Its going to the extremes. I live in India, and in the past few years airline security has always been tight because terrorism is very very old over here. So what was the security. No ID bullshit. You walk into a metal detecter. If it beeps you are frisked. They ask you to remove keys, wallet, cell phone and keep them separately. Simple 1 min process which happened parallely to your bag in the X-Ray. Heck if you are carrying a camera bag you could give it to them and tell please check it by hand as you dont want your films getting spoiled.
Simple and effective. Infact so effective that inspite of the very real threat of terrorism(bomb blasts on streets etc., are common in some parts of the country), there was one hijacking after 1990, and that too from Nepal(A neighbouring country). So nothing wrong with the security measures over here.
Now lets contrast that with the US. Before 9/11 you could walk upto the plane to see people off as if they are boarding a bus! And after that they make you remove your shoes and what not. If they really want to learn how to secure airports and prevent hijackings, visit Israel, India or any country which has borne the brunt of terrorism for so long.
Its just a piece of code some company does not want to give the source. It does not make them evil. Do not compare it to "Rights and all".
Yes its evil when somebody sells you a song, no matter what the price and tells you that you can listen it only on your CD player not on your ipod.
But when somebody makes a application and gives it away for free, or even if not for free its that guys choice. Look elsewhere, dont whine and dont bring in weird analogies which do not hold.
Lemme ask another thing to people who say all software should be open source. Will you "open source" your labour. Will you come to my house and set up my network for free? I have seen people argue that any developer who has spent hours on a software should release it under GPL, but then I ask them if they are ready to put in 10 hours of network setup and not charge anything for that?
Yes open source is great. Its a wonderful concept, but in the end its a personal choice.
Leave it to the developers the decide what do they want with your code.
Why not use something like a "gear lock". Its a physical thing, with thick steel frame.
Case in point, a friend of mine uses it in his open jeep. some guy as a prank pushed in a chewing gum into the slot. The guy had to get a "welding machine" to cut open the gear lock after a steel file(industrial grade) failed to cut through. It took two hours. And yes a welding torch will attract lot of attention.
Thats why though there exists electronic locks etc,, such physical devices like Steering wheel locks and gear locks are deterrent enough. Since they are very visible most thieves think "Why try my luck here, lemme choose an easier target"
So no matter what gimmikery is installed in your car, always go for reliable physical protection. Newer models come with oddly shaped keys which are difficult to replicate and hence the "master key bunch" usually fails.
Its called spyware. How surprising is it. Let me tell you my story. I was always a Linux user and when I started using XP, I was initially not too clued. Yes bonzai buddy etc., is not an issue, but in the pre SP1 days life was hell. So the next thing I did was install anti-spyware and a Firewall. Not the firewall that blocks incoming, but the firewall that blocks outgoing and also applications. For example if winamp wants to launch firefox(suppose I clicked on a link) the firewall will warn me "Application is trying to launch another application". Same thing for outgoing connection. Even then sometimes its difficuly. Sometimes there are these system processes trying to communicate with the update site etc., and its not to easy to identify legit or not, but more or less AVG anti virus, MS antifirewall and Kerio sunbelt firewall(free edition) have ensured that my PC is virus and spyware free for more than a year. Since I boot into XP not so frequently I may have been protected due to less exposure time, but at times the PC as stayed on for 15 hours at a stretch. The logs show lots of intrusion attempts, but thats about it.
Moreover there are so many unpatched vunerable PCs out there that a malicious spammer would rather take on those than try to take on a machine thats protected. Script kiddies may take it as a matter of pride, but the chance of getting hit by one of those when your IP changes every time you login, and also sometimes when you are logged in(Auto disconnection and reconnection) thats not too much of a worry
Wish I had pressed preview! Anways this will work with non english speakers or if you know a language other than english. Well best are the languages like Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic etc., which are not popular in the web. You can have a word from those languages. Like bh44gj4. This is pronounced as Bhaag Ja. Which means Run away. Long time back I had a password which was t0g4dh4.
This means To gadha, or "you donkey".
Monthly change policies. they are simple stupid. If your password is inherently weak, such as your car number, date of birth etc., it will be easy to crack. If you throw a monthly change policy at such people they will change their passwords to simple things. Other option is to educate them to choose good passwords, but that works with half the people. Best solution, let the users not choose a password. Let the machine generate random passwords. Then the user can choose out of those random combinations. At a place where I used to work, the web login system on internal network was set this way. You would click on a button saying, choose new password. Many options would appear and you choose one. If you dont like any of the options you could keep on generating new ones indefinitely. The change policy was that after 1 year you had to get a new password. Perfectly sane and secure. In those random 6 lettered words, sometimes easy to remember combinations would appear, like y1pl3t. Remeber it as yiplet!
