First, thank you for taking time to answer our questions and for the amazing work you have done both as an explorer and an author! My favorite book of yours to date is The Discovery of the Bismarck.
I have two questions: What is the most interesting underwater engineering problem you've had to solve in your career? What are the unsolved underwater engineering problems that you think are most important?
If ad blocking really starts to hurt advertisers, I expect they will demand a technical fix rather than a legal one. If sites serve ad content inline with their main site content, ad blockers in their current form will stop working.
This would be a significant change to the current ad distribution model but I think it has a better chance of success than the hypothetical legal approach posited by the article.
A man walks up to a table in the supermarket with a sign that says "FREE HORS D'OEUVRES" "Can I try one?" "Sure!" Attendant hands him a cracker covered with brown paste... "This tastes like shit!" "It is shit! Want to buy a toothbrush?"
I don't know what the rules are at the museum but the NSA had a booth at the RSA conference this year and they brought an Enigma with them. They allowed me to use it and it seemed to be in full working order. Dials rotated and the keys made the lights come on. You could even open it up and see the internal mechanism. It was an amazing experience to physically touch a piece of history like that--one of the highlights of the conference for me. A colleague of mine who is fluent in German was reading the instructions which mentioned that there was a printer that could be used with the device--something I hadn't heard before.
We owe a great debt to the code breakers at Bletchley Park like Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman and the Poles like Marian Rejewski who paved the way for them. Not only did they help win WWII and save countless lives, but they also planted the seeds for modern computer science in the process.
Cisco doesn't allow legitimate owners of their hardware to apply security patches without an exorbitantly expensive software subscription. I found this out when I purchased some of their hardware on ebay for self-study purposes. Personally, I think that's a bigger issue. It means that many individuals and small businesses out there are probably running outdated, insecure versions of their software. Not good!
Security patches should be freely available for the good of the whole Internet community.
Why, we have the data right here on our SharePoint site--just a moment while I search for it. That's funny, all the search hits are completely irrelevant. Ah, thank goodness, someone sent me an email with the link or I never would have found it.
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Aw hell, let me see if someone posted it to the wiki...
9/11 and trailing fighter jets aside, anyone who has seen Escape from New York would naturally assume that Air Force One had been commandeered by terrorists and was about to crash into Manhattan.
Seriously though, given the all too recent violent history, this was obviously a massive screw-up on the part of the Obama administration. No one even saw fit to inform the mayor of NYC of what was going on much less the terrified populace. How could one not assume the worst?
All the posters making noise about New Yorkers being excessively paranoid are either fools or Obama fanboys laying down a smokescreen to protect their messiah.
About 20 years ago when I was a freshman an the State University of New York at Albany, I had the good fortune to meet Bernard Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's brother. After talking to him a bit, the light went on in my head and I realized he must have been the inspiration for Kurt's ideas about ice-9!
Bernard Vonnegut was a brilliant atmospheric scientist who invented the process of cloud seeding with silver iodide crystals. Despite his achievements, he was a kind gentleman who was more than happy to take the time to talk to a curious freshman about his work. We had several fascinating conversations and he even gave me reprints of his original journal articles on cloud seeding. I learned a lot from him and was inspired by his example.
The Network Computing article referenced here is ancient history. It says that PGP was "recently acquired by Network Associates" and it talks about support for FAT16 and FAT32. Network Associates sold PGP way back in 2002. See: PGP Corporation History
I recommend the original poster get some current information on the PGP product.
This is not true: >a Gartner analysis is quoted as saying "What's >really scary about it [phishing] is right now there > are no back-end fraud detection solutions for it."
Corillian Corporation provides an effective back end solution that is capable of detecting phishing sites as they are being built: Corillian Fraud Detection System
HTTP isn't cool because it lacks the letter "X." I read that MS speech and thought to myself, "Self, we don't need a new protocol--we need a universal shopping cart application co-hosted by Visa and the IRS." This would obviate the need for 99% of all web development. I get a little sick of the way our industry always has to have a next cool thing. Yesterday it was WAP, today it's WSDL and SOAP, tomorrow it will be HTTP# or some other silliness. Nobody in the trade press ever stands up and says that the latest fad is a Completely Redundant, Obsolescent, Component Kernel filled with Simple, Heterogenous, Internet Traffic.
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First, thank you for taking time to answer our questions and for the amazing work you have done both as an explorer and an author! My favorite book of yours to date is The Discovery of the Bismarck.
I have two questions:
What is the most interesting underwater engineering problem you've had to solve in your career?
