Than you'll have to wait some 48 megaseconds before you get important milestone 1.5Gs. It is more than one and half turns of this little wet stone ball around the Sun away from now.
Any freelancer should know that signing an NDA and touching any proprietary code puts him in danger. And better do not work with companies which want to keep their code secret.
There should be big difficulty for the companies that do not publish their code under some kind of OpenSource license to get skilled developers.
Of course this case doesn't place employed developers in danger. They cannot disclose the code, which they touch only in the office.
It doesn't work this way. Novadays e-commerce websites love to use GeoIP to locate their customers.
So, when I connect Moscow, Russia online shops via VPN endpoint on Germany, I typically see just "This item doesn't ship to Germany". So, I have to maintain sophisticated proxy configuration, to distinguish between local online services, which I have to go directly and informational web sites, which I can access via proxy to bypass Russian internet censorship.
Of course, it makes my ISP able to tell police which online shops I've visited recently.
If you want to run Linux, buy something ARM-based, like Banana Pi or Raspberry Pi 2. There are quite descent boards, and they are much cheaper than $99.
There is free app Linux Deploy on the Google Play, which installs Linux into chroot on android device, and allow it to be accessed with VNC protocol. Combine it with some VNC player android (preferrable one which handles physical keyboard well) and you'll easily get ubuntu or Debian on android stick. nd no problem with proprietary video drivers and so on, because hardware would be handled by Android.
docx is just a zip-archive with xml files. And as far as I remember, schemas are published somewhere (althouth format description is several thousands of pages)
Oh, these engineers only need a slightest exuse to get some alcohol by taxpayers money. They would indeed test it regularily. Because they know that contamination might happen only in the imagination of bad pulp fiction writer, and alcohol has a much better uses than to spill it onto the rover.
There are a lot of people discussing "flaws" in the GSM, "nice features" in UMTS and no one mentioning stupiid truth. Problem not in the protocols, or software. Problem is that operators think that they have right to control user equipment.
And when this equipment grows from the stupid phone to full-featured computer, user privacy goes void.
Do not be afraid of rogue with laptop, be afraid of operator's insider.
What would happen if next generation of phones would get direct brain interfaces? You'll allow operators to control your brain just like now they control your calendars and bookshelves?
I prefer to run SMTP-server on my home machine and never let any ISP, Google or whomever to store copies of my mail any longer than it is needed for technical purposes of SMTP protocol.
With current broadband penetration everyone can do the same. Plug a USB-flash into your Wi-Fi acces point and run postfix on it.
... there was comp.unix.shell usenet group. And there was weekly award for "most useless use of cat(1)". Although it is about unix cat command, not about real furry creatures, this article deserves such award.
Aircraft carrier reactor doesn't just provide power for crew members. It, first of all, provides power to move 1000-feet vessel with 30 or so nautical miles per hour. This requires huge amount of power.
It would just file a lawsuit against you in the your local court. Then you can defend yourself and prove that you really have a license, and WGA is wrong. It would cost you just... say five times more than license.
Probably, what they means under "tweaking security" is security of content providers and software vendors. I.e. some protection against un-sanctioned use of system by legitimate user. This is lesser issue in the business environment, where they can just sue customers.
Security by obscurity is no security. Consider gas station operator which have to read these cards to sell me oil. Even if standard gas station equipment doesn't allow it, there are service engineers which ought to have universal scanners.
For personal privacy it doesn't matter. There is standard procedure to match tag encoding construct with particular database. It might involve decoding tag or might require database to store encoded construct as secondary key, no difference for me if I'm not going to hack the database.
I just have to know what this RFID is for, what kind of my personal data can be found using it and which officials are authorized to access these data.
I'd rather want to know that 2F0103047541A430000001F9 is my identifier in the passport database, some other simular number (oh, where is my hardware random number generator to make a sample) is my id in the local hospital database et cetera.
Why he calls it "compromise"? RFID tag is just something like license plate on your car. You don't call your car security compromised just because everybody non-blind in victinity can read your license plate with naked eyes.
