Phew! After that RS-232 fiasco I guess the FTP protocol would be the next logical choice! Aren't FTP commands transmitted unencrypted as plain text. Looking to impress a girl, hack the satellite and have a shooting star at your command.
Former Microsoft security chief George Schmidt now works for the government
Well phew! As long as he is a former Microsoft employee, or else I'd think he was an inside guy pushing DRM...
I can't wait for the E! True Silicon Valley Story when we see all the agreements made between the DOJ and Microsoft.
I'd make a post, but I gotta go out to the cyber-street corner to have some cyber-beer and a cyber-joint...
These FBI guys are such toolboxes when it comes to talking anything that carries an electrical signal!
One reason why this won't work, is that researchers depend on their discoveries in order to write papers and grants, which gives them more money to make more discoveries. If a small lab of a few people were to share all their information, then right before completion a huge corporation comes in and takes all credit, then that little lab is screwed.
Another problem is that researchers can go months, even years on wrong information, and theories. If these were published, yes theres a possibility they could be discounted, but they could be perpetuated, with lots of wrong data all over the place.
Finally, there is alot of information being shared within the biomedical industry. Many experiments are based on those found in published papers, there are guest speakers bi-weekly telling people about their successful research and we can take that information and test it, or we can tell them we have found that method doesn't work.
I believe that adding an extra layer of communication would further cloud things.
The problem with this is that if it was ever implemented in a corporate enviroment the screening of ads would be very difficult (i.e. You work as a programmer at Ford, and an ad for the new Honda Hybrid pops up). I don't think many managers would be to happy about this. Nor would they be for any product, which was using they're processing power to advertise.
"Since you don't know what any of the values are mathematically, [a hacker] can't solve it," says Robert E. Kauffman, who is a senior research chemist at Dayton and Jason Kauffman's father.
A senior research chemist, well holy smokes! This is the only freakin guy you could get for a quote on this new "unbreakable" cryptography system. What was the janitor at lunch!? Not only that, but its his father to boot, not to knock his extensive work in engine/oil products but come on!
Hey while we're at it...My 4 year old sister says that my newly developed RDBMS is 120 times more efficent than Oracle's, so now can I have the $20,000 to patent it, thanks.
Translation: I have a huge presentation due to my employer Monday morning on how to improve our PDA, and I have nothing to present.
Not to say that it isn't a good idea to ask/.ers for help. Good luck
See this shows how well you've been tricked by record companies. Musicians make fractions of a penny, and some big ones make a whole penny on each albumn they sell. Selling albumns doesn't really make them any money. Its selling albumns to people who like their music, and in turn will go to their show to hear it live. Intense pressure from the record companies is the reason most musicians get behind anti-piracy campaigns. Because logically, piracy is a godsent for a musician because it increases their fan base, and will increase the amount of people who attend their show.
I agree with this to some extent, since most users can't remember 16 numbers at a time, I'd advise storing some of the data, and have them fill in the blanks. Like mentioned above, send an email with a link to login, and store the first 12 digits of the CC#. Then the user only has to remember the last 4 and their password. Security and efficency are an inverse relationship. You're a small company, don't let a 14 year old script kiddie, who got pushed into a locker one to many times that day, come home pissed off and be the downfall of your company. (Ahh, the good ol' days...)
First of all System Administrator!? Its good you're not going to college, I don't believe you can major in Masochism. That job will give you more headaches than you can imagine, trust me I've done it. College is not just for learning about a subject
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Its about learning who you are
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. But its true. Secondly, I know it sounds great to hop into a job market right now, but when it comes time to make cutbacks the slackers who didn't go to college are the ones they look at first. Plus college is freakin Fun...have some damn Fun!
Linux developer's own elitist attitude would never allow this to take place. Everyone can throw there fist up now in pure socialist fashion and scream, free OS for all. But deep down you jokers get ever more excited when you come upon a "lamer" (ugh, i hate that friggin term)...that doesn't know as much as we do, and you can sigh in annoyance at their blatant ignorance......Oh and BTW, i know you just as i do pledge allegiance to this great OS, but if it was to ever hit the mainstream in full force, you would all get in your circle and say, i used to use linux, when it didn't sell out...what a joke, and thats when all the flaws, vulnerabilities, etc...would come out! Those are my words...now mark 'em, ya basta'ds
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Phew! After that RS-232 fiasco I guess the FTP protocol would be the next logical choice! Aren't FTP commands transmitted unencrypted as plain text. Looking to impress a girl, hack the satellite and have a shooting star at your command.
