Re:The logistics of building the Death Star
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Well I believe most of the construction in that era was performed by large robots. Timothy Zahn mentions this in his later trilogy when talking about constrution that went on at Coruscant.
And you've just stumbled across one of the best kept secrets about the state of our economy. While real inflation has remained relatively low since the 80's, it is still there, gradually increasing the cost of living bit-by-bit year after year. Unfortunately wages have essentially remained flat for the past 2 decades. Even though people are still making the same amount of money dollar-wise, its worth a lot less now than it was years ago.
What is the end result? Consumer debt. People start borrowing more and more to finance their lifestyles. Sooner or later though, this will come to and end, and there will be a 'market adjustion' as government and businesses wake up and realize no one can afford to even live on minimum wage. At that point the economy is not going to continue to function unless some major steps are taken to realign the imbalance in power that exists between corporations and the middle-class.
No, I'm afraid you don't understand. HTML page mangling (at least the kind referred to by the article summary) doesn't happen by man-in-middle attacks. You don't fix exploits by using encryption.
Securing the transmissions does not nothing to protect against exploits. You have to actually patch the faulty code on the server to protect against them. It only makes hacking slightly harder as the attacker has to send their malicious HTTP request thru HTTPS/SSL, rather than plain HTTP. It does not make it any harder to hack other than the attacker has to write an HTTPS harness.
If the technology is working and 100% secure, how long until it makes its way at least into government websites? This might be the end of the hacked by Chinese index pages!"
Just because the network and all of the transmissions are encrypted, doesn't mean the server is secure. Having IIS running HTTPS exclusively doesn't mean you don't have to patch it.
Except that philosophy doesn't work in a monopoly situation. And in a lot of communities now, there exists a monopoly or duopoly preventing real competition from happening.
Yes. It's red and white, with a maple leaf in the middle.
Re:We need to fix this on the pay side
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I don't think most these spammers are actually processing the cards. They are simply harvesting the credit card numbers and selling them to someone else, who then goes and makes fraudalent purchases with the number.
Re:How is it implemened?
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How about a.six TLD, and make it mandatory for hosts to have native Ipv6 connectivity. And then purposely screw up the spelling, so that it's named.sex!
If you ever wanted to see the modern day version of a gold rush, you would have a pretty good chance with the launch of a.sex TLD.
Re:Slightly OT: Reserved IP adresses in IPv6
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There is an address range prefix reserved for private use. I don't have the information in front of me, but I believe the prefix used is fe80:.
But the whole point of IPv6 is that you don't need to use private addresses. You can use real ones so that all your devices are accessible from anywhere (and use firewalls to block those that you want to limit access to).
Re:the protection of NAT
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You could achieve the same level of protection with a box that did ipv6 routing, and had a built-in firewall to block incoming connections (or at least just those connections with destination port 1024).
Re:Microsoft agrees with you
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Yeah, it would be nice though if they took the incentive to introduce this in their own products first. They do make consumer level routers / home gateways themselves..
You could spend all the money you want developing a revolutionary console, and it can come with a zillion features. But if you have no good games for your console, no one is going to buy into it. As you increase the complexity of your console, you also make it harder and more expensive to develop games for your console.
Now, if somebody could come up with a revolutionary console AND a new way for developing to the console that is significantly easier than other platforms, you would have a winner.
But there is a major difference. CSS layers die when you close the window with the originating webpage. You have to close popups individually(putting aside those users that know how to kill the process), and thats why everyone hates them so much.
I know you are joking, but I would like to to point out the VIN is probably a primary key in many databases. And you don't just go changing the length of your primary key that easily, because all the other tables that reference it, have to update their foreign key columns. Then all your indexes have to be updated, plus any db tier procedural code that declares the length of the field.
And that's just the database. Then you have to go and modify all the application layer code to handle the longer field length. I pity those developers who hardcoded the VIN field as char[17]. Then you have to update your UI code to make sure the screen output and fields can handle input that long.
That's just the software side. Then you have to worry about all that hardware used for printing/stamping out the VINs.
No::0 means no address, and::1 is the local loopbac, so you can't start with either of those. You'd have to start with 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002:)
No users have not been demanding it for a long time. Up until a year or two ago, a lot of organizations did not even bother patching their computers frequently. It has only come in the last year or so that people have started to take this serious. Of course people have wanted some sort of security all along, but they were not willing to pay extra for it, and the almighty buck is what rules the day everytime.
Since you seem so fixated on using Microsoft as an example for this, I'd like to point out there has been a change too. Windows 2003 is not having the same amount of serious flaws found as its earlier counterpart, Windows 2000. Future releases from Microsoft are going to have even more code written in managed code. This is a good for security because it means no more buffer overflows.
Microsoft listens to their customers, but not all of their customers want the same thing or have the same priorities. They cannot please all of them, so they have to make a choice.
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Well I believe most of the construction in that era was performed by large robots. Timothy Zahn mentions this in his later trilogy when talking about constrution that went on at Coruscant.
And you've just stumbled across one of the best kept secrets about the state of our economy. While real inflation has remained relatively low since the 80's, it is still there, gradually increasing the cost of living bit-by-bit year after year. Unfortunately wages have essentially remained flat for the past 2 decades. Even though people are still making the same amount of money dollar-wise, its worth a lot less now than it was years ago.
