Even if the code is available to be reviewed, how do you know that it's the same software that the phone has?? Can you compile it and upload it to the phone?? How do you know there isn't something in the phone's BIOS that steal any encryption keys and forwards them to a 3rd party??
doesn't apply if I'm using an OS that has any sort of protection (i.e., they'd have to be root to install anything)
Or they install a keylogger between the keyboard and the system - don't need root access at all... I think that's what the parent post was referring to. Maybe more tricky to do on a laptop, but I doubt that it's impossible.
Yes, you could lock up your laptop, but if "they" can break into your house undetectably, I'd say they could probably open your safe too. Keep it with you? You have to sleep sometime, and that can be assisted with careful application of suitable chemicals...
Steganography and other similar covert methods will probably become a lot more popular. Spread fragments of an encrypted message across a number of "holiday snaps", use certain words and phrases in blogs, &c.
Almost makes it worthwhile getting a few yards of neutral colored fabric and a couple of big flags, just for taking "graduation" photos of your relatives without the "photo tax"...
IBM's other arguments that SCO is out of compliance due to "repudiating" and "disclaiming" the GPL might not be valid.
Except that, as someone pointed out on Groklaw, SCO repudiated the GPL in court filings. As I understand it, even a box of rocks wouldn't be dumb enough to assert something in a legal document and then expect to be able to blow it off with "hey, that was just me exercising my right to free speech".
Just wondering - how much damage would a laser diode do to a fly/hornet/mosquito? I'm thinking of the type used in laser pointers, but without any kind of dispersing lens.
A tech-savvy beta tester may have already turned off or otherwise disabled the services that are affected by having the firewall deny external access. It's possible they simply didn't notice...
On the other hand, the list of "programs that behave differently" includes Excel, Office 2003, Office XP, Outlook, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Visual Studio. I can see various personal firewalls and p2p apps like Kazaa being broken by port issues, and maybe the Office suite because of email & calendaring, &c, but why on earth would VB & VC++ be affected??
Didn't say anything about them bailing out of work to actually compete in the Olympics. My point was that the athletes are supposed to be doing it for "the love of" the sport, which is what "amateur" means... When multi-million-dollar research labs design super-slippery skintight suits, or perfect running shoes, or extra-whippy pole-jump poles, that really detracts from the games. Actual amateurs can't compete amymore, because it's not just skill or strength that matters, it's how much money can be poured into high-tech equipment.
Me: Your honor, the starting key is XXXXXX. However, the key mutates with each packet, in a manner related to the packet contents. If a packet is missing, you won't be able to decrypt past that point. You do have all the packets, right?? Including those that were not sent over my regular network connection??
I think that bill should be passed on just to those people that are being tapped, not the whole population. So, when your phone bill suddenly shoots up to $1000, you know the police are after you. Then, if they find nothing they can get you for, they should cover the costs themselves - after all, it would be cheaper than a defending a lawsuit for wrongful arrest...
Yep - encrypt everything, and set up a random traffic generator that encrypts some white noise and injects it into the stream, so that some of your traffic is garbage. Should keep homeland security busy.
Or they just pick up you and all your contacts anyway, on suspicion of terrorst activity, because that's all they seem to need. Certainly that was all that was necessary when my son and his friend were stopped twice, for having a video camera in hand while waiting to board a cruise ship. They were accused of videoing the port facilities, even with the lens cap on and the camera turned off. Offers of playing back the tape on the spot were ignored, the security thugs being more interested in patting them down and threatening them with jail.
How important is it to get a real-time view? You might not be getting one on regular TV anyway. If I was interested in getting the footage uncut, I'd put up with a few minutes delay.
And don't forget that the athletes competing in the Olympics are supposed to be amateurs - i.e. not people who's job it is to train all day, every day, so that they excel in a particular event.
So, here's my proposal - allow any given athlete to receive a certain amount of funding, but put an upper limit on it. Let them get contributions to allow them to buy decent equipment, and to travel to competitions, etc, but not allow them multi-million-dollar research facilities, and so on.
