This whole thing seems to be a bit absurd. I mean, you can configure PortSentry to counter attack if you really want to. And I think most of us who have ever worked on a big network have had the satisfaction of nuking some poor script kiddie with the power of the big pipe.
But turning it around and doing indescriminate counterattacks is absurd. I can just see someone hacking some poorly secured military websites (And they're everywhere) and launching a limited DOS from them, prompting a counterattack which would land the company in serious trouble.
I'm an American, and sadly, it does sound like our foreign policy.
I've got two multi proc machines running in my home, and while I admit one of them is, in fact, a business machine, the other is not. And, since it IS a non-business machine, I tend to use a non-business OS on it, namely Windows.
Which, technically makes me in violation of their EULA because I'm one XP liscense short of my processor count.
Quad processor machines are certainly not common in a strictly home user (I could get similar performace from clustering my dual-procs) but dual processor boxes are not that uncommon, and paying double Windows liscensing for what is, strictly a home machine, seems utterly ridiculous, especially since "$45 dollars" is nothing like what Windows costs today, unless you happen to work for Microsoft.
Just the opinion of the Master of the Run-on Sentence.
Was that an argument? Are you saying that unsecured moderation on a public news site is in any way similar to a computerised voting machine? Diebold sucks, but come on, really.
I don't see any point in refuting a comparison of apples and oranges, though I find it amusing that you think that comparison is a telling point.
You can't view this article as anything. The headline says it all, "Officials Say evoting a Success". If something does go wrong, those same journalists will gleefully use the quotes from those officials to tear strips from the dumb bastards.
I actually voted in Georgia, and I have to say that, by and large, the judges there were not as well trained as the ones described by Rubin. Regardless, I think this is a threat that will peak over time, and not in the next few elections. Once the procedures get established, and people get sloppy, I think we'll see some instances of fraud.
I have to say one thing though, it actually made voting feel kind of cloak and dagger. I've never spent so much time looking at a voting machine before.
I think the competition among search engines leads inevitably to the death of engines that don't work very well.
I've always found yahoo to be rather limited, and I can't see how artifically skewing their search results is going to make them in any way better, or more reliable. Seems like you'd just be MORE likely to get a result that isn't what you want, as a half dozen companies get foisted off on you whenever you enter a certain keyword.
Well, if it's a true learning system, nothing, of course. But if you've got competition, then either you'll need a large body of people to make sure the badly trained ghost stays fresh and popular, or it will get ignored and "die".
For this sort of project I think you actually NEED people to try and abuse the system. If it's well designed, it'll help it get smarter. If it's poorly designed, then, at least, they'll be able to tell.
Mind you, I think the whole think will fail for lack of computing power, though I think it sounds cool.
Hellz yea! Man what I wouldn't give to get out form under the iron boot of my damn ISP. Yea, I get 3 mbs down, but only like.2 up, and I NEEEEEED that upload bandwidth!!!
I think it'll be good just for the extra competition to drive down the prices.
Heh. Sometimes the experiments are decent, but they never get enough of a data set for any sort of real conclusion.
I just watch it for the exploding junk factor... That episode with the exploding CDs was great. If I had one of those in my office, my boss would look like that dummy.
Just adding a tag or a plugin wouldn't seem like it would help all that much...Email is such an open format that anything you add, can be copied and added by spammers too.
Just my opinion.
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It's been talked about. The problem is that it'll still be subducting 50,000 years from now. It's not exactly a speedy process.
I heard something about this a while back. When they creamate you for orbit, they use a high heat pure oxygen system, which results in much more complete cremation, and thus a smaller remaining amount of...errr....remains.
If there was a coup in Georgia's gov't, it would be ousting the Hillbillies FROM Atlanta. Atlanta and Savannah are about the only progressive areas of Georgia.
Of course, by the same token, most people here, in Georgia, where I am unfortunate enough to live, are too uneducated to hack a voting machine, so democracy is pretty much safe here.
Same stupid crap. Why should I believe that a company whom I pay is more trustworthy than a company I do not? Is Redhat intrinsically less trustworthy than Microsoft? I think their very willingness to relelease all their source proves unequivicobly that it is THEY who are trustworthy, and that Microsoft's fanatical secrecy proves that they are not.
Even that is suspect, because they have no list of publications or charts. If it's billboard, spin, and rolling stone, then you have a rating that has some value, but it could just as easily be based on bob's magazine, music chart, and barbeque.
Yawn. Yea, I could buy a 500 dollar ipod so I can carry whatever absurd number of songs that thing holds, or I could buy a cheaper one that holds all the songs I'll be able to listen to before the battery dies.
I could afford it, but why? Just to have a 500 dollar portable mp3 player? Seems like the only reason. Chicks may dig the bling bling, but I'd rather have a nice laptop.
And as for my lack of coordination, I wonder what fantasy world you live in that you never drop a portable music player? Of course, if I blew 500 dollars on an mp3 player, I'd probably never go anywhere that wasn't heavily carpeted either.
And, in conclusion, stupid AC posting mac fanatics can go shove their mad expensive ipods up their collective tight asses. Thank you very much.
