leadership? Oh, it seems were got distracted and ended up spending it all in Iraq and on expensive "feel good" security at home.
Silly US government - we forgot about Bin Laden!
Not really a fascist state - more of a corporate state.
The war is big business! Imagine how much money anyone in the oil industry is making now! If you are an oilman, and your friends are oilmen, destabilizing world oil prices is a stroke of pure get-rich GENIUS! More money for less product. US Defense contractors are also rolling in dough while our soldiers and the locals in Iraq are getting shafted.
And - oops - we forgot Bin Laden!
IMHO: Real CS should treat programming as a tool. CS is about understanding computers, how they work, and how to solve real-world problems apply the strengths of computers (speed searching, fast repetive comparisons/calculations, massive storage) to solve problems and present the answers. Programming in-depth in a particular language and specific vocational skills like GUI design should be taught through project work and independent study projects. All of the CS students I know who did a decent thesis research project are making 6 figure salaries while those who slinked by on the minimum coursework and became programmers are not doing nearly as well.
"The only ones protecting anybody is the New York Police Department, and the Soldiers in Iraq."
How about the Soldiers in Afganistan and the Special Ops guys in Pakistan trying to find and kill the Al Qaeda leadership? Oops, we got distracted and forgot about Bin Laden!
$212 million could put an armed & trained police officer on every train and loading platform in NYC for about 2 years. Train them on the profile and MO of terrorists and have them question people who match the profile (no random search crap) that would be real "boots on the ground" security. You might actually PREVENT an attack.
Call it a "rail launcher" and fire satellite payloads into orbit. Of course you'll have to slow down the velocity or the payload will ionize in the atmosphere upon launch. Rail launchers are more practical in a vacuum, as there is no atmosphere to interfere with hypervolocity launches. Perfect for chunking mined ore from the Moon to Earth?
I'll bet this railgun on fires a few millimeters because they have problems with longer magnetic "barrels" exploding from the shockwave produced by an object moving "at the speed the Earth moves through space".
Actually Doug Englebart of SRI International invented the mouse. He was working on contract with PARC to help them build better user interfaces.