What percentage of identity theft occurs from someone stealing one of those little envelopes, I wonder.
That's why, when you get 'em, you shred 'em.
Security is not absolute. It's always about probabilities. You reduce the chance of a breach, but you can never make it absolutely impossible.
Yes, but that only works if you get to your mail BEFORE the people stealing your mail.
Hmm. don't want to be depending on potentially unstable countries for food? Well, maybe that becomes an incentive to start helping to STABILIZE other countries, rather than DESTABILIZING them?
Unfolds?
Try dropping back and punting to the original satellite methodology.. The first american satellite that was used for communication was a giant silvered balloon, that radio was bounced off of.
Scale that up to something say 5 miles across, that, uninflated, fits in the payload bay of the shuttle. Inflate it with a gas that will fit in a small space. Launch to orbit, eject satellite. Allow time for orbits to separate sufficiently, then inflate. When the orbit decays, light material like mylar will burn up on re-entry.
Ok. You're good with giving up the 80+ years of Amateur Radio Service (HAM Radio) and the emergency services HAM radio operators provide? When the brown stuff hits the rotary oscillator, HAM Radio, backed up with Generator power is THE ONLY communications media that has been shown to be effective. (Gee, and the government doesn't even have to pay for it, because the HAMs do it out of their own pocket, for the FUN of it, and because it's a way to give something back to their neighbors.) So when the cellular service, electricity, and wired phone service all go out in your area, due to a natural disaster, don't go looking for a HAM to call your family to let them know you're ok. And don't forget, HAMs also do "packet radio", using TCP/IP protocol... That's right.. Internet via HAM radio, so that it is still possible to do things like provide wireless internet access to an area that has no other working network/power/phone access. But after all it's just a few propeller headed geeks that we don't understand, who've been geeking hardware (and later software) for 80 years, for their own geek hobby.
-Jazz KE4YNX (yes, that means I'm a HAM, deal with it)
I'm not exactly a Bush fan, but I wouldn't blame him for the economy either. No matter what a president does or says, he cannot create even a single job in say.. the manufacturing sector. He cannot lower gasoline prices. It's not that there is some magic button he just refuses to push, it's just that people like to think that these things are in someone's control. They aren't. Why does the stock market fluctuate? Occasionally because of something someone says, or one company does, but it's a collective thing overall.
By the same token, and on the other hand, the White House, whether we like the guy in it or not, has no business taking credit for a booming economy either. You can indeed argue with me over one point or another, and on a small time scale, the president can affect things that happen. But overall, let us remember that congress makes the laws (er including social security and environmental policy), the Federal Reserve sets the Prime Rate, and the market determines prices through supply and demand. Unfortunately, there is no single human being who can make all of these things nice and slap happy for all of us, and there never will be.
Actually, there are things that a president can do, to affect the economy, the price of gas, etc. In fact, he's just done a few of them... Not the least of which is releasing oil/gas from the strategic petroleum reserves. His announced purpose in doing so was to help prevent the increase in oil prices caused by the shutdown of petroleum processors in the gulf coast area. Further, the president, can from the bully pulpit of the White House, set the course for decisions by Congress (who make the laws), the Federal Reserve (who set the interest rates), and Wall Street, who determine where the money actually goes...
You're forgetting the (potentially) best part (from the criminal's point of view...
The virus could re-encrypt the files with a new key, 3-6 months later, and present a New email address to email away to, for a new key.. and get another $200... just hide the virus, and claim the decryptor deleted it.
Well, let's start with a couple things.. The guy in New Zealand who's building a "homebuilt" cruise missile, comes to mind. Not hard to use GPS (just like US cruise missiles do) to guide a missile to it's target. Same idea, but with General Aviation aircraft, as well (think a Cessna, loaded with dynamite, plastique, etc). same thing with a boat carrying explosives up the Hudson, in New York City.. way too easy to think of ways to use GPS against us.
Ok, while I can see your point, for the average "bachelor slashbot's kitchen", I can think of some places where this would be a "good thing". For example, the Mormons puts a strong value on keeping at least a year's worth of groceries in their pantry, at all times. For those of you who don't know what that would look like, consider a 10x10 room, full of groceries. There are others, who have large families (at one point, I was part of a household of 10, where we cooked double and triple batches of everything, to feed the thundering herd). Additionally, if someone shops at costco, Sams, or some other warehouse dealie, they're going to be buying things in bulk, so it may not be obvious whether they've used up all 10 cans of black olives they bought, back in May.
So you're a single loser, in your mother's basement, and you don't see a need... doesn't mean there isn't a need, that others could find useful.
