A lot depends on how the hologram is checked - if the check is in the machine, then people are likely to get their machines chipped to prevent a little dirt or a large scratch on the hologram killing their disk. in any case, even if it isn't profitable to pirate the hologram, I can imagine a situation where low-cost DVDs are recycled into rubber-backed "covers" to fit on top of the playing pirate dvd as a "protection adaptor".
on the whole though, if they are putting holograms on for anti-piracy, but *not* checking them, then they are more than acceptable - one of the risks must be of buying what you think is a full, legal copy of a DVD and ending up with a pirate copy. if all DVDs carried hard-to-copy holograms, then you couldn't claim if caught that you couldn't tell the difference. --
Pretty close - as @stake spin it, they are not giving any less info than they have ever done, but are merely adding ADDITIONAL information to their bulletins on their website - which is their option. @stake aren't a vendor, so don't have any duty to customers, and aren't trying to assert any control over the basic alert. anyhow, decide for yourself - their message to the bugtraq users is available in the archives for you to read.... --
A *lot* of goodwill for the lab. VNC must have saved me personally at least 200 hours of travel this year for PC suppport, given we run a WAN spread fairly widely across england - not mentioning the savings on buying in a commercial solution and having to meter each install for licencing purposes.
OmniOrb I have barely played with - not being a Corba developer (or any sort of developer these days) but it seems a good, stable implimentation and if we ever need to support Corba on my network, will be my first choice. --
Unfortunately, the default in England and Aus is the same - per-minute charges for dialup, due to the local telephone monopoly dragging it's feet over unmetered access for isps. --
That is borderline - If I receive paper junkmail, I can quickly leaf though it and bin the rest. When I get Espam, I have first to PAY for the download, then get to delete it.... --
And how, exactly, is the fact that your buddy down the hall in the dorms has signed your key going to do anything useful, like, for example, give you access to the items on electronic reserve at the library that have been purchased for the use of only engineering students?
It won't - but a web-CA bought cert won't either. The correct solution for this case is for the head librarian to generate a CA key, and sign the keys of each new year's intake. That way, one key expires every year (taking the leaving students auths with it) and one new one is created each year (which is what you point out further down the chain).
In this case, you are certifying something different than the story covers - you aren't certifying the identity of the user, you are handing him an access key to a resource you control.
In theory, the Web of Trust is a long term, distributed solution to the Identity problem. In practice, it would require Perfect Users (ones that never certify incorrectly, never lose control of their own key and never attempt to obtain a false certification for personal gain) and those are a bit thin on the ground... --
I must admit, the arguments are convincing - but unfortunately, the assumptions he makes initially are wrong, so it follows that the arguments are against a straw man.
The problem is, he seems to build an argument that an absolute online identity is needed, worldwide. What it *really* comes down to is this:
Sellers want to know they will be paid for their goods
Buyers want to know they will actually receive the goods they have paid for
Neither of these need an absolute identity check - if you walk into a shop, do you need a passport and driving licence to buy a shirt? no, you only need money. If you order something not currently in stock, do you expect to see the current books, proof of lease on the shop, and other forms of ID for the business? no, you make a general assessment of the odds of the shop staying in business - or pay by credit card, and rely on being able to claim back the cash if they get stung.
These same factors map well to the internet - and if you are going to have an ecommerce - orientated, hierachical trust system, the obvious candidates for top level CAs are the credit card companies themselves. AE are already moving to epidermal payment (one shot credit numbers for a single transaction) and could easily offer prepaid cards that do the same thing (in much the same way mobile phone companies can sell prepay cards for their phone service). yes, it would be possible to have each and every transaction tracked and logged as no other system of commerce has ever done before - but why do we need it? --
According to his post i was claimed to be the sqrt of *1* not *-1*.. isn't that the problem he had with this? Haven't read the article so I'm not sure what it does say..
Odd - in my browser, both the original article and his quoting of it in his own post had the '-' there. Maybe you have webbrowser problems? --
Just because something comes into law by way of treaty adoption doesn't mean that it doesn't have to be constitutional.
Sorry, but you are in error - treaties override the constitutional protections provided they are ratified - which requires very little. --
If someone was to push me for my encryption keys I would claim the human rights act - I think there is a section of that which suggests that I have a right not to incriminate myself.
There is a meeting in Brussels to discuss that right now - but unfortunately, the right to not self-incriminate no longer exists in england either; the usual "you have the right to remain silent" script was altered to state that they are allowed to make use of your silence in court.
