This doesn't frighten me at all. No 'soul' bullshit, because if there are souls, then it's a new one in the clone, not the same one.
Wow - someone who actually thinks along the same lines as I do...
So let's all relax and think before we cry 'OH DEAR GOD SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN'.
I'm all for growing new cell structures for people, it's reproduction through cloning which I have a problem with. Call this a troll if you like, this post isn't meant as such, but it might be a good idea to start fixing what we have now instead of growing more people to take up space.
I can just see the efforts to implement copy protection in the world of clones. The DMCA and the rest.
There is already a possible way to write comments into DNA, so copyright notices are not beyond the realm of possibility.
As for copy protection, the more you pull and tug at DNA the more fragile it gets. It might be (genetics is not my field, free to point me in the right direction here) that if you try to copy copied DNA errors will creep into the transcribed code. I don't know.. I just get the feeling that you can only tug on the meat so much before it starts to unravel, you know?
One thing about viruses is that once you are infected with one, there's nothing to stop you from disassembling it and posting the results all over the Net. All it takes is one netizen who gets hit with this badboy to blow that particular revision of the virus out of the water. And then a new version comes out.. and is disassembled. And again... And again.... repeat ad nauseum.
Who would have thought that underground virus scanners would be a reaction to a virus? This seems like it reverses the natural order of things.
Conspiracy mode on:
You know, this is a little too neat for my tastes. First it's made illegal to reverse engineer code (copy protection, in particular), and now the FBI wants to use viruses to gather intelligence for them. Of course, it's now illegal to reverse engineer said virus. Copy protection.. encryption. Perhaps the code of the Magic Lantern virus would be protected with a cryptosystem of some sort?
Get a copy of 'Make Your Own -opoly' and see what you can come up with. I've found it in the Johnson-Smith novelty catalogues once or twice (no idea what the URL is, though).
Everyone at work is essentially your comptition, when it comes time to get that raise, your so called friend will use everything against you he can to make sure he gets the raise and not you, and because YOU were stupid enough to allow this competitor into your life, you suffer the concequences when they ruin it.
Damned straight. And if you have any eccentricities in your background (and we all do, whatever they are), be ready for them to be dragged out at the worse possible momement. It can cost you your job at the very worst.
Do *you* get together on weekends? Do your spouses know any personal details of your workmates' spouses, beyond what may have slipped out during a long forgotten company Chistmas ball? Do you go bowling, play poker, or help your colleagues pave the driveway of their new home? Do you even have drinks with them after work?
Nope. Two reasons:
one) I'm still a student in college, so I don't really have any time for a social life unless it's over break or during downtime.
two) I prefer to keep my professional life and my personal life separate. Things that happen at work stay at work; things that happen at home stay at home, and never the two shall meet. When you start letting your co-workers into your personal life, those little details that slip out can complicate your work life to the point where it all falls apart.
Keep them separated and you won't have any problems.
I always figured anything sensative for military use would be stored on a proprietary government network.
I don't think much of it (if any) is really sensitive information.. it wouldn't be surprising if they were just boxes that J. Random Military Sysadmin installed for a specific purpose (say, a temporary mail server, or a server which holds software to perform an FTP install of (insert system here) and forgot about. It might be documented and lost, it might not be documented at all, but no one's going to touch it because they don't know what it does.
If they put it on some obscure ip block and give it no hostname, who will ever find it?
People netmapping or portscanning entire blocks of IP addresses just to see what's out there? People tracerouting but a funky router returns some weird IP with no reverse record? Who knows.. maybe someone who's setting up/etc/hosts and makes a typo or two.
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Great... if you can FULLY touch-type. What about the other 99.995% of us that can't?
Now I feel old.. I remember my parents teaching me to touch-type because it was the fastest way of getting things done on a keyboard (started off with a toy mechanical typewriter and moved on to a C-64 with Bank Street Writer later on). How common is it for people on the Net to not be able to touchtype these days?
I'm kind of partial to my Dell Latitude CP (model M233SD). Everything works on it as far as I know (though I'm having a bit of touble getting sound working under the v2.4 series Linux kernel - it works perfectly under v2.2). If you can find one on eBay, snag it (and get a memory upgrade while you're at it - they can use up to 128MB of RAM, just so you know.)