I myself can think of cases where it would be VERY useful to simply hit a web page on the server at home, be able to see what ingredients we have, and when they were shelved (gee, the milk got shelved 3 weeks ago, bet it's a science project now!) and know what I need to pick up on the way home, to make dinner, for the unexpected guests I found out about at 2 pm.
The F/OSS movement is about scratching itches, and at least one thing that we do here on slashdot is talk about itches... Here's someone who's talking about his itch, that may not be relevant to you. Doesn't mean it's not a valid itch. There are enough folks who've responded positively to this subject to see that there are people who find this idea potentially interesting/useful... So for you to dismiss it out of hand as "F*cking Mad" indicates that you may well be out of step, rather than vice versa.
Do this many/.ers really work for spammers, or what?
No, we don't. But, we do consider the effects our actions have.
Frankly, this is a great idea. It's a fitting punishment, in that it uses up spammers' bandwidth, just as they use up the bandwidth of the public.
And, using up their bandwidth uses up our bandwidth, a little at a time, too.
This is also not illegal by any reading of any laws I've heard about.
Denial of Service attacks are illegal. Period.
It's certainly not immoral, as they are only causing an increase in the operating costs of spammers. A fitting punishment.
I'm in a gray area, on this point...
If Lycos is using DNS records, rather than direct IP addresses, they're idiots. There's NO REASON for this program to use domain names.
Hmm. how about because the spammer could simply re-host, and point the domain name to a new server, and then at that point you're DDoSing a network provider who isn't providing services to a spammer
Spammers can't be targeted by legal-means-only, as the internet crosses borders, and you can't possibly expect all nations of the world to introduce laws against spam.
OK, I agree wholeheartedly that legal means will not work, at least not until there's only one government, and one legal system.
This method, while it will increase network traffic (slightly) in the short-term, will decrease internet traffic, by large percentages, in the long-term.
How slight? For how long? Can you prove these points?
We do IT for our side jobs. We antivirus people's computers. We write software for hire. We setup networks. We do websites. We administer servers for small companies that can't afford to hire full time IT people.
The lucky one's (me included) find a couple paying customers who need help when their porn won't download properly. *grin* All for $80/hour, or better.
Finally. I've spent 25 years developing a broad industry knowledge, adequate depth of knowledge across the board, and specifically tried to develop and maintain a generalist's skillset.
In the Past 3 years, I've been interviewd a dozen+ places, and in almost every case, "you have too much experience", "Your experience is to broadly based", "But we only need a Network guy (or XXX admin guy.. etc). No body seems to understand that generalists help your specialists work better. No one understands cross-disciplinary synergy.
Where are you, and what are you hiring for!
WRONG WRONG WRONG.
*Bzzzzzt* and thanks for playing. 1 G constant accelleration is 32ft/sec/sec. That's the same force you feel, standing up on Earth. 3x that is what the pilot(s) of SpaceShipOne experienced, both rocketing skyward, and on their return.
Your post shows a complete and UTTER lack of understanding.
To help your understanding along.. 165 seconds of 1 G accelleration brings you up to a speed of 1 mile/second. To put that in perspective, that's 19 minutes thrust, at 1 G, to achieve escape velocity... WITHOUT disturbing a hair on your pretty little head. If that doesn't put the give you the scope we're talking about, two days of 1-G acceleration, and you've traveled almost 1
AU -- so if you then decelerate at the same rate, you've crossed the
diameter of the Earth's orbit in 4 days flat.
Earth orbits the sun at 1 AU, and Mars orbits at 1.5 AU. I do not see a 1 G acceleration trip to Mars taking anything like 3 months, much less 3 years.
* Disclaimer... All calculations were done back of envelope, with a standard #2 pencil, and my overworked brain, on a friday afternoon!
There are bacteria that can generate small amounts of hydrogen gas. If genetic engineering can make these bacteria much better at this function, we will have very good renewable energy source.
Or billions and billions of teeny tiny hindenburgs...
Sorry, I know, that's just soooo wrong.
Ultimately, why are we celebrating? So Novell is going to use their IP to protect F/OSS. Good, but open-sourcing the IP in question (where relevant and possible) is even better. That would do more to fundamentally alter the IP-landscape than a pledge to defend as offered. That would be a concrete statement. As it is, I guess we wait and see how this is implemented in the near future.
Uhm, no. Open sourcing their IP would be unilaterally disarming, on this patent-law battlefield. That's NOT going to help anyone. As long as one side has nukes, both sides need to have nukes, and the determination to use them defensively. The patent landscape right now, is mutually assured destruction, the corporate edition.
On the other hand, harnessing their patent portfolio, to help start leading others to consider opening up their IP portfolios, or to help change the software patent situation, is a good thing.
