I'd set up at least PPTP VPN's. If not, then IPSec and an IDS. Explain it to them thusly: If you get owned, not only do you have to figure out what the hell happened (before it happens again), but you have to repair and replace a lot of data. I just lost a router and have yet to perform forensics on it to determine exactly WTF went wrong, but it looks like a trademark script kiddie attack, which is dirty and it pretty much wasted that box. And this is just my house where it might take me an hour to get it back up. You're at a company. Get your systems tightened down before that happens to you and your job becomes jeopardized.
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So if you have a channel secure enough to send the one time pad, you may as well sent the message instead.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. The pad has no bearing on the message sent aside from the ability to decrypt it, so you send the OTP via quantum-encrypted channels and verify its integrity at the recipient end. If the pad has not been comprimised *then* you send an OK (via the same quantum-encrypted channel, just in case) to recieve the encrypted message. This gives you one extra layer of security that pretty much defeats any monkey in the middle style attacks, because you need not send data unless the recipient is sure the pad is secure.
I thought the simple act of observing a particle at a quantum lavel (eg. with lasers) changed its state. From what I've read, it doesn't 'finalize' a state per se, rather it changes it from what it was prior to the observation. This technique is a way around that from how I read the article. Any links to show what I got wrong?
Maybe this is better:
You have a particle. It has a certain and definite state. However, according to Quantum Mechanics, the act of observing the particle changes the state of it. That's no good because you can't rely on that state now. What you do is 'entangle' the particle with other ones, so that they have the same states, and never perform operations on the 'observer' particles. Then you can deduce the state of the 'hidden' particle by the states of the 'observer' ones.
The inefficiency really stems from accelerating a 6,000lb vehicle up to 25mph, stopping, accelerating, stopping, etc. At idle, most modern engines are not abysmally inefficient but continuously accelerating a heavy vehicle with a large engine is where you lose most of your mileage to. But you're right, this thing should help dead stop acceleration fuel consumption, so long as it isn't snake oil.
I'm actually in the middle of swapping an electric fan from a Ford Taurus 3.8L into my 5.0L vehicle.
Electric fans are cheaper energy wise, than mechanical clutch fans. At MOST my electric fan will draw 100A starting energy and about 30-40A constant. Even at 100A that's 1200W or about 1.6-1.7HP. Even with the conversion from mechanical energy to electrical energy at the alternator, assuming an abysmal 30% efficiency, that's still only a 4HP draw. My mechanical fan will draw well over 10HP. Maybe even 15HP at higher RPMs. Another problem is that if my fan clutch siezes, there goes my water pump. It'll take the bearings right out. So I'm removing a parasitic loss and a point of failure as well.
Evolution doesn't disprove anything. The Pope himself has said that, yes, creationism in that manner is incorrect. God didn't just make us out of mud. Not that I'm Catholic or anything, but seriously, you're making some grevious logical errors here.
At least you could smell the dust and leave on your own before it did what... made you cough a bit?
Dust has the potential to be very dangerous. Go breathe in some concrete dust. Do it a lot. I'll bet the people who live in the immediate vicinity who did not take precautions to not breathe the dust will die quite a bit earlier than if they did not.
It would be difficult (with current tech, at least) for the insurance comapny to know the speed limit of the road you're on. I suppose they could do a massive data gathering campaign, but it would be rather expensive to get all that information, in terms of money and time.
I was toying with this as well. You basically would set up a firewalled gateway as the access point, and then gateway the wireless traffic into the wired network.
I did this once but the Linux drivers for Atmel wavelan-based wireless USB devices wasn't near mature enough. It would drop packets like a sieve on me. But that's neither here nor now. It worked really well except that wireless traffic had absolutely no idea what was beyond the gateway. No shares, nothing. I'm not as wise in the way of networks as many, but I'm sure that could be remedied pretty easily.
First off, you most can certainly debug driver modules. SoftICE runs Ring 0. Even if their driver runs Ring 0, you can still see it. It's also on your hard disk. Even if it somehow disables the machine if SoftICE is detected, you have the data. It will be disassembled and it will be cracked.
And this brings up a point about copy protection. It really only fucks with the people who actually buy the CD. I bought The Sims after, admittedly, not paying for it for a while. But I did go out and buy it after about a month, and lo and behold my CD Key was already registered. Ah well, an email took care of that. But, next I buy Neverwinter Nights. Damn CD Protection goes so far as to not work in my DVD drive. This happens with a TON of protected games. Flight Simulator 2002 would continuously corrupt on install, SimCity 4, Baldurs Gates both 1 AND 2... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the SecuROM/SafeDisc methods do *not* produce valid Redbook CDROM standard CD's. Doesn't happen on non-secured discs like Streets and Trips, Windows XP, etc... Either way, I paid for these games and they don't work. Yet I can steal them and they work, no hassle. Hmm, not too hard of a debate. I actually sometimes will buy the game then download the crack because I'm tired of dealing with shitty copy protection./rant
This is why I like UNIX better than most other OS's. You have various different tools, and while useful on their own (sed, grep, awk, etc) you can build a better mousetrap (or any mousetrap, for that matter) by combining them. Sorta like legos.
The year was 1989. My dad bought a 50MB Hard Card (Harddisk on the end of a 16-bit ISA card. I don't even know if it was IDE.) for our Wang 286... Cost: $500.
I think it would be rather funny and perhaps a good indictment of our current political situation if everyone just voted for themselves. I know I'm doing it.
"Do your part for America! Vote for you, Nov 2nd!"
I find it extremely stupid that law enforcement can pluck money from here and there. It makes it really difficult to determine all their income sources, and almost seems like laundering in a way. They should ONLY get money from direct taxation (property taxes, and maybe sales taxes if applicable), and that should be publically auditable.
