We are living in unexciting times, science and technology are developing slowly and in a linear manner, normal progress instead of breakthroughs. It has been so for the last 50 years.
You seem to be serious. If so, you're out of your mind. You dismiss major breakthrough developments (PCs and the Internet, for example) on the grounds that they had earlier seeds, but you fail to realize that earlier breakthroughs had earlier seeds as well; rocketry is millenia old.
In basic science, you're even further off. Off the top of my head, just in my lifetime, there's been the development of liquid-nitrogen temperature superconductors, the discovery of C60 and its related compounds, the discovery of extrasolar planets, and the demolition of the Big Bang theory as I once knew it. That last -- the discovery that the universe is not only expanding, but that the rate of expansion is increasing -- is of about as much relevance to the man on the street as special relativity was when Einstein came up with it.
And that's without even getting into biology and biochemistry.
Leased lines aren't security through obscurity. They are security through separation between your network and the threat. That separation isn't perfect, not as good as a dedicated physical channel, but it's pretty darn good. Now that not every schmoe on the internet can send an IP packet to you, you only have to worry about more savvy attackers who can attack the leased line provider.
The wireless device is a red herring. That's a separate threat, one which exists whether or not the device is on the Internet, a leased line, or even completely isolated (normally). The existence of that vector doesn't justify opening the much larger one of Internet access.
And yes, the monitoring stations should be separate from the public Internet as well. But even if they aren't, it's still an improvement that the generators themselves are; it means that the attacker needs to mount a more complex attack fooling the people monitoring the system into making a wrong move, rather than just telling the generators to self destruct.
Because I know linux quite well and will stick my arms, up to the pits, in to the code, I'll not use it as a day to day operating system. I have a Mac. Considering the relative user base size I'm not surprised that commercial companies avoid the issue of developing for Linux.
Delve into the internals of any operating system and you probably won't get a warm and fuzzy feeling. This certainly applies to Windows, but also to MacOS (classic and X) and likely everything else out there. Including the commercial RTOSs.
We are rapidly approaching the day when our computers will be fast enough for most tasks, the hard drive will be solid state, the system will be passively cooled and made from reliable parts that will last for decades, drawing minimal power. Any media that won't fit on the solid state hard drive can be stored on the spinning kind and plugged in as needed via USB/eSATA/firewire.
I've been hearing this for years now. It's not going to happen; a variant of Parkinson's law applies, load expands to utilize all available computing resources.
Patents aren't about wether or not something is obvious.
Wrong. Patents are supposed to be for inventions which are "useful", "novel", and "non-obvious". Unfortunately, people gaming the patent system have managed to get the meaning of "novel" widened and the meaning of "obvious" narrowed to the point where they mean little beyond "this exact thing hasn't been patented before" (and even then, the patents are often granted if obfuscated enough).
The Supreme Court recently tried to widen "obviousness", but the lower courts aren't playing along, as the recent Vonage decision shows.
All they'd have to do is connect the generator to the grid out-of-phase. The grid tries to drive it one way (remembering that a generator and a motor are pretty much the same), it's being mechanically driven the other way... something's gotta give, and it won't be the grid.
The problem is in allowing any remote control of the system, which the utility wants to happen so that a central facility can control any generator. Here, we have four power generation facilities, all of which are managed from a central control at the utilities main office downtown. They choose to use the internet to make those connections, because it's MUCH cheaper than stringing dedicated data lines from the generation plants to the central office.
I'm pretty sure that's a false dilemma. Doesn't the phone company still lease connections through it's own network (e.g. frame relay)? Much more expensive than the Internet, but much cheaper than a physical line, and certainly much more secure than the Internet.
With the law so bent towards media companies, you would think they'd stop bitching when companies like Google comply with the draconian laws.
You may have noticed that the copyright cartel is not happy with their own law (the DMCA) and is now pushing for ISPs to actively censor the net on behalf of copyright holders. They are complaining the law is too biased towards ISPs.
I'm pretty sure the DMCA process for removal involves sending the information to the host (Google), not to Congress. Evidentally this watchdog group has gotten a bit confused about the process.
The US, on the other hand, discovered decades, if not centuries, ago the serious problems with a first-to-file system, and switched to first-to-invent.
Harmonization with other countries isn't sufficient reason for doing it. After all, it's largely harmonization with the rest of the world -- joining the Berne convention -- that made copyright the out-of-control monster it is today.
Well, it's different because a bank robber might serve jail time, whereas Darl is laughing all the way to the bank. We (as a society) have nice legal and intellectual games to justify it when rich people do it.
It's rare, but it's not competely unheard-of to pierce the corporate veil and go after the officers and directors of a company.
