Re:Eh - one big difference
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Exactly my point.
This way the Denial of Service attack is simply bogging down the attacking machines, which might actually cause their owners to realize they've been compromised.
I would expect that deliberately setting a domain that you knew was under attack to point at anyone would make you just as guilty of the attack as whomever set it up to begin with.
However, setting www.sco.com to point to 127.0.0.1 would have been a master stroke. The only machines that would be affected by the denial of service would have been those infected. *evil grin*
Huh? How is it better because the animal was tortured and imprisoned before it was killed.
Personally I find it much more humane to eat a freshly hunted duck or deer that at least had a chance to live a happy life, than a wing-clipped-caged-chicken or a immobalized-and-starved-veal-calf.
(And no, I'm not PETA herbivore - Sure Chicken tastes yummy, but free-range chickens that got to exercize taste even better and I feel less cruel eating them.)
Ok... Ok.. time to straighten out a few facts.. (1) veal isn't starved.. its' kept in a tiny cage, to keep from over-developing it's muscles. (think couch potato!) and is FORCE FED (not starved!!!!!) (again, think couch potato) to develop lots of soft, tender fatty flesh...
and No, I do not raise veal... (well, except "Veal", and his little brother "Reveal" down in the lower pasture.. but they're free-range Angus beef, and they're well cared for!
-Jazz (the omnivore, who lives on a farm)
Re:The greatest threat...
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Except that security measures necessarily are a human factor. Human nature cannot become the bottleneck in a system designed to work with / thwart human nature. You might as well say that all passwords should be 1MB of random binary culled from decaying atoms, or a 1GB flash disk welded to the spine of the user.
Ok... I'll nibble... We're designing just such a security tool... (the 1MB of random binary culled from a true-random source, that is..) We're Krypticon, and we're designing the most bulletproof security you can carry on a usb drive. We're posting (or have posted) a challenge on our website, open to everyone... Break our encryption... we dare you... Private, industry and government experts haven't been able to yet... Krypticon
I prefer the palm pilot, myself... smaller than a paperback, long battery life, and very readable backlightable screen... And there are freeware apps that will allow you to take Gutenberg eTexts
and convert them for your Palm.
How much text can you stuff in 8Mb?
2 full copies of the bible..
or
all of shakespeare
or
LOTS and lots of good fiction.
-Jazz
Flash mobs were first suggested/discussed in Larry Niven's science fiction, as a predicted social phenomenon caused by instantaneous portal to portal transportation.
Once again, life imitates science fiction.
Ain't this JUST like the Open Source Movement...
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Even a potential Lawsuit is just another reason to write grooooovy software.. *evil grin*
Actually, the temperature regulating method your body already uses would work effectively with a wet suit, as it's permeable to water, so it would wick sweat away from your skin, allowing for cooling. And yes, kevlar as a reinforcing material, over "soft tissue areas" - think abdomen, below ribs, would be a good thing.. though, a single sheet of kevlar would not be as functional as several "ribs" or bands of kevalar (to allow flexibility, etc.)
The "great" blackout in the sixties that blacked out most of the Northeastern United States, was I believe, finally attributed to a switching station on or around the canadian border.. so yes this kind of thing can happen, has happened.. and will continue to happen.
-Jazz
The infrastructure is all interconnected... High voltage lines and their rights of way are used for fiber optic cable runs, Oil and gas pipelines and their rights of way are used for fiber optic runs, same for railway rights of way...
because they all have the same basic need, to go from point A to point B, without crossing anyone else's properties. Start correllating telco/internet outages with railroad derailings (which tend to dig up the right of way), and you'll see what I mean. I have known for 10 years, the easiest way to cripple "the typical city" (since the fire in chicago, that destroyed the phone Central Office!)
-Jazz
There are some crazy design specs that people don't usually consider besides the nanotubes and the lack thereof.
1) due to the weight of the cable, it needs to be thicker at the middle and taper off at the ends - this makes the attachment of a vehicle to traverse the cable considerably more difficult
And you're saying there's no way that we could have something like a "rail" that's on face of the cable, that the vehicle actually traverses?
