Actually the ONLY contribution the NSA made to DES was to tweak the S-Box selection criteria to help thwart differential crypto analysis (20 years before the public sector rediscovered the technique). The cypher itself was written 100% at IBM and was an extension of LUFICER.
It's the NSA's job to enhance the security of US government systems as well as attack the security of enemy systems. For a good example of the former see the changes they made to the DES algorithms S-Box selection function which made is more resistant to differential cryptoanalysis 20 years before the technique was reinvented by the public sector.
Who's forced to download anything from MS???? I run an unpatched copy of XP on the internet and yet I've never had a virus or worm. I turned on the firewall, tightened it down, and don't use an MS email client (I use Mozilla mail with simple HTML filter, no plugins, no java/script, and no remote images).
Huh? NTFS has existed forever (NT 3.1 came out in 1993). Besides they liscensed the defrag code in XP from Executive Software makers of Disk Keeper, a MUCH bigger player in the defrag market then Symantec.
Which is of course more proof that IP law in the U.S. as it is now practiced is antithetical to the founding fathers reason for allowing it. How can it be promoting the arts and sciences when failing to get clearance for a single sample means that all revenue from an entire album is no longer the artists?!?! Sampling does NOT harm the origional artists just as small quotes and attributions in written works do not harm their origional authors. Heck you should be able to create a work made solely from samples so long as you list where the samples are from, that would be in line with how copyright works in the written world.
Bzzzzt, MS already has sunk so much work into the x86-64 port of XP and Server 2003 that they were completely unwilling to support Intel if IA32e was not x86-64, so if IA32e wasn't really just x86-64 rebadged then it would have been stillborn with no hopes of commercial success.
Uh, only idiots own "laptops" with desktop P4's, P4M uses 35.0W at 2.5Ghz while the Pentium M at 1.7Ghz tops out at 24.5W. So the G5 would be CONSIDERABLY hotter than near equivilant mobile x86 parts. To be fair the PPC970FX which is the G5 likely to be used for mobile applications only uses 24.5 W at 2.0 GHz so it's pretty decent.
IBM T Series should work fine for you, it's non-handed, has THREE buttons (well for the pointer stick, only two for the drag pad but I hate those things anyways) and the keyboard is full sized so touch typists have no problems with it.
Dude if your dispatchers get bitchy because you called the non-emergency number to report a non-serious crime in progress then I'm sorry but you live in the wrong part of the country. In the midwest or the south they will be happy to help you and since THEY are the ones that call the local cops on their radios anyways its probably just as fast or faster than calling 911.
Because almost every American takes 911 service as a granted. Therefore simply being in a house with a VoIP service which does not provide 911 service is potentially dangerous to those NOT subsribed to the service, does anyone really know the non-911 emergency numbers for their own emergency services let alone those of every place they visit.
Yes and next Tuesday I plan to exercise #2, not to mention that I keep in contact with my representatives throughout their tenure at the various levels of goverment (I have recieved 10 letters back from my Congressman including three hand writtern, how often do you write yours?). Some people simply use #1 and bitch about nothing getting done, I have used the first three and pray to god that I never have to use the fourth.
How about a web interface to sudo for adding user accounts? How about a web interface to LDAP with inherited permissions for accounts created under a non-root level account, heck how about any of the dozens of ways a sysadmin adds accounts on a daily basis. Basically reinventing the wheel might be a smidge easier for the non-technical person but it CERTAINLY is not more secure then the tried and tested systems that already exist.
More secure to have a patchwork of internal user tracking built into the app instead of using the OS's user tracking?!?!? I don't think so, especially since you can use advanced permissions like ACL's to block access to subtrees despite what the version tracking system might think.
Which is why I think TIA was a sounding rocket of sorts, set up an organization with the watching eye as part of their emblem, give them a name like Total Information Awareness, put a convicted fellon in charge of it and "leak" its existance to the media, then can it. Once you have closed the program down and the media has already covered the story start the same programs up under a different name (or no name at all) in a different department and now no one but the truely vigilant care or know.
in government, shoot for the moon and keep what you can if someone gets a nose on it. This happens all the time and is one of the reasons the federal budget is so large, departments ask for more than they really need and keep what they get.
Nope, the skunkworks operations moved to Edwards AFB in California. The restricted area around Edwards is MUCH larger than that around Area 51, the only downside is the improved runway is only about half as long so super and hypersonic craft need to lose more energy before landing.
