The sad thing is that I only learned of the possible threat through a story on Slashdot saying "don't worry about it". So when the big one comes, I won't know about it anyway. Now when is Friends on next... (j/k!!)
Hmm, maybe we shouldn't have killed off the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), after 14 miles of tunneling were already completed and two billion dollars were spent.
Here's a novel idea: Why not *ask* the people who paid for the damn thing what they want to be done with it? I'm talking about the taxpayers.
At the rate my friends and colleagues change their e-mail addresses, I'd die from exhaustion maintaining two address books -- mine, and the one stored on the remote site.
A totally valid point. Jeez, that would suck, thinking about your impending death all the time. Fuck it.
The whole thing is flawed right from the start. A *single sign-on* is way less secure than multiple sign-ons with different passwords. If your single password is compromised, consider yourself violated in all areas managed by that single sign-on. For me, if my email gets compromised, my credit card data is still safe. That's just smart. Look at it this way, would the military use a single sign-on? No freakin way.
Oh man! Hilarious, I didn't even read to the end of the fscking front page article. It just didn't occur to me that Slashdot posted old news on purpose.
MS is not ready to die yet, but the company is getting its first gray hairs.
I'm not so sure. Microsoft basically had a perfect formula for manipulating the computer industry before open source came around. They could take just about anybody out - at will. It's amazing, but awful. Now open source is around and Microsoft is still trying to get their footing back from losing so much ground. Without open source, security issues would be a fact of life and people wouldn't really have anywhere else to go (aside from Mac, but that's a small-ish market). Now that MS can't compete on price or sue somebody to death, their magic formula no longer works and they need to come up with another one. I think they will come up with something, but it won't be enough to drown out the OSS movement. Perhaps they don't plan on drowning it out then - but working with it. That conjurs up memories of "embrace and extend". OSS people aren't going to fall for that again. People are not naive about Microsoft and their FUD and marketing tactics anymore. Things are very different this time.
I'm not judging who's right or wrong, but how about supplying a link to back up *your* argument? How about justifying why your comments are not FUD and the other's comments are? You're not really doing anything but telling the parent that he's wrong and that you are right, with nothing to back it up. Children argue like that - we can do better.
Definitely agreed. One thing I can't stand is people passing off a small group's thoughts as "this is the way it is". Bullshit. I liked the movie, not quite as good as the first, but certainly not a "disappointment".
It makes me sad, though, because it makes me realize one more time how much our current "leader" measures up. Will Bush's speeches ever be quoted in thirty years with any kind of reverence?
I wonder if times need to change for someone's words to be quoted with reverence. I wonder if people in JFK's day regarded his speech with reverence, or if they were like "good speech" but nothing more. The way people use words seems to be tied to the day, and perhaps the audience expects those word usages.
I'll tell you what, though, once of Bush's speeches made me cry. Yes, I couldn't believe how powerful it was. His speech to finally end partial birth abortion - the legalized mass murder of thousands of innocent, fully grown infants. If he's done anything right, ending partial birth abortion is it. As expected, though, some people are still fighting to keep it legal. Makes me sick.
The fun part is that if an intruder observes or intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed.
My initial reaction was: if they can read the transmission, can they not predict exactly how their interference will alter the stream? In which case, does it matter that it has been altered?
I suppose this demonstrates one reason why closed source is bad...
Hmmm... closed source is bad because open source hasn't found a way to support it properly? That doesn't sound right. There will always be proprietary software, and OSS needs to get along with it. Breaking proprietary software all the time is not helping spread the adoption of Linux, because most people do need to rely on at least some proprietary software (even if that is just drivers).
This is exciting news! I'm not really a fan of SUSE (though Red Hat's recent move might change that), but I'd really like to see Novell succeed. Maybe owning SUSE will get them going again and let's see what they can do with this quality distro.
Now, isn't SUSE German-based and Novell is US-based? I bet SUSE was a huge source of pride for the Germans. Will someone else there fill the void? (disclaimer: this comment is not based on a lot of research)
The only way to do that is to provide voting receipts which can be counted independently, by hand -- and that does not exclude closed-source solutions.
I think the only way is through publically available , documented hardware. Any electronics hobbyist should be able to reverse-engineer the inputs/outputs of the chip and be sure that there are no hidden secrets. Make a million of these chips and put one in every voting machine. Sell the rest at Radio Shack.
