I don't understand. Did you think I was being sarcastic? I wasn't. The GP post was very informative. You're right that most people don't know the difference, so the post was great.
Or you get an incredibly helpful guy in the Philippines who tells you your new U-Verse DSL has no caps. Then when you plug in the new modem and go through the U-Verse registration, you see at the bottom of the page that there's a 250 GB cap.
At least it's better than the 150 GB cap they stuck me with after 4 years of no cap. But it's impossible to get a guarantee I won't be charged for overages, even though the guy sold me specifically on "no caps." And the only alternative is the local cable company, which is more expensive.
And don't tell me to move to a different residence just for Internet access. That should not be necessary.
With a few other tweaks to http pipelining and other things, you can easily get triple what your rated line speed is supposed to be... but it requires you setup your own dedicated gateway/firewall/router combo box and some really complicated ipchains and kernel magic.
How can you get higher throughput than the physical link speed?
Actually, if the mic or audio hardware is noisier, it might mean it's picking up more electrical noise from the rest of the system, which might make it less random. And since the PSU fan is also part of the system, I'm not sure it would qualify as random either. Don't you need a source of data that's outside the system, independent of it?
Wrong question. The question is, why wouldn't they?
Besides, you're begging the question: is OpenBSD obscure? I'd suggest that since it is reputed to be so secure, it's more likely to be used for installations that want or need high security, and so a backdoor in it could be quite valuable.
That's great, and I think there's some wisdom in doing those things. Just remember that bugs can result in getting around things like privsep. All it takes is one privilege escalation bug and your unprivileged daemon or shell account has compromised the whole system. And if you scan the Security page on LWN, you'll see that bugs like these are fixed all the time, which is both encouraging and discouraging--because it means there are always more of them out there.
Never subscribe to a stupid, idiotic, brain-dead conspiracy theory when all you need is basic human psychology.
Frankly, the government is the very last people I would consider competent to run a conspiracy. They're the most incompetent, corrupt, stupid lot I've ever seen.
Appeal to ridicule and generalization. The government is like a network of networks; some subnets are wholly incompetent and/or corrupt; others are highly trained and able to accomplish much, whether for good or evil.
I'm wholly against usage caps, but you need to nuance this. At what level is that true? Backbone? What if you factor in all the network down to the edge?
You're talking about Gilmore? I was under the impression that he was actually involved in the processes he is talking about, and therefore that he ought to know what he's talking about. If you read some more of the thread under his message, you'll find responses from people who were indeed involved in the processes he mentioned. I don't think these folks are journalists who are in over their heads.
I read it as, rather than have a useful, usable, implementable standard, they kept tacking things on for corner cases until it was an unruly behemoth that no one could even comprehend. It would have been better to have something that supported fewer use cases but did a few of them well, and was actually widely used. And that seems believable to me.
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A very patient man you are to keep checking for replies. Kind of like APK. (Kidding!)
I don't understand. Did you think I was being sarcastic? I wasn't. The GP post was very informative. You're right that most people don't know the difference, so the post was great.
Salesslug. I think I will steal...I mean, share that. :)
Sorry to hear that. I'm curious, how do you manage to keep track of replies to your AC comments?
What qualifies as government?
No, really.
And they never caught you?
What's your backup system like?
What about the installation fees?
Have you actually hired a lawyer to write a "formal letter of complaint" that "follows very precise form" before? If so, how did it go?
Or you get an incredibly helpful guy in the Philippines who tells you your new U-Verse DSL has no caps. Then when you plug in the new modem and go through the U-Verse registration, you see at the bottom of the page that there's a 250 GB cap.
At least it's better than the 150 GB cap they stuck me with after 4 years of no cap. But it's impossible to get a guarantee I won't be charged for overages, even though the guy sold me specifically on "no caps." And the only alternative is the local cable company, which is more expensive.
And don't tell me to move to a different residence just for Internet access. That should not be necessary.
With a few other tweaks to http pipelining and other things, you can easily get triple what your rated line speed is supposed to be... but it requires you setup your own dedicated gateway/firewall/router combo box and some really complicated ipchains and kernel magic.
How can you get higher throughput than the physical link speed?
Look up kleptography. Seems that not all backdoors are created equal.
Actually, if the mic or audio hardware is noisier, it might mean it's picking up more electrical noise from the rest of the system, which might make it less random. And since the PSU fan is also part of the system, I'm not sure it would qualify as random either. Don't you need a source of data that's outside the system, independent of it?
Wrong question. The question is, why wouldn't they?
Besides, you're begging the question: is OpenBSD obscure? I'd suggest that since it is reputed to be so secure, it's more likely to be used for installations that want or need high security, and so a backdoor in it could be quite valuable.
That's great, and I think there's some wisdom in doing those things. Just remember that bugs can result in getting around things like privsep. All it takes is one privilege escalation bug and your unprivileged daemon or shell account has compromised the whole system. And if you scan the Security page on LWN, you'll see that bugs like these are fixed all the time, which is both encouraging and discouraging--because it means there are always more of them out there.
False dichotomy.
What about his not paranoid?
Never subscribe to a stupid, idiotic, brain-dead conspiracy theory when all you need is basic human psychology.
Frankly, the government is the very last people I would consider competent to run a conspiracy. They're the most incompetent, corrupt, stupid lot I've ever seen.
Appeal to ridicule and generalization. The government is like a network of networks; some subnets are wholly incompetent and/or corrupt; others are highly trained and able to accomplish much, whether for good or evil.
I'm wholly against usage caps, but you need to nuance this. At what level is that true? Backbone? What if you factor in all the network down to the edge?
I think his point is that it was sabotage in the form of overengineering. You know, hiding in plain sight, subtle, etc.
You're talking about Gilmore? I was under the impression that he was actually involved in the processes he is talking about, and therefore that he ought to know what he's talking about. If you read some more of the thread under his message, you'll find responses from people who were indeed involved in the processes he mentioned. I don't think these folks are journalists who are in over their heads.
Mod parent up.
Interesting. Is it actually noticably faster when SCPing files?
I read it as, rather than have a useful, usable, implementable standard, they kept tacking things on for corner cases until it was an unruly behemoth that no one could even comprehend. It would have been better to have something that supported fewer use cases but did a few of them well, and was actually widely used. And that seems believable to me.