If you dont have the benefit of a machine generator and want to specify something remembrable dont be too obvious. For example you have a poodle named fido(If you do I doubt you would be reading/.). So you can have a password which is easy to crack fidopoodle. But if you go as pfoioddole or better pf010dd0l3 only you can remember it and guessing it will be almost impossible.
Once after a culture test we found out that the antibiotic needed was a rarely used one. The price was very very low, it was one of the cheapest medicines in the market, but we could not get more than a few tabs because of shortage. Drug companies do not manufacture it much because of low margins. So people with rare bacterial infections have to shift to other antibiotics which are not very effective.
In India there was a Reality show , in which the TV person would do things like open up a fake barber shop. When the customer comes in he will take a hacksaw chainsaw etc., Later it was found out it was all faked. The "gullible customers" were paid in advance to walk the talk. This happens in many other "Reality Shows" etc., where the real people who are stupid are the audience. "The gullible space tourists" and the "TV channel" are the one who will walk away with big money, as you watch them and think "How stupid"
While from a normal guy point of view, this is not much. I mean even if you have the source code of a processor, you cannot do much with it. But in the hardware world this is nothing short of revolutionary.
You see, there are lots of companies which make things like Modems, TV cards, Cell phone chips etc., etc.,, many of them big names like (TI, connexant, broadcom etc.,) who have a licensed processor from ARM or MIPS. For every chip sold they need to pay some royalty, and over a period of time these royalties come to about 10-15% of the profits or even more.
Now there companies have talented VLSI engineers who can design a custom core given enough time and resources, but since these companies are not in the business of making CPUs, buying is cheaper. With Open Sparc project, now they will have the actual source code of the CPU. Modifying a CPU to suit a particular application is not a very big deal. this will lead to price drops in MIPS/ARM cores, which means cheaper modems/cell phones etc., etc.,
But the biggest advantage will be spinning of new CPU design comanies or units whose job will be to modify the core for particular applications (Network switches, comm processors etc.,) and then sell it to VLSI big boys. these modified Cores will cost 1/10th of that of currently avalilable cores.
Hats of to you SUN.
Due to Mars being so close to earth, a hurricane system is developing in the Gulf of Mexico. Due to this there will be lot of snowfall in the Sahara desert, as a result the apes living in Madagascar have started evolving faster. Due to speeded up evolution, in another 50 years they will become software engineers. With so many software engineers available, Microsoft will go on a hiring spree and then use them for fixing bugs. So unless these monkeys evolve the bugs cannot be fixed.
Now thats what you call an original Idea. Maybe the police start using it a usual teen street fight hangouts.
But It reminds of that Arthur C clarke novel where they invented a device which would disable all guns within the effective radius. Soon that device is used to kill people based on their DNA. What happens if somebody uses a 10 time more powerful device at a teen concert. No doubt the band music would be loud, but having such a device would cause a literal eardrum carnage.
Stick with paper voting. Everything else is bad for democracy, and voting is such a fundamental process in a democratic system that it should be treated with the utmost care.
Why stick with paper? The worlds largest democracy with 10 times the number of voters can successfully go electronic, why cant america!
Point one, mosquitos do not eat bacteria. Second point, mosquitos are very very bad news for third world countries.
I see people talking about malaria and how many people it kills, but if you just get malaria you are lucky, in south asia you have much dangerous killers like dengue. If you are really really unllucky you will get brain fever, west nile fever, yellow fever.. the list is endless.
It will be great if such webs are put up in slum areas and near water bodies.Kudos to them for bringing out such an invention
Wont microsoft take this skeptism, and then spend 10 million in marketing to say that OSDL backed out of an open test because they know linux is inferior? FP btw
the indians and pakistanis living in britain are of many categories, including the uneducated ones that setteled in britain more than 60 years back. In USA most South asians who came were skilled computer/electronics workers, otherwise they would not have got the visa. Now only if USA had ruled india instead of britain, things would be different
I have internet through ethernet with some 120 users on the 192.1.1.x block. In my firewall logs when i am online i see a port scan every hour or so. And this is with approx 3 PCs in the network which have been affected. When i used to connect to the internet through a router(DSL) I would see a port scan in the logs every 5 minutes or so!. So 12 minutes is not really a big deal!
When you are alive, your veins are full of blood. When somebody cuts your hand, it will change the impression. So the test will fail. The best method will be to combine this with a scanner which detects blood flow. No blood flow and it means its a fake hand:).
