Unless this includes all the SCO management doing a stint in some medieval debtor's prison, it's not nearly grim enough.... On the other hand I think this is a great opportunity to start a Linux distro with SCO personality to provide all the remaining SCO user base a less painful transition after the death of SCO. We could even call it Pescadero Linux, because we all know how well the last project with that name turned out.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that if we had shoved an electric heating element up all the members of the Bush Administration ass's we get better efficiency from them. Or are you saying if we redefine success to mean something more along the lines of abject failure that we'd be seeing more successes from them? Or perhaps both?
The requirement that an algorithm be open has a lot less to do with Open Source as in Linux or BSD and lot more to do with the algorithm development process. This is the origin of the Obscurity is not Security mantra.
Show us a modern closed encryption algorithm which does not have significant vulnerabilities. Off the top of my head I am not aware of one. However, there are plenty of examples of closed algorithms which are abject failures. Like what's used on DVDs, HD-DVDs, or Phillips' RFID tags. There are also examples of secure algorithms which are secure. Like AES.
To my knowledge the difference is having the algorithm open to scrutiny during the development process. Like the contest which created AES.
Bruce describes these observations (and factual history) in his book "Practical Cryptology" and publishes a virtually constant stream of positive examples on his blog. I am unaware of any examples which negate these observations.
OK. I'm all for making the tools available, once the make sure that they safeguard our everyday civil liberties and that their continued use is based on regular and accurate validations their efficacy.
Seriously: Safeguard our liberties first then worry about security.
Security in the United States today is Security Theater. It's operatic in it's grandeur and stupidity.
5 Year olds and US senators on 'No Fly Lists'? Falafel stakeouts in San Fran looking for Iranian sleeper cells? The Secret Service strong-arming high school students for anti-war anti-bush speech? Calling the Bomb Squad on hot chilies, LED cartoon advertisements, and state owned traffic monitors? Arresting, Beating, Nearly Shooting & Killing innocent people because they act or look different?
There is no way I'm willing to give up any of *anyone's* liberties for that sort of buffoonery.
In all seriousness there are so many "sensationalistic, overblown stories with little or no fact checking before being posted to the front page." that I had assumed it could not possibly be one man.
Do you seriously pay enough attention to all of the stories posted on Slashdot. So much that you can claim that one copyist is more likely to post inaccurate stories?
I've been reading about this on the Apple forums. The vast majority of the comments put the blame squarely on Apple and have the expectation that Apple needs to fix this immediately.
So, I don't know where you came up with the ideas you've got or why you said what you said but you are clearly wrong.
I think you will find that ZFS (itself, not just Apple's implementation of it) is missing a few critical bits of functionality. Like being able to grow the RAIDZ data pool. Maybe this isn't such a big deal in the large data pools and extremely capable servers that Sun usually deals with.
But for me it was big deal when I went from 1.6 TiB to 4.0 TiB and I'm really hoping that this is all worked out before I have to expand again.
To me a proper RAID would fully & automagically utilize whatever drive I stuck in the pool.
I've owned a few of those spheres and I think they're great.
I have also found that people in government respond better to faxes (about narrow issues and better yet specific bills) that they respond to emails or phone calls. I usually snail mail letters on important issues. Given the right tech faxing is just like emailing and isn't as inconvenient to send as a snail mail.
You can find out about the specific bills and about voting records on OpenCongress.Org
I don't that's what it's like at all because it turns the TV off, as apposed to drowning it with an even more offensive sound.
Yes companies do spend a lot of money to participate in CES. Yes they often have video content. Yes this prank does disrupt the display and message that marketing folks are trying to deliver. Yes the companies paid for the opportunity to market. Yes other people paid for opportunities to be marketed to.
I'm calm, I've thought about the ramifications and I think that your comment along with a host of others is a complete over reaction.
I also think Gizmodo's prank is funny and that their assessment of CES and the relationship between CES and American culture is spot on. And that is far more important to me than all of the shitty nearly HD-TVs in all of Los Vegas.
I have done presentations for groups and I don't especially lie doing it. However these are not the singular presentations I do. They are the same marketing script repeated over & over & over. This is turing a commercial off, if you really want to see it come back in 5 minutes and it's repeated. So Exactly SO.SMALL
To read the comments here and on Digg, you'd be lead to think this man had raped, looted, and plundered. All he did was turn some televisions off and interrupt a few demonstrations.
He.Turned.Off.Televisions. This is now a heinous crime? It's vandalism? It deserves flogging and imprisonment?
Yes he disrupted a couple of demonstrations, how many times had the presenter been through his script? For how many days? What exactly was lost by this disruption? How will the consumer electronics industry survive this loss?
