Maybe Apple is just trying to revive the JailBreak community. This community has contributed many innovative ideas that Apple eventually incorporated into newer versions of iOS. The JailBreak community is not what it once was, and maybe Apple is just trying to resuscitate it...
Their products are actually very good. This seems to be a case of social engineering, not a technical security breach. Social Enginering is very hard to defend against, since humans are involved. Both high ranking and minimum wage types can be too trusting and / or gullible.
RFID makes it a less likely that a party can print their own ballots. Also, the ballots have two cut-away pieces. The first one is cut off when the voting authority hands you the blank ballot. They keep it. The second one gets cut off just before you place the vote in the urn. They are physically placed one next to each other. They have printed symbols on them which must match up, or they don't let you place the ballot in the urn. This also prevents parties from printing and handing out pre-filled ballots.
Not entirely true. The system works by printing the ballot and writing the data to a chip on the ballot. When voting is over, all the chips are scanned and the results sent to a central location. The system allows the voter to both read what got printed on the ballot and scan the chip and see the results on-screen again. There is one machine per voting place (school) that is use to transfer the results from all the voting machines at that school to the central DB. The SSL keys from all of these machines where "found" at a machine controlled by Magic Software Argentina because it was misconfigured. Most of the source code for the voting machine was also posted anonymously on SourceForge some days ago. It wasn't the latest version according to MSA, but pretty new none the less.
I used m0n0wall for a couple of years and it worked great. The I switched to UNTANGLE for more features and never looked back. It needs a bit more hardware, but not much if it's just a home network. And if you need even more features, there is a commercial version. The free one will be more than OK for home use.
The weather is nearly perfect after 12 noon. Until then you have a haze/fog. Anyone that doesn't know San Diego's weather would wake up every morning and says "Not another crappy day!". All said though, San Diego is a very nice place to live.
If you don't care about the electricity costs, Illumian, NexentaCore, OpenIndiana or Solaris 11 with Napp-it on top makes a great ZFS file server. If has native CIFS (Windows) file sharing and can share AFS (Apple) and NFS with no problem. ZFS is by far the best file system around, and lets you combine different size drives with no problems. Napp-it turns the whole thing into a web managed appliance. You can even stream with the minidlna (lightweight), ushare or mediatomb addons! Rock solid and very fast if you give it ample RAM.
HP controls WebOS (ex Palm), which is a great OS in need of a company with the muscle that Nokia has in the mobile market to get it rolling. A deal with HP would have given Nokia access to an OS with a great foundation on which to build. HP is coming out with great tablets and a couple of nice phones, which if they teamed up with Nokia could be Great phones in 6 months or less. I dont know how cash strapped Nokia really is, maybe they needed Microsoft's $$ in a bad way, but I think a deal with HP would have been a lot better in the long run. Windows mobile has a lot of baggage and a really bad rep. No amount of money is going to solve those problems any time soon. WebOS suffers from none of those problems, and has the allure of the new and shiny.
I wonder what the impact of this investment will be for AMD. I would hope VMWare will still support AMDs hardware virtualization architecture, and not just Intels...
The simple fact that all RPG games are run by a HUMAN give RPG the edge it needs for survival. No computer run game will ever match the endless possibilities that a human DM can come up with. There are great tools out there which a HUMAN DM can use as an aide to his abilities and to allow for gaming between geographically separated players. One of the best out there is Battlegrounds: RPG Edition, an excellent tool from http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/.
Did anyone notice that the numbers are not very impressive? The Asus Wireless G had 85% of the throughput of the Linksys WRT300N, and much better range degradation. I think that Linksyss claim of 4X the range and 12X the speed of other G class hardware falls flat on its face!
I am amazed that no geeks have even asked HOW they plan to monitor all the iPods, PVRs and TV enabled cell phones. Does everyone out there think that Nielsen will try to strap a PeopleMeter onto all of these gadgets? Of course not! The "new" technology that they are coming out with and represents a "paradigm shift" for them is a beeper sized gizmo that PEOPLE must wear that records sound samples and compresses them along with a timestamp. These sound samples will capture an inaudible (to humans) beacon that will be inserted into all broadcasts. These samples are then synched at night though the phone and compared to a master database of the sounds emitted by EVERY TV channel and Radio station out there! This way, they will know what you where exposed to at all times, even if you where in your car listening to radio, in a bar with the TV in the background, or watching something on your PC. I wonder how they are planning to hear my iPod though my headphones...
I've used a couple of IpPhone type software, including NetMeeting, and services like DialPad, but NOTHING compares to the sound quality of Skype (not even POTS lines). I have participated ion a 3-way conference between 2 users in Argentina and one in Kazakshtan, and it sounded better than on the phone!
I think the next logical step would be for Google to branch out into GroupWare. Mail is the cornerstone that Groupware is based on, and a great Schedule and Phonebook is not out of Google's reach, even without those new hires.
