Railways and Postal service are government owned in India...
The point of this arrest is different. Someone (read high ranking police officer) called up this CEO and asked him to take the clip off the website. He apparently said "We'll do that on Monday, first thing". That pissed off the caller, who issued a warrant on this guy for Obstruction of Justice. The rest is in TFA..
Maybe it was malice , maybe it was just zeal... But you won't find a hotel owner say the same if they get call about some criminals in their hotel:)
To be truthful, nothing is secure... It can only be "Secure Enough". If the cost of breaking something is more than the benifit - that is security in one sense.
Any encryption can be broken - given enough resources... The trick is to make it so difficult that nobody finds out unless they are prepared to invest more than what you did (time, computing power, money, technology).
Interestingly in India, according to
Department of Telecom
website - security means something different:).
23. Individuals/Groups/Organisations are permitted to use encryption upto 40 bit key length in the RSA algorithms or its equivalent in other algorithms without having to obtain permission from the Telecom Authority. However, if encryption equipments higher than this limit are to be deployed, individuals/groups/organisations shall do so with the prior written permission of the Telecom Authority and deposit the decryption key, split into two parts, with the Telecom Authority.
We have to keep our private keys in ESCROW to use >40 bit encryption... Talk about stupid laws (of course which no-one enforces or obeys).
Couldn't they pick a less Window'ish theme for this thing ?. After all I don't use XP or any MSFT Os at home... How's performance on linux-x86 (redraw stuff) and what will it show if I'm running fluxbox (instead of gnome/kde interfaces).
And YTF is "StarOffice 8" == "OpenOffice 2.0".. Managers do have this version madness you know (guess which sounds better;)
The Writer screenshot looks better than MS word but how about editing. I've had problems with fonts in RTF output (which is what I use by choice).
These days overclocking is no big deal for half the crowd... CPUs immersed in cooled flourinert has made it passe to even try the basic level.
Eventhough what I really want is a silent cooling system - I was quite spooked when my fans stopped working - perfect silence is disconcerting (Alfred Hitchcock could tell you). I want a silent, zero maintanence PC cooling solution (think about the G4 cube) - I'm sure I could compensate for the silence with some nice trance..
IANALP (*cough*) , but I guess a lock pick expert would know what other lock pickers can easily pick ?.
I am a part-time sysadmin at office and I'm pretty much the best cracker around as well. I therfore know how another cracker would go about breaking in and can take pre-emptive measures. I also know how vulnerable/unsafe these things are , so I take special steps for physical security and access to the box.
It takes a computer security breaker to "ensure" that the system is unbreakable to his talents. He's a unit test case..
Microsoft implemented it as an Active-X object you could invoke from Javascript - Mozilla implemented
it as a native Javascript object. Microsoft calls it "Msxml2.XMLHTTP" or "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" depending on which version of IE you are running - Mozillah has a cleaner "XMLHttpRequest" naming (soon to be in the standards I guess).
So on IE it needs ActiveX enabled to use it . Mozilla version is therfore much safer to use and easier to program with in connection:)
Eventhough it's an M$ spawned horror - It has brought a new revolution to javascript. Now it can load data from the server without having to refresh the screen. Flash has an XmlSocket , but I never see anyone use it till now (pointers please).
Eventhough Google suggest looks great, I'd vote on CGI::IRC as the biggest killer HTML/Javascript browser app.
Clientside Javascript is powerful, we never realized how much:)
Uhmm.. G.W Bush claims that "Global Warming" (henceforth referred to as "G.W") will melt the poles and.... God shall call forth another great flood to cleanse the world.
Whitehouse later retracted the claims when they realized NYC will be under 20 feet of sea water. The Gaia theory has been proposed along with Alaskan ice to fix the issue in concern.
Of course he blames the entire problem on Iraq and the fact that they set fire to oil wells in Kuwait in 1991 leading to a rise in temperature of the Free World. Also Canadians contribute to this problem in no small amount as a comparitive study of houses with central heating in Miami and Tornoto showed.
So far all the hardware players had that "Ipod Killer" tag, which isn't the TFA:).
