DBA time is expensive but nearly as expensive as Oracle licenses so our DBA gets plenty of time to analyze and tune SQL where he can, but we are mostly a COTS house, we do minimal in house development.
Magnetic containment reactors have reached ignition just fine TYVM, they just have rarely achieved net energy output and none of the current designs are thought to even lead down a road to a commercially viable reactor.
That's just one of many reason to avoid host based printers like the plague, a real postscript printer will run on every OS out there even if you might lose a small bit of functionality using a slightly different driver.
Well, because they are COM objects they don't just interact with the browser but with the entire system, you can't just sandbox them. A good example are all of the plugins my company uses, they tie functionality between our various enterprise systems ECM, ERP, CRM, etc and Office. This makes the life much easier for the user and provides all sorts of advanced functionality without needing to code up some new interface for the user to learn. Personally I think it would be fine to provide two browsers or two personalities for IE, one that loads when you access sites in the trusted sites zone that allows ActiveX and another that's used everywhere else that doesn't. Microsoft could either provide two executables or they could provide one and use sandboxing and virtualization behind the scenes.
Most of the systems with TPM today are laptops. Dell and IBM have a range of desktops that have or support TPM modules. I'm hoping the upcoming Proliant G6 series from HP has TPM support.
A compromised biometric system is no better than a plain password so it's better to use a smartcard to start with and not risk the biometric hole. Think of biometrics as an unchangeable PIN.
Ok, I had my facts slightly skewed, they made changes to the S-box to allow DES and more importantly 3DES to stand up to differential cryptoanalysis. It also turns out IBM's group that modified LUCIFER to come up with DES independently discovered the differential attacks in 1974 before the algorithm was published but that specific s-box values that were used were selected by the NSA ( I would guess because they were found to be even more resistant than the values that IBM had selected, perhaps because the NSA did more analysis or perhaps because they knew of even more techniques internally). The point is if weak s-box values had been selected performing additional rounds of DES encryption (as implied by 3DES) can actually weaken the keystrength through the introduction of twiddles or weakened bits.
How do you deal with the key in memory problem? That's right you can't without a hardware keystore, hardware is the only way to get true unbreakable encryption.
No, the trusted computer group grew out of an effort at Microsoft to allow secure network booting of clients. Without hardware encryption and bidirectional authentication it was a feature that customers asked for but which they would never have been able to accomplish. There has been talk of using such technology to implement better DRM, but so far it has come to naught even with Vista/Win7. In fact the TPM keystore is available for anyone to use via a fully documented interface and I believe there is a Linux module that allows you to use it. The biggest problem I have is that many TPM 1.2 implementations allow the key out of the keystore along an unencrypted bus which means there is a non-trivial but attainable attack vector against them. Personally I wish Dell wasn't the only vendor supporting TPM in server class systems because I would love to use bitlocker for remote office servers but I can't stand Dell's equipment or support.
Biometrics are actually pretty bad from a security perspective, they are a fact which means once exposed they cannot be changed to avoid further compromise. If a biometric system were perfectly implemented this wouldn't matter, but none of them are so it's best to just use a smartcard for the something you have portion.
And even 3DES needs modification from the base algorithm, just applying straight DES three times does leave you less secure. This was one of those interesting things that the general public didn't find out until decades later but the NSA actually suggested a modification to the S-box in DES for use with triple DES. Turns out that modification prevented a particular class of EC analysis against 3DES, a technique that wasn't available in academic circles until almost two decades after the NSA change.
If you are relying on case sensitivity to differentiate files that's a big old bag of fail. NTFS is case preserving but will not allow the same filename with different cases, there are plenty of protocols and code that are either case preserving or case blind so you should never really rely on it for much of anything but your own neumonic of sorts.
The source lives in CVS/Subversion/whatever and is built locally, at most you have lost the work since your last checkin which should be small so patch notes are readable.
NTFS has a fairly high overhead for a compile, lots of small temp files that all have to be created and deleted having their ACL's added to the MFT and then removed. I've seen compile time drop to 1/4th the time by switching from NTFS to FAT32 on the same hardware.
Uh, my lightly used Oracle server does 100GB of writes a day just to it's log partitions which are only 8GB in size. I doubt your compiler can even chew on code fast enough to do more than that.