Actually, the idea at this point, I think, is to give the other teams, (some of whom were VERY close to being ready to fly) a reason to keep working towards the goal.. if you delay it 3-4 years, then what does Davinci have, to keep them going? Motivate the other teams to launch, and prove their technology as soon as possible, and show that they're better (or equal to) Scaled Composites. Of the 20 odd teams that were competing for the X prize, 2-3 are more or less ready to try... and several more could be, within another year. The more space-related stuff stays in the news, the more "commercial utilization" of space is going to be top of mind. Tourism... Microsat launches, you name it.
According to http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter6.html
the development costs for the X15 program for development, and 8 years of operational flights were estimated at $300 Million in 1969 dollars. According to http://www.thespacereview.com/article/204/1 that $300 million in 1969 dollars is the equivalent of 1.5 Billion dollars (2004 dollars).
...There are other oddities. For instance, the signal's frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. "The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that's rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet," Korpela says.
Ever think that perhaps the signal is "Frequency Modulated" (FM)? Perhaps the drift is the message... ...but then, what do I know...
Here's where the analogy breaks down:
safety problem with car = chance of death
safety problem with (home) PC = chance of losing porn collection.
Which as we all know, is a fate worse than death (TM).
*grin*
Clearly this is a great success in the commercial space movement.
Let me begin by saying that SpaceShipOne is a development on clearly establablished NASA research, as NASA have demostrated a prototype which displays the same functionality.
Yes... A line of R&D that NASA dropped, when the decision to launch capsules became expedient. The ship in question was known as "dyna-soar" by the folks working on it, at the time, and shows NASA's usual propensity for naming things (*yawn*)... Having had family members who worked on the project, and recalling the scifi movie that used some of the models for their "rescue" craft, I'm familiar with the vehicle... You're saying perhaps, that Rutan & company didn't do anything, but copy NASA?
I think not... Rutan and company have done it cheaper, lighter, and better...
Can top that one... Was doing Sysadmin geekery for a Training group for Alabama state govt... On top of the consulting $$$, they gave me free run of the internet, via the state's Supercomputer center... This all in 1988/1989...
T-3 bandwidth... root on the box... Priceless.
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According to the BOFH, wouldn't that be LARTs per Subnet?
Hmm. don't want to be depending on potentially unstable countries for food? Well, maybe that becomes an incentive to start helping to STABILIZE other countries, rather than DESTABILIZING them?
Unfolds? Try dropping back and punting to the original satellite methodology.. The first american satellite that was used for communication was a giant silvered balloon, that radio was bounced off of. Scale that up to something say 5 miles across, that, uninflated, fits in the payload bay of the shuttle. Inflate it with a gas that will fit in a small space. Launch to orbit, eject satellite. Allow time for orbits to separate sufficiently, then inflate. When the orbit decays, light material like mylar will burn up on re-entry.
Ok. You're good with giving up the 80+ years of Amateur Radio Service (HAM Radio) and the emergency services HAM radio operators provide? When the brown stuff hits the rotary oscillator, HAM Radio, backed up with Generator power is THE ONLY communications media that has been shown to be effective. (Gee, and the government doesn't even have to pay for it, because the HAMs do it out of their own pocket, for the FUN of it, and because it's a way to give something back to their neighbors.) So when the cellular service, electricity, and wired phone service all go out in your area, due to a natural disaster, don't go looking for a HAM to call your family to let them know you're ok. And don't forget, HAMs also do "packet radio", using TCP/IP protocol... That's right.. Internet via HAM radio, so that it is still possible to do things like provide wireless internet access to an area that has no other working network/power/phone access. But after all it's just a few propeller headed geeks that we don't understand, who've been geeking hardware (and later software) for 80 years, for their own geek hobby.
-Jazz
KE4YNX (yes, that means I'm a HAM, deal with it)
I'm not exactly a Bush fan, but I wouldn't blame him for the economy either. No matter what a president does or says, he cannot create even a single job in say.. the manufacturing sector. He cannot lower gasoline prices. It's not that there is some magic button he just refuses to push, it's just that people like to think that these things are in someone's control. They aren't. Why does the stock market fluctuate? Occasionally because of something someone says, or one company does, but it's a collective thing overall.
By the same token, and on the other hand, the White House, whether we like the guy in it or not, has no business taking credit for a booming economy either.
You can indeed argue with me over one point or another, and on a small time scale, the president can affect things that happen. But overall, let us remember that congress makes the laws (er including social security and environmental policy), the Federal Reserve sets the Prime Rate, and the market determines prices through supply and demand. Unfortunately, there is no single human being who can make all of these things nice and slap happy for all of us, and there never will be.
