Many blocklists do make a point of advertising (probably on usenet - NANAE) the companies that are harassing them legally. Trust me, e360 insight or whoever t.f. is behind this current harassment will be remembered by the other blocklist operators (myself included). They may solve their spamhaus problem, but they will end up with new ones
Why does everyone forget this cornerstone of the legal system, an accused person is innocent unless proven guilty. It is very easy to accuse someone of something bad, but the accusation alone causes a lot of damage to reputation.
This doesn't change what I think of Hans Reiser at all. If he's convicted of murder, that's different, but nothing like that has happened. A husband is a natural suspect in such a case. I hope that his wife is OK, but I have no reason to believe that Hans is responsible.
When I was in highschool, our principal was accused of sexual misconduct due to some activities that allegedly took place with a student. This shocking accusation made the news, and all the parents were horrified. But very few people went to the actual trial, and when the man was acquitted it did not make the news. Give everyone their chance and let the legal system do its job.
But I looked through the IBM Press Room and didn't see anything about this technology. Why post a story about "IBM planning to release on Monday..." when you can just wait for a real release from the company to happen. At the moment I'd like to share this info with colleagues who do research in hardware security but can't find a good source to send them to.
> how much of this product is actually related to nanotech?
Maybe you don't understand what nanotechnology is? It's a broad term that describes physical technology built at the nanometer scale. Particles and materials built from them on these small scales sometimes have useful properties that technology can exploit. The computer side of it is just an application of the small structures.
This story is about illness due to inhaled particles from a cleaning product. It's not clear to me whether the product actually made use of nanotechnology, that is, nanometer sized particles because of properties that were useful for the cleaner. It is quite possible that it did, on the other hand who knows where the term 'nano' entered the discussion -- perhaps it was just on product marketing?
Very difficult to know right now. Personally I would air on the side of caution and avoid internal exposure (eating, drinking, inhaling) to any materials containing newly discovered/manufactured nanoparticles, because it is possible such small unnatural particles have toxic or other undesirable affects on the human body. This is the same care I would take with exposure to any new material.
There are lots of poisons out there to begin with, again the question this story raises is are there new risks specifically associated with artificially made nanometer scaled particles as opposed to existing materials?
> Security: Async designs give security against side channel power analysis attacks
You're right about that. I research side channel attacks on crypto hardware, and my first response to this was --- well, this would make EM analysis more complicated. For those not familiar with the general approach, in side channel attacks you don't try to do anything as complicated as breaking the underlying math of the crypto. Instead you observe the hardware for emissions that can give some clues as the instructions being carried out. If your observations help give you any info about what the chip is processing, you might learn parts of keys or gain a statistical advantage in other attacks. So if it's harder to observe signals emitted (electromagnetically from the chip, then attacking the hardware is harder.
This internet porn stuff isn't just "consumed" by boys and men. I know of several women (in the teen-to-20s) including my last girlfriend who were avid fans of internet porn. Sometimes it's the stories and softcore, but yes there are plenty of women who enjoy the hardcore too. And trust me it gives everyone more to "work with" no matter what equipment ya got.
I do know women who, like the men described in the article, will idly browse for porn to pass the time. Some like it very much (I call these 'awesome women' and am seeking them).
I agree totally. It's not that sending spam causes you to do other crimes, it's that both spamming and other criminal activities are the results of a certain kind of mindset. Remember that spamming involves: collaboration with criminal elements (organized fleets of zombies probably tied to organized crime); theft of resources and offloading burdens onto victims; and lying and cheating innocent people, by selling them bogus products, stealing their money, and all the while profiting from it. Doing this as a spammer is somewhat easy because you're not stealing money from the consumers directly but acting as a middleman for any immoral marketer who wants access to the victims.
A professional spammer is a selfish, greedy person who not only lacks compassion for other human beings but who actively seeks new ways to trick victims and steal their money and resources, all for personal gain. This is a tad worse than the typical marketer.
Anyway, this is EXACTLY the kind of person who can be involved in other criminal activities, possibly even violent crime, because they lack empathy and concern for others in society.