If I was Google, I would look into developing technology like Convea's (http://www.convea.com/convea53.asp) great DHTML based groupware into a full "virtual" OS. That is, a shell for developing other great web based productivity software.
This isn't really news... I had a similar device hooked up to my MacPlus in 1984! It worked with ultrasound, but the concept was the same. I was able to play some great Missle Command games! (Remember, the game where incoming ICBMs tried to fry your 3 cities at the bottom of the screen?) You could just LOOK at where you wanted to shoot and click...
I had the headset on loan from a company whose main market was also the disabled.
Did anyone notice that the #16 spot on the list for the month of June is owned by an ISP which hosts on NT4 / Win 98!! Now THERE are some good System Administrators!
Dialogic is one of the biggest playersin the field, and they were VERY late with their Linux drivers. On top of that, the first releases were not quite up to par, both on stability and features. Another thing to mention is the lack of a VisualBasic/COM equivalent on Linux. By equivalent I mean a quick and dirty RAD environment with thousands of programmers that use it. There are many companies which produce ActiveX/COM solutions which really make development with the dialogic APIs a breeze. There is no such equivalent in the Linux side. It's C/C++ or the highway. This limits the number of programmers out there who can get on board developing on the Linux platform. If you don't think this is important, think about how many companies are shelling outbetween $200 and $400 per PORT in licensing fees for these products (COM/ActiveX)! The Dialogic APIs (and I would thing other manufacture's are similar) are not for the average programmer.
There is also something to be said about Windows NT and 2000: if you use it as a dedicated server, with a clean install, it's a pretty stable platform (I have to admit it...). The real problem (and bad reputation) that windows has is with desktop machines that are being toyed with by users or lame sysadmins. A windows machine used as a telephony server wouldn't even need to be patched with every security release out there, since it would be a dedicated machine with the minimum amount of services installed, and no WEB, FTP, etc.
There is also something to be said about the ease with which GUI administrative front ends can be rolled out in Windows using VB.
This being said, I still believe that Linux SHOULD/COULD be natural the platform of choice given the stability / price it brings into the equation. I think the platform is on a steady path of improvement, whlie windows steadily tries to wring more money out of everyone's pocket. There has to be a turnover point, and it can't be far away...
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Wire is a rather nice messaging App that has end to end encryption. They don't advertise, or hold encryption keys. See here: https://wire.com/privacy/
Maybe Apple is just trying to revive the JailBreak community. This community has contributed many innovative ideas that Apple eventually incorporated into newer versions of iOS. The JailBreak community is not what it once was, and maybe Apple is just trying to resuscitate it...
Their products are actually very good. This seems to be a case of social engineering, not a technical security breach. Social Enginering is very hard to defend against, since humans are involved. Both high ranking and minimum wage types can be too trusting and / or gullible.
RFID makes it a less likely that a party can print their own ballots. Also, the ballots have two cut-away pieces. The first one is cut off when the voting authority hands you the blank ballot. They keep it. The second one gets cut off just before you place the vote in the urn. They are physically placed one next to each other. They have printed symbols on them which must match up, or they don't let you place the ballot in the urn. This also prevents parties from printing and handing out pre-filled ballots.
Not entirely true. The system works by printing the ballot and writing the data to a chip on the ballot. When voting is over, all the chips are scanned and the results sent to a central location. The system allows the voter to both read what got printed on the ballot and scan the chip and see the results on-screen again.
There is one machine per voting place (school) that is use to transfer the results from all the voting machines at that school to the central DB. The SSL keys from all of these machines where "found" at a machine controlled by Magic Software Argentina because it was misconfigured.
Most of the source code for the voting machine was also posted anonymously on SourceForge some days ago. It wasn't the latest version according to MSA, but pretty new none the less.
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I used m0n0wall for a couple of years and it worked great. The I switched to UNTANGLE for more features and never looked back. It needs a bit more hardware, but not much if it's just a home network.
And if you need even more features, there is a commercial version. The free one will be more than OK for home use.
The weather is nearly perfect after 12 noon. Until then you have a haze/fog. Anyone that doesn't know San Diego's weather would wake up every morning and says "Not another crappy day!".
All said though, San Diego is a very nice place to live.
If you don't care about the electricity costs, Illumian, NexentaCore, OpenIndiana or Solaris 11 with Napp-it on top makes a great ZFS file server. If has native CIFS (Windows) file sharing and can share AFS (Apple) and NFS with no problem. ZFS is by far the best file system around, and lets you combine different size drives with no problems. Napp-it turns the whole thing into a web managed appliance.
You can even stream with the minidlna (lightweight), ushare or mediatomb addons! Rock solid and very fast if you give it ample RAM.