Yeah, there's still potential for abuse - e.g a sprint shoe maker could do the research "for themselves" and just happen to donate $100 pairs of shoes to certain athletes. So there's details still to work out, but it would push back closer to the "natural athlete" that's all but disappeared these days.
the only reason there's an uproar about atheletes doping themselves up is because all of atheletics is truly and fundamentally about unimportant little games
The uproar is at least partially because athletes who don't want to risk early death and/or drug dependency are at a disadvantage compared to those win-at-all-costs athletes who just don't give a damn about ther own health. And then there's the middle-ground, where the athletes are using last year's designer drugs because they can't afford, or don't have access to, the latest drugs. Those are the ones who get busted because the drugs that couldn't be detected last yearcan be detected this year
I like that idea too - the way things are at the moment, it's not so much the athlete that's winning medals as the quantity of high-tech equipment he/she trains with and/or uses.
I watched some kind of documentary a few days ago, probably on one of the Discovery channels, that discussed the process by which a body-suit was designed and built for Olympic swimmers, to minimise water drag. So now, anyone who hopes to have much chance of a swimming medal either has to have one of those body-suits (or something similar) or find a way of dramatically improving their natural musculature. The cycle teams have to have the latest carbon-fibre frames (or whatever), low-drag bodysuits and oddly shaped helmets. And so on.
Am I wrong in thinking that the athletes are suppposed to be amateurs - i.e. not paid professional sports people? Amateurs - practicing in their own free time while holding down a regular job, buying their own equipment at the local sports store. How many regular folks can afford the research teams and patented ultra-slick, ultra-light, ultra-expensive artifacts that are pretty much required to even be able to enter the selection process??
Not that all events will benefit from high-tech - take Torvil & Dean and their ice-dances, for instance. No amount of high-tech skating equipment will endow anyone with the skill and style those two exhibited on the ice.
SCO's just not a reality and they're about to be NUKED from orbit by Novell.
Mmmm, now there's a thought... How about we start a Paypal (or whatever) account for contributions to buy an almost-dead satellite that could be de-orbited to splashdown on SCO's headquarters??
That's an excellent pic! Just a couple of questions:
1) Is that image close enough to real money to fuck up my printer?? 2) Is that really Darl's photo, and if so, could you make up a "wanted" poster we could send to the Sheriffs and Deputies in Utah??
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Even if the code is available to be reviewed, how do you know that it's the same software that the phone has?? Can you compile it and upload it to the phone?? How do you know there isn't something in the phone's BIOS that steal any encryption keys and forwards them to a 3rd party??
Or they install a keylogger between the keyboard and the system - don't need root access at all... I think that's what the parent post was referring to. Maybe more tricky to do on a laptop, but I doubt that it's impossible.
Yes, you could lock up your laptop, but if "they" can break into your house undetectably, I'd say they could probably open your safe too. Keep it with you? You have to sleep sometime, and that can be assisted with careful application of suitable chemicals...
Steganography and other similar covert methods will probably become a lot more popular. Spread fragments of an encrypted message across a number of "holiday snaps", use certain words and phrases in blogs, &c.
Wanna bet that NBC wouldn't trawl through the personal websites for material, then accuse the authors of "stealing" their IP??
Heh, they could have had their own airline - too bad PanAm went down the tubes...
Almost makes it worthwhile getting a few yards of neutral colored fabric and a couple of big flags, just for taking "graduation" photos of your relatives without the "photo tax"...
Time to start naming kids after Greek gods and such. Wonder how Olympia Dukakis is holding out against the IOC??
Except that, as someone pointed out on Groklaw, SCO repudiated the GPL in court filings . As I understand it, even a box of rocks wouldn't be dumb enough to assert something in a legal document and then expect to be able to blow it off with "hey, that was just me exercising my right to free speech".
Just wondering - how much damage would a laser diode do to a fly/hornet/mosquito? I'm thinking of the type used in laser pointers, but without any kind of dispersing lens.
Evil Dictator: Note to self - make sure HQ is built in a permanently windy location...
How about - "Flys over the crowd, dropping anthrax dust..."
A yard of knicker elastic should do the trick - catapult the package over.