Wouldn't it be easier to get Linux to work on a laptop instead of building a laptop from scratch.
The problem there is that you're likely to have at least one device which isn't working properly on the laptop, usually a built-in modem. It's an imperfection which gets under your skin after a while. What is it Leon said in Bladerunner? "There's nothing worse than an itch that you can never scratch"?
I hope I'm overreacting a bit here.. there's something about this that's giving me the chills. I really hope this is 'simply' a case of pilot error, or a simple electromechanical failure.
Even that is inadequate. Airwall plus TEMPEST, perhaps.
I think that would depend on exactly where the systems were located.. doesn't TEMPEST work only under a certain distance? Beyond that, the signal strength would degrade, I thought.
More nonsense. ext2 will lose data if the data isn't written to the disk when a failure occurrs. So will UFS. But you won't experience corruption of data you're not working with otherwise. ext2 is stable and solid. It gets corrupted if you fuck with it. Same goes for every other fs.
If an EXT2-based system crashes or gets kicked over in the middle of a file system write, there's a good chance that the data will be lost (in fact, an excellent one.. laptops with older batteries, for example... oops), but the file system itself won't be wrecked unless it's a particularly bad case of timing (i.e., debugfs(8) needs to be used).
ReiserFS isn't in beta. It's sufficiently stable and is used by lots of people on production machines.
True that. We use it where I work, and it's in use on our laptops as well. I'm thinking of using it on the VA net as well.
As for compatibility between ext2 and ext3, it is possible to mount an ext3 file system as ext2 if you need to, you just won't get journalling as a result. I havn't done this first-hand, so I don't know how the file system will react when next you mount it as ext3, though...
I don't have any info on that, but I think I know why they havn't said:
If the tiger teams got in so easily, would-be net.terrorists could get in just as easily. This is just buying them time until their security cluefulness loan clears the bank. It's also possible that this report is a few weeks to a few months old, which would buy them further time. Whether or not this extra time was actually used productively is anyone's guess.
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True. This is the sort of research that cannot just be swept under the carpet, it gets out too rapidly.
Imagine having to live in China or Russia for a while to get your heart transplant because saving your life this way in the U.S. is illegal.
All we have to tell the US government is this: "Hey! A rich taxpayer's going to die if you don't help!" *grin*
*looks up*
Ye gods... I need sleep.
Wow - someone who actually thinks along the same lines as I do...
So let's all relax and think before we cry 'OH DEAR GOD SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN'.
I'm all for growing new cell structures for people, it's reproduction through cloning which I have a problem with. Call this a troll if you like, this post isn't meant as such, but it might be a good idea to start fixing what we have now instead of growing more people to take up space.
There is already a possible way to write comments into DNA, so copyright notices are not beyond the realm of possibility.
As for copy protection, the more you pull and tug at DNA the more fragile it gets. It might be (genetics is not my field, free to point me in the right direction here) that if you try to copy copied DNA errors will creep into the transcribed code. I don't know.. I just get the feeling that you can only tug on the meat so much before it starts to unravel, you know?
Hey! Clones are people two!
One thing about viruses is that once you are infected with one, there's nothing to stop you from disassembling it and posting the results all over the Net. All it takes is one netizen who gets hit with this badboy to blow that particular revision of the virus out of the water. And then a new version comes out.. and is disassembled. And again... And again.... repeat ad nauseum.
Who would have thought that underground virus scanners would be a reaction to a virus? This seems like it reverses the natural order of things.
Conspiracy mode on:
You know, this is a little too neat for my tastes. First it's made illegal to reverse engineer code (copy protection, in particular), and now the FBI wants to use viruses to gather intelligence for them. Of course, it's now illegal to reverse engineer said virus. Copy protection.. encryption. Perhaps the code of the Magic Lantern virus would be protected with a cryptosystem of some sort?
Conspiracy mode off:
Yeah. Like that's going to stop anyone.
What is this? Slashdot or alt.religion.scientology?