(Yes, I know it's lame, but it's what 1 milliwatt of brain power came up with, in 1 second, to refute that point, I'm sure we can do MUCH better) 2) the growing - you can't "lower" a cable from a space station. the center of gravity must remain at the geosync point if you want to stay afloat
Hmm. shuttle experiment in the 80s unreeled a tether.. proved it could be done... what needs to happen in this case is that you lower one cable, at the same time as you raise one to a higher altitude.. if you reel them both out at the same speed, you stay stationary, and both cables extend in proper directions. 3) the keeping cable tensioned - this involves capturing a sizable asteroid into an orbit dangerously close to the earth (as in, genocidal proportions if shit goes wrong) - and after you anchor the cable, push it back out so it will keep tension (geosync don't work here). A fly-by capture is out of the question, and actually dragging a asteroid to our doorsteps is impossible by today's figures.
Actually, there's a neat effect here. The larger the "counterweight" is, the closer it can be to geosynch... and likewise, the smaller it is, the farther it has to be.. so, what's wrong with the up-end tether having a small but massive counterweight, that gets rolled out WAAAAY past geosync? As for moving asteroids, etc, there are concepts on how to do this, that have thus far not been proven impractical... Consider the following: a rail gun, accellerating gravel, as your thrust source, and some kinda grinder, that grinds the material of the asteroid, to produce the gravel. (Another 1 milliwatt, 1 second idea)
The idea is feasible, provided we have strong enough materials.. we have the engineering smarts to figure effective ways around EACH of those obstacles!
-Jazz
IF the private key is never revealed because it is physically locked in a difficult to reach place, surrounded by chemicals that ignite when exposed to air or something, then the security cannot be easily broken (assuming no impementation mistakes were made, which I already said may be an erroneous assumption for the first few versions)
And then computers fall under the "munitions" regulations? Oh, yes, I really want to buy "exploding palladium" V1.0, where the chip has a small chance of cracking under thermal expansion, and turning my computer into a flaming ball of other people's data....
(Yes, tongue firmly planted in cheek, guess this might be a troll, too!)
What weapons of mass destruction? Were any found? No. Either way, the U.S. was itching to go to war in Iraq if for no other reason than that King George II could get vengeance on Saddam by finishing his father's work...
Not to mention, there's the Israeli Question... "defend Israel at all costs..."
Here's an interesting rumor I heard...
The "Bush Family" money originally came from oil wells that the Bush family had in Iraq.. Dastardly Saddam nationalized the Bush family oil wells. And the Gulf War, and Sequel are just the end result of pissing off an Oil money family from Texas...
If this is true (and if it is, please help me find documentation! - even if it's not true, help me prove it one way or the other!) then this is a scary thing to consider.
Remember, all I know is that I heard this as a rumor!
It is my understanding that drive-by shootings were practically invented by prohibition era gangs. It is this and these type of activities that I am referring to as terrorism in my assertion.
Organized crime often uses terrorism to achieve its goals. They terrorize the population to keep people from testifying or to encourage them to pay their bills.
strange... but the first "drive by" shootings were in the old west, reported as youths driving their buckboard wagons thru town, shooting things up.
I love it when folks re-write history to prove their own special case.
When the whole processor id thing was introduced way back when, people threw a big fit about it. Now what average Joe these days even know about it? Believe me, if big brother wants to track you down, they're gonna track you down and it won't be using unreliable stuff like rfid tags.
Nah, they'll use the black helicopters, and hte mind control rays...
Wonder if the tin-foil beanies will come with these RFID devices?
Geesh, sounds like a MAC ID for undies...
or an IPV6 address...
yeah.. that's it, Internet addressable Underwear.. the next thing after Internet Web Cams!
TV? isn't that quaint pictures with noise thing that comes thru that glass fronted box in the living room? Haven't watched it for years. Don't think I've missed too much, that way, either. Good TV? I think that's a nomination for Oxymoron status.. but, I don't watch it anymore, so what do I know.
