We were warned about the dangers of the military industrial complex by one of our best presidents. Eisenhower kept this nation out of trouble (pointless wars and political suicide pacts) and allowed us to enjoy our peace dividends. We should have listened and remembered.
If you must pick from the commercial, we paid Gartner enough enough to lick your CIO's balls solutions: http://www.accellion.com/ has a good product called Filetrans. Its had its vulns in the past but so have most thing; It seems pretty bullet proof these days.
teachers are being commoditized into the role of babysitters and the real work is done by pearson and others
There is nothing wrong with technology deskilling an industry. We invest an awful lot in educating teachers, if those workers could be directed to something more productive that would be wonderful.
The problem is educating primary and secondary school students is very important and there is not much indication these high-tech solutions are doing it well. So maybe its not yet time to push the qualified humans aside.
Waste is waste, completely independent of who got taken to a nice meal at three star. Lobbyists are not the problem; politicians and public servants who agree to their agendas when said agendas are against those of their broader constituencies are.
Holder is unquestionably the sort of human garbage that belongs in our prisons a great deal more than probably anyone he has helped put there. The larger is though is not Holder's credibility its our nations credibility in general. Why should any anywhere accept the word of the United States government for any reasons other than the threat of force at this point?
I mean really:
We don't give money to governments resulting from military coups....but we can decide to not bother and determine if a coup has happened.
We only go to war when a plurality of elected Congress persons and Senators agree...Well unless is just a kinetic military action.
No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause...Except when a secret court issues them and then something less than reasonable suspicions appears to be good enough.
We afford the accused a speedy trial...unless you happen to be held at GitMo
We have a free press, which can protect its sources... unless someone says "national security" than all bets are off.
You protected from cure and unusual punishment... unless your name is Manning or you were sent to a CIA black site.
From what I have been told by some ex state department folks who were in the Soviet Union during the late eighties the Russians are probably budding up with him and trying to collect drips and drabs about social structures etc.
Their estimate of the situation is as follows. The Chinese almost certainly got copies of anything they wanted, maybe Snowden knows, maybe not, and then got rid of the hot potato. That's how they operate.
The Russians on the other hand already have good intelligence. They know what the NSA is and is not capable of and don't need Snowden to tell them. What they want is to gather soft intel. Who is influential in the organization. Who might share sympathetic views, who might be turned etc. They won't just come out and ask that, stuff either they will try to pick it up conversationally.
No it does not make sense to do this. It makes sense make menus moveable, up the side if that is where you like them, across the top or simply detached.
Just because my monitor is wider does not mean I want my applications that way. I might you know what to be able to have things side by side for comparison. Multiple displays is one solution but isn't so good on the go with a notebook.
The point is to monetize it though. As others have pointed out its not like game consoles. Where you can sell the box cheap, even at loss, because you know you will make money selling titles, and licenses to others to make titles.
The tablet ecosystem isn't like that. Most of the software is third party. Apples App-store has defined the model. Titles sell for a few bucks, mostly and Apple rakes 30% of the top; (playing fast and loose with the details here).
Getting 30% margin on something that has practically no activity cost (Microsoft already does web hosting, so I doubt their store infrastructure costs them much) is nice but you'd need to push a lot app sales getting 30% * $3 to make up for what maybe -$150 margin on the hardware sales. Just to break even you need to sell around 170 apps on average to each user.
Now is the sort of user who chooses an also ran tablet for reasons primarily having to do with price, likey to go out and buy all that many apps? No probably not..
Nor can you try and get developers to charge more. The market has already set the price points for this stuff; the developers know this, they are not going to waste their time writing for or porting to your platform that already is niche compared to the other players when you then insist they charge a price that will make their product unattractive to the few people who actually have your hardware. Not that developers don't want to be able to charge more, but copies sold for $3 is better than no copies sold priced at $15.
If you really want to tear down the system of software patents though what you want to do is disrupt the balance of power. Right now big industry rivals share patent pools etc because it keeps new guys from entering the market; the pools work because they know if they don't all cooperate anyone of them could totally derail the business of the other.