Someone, maybe Novell, needs to ask the Bankruptcy Court to deny SCO's filing for Chapter 11 on the grounds that there's no way they can re-organize into a viable operation, and therefore they need to be liquidated. Then the creditors can auction off the honor of kicking Darl out on his ass.
Expect more inclusive countries to overtake yours soon - countries that embraces importing talent from overseas to strengthen themselves, instead being morbidly afraid of it.
Like which countries? Any Western European one? Har, har, har. Japan? Guffaw... China? You've got to be kidding. I actually don't know of any country which really embraces importing talent from overseas. No, not even Canada.
I don't think too many Americans are upset over Canadian H1B or NAFTA visa workers. It's workers from third-world countries who are perceived to be the problem. Personally I'd rather they be working here than in their home country; if they're working here they have expenses more similar to mine, and therefore will not settle for nearly as low a salary as they would if they were working as outsourced talent in their home country.
Recognizing counterfeit money is a specialization within the FBI. Also, there are few fake $20 bills, not worth the effort. They usually counterfeit $100s.
The $20 is the most counterfeited bill in the US. Probably because it's the largest common denomination.
Does this hack indeed work in a stock Macbook, and if so why wouldn't he just use the stock Macbook WiFi card?
My cynical suspicion is that he hadn't gotten the exploit to work on the MacBook stock WiFi card at the time, and rather than wait until he could and risk being "scooped", he tried to bluff.
Even more cynically, it's possible he had nothing on Apple at the time, later reverse-engineered his exploit from Apple's patch, and the exploit on the third-party card was something else entirely.
Tell that to the civil rights movement. They brought about change by passive resistance: the cops simply had to do all the work. Even when assaulted by police, they stuck to their guns and did not resist. What did it get them? The sympathy of a nation.
The system adapts. What worked once will not work again.
with atomic clocks that simply playback whatever we upload into them at a precise rate./blockquote
We, kemosabe? Who is this "we". I don't know about you, but I've never uploaded anything to the GPS satellites. Though that would be kind of cool... does Garmin sell anything which would do that?:-):-):-)
If you protest and resist the "right way", your story ends up on the back page of the student newspaper, probably as a one-liner in the "in brief" section which reads "Charges were dropped against a protester at the Kerry townhall meeting".
If you try and protest and resist in the ways the authorities approve of, you find that somehow, you never get heard at all. That is, after all, the reason those ways are approved of.
It's probably intended only for integrity, not for DRM. If they'd wanted to lock the iPod down against adding music to it, they'd use some sort of encryption, not a mere hash.
Remember -- in mainstream media, Generation X = bad, Generation Y = good. And for the same reasons. For instance, if you are a member of Generation X and read mainstream media, you learned about how your generation was the first to grow up with video games and were becoming a bunch of worthless pasty-faced zombies as a result (and now you're on slashdot and considered a worthless pasty-faced zombie living in your parents' basement as a result). On the other hand, members of Generation Y were also the first to grow up with video games (?!), and as a result have better reflexes and hand-eye coordination. (And while they are still living at home, their parents let them live upstairs)
It's not. The unreasonable thing is that if I say something bad (but true) about a product and the company sues me and the forum where I posted it, I am silenced, because
a) Neither the forum nor I have the resources for a court fight, and the company does.
and
b) Even if I did have the resources for the fight, the forum doesn't and even if it did, it's easier and cheaper for them to silence me.
Libel laws have it backwards from your example. You can write "Product X sucks" all day and it's just opinion and not libellous. If you write "Product X sucks because it has a major bug" (and give details), you may have committed libel if the product does not in fact have that bug.
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Staying engaged politically gets you nothing but exhausted --- and tracked by those who really are in control.
You seem to be serious. If so, you're out of your mind. You dismiss major breakthrough developments (PCs and the Internet, for example) on the grounds that they had earlier seeds, but you fail to realize that earlier breakthroughs had earlier seeds as well; rocketry is millenia old.
In basic science, you're even further off. Off the top of my head, just in my lifetime, there's been the development of liquid-nitrogen temperature superconductors, the discovery of C60 and its related compounds, the discovery of extrasolar planets, and the demolition of the Big Bang theory as I once knew it. That last -- the discovery that the universe is not only expanding, but that the rate of expansion is increasing -- is of about as much relevance to the man on the street as special relativity was when Einstein came up with it.
And that's without even getting into biology and biochemistry.
Leased lines aren't security through obscurity. They are security through separation between your network and the threat. That separation isn't perfect, not as good as a dedicated physical channel, but it's pretty darn good. Now that not every schmoe on the internet can send an IP packet to you, you only have to worry about more savvy attackers who can attack the leased line provider.