You need have access to police database in order to get sensitive information of car owner using car license plate. Nobody but criminals tries to hide their car license plate from casual observer.
Same for RFIDs - they just transmit some unique id, and one who wants to idenitfy person carrying RFID has to get access to right database (and indentity which database holds this info first).
I'd rather say that your security is compromised, if you cannot read what is transmitted by RFID tag in your passport or under your skin, and some unknown person with RFID scanner can.
So, in order to stop this hype about RFIDs compromising security, they have to cell RFID scanners for dollar on next corner, or make it standard feature of every cell phone (if components are really already in place) so everybody who is concerned about security can easily scan oneself and find out what kind of information is available from those tags.
Only reason why those RFID makers don't do it - is because they want to make money on scanners as well as chips theirselves.
If they are telling us that freedom of distribution would kill their work, they are probably right. But every new invention kills someone works. For example, in the past there were water carriers in the cities. Piped water killed their work. Nobody now need to pay somebody for binging busket of water into his home.
Fate of music distribution industry would be same.
As for rock stars, they are probably right too. These stars do not produce good music, they are created by advertising and support of recording industry. So, if recording industry is gone, most modern stars would be gone too. Other bands with more talent would take their place.
It's unfair - I should be able to run the software I want on the hardware I want, as long as I'm not producing malware.
You should be able to run software you want, as long as you are not producing problems for ISP and other ISP users. I really don't care whether user of PC which sends me tons of spam doing it deliberately, or his PC is 0wned and he just is not aware of problems. I just don't want tons of spam.
Your freedom to wave your hands ends where nose of other person begins.
So, it is perfectly ethical and legal to require any ISP customer to comply to some security requirements in order to get a connectivity.
Of course, it is preferrable that these requirements should be specified software-independent way. For example "No E-Mail originating from your machine should be sent to person unwilling to accept it"
Unfortunately, there is no way to specify requirements so that non-technical users would understand them and make their systems compliant.
But, really, owner of computer should be responsible for every activity of this computer in the network.
The only thing I don't understand from your post is why to use any cdrom-enabled windows software. I didn't notice anything about autorun from 95 till 02 because I haven't own any windows machine and avoid use of one at work.
Since 02 I sometimes use Windows in VMware because I develop for it, but never run there anything but software I wrote and cl.exe (I even do not use lib.exe - ar from cygwin is way better).
BTW, VMWare would save user from most implications of Sony rootkit. Just set it to "revert to snapshot on poweroff", and nothing autoinstalled on your machine would survive cold reboot.
Illegal is to use lynx and to type URL manually, as was covered by previous slashdot posts. If this guy would be punished for annoying people by sending 3 millions E-Mails, it would set precedent to punish spammers.
It would seriously harm advertising industry, if spam would be banned. No responsible jugde would allow this to happen.
See it other way around - I give you the source. You've modified it and introduced some bugs. Why should I be liable for damage caused by these bugs?
Really, if you want to have stable software, you have to pay for it. There are two widely used forms of payment - 1. Just pay to commercial software vendor. 2. Invest time into learning programming and auditing and fixing source code (or hire knowledgable person to do it).
Current market situation is such that first method just doesn't work. You pay and you get software of same or worse quality as free software around there. But there is no way for you to improve stability by additional investment.
With free software cost of achieving desired level of stability is high, but managable. With commer cial software you have to buy out entire vendor firm and finance it long enough for developers to make version which meets any reasonable quality standard without any additional sales.
Once upon a time I've asked wife of one my friend, how she can tolerate humming of all his computers round the clock. And she explained that her father was captain of river ship, and she spent much of her childhood in the cabin aboard the ship. So she is used to an idea, that when engines run smoothly, everything is Ok, but if silence fells, something wrong have happened.
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Than you'll have to wait some 48 megaseconds before you get important milestone 1.5Gs. It is more than one and half turns of this little wet stone ball around the Sun away from now.
Any freelancer should know that signing an NDA and touching any proprietary code puts him in danger.