Since high power lines are set back from the road at least 30m in most of the US and EM falls off at the cube of the distance I think there is a BIG difference between being right under them and driving past them.
Never, the rovers are only going to operate for ~100 days, the number of writes for modern flash ram is 100K cycles minimum, over a million typical. So unless they are really screwing something up that shouldn't be a limitation, also distributing file placement shouldn't be a software function, good CF cards do it in the controller logic.
Actually I remember NASA doing a hardware repair from most of the way across the solar system. One of the deep space probes was starting to have a problem sending signals, some bright mind at NASA looked at the circuit diagram and figured out that a single component (resistor, cap, can't remember) was starting to fail, they figured out that there was a way to recondition the part. So they came up with a program that basically intentionally overstressed that component path and the extra energy heated up the part an reconditioned it so that the unit was back to working condition.
Just gave a 93 Ford Taurus to my brothers fiance, runs great and in the 5 years I owned it I had to replace a seal on the radiator and that was IT other than oil and gas. My current car is 99 Taurus with 158K miles and I haven't put a dime into it other than oil and brakes, need to do spark plugs as the fuel economy has gone down this winter and that's the most likely cause =)
The good wireless entry systems use a set of three codes sent in quick sucession, sending just one of them will not open the locks. Of course the vast majority of systems don't do this because it would add a couple pennies per system and the auto manufacturers care about those costs not that their vehicles are stolen.
That's why the newer cars use a 128bit digital signature chip in the key, the likelyhood of two identical keys with identical chips being unintentionally made is NULL. Of course some of the manufacturers went with a cheap knockoff of this idea which is a resistive strip trimmed to a certain length to give semi-unique values, this of course causes all sorts of problems for legitimate owners and is nowhere near as foolproof.
Uhh, a friend already does this, except over 802.11g instead of Bluetooth. When he gets home the GPS software notices and starts up the sync program which connects to his media server and looks for new files. It transfers new files, news updates, etc to the onboard PC and then powers it down, typical sync time is probably under a minute but if he's ripped a couple new CD's or DVD's it may take a bit longer.
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Actually the ONLY contribution the NSA made to DES was to tweak the S-Box selection criteria to help thwart differential crypto analysis (20 years before the public sector rediscovered the technique). The cypher itself was written 100% at IBM and was an extension of LUFICER.
It's the NSA's job to enhance the security of US government systems as well as attack the security of enemy systems. For a good example of the former see the changes they made to the DES algorithms S-Box selection function which made is more resistant to differential cryptoanalysis 20 years before the technique was reinvented by the public sector.
Don't DO that. I know you're joking but seriously, getting AIDS, an STD, or a child is not something to joke about.
Who's forced to download anything from MS???? I run an unpatched copy of XP on the internet and yet I've never had a virus or worm. I turned on the firewall, tightened it down, and don't use an MS email client (I use Mozilla mail with simple HTML filter, no plugins, no java/script, and no remote images).
Huh? NTFS has existed forever (NT 3.1 came out in 1993). Besides they liscensed the defrag code in XP from Executive Software makers of Disk Keeper, a MUCH bigger player in the defrag market then Symantec.
Which is of course more proof that IP law in the U.S. as it is now practiced is antithetical to the founding fathers reason for allowing it. How can it be promoting the arts and sciences when failing to get clearance for a single sample means that all revenue from an entire album is no longer the artists?!?! Sampling does NOT harm the origional artists just as small quotes and attributions in written works do not harm their origional authors. Heck you should be able to create a work made solely from samples so long as you list where the samples are from, that would be in line with how copyright works in the written world.
Bzzzzt, MS already has sunk so much work into the x86-64 port of XP and Server 2003 that they were completely unwilling to support Intel if IA32e was not x86-64, so if IA32e wasn't really just x86-64 rebadged then it would have been stillborn with no hopes of commercial success.
Uh, only idiots own "laptops" with desktop P4's, P4M uses 35.0W at 2.5Ghz while the Pentium M at 1.7Ghz tops out at 24.5W. So the G5 would be CONSIDERABLY hotter than near equivilant mobile x86 parts. To be fair the PPC970FX which is the G5 likely to be used for mobile applications only uses 24.5 W at 2.0 GHz so it's pretty decent.
IBM T Series should work fine for you, it's non-handed, has THREE buttons (well for the pointer stick, only two for the drag pad but I hate those things anyways) and the keyboard is full sized so touch typists have no problems with it.
