Come on, OpenBSD had transparent slice encryption for years. Again someone reinvents stuff in FreeBSD which is in OpenBSD for a long time already. And of course with strong encryption.
You could have had this already by just replacing your FreeBSD install with OpenBSD and you would have get the protection from remote exploits as an additional bonus. Partition encryption is pretty useless if your box is owned.
The only issue with OpenBSD is it's lacking support for AES. But the are some issues with AES itself: (1) the thing that one shuffle gives the same strength as three and (2) it's officially approved by the NSA. So it's rather unlikely that this is a really strong encryption scheme with flaws or backholes.
these guys are the real problem !
What is SPAM ?
SPAM is a form of direct marketing, where the customers is approached by email.
Note that direct markting itself was never a problem itself, and it's much older than computers. The first forms of direct marketing can be traced back to the end of the 19th century.
The main problem with SPAM is that it is undirected. Zillions of people getting zillions of email with offers they don't need. But this doesn't mean that SPAM is useless - if there would be no customers reacting to the offers, then the advertisement would be useless and thus SPAM wouldn't appear. The problem of SPAM is that it is undirected. We get offers we don't need. We might be interested in offer to enhance our TiVos or about newest Linux/*BSD distributions, but we get penis enlargement and hebal viagra instead.
This is the result of the low quality of the customers databases of the advertisers. If they had high quality databases then the issue wouldn't occur. And the "they will send it anyway"-argument is non-sense because unwanted offers are at best useless and at worst even damageing (bad reputation etc.).
So we should strive to increase the database quality of the advitisers. This can be done by creating a national/global database were everybody enters his preferences/hobbies and other personal data. Or the goverment could extract such data from emails etc by e.g. the carnivore system. In the end this would create high quality direct marketing with benefits for everyone.
However, at this stage the self appointed privacy advocates come into play.
With their zealot mission to destroy any storage of data of customers or citizens, these people effective block the road to the SPAM solution.
Even more they actively decrease the quality of databases leading to more SPAM. In Europe their lobbying pressure got even "privacy bills" issued which make any high quality direct marketing impossible, leading to a increased SPAM level of 24 percent relative to the US.
They just don't want to give the movies to the critics before the start because they fear that the critics will be bad. Remember how the RIAA blamed critics for the commercial failure of some of the lastest wanna-bee-blockbusters ?
Well that the answer.
Instead of increasing the quality of the movies they just want to shut up all critics.
I predict in some years critics will get unfair competition and commercial damages lawsuits for writing negative reviews and the Oscar commitee will be forced to give Oscars to the most expensive movies just to promote them.
And all this just they want to milk out a maximum of money of the customers instead of concentrating of making good movies unlike the sucking Matrix sequel.
Sorry, but I cannot recommend Perl.
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Perl 5.8.1 Released
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· Score: -1, Troll
From my consulting experience usually 67 percent of all system contracts is porting Perl to some sane language. Furthermore the cause of about 80 percent of all forced system conversion due to scalability or relyability issues is Perl.
Other system conversion is usually Cobol (the Cobold never dies...) or Fortran. However, these languages have the disthinguished advantage that porting the sources to a modern language like C,C++ or Java is relatively easy. This usually doesn't hold for Perl. Even if you go into "pervent mode" and wildly mix Python, C++ and Java to simulate similar behavior, then you still have heaps of trouble. And of course a disgusting, unmaintainable code base.
After going trought Perl hell often enough I started lobbying customers to use different solutions than Perl. This gives content customers in long term (and longer contracts;)
and less headache from trying to get the meaning of some Perl gibberish an intern (usually now burger flipping expert) wrote 3 years ago.
Is there any reason to use Slackware, besides 31337 penis erlargement ?
I mean for pure open distros we have already Debian with it's superior apt. And there are thousands of other commercial distros too.
So what makes Slackware special enough to give me a serious reason to use it ?
And always remember: you are competing with OpenBSD, too.
It's very unlikely that amateurs are able to create such gems like "human bodies used as batteries" and similar rubbish.
You usually have to live several years in the SciFi sewers of Hollywood to reach such a stage of chaotic transcendence that you are able to write such scripts without your brain exploding.