The best bet if your project is smaller than about 20GB is to buy a box full of ram and use a FAT32 formatted ramdrive. Orders of magnitude faster than even an SSD.
My 401K is heavily weighted towards non-US and global companies which is why I expect to beat the DJIA between now and when I retire. In the age of globalism there are no foreign companies.
which decreases the value of every dollar in circulation (which also discourages investment). Huh? I would think you would want to invest rather than sit on a pile of $ in an inflationary environment, at least an investment has a chance to keep up with inflation savings just withers.
I figure the lifetime cost of fuel for any new vehicle bought today will most likely be north of $3/gal and most likely will be ~$3.50 and that's without significantly higher taxes which seems likely given the environmental push from the current administration.
I for one would love to see a wind farm, I'm looking forward to the day that I look out over Lake Erie and see a huge wind farm offshore. I don't understand why people can't see the elegant beauty of a modern windmill, many of them love the old dutch master paintings of windmills but have something against their modern cousins. I can understand not wanting to be too close though due to noise.
Uh, no. Other than possibly a badge you would never know you are behind a modern VW diesel. Since the US switched to ultra low sulphur diesel in the fall of 2006 you have been able to get the modern diesels that actually have LESS tailpipe emissions then the typical gasoline car. Personally I like the idea of turbodiesels but what I'm personally waiting for is the Ford Eccoboost 2L I4, produces 250HP and 275lb/ft of torque on 87 octane and it should get phenomenal fuel economy as long as you don't have too much of a lead foot. I just can't believe it's taken one of the big 3 this long to realize that small dual turbocharged engines are a win in almost every way. Though the fact that they are introducing the monstrous 3.5L 400HP turbo first just points out that they don't totally get it.
That was only added after an early owner got a bill for 6 figures for international data roaming when he thought his iPhone was OFF. Turns out the original software load never really went off so it could receive emails in the background, combine that with international travel and you end up with a very large bill just like in this case.
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DBA time is expensive but nearly as expensive as Oracle licenses so our DBA gets plenty of time to analyze and tune SQL where he can, but we are mostly a COTS house, we do minimal in house development.
Magnetic containment reactors have reached ignition just fine TYVM, they just have rarely achieved net energy output and none of the current designs are thought to even lead down a road to a commercially viable reactor.
That's just one of many reason to avoid host based printers like the plague, a real postscript printer will run on every OS out there even if you might lose a small bit of functionality using a slightly different driver.
Well, because they are COM objects they don't just interact with the browser but with the entire system, you can't just sandbox them. A good example are all of the plugins my company uses, they tie functionality between our various enterprise systems ECM, ERP, CRM, etc and Office. This makes the life much easier for the user and provides all sorts of advanced functionality without needing to code up some new interface for the user to learn. Personally I think it would be fine to provide two browsers or two personalities for IE, one that loads when you access sites in the trusted sites zone that allows ActiveX and another that's used everywhere else that doesn't. Microsoft could either provide two executables or they could provide one and use sandboxing and virtualization behind the scenes.
Most of the systems with TPM today are laptops. Dell and IBM have a range of desktops that have or support TPM modules. I'm hoping the upcoming Proliant G6 series from HP has TPM support.
A compromised biometric system is no better than a plain password so it's better to use a smartcard to start with and not risk the biometric hole. Think of biometrics as an unchangeable PIN.
Ok, I had my facts slightly skewed, they made changes to the S-box to allow DES and more importantly 3DES to stand up to differential cryptoanalysis. It also turns out IBM's group that modified LUCIFER to come up with DES independently discovered the differential attacks in 1974 before the algorithm was published but that specific s-box values that were used were selected by the NSA ( I would guess because they were found to be even more resistant than the values that IBM had selected, perhaps because the NSA did more analysis or perhaps because they knew of even more techniques internally). The point is if weak s-box values had been selected performing additional rounds of DES encryption (as implied by 3DES) can actually weaken the keystrength through the introduction of twiddles or weakened bits.
How do you deal with the key in memory problem? That's right you can't without a hardware keystore, hardware is the only way to get true unbreakable encryption.
