NASA wants FUNDING. They don't really care about science or astronomy at all.
Don't put it past them to fake something.
If it proven that the moon landings were phoney, then NASA will LOOSE FUNDING.
But, just because NASA is a currupt beaurocracy doesn't mean that the moon landings were fake.
But what about those cross-hairs?
What did HAM radio operators hear back then? Any thing from them? They were the ones who determined that MIR was F'd when it was spinning out of control (because of the modulation of the signals from MIR due to the antennas spining.)
Did HAM radio operators ever say that they thought the moon landing was fake? They would have been listening. . .
I remember looking at some of the doubters material a while ago. I remember the whole face on mars thing. Everyone was like "why can't they just take a picture of the cybernia site?". And then I decided to look into the satellite a little closer to see what kind of orbit it was in. I know a bit about this as I was in Aerospace for a while.
Most sattelites that are used to photograph the ground have extreme orbits. They zoom in very close for a very short time and most of the time they are too far away to get a good picture. The physics of satellite requires this.
And so all of these people are thinking that it is no big deal to redirect a satellite.
The whole cybernia thing is of the same vein. And then I remember reading that there were letters in Arabic on the picture. Arabic was not invented until the 6th century AD. And thus the whole face on Mars thing was a fabrication too, it seems.
As far as the crosshairs on the pictures, that doesn't make sense to me.
As far as the shawdows in some of the pictures not lining up, that could be because of a wide angle lens.
Some of the lighting seems wrong. The radiation issue is real.
Because of Solar Flares the whole idea of sending someone to Mars, to me, seems like sending someone to their death.
A solar flare will release such huge amounts of radiation that if one happens when people are on the moon they will most likely die of radiation poisoning.
And these flares happen with a frequency that there is little to no chance that a manned mission to Mars would be less than a death mission.
I would not put it past the people at NASA to fake things. They are all about spending money as fast as they can, I don't trust them. Did they fake the moon landings? I don't know.
Those crosshairs sure seem strange to me.
PS: NASA wastes so much money, you can't even imagine.
If they 'fall in love' with a rock star, then that might be a bad thing as it is idol worship, I guess. But they can admire one and want to be like him/her and that is not necessarily a problem, is it?
Music is a good career. Muscians and rock stars can be very positive role models.
Einstein, from what I have heard, had a very hard time with relationships with women. I wouldn't want kids to grow up to be like that. I guess ballance is very important in everything. I suppose parents have a hard time letting their children be who they are. My parents discouraged me from doing music, and that is one of the things that I am best at now. ..
If I could have gotten more of it as a child I might have been able to make it in that world. But then, given the culture of it, maybe I would have died of a heroin overdose at an early age then. ..
I just can't know the answer to this.
Even people who are very talented and flame out at an early age can be a good example. You see all of the good things that they can do, their ideas. And then you see how they died far too young (from our point of view). And the child can deduce from that which ideas were good and which were bad.
I see a lot of parents who try to make their children into extensions of themselves. They are in some ways, but not in others.
I hear people say things like: "He's just a five year old, he can't possibly understand" and I remember being five and understanding. The adults would walk around like I didn't matter and I would think that was normal. It wasn't until later in life that I realized that the nurturing wasn't there. My dad was like: you can be whatever you want. But it if wasn't what he is (an engineer), he wasn't interested. I would get high grades in everything but all he cared about was math and science. He had a lot of hang ups.
There is NO WAY that you could EVER store your life into a database. The DHS (department of homeland security) idea of doing this for everyone is obviously just a big joke.
It would require such huge databases just to store one person's life. ..
and to do it on a single DVD is just rediculous.
Someone is going to sell a lot of storage equipment. People will get rich. But the idea will not work.
If you think you should save your life on a DVD you don't have a life (mixed methaphors).
I have boxes of tapes from the past that are practice sessions of me on the quitar. They will not fit on a single DVD. I have software that will generate animated sequences of bitmaps based upon complex mathematics (liquid fractals). The problem is that when I run it it very quickly fills up my harddrive. SO. ..
With a DVD I could get, maybe, a few hours of this at 30 frames a second. So how could it all be stored if I run it all day everyday on my LINUX box and throw away the frames. IT CAN'T BE.
If anyone feels paranoid about the DHS plans, then get over it. It is more about laundering tax money into storage vendors pockets before the level-heads in congress realize that the whole idea is one big stack overrun. They will get a couple billion out of the treasury before the concept gets shot down.
Seriously, the essence of your life on a DVD!
What a joke.
I'm watching you watching me. . . IT is one big hall of mirrors.
Quick, let us get a close up of the hair as it falls to the floor during his haircut when he was three years old. . . It might be a SECRET MESSAGE to Al Qaida.
Security comes in many forms. None of them have to do with over-bearing paranoia. Over-bearing paranoia is INSECURITY as ACTION.
Kids are much smarter than a lot of people think. I built my first switching network when I was in 4th grade (no kidding). It was for an HO train that we had in the basement. The switches were all wired to the electric track switches so that I could route the train where ever I wanted on the 8'x4' plywood based track.