That's step 1. Step 2 is paper receipts. Does Diebold have a good reason for *not* providing a paper receipt? What could possibly justify leaving out a physical audit trail? The logs stored on the machine are absolutely useless and must not be relied on. Tampering, software bugs, back doors - these can alter the results. With a paper receipt, each voter can easily see that their vote was recorded properly and can provide it as proof later if needed for a recount. The machine could keep a ticker tape with a copy of all the votes made, even. This ticker tape could be manually verified by the voter against their own receipt before leaving the booth. That would make a recount fairly easy.
The 2500 I have to use at work is too slow in my opinion, and the new 2.4ghz P4C's we are starting to get aren't much better.
You know what? The 2Ghz I have at work I know is a good machine. The problem is WinXP. It has so many points of delay that the speed of the machine is irrelevant in many cases. I mean, buying a faster machine won't remove those delays. So why upgrade? In this respect, MS is not helping the hardware industry.
Perhaps a bit tongue in cheek there, but my upgrades have usually been due to the software I already "owned" which would run annoyingly slow...
Yes, I think the grandparent poster has it backwards. I buy new hardware because of software I already own. Or, in other cases, I buy new hardware because of software I would like to own. I don't go out and buy hardware and then go out and see what I can run on it. That doesn't make sense at all. I buy hardware to satisfy a need, not to create a need.
Incidentally, I found it... stunning... that Linus calls OpenOffice "a disaster" in the article. Huh? I can't see how that is true. It is allowing Linux to make inroads onto many people's desktops because the "killer app" office suite that they need they can get for free. It's not perfect, but someday it will be close.
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And going to court over something like this takes megabucks.
In this case, it's cool that the legal system sucks the way it does. But after all is said and done, it still SUCKS.
The sad thing is that I only learned of the possible threat through a story on Slashdot saying "don't worry about it". So when the big one comes, I won't know about it anyway. Now when is Friends on next... (j/k!!)
Hmm, maybe we shouldn't have killed off the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), after 14 miles of tunneling were already completed and two billion dollars were spent.
Here's a novel idea: Why not *ask* the people who paid for the damn thing what they want to be done with it? I'm talking about the taxpayers.
At the rate my friends and colleagues change their e-mail addresses, I'd die from exhaustion maintaining two address books -- mine, and the one stored on the remote site.
A totally valid point. Jeez, that would suck, thinking about your impending death all the time. Fuck it.
The whole thing is flawed right from the start. A *single sign-on* is way less secure than multiple sign-ons with different passwords. If your single password is compromised, consider yourself violated in all areas managed by that single sign-on.
For me, if my email gets compromised, my credit card data is still safe. That's just smart.
Look at it this way, would the military use a single sign-on? No freakin way.
Oh man! Hilarious, I didn't even read to the end of the fscking front page article. It just didn't occur to me that Slashdot posted old news on purpose.
This was featured in a Linux Journal article from September 2002:
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976
Same guy, too.
MS is not ready to die yet, but the company is getting its first gray hairs.
I'm not so sure. Microsoft basically had a perfect formula for manipulating the computer industry before open source came around. They could take just about anybody out - at will. It's amazing, but awful. Now open source is around and Microsoft is still trying to get their footing back from losing so much ground. Without open source, security issues would be a fact of life and people wouldn't really have anywhere else to go (aside from Mac, but that's a small-ish market). Now that MS can't compete on price or sue somebody to death, their magic formula no longer works and they need to come up with another one. I think they will come up with something, but it won't be enough to drown out the OSS movement. Perhaps they don't plan on drowning it out then - but working with it. That conjurs up memories of "embrace and extend". OSS people aren't going to fall for that again. People are not naive about Microsoft and their FUD and marketing tactics anymore. Things are very different this time.
I'm not judging who's right or wrong, but how about supplying a link to back up *your* argument? How about justifying why your comments are not FUD and the other's comments are? You're not really doing anything but telling the parent that he's wrong and that you are right, with nothing to back it up. Children argue like that - we can do better.
Definitely agreed. One thing I can't stand is people passing off a small group's thoughts as "this is the way it is". Bullshit. I liked the movie, not quite as good as the first, but certainly not a "disappointment".
Maybe a dupe, but a good story is never done! There's always more "+5 Funny" mod points to go around.