Dude if your dispatchers get bitchy because you called the non-emergency number to report a non-serious crime in progress then I'm sorry but you live in the wrong part of the country. In the midwest or the south they will be happy to help you and since THEY are the ones that call the local cops on their radios anyways its probably just as fast or faster than calling 911.
Because almost every American takes 911 service as a granted. Therefore simply being in a house with a VoIP service which does not provide 911 service is potentially dangerous to those NOT subsribed to the service, does anyone really know the non-911 emergency numbers for their own emergency services let alone those of every place they visit.
Yes and next Tuesday I plan to exercise #2, not to mention that I keep in contact with my representatives throughout their tenure at the various levels of goverment (I have recieved 10 letters back from my Congressman including three hand writtern, how often do you write yours?). Some people simply use #1 and bitch about nothing getting done, I have used the first three and pray to god that I never have to use the fourth.
How about a web interface to sudo for adding user accounts? How about a web interface to LDAP with inherited permissions for accounts created under a non-root level account, heck how about any of the dozens of ways a sysadmin adds accounts on a daily basis. Basically reinventing the wheel might be a smidge easier for the non-technical person but it CERTAINLY is not more secure then the tried and tested systems that already exist.
More secure to have a patchwork of internal user tracking built into the app instead of using the OS's user tracking?!?!? I don't think so, especially since you can use advanced permissions like ACL's to block access to subtrees despite what the version tracking system might think.
Which is why I think TIA was a sounding rocket of sorts, set up an organization with the watching eye as part of their emblem, give them a name like Total Information Awareness, put a convicted fellon in charge of it and "leak" its existance to the media, then can it. Once you have closed the program down and the media has already covered the story start the same programs up under a different name (or no name at all) in a different department and now no one but the truely vigilant care or know.
in government, shoot for the moon and keep what you can if someone gets a nose on it. This happens all the time and is one of the reasons the federal budget is so large, departments ask for more than they really need and keep what they get.
Nope, the skunkworks operations moved to Edwards AFB in California. The restricted area around Edwards is MUCH larger than that around Area 51, the only downside is the improved runway is only about half as long so super and hypersonic craft need to lose more energy before landing.
Since high power lines are set back from the road at least 30m in most of the US and EM falls off at the cube of the distance I think there is a BIG difference between being right under them and driving past them.
Never, the rovers are only going to operate for ~100 days, the number of writes for modern flash ram is 100K cycles minimum, over a million typical. So unless they are really screwing something up that shouldn't be a limitation, also distributing file placement shouldn't be a software function, good CF cards do it in the controller logic.
Actually I remember NASA doing a hardware repair from most of the way across the solar system. One of the deep space probes was starting to have a problem sending signals, some bright mind at NASA looked at the circuit diagram and figured out that a single component (resistor, cap, can't remember) was starting to fail, they figured out that there was a way to recondition the part. So they came up with a program that basically intentionally overstressed that component path and the extra energy heated up the part an reconditioned it so that the unit was back to working condition.
Just gave a 93 Ford Taurus to my brothers fiance, runs great and in the 5 years I owned it I had to replace a seal on the radiator and that was IT other than oil and gas. My current car is 99 Taurus with 158K miles and I haven't put a dime into it other than oil and brakes, need to do spark plugs as the fuel economy has gone down this winter and that's the most likely cause =)
The good wireless entry systems use a set of three codes sent in quick sucession, sending just one of them will not open the locks. Of course the vast majority of systems don't do this because it would add a couple pennies per system and the auto manufacturers care about those costs not that their vehicles are stolen.
That's why the newer cars use a 128bit digital signature chip in the key, the likelyhood of two identical keys with identical chips being unintentionally made is NULL. Of course some of the manufacturers went with a cheap knockoff of this idea which is a resistive strip trimmed to a certain length to give semi-unique values, this of course causes all sorts of problems for legitimate owners and is nowhere near as foolproof.
No, Bluetooth is much smarter because it doesn't require a PC. Bluetooth is peer-to-peer whereas USB is a stupid bus for connecting devices to a PC.
Uhh, a friend already does this, except over 802.11g instead of Bluetooth. When he gets home the GPS software notices and starts up the sync program which connects to his media server and looks for new files. It transfers new files, news updates, etc to the onboard PC and then powers it down, typical sync time is probably under a minute but if he's ripped a couple new CD's or DVD's it may take a bit longer.