I just can't buy it. I have a perfectly nice MP3 player that's really small, and only cost me about 180 dollars, as opposed to 300 for the smallest ipod. Sure that big 40 gig ipod is cool, but I'm not paying 500 dollars for something I'll carry/drop while jogging.
For a lot of Mac products, the extra quality is worth the extra price, but I really don't see it for the ipod.
I didn't really want to say anything about Reagan except that he was a democrat until he sided with McCarthy and switched parties...Well, I wanted to imply he was a racist too, but that was just an amusing cheap shot.
It's just as likely to be a scrap of code inloaded off the back of a credit card. Why in Gods name would anyone use a proven insecure operating system as the base for a series of teller machines? Are ATMs so complex that you need a whole operating system running on the damn things? I seriously doubt it.
The answer to this is to make a simple, purpose built program, which is INCAPABLE of running externally introduced code. You need to patch? Run the software off a CD/DVD, and when you need to change the code, change the CD. Nothing to get cracked, nothign to get corrupted, nothing but hardwired code. Burn an extended BIOS on a rom chip to run the physical end. Then lock the whole thing up in a metal box, and BAM its as secure as you can make it.
Diebold should go back to making safes and padlocks, because they sure as hell don't know crap about ATMs and Voting Machines.
And moving parts of it back to this side of the globe isn't going to change that. They are stingy with their parts, they are slow to diagnose problems, they only replace problem machines when the damn things catch fire, and if you are (un)fortunate enough to have a same day onsite contract, the joker they send you has an A+ certification from Bob's School of Worthless Certifications, and is far more likely to make the problem worse.
Best case scenario is the tech they send will make the machine catch fire, and they'll send you a new one, and the cycle can start over.
Actually, the bulk of the democrats who opposed desegregation, collectively known as "Dixiecrats" migrated to the Republican party. The group who switched included such notables as Trent Lott and Strom Thurmand. Ronald Reagan also switched at this time, though perhaps it was because he was busy calling people communists, and not because he hated black people.
The same kind of problems happen in systems that are unregulated, because private power companies have no financial motiviation to keep their systems modern, and no motiviation to build the sorts of multiple redundancies that are clearly needed.
Though the govt sucks too. Damned if we do, damned if we dont.
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This whole thing seems to be a bit absurd. I mean, you can configure PortSentry to counter attack if you really want to. And I think most of us who have ever worked on a big network have had the satisfaction of nuking some poor script kiddie with the power of the big pipe.
But turning it around and doing indescriminate counterattacks is absurd. I can just see someone hacking some poorly secured military websites (And they're everywhere) and launching a limited DOS from them, prompting a counterattack which would land the company in serious trouble.
I'm an American, and sadly, it does sound like our foreign policy.
I've got two multi proc machines running in my home, and while I admit one of them is, in fact, a business machine, the other is not. And, since it IS a non-business machine, I tend to use a non-business OS on it, namely Windows.
Which, technically makes me in violation of their EULA because I'm one XP liscense short of my processor count.
Quad processor machines are certainly not common in a strictly home user (I could get similar performace from clustering my dual-procs) but dual processor boxes are not that uncommon, and paying double Windows liscensing for what is, strictly a home machine, seems utterly ridiculous, especially since "$45 dollars" is nothing like what Windows costs today, unless you happen to work for Microsoft.
Just the opinion of the Master of the Run-on Sentence.
Heh. I thought I made it up...
At any rate, you can attribute it to the Satanicpuppy. My real name doesn't actually show UP on the internet.
Blizzard may not make Linux games, but the ones they do make run beautifully under Wine.
Was that an argument? Are you saying that unsecured moderation on a public news site is in any way similar to a computerised voting machine? Diebold sucks, but come on, really.
I don't see any point in refuting a comparison of apples and oranges, though I find it amusing that you think that comparison is a telling point.
You can't view this article as anything. The headline says it all, "Officials Say evoting a Success". If something does go wrong, those same journalists will gleefully use the quotes from those officials to tear strips from the dumb bastards.
I actually voted in Georgia, and I have to say that, by and large, the judges there were not as well trained as the ones described by Rubin. Regardless, I think this is a threat that will peak over time, and not in the next few elections. Once the procedures get established, and people get sloppy, I think we'll see some instances of fraud.
I have to say one thing though, it actually made voting feel kind of cloak and dagger. I've never spent so much time looking at a voting machine before.
Oh yes, totally ironic. How I dread the day when CowboyNeal is illegally modded into the Oval Office.
Moron.
I think the competition among search engines leads inevitably to the death of engines that don't work very well.
I've always found yahoo to be rather limited, and I can't see how artifically skewing their search results is going to make them in any way better, or more reliable. Seems like you'd just be MORE likely to get a result that isn't what you want, as a half dozen companies get foisted off on you whenever you enter a certain keyword.
Well, if it's a true learning system, nothing, of course. But if you've got competition, then either you'll need a large body of people to make sure the badly trained ghost stays fresh and popular, or it will get ignored and "die".