Open firmware is cool - but hardware schematics are more iffy. All in all, I'd put open firmware over hardware schemas any day:)
Have you seen Simputer General Public License which Simputer uses for their hardware ?. I suppose Neuros has some kind of licensing model at least for defining copyright and that kind of stuff. This is kinda blind faith to re-use or work on.
comparing Apples and Margarine ?
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What you pasted for JVM was the engine specs and for this thing was the CPU/Embedded specs.
The guys haven't really given out WHAT the "embedded.net" runs - looks like it's about the same as what the embedded JVM runs (not the Java "chip"). It's not a ".NET" chip first off and secondly it's almost the same as those "jvm" embedded (ie 400k sdram for what I have) in features. Multi-threading is not really multi-threading either, it is a kind of co-operative environment.
It's really not the big badass ".NET" at all , despite the name and the endorsment.
Duh ! ... It's an exe + bootstrap for JIT
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.NET is a JIT engine , it's designed explicitly for JIT'ing... It does produce a.exe file which has a main which calls the Mscoree.dll with the current file and starts up the VM using the bytecode data. The EXE part is just bootstrap code , the rest is JIT'd .
Read
this paper
about how many hoops you have to go through to get a decent interpreter for.NET. And it blatantly ignores the _Main() x86 native code that's in the.exe files.
Remember ROM Basic...
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Looks like this idea's been around for god knows how long... So much for innovation, we seem to be going backwards here ?.
This is a plug , but I've been working on a.NET CLR which can be trimmed down to around 400k (for a full opcode set, no less !!) for the last 3 years.
Never will be a direct chip for Parrot
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Parrot is not a very good design to put on a chip,
for one single reason.
Too Many opcodes (1500 at my current count and growing).
Morover parrot has opcodes which do very complicated things like "print_nc" which prints a FLOATVAL constant. Compared to that IL opcodes are simpler and JVM is still more simpler (CVM is even simpler - which is what I'm working on now).
Parrot is too complex, period.
It is not a real CPU , from what I read.
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a CPU for the.net CLR, that's all, in much the same way as Pentiums and Athlons, etc, are CPUs for x86
No, it is a CPU for.NET CLR as much as a Gumstix is a CPU for Linux kernel. It's just a VM embedded on firmware, NOT a REAL CPU.
Btw, the JVM FPGA is a real example of a VM less execution (or more correctly , a native JVM + support libs).
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It is really just a CPU on which CLR runs , not a real.NET CPU in hardware. (or so the TFA seems to indicate from the diagram). Also of the more convenient peices of the ECMA 335 spec.
It's an embedded chip which has a CLR on top of it.
Nice idea, sorry that Sun thought of it earlier ( The Green Project) - Sun seems to be consistently missing the BUS here. They came up with "Network is the computer" and now MS is selling ".NET ":)
I've seen a couple of stack based engines but by its polymorphic nature.NET bytecode is not suitable for a direct CPU (you could do something like dynamic translation like the Crusoe chip had). But then it's still a JIT , right ?:)
Seriosuly, what would have happened if those frantic phone calls from the 9/11 planes had caused them to crash down into the bay instead of into the twin towers. It still would be a tragedy , but a bitter sweet one than the one that really happened.
Still I'm saddened twinfold by those attacks. Not only did they kill a number of innocents, but they also made US Xenophobic to an extreme where they were willing to finance a war on an unrelated soverign nation for an vested interests of the rulers. People don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the rulers[warning: swastika]
Anyway, all that was offtopic - I still haven't recovered from Eminem's Mosh video yet.
There was a time when 0wn3rship by spam bots were not even considered a problem because everyone was on dialup anyway. More recently with the coming of broadband and lots of stupid users to the internet - that has become the major headache (ie spyware, malware and trojans are local issues, spam bots are bigger).
It's a real cost when the ISP cuts you off or sends you a fat bandwidth bill:)
So far all the TCO studies I've seen are quite biased by the looks of it - except this one about TC0.
But you underestimate the staffing issues there.
