On the apple 2e and later, yes, it required the control key.. on the 2 and 2+, just the reset button alone would reset the machine, and probably trash anything you were working on.
Wow, that was the PAWL lab back then, wasn't it? I found those the year after, that's where I first saw X11, suntools, and NeWS... on black and white Sun 3/50's no less.
It sounds like it's time for some sort of proxy key management service.. where userA gets paired with userB, userA has the keys for userB, and B has the keys for A, but neither has their own keys to unlock their data... user A just asks userB to unlock the data once in a while.
Then when asked, the reply could be 'Oh, BillyBob193 has the key, I just ask him to unlock it. And he's really good at knowing if I sound like I'm being coerced... Oh, and we just chat over an IRC server hosted in some foreign country, so, good luck getting their logs.. and I think BillyBob might actually live in some other country too and just ssh's in to my laptop here, so.. good luck finding and coercing him too...
And even of you just sign up for the service, but still have your own keys, it might be good for plausible deniability... just make sure you aren't caught typing it yourself.
So if a massive 18 wheeler runs into someone's small compact car, completely flattening it and the people inside, the trucker can just say, "Well, they weren't driving a big truck like mine, they are partially responsible for not having enough metal to protect them."?
What abot pedestrians? Are they partially at fault for not being in a metal cage as they walk outside?
If that starts happening too much, encrypition will also become illegal (Unless it's with government/corporate approved/cripped software that only runs on the OS's they know they have backdoors to).
> For example the cords from their hoodies have a tendency to get stuck in wedges and can end up strangling them.
That's not a bad thing either, after a few issues like that, they might learn wearing clothes with dangly bits like that carries it's own dangers they need to be prepared for.
The smart ones will learn. Apparently the dumb ones will sue, from the sounds of it.
The only thing about all this BS that makes me feel better is that the people making these decisions today really are out of touch; in 20-30 years, the people making the laws will be people from a generation familiar with modern technology (even if they aren't necessarily geeks) and you presumably won't have to use baby words with them nearly as much. That it is necessarily going to be a generation or two behind is really upsetting, but unless someone makes some really, really stupid mistakes and forcibly keeps them there, a lot of this will change eventually.
In 20-30 years, the lawmakers will be in touch with the technology they grew up with, what we have today. And their children be complaining that the law makers are out of touch with the current technology of the time, and probably saying that in 20-30 years, they will be making the rules...
I've been doing volunteer firefighting for several years now in addition to the full time IT work and it helps quite a lot. After having to pull yourself and others out a collapsing burning house or having to do CPR to save a child, you wind up with a new definition of emergency. Suddenly a down server is nothing to stress about.
My boss and director have even commented on that, in the last big outage, I was very relaxed about it (to the point that some started thinking I didn't care). But I also was the first to track down the real issue and get it resolved since i was keeping more level headed.
ISPs aren't going to pay for this complexity and storage overhead... end users will. The ISPs would probably just look though the logs, see who is using how much space in the logs, and charge the user back for it.. and if all the ISPs are doing it, there's not really anywhere anyone can go.
Actually, I'd love it if a bunch of tech jobs started appearing way up north.. Yellowknife was a nice little city, and I liked Anchorage alot, I might jump at a chance to work up there for a few years.
I'm just guessing, but my thought is that oracle wants to try and have more control of the whole application stack... and if they buy Sun, they wind up with 2 stacks:
For low end customers, they could offer MySQL databases running on Linux on cheaper x86 based systems, and oracle apps running on Linux.
For larger/high end customers, they can offer Oracle databases running on large Solaris/SPARC servers.
It looks like one way they could get more customers from more types of businesses.
Just rewire your USB ports to run at 120v. And label it USB120 so you can point back at them for not reading when they try to charge you with damaging their equipment.
But how long will that last? Since Oracle now owns a hardware platform, they might spend most of their efforts there, and other platforms might not have the most recent (or most supported) versions of Oracle available.
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On the apple 2e and later, yes, it required the control key.. on the 2 and 2+, just the reset button alone would reset the machine, and probably trash anything you were working on.
There's a lot of examples, actually. Maybe it's called the White house for a more subtle reason.
I think that was Intercal... Though, in a way, catching an exception is just a dynamic form of the comefrom statement...
That's the fbi/cia/nsa's problem, not our...