So what really really want do is identify the pools, and players. Take a group like RIM/Apple/Google and focus your energy on just one of them. If you invalidate enough of Apple's key patents it puts them in a position where RIM and Google could use theirs as a club to gain market advantage, so Apple will be forced to take swipes at invalidating RIM and Google's patents in order to disarm them. You'd get a force multiplier effect.
Store two salts for the client. The salt for the server side hash and a salt to be used by the client.
Server -> Client:$Logon page Client -> Server:$username Server -> Client:$client_salt Client collects password from the use and hashes the password with $client_salt Client -> Server: $hashed_password Server hashes the $hashed_password with the server side salt and compares with its stored hash
Obviously this does nothing protect client from the credential being picked off the wire, the hash effective is the password; but it does provide the client's user some protection if they have reused the password on other systems and the servers password file is stolen.
We do see Stalin the same way, well those who no who he was. There was even thinking of continuing WWII and turning on Russia after the fall of Germany in some America circles. The reality I think for most Americans is that the USSR was the existential threat to us that Hitler's Germany was to Europe and North Africa. We just don't like to talk about because its what had us cowering under tables for 30 years and seeing spies around every corner.
There is no reason to pardon him. Apologize for making a bad law sure, but pardon no. It was illegal at the time, and there were no exigent circumstances requiring him to break the law for the public good. There is really no reason to offer a pardon.
Nuclear, probably generates quite a bit of carbon durning constructions because so much concrete is used, which is very very carbon intensive to produce.
I think whats clear is that despite the apologists claims to the contrary; be they from the NSA, Administration, or Congress there was no effective oversize of these programs. Feel good political firewalls are not a strategy. Its a universal truth just about any information gathered will be turned to unintended ends. All it will ever take is some SOB come along and make the right excuses and justifications, creatively define a few terms and suddenly the laws governing the use of the data are meaningless.
If we don't want our government to abuse this type of data the only solution bar them from getting it in the first place.
It's not just the corporations. Actually most of the corporations like being in a somewhat affluent society. They are much cleaner than they otherwise would be. Consider here in the US we have more forest than we had 100 years ago, we have about doubled the cars on the road since the 70s and held emmisions mostly constant. Our carbon foot print is big because our living standard is high but if you look at and activity basis rather than a per capita basis we do things with higher carbon efficiencies than most of the world.
Think about cooking, driving, electrical generation etc. compare the carbon output of the way we usually do those activities to say India, or Chad.
Running around trying to manage all the greenhouse gas sources only works when you have piles of money to throw at the problem and even then it does not achieve the goal of preserving our comfortable life style and stopping climate change, it demands sacrifice and sacrifice sucks!
Geoengineering or centralized carbon scrubbing is the future, that or radical population controls. I am more comfortable with the former, I bet most people will be too when they sit down and think on it. What's sad here is its the spooks behind this instead of transparent organization
I suspect the ones that don't fit the first world template largely are switching. The rest don't because cozy international relationships are a nice way to do an end run around their own laws. They can share exploits more easily if everyone is using the same software. Then they don't have to worry about pesky Constitutional problems like our fourth amendment. NSA not allowed to gather than intel; no problem call a buddy a MI6, and vice versa.
If there is one thing the Snowden experience has proven once and for all is the tinfoil hat folks were right, and the once world government folks were right.
When you have the vice president dismissing reasonable questions like "doesn't universal background checks effective create an ersatz national gun registry?" as black helicopters conspiracy crap, we can now conclusively know that is exactly what is intended no matter what the ostensible claims are.
You can't trust anything these people are telling you. Don't think its odd that our "potential cyber enemies" that we are warned about by popular media so often our some of our biggest trade partners? Isn't strange that no matter how "strained" our relations supposedly are the trade deals someone always go thru? These guys are all in bed with each other, its the only explanation that makes sense; where China and most of the middle east, excluding Iran is concerned.
The USSR was considered as real threat and despite the size of their economy and the massive natural resource they controlled we never had trade relations with them. Now look at China and the middle east, its evident the PTBs want as to think of them as this threat to be feared but they don't actually take any steps to keep us at a safe distance, quite the opposite, when they do make a show of sanctions or export controls the implementation is always has more holes than a kitchen colander.