What I find a little problematic with Matrix is it's open propagation of Satanism.
Take e.g. the names of the characters:
Neo is an anagram of "one", the "one". This doctrine usually refers to the avatar of Satan
because Satan is - unlike God who exists in TRINITY - only ONE being. Furthermore Neo takes clearly the defilers role as he fights against order and propagates anti-autoritarian behavior
and the relativity of moralic values.
Morpheus doesn't refers to Greek mythology but to the KABBALISTIC figure of M'orphir'ne'us,
servant of the evil one and traditionally the preparator of his plans.
Nebukadnezar was a heathen king and is mentioned in the Holy Book for serving Baal and being killed by the warth of the LORD. See the book Daniel.
Additionally the crew of the Nebukadnezar has a traditional satanistic agenda: to bring people from the rightful path of order and obedience of the laws of the lord into the labyrinth (!) of chaos and ignorance to natural authorities.
Note that both the Church of Set and the OTO declared the Matrix as a recommended film for obvious reasons.
The logic behind Matrix I sucked gaint donkey balls and was probably invented by psychos on a 4 week crack diet.
In Matrix II they tried to fix it but only succeed in vastly increasing the overall suckage. Perhaps someone thought: "Hey, we invested crack for 4 weeks on these psychos, so we must get something out of this investment after all. Let's give them another try !"
So in Matrix III they will desperately try to fix both the illogic of I and the suckage of II, a truely superhuman goal. And ultimately they will fail, of course.
However, Trinity looks hot in black leather.
Being the only sane contribution but the matrix series, I reckon that this must be some work of an intern, perhaps he/she slipped it in as a joke.
Technophobic propaganda
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RFID Hell
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All this anti-RFID tag stuff is technophobic propaganda from anti-technologist fear mongers.
If you consider the facts - I mean real facts from reality and not imaginations from scifi movies like Gattaca - then you have to conclude that RFID tag provide huge benefits for people and economy. Take some examples:
RFID tags can be used for health, care and security protection and will enables us to fight problems like illnesses, crime and terrorism.
RFID tags provide a huge range of new marketing and service opportunities.
RFID tags can create new immersive environments increasing life quality at home and productiness at work.
RFID tags will help to protect the enviroment
by enabling intelligent recycling, garbage disposal and reduing resource consumption thus preserving the creation given to us by the Lord for use.
This list can obviously enlarged by much more applications.
So if you use your brain instead of irrationally technology fear then you will indeed conclude that RFIDs are essential for our future and therefore we should propagate their use instead of spreading the fear propaganda originating from some interested fundamentalist groups.
which isn't totally owned by the industry and where the goverment strives to work in the interest of their citizens.
The situation in the US is much worse they even start wars just to give some companies more revenues.
This makes me wonder when France starts to adopt Linux.
What we see here is the death of all applications and protocols which fail to work with dynamic addressing.
Static addresses are a extremely dangerous threat from security and privacy points of view.
Furthermore they make the network non-dynamic and less immersive. People recognized this even in the infancy of the internet, that's why there are static-to-dynamic readdressing scheme like e.g. DNS.
All apps/protocols which don't cooperate with the dynamic addressing paradigm are bound to die in the near future. This might even affect services with only semi-dynamic support.
And that's the real reason why speak freely won't come back to life when ip6 is installed. Not because of an evil, dark ISP conspiracy which wants to enslave customers.
But because the dynamics addressing paradigm will still rule the internet and thus speak freely won't work.
Mathematician's rule of the thumb:
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Plasma Comes Alive
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if it's published in a journal with a title containing the word "chaos" then it's rubbish propability p is increased by min(1-p,exp(1/(1-p))).
Some people even throw an integration over the spelling errors in the publication into this formula. (Seiberg's famous bad spelling trace integral.)
What's wrong with this redirection ? They only redirect when the domainname is misspelled. You would get an error in this case anyways. And I doubt that anyone could confuse this sitefinder with the page he searched for. I think all this fuss about sitefinder is just negative propaganda generated by some competitors of VS aiming for VS's market share.
You can make very dangerous grenades by using silly putty.
Personally I wouldn't publish such information. With the Patriot act you are with one feet in prison when putting this on the web.
