Perpetuum mobile was impossible two thousand years ago, is impossible right now, and is impossible in the future, unless modern physics is totally whacked out. And we ARE sitting in concrete caves dreaming about efficient power sources.
No word of what kind of a hardware the phone is built on. AES may be fast in both software and hardware, but 4096 Diffie-Hellman is a lot of computations.
How the DH keys are generated ? Does the phone come with factory pre-generated keys built-in ? That would be some privacy ! The best way as I see it would be for the phone to be able to connect to PC and upload the regular PGP key or some other key, probably certified by some CA. Then again, what CAs will the phone understand ? I bet "Cryptophone CA" only. Then what ? You'll have to certify the key I generate with them ?
Enough with the crypto. Who says they will listen to the cell phone's traffic ? The user is still talking aloud, so why not intercepting the voice with sensitive microphones from 100s meters away, rather than decrypting GSM packets ? You lose all convenience of a cell phone, because each time you want to securely talk to someone you have to go in a specially shielded concrete bunker... or, will cell phone work from a concrete bunker ?
Unless the nature of the Internet content changes, there is no need in gigabits.
Even with 10 MBit you can download MP3s faster, than you can listen to them. 100 MBit gives you a few parallel DVD-quality feeds. I mean - end-users may want to d/l all the Internet in a snap, but of what value is it to them ?
Sure, if means to transfer something bigger, ex. teleporting over Internet (TOI) that need 10G per typical human are discovered, then yes, you'll need a bigger pipe.
The article is controversial. It describes a well-known semantical attack on HTTP URLs, and how it's performed in this particular case against Citibank. It also shows you useless message ids, whois, nmap and nessus dumps, few words on what other attacks exist and such. No analysis, no nothing. Oh I forgot, there appears to be "a group" behind this and other attacks, possibly with Russian roots, possibly orchestrated from Delaware, and they use some server in Italy. SO WHAT ?
What new does it say ? Huge institutions like Citibank may be ignorant ? Users care not ? HTTP is vulnerable by definition ? Excuse me, but no news here.
I was wondering, does anybody have any first hand knowledge on whether or not offers like that work at all ? Not necessarily meaning computer field and viruses, but simply law enforcement as such ? Example: there's been a HUGE prize on Bin Laden's head, but has he been caught ? Otherwise it only makes news.
I agree with you, but let me repeat my point. I believe that free software and commercial software is still a software and hence is broken by nature. No reason arguing who has better programmers and what not. The article is a sarcastic joke that deserves a good laugh. I'm surprised how many people get abused. Geez, I remember myself being a student and working on things I had no idea of. It was fun !
One more thing - you have not encounter bugs in GNOME. Good for you. I'm pretty damn sure YOU understand it still means nothing. Did you try every possible thing ? Are you sure 100% of it's code paths have ever run ?... Exactly.
Remember what companies and foreign governments were experiencing when they switched to open-source? They were being bombarded with critcism, lies, and fantastic discounts on closed-source software. But they had looked at the facts, and decided open-source was the solution they desired.
Since when big enterprises and especially governments started making good IT decisions ? Doesn't matter if they are presented with truth or lies. I recall some recent reading about Diebold system. That was an example of a good decision !
The truth as I see it is that writing perfect software is reasonably impossible. Doesn't matter who writes it and what is a license behind it. If it does something useful, it's simply way too complex. Now, even if it's given away for free, the authors are urged to release it soon, preferrably this decade. There goes the market pressure, competition and eternal criticism from both sides of the fence.
You have to give it to the author - the article is fun and true in many aspects.
One of the recent worms attacked Microsoft too, so who shall we blame for that ?
Also, I'm not sure how "desperate" spammers are, so far it looks more like a stand-off. I would be sure if spam stopped, or at least was cut off significantly, but is it the case ?
By animating I meant bringing soul, not life and also that animated is something that "behaves like humans do", "follows the same behaviour patterns" etc. It doesn't really matter. I can see you understand what I'm saying and hope that I understand you too.
I agree with you in that I don't know what nature is or wants. On the other hand, there is that word "\An`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. animatio, fr. animare.] 1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.", which I've been using. People've been animating things since their early days, I believe it's makes it simpler to think about them.
Nature just doesn't think. Period.
Arrogant, eh ?
I won't go into religuious disputes with you, you may believe what you want, but let me do the same.
I've read the paper on the security analysis of the Diebold voting machines. It was one big hole. What is Diebold pursuing now ? They can't just clean up their reputation by removing links from the web, it's riduculuos. On the other hand, since that report went public, some other state (or states) bought the same system. Nobody who is actually responsible for decision ever cared. Some stupid game of politics.
I somehow believe it has to do with the global balance of things. People think they live better because they have advanced everything, but the nature just doesn't think it's a better way to live and so they effectively extinct.
Not everything in this world can be measured in $$ and there is a lot of living things that either aren't humans at all or are humans that don't live the rules of your particular society. To hell with them I guess.
I agree with the posts that tell the story of "negative sum game", enthropy and essentially Earth being sucked out. In these terms every human is a sink, not source, and it doesn't matter that those sinks are of any value to each other or generate something that they think is good.