No, the trusted computer group grew out of an effort at Microsoft to allow secure network booting of clients. Without hardware encryption and bidirectional authentication it was a feature that customers asked for but which they would never have been able to accomplish. There has been talk of using such technology to implement better DRM, but so far it has come to naught even with Vista/Win7. In fact the TPM keystore is available for anyone to use via a fully documented interface and I believe there is a Linux module that allows you to use it. The biggest problem I have is that many TPM 1.2 implementations allow the key out of the keystore along an unencrypted bus which means there is a non-trivial but attainable attack vector against them. Personally I wish Dell wasn't the only vendor supporting TPM in server class systems because I would love to use bitlocker for remote office servers but I can't stand Dell's equipment or support.
Biometrics are actually pretty bad from a security perspective, they are a fact which means once exposed they cannot be changed to avoid further compromise. If a biometric system were perfectly implemented this wouldn't matter, but none of them are so it's best to just use a smartcard for the something you have portion.
And even 3DES needs modification from the base algorithm, just applying straight DES three times does leave you less secure. This was one of those interesting things that the general public didn't find out until decades later but the NSA actually suggested a modification to the S-box in DES for use with triple DES. Turns out that modification prevented a particular class of EC analysis against 3DES, a technique that wasn't available in academic circles until almost two decades after the NSA change.
If you are relying on case sensitivity to differentiate files that's a big old bag of fail. NTFS is case preserving but will not allow the same filename with different cases, there are plenty of protocols and code that are either case preserving or case blind so you should never really rely on it for much of anything but your own neumonic of sorts.
The source lives in CVS/Subversion/whatever and is built locally, at most you have lost the work since your last checkin which should be small so patch notes are readable.
NTFS has a fairly high overhead for a compile, lots of small temp files that all have to be created and deleted having their ACL's added to the MFT and then removed. I've seen compile time drop to 1/4th the time by switching from NTFS to FAT32 on the same hardware.
Uh, my lightly used Oracle server does 100GB of writes a day just to it's log partitions which are only 8GB in size. I doubt your compiler can even chew on code fast enough to do more than that.
The best bet if your project is smaller than about 20GB is to buy a box full of ram and use a FAT32 formatted ramdrive. Orders of magnitude faster than even an SSD.
My 401K is heavily weighted towards non-US and global companies which is why I expect to beat the DJIA between now and when I retire. In the age of globalism there are no foreign companies.
which decreases the value of every dollar in circulation (which also discourages investment).
Huh? I would think you would want to invest rather than sit on a pile of $ in an inflationary environment, at least an investment has a chance to keep up with inflation savings just withers.
I figure the lifetime cost of fuel for any new vehicle bought today will most likely be north of $3/gal and most likely will be ~$3.50 and that's without significantly higher taxes which seems likely given the environmental push from the current administration.
Correction MKS/MKT and that one only does 355HP, the 400HP number was for the rumored uptuned version for the 2010 mustang.
A couple including the Taurus SHO. It's currently available in the Lincoln MKX.
I for one would love to see a wind farm, I'm looking forward to the day that I look out over Lake Erie and see a huge wind farm offshore. I don't understand why people can't see the elegant beauty of a modern windmill, many of them love the old dutch master paintings of windmills but have something against their modern cousins. I can understand not wanting to be too close though due to noise.
the price of electric cars will come down when they're mass produced in China and sold in Wal*Mart.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
as are the few US diesel Volkswagens.
Uh, no. Other than possibly a badge you would never know you are behind a modern VW diesel. Since the US switched to ultra low sulphur diesel in the fall of 2006 you have been able to get the modern diesels that actually have LESS tailpipe emissions then the typical gasoline car. Personally I like the idea of turbodiesels but what I'm personally waiting for is the Ford Eccoboost 2L I4, produces 250HP and 275lb/ft of torque on 87 octane and it should get phenomenal fuel economy as long as you don't have too much of a lead foot. I just can't believe it's taken one of the big 3 this long to realize that small dual turbocharged engines are a win in almost every way. Though the fact that they are introducing the monstrous 3.5L 400HP turbo first just points out that they don't totally get it.
That was only added after an early owner got a bill for 6 figures for international data roaming when he thought his iPhone was OFF. Turns out the original software load never really went off so it could receive emails in the background, combine that with international travel and you end up with a very large bill just like in this case.