And it's always a little questionable to provide people with information to make dangerous stuff like weapons etc.
Tinfoil hats won't help you because they don't create a Faradays cage. In fact a tin foil hat would work like a parabolic antenna which concentrates the cell phone waves onto your brain.
Instead of calculating the risks first, the greedy industry builds it and the responsibility for bad effects is handed over to the government afterwards.
Usually the industry pushes some PR-tech hype in the same time just to dissolve all suspicions of the public. A mud campaign is set out to destroy the credibility of all critics.
This doesn't only affect the wireless and cell phone stuff they do it in other areas, too.
Many promising ideas in creative science are destroied by these people. Take e.g. the water-car or the anti-gravitation drive of this Russian guy.
Just to get some short term profits, they ignore the long term problems.
Coming back to cell phone, there is more than direct wave effects on users and people living near a base station. As you will surely know the electro-magnetic waves used for cell phone communication are just the same a radioactive waves used in nuclear power plants, they just operate at a different frequency and energy. However energy adds up over the long time and this makes me wonder whether a long term exposure of lifeforms or dead materials will have the same effect as a short exposure to radioactive rays. The industry will of course deny this and unfortunately most scientists depend heavily of industrial founding.:(
The energy of a radition source is decreasing with the cubic of the distance as everybody here surely knows. Now taking into account the vast distance a trivial calculations gives a huge amount of energy released at x=0. When you now take Einsteins formula for mass E=m*c^2 you see easily that the released enery equals the adverage mass of 2.3 neutron stars of brightness class M.
I doubt that NASA got their calculations right otherwise we would have 2 large neutron stars (a neutron star and a anti-neutron star) colliding and annihilating here. That's a little unlikely.
Perhaps they tried again to use metric units;-).
It's not o.k. to do the same wrong onto people which those people have done onto you.
Just because they annoy you, you can't harass them.
If it's illegal then leave the revenge to the goverment.
I mean otherwise it would be like shooting people who break into your home etc.
Well you can do the same with standard geek tools.
Take 2 empty Pringles cans with intact lid.
In fact one can with 2 lids will be sufficient.
Remove the bottom of one can.
Put one lid on the bottom and glue it hot glue.
Fill can with water.
Put the other lid on the top. Make sure that there are no bubbles in the can.
Glue the top lid.
What have you now got is a high quality ultrasonic lens with will greatly improve the focusing of your cellphone cam or any other cam with ultrasonic focus.
No computers in dorms.
And that's in fact the best solutions.
Students usually use the computers for playing, trading mp3s or collection pr0n.
There are some courses where you need a computer - CS etc. But usually the departments have sufficient computer pools for their students.
So student don't really need computers at the dorms. In fact, they usually keep them from learning. So a computer ban would increase their grades and their learning curve. And the value
of computers for non-CS/programming related education has been proven to be nil.
Some ad hoc polls at my university have shown that students with less computer usage usually have the best marks. Interestingly this also applied to CS students, so the computers at home doesn't seem to improve their understanding of computer science at all. A collegue of mine went even so far to reject all hacker-type students
(more than 50 hours of computer usage per week) from entering graduate courses, but I think he goes too far with this approach.
However, some deparments (Maths/Liberal Arts/Chemistry) are lobbying hard to get a dorm-wide computer ban.
when he decided to get out a new kernel version.
While 2.6.0 has some improvements versus 2.4.22 there is still too much lacking in Linux.
Many things should be changed and indeed Linus should have waited with issueing a new kernel until these things were done. Let me give you some examples.
The security system should be stronger integrated into the kernel. Yes there is PAM these days, but a real secure system will have authentification and verification added at kernel level to make it trust-worthy and tamper-proof.
That's why the TCPA starts with the security chain at boot-up. Although they have different things than just security in mind.
Grid access. Given the exciting new development of grid computing, the access and aviability interfaces should be added to the kernel. This would make e.g. load balancing much easier. Threaded Apache would span child processes and threads automatically at other machines totally transparent for user and the program itself.
Given to above grid access all journaled file system should be made grid aware and supporting distributed storaging. You could try this with non-journaled FS, too, but you should soon hit the wall due to the lack of transaction.