If you're running windows, there's a freeware program called popurl that will show you the HTTP headers for URLs you copy to the clipboard. You can see the X- headers in there
I can't even contemplate how the US will ever work its way out recession that follows. The whole damn economy is built around suburban expansion and people borrowing against their homes. Anyone have a financial bomb shelter??
You're not the only one who warns about this. So does the Federal Reserve themselves, and other central banks worldwide. They all know that once credit dries up or overleveraged speculation starts to unravel, we are headed for financial chaos.
My 'financial bomb shelter' is: staying heavily in cash/t-bills, NOT stocks or bond funds, owning some physical gold and foreign currencies
The reason they're not checking out what they're buying is similar to the reason nobody checks out the health of a company before buying stock in it, during hot streaks in the stock market (e.g. 1997-2000 - slashdot you remember that one, and now 2003-2006 for housing/financial stocks).
During investment manias, people get caught up in the "urgency" to buy something (like tech stocks) and don't do the appropriate research. Real estate has been on a hot streak due to easy credit, and many of these investors are looking to quickly flip property -- again, very similar to flipping internet stocks. You don't really care what you're buying, since you hope to flip the asset quickly to some "greater fool".
The greatest fools however are the ones flipping assets late in the stages of an asset bubble, and I need not point out that slashdot users probably learned this lesson well in the past. Unfortunately the people now doing essentially the same thing with real estate will also learn their lesson, and be left "holding the bag" with those shiatty properties.
Right, we can't really predict what a mortality rate from a human bug equivalent of this would be nor can we guess how severe the illness would be. Again, let's hope that this does not materialize at all to begin with.
As a relatively advanced human civilization, we must take all the precautions we can -- minimizing infection, enforcing sound public health practices and education, maintaining sharp monitoring and reporting globally... but beyond that, it is up to God. And I'm not a religious person, but if you have read any accounts of the last pandemic (20 to 40 million people dead)... wow, we must pray that this misfortune does not materialize again.
Let's get something clear, "pandemic" doesn't mean a flu that is afflicting employees, so they get a little sniffle and stay home from work until they get better. A mutated H5N1 or similar pandemic, that spreads human to human with something like 50% mortality rate means that public places become a death trap. If you catch the bug and are unable to recover from it, you need to be treated at a hospital... except the hospitals are totally full and there aren't enough health care workers. Have you seen how the major cities are trying to plan for a "pandemic" situation? They are talking about how to deal with piles of corpses once the graveyards are full.
PUBLIC DOESN'T GET IT. If there is a pandemic, you don't go to work. You don't go to the mall, you don't go to school and you don't go out partying on the weekend. This is serious stuff. It hasn't happened yet and let's pray that it does not happen (easy human-to-human spread of lethal virus) but the situation at the IT department is totally irrelevant. Go to your job if you want to die.
Give me a break! If the virus mutates, spreads human to human and there is a full blown pandemic there is no way in hell I'll be coming to work. Seems wiser to avoid all public places. Facing 50%+ mortality rate, the last thing on my mind is how the damn servers are operating. I can continue tinkering on the MySQL server when we meet up in hell
I don't own a laptop. I prefer reading off of printed paper, can take it outdoors or other pleasant locations, can recline on a couch. Even for things shorter than books, I almost always print them out and read the paper. I'm hardly old fashioned (20-something year old graduate student in electrical engineering). Sorry but the ebook idea just seems stupid to me.
Luckily, Canada is the USA's largest source of oil (and other resources I believe) so that money isn't going to questionable characters. However it would obviously benefit the USA if they could reduce their consumption and import less oil from the middle east, where it seems that all their troubles are centered.
Corporations by far yield the most power, and control government. Take the financial industry in America and indeed Europe, for instance. This is the largest sector of the economy with such giants as Citigroup, JP Morgan, Bank of America. They have certain demands from the government -- for instance to be bailed out when they screw up their finances and go bankrupt (Citigroup has been bailed out by the government twice). That money came from taxpayers, but the billions went to covering Citigroup's debts.