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Its going to the extremes. I live in India, and in the past few years airline security has always been tight because terrorism is very very old over here. So what was the security. No ID bullshit. You walk into a metal detecter. If it beeps you are frisked. They ask you to remove keys, wallet, cell phone and keep them separately. Simple 1 min process which happened parallely to your bag in the X-Ray. Heck if you are carrying a camera bag you could give it to them and tell please check it by hand as you dont want your films getting spoiled. Simple and effective. Infact so effective that inspite of the very real threat of terrorism(bomb blasts on streets etc., are common in some parts of the country), there was one hijacking after 1990, and that too from Nepal(A neighbouring country). So nothing wrong with the security measures over here. Now lets contrast that with the US. Before 9/11 you could walk upto the plane to see people off as if they are boarding a bus! And after that they make you remove your shoes and what not. If they really want to learn how to secure airports and prevent hijackings, visit Israel, India or any country which has borne the brunt of terrorism for so long.
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We have cheat codes? duh?
Its just a piece of code some company does not want to give the source. It does not make them evil. Do not compare it to "Rights and all". Yes its evil when somebody sells you a song, no matter what the price and tells you that you can listen it only on your CD player not on your ipod. But when somebody makes a application and gives it away for free, or even if not for free its that guys choice. Look elsewhere, dont whine and dont bring in weird analogies which do not hold. Lemme ask another thing to people who say all software should be open source. Will you "open source" your labour. Will you come to my house and set up my network for free? I have seen people argue that any developer who has spent hours on a software should release it under GPL, but then I ask them if they are ready to put in 10 hours of network setup and not charge anything for that? Yes open source is great. Its a wonderful concept, but in the end its a personal choice. Leave it to the developers the decide what do they want with your code.
Why not use something like a "gear lock". Its a physical thing, with thick steel frame. Case in point, a friend of mine uses it in his open jeep. some guy as a prank pushed in a chewing gum into the slot. The guy had to get a "welding machine" to cut open the gear lock after a steel file(industrial grade) failed to cut through. It took two hours. And yes a welding torch will attract lot of attention. Thats why though there exists electronic locks etc,, such physical devices like Steering wheel locks and gear locks are deterrent enough. Since they are very visible most thieves think "Why try my luck here, lemme choose an easier target" So no matter what gimmikery is installed in your car, always go for reliable physical protection. Newer models come with oddly shaped keys which are difficult to replicate and hence the "master key bunch" usually fails.
Moreover there are so many unpatched vunerable PCs out there that a malicious spammer would rather take on those than try to take on a machine thats protected. Script kiddies may take it as a matter of pride, but the chance of getting hit by one of those when your IP changes every time you login, and also sometimes when you are logged in(Auto disconnection and reconnection) thats not too much of a worry
It will be the most insecure thing if people are writing down their passwords. I suggested choose an easy to remember combination which can be guessed by nobody but you. For example h4r4m1. In an office environment its social engineering but with internet spreading you form a parallel identity. Sombody could hijack that identity and cause you lot of grief. Case in point. http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=:ePkh8BM9E 2IFGm_AIgSzKgkkUGLAituezDwjgWL1DQKJ3Pxeu2LZfMLctqk CAEoGDEE/2-0&fp=444d618030161f0b&ei=5sVNRN-THb_uHP jSyegK&url=http%3A//timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ar ticleshow/1495553.cms&cid=0
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=:ePkh8BM9E 2IFGm_AIgSzKgkkUGLAituezDwjgWL1DQKJ3Pxeu2LZfMLctqk CAEoGDEE/1-0&fp=444da6352b89004c&ei=CMZNRKrXHaqKHI Osif4K&url=http%3A//economictimes.indiatimes.com/a rticleshow/1495644.cms&cid=0
Now he may have posted those messages himself, or his account may have been cracked. Now if its the latter, his laxness with his computer security has led to events which may change his life permanently.
More often that not such attacks take place due to weak passwords or security. Having a m/c generated password will save you against dictionary attacks atleast!
Wish I had pressed preview! Anways this will work with non english speakers or if you know a language other than english. Well best are the languages like Punjabi, Hindi, Arabic etc., which are not popular in the web. You can have a word from those languages. Like bh44gj4. This is pronounced as Bhaag Ja. Which means Run away. Long time back I had a password which was t0g4dh4. This means To gadha, or "you donkey".
Monthly change policies. they are simple stupid. If your password is inherently weak, such as your car number, date of birth etc., it will be easy to crack. If you throw a monthly change policy at such people they will change their passwords to simple things. Other option is to educate them to choose good passwords, but that works with half the people. Best solution, let the users not choose a password. Let the machine generate random passwords. Then the user can choose out of those random combinations. At a place where I used to work, the web login system on internal network was set this way. You would click on a button saying, choose new password. Many options would appear and you choose one. If you dont like any of the options you could keep on generating new ones indefinitely. The change policy was that after 1 year you had to get a new password. Perfectly sane and secure. In those random 6 lettered words, sometimes easy to remember combinations would appear, like y1pl3t. Remeber it as yiplet!