More modular kernel design. While device drivers can be loaded at run-time, a fully modular kernel design is still missing. Yes, the micro-kernel is quite dead, but a decent modular design can be quite powerful as well-used system like Windows NT and successors show.
There are of course much more things to add to Linux, but I really can't list all of them here.
Nevertheless, I think that Linus should have waited a little more. You can't of course add everything at a kernel revision, but on the other hand Linux is no commercial system, so version numbers don't have spewed out at Nigara falls level.
Despite popular belief, a defibrillators doesn't raise the dead.
A defibrillator only helps people with acute ventricular fibrillation and keeps them from dying.
such binary releases of virtual machines would much easier if the FreeBSD development would decide to fully embrace a microkernel architecture for FreeBSD.
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You could have had this already by just replacing your FreeBSD install with OpenBSD and you would have get the protection from remote exploits as an additional bonus. Partition encryption is pretty useless if your box is owned.
The only issue with OpenBSD is it's lacking support for AES. But the are some issues with AES itself: (1) the thing that one shuffle gives the same strength as three and (2) it's officially approved by the NSA. So it's rather unlikely that this is a really strong encryption scheme with flaws or backholes.
these guys are the real problem !
What is SPAM ?
SPAM is a form of direct marketing, where the customers is approached by email.
Note that direct markting itself was never a problem itself, and it's much older than computers. The first forms of direct marketing can be traced back to the end of the 19th century.
The main problem with SPAM is that it is undirected. Zillions of people getting zillions of email with offers they don't need. But this doesn't mean that SPAM is useless - if there would be no customers reacting to the offers, then the advertisement would be useless and thus SPAM wouldn't appear. The problem of SPAM is that it is undirected. We get offers we don't need. We might be interested in offer to enhance our TiVos or about newest Linux/*BSD distributions, but we get penis enlargement and hebal viagra instead.
This is the result of the low quality of the customers databases of the advertisers. If they had high quality databases then the issue wouldn't occur. And the "they will send it anyway"-argument is non-sense because unwanted offers are at best useless and at worst even damageing (bad reputation etc.).
So we should strive to increase the database quality of the advitisers. This can be done by creating a national/global database were everybody enters his preferences/hobbies and other personal data. Or the goverment could extract such data from emails etc by e.g. the carnivore system. In the end this would create high quality direct marketing with benefits for everyone.
However, at this stage the self appointed privacy advocates come into play. With their zealot mission to destroy any storage of data of customers or citizens, these people effective block the road to the SPAM solution. Even more they actively decrease the quality of databases leading to more SPAM. In Europe their lobbying pressure got even "privacy bills" issued which make any high quality direct marketing impossible, leading to a increased SPAM level of 24 percent relative to the US.
Remember how the RIAA blamed critics for the commercial failure of some of the lastest wanna-bee-blockbusters ?
Well that the answer.
Instead of increasing the quality of the movies they just want to shut up all critics.
I predict in some years critics will get unfair competition and commercial damages lawsuits for writing negative reviews and the Oscar commitee will be forced to give Oscars to the most expensive movies just to promote them.
And all this just they want to milk out a maximum of money of the customers instead of concentrating of making good movies unlike the sucking Matrix sequel.
After going trought Perl hell often enough I started lobbying customers to use different solutions than Perl. This gives content customers in long term (and longer contracts ;)
and less headache from trying to get the meaning of some Perl gibberish an intern (usually now burger flipping expert) wrote 3 years ago.
Is there any reason to use Slackware, besides 31337 penis erlargement ?
I mean for pure open distros we have already Debian with it's superior apt. And there are thousands of other commercial distros too.
So what makes Slackware special enough to give me a serious reason to use it ?
And always remember: you are competing with OpenBSD, too.
You would have a hard time. You can say many positive things about RMS, but peace-keeping is not one of them.
You usually have to live several years in the SciFi sewers of Hollywood to reach such a stage of chaotic transcendence that you are able to write such scripts without your brain exploding.
What I find a little problematic with Matrix is it's open propagation of Satanism. Take e.g. the names of the characters:
- Neo is an anagram of "one", the "one". This doctrine usually refers to the avatar of Satan
because Satan is - unlike God who exists in TRINITY - only ONE being. Furthermore Neo takes clearly the defilers role as he fights against order and propagates anti-autoritarian behavior
and the relativity of moralic values.
