> On another note, distance education could mean the end of school shootings as we know it. Kids would have the Internet to provide some protection from being made fun of because there is no visual contact with other students.
Because as every gibbering fuckwit knows, the lack of visual contact between people has always ensured a high degree of civility in any new communications medium.
And now that we've ended school shootings as we've known them, and because class ends in only five minutes, will you please hurry up and respawn so I can pwn j00r n00b a55 again?:)
We, for one, welcome ourselves as overlords. As members of the Slashdot community, we could be useful in convincing each other to toil in our above-ground beef and soybean and titanium mines.
> You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us.
Well, you see, it's all about making sure that you enjoy the faculties of both the left brain and the right brain. Because more than a mouthful's a waste.
("No, you moron, I haven't been turned into a zombie, I'm talking about her tits!")
Because "VIIV0K oportet suppeto" is easier to pronounce than "DCXLK".
Because there are no "bars over characters" in ASCII, and because redundancy filter won't let me type in the other representation for the quantity you get when you multiply DCXL by MXXIV.
And because even if the derivation would get past the filter, there is no. freaking. way. I'm going to try and multiply those two quantities in Roman numerals. Nuh-uh. If they want more than that much RAM, the Linigoths can have the Empire.
Seriously. To the original poster, you are probably asking the wrong audience, and you are definitely risking your clearance by doing so.
Find the guidelines. Read the guidelines. Learn the guidelines. Think of things you would do in order to circumvent those guidelines.
And then, even if it's possible to do it yourself, do not do it yourself, but have a vendor do it. When you find a vendor that offers something that neither you, nor your fellow (cleared:) geeks can come up with a decent means of circumventing, you're probably on track to finding the right vendor.
Security is a process (umm, a process which you've probably broken by bringing this up here:), not a product. Avoid any vendor who appears to be in denial on this point.
As for you asking this in the wrong place, the only hint I can offer is to read the responses at "0" (or even -1). If there are vendors worth avoiding, some Anonymous Coward will probably be around help (or hinder:) you. Some folks with moderator points may choose to help you, but the people most qualified to help you with mod points may very well choose not to help you, if you catch my drift.
Good luck. Because if you're asking here, you'll need it.:)
> I'm too close for Missles Goose, I'm switching to Lasers! >
I'm too close for lasers, switching to Scientology.
>
Hello Mr. Enemy Pilot, may I Audit you?
Maveric: You don't know the history of frickin' lasers on sharks' heads. I do!
Goose: We regret to inform you that your son is broke because he is stupid.
> I bet that within two years we'll have drives that can read/write both HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
And what are you going to display them on?
You'll have one dual-format HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player. It'll have two outputs. One will pipe HDMI video to your Toshiba HDTV. The other will pipe HDMI video to your Sony HDTV.
Why the second HDTV? Well, how else did you think you were going to watch any movies made by Sony Pictures?:)
And why does Sony Pictures have the right to make sure that Sony's movies are only released on Sony-formatted DVDs that will decode correctly only on Sony HDMI screens? Well, they asked for the Betamax precedent to be overtu~`~~~ Petard-hoisting error -- industry dumped
> > Recently, a team of scientists devised a way to make single-celled algae bear loads over distances of several centimeters > > Just wait until they organize... and go on strike. Can't you just see the little picket signs circling around the pond?
Algae Shrugs!
"To hell with with all multicellular organisms! They're all a bunch of looters and moochers!"
(Also by the same author, Photosynthesis: The Unknown Ideal! and The Fountain-liner!)
> >
He also suggests that CAN-SPAM has been effective in deterring spammers. > >
Oh, so that's why I don't get any spam any more... > >
Well, off to clean my Inbox of spam.
That's not spam, those are amazing offers to which you just haven't opted out yet! Haven't you listened to Gator, uh, Claria, uh, the new Microsoft Secure Safety Technology that gives you access to the Amazing Vehicle of E-Mail Marketing?
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health.