What are the unsolved underwater engineering problems that you think are most important?
If ad blocking really starts to hurt advertisers, I expect they will demand a technical fix rather than a legal one. If sites serve ad content inline with their main site content, ad blockers in their current form will stop working.
This would be a significant change to the current ad distribution model but I think it has a better chance of success than the hypothetical legal approach posited by the article.
A man walks up to a table in the supermarket with a sign that says "FREE HORS D'OEUVRES"
"Can I try one?"
"Sure!" Attendant hands him a cracker covered with brown paste...
"This tastes like shit!"
"It is shit! Want to buy a toothbrush?"
Anyone want to buy a lead codpiece? It protects you against the scanner *and* the TSA gropings!
I don't know what the rules are at the museum but the NSA had a booth at the RSA conference this year and they brought an Enigma with them. They allowed me to use it and it seemed to be in full working order. Dials rotated and the keys made the lights come on. You could even open it up and see the internal mechanism. It was an amazing experience to physically touch a piece of history like that--one of the highlights of the conference for me. A colleague of mine who is fluent in German was reading the instructions which mentioned that there was a printer that could be used with the device--something I hadn't heard before.
We owe a great debt to the code breakers at Bletchley Park like Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman and the Poles like Marian Rejewski who paved the way for them. Not only did they help win WWII and save countless lives, but they also planted the seeds for modern computer science in the process.
Cisco doesn't allow legitimate owners of their hardware to apply security patches without an exorbitantly expensive software subscription. I found this out when I purchased some of their hardware on ebay for self-study purposes. Personally, I think that's a bigger issue. It means that many individuals and small businesses out there are probably running outdated, insecure versions of their software. Not good!
Security patches should be freely available for the good of the whole Internet community.
Why, we have the data right here on our SharePoint site--just a moment while I search for it. That's funny, all the search hits are completely irrelevant. Ah, thank goodness, someone sent me an email with the link or I never would have found it.
Error: Access Denied
You are currently logged in as: BORG\Microserf
Request Access
Use this form to request access to the resource.
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Type your request, and then click Send Request.
Aw hell, let me see if someone posted it to the wiki...
9/11 and trailing fighter jets aside, anyone who has seen Escape from New York would naturally assume that Air Force One had been commandeered by terrorists and was about to crash into Manhattan.
Seriously though, given the all too recent violent history, this was obviously a massive screw-up on the part of the Obama administration. No one even saw fit to inform the mayor of NYC of what was going on much less the terrified populace. How could one not assume the worst?
All the posters making noise about New Yorkers being excessively paranoid are either fools or Obama fanboys laying down a smokescreen to protect their messiah.
About 20 years ago when I was a freshman an the State University of New York at Albany, I had the good fortune to meet Bernard Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's brother. After talking to him a bit, the light went on in my head and I realized he must have been the inspiration for Kurt's ideas about ice-9!
Bernard Vonnegut was a brilliant atmospheric scientist who invented the process of cloud seeding with silver iodide crystals. Despite his achievements, he was a kind gentleman who was more than happy to take the time to talk to a curious freshman about his work. We had several fascinating conversations and he even gave me reprints of his original journal articles on cloud seeding. I learned a lot from him and was inspired by his example.
No evidence of abuse, eh? I'll bet he did a Google search to look for the evidence...
The Network Computing article referenced here is ancient history. It says that PGP was "recently acquired by Network Associates" and it talks about support for FAT16 and FAT32. Network Associates sold PGP way back in 2002. See: PGP Corporation History
I recommend the original poster get some current information on the PGP product.
I don't get these guys. They're paying for the Predator plan with free nights and weekends. They might as well use the service!
...or a McTrojan sandwich? Would you like to botnet, er, I mean supersize that?
This is not true:
>a Gartner analysis is quoted as saying "What's
>really scary about it [phishing] is right now there
> are no back-end fraud detection solutions for it."
Corillian Corporation provides an effective back end solution that is capable of detecting phishing sites as they are being built:
Corillian Fraud Detection System
HTTP isn't cool because it lacks the letter "X." I read that MS speech and thought to myself, "Self, we don't need a new protocol--we need a universal shopping cart application co-hosted by Visa and the IRS." This would obviate the need for 99% of all web development. I get a little sick of the way our industry always has to have a next cool thing. Yesterday it was WAP, today it's WSDL and SOAP, tomorrow it will be HTTP# or some other silliness. Nobody in the trade press ever stands up and says that the latest fad is a Completely Redundant, Obsolescent, Component Kernel filled with Simple, Heterogenous, Internet Traffic.