HP controls WebOS (ex Palm), which is a great OS in need of a company with the muscle that Nokia has in the mobile market to get it rolling. A deal with HP would have given Nokia access to an OS with a great foundation on which to build. HP is coming out with great tablets and a couple of nice phones, which if they teamed up with Nokia could be Great phones in 6 months or less. I dont know how cash strapped Nokia really is, maybe they needed Microsoft's $$ in a bad way, but I think a deal with HP would have been a lot better in the long run. Windows mobile has a lot of baggage and a really bad rep. No amount of money is going to solve those problems any time soon. WebOS suffers from none of those problems, and has the allure of the new and shiny.
The giant squid was caught off the Malvinas Islands! Get your facts right...
I wonder what the impact of this investment will be for AMD. I would hope VMWare will still support AMDs hardware virtualization architecture, and not just Intels...
The simple fact that all RPG games are run by a HUMAN give RPG the edge it needs for survival. No computer run game will ever match the endless possibilities that a human DM can come up with. There are great tools out there which a HUMAN DM can use as an aide to his abilities and to allow for gaming between geographically separated players. One of the best out there is Battlegrounds: RPG Edition, an excellent tool from http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/.
Did anyone notice that the numbers are not very impressive? The Asus Wireless G had 85% of the throughput of the Linksys WRT300N, and much better range degradation. I think that Linksyss claim of 4X the range and 12X the speed of other G class hardware falls flat on its face!
I am amazed that no geeks have even asked HOW they plan to monitor all the iPods, PVRs and TV enabled cell phones. Does everyone out there think that Nielsen will try to strap a PeopleMeter onto all of these gadgets? Of course not! The "new" technology that they are coming out with and represents a "paradigm shift" for them is a beeper sized gizmo that PEOPLE must wear that records sound samples and compresses them along with a timestamp. These sound samples will capture an inaudible (to humans) beacon that will be inserted into all broadcasts. These samples are then synched at night though the phone and compared to a master database of the sounds emitted by EVERY TV channel and Radio station out there! This way, they will know what you where exposed to at all times, even if you where in your car listening to radio, in a bar with the TV in the background, or watching something on your PC.
I wonder how they are planning to hear my iPod though my headphones...
I've used a couple of IpPhone type software, including NetMeeting, and services like DialPad, but NOTHING compares to the sound quality of Skype (not even POTS lines). I have participated ion a 3-way conference between 2 users in Argentina and one in Kazakshtan, and it sounded better than on the phone!
I think the next logical step would be for Google to branch out into GroupWare. Mail is the cornerstone that Groupware is based on, and a great Schedule and Phonebook is not out of Google's reach, even without those new hires.
If I was Google, I would look into developing technology like Convea's (http://www.convea.com/convea53.asp) great DHTML based groupware into a full "virtual" OS. That is, a shell for developing other great web based productivity software.
This isn't really news... I had a similar device hooked up to my MacPlus in 1984! It worked with ultrasound, but the concept was the same. I was able to play some great Missle Command games! (Remember, the game where incoming ICBMs tried to fry your 3 cities at the bottom of the screen?) You could just LOOK at where you wanted to shoot and click...
I had the headset on loan from a company whose main market was also the disabled.
No sig, but Macs still rule!
Did anyone notice that the #16 spot on the list for the month of June is owned by an ISP which hosts on NT4 / Win 98!! Now THERE are some good System Administrators!
Dialogic is one of the biggest playersin the field, and they were VERY late with their Linux drivers. On top of that, the first releases were not quite up to par, both on stability and features.
Another thing to mention is the lack of a VisualBasic/COM equivalent on Linux. By equivalent I mean a quick and dirty RAD environment with thousands of programmers that use it. There are many companies which produce ActiveX/COM solutions which really make development with the dialogic APIs a breeze. There is no such equivalent in the Linux side. It's C/C++ or the highway. This limits the number of programmers out there who can get on board developing on the Linux platform.
If you don't think this is important, think about how many companies are shelling outbetween $200 and $400 per PORT in licensing fees for these products (COM/ActiveX)! The Dialogic APIs (and I would thing other manufacture's are similar) are not for the average programmer.
There is also something to be said about Windows NT and 2000: if you use it as a dedicated server, with a clean install, it's a pretty stable platform (I have to admit it...). The real problem (and bad reputation) that windows has is with desktop machines that are being toyed with by users or lame sysadmins. A windows machine used as a telephony server wouldn't even need to be patched with every security release out there, since it would be a dedicated machine with the minimum amount of services installed, and no WEB, FTP, etc.
There is also something to be said about the ease with which GUI administrative front ends can be rolled out in Windows using VB.
This being said, I still believe that Linux SHOULD/COULD be natural the platform of choice given the stability / price it brings into the equation. I think the platform is on a steady path of improvement, whlie windows steadily tries to wring more money out of everyone's pocket. There has to be a turnover point, and it can't be far away...
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