> "Whose synthesizer is this?" >
"It's a sampler, baby." >
"Whose sampler is this?" >
"Bob's." >
"Who's Bob?" >
"Bob's dead, baby. Bob's dead..."
...riffing on Cyberpunk Fiction, a parody of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. (I'm going from memory here, it's been a while since I've heard it... but it's also probably a fitting tribute, since without Bob, none of the following suggenres would have existed...)
"Y'know what they call industrial music over there? Electro Body Music!"
"Electro Body Music? What do they call techno?"
"Well, techno's techno. Except in Paris they call it 'le techno'."
"What do they call house?"
"I don't know, I don't listen to that shit. But you know what put on drums in Holland?"
"What?"
"Flange."
"Goddamn!"
"They fuckin' bury 'em in it..."
The first track of the album album also features a bit of dialog that, by itself, is worth the price of the entire album:
"All right, everybody, be COOL! I'm your new SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR!" "Any of you fucking Ewoks move and I'll terminate every last motherfucking job on the mainframe!"
> Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is [it] better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?
Why do it right?
If you do it right, all the DRM'd media will eventually appear on the open standard, and everybody will be able to use it.
If you let them do it wrong, there will be multiple competing closed standards for DRM, and companies that adopt only one or two of these standards will have their support costs raised by dozens of consumers saying "my music won't play on your machine", or their engineering costs raised by the necessity of supporting all the standards, and their sales reduced by negative customer experiences.
DAT vs. Cassettes. CDDA vs. Sony's Minidisc/ATRAC. CompactFlash vs. Sony's MemoryStick. DVD vs. Circuity City's DIVX. The slow growth of DVD(plusorminusorslash)R(sometimeswithaW) vs. CD-R. The friggin' 1.44M 3.5" floppy vs. everything that proprietary vendors threw at it over 20 years, and which is only now slowly being eclipsed by USB storage.
With the possible exception of Microsoft's WMV, RealMedia, and Apple's iTunes, every instance of a closed standard has been roundly rejected by the consumer marketplace. (And even including those three, you can live a pretty full life without ever dealing with any of 'em. Open video codecs and MP3 are all the market really wanted.)
Consumers don't like vendor lock-in. And they vote with their dollars.
Yes, the DRM gangs will eventually win, but why help them speed up the process?
>
Yes, it would really suck if we had both laws on the books, but there is nothing even on the horizon that would similarly compel people to give up their passphrases like that here in Canada.
You miss my point -- once upon a time, there was no RIP in the UK, either.
This law is useless without a Canadian equivalent to the RIP. Therefore, the Canadian government will be forced to implement an RIP-equivalent law within a year or two of implementing the "all your connections are subject to permanent sniffing" law.
The reason you implement these laws piecewise is so that Citizen Canuck can look at the law and say "That won't affect me, because I'll just use encryption", (or so Ernest Englishman can say "It's a fair cop, but they 'ave to get a court order to gather the evidence they'll use before demanding my password under RIP").
And because, under a parliamentary system such as that used in the UK (and Canada), by the time the second half of the law is drafted, it's already too late.
OK, so, umm, good day, eh? I'm Bob McKenzie, and the guy with the mouse in the beer bottle stuck to his face is my brother Doug. (*muffled* Where's my free case, eh? You cheap bastards!)
So, anyway, the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that
Bob or Doug made, above the level of a very low blowing of wind across the mouth of an open beer bottle, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as they remained within the field of vision which the map of Canada commanded, they could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the CRTC plugged in on any individual channel was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched the CBC all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every beer you drank was overheard, and, except in darkness, every attempt to take off was, like, looked at real close-like, eh?"
- Some guy named George, Eh? He, like, wrote the functional spec for it. And he horked our beer.
> Hmm let's see. Large areas of land with little or no lighting and little or no security, filled with LCD screens... Sounds like the perfect opportunity for latenight theft.
No Id Name
1 54550 Tackhead died in Graveyard. Killed by a Granite Block.
My vidstone will consist of a clip of Admiral Ackbar, with a voiceover saying "I told him it was a trap."