Firing all your MSFT IT guys and hiring new "LinuxCompatible" admins is a big pain for most companies. Of course you fire 3 Win32 admins and hire one Linux admin by default:)
For a new startup, a Linux desktop is invaluable , especially if you have a couple of in-house developers who use it regularly. That's where linux is slowly creeping into the desktop - not in the big companies with million dollar CTOs and kickbacks from Microsoft.
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The point of this arrest is different. Someone (read high ranking police officer) called up this CEO and asked him to take the clip off the website. He apparently said "We'll do that on Monday, first thing". That pissed off the caller, who issued a warrant on this guy for Obstruction of Justice. The rest is in TFA ..
Maybe it was malice , maybe it was just zealI won't have minded it if they asked for a provision to ask for private keys - I just don't trust the government that much - Especially my clients.
Laws like patents, have to specific - otherwise they are easily misused.Any encryption can be broken - given enough resources ... The trick is to make it so difficult that nobody finds out unless they are prepared to invest more than what you did (time, computing power, money, technology).
Interestingly in India, according to Department of Telecom website - security means something differentCouldn't they pick a less Window'ish theme for this thing ?. After all I don't use XP or any MSFT Os at home... How's performance on linux-x86 (redraw stuff) and what will it show if I'm running fluxbox (instead of gnome/kde interfaces).
.. Managers do have this version madness you know (guess which sounds better ;)
:)
And YTF is "StarOffice 8" == "OpenOffice 2.0"
The Writer screenshot looks better than MS word but how about editing. I've had problems with fonts in RTF output (which is what I use by choice).
That's it I'm switching this weekend !!
You watch a TV from typically 6-5 feet ... So I guess bad pixels won't be noticed that bad :)
..
But the view angle + illumination + contrast vote goes in favour of the Plasma.
Btw, won't a company prefer something with builtin obsolence - oh, wait, there's no monopoly yet
These days overclocking is no big deal for half the crowd ... CPUs immersed in cooled flourinert has made it passe to even try the basic level.
..
:)
Eventhough what I really want is a silent cooling system - I was quite spooked when my fans stopped working - perfect silence is disconcerting (Alfred Hitchcock could tell you). I want a silent, zero maintanence PC cooling solution (think about the G4 cube) - I'm sure I could compensate for the silence with some nice trance
"Overclocking is easy, silence is hard"
IANALP (*cough*) , but I guess a lock pick expert would know what other lock pickers can easily pick ?.
..
I am a part-time sysadmin at office and I'm pretty much the best cracker around as well. I therfore know how another cracker would go about breaking in and can take pre-emptive measures. I also know how vulnerable/unsafe these things are , so I take special steps for physical security and access to the box.
It takes a computer security breaker to "ensure" that the system is unbreakable to his talents. He's a unit test case
For the few who have real data in /var/ , a better idea is to have a /fs/var.tar.gz which is untarred into /var on boot up. (rc.local).
Some people even tar it back on shutdownMicrosoft implemented it as an Active-X object you could invoke from Javascript - Mozilla implemented it as a native Javascript object. Microsoft calls it "Msxml2.XMLHTTP" or "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" depending on which version of IE you are running - Mozillah has a cleaner "XMLHttpRequest" naming (soon to be in the standards I guess).
So on IE it needs ActiveX enabled to use it . Mozilla version is therfore much safer to use and easier to program with in connectionVisit simple example for a quick and dirty example :)
Eventhough it's an M$ spawned horror - It has brought a new revolution to javascript. Now it can load data from the server without having to refresh the screen. Flash has an XmlSocket , but I never see anyone use it till now (pointers please).
:)
Eventhough Google suggest looks great, I'd vote on CGI::IRC as the biggest killer HTML/Javascript browser app.
Clientside Javascript is powerful, we never realized how much
Uhmm.. G.W Bush claims that "Global Warming" (henceforth referred to as "G.W") will melt the poles and ....
Whitehouse later retracted the claims when they realized NYC will be under 20 feet of sea water. The Gaia theory has been proposed along with Alaskan ice to fix the issue in concern.God shall call forth another great flood to cleanse the world.