In any case, there is a *lot* of difference between an abstract right, and attempting to assert that right at 3am, when your door has been smashed down and you are in an interview room being told you face a *two year* prison sentence unless you hand over the key now..... --
And it still is.
a (example) complex number looks like this:
234+45i
which breaks down to
234 (the "real" part) and
45i (the imaginary part, which is imultipled by a real number)
This is exactly what he said - why do you have a problem with this? --
There are four or five companies that offer Linux support, but few that offer $OTHERUNIX support; One worth looking at is sophos - they offer a range of alternate platforms and were the only ones I could find that supported Digital Unix on Alphaservers.
I also asked this question a month or so back and got rejected - obviously luck of the draw for which reviewer you get:+) --
If you think that is bad, you should see what they are trying to sneek into the US via the "treaty provisions" backdoor - US gov interests are lobbying for europe to adopt the english RIP bill as a european measure, so they can then "reluctantly" adopt it in the US without having to worry about that bothersome constitution getting in the way;
One of the highlights of the new bill is that they can demand your encryption keys from you (on pain of 2 years emprisonment) and if you decide to mention it on your website as this guy has done? that's a five year prison sentence. Paranoia, you haven't begun to flow.... --
Well, its not wonderful - but it is considerably better than you are making out. Check out the Homepower site for example - a medium (roof sized) solar panel provides enough wattage he can backfeed to the grid while still running household appliances. --
Speak for yourself - there is still an active DOOM community, mostly playing one of the improved variants from the source code release (check out the Legacy and the ports from Doomworld
Although I must admit I prefer Duke Nukem 3D:+) --
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If Netware 3.11 was perfect software, then everybody would be installing it. When was the last time you heard of Netware servers being added instead of merely maintained? I suppose it must happen, but not often.
I have, and do. In any novell-based company, the majority of usage is maintainance - maybe the odd hardware upgrade or system unit replacement, more storage, more and better networking, but unless the number of users goes up drastically, a Novell box will take all they can throw at it. Novell's licencing scheme actually DISCOURAGES and even punishes purchasing new servers - even in the "brave new world" of single signon multiserver NDS, it is still a case of buying a new licence per user when you buy a new server, and that is usually the biggest expense. If you upgrade the existing server to the latest and baddest CPU/memory/storage, then it works out much cheaper. I'm sorry, but Novell just haven't looked out the window lately - it *used* to be cheaper to buy a new copy of Netware for a new box than to try and upgrade the current one to match it's capacity, but these days the Netware licence is the biggest expense in that sort of upgrade, and any beancounter will avoid it like the plague. --
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Novell have been in a position of power for too long - they are used to having a propriatory OS with a propriatory network protocol and drivers, and charging what they like for what they choose to give you.
I'm sorry Novell, but that just ain't true anymore; you are losing market share rapidly to Microsoft and Linux, have been forced to adopt TCP/IP or die, and in fact have done everything *but* cut prices to try and prevent this slide. Well, guess what the *right* option was? Now all you have to worry about is, when do you do it and is it already too late? --
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As long as Novell has huge customers like us paying for their overpriced products, they aren't going anywhere.
Yep. Novell is *almost* worth the prices they ask for it - and once you have it, you consider anyone suggesting getting rid of it certifiably insane:+) --
Point #1 is why institutions are contemplating switching to a Windows network.
No, thats mostly marketing. Regardless of how good a price you get, there are better and cheaper (although probably not both:+) alternatives to microsoft. and once the Microsoft infection sets in, you are on a forth-bridge treadmill of upgrades and more MS purchases to keep it running.
Point #2: Samba is only good for about 100 users. Linux works, but still isn't ready for enterprise adminstration and still needs Samba tuned to hold 500+ users per box.
A lot varies based on machine spec and tuning, but I agree - Linux still isn't ready to be a windoze-networked fileshare box. NDS for Linux (if Novell cut the prices to the point it is worth the money) should make enterprise admin a breeze, though.
We have a P133 Netware 5.0 box that holds 200+ users on IP and IPX. AND a Ppro box that holds IP, IPX, and AppleTalk users on Netware 5.0 that never needs rebooting. Netware may be old, but it works well!
Yep, Netware is still my OS-of-choice for Straight File-and-print on windoze client networks. C|O|M|P|A|Q unixen or linux are a better choice for databases though, and webserving/proxying. --
Actually, yes.
Not in general (anything long-term requires a group, I agree) but if you have six files on a usergroup's departmental subdir, and need to set up (for each one) one (different) user with r/w permissions, you do *not* create six new groups - it's unneeded clutter in your NDS namespace that will come back to bite you.
If you have a large number of users with identical permissions: use a group
If you have a single (or $SMALLNUM) user(s) with several logically grouped permissions (like a DB admin that has write to all the database files) then use a role.