Actually, there are things that a president can do, to affect the economy, the price of gas, etc. In fact, he's just done a few of them... Not the least of which is releasing oil/gas from the strategic petroleum reserves. His announced purpose in doing so was to help prevent the increase in oil prices caused by the shutdown of petroleum processors in the gulf coast area. Further, the president, can from the bully pulpit of the White House, set the course for decisions by Congress (who make the laws), the Federal Reserve (who set the interest rates), and Wall Street, who determine where the money actually goes...
You're forgetting the (potentially) best part (from the criminal's point of view...
The virus could re-encrypt the files with a new key, 3-6 months later, and present a New email address to email away to, for a new key.. and get another $200... just hide the virus, and claim the decryptor deleted it.
Well, let's start with a couple things.. The guy in New Zealand who's building a "homebuilt" cruise missile, comes to mind. Not hard to use GPS (just like US cruise missiles do) to guide a missile to it's target. Same idea, but with General Aviation aircraft, as well (think a Cessna, loaded with dynamite, plastique, etc). same thing with a boat carrying explosives up the Hudson, in New York City.. way too easy to think of ways to use GPS against us.
Ok, while I can see your point, for the average "bachelor slashbot's kitchen", I can think of some places where this would be a "good thing". For example, the Mormons puts a strong value on keeping at least a year's worth of groceries in their pantry, at all times. For those of you who don't know what that would look like, consider a 10x10 room, full of groceries. There are others, who have large families (at one point, I was part of a household of 10, where we cooked double and triple batches of everything, to feed the thundering herd). Additionally, if someone shops at costco, Sams, or some other warehouse dealie, they're going to be buying things in bulk, so it may not be obvious whether they've used up all 10 cans of black olives they bought, back in May.
So you're a single loser, in your mother's basement, and you don't see a need... doesn't mean there isn't a need, that others could find useful.
I myself can think of cases where it would be VERY useful to simply hit a web page on the server at home, be able to see what ingredients we have, and when they were shelved (gee, the milk got shelved 3 weeks ago, bet it's a science project now!) and know what I need to pick up on the way home, to make dinner, for the unexpected guests I found out about at 2 pm.
The F/OSS movement is about scratching itches, and at least one thing that we do here on slashdot is talk about itches... Here's someone who's talking about his itch, that may not be relevant to you. Doesn't mean it's not a valid itch. There are enough folks who've responded positively to this subject to see that there are people who find this idea potentially interesting/useful... So for you to dismiss it out of hand as "F*cking Mad" indicates that you may well be out of step, rather than vice versa.
More importantly, both the "before" and "after" are taken AFTER the "strange" shot. anyone care to comment?
Do this many /.ers really work for spammers, or what?
No, we don't. But, we do consider the effects our actions have.
Frankly, this is a great idea. It's a fitting punishment, in that it uses up spammers' bandwidth, just as they use up the bandwidth of the public.
And, using up their bandwidth uses up our bandwidth, a little at a time, too.
This is also not illegal by any reading of any laws I've heard about.
Denial of Service attacks are illegal. Period.
It's certainly not immoral, as they are only causing an increase in the operating costs of spammers. A fitting punishment.
I'm in a gray area, on this point...
If Lycos is using DNS records, rather than direct IP addresses, they're idiots. There's NO REASON for this program to use domain names.
Hmm. how about because the spammer could simply re-host, and point the domain name to a new server, and then at that point you're DDoSing a network provider who isn't providing services to a spammer
Spammers can't be targeted by legal-means-only, as the internet crosses borders, and you can't possibly expect all nations of the world to introduce laws against spam.
OK, I agree wholeheartedly that legal means will not work, at least not until there's only one government, and one legal system.
This method, while it will increase network traffic (slightly) in the short-term, will decrease internet traffic, by large percentages, in the long-term.
How slight? For how long? Can you prove these points?
We do IT for our side jobs. We antivirus people's computers. We write software for hire. We setup networks. We do websites. We administer servers for small companies that can't afford to hire full time IT people.
The lucky one's (me included) find a couple paying customers who need help when their porn won't download properly. *grin* All for $80/hour, or better.
I agree with all your points but one... You seem to not understand that you are "the cat's" toy, not vice-versa.
*grin*
Finally. I've spent 25 years developing a broad industry knowledge, adequate depth of knowledge across the board, and specifically tried to develop and maintain a generalist's skillset. .. etc). No body seems to understand that generalists help your specialists work better. No one understands cross-disciplinary synergy.