A tech-savvy beta tester may have already turned off or otherwise disabled the services that are affected by having the firewall deny external access. It's possible they simply didn't notice...
On the other hand, the list of "programs that behave differently" includes Excel, Office 2003, Office XP, Outlook, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Visual Studio. I can see various personal firewalls and p2p apps like Kazaa being broken by port issues, and maybe the Office suite because of email & calendaring, &c, but why on earth would VB & VC++ be affected??
Didn't say anything about them bailing out of work to actually compete in the Olympics. My point was that the athletes are supposed to be doing it for "the love of" the sport, which is what "amateur" means... When multi-million-dollar research labs design super-slippery skintight suits, or perfect running shoes, or extra-whippy pole-jump poles, that really detracts from the games. Actual amateurs can't compete amymore, because it's not just skill or strength that matters, it's how much money can be poured into high-tech equipment.
Before that happens they'll have found a way to revoke my Green Card and deport me back to Europe...
Or at least, they could be using disposable cellphones.
Persec^H^H^H^H^Hrosecutor: Crap!
I think that bill should be passed on just to those people that are being tapped, not the whole population. So, when your phone bill suddenly shoots up to $1000, you know the police are after you. Then, if they find nothing they can get you for, they should cover the costs themselves - after all, it would be cheaper than a defending a lawsuit for wrongful arrest...
Or they just pick up you and all your contacts anyway, on suspicion of terrorst activity, because that's all they seem to need. Certainly that was all that was necessary when my son and his friend were stopped twice, for having a video camera in hand while waiting to board a cruise ship. They were accused of videoing the port facilities, even with the lens cap on and the camera turned off. Offers of playing back the tape on the spot were ignored, the security thugs being more interested in patting them down and threatening them with jail.
How important is it to get a real-time view? You might not be getting one on regular TV anyway. If I was interested in getting the footage uncut, I'd put up with a few minutes delay.
So, here's my proposal - allow any given athlete to receive a certain amount of funding, but put an upper limit on it. Let them get contributions to allow them to buy decent equipment, and to travel to competitions, etc, but not allow them multi-million-dollar research facilities, and so on.
Yeah, there's still potential for abuse - e.g a sprint shoe maker could do the research "for themselves" and just happen to donate $100 pairs of shoes to certain athletes. So there's details still to work out, but it would push back closer to the "natural athlete" that's all but disappeared these days.
The uproar is at least partially because athletes who don't want to risk early death and/or drug dependency are at a disadvantage compared to those win-at-all-costs athletes who just don't give a damn about ther own health. And then there's the middle-ground, where the athletes are using last year's designer drugs because they can't afford, or don't have access to, the latest drugs. Those are the ones who get busted because the drugs that couldn't be detected last year can be detected this year
I watched some kind of documentary a few days ago, probably on one of the Discovery channels, that discussed the process by which a body-suit was designed and built for Olympic swimmers, to minimise water drag. So now, anyone who hopes to have much chance of a swimming medal either has to have one of those body-suits (or something similar) or find a way of dramatically improving their natural musculature. The cycle teams have to have the latest carbon-fibre frames (or whatever), low-drag bodysuits and oddly shaped helmets. And so on.
Am I wrong in thinking that the athletes are suppposed to be amateurs - i.e. not paid professional sports people? Amateurs - practicing in their own free time while holding down a regular job, buying their own equipment at the local sports store. How many regular folks can afford the research teams and patented ultra-slick, ultra-light, ultra-expensive artifacts that are pretty much required to even be able to enter the selection process??
Not that all events will benefit from high-tech - take Torvil & Dean and their ice-dances, for instance. No amount of high-tech skating equipment will endow anyone with the skill and style those two exhibited on the ice.
Mmmm, now there's a thought... How about we start a Paypal (or whatever) account for contributions to buy an almost-dead satellite that could be de-orbited to splashdown on SCO's headquarters??
1) Is that image close enough to real money to fuck up my printer??
2) Is that really Darl's photo, and if so, could you make up a "wanted" poster we could send to the Sheriffs and Deputies in Utah??