The financial sector has one of the most influential government lobbies. The Federal Reserve (Fed) system is made up of regional reserve banks, which are owned by commercial banks. The public incorrectly views the Fed as a government controlled impartial board; it is not. Large corporations and especially banks tie directly into the government in many ways
I don't understand your description of stock holders. For a public company like most of these mentioned (IBM, Google etc), the stockholders/shareholders OWN the company. Google * is * the shareholders, they each claim a portion of the ownership in the overall company. And these shareholders are not exclusively American, many are Asian, Arab, European...
The point is that the shareholders have all the power and these owners are international. They force change in the company should they wish to, because they control ownership. Sure, the majority of ownership is located in America and is concentrated among certain company insiders but it does not necessarily have to stay that way, for instance, as GOOG insiders sell their stock to the public (which has been going on)
Anyway my point is that the public company is entirely a shareholder controlled entity. If they want to sell equipment to Nazis, they will sell equipment to Nazis. If they want to participate in an illegal war and destruction of civilians, they will do that too. There are humans that are supporting these decisions. If you are a GOOG or IBM shareholder, you have a stake in these decisions and are responsible as an owner.
To the internet. But then I moved to a new apartment and my new internet service provider failed to provide working service for me for almost two months. I waited it out thinking they would fix it any day. In the mean time I discovered something interesting, which was that I'm really not addicted to the internet, but rather I waste all the time in the day anyway doing next to nothing. So in my case anyway, what seemed like an internet addiction turned out to be general laziness! I was so relieved.
I've seen some press releases about the company that develops this VeriChip product including this weird one about how the implantable chip was used tag corpses after the gulf hurricanes. This kind of medical identification I can understand, but to allow yourself (as a living human) to have this injected into yourself? Are people that desperate to keep jobs in America?
Who needs a religious grounds? I object on the basis of you being fscking insane to wanna stick me with a computer chip. You nutcase... can I keep working here without being poked? No, alright fsck you i'm outta here
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Many blocklists do make a point of advertising (probably on usenet - NANAE) the companies that are harassing them legally. Trust me, e360 insight or whoever t.f. is behind this current harassment will be remembered by the other blocklist operators (myself included). They may solve their spamhaus problem, but they will end up with new ones
Why does everyone forget this cornerstone of the legal system, an accused person is innocent unless proven guilty. It is very easy to accuse someone of something bad, but the accusation alone causes a lot of damage to reputation.
This doesn't change what I think of Hans Reiser at all. If he's convicted of murder, that's different, but nothing like that has happened. A husband is a natural suspect in such a case. I hope that his wife is OK, but I have no reason to believe that Hans is responsible.
When I was in highschool, our principal was accused of sexual misconduct due to some activities that allegedly took place with a student. This shocking accusation made the news, and all the parents were horrified. But very few people went to the actual trial, and when the man was acquitted it did not make the news. Give everyone their chance and let the legal system do its job.
I guess it's even exciting to wait. Slackware is THAT exciting... yes I am looking forward as well :)
But I looked through the IBM Press Room and didn't see anything about this technology. Why post a story about "IBM planning to release on Monday..." when you can just wait for a real release from the company to happen. At the moment I'd like to share this info with colleagues who do research in hardware security but can't find a good source to send them to.
Did my undergrad in electrical engineering
> how much of this product is actually related to nanotech?
Maybe you don't understand what nanotechnology is? It's a broad term that describes physical technology built at the nanometer scale. Particles and materials built from them on these small scales sometimes have useful properties that technology can exploit. The computer side of it is just an application of the small structures.
This story is about illness due to inhaled particles from a cleaning product. It's not clear to me whether the product actually made use of nanotechnology, that is, nanometer sized particles because of properties that were useful for the cleaner. It is quite possible that it did, on the other hand who knows where the term 'nano' entered the discussion -- perhaps it was just on product marketing?
Very difficult to know right now. Personally I would air on the side of caution and avoid internal exposure (eating, drinking, inhaling) to any materials containing newly discovered/manufactured nanoparticles, because it is possible such small unnatural particles have toxic or other undesirable affects on the human body. This is the same care I would take with exposure to any new material.
