Hey, by the way, how is it going with your Insight? I priced out a Civic hybrid the other day and calculated it would take 7 years to make up for the premium (neglecting the benefit of the warm and fuzzy feeling have polluting less).
I am seriously considering getting an Insight, possibly a used one. How does it handle? How's the continuously variable transmission? Are the batteries OK so far? The only thing that worries me about the insight is the batteries, which are certified to 80,000 miles...but after that I have no idea what has to be done. Maybe they need to be replaced for mega-$$$$.
There was recently an article around that said that we *currently* have the technologies that could potentially double fuel efficiency _just with the traditional combustion engine alone_, e.g. camless engine, continuously variable transmissing, shutting off engine at stop lights, etc., but the auto industry just refuses to incorporate these changes (opting instead for the ever present technology around the corner, e.g. fuel cells). Now I can't find that article...
If the foreign automobile companies force US companies into better fuel efficiency (apparently our own government can't even do that) that's great by me.
Read slashdot last night. Reading slashdot now. On new servers. Didn't notice. Go grab yourself some cocoa and don't beat yourself up about how well you are providing a free service to slashdot geeks:p
as was suggested in another post, just signing binaries with a kernel key (that the installer generates uniquely! or maybe even regenerate at each boot) seems like a more solid approach (if you can automatically stick these signatures in some binary extension without actually affecting the binary executable content...otherwise it's a mess)
This raises the constant on the level of security, but not the order of magnitude. From what I read, this just makes it more burdensome on the hacker...it's not actually introducing a new level of security. I suppose this would be good for internet 'appliances' where the access is probably limited to any holes or buffer overflows in web scripting languages. But it seems if one has access to the file system (prerequisite for trojaning anyway) this system breaks:
"Even if the file did have the same inode if the contents are modified then the fingerprint will not match anyway."
Huh?? So, the attacker just regens the hash on the trojaned binary and the kernel thinks it is the cached value...am I missing something here? Can one NOT change the cached hash without creating a seperate inode or something?
The answer is because old graphics cards don't have much utility (at least to gamers). This is because old games don't have much utility. Actually prices of old graphics DO go down...but since old graphics cards are not competition for new graphics cards (two old graphics cards will not allow you to play Quake3, as two old hard disks are more or less equivalent to a new one), I don't see the incentive for prices going down.
Please explain to me how a more high tech military could have prevented the INS and airports not catching the terrorists, and prevented them from slamming civilian planes into buildings. Go ahead... I bet if we only had SDI that would have never happened! Damn you tree huggers! Damn you all to hell!
"History repeats itself... and those who don't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, too."
Indeed it does. As long as we continue to install illegitimate leaders into countries and play them off against each other, we will always be the enemy of the people ruled by those leaders (or in fact, the leaders themselves...).
I've said it before and I'll say it again...an open society will always be prone to such attacks, by the very nature of being an open society. That is the price we pay for the freedoms we have 99.9999% of the time.
Yeah, just think of all the good to humanity that was done by shooting a dog into space. Ok, I'm off to bleed some dogs to death to uh, figure out uh, how long they live, uh, or something.
Unfortunately the same fear and cynicism of politicians actually having concrete goals and real positions (for better or for worse) drives...well, group-Un-think - lots of noise is generated over trivialities and blatent ploys for superficial popularity. I would really hope that meaningful change and change for the better are not mutually exclusive sets. I would gladly trade two robotic teleprompter politicians for two passionate yet diametrically opposed ones.
Would you like me to go home and get you references to books, or are those not good enough for you either? Get off your ass and do your own fucking research and when you have a real opinion come back.
Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us!
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Point 1: Granted. Gulf War Syndrome is still vague and relatively little is known about it. But the government DID now that lots of soldiers were complaining about it. They first ignored them, then told them there was no such thing, and now, whatever the heck it is, the government is finally admitting there may be something to the claims (whether or not the military did something intentionally, or the soldiers were exposed to enemy chemical agents, etc.). The point is, the government was willfully disinterested in GWS.
Point 2: Forgive me if I reserve a healthy skepticism of the naivete and innocence of those who perpetrated "accidental" civilian casualties and ailments during the course of experimentation. Vague enemies on the other side of the planet are eternally convenient, yet, inexcusable, reasons for such behavior.