To me, if you want to watch TV, watch TV. if you don't like how it's given to you, go start some OPEN SOURCE TV-combine.. create TV content with out advertisements.. Then figure out how to distribute it... Good Luck!
A most excellent novel, turned into the most horrid of movies...
If you take out the powered armor, of course everyone is gonna die like sheep... and if you paint the culture as pure fascism, it's gonna look like crap... The movie was the most putrid exscresence to have come out of hollywood, if only for how totally it ruined a good book!
Yes, that one would indeed make awesome big-screen fodder.. but how would you fit it all into even a 3.5 hour movie?
assuming that problem is resolved, let me know, I'll order tickets as soon as available.
Yes, Niven is my favorite SF author, and I have everything he's written.
*** (Question - Does anyone know if, when that happens [the Moon rises to a high enough orbit to be "geosynchronous" and the same faces are towards each other always] will the two bodies orbit around a neutral point, which may or may not be above the surface of the earth, or will the Moon still completely orbit the Earth?)
The moon's orbit is already many times higher than Geosynchronous orbit.
]1. Should revovle around the star & should not have 20% more eccentric orbit(to a circle)
]2. Should be 5% bigger than the parent star
]3. Should have volcanic activity.
]
]If EITHER one is not satisfied..it is a big space-rock
So, since Earth is significantly smaller than (5% larger than the Sun), we just live on a big space rock?
Here is a thought... Why not creatively take advantage of the jovian magnetosphere, to brake a craft, and bring it down suitable speeds for maneuvering in the jovian system?
Ok, I'll admit we've got zero experience with this as a means of propulsion, but let's look at what we have plenty of, at that end of the voyage, and see how we can use that to reduce the velocity of a probe.
Sometimes it's not about what we can or can't do, it's about looking at the problem a new way.
-Jazz
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Exactly my point.
This way the Denial of Service attack is simply bogging down the attacking machines, which might actually cause their owners to realize they've been compromised.
I would expect that deliberately setting a domain that you knew was under attack to point at anyone would make you just as guilty of the attack as whomever set it up to begin with.
However, setting www.sco.com to point to 127.0.0.1 would have been a master stroke. The only machines that would be affected by the denial of service would have been those infected. *evil grin*
Huh? How is it better because the animal was tortured and imprisoned before it was killed. Personally I find it much more humane to eat a freshly hunted duck or deer that at least had a chance to live a happy life, than a wing-clipped-caged-chicken or a immobalized-and-starved-veal-calf. (And no, I'm not PETA herbivore - Sure Chicken tastes yummy, but free-range chickens that got to exercize taste even better and I feel less cruel eating them.)
Ok... Ok.. time to straighten out a few facts.. (1) veal isn't starved.. its' kept in a tiny cage, to keep from over-developing it's muscles. (think couch potato!) and is FORCE FED (not starved!!!!!) (again, think couch potato) to develop lots of soft, tender fatty flesh...
and No, I do not raise veal... (well, except "Veal", and his little brother "Reveal" down in the lower pasture.. but they're free-range Angus beef, and they're well cared for!
-Jazz (the omnivore, who lives on a farm)
Except that security measures necessarily are a human factor. Human nature cannot become the bottleneck in a system designed to work with / thwart human nature. You might as well say that all passwords should be 1MB of random binary culled from decaying atoms, or a 1GB flash disk welded to the spine of the user.
Ok... I'll nibble... We're designing just such a security tool... (the 1MB of random binary culled from a true-random source, that is..) We're Krypticon, and we're designing the most bulletproof security you can carry on a usb drive.
We're posting (or have posted) a challenge on our website, open to everyone... Break our encryption... we dare you... Private, industry and government experts haven't been able to yet...
Krypticon
OK, let's rephrase it - 24x365.25
Unless you want to turn off a TV network for a day
Depends on which one... *evil grin*
(and yes, I know.. soooo very offtopic!)