> I believe the inventory referred to in this article simply tests for psychopathic traits, or at least their appearance. Whether these folks are truly psychopathic would require far more in-depth investigation.
Something I've always wanted to do in a job interview:
"Oh, I get it! You're using some variation of the Hare criteria to pre-screen candidates for psychopathy! Good idea, I've always believed that employees have to have a good fit with the organization they work for..."
And then immediately follow up with either:
"...and you seem like a pretty mellow dude, and I haven't heard any boss/subordinate screaming matches from nearby cubicles, so I'll give you the modest, self-effacing answers we both know FooCorp is looking for."
or
"...and this looks like a pretty intense place to work. Lotta go-getters here. I'm not saying I'll try to climb the ladder over the backs of my competition, but if you're OK with quietly sawing away at the rung they're standing on, we'll get along great."
> If Psycopathy has a genetic component, then has it survived natural selection. Surely in ancient times psycopathy would not have got you far. You'd likely be expelled from a society or likely killed.
Or, more likely yet, you'd become the alpha of the group.
> OK, read the story again, only replace "computer" with "car" and "possibly illegal files" with "body in the trunk".
> >
What happens when the car gets dropped off for an oil change? If the mechanic sees blood dripping out from under the car, would he be allowed to call the cops?
Nail. Head. Hit.
Your mechanic is under no obligation to call the cops. He's also under no obligation not to call the cops.
If I hand off a hard drive full of goat pr0n to a techie, I should expect, at a minimum to get some weird stares when I get the hard drive back.
This isn't a case of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". This is a case of a someone being "too dumb to fear, too dumb to bother hiding", and the gene pool is improved by it.
> I personally can't find any way to view pornography that makes it 'speech'. Google "define: speech" and you get a whole lot of definitions, both literal and metaphorical. I don't see how pictures of lesbians munching pussy, say, fit any of those definitions, even approximately.
"Whem im meh courfe of hummum evemphs it becumf neceffary for um feepfle to diffolve feh fpowitical bandf which haf cummected fem wif amuffer, amf to affume amumm fe powerf of feh earff, feh feparate amm equal ftaffun (ooo!) whicf fe La(ahh)s of Natuure amm of Nature's - oh God - entfifle fem..."
Well, at least now you now why the Founding Fathers (and mothers:) rendered their cursive "s" characters to look like "f"s!
> Add into the mix one guy who watches too much wrestling and one gal who re-lived her first Backstreet Boys concert by wetting herself and you'll being looking for video of the whole thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Because as every gibbering fuckwit knows, the lack of visual contact between people has always ensured a high degree of civility in any new communications medium.
And now that we've ended school shootings as we've known them, and because class ends in only five minutes, will you please hurry up and respawn so I can pwn j00r n00b a55 again? :)
We, for one, welcome ourselves as overlords. As members of the Slashdot community, we could be useful in convincing each other to toil in our above-ground beef and soybean and titanium mines.
Well, you see, it's all about making sure that you enjoy the faculties of both the left brain and the right brain. Because more than a mouthful's a waste.
("No, you moron, I haven't been turned into a zombie, I'm talking about her tits!")
Because "VIIV0K oportet suppeto" is easier to pronounce than "DCXLK".
Because there are no "bars over characters" in ASCII, and because redundancy filter won't let me type in the other representation for the quantity you get when you multiply DCXL by MXXIV.
And because even if the derivation would get past the filter, there is no. freaking. way. I'm going to try and multiply those two quantities in Roman numerals. Nuh-uh. If they want more than that much RAM, the Linigoths can have the Empire.
"Hey, it;s bad enough down here!"
- Satan
>
> Oh, you meant "building secure computers".
In Soviet Russia, security clearance loses you!
Seriously. To the original poster, you are probably asking the wrong audience, and you are definitely risking your clearance by doing so.
Find the guidelines. Read the guidelines. Learn the guidelines. Think of things you would do in order to circumvent those guidelines.