- Morpheus doesn't refers to Greek mythology but to the KABBALISTIC figure of M'orphir'ne'us,
servant of the evil one and traditionally the preparator of his plans.
- Nebukadnezar was a heathen king and is mentioned in the Holy Book for serving Baal and being killed by the warth of the LORD. See the book Daniel.
Additionally the crew of the Nebukadnezar has a traditional satanistic agenda: to bring people from the rightful path of order and obedience of the laws of the lord into the labyrinth (!) of chaos and ignorance to natural authorities.Note that both the Church of Set and the OTO declared the Matrix as a recommended film for obvious reasons.
In Matrix II they tried to fix it but only succeed in vastly increasing the overall suckage. Perhaps someone thought: "Hey, we invested crack for 4 weeks on these psychos, so we must get something out of this investment after all. Let's give them another try !"
So in Matrix III they will desperately try to fix both the illogic of I and the suckage of II, a truely superhuman goal. And ultimately they will fail, of course.
However, Trinity looks hot in black leather.
Being the only sane contribution but the matrix series, I reckon that this must be some work of an intern, perhaps he/she slipped it in as a joke.
If you consider the facts - I mean real facts from reality and not imaginations from scifi movies like Gattaca - then you have to conclude that RFID tag provide huge benefits for people and economy. Take some examples:
- RFID tags can be used for health, care and security protection and will enables us to fight problems like illnesses, crime and terrorism.
- RFID tags provide a huge range of new marketing and service opportunities.
- RFID tags can create new immersive environments increasing life quality at home and productiness at work.
- RFID tags will help to protect the enviroment
by enabling intelligent recycling, garbage disposal and reduing resource consumption thus preserving the creation given to us by the Lord for use.
This list can obviously enlarged by much more applications.So if you use your brain instead of irrationally technology fear then you will indeed conclude that RFIDs are essential for our future and therefore we should propagate their use instead of spreading the fear propaganda originating from some interested fundamentalist groups.
which isn't totally owned by the industry and where the goverment strives to work in the interest of their citizens. The situation in the US is much worse they even start wars just to give some companies more revenues. This makes me wonder when France starts to adopt Linux.
What we see here is the death of all applications and protocols which fail to work with dynamic addressing.
Static addresses are a extremely dangerous threat from security and privacy points of view. Furthermore they make the network non-dynamic and less immersive. People recognized this even in the infancy of the internet, that's why there are static-to-dynamic readdressing scheme like e.g. DNS.
All apps/protocols which don't cooperate with the dynamic addressing paradigm are bound to die in the near future. This might even affect services with only semi-dynamic support.
And that's the real reason why speak freely won't come back to life when ip6 is installed. Not because of an evil, dark ISP conspiracy which wants to enslave customers. But because the dynamics addressing paradigm will still rule the internet and thus speak freely won't work.
min(1-p,exp(1/(1-p))).
Some people even throw an integration over the spelling errors in the publication into this formula. (Seiberg's famous bad spelling trace integral.)
What's wrong with this redirection ?
They only redirect when the domainname is misspelled. You would get an error in this case anyways.
And I doubt that anyone could confuse this sitefinder with the page he searched for.
I think all this fuss about sitefinder is just negative propaganda generated by some competitors of VS aiming for VS's market share.
You can make very dangerous grenades by using silly putty.
Personally I wouldn't publish such information. With the Patriot act you are with one feet in prison when putting this on the web.
And it's always a little questionable to provide people with information to make dangerous stuff like weapons etc.
Tinfoil hats won't help you because they don't create a Faradays cage. In fact a tin foil hat would work like a parabolic antenna which concentrates the cell phone waves onto your brain.
Usually the industry pushes some PR-tech hype in the same time just to dissolve all suspicions of the public. A mud campaign is set out to destroy the credibility of all critics.
This doesn't only affect the wireless and cell phone stuff they do it in other areas, too. Many promising ideas in creative science are destroied by these people. Take e.g. the water-car or the anti-gravitation drive of this Russian guy.