Wow, that was the PAWL lab back then, wasn't it? I found those the year after, that's where I first saw X11, suntools, and NeWS... on black and white Sun 3/50's no less.
It sounds like it's time for some sort of proxy key management service.. where userA gets paired with userB, userA has the keys for userB, and B has the keys for A, but neither has their own keys to unlock their data... user A just asks userB to unlock the data once in a while. Then when asked, the reply could be 'Oh, BillyBob193 has the key, I just ask him to unlock it. And he's really good at knowing if I sound like I'm being coerced... Oh, and we just chat over an IRC server hosted in some foreign country, so, good luck getting their logs.. and I think BillyBob might actually live in some other country too and just ssh's in to my laptop here, so.. good luck finding and coercing him too... And even of you just sign up for the service, but still have your own keys, it might be good for plausible deniability... just make sure you aren't caught typing it yourself.
So if a massive 18 wheeler runs into someone's small compact car, completely flattening it and the people inside, the trucker can just say, "Well, they weren't driving a big truck like mine, they are partially responsible for not having enough metal to protect them."? What abot pedestrians? Are they partially at fault for not being in a metal cage as they walk outside?
If that starts happening too much, encrypition will also become illegal (Unless it's with government/corporate approved/cripped software that only runs on the OS's they know they have backdoors to).
> For example the cords from their hoodies have a tendency to get stuck in wedges and can end up strangling them. That's not a bad thing either, after a few issues like that, they might learn wearing clothes with dangly bits like that carries it's own dangers they need to be prepared for. The smart ones will learn. Apparently the dumb ones will sue, from the sounds of it.
And I'm sure your local government TLA agency will thank you for using a more centralized service for your email too.
The only thing about all this BS that makes me feel better is that the people making these decisions today really are out of touch; in 20-30 years, the people making the laws will be people from a generation familiar with modern technology (even if they aren't necessarily geeks) and you presumably won't have to use baby words with them nearly as much. That it is necessarily going to be a generation or two behind is really upsetting, but unless someone makes some really, really stupid mistakes and forcibly keeps them there, a lot of this will change eventually.
In 20-30 years, the lawmakers will be in touch with the technology they grew up with, what we have today. And their children be complaining that the law makers are out of touch with the current technology of the time, and probably saying that in 20-30 years, they will be making the rules...
I've been doing volunteer firefighting for several years now in addition to the full time IT work and it helps quite a lot. After having to pull yourself and others out a collapsing burning house or having to do CPR to save a child, you wind up with a new definition of emergency. Suddenly a down server is nothing to stress about. My boss and director have even commented on that, in the last big outage, I was very relaxed about it (to the point that some started thinking I didn't care). But I also was the first to track down the real issue and get it resolved since i was keeping more level headed.
ISPs aren't going to pay for this complexity and storage overhead... end users will. The ISPs would probably just look though the logs, see who is using how much space in the logs, and charge the user back for it.. and if all the ISPs are doing it, there's not really anywhere anyone can go.
Simpsons did it! Oh, wait, this isn't a cartoon...
> Today, April 6th 2009, we can ...
And, clearly, it's needed to keep our clocks current.
Wait.. I want to travel that way, it sounds much more fun....
Actually, I'd love it if a bunch of tech jobs started appearing way up north.. Yellowknife was a nice little city, and I liked Anchorage alot, I might jump at a chance to work up there for a few years.
I'm just guessing, but my thought is that oracle wants to try and have more control of the whole application stack... and if they buy Sun, they wind up with 2 stacks: For low end customers, they could offer MySQL databases running on Linux on cheaper x86 based systems, and oracle apps running on Linux. For larger/high end customers, they can offer Oracle databases running on large Solaris/SPARC servers. It looks like one way they could get more customers from more types of businesses.
Until the next generation figures out how to burn your body to make energy for themselves.
Just rewire your USB ports to run at 120v. And label it USB120 so you can point back at them for not reading when they try to charge you with damaging their equipment.
But how long will that last? Since Oracle now owns a hardware platform, they might spend most of their efforts there, and other platforms might not have the most recent (or most supported) versions of Oracle available.
I think it was somebody's tool bag burning up on re-entry.
If only it were fictional...
How about Bush?
No, if he uses that, the authorities in Boston will get in a huff.