Of course he blames the entire problem on Iraq and the fact that they set fire to oil wells in Kuwait in 1991 leading to a rise in temperature of the Free World. Also Canadians contribute to this problem in no small amount as a comparitive study of houses with central heating in Miami and Tornoto showed.
Mmm... twisted newsThere was a study by the Russians in the 70's to investigate whether a Nuclear Winter might be irreversible.
:)
IIRC, the study concluded that the 63% was the tipping point where the reflection of heat from white ice starts a self propogating ice age.
Mankind will survive anyway, that's all I really care
So far all the hardware players had that "Ipod Killer" tag, which isn't the TFA :).
Open firmware is cool - but hardware schematics are more iffy. All in all, I'd put open firmware over hardware schemas any day :)
Have you seen Simputer General Public License which Simputer uses for their hardware ?. I suppose Neuros has some kind of licensing model at least for defining copyright and that kind of stuff. This is kinda blind faith to re-use or work on.What you actually mean is that dialup penetration is very low.
It's not like, everyone uses broadband because it's available everywhere.
The road to hell is paved with NAND gates.
/usr/bin/fortune
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What you pasted for JVM was the engine specs and for this thing was the CPU/Embedded specs.
The guys haven't really given out WHAT the "embedded.net" runs - looks like it's about the same as what the embedded JVM runs (not the Java "chip"). It's not a ".NET" chip first off and secondly it's almost the same as those "jvm" embedded (ie 400k sdram for what I have) in features. Multi-threading is not really multi-threading either, it is a kind of co-operative environment.
It's really not the big badass ".NET" at all , despite the name and the endorsment.
Read this paper about how many hoops you have to go through to get a decent interpreter for .NET. And it blatantly ignores the _Main() x86 native code that's in the .exe files.
Looks like this idea's been around for god knows how long ... So much for innovation, we seem to be going backwards here ?.
This is a plug , but I've been working on aParrot is not a very good design to put on a chip, for one single reason.
Too Many opcodes (1500 at my current count and growing).Morover parrot has opcodes which do very complicated things like "print_nc" which prints a FLOATVAL constant. Compared to that IL opcodes are simpler and JVM is still more simpler (CVM is even simpler - which is what I'm working on now).
Parrot is too complex, period.No, it is a CPU for .NET CLR as much as a Gumstix is a CPU for Linux kernel. It's just a VM embedded on firmware, NOT a REAL CPU.
Btw, the JVM FPGA is a real example of a VM less execution (or more correctly , a native JVM + support libs).It's an embedded chip which has a CLR on top of it. Nice idea, sorry that Sun thought of it earlier ( The Green Project) - Sun seems to be consistently missing the BUS here. They came up with "Network is the computer" and now MS is selling ".NET " :)
I've seen a couple of stack based engines but by its polymorphic natureStill I'm saddened twinfold by those attacks. Not only did they kill a number of innocents, but they also made US Xenophobic to an extreme where they were willing to finance a war on an unrelated soverign nation for an vested interests of the rulers. People don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the rulers [warning: swastika]
Anyway, all that was offtopic - I still haven't recovered from Eminem's Mosh video yet.Looks like this is "In South Korea, only old people " ?
Btw, some of those are really fun to see repeated
like the "All your base are belong to TuX" or
the "In Soviet Russia, the Cow Orks you ?"
There was a time when 0wn3rship by spam bots were not even considered a problem because everyone was on dialup anyway. More recently with the coming of broadband and lots of stupid users to the internet - that has become the major headache (ie spyware, malware and trojans are local issues, spam bots are bigger).
It's a real cost when the ISP cuts you off or sends you a fat bandwidth billBut you underestimate the staffing issues there. Firing all your MSFT IT guys and hiring new "LinuxCompatible" admins is a big pain for most companies. Of course you fire 3 Win32 admins and hire one Linux admin by default :)
For a new startup, a Linux desktop is invaluable , especially if you have a couple of in-house developers who use it regularly. That's where linux is slowly creeping into the desktop - not in the big companies with million dollar CTOs and kickbacks from Microsoft.