Yes he went beyond the news and created the news. This is a time honored tradition and I'm sure Hunter S. Thompson would approve, particularly in light of what CES truly is. To quote Gizmodo "a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible. Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible"
I congratulate the inventors of the TV Be-Gone device for coming up with a wonderful gizmo and then Gizmodo for using it to demonstrate how pathetic our society has become.
Sometimes I wonder if the schizophrenia Sony displays is caused in part by owning both a music label and a consumer electronics division. However, this is clearly designed to fail miserably and thus give Sony the opportunity to spin the failure in some ridiculous fashion. So I don't think we can attribute it to the typical Sony schizophrenia.
Ed Felten reviewed the HDCP system when it first came out. His conclusion: "A much more plausible answer is that HDCP encryption exists only as a hook on which to hang lawsuits".
This is a common theme. Years ago one of our neighbors would stand in his garage naked waiting for certain females to pass by and then raise his garage door to display himself. Mostly young mothers and high schoolers. As far as I know he did this off and on for the better part of 5 years. My next door neighbor's wife & daughter caught him on film and they were the third to successfully press charges. My girlfriend used to flash him back. I don't think either had much effect on him.
This recidivism is well known and well studied but poorly managed in the prison system. My belief is that this is because the American Judicial System is more about exacting retribution and not about creating a safe society.
America has the largest per capita prison system on earth. Everyday our government passes more & more intrusive laws but the weirdness of our society that creates real predators is not change by them.
I am beginning to think I was was victimized by Slashdot's new and improved comment system. I honestly never saw anything but a non-linked plain text URL to XKCD (no dwarfurl link)
So please feel free to not lighten up, burn the trolls, and I'll just stand here and look confused.
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Unless this includes all the SCO management doing a stint in some medieval debtor's prison, it's not nearly grim enough.... On the other hand I think this is a great opportunity to start a Linux distro with SCO personality to provide all the remaining SCO user base a less painful transition after the death of SCO. We could even call it Pescadero Linux, because we all know how well the last project with that name turned out.
What about the Pony? Surely this comes with a pony.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that if we had shoved an electric heating element up all the members of the Bush Administration ass's we get better efficiency from them. Or are you saying if we redefine success to mean something more along the lines of abject failure that we'd be seeing more successes from them? Or perhaps both?
DES is not closed. It's not all that modern either.
The requirement that an algorithm be open has a lot less to do with Open Source as in Linux or BSD and lot more to do with the algorithm development process. This is the origin of the Obscurity is not Security mantra.
Show us a modern closed encryption algorithm which does not have significant vulnerabilities. Off the top of my head I am not aware of one. However, there are plenty of examples of closed algorithms which are abject failures. Like what's used on DVDs, HD-DVDs, or Phillips' RFID tags. There are also examples of secure algorithms which are secure. Like AES.
To my knowledge the difference is having the algorithm open to scrutiny during the development process. Like the contest which created AES.
Bruce describes these observations (and factual history) in his book "Practical Cryptology" and publishes a virtually constant stream of positive examples on his blog. I am unaware of any examples which negate these observations.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Got a lighter?
OK. I'm all for making the tools available, once the make sure that they safeguard our everyday civil liberties and that their continued use is based on regular and accurate validations their efficacy.
Seriously: Safeguard our liberties first then worry about security.
Security in the United States today is Security Theater. It's operatic in it's grandeur and stupidity.
5 Year olds and US senators on 'No Fly Lists'? Falafel stakeouts in San Fran looking for Iranian sleeper cells? The Secret Service strong-arming high school students for anti-war anti-bush speech? Calling the Bomb Squad on hot chilies, LED cartoon advertisements, and state owned traffic monitors? Arresting, Beating, Nearly Shooting & Killing innocent people because they act or look different?
There is no way I'm willing to give up any of *anyone's* liberties for that sort of buffoonery.
In all seriousness there are so many "sensationalistic, overblown stories with little or no fact checking before being posted to the front page." that I had assumed it could not possibly be one man.
Do you seriously pay enough attention to all of the stories posted on Slashdot. So much that you can claim that one copyist is more likely to post inaccurate stories?
I've been reading about this on the Apple forums. The vast majority of the comments put the blame squarely on Apple and have the expectation that Apple needs to fix this immediately.
So, I don't know where you came up with the ideas you've got or why you said what you said but you are clearly wrong.
If you use a Mac try Bento.
I think you will find that ZFS (itself, not just Apple's implementation of it) is missing a few critical bits of functionality.