In the Past 3 years, I've been interviewd a dozen+ places, and in almost every case, "you have too much experience", "Your experience is to broadly based", "But we only need a Network guy (or XXX admin guy
Where are you, and what are you hiring for!
WRONG WRONG WRONG.
*Bzzzzzt* and thanks for playing. 1 G constant accelleration is 32ft/sec/sec. That's the same force you feel, standing up on Earth. 3x that is what the pilot(s) of SpaceShipOne experienced, both rocketing skyward, and on their return.
Your post shows a complete and UTTER lack of understanding.
To help your understanding along.. 165 seconds of 1 G accelleration brings you up to a speed of 1 mile/second. To put that in perspective, that's 19 minutes thrust, at 1 G, to achieve escape velocity... WITHOUT disturbing a hair on your pretty little head.
If that doesn't put the give you the scope we're talking about, two days of 1-G acceleration, and you've traveled almost 1 AU -- so if you then decelerate at the same rate, you've crossed the diameter of the Earth's orbit in 4 days flat. Earth orbits the sun at 1 AU, and Mars orbits at 1.5 AU. I do not see a 1 G acceleration trip to Mars taking anything like 3 months, much less 3 years.
* Disclaimer... All calculations were done back of envelope, with a standard #2 pencil, and my overworked brain, on a friday afternoon!
There are bacteria that can generate small amounts of hydrogen gas. If genetic engineering can make these bacteria much better at this function, we will have very good renewable energy source.
Or billions and billions of teeny tiny hindenburgs...
Sorry, I know, that's just soooo wrong.
Ultimately, why are we celebrating? So Novell is going to use their IP to protect F/OSS. Good, but open-sourcing the IP in question (where relevant and possible) is even better. That would do more to fundamentally alter the IP-landscape than a pledge to defend as offered. That would be a concrete statement. As it is, I guess we wait and see how this is implemented in the near future.
Uhm, no. Open sourcing their IP would be unilaterally disarming, on this patent-law battlefield. That's NOT going to help anyone. As long as one side has nukes, both sides need to have nukes, and the determination to use them defensively. The patent landscape right now, is mutually assured destruction, the corporate edition.
On the other hand, harnessing their patent portfolio, to help start leading others to consider opening up their IP portfolios, or to help change the software patent situation, is a good thing.
Actually, the idea at this point, I think, is to give the other teams, (some of whom were VERY close to being ready to fly) a reason to keep working towards the goal.. if you delay it 3-4 years, then what does Davinci have, to keep them going? Motivate the other teams to launch, and prove their technology as soon as possible, and show that they're better (or equal to) Scaled Composites. Of the 20 odd teams that were competing for the X prize, 2-3 are more or less ready to try... and several more could be, within another year. The more space-related stuff stays in the news, the more "commercial utilization" of space is going to be top of mind. Tourism... Microsat launches, you name it.
According to http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter6.html the development costs for the X15 program for development, and 8 years of operational flights were estimated at $300 Million in 1969 dollars. According to http://www.thespacereview.com/article/204/1 that $300 million in 1969 dollars is the equivalent of 1.5 Billion dollars (2004 dollars).
WAAAAY to go Scaled Composites!
...There are other oddities. For instance, the signal's frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. "The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that's rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet," Korpela says.
...but then, what do I know...
Ever think that perhaps the signal is "Frequency Modulated" (FM)? Perhaps the drift is the message...
Sounds like a southpark episode... Where everyone sues everyone.. the episode with "Sexual Harrassment Panda".
Here's where the analogy breaks down: safety problem with car = chance of death safety problem with (home) PC = chance of losing porn collection.
Which as we all know, is a fate worse than death (TM).
*grin*
Clearly this is a great success in the commercial space movement.
Let me begin by saying that SpaceShipOne is a development on clearly establablished NASA research, as NASA have demostrated a prototype which displays the same functionality.
Yes... A line of R&D that NASA dropped, when the decision to launch capsules became expedient.
The ship in question was known as "dyna-soar" by the folks working on it, at the time, and shows NASA's usual propensity for naming things (*yawn*)... Having had family members who worked on the project, and recalling the scifi movie that used some of the models for their "rescue" craft, I'm familiar with the vehicle... You're saying perhaps, that Rutan & company didn't do anything, but copy NASA?
I think not... Rutan and company have done it cheaper, lighter, and better...
Can top that one... Was doing Sysadmin geekery for a Training group for Alabama state govt... On top of the consulting $$$, they gave me free run of the internet, via the state's Supercomputer center...
This all in 1988/1989...
T-3 bandwidth... root on the box... Priceless.
TRillian has had "transparency" for it's windows for 2+ years?