Its to bad someone can't patent B O, you'd make a fortune from those roylaties
server-side processors
Holy smokes, they have processors on the server side now, what will they think of next?
Former Microsoft security chief George Schmidt now works for the government
Well phew! As long as he is a former Microsoft employee, or else I'd think he was an inside guy pushing DRM...
I can't wait for the E! True Silicon Valley Story when we see all the agreements made between the DOJ and Microsoft.
I'd make a post, but I gotta go out to the cyber-street corner to have some cyber-beer and a cyber-joint...
These FBI guys are such toolboxes when it comes to talking anything that carries an electrical signal!
One reason why this won't work, is that researchers depend on their discoveries in order to write papers and grants, which gives them more money to make more discoveries. If a small lab of a few people were to share all their information, then right before completion a huge corporation comes in and takes all credit, then that little lab is screwed.
Another problem is that researchers can go months, even years on wrong information, and theories. If these were published, yes theres a possibility they could be discounted, but they could be perpetuated, with lots of wrong data all over the place.
Finally, there is alot of information being shared within the biomedical industry. Many experiments are based on those found in published papers, there are guest speakers bi-weekly telling people about their successful research and we can take that information and test it, or we can tell them we have found that method doesn't work.
I believe that adding an extra layer of communication would further cloud things.
The problem with this is that if it was ever implemented in a corporate enviroment the screening of ads would be very difficult (i.e. You work as a programmer at Ford, and an ad for the new Honda Hybrid pops up). I don't think many managers would be to happy about this. Nor would they be for any product, which was using they're processing power to advertise.
"Since you don't know what any of the values are mathematically, [a hacker] can't solve it," says Robert E. Kauffman, who is a senior research chemist at Dayton and Jason Kauffman's father.
A senior research chemist, well holy smokes! This is the only freakin guy you could get for a quote on this new "unbreakable" cryptography system. What was the janitor at lunch!? Not only that, but its his father to boot, not to knock his extensive work in engine/oil products but come on!
Hey while we're at it...My 4 year old sister says that my newly developed RDBMS is 120 times more efficent than Oracle's, so now can I have the $20,000 to patent it, thanks.
So now I can encrypt animated pr0n in japanese anime...oh wait...
I think a map of the slashdotting of cluelessmailers.org would be just as interesting.
"I don't believe I took more than five years off my life..."
...Unfortunately those were the years I was planning on having sex...damnit!
This is definetly a publicity stunt. The entire city of New york was CG'ed for Spiderman.
Translation: /.ers for help. Good luck
I have a huge presentation due to my employer Monday morning on how to improve our PDA, and I have nothing to present.
Not to say that it isn't a good idea to ask
See this shows how well you've been tricked by record companies. Musicians make fractions of a penny, and some big ones make a whole penny on each albumn they sell. Selling albumns doesn't really make them any money. Its selling albumns to people who like their music, and in turn will go to their show to hear it live. Intense pressure from the record companies is the reason most musicians get behind anti-piracy campaigns. Because logically, piracy is a godsent for a musician because it increases their fan base, and will increase the amount of people who attend their show.
I agree with this to some extent, since most users can't remember 16 numbers at a time, I'd advise storing some of the data, and have them fill in the blanks. Like mentioned above, send an email with a link to login, and store the first 12 digits of the CC#. Then the user only has to remember the last 4 and their password. Security and efficency are an inverse relationship. You're a small company, don't let a 14 year old script kiddie, who got pushed into a locker one to many times that day, come home pissed off and be the downfall of your company. (Ahh, the good ol' days...)
Linux developer's own elitist attitude would never allow this to take place. Everyone can throw there fist up now in pure socialist fashion and scream, free OS for all. But deep down you jokers get ever more excited when you come upon a "lamer" (ugh, i hate that friggin term)...that doesn't know as much as we do, and you can sigh in annoyance at their blatant ignorance......Oh and BTW, i know you just as i do pledge allegiance to this great OS, but if it was to ever hit the mainstream in full force, you would all get in your circle and say, i used to use linux, when it didn't sell out...what a joke, and thats when all the flaws, vulnerabilities, etc...would come out! Those are my words...now mark 'em, ya basta'ds