I prefer the palm pilot, myself... smaller than a paperback, long battery life, and very readable backlightable screen... And there are freeware apps that will allow you to take Gutenberg eTexts and convert them for your Palm.
How much text can you stuff in 8Mb?
2 full copies of the bible..
or
all of shakespeare
or
LOTS and lots of good fiction.
-Jazz
Flash mobs were first suggested/discussed in Larry Niven's science fiction, as a predicted social phenomenon caused by instantaneous portal to portal transportation.
Once again, life imitates science fiction.
Even a potential Lawsuit is just another reason to write grooooovy software.. *evil grin*
GO ESR!!
Actually, the temperature regulating method your body already uses would work effectively with a wet suit, as it's permeable to water, so it would wick sweat away from your skin, allowing for cooling. And yes, kevlar as a reinforcing material, over "soft tissue areas" - think abdomen, below ribs, would be a good thing.. though, a single sheet of kevlar would not be as functional as several "ribs" or bands of kevalar (to allow flexibility, etc.)
The "great" blackout in the sixties that blacked out most of the Northeastern United States, was I believe, finally attributed to a switching station on or around the canadian border.. so yes this kind of thing can happen, has happened.. and will continue to happen. -Jazz
The infrastructure is all interconnected... High voltage lines and their rights of way are used for fiber optic cable runs, Oil and gas pipelines and their rights of way are used for fiber optic runs, same for railway rights of way... because they all have the same basic need, to go from point A to point B, without crossing anyone else's properties. Start correllating telco/internet outages with railroad derailings (which tend to dig up the right of way), and you'll see what I mean. I have known for 10 years, the easiest way to cripple "the typical city" (since the fire in chicago, that destroyed the phone Central Office!) -Jazz
There are some crazy design specs that people don't usually consider besides the nanotubes and the lack thereof. 1) due to the weight of the cable, it needs to be thicker at the middle and taper off at the ends - this makes the attachment of a vehicle to traverse the cable considerably more difficult
And you're saying there's no way that we could have something like a "rail" that's on face of the cable, that the vehicle actually traverses? (Yes, I know it's lame, but it's what 1 milliwatt of brain power came up with, in 1 second, to refute that point, I'm sure we can do MUCH better)
2) the growing - you can't "lower" a cable from a space station. the center of gravity must remain at the geosync point if you want to stay afloat
Hmm. shuttle experiment in the 80s unreeled a tether.. proved it could be done... what needs to happen in this case is that you lower one cable, at the same time as you raise one to a higher altitude.. if you reel them both out at the same speed, you stay stationary, and both cables extend in proper directions.
3) the keeping cable tensioned - this involves capturing a sizable asteroid into an orbit dangerously close to the earth (as in, genocidal proportions if shit goes wrong) - and after you anchor the cable, push it back out so it will keep tension (geosync don't work here). A fly-by capture is out of the question, and actually dragging a asteroid to our doorsteps is impossible by today's figures.
Actually, there's a neat effect here. The larger the "counterweight" is, the closer it can be to geosynch... and likewise, the smaller it is, the farther it has to be.. so, what's wrong with the up-end tether having a small but massive counterweight, that gets rolled out WAAAAY past geosync?
As for moving asteroids, etc, there are concepts on how to do this, that have thus far not been proven impractical... Consider the following: a rail gun, accellerating gravel, as your thrust source, and some kinda grinder, that grinds the material of the asteroid, to produce the gravel. (Another 1 milliwatt, 1 second idea)
The idea is feasible, provided we have strong enough materials.. we have the engineering smarts to figure effective ways around EACH of those obstacles! -Jazz
IF the private key is never revealed because it is physically locked in a difficult to reach place, surrounded by chemicals that ignite when exposed to air or something, then the security cannot be easily broken (assuming no impementation mistakes were made, which I already said may be an erroneous assumption for the first few versions)
And then computers fall under the "munitions" regulations? Oh, yes, I really want to buy "exploding palladium" V1.0, where the chip has a small chance of cracking under thermal expansion, and turning my computer into a flaming ball of other people's data....