And then, even if it's possible to do it yourself, do not do it yourself, but have a vendor do it. When you find a vendor that offers something that neither you, nor your fellow (cleared :) geeks can come up with a decent means of circumventing, you're probably on track to finding the right vendor.
Security is a process (umm, a process which you've probably broken by bringing this up here :), not a product. Avoid any vendor who appears to be in denial on this point.
As for you asking this in the wrong place, the only hint I can offer is to read the responses at "0" (or even -1). If there are vendors worth avoiding, some Anonymous Coward will probably be around help (or hinder :) you. Some folks with moderator points may choose to help you, but the people most qualified to help you with mod points may very well choose not to help you, if you catch my drift.
Good luck. Because if you're asking here, you'll need it. :)
> I'm too close for lasers, switching to Scientology.
> Hello Mr. Enemy Pilot, may I Audit you?
Maveric: You don't know the history of frickin' lasers on sharks' heads. I do!
Goose: We regret to inform you that your son is broke because he is stupid.
> It's a plane!
>
> What the heck is that thing?
Holy fuck, it's an elephant! Either get a big umbrella, lay off the booze, or run for your lives!
And what are you going to display them on?
You'll have one dual-format HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player. It'll have two outputs. One will pipe HDMI video to your Toshiba HDTV. The other will pipe HDMI video to your Sony HDTV.
Why the second HDTV? Well, how else did you think you were going to watch any movies made by Sony Pictures? :)
And why does Sony Pictures have the right to make sure that Sony's movies are only released on Sony-formatted DVDs that will decode correctly only on Sony HDMI screens? Well, they asked for the Betamax precedent to be overtu~`~~~
Petard-hoisting error -- industry dumped
>
> Just wait until they organize... and go on strike. Can't you just see the little picket signs circling around the pond?
Algae Shrugs!
"To hell with with all multicellular organisms! They're all a bunch of looters and moochers!"
(Also by the same author, Photosynthesis: The Unknown Ideal! and The Fountain-liner!)
>
> Oh, so that's why I don't get any spam any more...
>
> Well, off to clean my Inbox of spam.
That's not spam, those are amazing offers to which you just haven't opted out yet! Haven't you listened to Gator, uh, Claria, uh, the new Microsoft Secure Safety Technology that gives you access to the Amazing Vehicle of E-Mail Marketing?
In other news today, Microsoft executives report that dipping your balls in sweet cream and squatting in a kitchen full of kittens may be hazardous to your health.
> "It's a sampler, baby."
> "Whose sampler is this?"
> "Bob's."
> "Who's Bob?"
> "Bob's dead, baby. Bob's dead..."
"Y'know what they call industrial music over there? Electro Body Music!"
"Electro Body Music? What do they call techno?"
"Well, techno's techno. Except in Paris they call it 'le techno'."
"What do they call house?"
"I don't know, I don't listen to that shit. But you know what put on drums in Holland?"
"What?"
"Flange."
"Goddamn!"
"They fuckin' bury 'em in it..."
The first track of the album album also features a bit of dialog that, by itself, is worth the price of the entire album:
"All right, everybody, be COOL! I'm your new SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR!"
"Any of you fucking Ewoks move and I'll terminate every last motherfucking job on the mainframe!"
Why do it right?
If you do it right, all the DRM'd media will eventually appear on the open standard, and everybody will be able to use it.
If you let them do it wrong, there will be multiple competing closed standards for DRM, and companies that adopt only one or two of these standards will have their support costs raised by dozens of consumers saying "my music won't play on your machine", or their engineering costs raised by the necessity of supporting all the standards, and their sales reduced by negative customer experiences.
DAT vs. Cassettes. CDDA vs. Sony's Minidisc/ATRAC. CompactFlash vs. Sony's MemoryStick. DVD vs. Circuity City's DIVX. The slow growth of DVD(plusorminusorslash)R(sometimeswithaW) vs. CD-R. The friggin' 1.44M 3.5" floppy vs. everything that proprietary vendors threw at it over 20 years, and which is only now slowly being eclipsed by USB storage.