It also might not work at all. Take away greed and do you still have ambition to build? Our worst failings are also our greatest virtues, it's really a matter of situation and the wisdom to know which instincts to depend on when.
That is why as a society we need to create a cost to becoming that fodder. If you know that doing something will make you a social outcast; might make you less employable in the future, etc. You will be less likely to do it; even if the pay is good today.
People do think about they future. Voluntarily joining a class of untouchables is not something they are likely to do. If you don't want government to engage in these activities make it impossible for them to find willing workers; by making the works unwilling.
Sounds like you need a better security director, a better firewall/network infra admin, and some junior guy to read logs and watch the seim. The better question here is how/why was this device able to tunnel in/out of your network without someone explicitly allowing it? What you allow unfiltered egress from your data center? If you do your vendors are the least of your problems.
Fine congress how the power to declare "war", just like they have the power to make other laws that do things like declare a pressure cooker with some explosives is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Words have meanings independent of how congress abuses them.
Our society needs to stop letting people have it both ways. If a pressure cooker with some explosives not powerful enough to bring down a structure is a WMD, than what the military is firing from the drones every day are WMDs, and Iraq was full of WMDs before the invasion and after, and still is. Wars are organized conflicts between nation states. What we are doing about Al Qaida is not a war. Its a police action, no matter what anybody in Washington trys to call it.
Now Libya that was a war. That was us flying planes and dropping bombs on the oranaized air defenses of another nation state. What does our president call it, "A Kinetic Military Action", more bullshit.
We need to call a spade a spade so that our laws and contracts can have meaning. I am sick of all the BS
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We were warned about the dangers of the military industrial complex by one of our best presidents. Eisenhower kept this nation out of trouble (pointless wars and political suicide pacts) and allowed us to enjoy our peace dividends. We should have listened and remembered.
If you must pick from the commercial, we paid Gartner enough enough to lick your CIO's balls solutions: http://www.accellion.com/ has a good product called Filetrans. Its had its vulns in the past but so have most thing; It seems pretty bullet proof these days.
teachers are being commoditized into the role of babysitters and the real work is done by pearson and others
There is nothing wrong with technology deskilling an industry. We invest an awful lot in educating teachers, if those workers could be directed to something more productive that would be wonderful.
The problem is educating primary and secondary school students is very important and there is not much indication these high-tech solutions are doing it well. So maybe its not yet time to push the qualified humans aside.
Waste is waste, completely independent of who got taken to a nice meal at three star. Lobbyists are not the problem; politicians and public servants who agree to their agendas when said agendas are against those of their broader constituencies are.
Holder is unquestionably the sort of human garbage that belongs in our prisons a great deal more than probably anyone he has helped put there. The larger is though is not Holder's credibility its our nations credibility in general. Why should any anywhere accept the word of the United States government for any reasons other than the threat of force at this point?
I mean really:
We don't give money to governments resulting from military coups....but we can decide to not bother and determine if a coup has happened.
We only go to war when a plurality of elected Congress persons and Senators agree...Well unless is just a kinetic military action.
No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause...Except when a secret court issues them and then something less than reasonable suspicions appears to be good enough.
We afford the accused a speedy trial...unless you happen to be held at GitMo
We have a free press, which can protect its sources... unless someone says "national security" than all bets are off.
You protected from cure and unusual punishment ... unless your name is Manning or you were sent to a CIA black site.
Zeror fucking credibility.
From what I have been told by some ex state department folks who were in the Soviet Union during the late eighties the Russians are probably budding up with him and trying to collect drips and drabs about social structures etc.
Their estimate of the situation is as follows. The Chinese almost certainly got copies of anything they wanted, maybe Snowden knows, maybe not, and then got rid of the hot potato. That's how they operate.
The Russians on the other hand already have good intelligence. They know what the NSA is and is not capable of and don't need Snowden to tell them. What they want is to gather soft intel. Who is influential in the organization. Who might share sympathetic views, who might be turned etc. They won't just come out and ask that, stuff either they will try to pick it up conversationally.