Just to get some short term profits, they ignore the long term problems.
Coming back to cell phone, there is more than direct wave effects on users and people living near a base station. As you will surely know the electro-magnetic waves used for cell phone communication are just the same a radioactive waves used in nuclear power plants, they just operate at a different frequency and energy. However energy adds up over the long time and this makes me wonder whether a long term exposure of lifeforms or dead materials will have the same effect as a short exposure to radioactive rays. The industry will of course deny this and unfortunately most scientists depend heavily of industrial founding. :(
The energy of a radition source is decreasing with the cubic of the distance as everybody here surely knows. Now taking into account the vast distance a trivial calculations gives a huge amount of energy released at x=0. When you now take Einsteins formula for mass E=m*c^2 you see easily that the released enery equals the adverage mass of 2.3 neutron stars of brightness class M. ;-).
I doubt that NASA got their calculations right otherwise we would have 2 large neutron stars (a neutron star and a anti-neutron star) colliding and annihilating here. That's a little unlikely.
Perhaps they tried again to use metric units
It's not o.k. to do the same wrong onto people which those people have done onto you.
Just because they annoy you, you can't harass them.
If it's illegal then leave the revenge to the goverment.
I mean otherwise it would be like shooting people who break into your home etc.
Take 2 empty Pringles cans with intact lid. In fact one can with 2 lids will be sufficient.
Remove the bottom of one can.
Put one lid on the bottom and glue it hot glue.
Fill can with water.
Put the other lid on the top. Make sure that there are no bubbles in the can.
Glue the top lid.
What have you now got is a high quality ultrasonic lens with will greatly improve the focusing of your cellphone cam or any other cam with ultrasonic focus.
And that's in fact the best solutions. Students usually use the computers for playing, trading mp3s or collection pr0n. There are some courses where you need a computer - CS etc. But usually the departments have sufficient computer pools for their students. So student don't really need computers at the dorms. In fact, they usually keep them from learning. So a computer ban would increase their grades and their learning curve. And the value of computers for non-CS/programming related education has been proven to be nil.
Some ad hoc polls at my university have shown that students with less computer usage usually have the best marks. Interestingly this also applied to CS students, so the computers at home doesn't seem to improve their understanding of computer science at all. A collegue of mine went even so far to reject all hacker-type students (more than 50 hours of computer usage per week) from entering graduate courses, but I think he goes too far with this approach.
However, some deparments (Maths/Liberal Arts/Chemistry) are lobbying hard to get a dorm-wide computer ban.
- a laptop with Linux/FreeBSD
- a WiFi card with reconfigurable ID
- assorted 31337 h4x0ring programs
- a ticket to Cleveland
Risk: 0%Profit: 100%
- The security system should be stronger integrated into the kernel. Yes there is PAM these days, but a real secure system will have authentification and verification added at kernel level to make it trust-worthy and tamper-proof.
That's why the TCPA starts with the security chain at boot-up. Although they have different things than just security in mind.
- Grid access. Given the exciting new development of grid computing, the access and aviability interfaces should be added to the kernel. This would make e.g. load balancing much easier. Threaded Apache would span child processes and threads automatically at other machines totally transparent for user and the program itself.
- Given to above grid access all journaled file system should be made grid aware and supporting distributed storaging. You could try this with non-journaled FS, too, but you should soon hit the wall due to the lack of transaction.
- More modular kernel design. While device drivers can be loaded at run-time, a fully modular kernel design is still missing. Yes, the micro-kernel is quite dead, but a decent modular design can be quite powerful as well-used system like Windows NT and successors show.
There are of course much more things to add to Linux, but I really can't list all of them here.Nevertheless, I think that Linus should have waited a little more. You can't of course add everything at a kernel revision, but on the other hand Linux is no commercial system, so version numbers don't have spewed out at Nigara falls level.
Despite popular belief, a defibrillators doesn't raise the dead.
A defibrillator only helps people with acute ventricular fibrillation and keeps them from dying.
such binary releases of virtual machines would much easier if the FreeBSD development would decide to fully embrace a microkernel architecture for FreeBSD.
this implies that radioactive spiders don't make you gay.
Reality is sometimes better than fiction.