It makes me sad, though, because it makes me realize one more time how much our current "leader" measures up. Will Bush's speeches ever be quoted in thirty years with any kind of reverence?
I wonder if times need to change for someone's words to be quoted with reverence. I wonder if people in JFK's day regarded his speech with reverence, or if they were like "good speech" but nothing more. The way people use words seems to be tied to the day, and perhaps the audience expects those word usages.
I'll tell you what, though, once of Bush's speeches made me cry. Yes, I couldn't believe how powerful it was. His speech to finally end partial birth abortion - the legalized mass murder of thousands of innocent, fully grown infants. If he's done anything right, ending partial birth abortion is it. As expected, though, some people are still fighting to keep it legal. Makes me sick.
Can someone post the source diff that the hacker tried to get into the tree?
The fun part is that if an intruder observes or intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed.
My initial reaction was: if they can read the transmission, can they not predict exactly how their interference will alter the stream? In which case, does it matter that it has been altered?
Maybe they should say "The Sun", not "Sun". Anywho..
"Sun Produces Strongest Flare Ever Recorded"
Is their hardware really getting that flaky?
Hehe...
I suppose this demonstrates one reason why closed source is bad...
Hmmm... closed source is bad because open source hasn't found a way to support it properly? That doesn't sound right. There will always be proprietary software, and OSS needs to get along with it. Breaking proprietary software all the time is not helping spread the adoption of Linux, because most people do need to rely on at least some proprietary software (even if that is just drivers).
This is exciting news! I'm not really a fan of SUSE (though Red Hat's recent move might change that), but I'd really like to see Novell succeed. Maybe owning SUSE will get them going again and let's see what they can do with this quality distro.
Now, isn't SUSE German-based and Novell is US-based? I bet SUSE was a huge source of pride for the Germans. Will someone else there fill the void? (disclaimer: this comment is not based on a lot of research)
The only way to do that is to provide voting receipts which can be counted independently, by hand -- and that does not exclude closed-source solutions.
I think the only way is through publically available , documented hardware. Any electronics hobbyist should be able to reverse-engineer the inputs/outputs of the chip and be sure that there are no hidden secrets. Make a million of these chips and put one in every voting machine. Sell the rest at Radio Shack.
That's step 1. Step 2 is paper receipts. Does Diebold have a good reason for *not* providing a paper receipt? What could possibly justify leaving out a physical audit trail? The logs stored on the machine are absolutely useless and must not be relied on. Tampering, software bugs, back doors - these can alter the results. With a paper receipt, each voter can easily see that their vote was recorded properly and can provide it as proof later if needed for a recount. The machine could keep a ticker tape with a copy of all the votes made, even. This ticker tape could be manually verified by the voter against their own receipt before leaving the booth. That would make a recount fairly easy.
The first thing I thought, was to put it in a vacuum cleaner.
:) Jeez, that sounds eerie.
Definitely - I'd say the vacuum cleaner is an autonomous bot's "killer app".
Just for starters....
Waiting for a CD to spin-up.
Shutting down.
Repainting the entire screen when a large app is restored (not a memory problem).
Navigating the start menu.
Likely we will see RIAA style suits instead.
You mean like 12 year olds getting sued for using Windows update?
My father (an economist in his day...) thinks that the job market by this summer will be much better than it is now...
Interesting, because my company just had its ass kicked in Q3. How do you explain that?
The 2500 I have to use at work is too slow in my opinion, and the new 2.4ghz P4C's we are starting to get aren't much better.
You know what? The 2Ghz I have at work I know is a good machine. The problem is WinXP. It has so many points of delay that the speed of the machine is irrelevant in many cases. I mean, buying a faster machine won't remove those delays. So why upgrade? In this respect, MS is not helping the hardware industry.
Perhaps a bit tongue in cheek there, but my upgrades have usually been due to the software I already "owned" which would run annoyingly slow ...
Yes, I think the grandparent poster has it backwards. I buy new hardware because of software I already own. Or, in other cases, I buy new hardware because of software I would like to own. I don't go out and buy hardware and then go out and see what I can run on it. That doesn't make sense at all. I buy hardware to satisfy a need, not to create a need.
Incidentally, I found it... stunning... that Linus calls OpenOffice "a disaster" in the article. Huh? I can't see how that is true. It is allowing Linux to make inroads onto many people's desktops because the "killer app" office suite that they need they can get for free. It's not perfect, but someday it will be close.