No it does not make sense to do this. It makes sense make menus moveable, up the side if that is where you like them, across the top or simply detached.
Just because my monitor is wider does not mean I want my applications that way. I might you know what to be able to have things side by side for comparison. Multiple displays is one solution but isn't so good on the go with a notebook.
The point is to monetize it though. As others have pointed out its not like game consoles. Where you can sell the box cheap, even at loss, because you know you will make money selling titles, and licenses to others to make titles.
The tablet ecosystem isn't like that. Most of the software is third party. Apples App-store has defined the model. Titles sell for a few bucks, mostly and Apple rakes 30% of the top; (playing fast and loose with the details here).
Getting 30% margin on something that has practically no activity cost (Microsoft already does web hosting, so I doubt their store infrastructure costs them much) is nice but you'd need to push a lot app sales getting 30% * $3 to make up for what maybe -$150 margin on the hardware sales. Just to break even you need to sell around 170 apps on average to each user.
Now is the sort of user who chooses an also ran tablet for reasons primarily having to do with price, likey to go out and buy all that many apps? No probably not..
Nor can you try and get developers to charge more. The market has already set the price points for this stuff; the developers know this, they are not going to waste their time writing for or porting to your platform that already is niche compared to the other players when you then insist they charge a price that will make their product unattractive to the few people who actually have your hardware. Not that developers don't want to be able to charge more, but copies sold for $3 is better than no copies sold priced at $15.
If you really want to tear down the system of software patents though what you want to do is disrupt the balance of power. Right now big industry rivals share patent pools etc because it keeps new guys from entering the market; the pools work because they know if they don't all cooperate anyone of them could totally derail the business of the other.
So what really really want do is identify the pools, and players. Take a group like RIM/Apple/Google and focus your energy on just one of them. If you invalidate enough of Apple's key patents it puts them in a position where RIM and Google could use theirs as a club to gain market advantage, so Apple will be forced to take swipes at invalidating RIM and Google's patents in order to disarm them. You'd get a force multiplier effect.
Its not really that hard.
Store two salts for the client. The salt for the server side hash and a salt to be used by the client.
Server -> Client :$Logon page :$username :$client_salt
Client -> Server
Server -> Client
Client collects password from the use and hashes the password with $client_salt
Client -> Server: $hashed_password
Server hashes the $hashed_password with the server side salt and compares with its stored hash
Obviously this does nothing protect client from the credential being picked off the wire, the hash effective is the password; but it does provide the client's user some protection if they have reused the password on other systems and the servers password file is stolen.
We do see Stalin the same way, well those who no who he was. There was even thinking of continuing WWII and turning on Russia after the fall of Germany in some America circles. The reality I think for most Americans is that the USSR was the existential threat to us that Hitler's Germany was to Europe and North Africa. We just don't like to talk about because its what had us cowering under tables for 30 years and seeing spies around every corner.
Stalin and Kruschev(sp?) are unpleasant memories
There is no reason to pardon him. Apologize for making a bad law sure, but pardon no. It was illegal at the time, and there were no exigent circumstances requiring him to break the law for the public good. There is really no reason to offer a pardon.
Nuclear, probably generates quite a bit of carbon durning constructions because so much concrete is used, which is very very carbon intensive to produce.
I think whats clear is that despite the apologists claims to the contrary; be they from the NSA, Administration, or Congress there was no effective oversize of these programs. Feel good political firewalls are not a strategy. Its a universal truth just about any information gathered will be turned to unintended ends. All it will ever take is some SOB come along and make the right excuses and justifications, creatively define a few terms and suddenly the laws governing the use of the data are meaningless.
If we don't want our government to abuse this type of data the only solution bar them from getting it in the first place.
It's not just the corporations. Actually most of the corporations like being in a somewhat affluent society. They are much cleaner than they otherwise would be. Consider here in the US we have more forest than we had 100 years ago, we have about doubled the cars on the road since the 70s and held emmisions mostly constant. Our carbon foot print is big because our living standard is high but if you look at and activity basis rather than a per capita basis we do things with higher carbon efficiencies than most of the world.