There are lots of poisons out there to begin with, again the question this story raises is are there new risks specifically associated with artificially made nanometer scaled particles as opposed to existing materials?
> Security: Async designs give security against side channel power analysis attacks
You're right about that. I research side channel attacks on crypto hardware, and my first response to this was --- well, this would make EM analysis more complicated. For those not familiar with the general approach, in side channel attacks you don't try to do anything as complicated as breaking the underlying math of the crypto. Instead you observe the hardware for emissions that can give some clues as the instructions being carried out. If your observations help give you any info about what the chip is processing, you might learn parts of keys or gain a statistical advantage in other attacks. So if it's harder to observe signals emitted (electromagnetically from the chip, then attacking the hardware is harder.
This internet porn stuff isn't just "consumed" by boys and men. I know of several women (in the teen-to-20s) including my last girlfriend who were avid fans of internet porn. Sometimes it's the stories and softcore, but yes there are plenty of women who enjoy the hardcore too. And trust me it gives everyone more to "work with" no matter what equipment ya got.
I do know women who, like the men described in the article, will idly browse for porn to pass the time. Some like it very much (I call these 'awesome women' and am seeking them).
I agree totally. It's not that sending spam causes you to do other crimes, it's that both spamming and other criminal activities are the results of a certain kind of mindset. Remember that spamming involves: collaboration with criminal elements (organized fleets of zombies probably tied to organized crime); theft of resources and offloading burdens onto victims; and lying and cheating innocent people, by selling them bogus products, stealing their money, and all the while profiting from it. Doing this as a spammer is somewhat easy because you're not stealing money from the consumers directly but acting as a middleman for any immoral marketer who wants access to the victims.
A professional spammer is a selfish, greedy person who not only lacks compassion for other human beings but who actively seeks new ways to trick victims and steal their money and resources, all for personal gain. This is a tad worse than the typical marketer.
Anyway, this is EXACTLY the kind of person who can be involved in other criminal activities, possibly even violent crime, because they lack empathy and concern for others in society.
Who bid up MSFT stock to its highest price in one year, probably partially on expectations that the OS was ready for release. Life is sooo unfair
If you're running windows, there's a freeware program called popurl that will show you the HTTP headers for URLs you copy to the clipboard. You can see the X- headers in there
> If you drop $100K on something sight unseen, you deserve whatever you get.
During the tech stock bubble people were easily putting down $100k ($50k on margin) to buy hot stocks.
My 'financial bomb shelter' is: staying heavily in cash/t-bills, NOT stocks or bond funds, owning some physical gold and foreign currencies
The reason they're not checking out what they're buying is similar to the reason nobody checks out the health of a company before buying stock in it, during hot streaks in the stock market (e.g. 1997-2000 - slashdot you remember that one, and now 2003-2006 for housing/financial stocks).
During investment manias, people get caught up in the "urgency" to buy something (like tech stocks) and don't do the appropriate research. Real estate has been on a hot streak due to easy credit, and many of these investors are looking to quickly flip property -- again, very similar to flipping internet stocks. You don't really care what you're buying, since you hope to flip the asset quickly to some "greater fool".
The greatest fools however are the ones flipping assets late in the stages of an asset bubble, and I need not point out that slashdot users probably learned this lesson well in the past. Unfortunately the people now doing essentially the same thing with real estate will also learn their lesson, and be left "holding the bag" with those shiatty properties.
Right, we can't really predict what a mortality rate from a human bug equivalent of this would be nor can we guess how severe the illness would be. Again, let's hope that this does not materialize at all to begin with.
... wow, we must pray that this misfortune does not materialize again.