What, math works differently in countries that USA don't like ? Or, dictatorship makes compilers to compile otherwise invalid programs ? There is no reason to not buying products from those but forcefully imposed embargo.
Adults do wrong things, but demonstrating that to kids as "the true no-hypocrisy view of the world" is wrong. Kids aren't just short grown-ups, you can't just explain them the truth and hope they understand it the same way you do (do YOU know THE truth BTW ?).
Leaving violence apart, even famialirizing kids with the concept of sickness and death by arranging visits to hospitals is at most an arguable psychological experiment.
I think you are right, to the point where everything is a form of expression, ex. a broomstick. Why, of course it has some meaning to the person who is using it.
But I also agree with Kombat, who was saying that the broomstick manufacturer attempted to make it so that it sells better, and THAT was the main reason it has an arrowhead with the gutter on the other end.
Fully agree. Children ain't just stupid little creatures who mimic everything they see. They have their own sense of reality, albeit very different from that of adults.
From what I've seen, it looks like far too many parents nowadays simply don't care about _raising_ their kids, they simply allow them to live nearby. The kids needed guidance, and didn't get it, they got lost, so who is to blame ?
In a word, I believe that kids' problems only reflect the problems of their parents, other adults and society in general.
I've heard about child psychologists who had to always say good forced by the employer (educational institutions typically). No matter how screwed the client is and how desperate the situation with those children is - always say it's ok. "Have you been ignoring your kid recently ? Yelling at ? Beating ? Strangling ? Oh, no sir, it's perfectly ok, you don't need to change your habits."
Before: let's make it a separate process, and if it crashes - who cares, start another one !
After: come on, just reboot the box, nobody even notices !
Topic: telnetd contains remote buffer overflow
Announced: 2001-07-23
Affects: All releases of FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x prior to 4.4, FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE prior to the correction date
FreeBSD only: NO
Looks like all BSD systems were extremely vulnerable since at least 1998. IMHO, three years don't make much difference from seven.
Quote:
When a political candidate sends a voter an e-mail, that recipient can choose to delete the message without opening it, unsubscribe from the list, read it or even reply and engage the sender. That choice should belong to the voter -- not to anti-spam advocates
And the authors of this are:
(1) president of a political e-marketing firm
(2) CEO of a communications software company
So, the above should really read - "Don't you anti-spam advocates mess with our business, it's very different from spam. Spam is all about Viagra, while we offer you politicians !"
Agree. AFAIK, canadian diamonds are better than african, more expensive though. I've been to one of the recently opened canadian mines once - haven't seen'em working deep under, but I tell you - _camp_living_ conditions the miners have are amazing !
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Perpetuum mobile was impossible two thousand years ago, is impossible right now, and is impossible in the future, unless modern physics is totally whacked out. And we ARE sitting in concrete caves dreaming about efficient power sources.
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You'll have to certify the key you generate with them ?
No word of what kind of a hardware the phone is built on. AES may be fast in both software and hardware, but 4096 Diffie-Hellman is a lot of computations.
How the DH keys are generated ? Does the phone come with factory pre-generated keys built-in ? That would be some privacy ! The best way as I see it would be for the phone to be able to connect to PC and upload the regular PGP key or some other key, probably certified by some CA. Then again, what CAs will the phone understand ? I bet "Cryptophone CA" only. Then what ? You'll have to certify the key I generate with them ?
Enough with the crypto. Who says they will listen to the cell phone's traffic ? The user is still talking aloud, so why not intercepting the voice with sensitive microphones from 100s meters away, rather than decrypting GSM packets ? You lose all convenience of a cell phone, because each time you want to securely talk to someone you have to go in a specially shielded concrete bunker... or, will cell phone work from a concrete bunker ?
Unless the nature of the Internet content changes, there is no need in gigabits.
Even with 10 MBit you can download MP3s faster, than you can listen to them. 100 MBit gives you a few parallel DVD-quality feeds. I mean - end-users may want to d/l all the Internet in a snap, but of what value is it to them ?
Sure, if means to transfer something bigger, ex. teleporting over Internet (TOI) that need 10G per typical human are discovered, then yes, you'll need a bigger pipe.
The article is controversial. It describes a well-known semantical attack on HTTP URLs, and how it's performed in this particular case against Citibank. It also shows you useless message ids, whois, nmap and nessus dumps, few words on what other attacks exist and such. No analysis, no nothing. Oh I forgot, there appears to be "a group" behind this and other attacks, possibly with Russian roots, possibly orchestrated from Delaware, and they use some server in Italy. SO WHAT ?
What new does it say ? Huge institutions like Citibank may be ignorant ? Users care not ? HTTP is vulnerable by definition ? Excuse me, but no news here.
I was wondering, does anybody have any first hand knowledge on whether or not offers like that work at all ? Not necessarily meaning computer field and viruses, but simply law enforcement as such ? Example: there's been a HUGE prize on Bin Laden's head, but has he been caught ? Otherwise it only makes news.