Point 3: I never made the claim, and neither does the article, that the US was trying to infect any group with AIDS. The point is, the US has been in violation of the Genocide Convention (I was not aware of this particular convention), perpetrating involuntary sterilizations as recently as 1976! With similar callousness, according to this article, the US apparently used sub-par or experimental vaccines on Native Americans.
I didn't make this stuff up. Just because they don't teach it to you in namby pamby middle school US history doesn't mean it is not real. Search Google yourself. Better yet search your library. This stuff is historical fact, not speculation. We just refuse to acknowledge the dirty portions of our past...which I think does ourselves a disservice - especially when we expect to use our moral highground to sidestep international law and treaties to "do the right thing".
As far as our history with dealing with Native Americans, I suggest:
Gulf War Syndrome, which was at first completely ignored and lied about, and finally recently acknowledged (although we still don't know what it is, nor do we know whether the government really knows or not - there have been accusations of experiments on our own soldiers).
Article II of the Genocide Convention also expressly prohibits
involuntary sterilization as means of "preventing births among" a targeted population. Yet, in 1976, it was conceded by the U.S. government that its ÒIndian Health ServiceÓ (IHS), then a subpart of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), was even then conducting a secret program of involuntary sterilization which had affected approximately forty percent of all Indian women of childbearing age. The program was allegedly discontinued, and the IHS was transferred to the Public Health Service, but no one was punished. Hence, business as usual has continued in the ÒhealthÓ sphere: 1990, for example, it came out that the IHS was inoculating Inuit children in Alaska with Hepatitis-B vaccine. The vaccine had already been banned by the World Health Organization as having a demonstrated correlation with the HIV-virus which is itself correlated to AIDS. As this is being written, a Òfield testÓ of Hepatitis-A vaccine, also HIV-correlated, is being conducted on Indian reservations in the northern Plains region.
Supposedly, Himmler kept a framed photograph of a Native American, as a reminder of the splendid example the United States provided.
The list goes on and on. Sure, Saddam may be a war criminal. But our own history is not so rosy...in fact it is pretty fucking disgusting and we need to wake up to that fact. We don't have the moral highground we profess to have. In fact Iraq's entire history pales in comparison to the atrocities that have been committed in the names of US citizens. This doesn't make either right. It makes both wrong.
Actually I wasn't aware of that "self-install" was a seperate option, so two guys came by and unpacked and plugged in the cable modem. Then one guy hunted around a bit trying to test if the connection was working until I realized that I had the DHCP Client service turned off, at which point I turned it on, and then explained to him, after he asked, what I had just done. So I guess "props" to Road Runner (although I'm not sure I feel good about giving "props" to anything related to the AOL/TimeWarner/MechaGodzilla conglomerate).
I think these guys get commission on the number of installations they do in a day, so they are glad to get out the door as soon as they can.
You miss the obvious correlation that wearing jeans and t-shirts leads you to become a scruffy communist open source programmer, thus reducing your productivity to the company. Or something like that.
(I personally think libertarians should be precluded from use of the internet until they can reasonably explain to me how it would have come to exist in a libertarian controlled society. Thanks anyway, though)
Look, you don't even need to go so far as mandating bounds checking. The mere presence of an associated length with all strings or arrays would itself be a tremendous win! What is that, like FOUR fscking bytes per array? So what? Four extra bytes is a very small price to pay for actually knowing the length of something you are working on! Sheesh.
Anyone who has the time and the desire to contribute to development causes; has regular, reliable access to a computer and the Internet; and has skills and experience that would be of value to a volunteer hosting organization is a great candidate for Online Volunteering. Skills could be a programming knowledge, good writing ability, experience in project management, knowledge of another language, expertise in law or education or another profession, or simply the time to offer expert advice or answer email for that organization.
"solely exploitable by corporations is a transfer of wealth up the economic ladder."
If it is licensed under BSD, for example, it will not be solely exploitable by corporations. It will also be exploitable by individuals. Who is suggesting that it should be solely exploitable by corporations?
...from my limited knowledge, "asynchronous" is really just "synchronous" on a much smaller scale. You just have smaller synchronous components that don't have to coordinate synchronously on the global scale. I mean, your adders and stuff are still going to be the same, they will just have their own clock (or no clock I suppose). So my naive assumption is that you have lots of little synchronous components glued logically together with a synchronous coordination bus/fabric. At *some* point it is always synchronous.