As a relatively advanced human civilization, we must take all the precautions we can -- minimizing infection, enforcing sound public health practices and education, maintaining sharp monitoring and reporting globally... but beyond that, it is up to God. And I'm not a religious person, but if you have read any accounts of the last pandemic (20 to 40 million people dead)
Let's get something clear, "pandemic" doesn't mean a flu that is afflicting employees, so they get a little sniffle and stay home from work until they get better. A mutated H5N1 or similar pandemic, that spreads human to human with something like 50% mortality rate means that public places become a death trap. If you catch the bug and are unable to recover from it, you need to be treated at a hospital... except the hospitals are totally full and there aren't enough health care workers. Have you seen how the major cities are trying to plan for a "pandemic" situation? They are talking about how to deal with piles of corpses once the graveyards are full.
PUBLIC DOESN'T GET IT. If there is a pandemic, you don't go to work. You don't go to the mall, you don't go to school and you don't go out partying on the weekend. This is serious stuff. It hasn't happened yet and let's pray that it does not happen (easy human-to-human spread of lethal virus) but the situation at the IT department is totally irrelevant. Go to your job if you want to die.
Give me a break! If the virus mutates, spreads human to human and there is a full blown pandemic there is no way in hell I'll be coming to work. Seems wiser to avoid all public places. Facing 50%+ mortality rate, the last thing on my mind is how the damn servers are operating. I can continue tinkering on the MySQL server when we meet up in hell
I don't own a laptop. I prefer reading off of printed paper, can take it outdoors or other pleasant locations, can recline on a couch. Even for things shorter than books, I almost always print them out and read the paper. I'm hardly old fashioned (20-something year old graduate student in electrical engineering). Sorry but the ebook idea just seems stupid to me.
Luckily, Canada is the USA's largest source of oil (and other resources I believe) so that money isn't going to questionable characters. However it would obviously benefit the USA if they could reduce their consumption and import less oil from the middle east, where it seems that all their troubles are centered.
Corporations by far yield the most power, and control government. Take the financial industry in America and indeed Europe, for instance. This is the largest sector of the economy with such giants as Citigroup, JP Morgan, Bank of America. They have certain demands from the government -- for instance to be bailed out when they screw up their finances and go bankrupt (Citigroup has been bailed out by the government twice). That money came from taxpayers, but the billions went to covering Citigroup's debts.
The financial sector has one of the most influential government lobbies. The Federal Reserve (Fed) system is made up of regional reserve banks, which are owned by commercial banks. The public incorrectly views the Fed as a government controlled impartial board; it is not. Large corporations and especially banks tie directly into the government in many ways
I don't understand your description of stock holders. For a public company like most of these mentioned (IBM, Google etc), the stockholders/shareholders OWN the company. Google * is * the shareholders, they each claim a portion of the ownership in the overall company. And these shareholders are not exclusively American, many are Asian, Arab, European...
The point is that the shareholders have all the power and these owners are international. They force change in the company should they wish to, because they control ownership. Sure, the majority of ownership is located in America and is concentrated among certain company insiders but it does not necessarily have to stay that way, for instance, as GOOG insiders sell their stock to the public (which has been going on)
Anyway my point is that the public company is entirely a shareholder controlled entity. If they want to sell equipment to Nazis, they will sell equipment to Nazis. If they want to participate in an illegal war and destruction of civilians, they will do that too. There are humans that are supporting these decisions. If you are a GOOG or IBM shareholder, you have a stake in these decisions and are responsible as an owner.
To the internet. But then I moved to a new apartment and my new internet service provider failed to provide working service for me for almost two months. I waited it out thinking they would fix it any day. In the mean time I discovered something interesting, which was that I'm really not addicted to the internet, but rather I waste all the time in the day anyway doing next to nothing. So in my case anyway, what seemed like an internet addiction turned out to be general laziness! I was so relieved.
Slashdot user bigberk seeks girlfriend. Willing to offer chocolate, money and drugs to the lucky lady
I've seen some press releases about the company that develops this VeriChip product including this weird one about how the implantable chip was used tag corpses after the gulf hurricanes. This kind of medical identification I can understand, but to allow yourself (as a living human) to have this injected into yourself? Are people that desperate to keep jobs in America?
Who needs a religious grounds? I object on the basis of you being fscking insane to wanna stick me with a computer chip. You nutcase... can I keep working here without being poked? No, alright fsck you i'm outta here