The wireless device is a red herring. That's a separate threat, one which exists whether or not the device is on the Internet, a leased line, or even completely isolated (normally). The existence of that vector doesn't justify opening the much larger one of Internet access.
And yes, the monitoring stations should be separate from the public Internet as well. But even if they aren't, it's still an improvement that the generators themselves are; it means that the attacker needs to mount a more complex attack fooling the people monitoring the system into making a wrong move, rather than just telling the generators to self destruct.
Delve into the internals of any operating system and you probably won't get a warm and fuzzy feeling. This certainly applies to Windows, but also to MacOS (classic and X) and likely everything else out there. Including the commercial RTOSs.
Wrong. Patents are supposed to be for inventions which are "useful", "novel", and "non-obvious". Unfortunately, people gaming the patent system have managed to get the meaning of "novel" widened and the meaning of "obvious" narrowed to the point where they mean little beyond "this exact thing hasn't been patented before" (and even then, the patents are often granted if obfuscated enough).
The Supreme Court recently tried to widen "obviousness", but the lower courts aren't playing along, as the recent Vonage decision shows.
All they'd have to do is connect the generator to the grid out-of-phase. The grid tries to drive it one way (remembering that a generator and a motor are pretty much the same), it's being mechanically driven the other way... something's gotta give, and it won't be the grid.
You may have noticed that the copyright cartel is not happy with their own law (the DMCA) and is now pushing for ISPs to actively censor the net on behalf of copyright holders. They are complaining the law is too biased towards ISPs.
I'm pretty sure the DMCA process for removal involves sending the information to the host (Google), not to Congress. Evidentally this watchdog group has gotten a bit confused about the process.
If people aren't laughing at Microsoft security as much nowadays, it's merely because the joke has grown stale.
The US, on the other hand, discovered decades, if not centuries, ago the serious problems with a first-to-file system, and switched to first-to-invent.
Harmonization with other countries isn't sufficient reason for doing it. After all, it's largely harmonization with the rest of the world -- joining the Berne convention -- that made copyright the out-of-control monster it is today.
Someone, maybe Novell, needs to ask the Bankruptcy Court to deny SCO's filing for Chapter 11 on the grounds that there's no way they can re-organize into a viable operation, and therefore they need to be liquidated. Then the creditors can auction off the honor of kicking Darl out on his ass.
Like which countries? Any Western European one? Har, har, har. Japan? Guffaw... China? You've got to be kidding. I actually don't know of any country which really embraces importing talent from overseas. No, not even Canada.
I don't think too many Americans are upset over Canadian H1B or NAFTA visa workers. It's workers from third-world countries who are perceived to be the problem. Personally I'd rather they be working here than in their home country; if they're working here they have expenses more similar to mine, and therefore will not settle for nearly as low a salary as they would if they were working as outsourced talent in their home country.
My cynical suspicion is that he hadn't gotten the exploit to work on the MacBook stock WiFi card at the time, and rather than wait until he could and risk being "scooped", he tried to bluff.
Even more cynically, it's possible he had nothing on Apple at the time, later reverse-engineered his exploit from Apple's patch, and the exploit on the third-party card was something else entirely.
If you protest and resist the "right way", your story ends up on the back page of the student newspaper, probably as a one-liner in the "in brief" section which reads "Charges were dropped against a protester at the Kerry townhall meeting".
If you try and protest and resist in the ways the authorities approve of, you find that somehow, you never get heard at all. That is, after all, the reason those ways are approved of.
It's probably intended only for integrity, not for DRM. If they'd wanted to lock the iPod down against adding music to it, they'd use some sort of encryption, not a mere hash.
Remember -- in mainstream media, Generation X = bad, Generation Y = good. And for the same reasons. For instance, if you are a member of Generation X and read mainstream media, you learned about how your generation was the first to grow up with video games and were becoming a bunch of worthless pasty-faced zombies as a result (and now you're on slashdot and considered a worthless pasty-faced zombie living in your parents' basement as a result). On the other hand, members of Generation Y were also the first to grow up with video games (?!), and as a result have better reflexes and hand-eye coordination. (And while they are still living at home, their parents let them live upstairs)
It's not. The unreasonable thing is that if I say something bad (but true) about a product and the company sues me and the forum where I posted it, I am silenced, because
a) Neither the forum nor I have the resources for a court fight, and the company does.
and
b) Even if I did have the resources for the fight, the forum doesn't and even if it did, it's easier and cheaper for them to silence me.
Libel laws have it backwards from your example. You can write "Product X sucks" all day and it's just opinion and not libellous. If you write "Product X sucks because it has a major bug" (and give details), you may have committed libel if the product does not in fact have that bug.