If you dont have the benefit of a machine generator and want to specify something remembrable dont be too obvious. For example you have a poodle named fido(If you do I doubt you would be readingOnce after a culture test we found out that the antibiotic needed was a rarely used one. The price was very very low, it was one of the cheapest medicines in the market, but we could not get more than a few tabs because of shortage. Drug companies do not manufacture it much because of low margins. So people with rare bacterial infections have to shift to other antibiotics which are not very effective.
Same system here in India, my blood donation gives me a card which entitles me blood for myself or immediate family in case of need.
In India there was a Reality show , in which the TV person would do things like open up a fake barber shop. When the customer comes in he will take a hacksaw chainsaw etc., Later it was found out it was all faked. The "gullible customers" were paid in advance to walk the talk. This happens in many other "Reality Shows" etc., where the real people who are stupid are the audience. "The gullible space tourists" and the "TV channel" are the one who will walk away with big money, as you watch them and think "How stupid"
While from a normal guy point of view, this is not much. I mean even if you have the source code of a processor, you cannot do much with it. But in the hardware world this is nothing short of revolutionary. You see, there are lots of companies which make things like Modems, TV cards, Cell phone chips etc., etc.,, many of them big names like (TI, connexant, broadcom etc.,) who have a licensed processor from ARM or MIPS. For every chip sold they need to pay some royalty, and over a period of time these royalties come to about 10-15% of the profits or even more. Now there companies have talented VLSI engineers who can design a custom core given enough time and resources, but since these companies are not in the business of making CPUs, buying is cheaper. With Open Sparc project, now they will have the actual source code of the CPU. Modifying a CPU to suit a particular application is not a very big deal. this will lead to price drops in MIPS/ARM cores, which means cheaper modems/cell phones etc., etc., But the biggest advantage will be spinning of new CPU design comanies or units whose job will be to modify the core for particular applications (Network switches, comm processors etc.,) and then sell it to VLSI big boys. these modified Cores will cost 1/10th of that of currently avalilable cores. Hats of to you SUN.
Due to Mars being so close to earth, a hurricane system is developing in the Gulf of Mexico. Due to this there will be lot of snowfall in the Sahara desert, as a result the apes living in Madagascar have started evolving faster. Due to speeded up evolution, in another 50 years they will become software engineers. With so many software engineers available, Microsoft will go on a hiring spree and then use them for fixing bugs. So unless these monkeys evolve the bugs cannot be fixed.
Now thats what you call an original Idea. Maybe the police start using it a usual teen street fight hangouts. But It reminds of that Arthur C clarke novel where they invented a device which would disable all guns within the effective radius. Soon that device is used to kill people based on their DNA. What happens if somebody uses a 10 time more powerful device at a teen concert. No doubt the band music would be loud, but having such a device would cause a literal eardrum carnage.
Why stick with paper? The worlds largest democracy with 10 times the number of voters can successfully go electronic, why cant america!
Point one, mosquitos do not eat bacteria. Second point, mosquitos are very very bad news for third world countries. I see people talking about malaria and how many people it kills, but if you just get malaria you are lucky, in south asia you have much dangerous killers like dengue. If you are really really unllucky you will get brain fever, west nile fever, yellow fever.. the list is endless. It will be great if such webs are put up in slum areas and near water bodies.Kudos to them for bringing out such an invention
Wont microsoft take this skeptism, and then spend 10 million in marketing to say that OSDL backed out of an open test because they know linux is inferior? FP btw
Zero was invented by India long before the middle ages, so was the decimal system. Arabs simply introduced to the world.
See guys i run wiki etc., based site. Any idea how to do this in html/drupal/wiki? Any help appreciated
the indians and pakistanis living in britain are of many categories, including the uneducated ones that setteled in britain more than 60 years back. In USA most South asians who came were skilled computer/electronics workers, otherwise they would not have got the visa. Now only if USA had ruled india instead of britain, things would be different
I have internet through ethernet with some 120 users on the 192.1.1.x block. In my firewall logs when i am online i see a port scan every hour or so. And this is with approx 3 PCs in the network which have been affected. When i used to connect to the internet through a router(DSL) I would see a port scan in the logs every 5 minutes or so!. So 12 minutes is not really a big deal!
When you are alive, your veins are full of blood. When somebody cuts your hand, it will change the impression. So the test will fail. The best method will be to combine this with a scanner which detects blood flow. No blood flow and it means its a fake hand :).
Its because they use their legs.
Firefox > Firdiva or if you wanna go the Lispire way, Firefox > Assfire.