And better do not work with companies which want to keep their code secret.
There should be big difficulty for the companies that do not publish their code under some kind of OpenSource license to get skilled developers.
Of course this case doesn't place employed developers in danger. They cannot disclose the code, which they touch only in the office.
It doesn't work this way. Novadays e-commerce websites love to use GeoIP to locate their customers.
So, when I connect Moscow, Russia online shops via VPN endpoint on Germany, I typically see just "This item doesn't ship to Germany". So, I have to maintain sophisticated proxy configuration, to distinguish between local online services, which I have to go directly and informational web sites, which I can access via proxy to bypass Russian internet censorship.
Of course, it makes my ISP able to tell police which online shops I've visited recently.
If you want to run Linux, buy something ARM-based, like Banana Pi or Raspberry Pi 2. There are quite descent boards, and they are much cheaper than $99.
There is free app Linux Deploy on the Google Play, which installs Linux into chroot on android device, and allow it to be accessed with VNC protocol. Combine it with some VNC player android (preferrable one which handles physical keyboard well) and you'll easily get ubuntu or Debian on android stick. nd no problem with proprietary video drivers and so on, because hardware would be handled by Android.
docx is just a zip-archive with xml files. And as far as I remember, schemas are published somewhere (althouth format description is several thousands of pages)
Oh, these engineers only need a slightest exuse to get some alcohol by taxpayers money. They would indeed test it regularily. Because they know that contamination might happen only in the imagination of bad pulp fiction writer, and alcohol has a much better uses than to spill it onto the rover.
There are a lot of people discussing "flaws" in the GSM, "nice features" in UMTS and no one mentioning stupiid truth.
Problem not in the protocols, or software. Problem is that operators think that they have right to control user equipment.
And when this equipment grows from the stupid phone to full-featured computer, user privacy goes void.
Do not be afraid of rogue with laptop, be afraid of operator's insider.
What would happen if next generation of phones would get direct brain interfaces? You'll allow operators to control your brain just like now they control your calendars and bookshelves?
I prefer to run SMTP-server on my home machine and never let any ISP, Google or whomever to store copies of my mail any longer than it is needed for technical purposes of SMTP protocol.
With current broadband penetration everyone can do the same. Plug a USB-flash into your Wi-Fi acces point and run postfix on it.
... there was comp.unix.shell usenet group. And there was weekly award for "most useless use of cat(1)". Although it is about unix cat command, not about real furry creatures, this article deserves such award.
Aircraft carrier reactor doesn't just provide power for crew members.
It, first of all, provides power to move 1000-feet vessel with 30 or so nautical miles per hour. This requires huge amount of power.
It would just file a lawsuit against you in the your local court. Then you can defend yourself and prove that you really have a license, and WGA is wrong. It would cost you just... say five times more than license.
Probably, what they means under "tweaking security" is security of content providers and software vendors. I.e. some protection against un-sanctioned use of system by legitimate user. This is lesser issue in the business environment, where they can just sue customers.
Security by obscurity is no security. Consider gas station operator which have to read these cards to sell me oil. Even if standard gas station equipment doesn't allow it, there are service engineers which ought to have universal scanners.
This case is what public key cryptography is for.
For personal privacy it doesn't matter. There is standard procedure to match tag encoding construct with particular database. It might involve decoding tag or might require database to store encoded construct as secondary key, no difference for me if I'm not going to hack the database.
I just have to know what this RFID is for, what kind of my personal data can be found using it and which officials are authorized to access these data.
I'd rather want to know that 2F0103047541A430000001F9 is my identifier in the passport database,
some other simular number (oh, where is my hardware random number generator to make a sample) is my id in the local hospital database et cetera.
Why he calls it "compromise"? RFID tag is just something like license plate on your car.
You don't call your car security compromised just because everybody non-blind in victinity can read your license plate with naked eyes.
You need have access to police database in order to get sensitive information of car owner using car license plate. Nobody but criminals tries to hide their car license plate from casual observer.