And what exactly did you inject into the IV line this morning?
Great. One more damned thing to keep clean... *chuckle*
Get a copy of 'Make Your Own -opoly' and see what you can come up with. I've found it in the Johnson-Smith novelty catalogues once or twice (no idea what the URL is, though).
Lose a job this way sometime and see how paranoid it is.
Damned straight. And if you have any eccentricities in your background (and we all do, whatever they are), be ready for them to be dragged out at the worse possible momement. It can cost you your job at the very worst.
Nope. Two reasons:
one) I'm still a student in college, so I don't really have any time for a social life unless it's over break or during downtime.
two) I prefer to keep my professional life and my personal life separate. Things that happen at work stay at work; things that happen at home stay at home, and never the two shall meet. When you start letting your co-workers into your personal life, those little details that slip out can complicate your work life to the point where it all falls apart.
Keep them separated and you won't have any problems.
Didn't the ENIAC use denary to represent numerical values internally? Or was it another computer of that era?
Does that mean that a Ternary digit is a 'Tart'?
I was always partial to 'trit' or 'trin'.Just out of curiosity, what do any Mage players think of this? A dream come true?
I don't think much of it (if any) is really sensitive information.. it wouldn't be surprising if they were just boxes that J. Random Military Sysadmin installed for a specific purpose (say, a temporary mail server, or a server which holds software to perform an FTP install of (insert system here) and forgot about. It might be documented and lost, it might not be documented at all, but no one's going to touch it because they don't know what it does.
If they put it on some obscure ip block and give it no hostname, who will ever find it?
People netmapping or portscanning entire blocks of IP addresses just to see what's out there? People tracerouting but a funky router returns some weird IP with no reverse record? Who knows.. maybe someone who's setting up /etc/hosts and makes a typo or two.
Now I feel old.. I remember my parents teaching me to touch-type because it was the fastest way of getting things done on a keyboard (started off with a toy mechanical typewriter and moved on to a C-64 with Bank Street Writer later on). How common is it for people on the Net to not be able to touchtype these days?
Lots of people have:
DJB DNS
Custom DNS
MaraDNS
Posadis (though I've no experience with it yet)
The list goes on and on.. hit Freshmeat.net for some possibilties.
I'm kind of partial to my Dell Latitude CP (model M233SD). Everything works on it as far as I know (though I'm having a bit of touble getting sound working under the v2.4 series Linux kernel - it works perfectly under v2.2). If you can find one on eBay, snag it (and get a memory upgrade while you're at it - they can use up to 128MB of RAM, just so you know.)
The problem there is that you're likely to have at least one device which isn't working properly on the laptop, usually a built-in modem. It's an imperfection which gets under your skin after a while. What is it Leon said in Bladerunner? "There's nothing worse than an itch that you can never scratch"?
I hope I'm overreacting a bit here.. there's something about this that's giving me the chills. I really hope this is 'simply' a case of pilot error, or a simple electromechanical failure.
I think that would depend on exactly where the systems were located.. doesn't TEMPEST work only under a certain distance? Beyond that, the signal strength would degrade, I thought.
If an EXT2-based system crashes or gets kicked over in the middle of a file system write, there's a good chance that the data will be lost (in fact, an excellent one.. laptops with older batteries, for example... oops), but the file system itself won't be wrecked unless it's a particularly bad case of timing (i.e., debugfs(8) needs to be used).
ReiserFS isn't in beta. It's sufficiently stable and is used by lots of people on production machines.
True that. We use it where I work, and it's in use on our laptops as well. I'm thinking of using it on the VA net as well.
As for compatibility between ext2 and ext3, it is possible to mount an ext3 file system as ext2 if you need to, you just won't get journalling as a result. I havn't done this first-hand, so I don't know how the file system will react when next you mount it as ext3, though...
Of course it has a logo..
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If it's airwalled. *grin*
If the tiger teams got in so easily, would-be net.terrorists could get in just as easily. This is just buying them time until their security cluefulness loan clears the bank. It's also possible that this report is a few weeks to a few months old, which would buy them further time. Whether or not this extra time was actually used productively is anyone's guess.
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