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I'd set up at least PPTP VPN's. If not, then IPSec and an IDS. Explain it to them thusly: If you get owned, not only do you have to figure out what the hell happened (before it happens again), but you have to repair and replace a lot of data. I just lost a router and have yet to perform forensics on it to determine exactly WTF went wrong, but it looks like a trademark script kiddie attack, which is dirty and it pretty much wasted that box. And this is just my house where it might take me an hour to get it back up. You're at a company. Get your systems tightened down before that happens to you and your job becomes jeopardized.
I thought the simple act of observing a particle at a quantum lavel (eg. with lasers) changed its state. From what I've read, it doesn't 'finalize' a state per se, rather it changes it from what it was prior to the observation. This technique is a way around that from how I read the article. Any links to show what I got wrong?
Maybe this is better: You have a particle. It has a certain and definite state. However, according to Quantum Mechanics, the act of observing the particle changes the state of it. That's no good because you can't rely on that state now. What you do is 'entangle' the particle with other ones, so that they have the same states, and never perform operations on the 'observer' particles. Then you can deduce the state of the 'hidden' particle by the states of the 'observer' ones.
The inefficiency really stems from accelerating a 6,000lb vehicle up to 25mph, stopping, accelerating, stopping, etc. At idle, most modern engines are not abysmally inefficient but continuously accelerating a heavy vehicle with a large engine is where you lose most of your mileage to. But you're right, this thing should help dead stop acceleration fuel consumption, so long as it isn't snake oil.
I'm actually in the middle of swapping an electric fan from a Ford Taurus 3.8L into my 5.0L vehicle. Electric fans are cheaper energy wise, than mechanical clutch fans. At MOST my electric fan will draw 100A starting energy and about 30-40A constant. Even at 100A that's 1200W or about 1.6-1.7HP. Even with the conversion from mechanical energy to electrical energy at the alternator, assuming an abysmal 30% efficiency, that's still only a 4HP draw. My mechanical fan will draw well over 10HP. Maybe even 15HP at higher RPMs. Another problem is that if my fan clutch siezes, there goes my water pump. It'll take the bearings right out. So I'm removing a parasitic loss and a point of failure as well.
Evolution doesn't disprove anything. The Pope himself has said that, yes, creationism in that manner is incorrect. God didn't just make us out of mud. Not that I'm Catholic or anything, but seriously, you're making some grevious logical errors here.
Hear hear. Shit, I hate being broke, but I also hate being confined to a desk and having to work around arbitrary 8-4, 9-5 schedules.
It would be difficult (with current tech, at least) for the insurance comapny to know the speed limit of the road you're on. I suppose they could do a massive data gathering campaign, but it would be rather expensive to get all that information, in terms of money and time.
I was toying with this as well. You basically would set up a firewalled gateway as the access point, and then gateway the wireless traffic into the wired network. I did this once but the Linux drivers for Atmel wavelan-based wireless USB devices wasn't near mature enough. It would drop packets like a sieve on me. But that's neither here nor now. It worked really well except that wireless traffic had absolutely no idea what was beyond the gateway. No shares, nothing. I'm not as wise in the way of networks as many, but I'm sure that could be remedied pretty easily.
Now there's a perfectly cromulent use of obligatory Simpson's quoting. :p
I wonder what's worse, the development fluids or the battery fluids?
First off, you most can certainly debug driver modules. SoftICE runs Ring 0. Even if their driver runs Ring 0, you can still see it. It's also on your hard disk. Even if it somehow disables the machine if SoftICE is detected, you have the data. It will be disassembled and it will be cracked.
/rant
And this brings up a point about copy protection. It really only fucks with the people who actually buy the CD. I bought The Sims after, admittedly, not paying for it for a while. But I did go out and buy it after about a month, and lo and behold my CD Key was already registered. Ah well, an email took care of that. But, next I buy Neverwinter Nights. Damn CD Protection goes so far as to not work in my DVD drive. This happens with a TON of protected games. Flight Simulator 2002 would continuously corrupt on install, SimCity 4, Baldurs Gates both 1 AND 2... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the SecuROM/SafeDisc methods do *not* produce valid Redbook CDROM standard CD's. Doesn't happen on non-secured discs like Streets and Trips, Windows XP, etc... Either way, I paid for these games and they don't work. Yet I can steal them and they work, no hassle. Hmm, not too hard of a debate. I actually sometimes will buy the game then download the crack because I'm tired of dealing with shitty copy protection.
I love your sig. Seriously, it's worth the karma to let you know it's appreciated.
I agree. Yes, I loathe their operating systems and yes I loathe their business practices, but this cannot be blamed on them.
You can, but you have to load them as modules, like Mod::win32 or something like that. I'm not too well versed on that aspect of Perl.
This is why I like UNIX better than most other OS's. You have various different tools, and while useful on their own (sed, grep, awk, etc) you can build a better mousetrap (or any mousetrap, for that matter) by combining them. Sorta like legos.
The year was 1989. My dad bought a 50MB Hard Card (Harddisk on the end of a 16-bit ISA card. I don't even know if it was IDE.) for our Wang 286... Cost: $500.
I think it would be rather funny and perhaps a good indictment of our current political situation if everyone just voted for themselves. I know I'm doing it.
"Do your part for America! Vote for you, Nov 2nd!"
Better work of your FP skillz
Hmm, you're right. I suppose I meant specifically a single point of income that can be traced.
I find it extremely stupid that law enforcement can pluck money from here and there. It makes it really difficult to determine all their income sources, and almost seems like laundering in a way. They should ONLY get money from direct taxation (property taxes, and maybe sales taxes if applicable), and that should be publically auditable.
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