Same for RFIDs - they just transmit some unique id, and one who wants to idenitfy person carrying RFID has to get access to right database (and indentity which database holds this info first).
I'd rather say that your security is compromised, if you cannot read what is transmitted by RFID tag in your passport or under your skin, and some unknown person with RFID scanner can.
So, in order to stop this hype about RFIDs compromising security, they have to cell RFID scanners for dollar on next corner, or make it standard feature of every cell phone (if components are really already in place) so everybody who is concerned about security can easily scan oneself and find out what kind of information is available from those tags.
Only reason why those RFID makers don't do it - is because they want to make money on scanners as well as chips theirselves.
If they are telling us that freedom of distribution would kill their work, they are probably right. But every new invention kills someone works. For example, in the past there were water carriers in the cities. Piped water killed their work. Nobody now need to pay somebody for binging busket of water into his home.
Fate of music distribution industry would be same.
As for rock stars, they are probably right too. These stars do not produce good music, they are created by advertising and support of recording industry. So, if recording industry is gone, most modern stars would be gone too. Other bands with more talent would take their place.
It's unfair -
I should be able to run the software I want on the hardware I want, as long as I'm not producing malware.
You should be able to run software you want, as long as you are not producing problems for ISP and other ISP users. I really don't care whether user of PC which sends me tons of spam doing it deliberately, or his PC is 0wned and he just is not aware of problems. I just don't want tons of spam.
Your freedom to wave your hands ends where nose of other person begins.
So, it is perfectly ethical and legal to require any ISP customer to comply to some security requirements in order to get a connectivity.
Of course, it is preferrable that these requirements should be specified software-independent way.
For example "No E-Mail originating from your machine should be sent to person unwilling to accept it"
Unfortunately, there is no way to specify requirements so that non-technical users would understand them and make their systems compliant.
But, really, owner of computer should be responsible for every activity of this computer in the network.
The only thing I don't understand from your post is why to use any cdrom-enabled windows software. I didn't notice anything about autorun from 95 till 02 because I haven't own any windows machine and avoid use of one at work.
Since 02 I sometimes use Windows in VMware because I develop for it, but never run there anything but software I wrote and cl.exe (I even do not use lib.exe - ar from cygwin is way better).
BTW, VMWare would save user from most implications of Sony rootkit. Just set it to "revert to snapshot on poweroff", and nothing autoinstalled on your machine would survive cold reboot.
Illegal is to use lynx and to type URL manually, as was covered by previous slashdot posts.
If this guy would be punished for annoying people by sending 3 millions E-Mails, it would set precedent to punish spammers.
It would seriously harm advertising industry, if spam would be banned. No responsible jugde would allow this to happen.
See it other way around - I give you the source. You've modified it and introduced some bugs. Why should I be liable for damage caused by these bugs?
Really, if you want to have stable software, you have to pay for it. There are two widely used forms of payment - 1. Just pay to commercial software vendor. 2. Invest time into learning programming and auditing and fixing source code (or hire knowledgable person to do it).
Current market situation is such that first method just doesn't work. You pay and you get software of same or worse quality as free software around there. But there is no way for you to improve stability by additional investment.
With free software cost of achieving desired level of stability is high, but managable. With commer cial software you have to buy out entire vendor firm and finance it long enough for developers to make version which meets any reasonable quality standard without any additional sales.
Once upon a time I've asked wife of one my friend, how she can tolerate humming of all his computers round the clock. And she explained that her father was captain of river ship, and she spent much of her childhood in the cabin aboard the ship. So she is used to an idea, that when engines run smoothly, everything is Ok, but if silence fells, something wrong have happened.
Do not fuel cells produce power? I thought they do. And they are silent and their applications to computer industry were much discussed recently.
Shuttle safety doesn't remain same over time. It decreases. Precisely because shuttle is reusable, and each of them gets worn out with each flight.
Soyuzes are built freshly for each launch, so each time it flies, it is brand-new system which may or may not have improvements in technology.