What is the end result? Consumer debt. People start borrowing more and more to finance their lifestyles. Sooner or later though, this will come to and end, and there will be a 'market adjustion' as government and businesses wake up and realize no one can afford to even live on minimum wage. At that point the economy is not going to continue to function unless some major steps are taken to realign the imbalance in power that exists between corporations and the middle-class.
I have one of those Latitude CPx's. After a few hours of heavy use, it gets so hot on the bottom you can burn if you touch the wrong spot.
No, I'm afraid you don't understand. HTML page mangling (at least the kind referred to by the article summary) doesn't happen by man-in-middle attacks. You don't fix exploits by using encryption.
Securing the transmissions does not nothing to protect against exploits. You have to actually patch the faulty code on the server to protect against them. It only makes hacking slightly harder as the attacker has to send their malicious HTTP request thru HTTPS/SSL, rather than plain HTTP. It does not make it any harder to hack other than the attacker has to write an HTTPS harness.
If the technology is working and 100% secure, how long until it makes its way at least into government websites? This might be the end of the hacked by Chinese index pages!"
Just because the network and all of the transmissions are encrypted, doesn't mean the server is secure. Having IIS running HTTPS exclusively doesn't mean you don't have to patch it.
Except that philosophy doesn't work in a monopoly situation. And in a lot of communities now, there exists a monopoly or duopoly preventing real competition from happening.
JD Edwards is/was an ERP software vendor. You are thinking of JP Morgan.
That would require the robots to be able to self-reproduce.. now THAT would be quite a feat of engineering!
It will take an act of god, government, or microsoft to force all ISPs, all web sites, and all Joe Users over to IPv6.
You mean like the DoD mandating that all its networks be moved over to IPv6 by 2008?
No, ::1 is the home/localhost/loopback address. ::0 is when you have no assigned IP address, logically equivalent to 0.0.0.0 in IPv4.
Ahh, nothing like braindead moderators who don't realize Canada actually IS a socialist country.
ps. This is coming from a Canadian.
Is there a socialist flag?
Yes. It's red and white, with a maple leaf in the middle.
I don't think most these spammers are actually processing the cards. They are simply harvesting the credit card numbers and selling them to someone else, who then goes and makes fraudalent purchases with the number.
How about a .six TLD, and make it mandatory for hosts to have native Ipv6 connectivity. And then purposely screw up the spelling, so that it's named .sex!
.sex TLD.
If you ever wanted to see the modern day version of a gold rush, you would have a pretty good chance with the launch of a
There is an address range prefix reserved for private use. I don't have the information in front of me, but I believe the prefix used is fe80:.
But the whole point of IPv6 is that you don't need to use private addresses. You can use real ones so that all your devices are accessible from anywhere (and use firewalls to block those that you want to limit access to).
You could achieve the same level of protection with a box that did ipv6 routing, and had a built-in firewall to block incoming connections (or at least just those connections with destination port 1024).
Yeah, it would be nice though if they took the incentive to introduce this in their own products first. They do make consumer level routers / home gateways themselves..
Just not the #1 place to live for retail mall store operators.
You could spend all the money you want developing a revolutionary console, and it can come with a zillion features. But if you have no good games for your console, no one is going to buy into it. As you increase the complexity of your console, you also make it harder and more expensive to develop games for your console.
Now, if somebody could come up with a revolutionary console AND a new way for developing to the console that is significantly easier than other platforms, you would have a winner.
But there is a major difference. CSS layers die when you close the window with the originating webpage. You have to close popups individually(putting aside those users that know how to kill the process), and thats why everyone hates them so much.
I know you are joking, but I would like to to point out the VIN is probably a primary key in many databases. And you don't just go changing the length of your primary key that easily, because all the other tables that reference it, have to update their foreign key columns. Then all your indexes have to be updated, plus any db tier procedural code that declares the length of the field.
And that's just the database. Then you have to go and modify all the application layer code to handle the longer field length. I pity those developers who hardcoded the VIN field as char[17]. Then you have to update your UI code to make sure the screen output and fields can handle input that long.
That's just the software side. Then you have to worry about all that hardware used for printing/stamping out the VINs.
No ::0 means no address, and ::1 is the local loopbac, so you can't start with either of those. You'd have to start with 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 :)
He was a lobbyist for Walt Disney. How much more connected to the industry does one have to be? It's not like Steve Jobs is going to get the job.
It is scary when we have to rely on the lobbying power of large corporations to 'overturn' stupid decisions by the courts.
No users have not been demanding it for a long time. Up until a year or two ago, a lot of organizations did not even bother patching their computers frequently. It has only come in the last year or so that people have started to take this serious. Of course people have wanted some sort of security all along, but they were not willing to pay extra for it, and the almighty buck is what rules the day everytime.
Since you seem so fixated on using Microsoft as an example for this, I'd like to point out there has been a change too. Windows 2003 is not having the same amount of serious flaws found as its earlier counterpart, Windows 2000. Future releases from Microsoft are going to have even more code written in managed code. This is a good for security because it means no more buffer overflows.
Microsoft listens to their customers, but not all of their customers want the same thing or have the same priorities. They cannot please all of them, so they have to make a choice.