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Hey, by the way, how is it going with your Insight? I priced out a Civic hybrid the other day and calculated it would take 7 years to make up for the premium (neglecting the benefit of the warm and fuzzy feeling have polluting less).
I am seriously considering getting an Insight, possibly a used one. How does it handle? How's the continuously variable transmission? Are the batteries OK so far? The only thing that worries me about the insight is the batteries, which are certified to 80,000 miles...but after that I have no idea what has to be done. Maybe they need to be replaced for mega-$$$$.
There was recently an article around that said that we *currently* have the technologies that could potentially double fuel efficiency _just with the traditional combustion engine alone_, e.g. camless engine, continuously variable transmissing, shutting off engine at stop lights, etc., but the auto industry just refuses to incorporate these changes (opting instead for the ever present technology around the corner, e.g. fuel cells). Now I can't find that article...
If the foreign automobile companies force US companies into better fuel efficiency (apparently our own government can't even do that) that's great by me.
Read slashdot last night. Reading slashdot now. On new servers. Didn't notice. Go grab yourself some cocoa and don't beat yourself up about how well you are providing a free service to slashdot geeks :p
Yes, also please publish a list of unpatched exploits on such systems.
Thank you.
as was suggested in another post, just signing binaries with a kernel key (that the installer generates uniquely! or maybe even regenerate at each boot) seems like a more solid approach (if you can automatically stick these signatures in some binary extension without actually affecting the binary executable content...otherwise it's a mess)
This raises the constant on the level of security, but not the order of magnitude. From what I read, this just makes it more burdensome on the hacker...it's not actually introducing a new level of security. I suppose this would be good for internet 'appliances' where the access is probably limited to any holes or buffer overflows in web scripting languages. But it seems if one has access to the file system (prerequisite for trojaning anyway) this system breaks:
"Even if the file did have the same inode if the contents are modified then the fingerprint will not match anyway."
Huh?? So, the attacker just regens the hash on the trojaned binary and the kernel thinks it is the cached value...am I missing something here? Can one NOT change the cached hash without creating a seperate inode or something?
The answer is because old graphics cards don't have much utility (at least to gamers). This is because old games don't have much utility. Actually prices of old graphics DO go down...but since old graphics cards are not competition for new graphics cards (two old graphics cards will not allow you to play Quake3, as two old hard disks are more or less equivalent to a new one), I don't see the incentive for prices going down.
Anyway, that's my wild guess. IANAMicroeconomist
Please explain to me how a more high tech military could have prevented the INS and airports not catching the terrorists, and prevented them from slamming civilian planes into buildings. Go ahead... I bet if we only had SDI that would have never happened! Damn you tree huggers! Damn you all to hell!
"History repeats itself... and those who don't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, too."
Indeed it does. As long as we continue to install illegitimate leaders into countries and play them off against each other, we will always be the enemy of the people ruled by those leaders (or in fact, the leaders themselves...).
I've said it before and I'll say it again...an open society will always be prone to such attacks, by the very nature of being an open society. That is the price we pay for the freedoms we have 99.9999% of the time.
Quizzantum Lizzeap biatch.
"but at least it wasn't gratuitous"
Yeah, just think of all the good to humanity that was done by shooting a dog into space. Ok, I'm off to bleed some dogs to death to uh, figure out uh, how long they live, uh, or something.
Omigod there is a 70 ms latency difference! Now Slashdot will lose that 70 ms jump it had on the competition!
Unfortunately the same fear and cynicism of politicians actually having concrete goals and real positions (for better or for worse) drives...well, group-Un-think - lots of noise is generated over trivialities and blatent ploys for superficial popularity. I would really hope that meaningful change and change for the better are not mutually exclusive sets. I would gladly trade two robotic teleprompter politicians for two passionate yet diametrically opposed ones.
Would you like me to go home and get you references to books, or are those not good enough for you either? Get off your ass and do your own fucking research and when you have a real opinion come back.
Point 1: Granted. Gulf War Syndrome is still vague and relatively little is known about it. But the government DID now that lots of soldiers were complaining about it. They first ignored them, then told them there was no such thing, and now, whatever the heck it is, the government is finally admitting there may be something to the claims (whether or not the military did something intentionally, or the soldiers were exposed to enemy chemical agents, etc.). The point is, the government was willfully disinterested in GWS.