Think about cooking, driving, electrical generation etc. compare the carbon output of the way we usually do those activities to say India, or Chad.
Running around trying to manage all the greenhouse gas sources only works when you have piles of money to throw at the problem and even then it does not achieve the goal of preserving our comfortable life style and stopping climate change, it demands sacrifice and sacrifice sucks!
Geoengineering or centralized carbon scrubbing is the future, that or radical population controls. I am more comfortable with the former, I bet most people will be too when they sit down and think on it. What's sad here is its the spooks behind this instead of transparent organization
All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
The scanners the TSA uses are safe and effective.
Putting millions on subsidized healthcare and ensuring even more of the incidental costs are hidden from consumers will reduce healthcare spending.
There was no coup in Egypt ...
I suspect the ones that don't fit the first world template largely are switching. The rest don't because cozy international relationships are a nice way to do an end run around their own laws. They can share exploits more easily if everyone is using the same software. Then they don't have to worry about pesky Constitutional problems like our fourth amendment. NSA not allowed to gather than intel; no problem call a buddy a MI6, and vice versa.
If there is one thing the Snowden experience has proven once and for all is the tinfoil hat folks were right, and the once world government folks were right.
When you have the vice president dismissing reasonable questions like "doesn't universal background checks effective create an ersatz national gun registry?" as black helicopters conspiracy crap, we can now conclusively know that is exactly what is intended no matter what the ostensible claims are.
You can't trust anything these people are telling you. Don't think its odd that our "potential cyber enemies" that we are warned about by popular media so often our some of our biggest trade partners? Isn't strange that no matter how "strained" our relations supposedly are the trade deals someone always go thru? These guys are all in bed with each other, its the only explanation that makes sense; where China and most of the middle east, excluding Iran is concerned.
The USSR was considered as real threat and despite the size of their economy and the massive natural resource they controlled we never had trade relations with them. Now look at China and the middle east, its evident the PTBs want as to think of them as this threat to be feared but they don't actually take any steps to keep us at a safe distance, quite the opposite, when they do make a show of sanctions or export controls the implementation is always has more holes than a kitchen colander.
Everyone who lots access to welfare from the 90's reforms went on Social Security Disability, that is why the SSA's costs have shot up.
I have seen lots of applications asking if I have every been convicted of a felony, but never simply charged with or arrested for.
I don't like a lot of things people do to me. That does not give me the right to ambush them and attempt to brain them on the side walk.
I agree but sadly. Society is just going to work oh so well when we have to treat everyone we meet as probable hostile.
It also might not work at all. Take away greed and do you still have ambition to build? Our worst failings are also our greatest virtues, it's really a matter of situation and the wisdom to know which instincts to depend on when.
That is why as a society we need to create a cost to becoming that fodder. If you know that doing something will make you a social outcast; might make you less employable in the future, etc. You will be less likely to do it; even if the pay is good today.
People do think about they future. Voluntarily joining a class of untouchables is not something they are likely to do. If you don't want government to engage in these activities make it impossible for them to find willing workers; by making the works unwilling.
Sounds like you need a better security director, a better firewall/network infra admin, and some junior guy to read logs and watch the seim. The better question here is how/why was this device able to tunnel in/out of your network without someone explicitly allowing it? What you allow unfiltered egress from your data center? If you do your vendors are the least of your problems.
Fine congress how the power to declare "war", just like they have the power to make other laws that do things like declare a pressure cooker with some explosives is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Words have meanings independent of how congress abuses them.
Our society needs to stop letting people have it both ways. If a pressure cooker with some explosives not powerful enough to bring down a structure is a WMD, than what the military is firing from the drones every day are WMDs, and Iraq was full of WMDs before the invasion and after, and still is. Wars are organized conflicts between nation states. What we are doing about Al Qaida is not a war. Its a police action, no matter what anybody in Washington trys to call it.
Now Libya that was a war. That was us flying planes and dropping bombs on the oranaized air defenses of another nation state. What does our president call it, "A Kinetic Military Action", more bullshit.
We need to call a spade a spade so that our laws and contracts can have meaning. I am sick of all the BS