Otherwise, it's a oneoff, 1-1 relationship and I don't NEED extra items in my NDS tree, confusing the Helpdeskers and giving me an extra six pages to scroll though when looking for something I need to edit. --
Unfortunately for your argument, this is a case where Novell *does* do well. Win2K comes close in terms of remote-admin and file permissions, but only to the extent of matching the EARLY 4.0 releases. When it comes to user/file permissions management, Novell rocks. --
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on the whole though, if they are putting holograms on for anti-piracy, but *not* checking them, then they are more than acceptable - one of the risks must be of buying what you think is a full, legal copy of a DVD and ending up with a pirate copy. if all DVDs carried hard-to-copy holograms, then you couldn't claim if caught that you couldn't tell the difference.
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Oracle must be upset...
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Pretty close - as @stake spin it, they are not giving any less info than they have ever done, but are merely adding ADDITIONAL information to their bulletins on their website - which is their option. @stake aren't a vendor, so don't have any duty to customers, and aren't trying to assert any control over the basic alert. anyhow, decide for yourself - their message to the bugtraq users is available in the archives for you to read....
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The above is a link to the goatse.cx site - angelfire have been notified.
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OmniOrb I have barely played with - not being a Corba developer (or any sort of developer these days) but it seems a good, stable implimentation and if we ever need to support Corba on my network, will be my first choice.
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**Sigh**
Yet another GoatSex link - Tripod have been advised.
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Unfortunately, the default in England and Aus is the same - per-minute charges for dialup, due to the local telephone monopoly dragging it's feet over unmetered access for isps.
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That is borderline - If I receive paper junkmail, I can quickly leaf though it and bin the rest. When I get Espam, I have first to PAY for the download, then get to delete it....
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It won't - but a web-CA bought cert won't either. The correct solution for this case is for the head librarian to generate a CA key, and sign the keys of each new year's intake. That way, one key expires every year (taking the leaving students auths with it) and one new one is created each year (which is what you point out further down the chain).
In this case, you are certifying something different than the story covers - you aren't certifying the identity of the user, you are handing him an access key to a resource you control.
In theory, the Web of Trust is a long term, distributed solution to the Identity problem. In practice, it would require Perfect Users (ones that never certify incorrectly, never lose control of their own key and never attempt to obtain a false certification for personal gain) and those are a bit thin on the ground...
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Obviously I need to uncheck my +1 box more - yet another point of karma gone due to someone deciding my DEFAULT score is overrated
I wonder if I should start a new account to make my postings from, and hold on to my last few Karma above the 100 mark.....
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The problem is, he seems to build an argument that an absolute online identity is needed, worldwide. What it *really* comes down to is this:
- Sellers want to know they will be paid for their goods
- Buyers want to know they will actually receive the goods they have paid for
Neither of these need an absolute identity check -if you walk into a shop, do you need a passport and driving licence to buy a shirt? no, you only need money.
If you order something not currently in stock, do you expect to see the current books, proof of lease on the shop, and other forms of ID for the business? no, you make a general assessment of the odds of the shop staying in business - or pay by credit card, and rely on being able to claim back the cash if they get stung.
These same factors map well to the internet - and if you are going to have an ecommerce - orientated, hierachical trust system, the obvious candidates for top level CAs are the credit card companies themselves. AE are already moving to epidermal payment (one shot credit numbers for a single transaction) and could easily offer prepaid cards that do the same thing (in much the same way mobile phone companies can sell prepay cards for their phone service). yes, it would be possible to have each and every transaction tracked and logged as no other system of commerce has ever done before - but why do we need it?
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According to his post i was claimed to be the sqrt of *1* not *-1* .. isn't that the problem he had with this? Haven't read the article so I'm not sure what it does say ..
Odd - in my browser, both the original article and his quoting of it in his own post had the '-' there. Maybe you have webbrowser problems?
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Just because something comes into law by way of treaty adoption doesn't mean that it doesn't have to be constitutional.
Sorry, but you are in error - treaties override the constitutional protections provided they are ratified - which requires very little.
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If someone was to push me for my encryption keys I would claim the human rights act - I think there is a section of that which suggests that I have a right not to incriminate myself.
There is a meeting in Brussels to discuss that right now - but unfortunately, the right to not self-incriminate no longer exists in england either; the usual "you have the right to remain silent" script was altered to state that they are allowed to make use of your silence in court.
In any case, there is a *lot* of difference between an abstract right, and attempting to assert that right at 3am, when your door has been smashed down and you are in an interview room being told you face a *two year* prison sentence unless you hand over the key now.....