Like being able to grow the RAIDZ data pool. Maybe this isn't such a big deal in the large data pools and extremely capable servers that Sun usually deals with.
But for me it was big deal when I went from 1.6 TiB to 4.0 TiB and I'm really hoping that this is all worked out before I have to expand again.
To me a proper RAID would fully & automagically utilize whatever drive I stuck in the pool.
I've owned a few of those spheres and I think they're great.
I have also found that people in government respond better to faxes (about narrow issues and better yet specific bills) that they respond to emails or phone calls. I usually snail mail letters on important issues. Given the right tech faxing is just like emailing and isn't as inconvenient to send as a snail mail.
You can find out about the specific bills and about voting records on OpenCongress.Org
I don't that's what it's like at all because it turns the TV off, as apposed to drowning it with an even more offensive sound.
Yes companies do spend a lot of money to participate in CES. Yes they often have video content. Yes this prank does disrupt the display and message that marketing folks are trying to deliver. Yes the companies paid for the opportunity to market. Yes other people paid for opportunities to be marketed to.
I'm calm, I've thought about the ramifications and I think that your comment along with a host of others is a complete over reaction.
I also think Gizmodo's prank is funny and that their assessment of CES and the relationship between CES and American culture is spot on. And that is far more important to me than all of the shitty nearly HD-TVs in all of Los Vegas.
I have done presentations for groups and I don't especially lie doing it. However these are not the singular presentations I do. They are the same marketing script repeated over & over & over. This is turing a commercial off, if you really want to see it come back in 5 minutes and it's repeated. So Exactly SO.SMALL
To read the comments here and on Digg, you'd be lead to think this man had raped, looted, and plundered. All he did was turn some televisions off and interrupt a few demonstrations.
He.Turned.Off.Televisions. This is now a heinous crime? It's vandalism? It deserves flogging and imprisonment?
Yes he disrupted a couple of demonstrations, how many times had the presenter been through his script? For how many days? What exactly was lost by this disruption? How will the consumer electronics industry survive this loss?
Yes he went beyond the news and created the news. This is a time honored tradition and I'm sure Hunter S. Thompson would approve, particularly in light of what CES truly is. To quote Gizmodo "a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible. Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible"
I congratulate the inventors of the TV Be-Gone device for coming up with a wonderful gizmo and then Gizmodo for using it to demonstrate how pathetic our society has become.
Gizmodo's assessment of the CES show is particularly interesting: http://gizmodo.com/342495/ten-reasons-were-doomed-ces-edition
Sometimes I wonder if the schizophrenia Sony displays is caused in part by owning both a music label and a consumer electronics division. However, this is clearly designed to fail miserably and thus give Sony the opportunity to spin the failure in some ridiculous fashion. So I don't think we can attribute it to the typical Sony schizophrenia.
Ed Felten reviewed the HDCP system when it first came out. His conclusion: "A much more plausible answer is that HDCP encryption exists only as a hook on which to hang lawsuits".
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1004
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1005
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1006
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1007
I wonder if the assessment would get better or worse if you factored in miles traveled.
Or hours in transit.
I had one of those. One by one over the course of a few months all the power to fain headers on board died.
I used it for months with cover off the case and a box fan from home depot pointed at it.
I can't remember why I finally quit using it....
Do what I've been doing: Read a book
Seriously.
I'm reading Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' to see if it worth all the hype.
This is a common theme. Years ago one of our neighbors would stand in his garage naked waiting for certain females to pass by and then raise his garage door to display himself. Mostly young mothers and high schoolers. As far as I know he did this off and on for the better part of 5 years. My next door neighbor's wife & daughter caught him on film and they were the third to successfully press charges. My girlfriend used to flash him back. I don't think either had much effect on him.
This recidivism is well known and well studied but poorly managed in the prison system. My belief is that this is because the American Judicial System is more about exacting retribution and not about creating a safe society.
America has the largest per capita prison system on earth. Everyday our government passes more & more intrusive laws but the weirdness of our society that creates real predators is not change by them.
Naturally I was burned by a similar post this afternoon (using some similar url obfuscation technique) and richly enjoyed the irritnce!
I lament the motivation of such folks.
I am beginning to think I was was victimized by Slashdot's new and improved comment system.
I honestly never saw anything but a non-linked plain text URL to XKCD (no dwarfurl link)
So please feel free to not lighten up, burn the trolls, and I'll just stand here and look confused.
Hey man, you need to lighten up a little bit. XKCD is just a comic.
I've seen the MyMiniCity thing but I hadn't realized it was a game though.
Anyway this is just a funny comic about programming.