(Yes, tongue firmly planted in cheek, guess this might be a troll, too!)
Anyone besides me notice the article is badly cut-and-pasted over and over itself?
What weapons of mass destruction? Were any found? No. Either way, the U.S. was itching to go to war in Iraq if for no other reason than that King George II could get vengeance on Saddam by finishing his father's work... Not to mention, there's the Israeli Question... "defend Israel at all costs..."
Here's an interesting rumor I heard...
The "Bush Family" money originally came from oil wells that the Bush family had in Iraq.. Dastardly Saddam nationalized the Bush family oil wells. And the Gulf War, and Sequel are just the end result of pissing off an Oil money family from Texas...
If this is true (and if it is, please help me find documentation! - even if it's not true, help me prove it one way or the other!) then this is a scary thing to consider.
Remember, all I know is that I heard this as a rumor!
It is my understanding that drive-by shootings were practically invented by prohibition era gangs. It is this and these type of activities that I am referring to as terrorism in my assertion. Organized crime often uses terrorism to achieve its goals. They terrorize the population to keep people from testifying or to encourage them to pay their bills.
strange... but the first "drive by" shootings were in the old west, reported as youths driving their buckboard wagons thru town, shooting things up.
I love it when folks re-write history to prove their own special case.
When the whole processor id thing was introduced way back when, people threw a big fit about it. Now what average Joe these days even know about it? Believe me, if big brother wants to track you down, they're gonna track you down and it won't be using unreliable stuff like rfid tags.
Nah, they'll use the black helicopters, and hte mind control rays...
Wonder if the tin-foil beanies will come with these RFID devices?
Geesh, sounds like a MAC ID for undies... or an IPV6 address... yeah.. that's it, Internet addressable Underwear.. the next thing after Internet Web Cams!
TV? isn't that quaint pictures with noise thing that comes thru that glass fronted box in the living room? Haven't watched it for years. Don't think I've missed too much, that way, either. Good TV? I think that's a nomination for Oxymoron status.. but, I don't watch it anymore, so what do I know.
To me, if you want to watch TV, watch TV. if you don't like how it's given to you, go start some OPEN SOURCE TV-combine.. create TV content with out advertisements.. Then figure out how to distribute it... Good Luck!
A most excellent novel, turned into the most horrid of movies... If you take out the powered armor, of course everyone is gonna die like sheep... and if you paint the culture as pure fascism, it's gonna look like crap... The movie was the most putrid exscresence to have come out of hollywood, if only for how totally it ruined a good book!
Yes, that one would indeed make awesome big-screen fodder.. but how would you fit it all into even a 3.5 hour movie?
assuming that problem is resolved, let me know, I'll order tickets as soon as available.
Yes, Niven is my favorite SF author, and I have everything he's written.
*** (Question - Does anyone know if, when that happens [the Moon rises to a high enough orbit to be "geosynchronous" and the same faces are towards each other always] will the two bodies orbit around a neutral point, which may or may not be above the surface of the earth, or will the Moon still completely orbit the Earth?)
The moon's orbit is already many times higher than Geosynchronous orbit.
]1. Should revovle around the star & should not have 20% more eccentric orbit(to a circle)
]2. Should be 5% bigger than the parent star
]3. Should have volcanic activity.
]
]If EITHER one is not satisfied..it is a big space-rock
So, since Earth is significantly smaller than (5% larger than the Sun), we just live on a big space rock?
Here is a thought... Why not creatively take advantage of the jovian magnetosphere, to brake a craft, and bring it down suitable speeds for maneuvering in the jovian system?
Ok, I'll admit we've got zero experience with this as a means of propulsion, but let's look at what we have plenty of, at that end of the voyage, and see how we can use that to reduce the velocity of a probe.
Sometimes it's not about what we can or can't do, it's about looking at the problem a new way.
-Jazz
No.. Really, tell us how you REALLY feel!