With the possible exception of Microsoft's WMV, RealMedia, and Apple's iTunes, every instance of a closed standard has been roundly rejected by the consumer marketplace. (And even including those three, you can live a pretty full life without ever dealing with any of 'em. Open video codecs and MP3 are all the market really wanted.)
Consumers don't like vendor lock-in. And they vote with their dollars.
Yes, the DRM gangs will eventually win, but why help them speed up the process?
You miss my point -- once upon a time, there was no RIP in the UK, either.
This law is useless without a Canadian equivalent to the RIP. Therefore, the Canadian government will be forced to implement an RIP-equivalent law within a year or two of implementing the "all your connections are subject to permanent sniffing" law.
The reason you implement these laws piecewise is so that Citizen Canuck can look at the law and say "That won't affect me, because I'll just use encryption", (or so Ernest Englishman can say "It's a fair cop, but they 'ave to get a court order to gather the evidence they'll use before demanding my password under RIP").
And because, under a parliamentary system such as that used in the UK (and Canada), by the time the second half of the law is drafted, it's already too late.
So, anyway, the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Bob or Doug made, above the level of a very low blowing of wind across the mouth of an open beer bottle, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as they remained within the field of vision which the map of Canada commanded, they could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the CRTC plugged in on any individual channel was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched the CBC all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every beer you drank was overheard, and, except in darkness, every attempt to take off was, like, looked at real close-like, eh?"
- Some guy named George, Eh? He, like, wrote the functional spec for it. And he horked our beer.
Hello, RIP
Simply demand passphrases - under penalty of law - from anybody whose packetstream, when decoded, contains the string "BEGIN PGP KEY BLOCK".
And RIP, privacy.
No Id Name
1 54550 Tackhead died in Graveyard. Killed by a Granite Block.
My vidstone will consist of a clip of Admiral Ackbar, with a voiceover saying "I told him it was a trap."
Something I've always wanted to do in a job interview:
"Oh, I get it! You're using some variation of the Hare criteria to pre-screen candidates for psychopathy! Good idea, I've always believed that employees have to have a good fit with the organization they work for..."
And then immediately follow up with either:
"...and you seem like a pretty mellow dude, and I haven't heard any boss/subordinate screaming matches from nearby cubicles, so I'll give you the modest, self-effacing answers we both know FooCorp is looking for."
or
"...and this looks like a pretty intense place to work. Lotta go-getters here. I'm not saying I'll try to climb the ladder over the backs of my competition, but if you're OK with quietly sawing away at the rung they're standing on, we'll get along great."
Or, more likely yet, you'd become the alpha of the group.
> Gunpowder, treason and plot
> I see no reason
> Why gunpowder treason
> Should ever be forgot.
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November,
Natalie's turned into rock.
That's all the reason,
in Slashdotting season,
to cover in grits that are hot!
"Fucked if I know, ask someone from GOOG!"
- Anonymous YHOOer
>
> What happens when the car gets dropped off for an oil change? If the mechanic sees blood dripping out from under the car, would he be allowed to call the cops?
Nail. Head. Hit.
Your mechanic is under no obligation to call the cops. He's also under no obligation not to call the cops.
If I hand off a hard drive full of goat pr0n to a techie, I should expect, at a minimum to get some weird stares when I get the hard drive back.
This isn't a case of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". This is a case of a someone being "too dumb to fear, too dumb to bother hiding", and the gene pool is improved by it.
"Whem im meh courfe of hummum evemphs it becumf neceffary for um feepfle to diffolve feh fpowitical bandf which haf cummected fem wif amuffer, amf to affume amumm fe powerf of feh earff, feh feparate amm equal ftaffun (ooo!) whicf fe La(ahh)s of Natuure amm of Nature's - oh God - entfifle fem..."
Well, at least now you now why the Founding Fathers (and mothers :) rendered their cursive "s" characters to look like "f"s!
As a matter of fact, no, iWont.
>
> Nah...All you need is a playboy subscription.