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a (example) complex number looks like this:
234+45i
which breaks down to 234 (the "real" part) and 45i (the imaginary part, which is imultipled by a real number)
This is exactly what he said - why do you have a problem with this?
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I also asked this question a month or so back and got rejected - obviously luck of the draw for which reviewer you get :+)
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If you think that is bad, you should see what they are trying to sneek into the US via the "treaty provisions" backdoor - US gov interests are lobbying for europe to adopt the english RIP bill as a european measure, so they can then "reluctantly" adopt it in the US without having to worry about that bothersome constitution getting in the way;
One of the highlights of the new bill is that they can demand your encryption keys from you (on pain of 2 years emprisonment) and if you decide to mention it on your website as this guy has done? that's a five year prison sentence. Paranoia, you haven't begun to flow....
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Well, its not wonderful - but it is considerably better than you are making out. Check out the Homepower site for example - a medium (roof sized) solar panel provides enough wattage he can backfeed to the grid while still running household appliances.
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Speak for yourself - there is still an active DOOM community, mostly playing one of the improved variants from the source code release (check out the Legacy and the ports from Doomworld :+)
Although I must admit I prefer Duke Nukem 3D
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If Netware 3.11 was perfect software, then everybody would be installing it. When was the last time you heard of Netware servers being added instead of merely maintained? I suppose it must happen, but not often.
I have, and do. In any novell-based company, the majority of usage is maintainance - maybe the odd hardware upgrade or system unit replacement, more storage, more and better networking, but unless the number of users goes up drastically, a Novell box will take all they can throw at it. Novell's licencing scheme actually DISCOURAGES and even punishes purchasing new servers - even in the "brave new world" of single signon multiserver NDS, it is still a case of buying a new licence per user when you buy a new server, and that is usually the biggest expense. If you upgrade the existing server to the latest and baddest CPU/memory/storage, then it works out much cheaper. I'm sorry, but Novell just haven't looked out the window lately - it *used* to be cheaper to buy a new copy of Netware for a new box than to try and upgrade the current one to match it's capacity, but these days the Netware licence is the biggest expense in that sort of upgrade, and any beancounter will avoid it like the plague.
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Novell have been in a position of power for too long - they are used to having a propriatory OS with a propriatory network protocol and drivers, and charging what they like for what they choose to give you.
I'm sorry Novell, but that just ain't true anymore; you are losing market share rapidly to Microsoft and Linux, have been forced to adopt TCP/IP or die, and in fact have done everything *but* cut prices to try and prevent this slide. Well, guess what the *right* option was? Now all you have to worry about is, when do you do it and is it already too late?
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As long as Novell has huge customers like us paying for their overpriced products, they aren't going anywhere. :+)
Yep. Novell is *almost* worth the prices they ask for it - and once you have it, you consider anyone suggesting getting rid of it certifiably insane
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No, thats mostly marketing. Regardless of how good a price you get, there are better and cheaper (although probably not both
Point #2: Samba is only good for about 100 users. Linux works, but still isn't ready for enterprise adminstration and still needs Samba tuned to hold 500+ users per box.
A lot varies based on machine spec and tuning, but I agree - Linux still isn't ready to be a windoze-networked fileshare box. NDS for Linux (if Novell cut the prices to the point it is worth the money) should make enterprise admin a breeze, though.
We have a P133 Netware 5.0 box that holds 200+ users on IP and IPX. AND a Ppro box that holds IP, IPX, and AppleTalk users on Netware 5.0 that never needs rebooting. Netware may be old, but it works well!
Yep, Netware is still my OS-of-choice for Straight File-and-print on windoze client networks. C|O|M|P|A|Q unixen or linux are a better choice for databases though, and webserving/proxying.
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Actually, yes.
Not in general (anything long-term requires a group, I agree) but if you have six files on a usergroup's departmental subdir, and need to set up (for each one) one (different) user with r/w permissions, you do *not* create six new groups - it's unneeded clutter in your NDS namespace that will come back to bite you.
If you have a large number of users with identical permissions: use a group
If you have a single (or $SMALLNUM) user(s) with several logically grouped permissions (like a DB admin that has write to all the database files) then use a role.
Otherwise, it's a oneoff, 1-1 relationship and I don't NEED extra items in my NDS tree, confusing the Helpdeskers and giving me an extra six pages to scroll though when looking for something I need to edit.
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Unfortunately for your argument, this is a case where Novell *does* do well. Win2K comes close in terms of remote-admin and file permissions, but only to the extent of matching the EARLY 4.0 releases. When it comes to user/file permissions management, Novell rocks.
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