For this sort of project I think you actually NEED people to try and abuse the system. If it's well designed, it'll help it get smarter. If it's poorly designed, then, at least, they'll be able to tell.
Mind you, I think the whole think will fail for lack of computing power, though I think it sounds cool.
Hellz yea! Man what I wouldn't give to get out form under the iron boot of my damn ISP. Yea, I get 3 mbs down, but only like .2 up, and I NEEEEEED that upload bandwidth!!!
I think it'll be good just for the extra competition to drive down the prices.
Heh. Sometimes the experiments are decent, but they never get enough of a data set for any sort of real conclusion.
I just watch it for the exploding junk factor... That episode with the exploding CDs was great. If I had one of those in my office, my boss would look like that dummy.
Just adding a tag or a plugin wouldn't seem like it would help all that much...Email is such an open format that anything you add, can be copied and added by spammers too.
Just my opinion.
It's been talked about. The problem is that it'll still be subducting 50,000 years from now. It's not exactly a speedy process.
I heard something about this a while back. When they creamate you for orbit, they use a high heat pure oxygen system, which results in much more complete cremation, and thus a smaller remaining amount of...errr....remains.
If there was a coup in Georgia's gov't, it would be ousting the Hillbillies FROM Atlanta. Atlanta and Savannah are about the only progressive areas of Georgia.
Of course, by the same token, most people here, in Georgia, where I am unfortunate enough to live, are too uneducated to hack a voting machine, so democracy is pretty much safe here.
Same stupid crap. Why should I believe that a company whom I pay is more trustworthy than a company I do not? Is Redhat intrinsically less trustworthy than Microsoft? I think their very willingness to relelease all their source proves unequivicobly that it is THEY who are trustworthy, and that Microsoft's fanatical secrecy proves that they are not.
Untrue. Human beings have much larger brains than ants/bees/termites, and our society is proportionally MORE complex, not less.
Communal insects have workers, drones, and queens.
We have all those, plus lawyers, porn stars, and programmers. Yee ha. It's good to be human.
Even that is suspect, because they have no list of publications or charts. If it's billboard, spin, and rolling stone, then you have a rating that has some value, but it could just as easily be based on bob's magazine, music chart, and barbeque.
Just my opinion.
Yawn. Yea, I could buy a 500 dollar ipod so I can carry whatever absurd number of songs that thing holds, or I could buy a cheaper one that holds all the songs I'll be able to listen to before the battery dies.
I could afford it, but why? Just to have a 500 dollar portable mp3 player? Seems like the only reason. Chicks may dig the bling bling, but I'd rather have a nice laptop.
And as for my lack of coordination, I wonder what fantasy world you live in that you never drop a portable music player? Of course, if I blew 500 dollars on an mp3 player, I'd probably never go anywhere that wasn't heavily carpeted either.
And, in conclusion, stupid AC posting mac fanatics can go shove their mad expensive ipods up their collective tight asses. Thank you very much.
I just can't buy it. I have a perfectly nice MP3 player that's really small, and only cost me about 180 dollars, as opposed to 300 for the smallest ipod. Sure that big 40 gig ipod is cool, but I'm not paying 500 dollars for something I'll carry/drop while jogging.
For a lot of Mac products, the extra quality is worth the extra price, but I really don't see it for the ipod.
I didn't really want to say anything about Reagan except that he was a democrat until he sided with McCarthy and switched parties...Well, I wanted to imply he was a racist too, but that was just an amusing cheap shot.
It's just as likely to be a scrap of code inloaded off the back of a credit card. Why in Gods name would anyone use a proven insecure operating system as the base for a series of teller machines? Are ATMs so complex that you need a whole operating system running on the damn things? I seriously doubt it.
The answer to this is to make a simple, purpose built program, which is INCAPABLE of running externally introduced code. You need to patch? Run the software off a CD/DVD, and when you need to change the code, change the CD. Nothing to get cracked, nothign to get corrupted, nothing but hardwired code. Burn an extended BIOS on a rom chip to run the physical end. Then lock the whole thing up in a metal box, and BAM its as secure as you can make it.
Diebold should go back to making safes and padlocks, because they sure as hell don't know crap about ATMs and Voting Machines.
And moving parts of it back to this side of the globe isn't going to change that. They are stingy with their parts, they are slow to diagnose problems, they only replace problem machines when the damn things catch fire, and if you are (un)fortunate enough to have a same day onsite contract, the joker they send you has an A+ certification from Bob's School of Worthless Certifications, and is far more likely to make the problem worse.
Best case scenario is the tech they send will make the machine catch fire, and they'll send you a new one, and the cycle can start over.
Actually, the bulk of the democrats who opposed desegregation, collectively known as "Dixiecrats" migrated to the Republican party. The group who switched included such notables as Trent Lott and Strom Thurmand. Ronald Reagan also switched at this time, though perhaps it was because he was busy calling people communists, and not because he hated black people.
The same kind of problems happen in systems that are unregulated, because private power companies have no financial motiviation to keep their systems modern, and no motiviation to build the sorts of multiple redundancies that are clearly needed.
Though the govt sucks too. Damned if we do, damned if we dont.