Point 2: Forgive me if I reserve a healthy skepticism of the naivete and innocence of those who perpetrated "accidental" civilian casualties and ailments during the course of experimentation. Vague enemies on the other side of the planet are eternally convenient, yet, inexcusable, reasons for such behavior.
Point 3: I never made the claim, and neither does the article, that the US was trying to infect any group with AIDS. The point is, the US has been in violation of the Genocide Convention (I was not aware of this particular convention), perpetrating involuntary sterilizations as recently as 1976! With similar callousness, according to this article, the US apparently used sub-par or experimental vaccines on Native Americans.
I didn't make this stuff up. Just because they don't teach it to you in namby pamby middle school US history doesn't mean it is not real. Search Google yourself. Better yet search your library. This stuff is historical fact, not speculation. We just refuse to acknowledge the dirty portions of our past...which I think does ourselves a disservice - especially when we expect to use our moral highground to sidestep international law and treaties to "do the right thing".
As far as our history with dealing with Native Americans, I suggest:
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
The sooner we dislodge the fantastic myth, and somberly acknowledge and admit to our real past, the sooner we become a better people.
Oh really?
US germ war tests on civilians
Tuskegee syphilis experiment
more
US eugenics program
more
Intentional radiation of civilians during nuclear testing
more
Gulf War Syndrome, which was at first completely ignored and lied about, and finally recently acknowledged (although we still don't know what it is, nor do we know whether the government really knows or not - there have been accusations of experiments on our own soldiers).
not to mention:
Genocide of indigenous peoples as official policy
by the way, this shit was [is?] still going on in uncomfortably recent history still going on:
Supposedly, Himmler kept a framed photograph of a Native American, as a reminder of the splendid example the United States provided.
The list goes on and on. Sure, Saddam may be a war criminal. But our own history is not so rosy...in fact it is pretty fucking disgusting and we need to wake up to that fact. We don't have the moral highground we profess to have. In fact Iraq's entire history pales in comparison to the atrocities that have been committed in the names of US citizens. This doesn't make either right. It makes both wrong.
Actually I wasn't aware of that "self-install" was a seperate option, so two guys came by and unpacked and plugged in the cable modem. Then one guy hunted around a bit trying to test if the connection was working until I realized that I had the DHCP Client service turned off, at which point I turned it on, and then explained to him, after he asked, what I had just done. So I guess "props" to Road Runner (although I'm not sure I feel good about giving "props" to anything related to the AOL/TimeWarner/MechaGodzilla conglomerate).
I think these guys get commission on the number of installations they do in a day, so they are glad to get out the door as soon as they can.
You miss the obvious correlation that wearing jeans and t-shirts leads you to become a scruffy communist open source programmer, thus reducing your productivity to the company. Or something like that.
Wow, you're right, an overpriced laptop from a famous Porsche design company costs about the same as a TiBook. Wait...your point was...?
Look, you don't even need to go so far as mandating bounds checking. The mere presence of an associated length with all strings or arrays would itself be a tremendous win! What is that, like FOUR fscking bytes per array? So what? Four extra bytes is a very small price to pay for actually knowing the length of something you are working on! Sheesh.
NetAid online volunteering.
Find your ecological footprint
and then...
compare it to the rest of the world's
Or in other words:
A 3-d (in layman's terms) sphere casts a 2-d 'shadow' (a circle).
A 4-d sphere casts a 3-d 'shadow' (a normal sphere)
Wrap your head around that.
"solely exploitable by corporations is a transfer of wealth up the economic ladder."
If it is licensed under BSD, for example, it will not be solely exploitable by corporations. It will also be exploitable by individuals. Who is suggesting that it should be solely exploitable by corporations?
...from my limited knowledge, "asynchronous" is really just "synchronous" on a much smaller scale. You just have smaller synchronous components that don't have to coordinate synchronously on the global scale. I mean, your adders and stuff are still going to be the same, they will just have their own clock (or no clock I suppose). So my naive assumption is that you have lots of little synchronous components glued logically together with a synchronous coordination bus/fabric. At *some* point it is always synchronous.
Search for the elusive beer molecule. Eh.