I agree with you, but let me repeat my point. I believe that free software and commercial software is still a software and hence is broken by nature. No reason arguing who has better programmers and what not. The article is a sarcastic joke that deserves a good laugh. I'm surprised how many people get abused. Geez, I remember myself being a student and working on things I had no idea of. It was fun !
... Exactly.
One more thing - you have not encounter bugs in GNOME. Good for you. I'm pretty damn sure YOU understand it still means nothing. Did you try every possible thing ? Are you sure 100% of it's code paths have ever run ?
The truth as I see it is that writing perfect software is reasonably impossible. Doesn't matter who writes it and what is a license behind it. If it does something useful, it's simply way too complex. Now, even if it's given away for free, the authors are urged to release it soon, preferrably this decade. There goes the market pressure, competition and eternal criticism from both sides of the fence.
You have to give it to the author - the article is fun and true in many aspects.
One of the recent worms attacked Microsoft too, so who shall we blame for that ?
Also, I'm not sure how "desperate" spammers are, so far it looks more like a stand-off. I would be sure if spam stopped, or at least was cut off significantly, but is it the case ?
By animating I meant bringing soul, not life and also that animated is something that "behaves like humans do", "follows the same behaviour patterns" etc. It doesn't really matter. I can see you understand what I'm saying and hope that I understand you too.
I agree with you in that I don't know what nature is or wants. On the other hand, there is that word "\An`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. animatio, fr. animare.] 1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.", which I've been using. People've been animating things since their early days, I believe it's makes it simpler to think about them.
Nature just doesn't think. Period.
Arrogant, eh ?
I won't go into religuious disputes with you, you may believe what you want, but let me do the same.
I've read the paper on the security analysis of the Diebold voting machines. It was one big hole. What is Diebold pursuing now ? They can't just clean up their reputation by removing links from the web, it's riduculuos. On the other hand, since that report went public, some other state (or states) bought the same system. Nobody who is actually responsible for decision ever cared. Some stupid game of politics.
I somehow believe it has to do with the global balance of things. People think they live better because they have advanced everything, but the nature just doesn't think it's a better way to live and so they effectively extinct.
Not everything in this world can be measured in $$ and there is a lot of living things that either aren't humans at all or are humans that don't live the rules of your particular society. To hell with them I guess. I agree with the posts that tell the story of "negative sum game", enthropy and essentially Earth being sucked out. In these terms every human is a sink, not source, and it doesn't matter that those sinks are of any value to each other or generate something that they think is good.
What, math works differently in countries that USA don't like ? Or, dictatorship makes compilers to compile otherwise invalid programs ? There is no reason to not buying products from those but forcefully imposed embargo.
Adults do wrong things, but demonstrating that to kids as "the true no-hypocrisy view of the world" is wrong. Kids aren't just short grown-ups, you can't just explain them the truth and hope they understand it the same way you do (do YOU know THE truth BTW ?).
Leaving violence apart, even famialirizing kids with the concept of sickness and death by arranging visits to hospitals is at most an arguable psychological experiment.
I think you are right, to the point where everything is a form of expression, ex. a broomstick. Why, of course it has some meaning to the person who is using it.
But I also agree with Kombat, who was saying that the broomstick manufacturer attempted to make it so that it sells better, and THAT was the main reason it has an arrowhead with the gutter on the other end.
Fully agree. Children ain't just stupid little creatures who mimic everything they see. They have their own sense of reality, albeit very different from that of adults.
From what I've seen, it looks like far too many parents nowadays simply don't care about _raising_ their kids, they simply allow them to live nearby. The kids needed guidance, and didn't get it, they got lost, so who is to blame ?
In a word, I believe that kids' problems only reflect the problems of their parents, other adults and society in general.
I've heard about child psychologists who had to always say good forced by the employer (educational institutions typically). No matter how screwed the client is and how desperate the situation with those children is - always say it's ok. "Have you been ignoring your kid recently ? Yelling at ? Beating ? Strangling ? Oh, no sir, it's perfectly ok, you don't need to change your habits."
Before: let's make it a separate process, and if it crashes - who cares, start another one !
After: come on, just reboot the box, nobody even notices !
How about this (FreeBSD-SA-01:49):
Topic: telnetd contains remote buffer overflow
Announced: 2001-07-23
Affects: All releases of FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x prior to 4.4, FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE prior to the correction date
FreeBSD only: NO
Looks like all BSD systems were extremely vulnerable since at least 1998. IMHO, three years don't make much difference from seven.
I heard a question
E) What is a linked list ?
Quote:
When a political candidate sends a voter an e-mail, that recipient can choose to delete the message without opening it, unsubscribe from the list, read it or even reply and engage the sender. That choice should belong to the voter -- not to anti-spam advocates
And the authors of this are:
(1) president of a political e-marketing firm
(2) CEO of a communications software company
So, the above should really read - "Don't you anti-spam advocates mess with our business, it's very different from spam. Spam is all about Viagra, while we offer you politicians !"
Agree. AFAIK, canadian diamonds are better than african, more expensive though. I've been to one of the recently opened canadian mines once - haven't seen'em working deep under, but I tell you - _camp_living_ conditions the miners have are amazing ! Here: http://www.diavik.com/