If you had not STOLEN the software, my guess is that you would never have bought it.
so, did you really save money?
And what you admit to. . . I hope it is a joke.
Because if you are a thief. ..
Hey, from a religous mythology perspective (Christians will not take this as mythology but truth) the FIRST person who JESUS said would be in heaven with him (that day) was the thief who was on the cross next to his. ..
So maybe stealing isn't a reason for you to be cast into hell.
If it is then the Redmond crowd is going down hard.
We avoided being traded off as slaves to a money-mongering corporate culture by switching to LINUX.
It makes it sound more biblical.
The battle for free software is about free people.
Slavery has taken a new form: indentureship.
indenture: A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term ( from the American Heritiage Ditionary).
Sound like the contract that come out of Redmond?
The LINUX and OPEN SOURCE community are like the Israelites who sought freedom through the very scarey idea of following a leader out into the desert. Who do you think Pharaoh is?
Yes, in many ways LINUX is barren and like a desert, but the promise is there and we know that it is a better choice then an operating system where we have to spend half of our time worrying that a malicious web-page is going to reformat our harddrive.
So. . . Let us tell the story in BIBLICAL terms if need be.
Pharaoh can be redeemed if he would just believe. Instead Pharaoh wants more and more and more.
They said the same thing about my Dad when he was in Highscholl. Why? Because he wasn't in the dominent ethnic group in his city. He ended up making a very lot of money.
We just don't know what kids will do later in life, do we. If we expect them to be poor and give them a poverty additude then they will take that in like food.
Most of them will be happy and make a lot of money. That's what I say.
Give a child a LINUX distribution, have them repartition their harddrive to allow for a LINUX as well as a WINDOZE boot.
They will learn a lot.
And they can choose chemistry software and astronomy software that comes in the distribution. They get all kinds of stuff like philosophy and mathematics for free, right in the distribution if they choose to install it.
And if they want to boot to WINDOZE, they still can.
OR if you have one of those five year old machines that isn't good for anything anymore, they can reformat the harddrive with the LINUX and have something that they can use as a firewall.
They can stick the thing in the trunk of their car and have it play MP3's for them. They will learn about electronics and about computers and software. VERY EDUCATIONAL.
BUT: Life in Redmond, I guess, is shrink-wrapped. Don't want to teach the kids to do it for themselves.
Ever notice how the brainiacs at school were never the leaders? That is because they lack emotional and physical qualities that other (better suited to lead) children have. The problem with intellectuals who worship knowledge is that they don't take care of their emotional and physical well-being which is equally as important as intellect.
And so, when you home school, you don't socialize your children in a way where they understand the differences in other people. This is a good reason to at least let them be part of something than over-bearing mommy and daddy dealing with them 15 hours a day.
Home-school, yes, but let the kids be their own people too. If your don't let your children do art, music, literature at home school then you cripple them in these areas. It is rediculous to think that there are not valuble lessons to be learned in these areas. For example MUSIC is based upon the mathematics of the human ear. So if they study this they will eventually get into human physiology and also frequency domain mathematics. HISTORY is important because it allows children to learn from the mistakes of the past. Literature is important because it teaches children about other people.
If you only emphasize the math and science then you are denying your children what they need to grow into full-fledge adults.
But, typical to those who think that only intellect is important, you seem to also be self-rightous in your point of view. (why else would you type in a long winded diseration about why what you do is so good).
Your children are yours in one sense, but they are their own people too. Don't cripple them by denying them a ballanced education. They will only hate you for it later.
Is this not about software for schools? Are not schools all about learning? And also schools often promote service to the community. At some time in the (near) future children will learn how to do software at an earlier age. And by the time there are juniors in highschool there will be some who will be damn good at software.
Simply put any 'problems' with the system are 'learning opportunities' for the teenagers and young adults in the community to give back.
Giving back might seem strange to some folks, especially folks who work for huge money-mongering corporations based in Redmond, Washington. Imagine a school that gets it right can then do a distribution of the software that they have that works. And they can burn the OS onto a CD ROM so that it can boot virus free. ..
But that cuts into the growth plans for Bill Gates next pallace, doesn't it. So he hires neigh-sayers to try and argue that saving 27 thousand dollars (per student, I assume) is not worth it.
The real costs of running Microsoft software (because that what will be run if not open-source) is serf-dom for the subsequenct generations. So. . . damn the costs. Our children will not be slaves to the Redmond grubs.
If we get to the point where we can do manufacturing in space, then an asteroid that is headed towards us is found money. All of those heavy metals that are in the asteroid can be used to create all kinds of things like new space stations. It could be modified into giant capacators and oriented to capture the sun's energy.
And if it is heading right at us we can divert it just a little and have ourselves another moon.
This sounds like an awesome opportunity.
Directing nuclear explosions on it is not a good idea. All of that radiation might come raining down on our heads.
The opportunity is so vast that it boggles the mind. All we need is to develop the technology to start harvasting these goldmines in space.
What if we find one that is made out of gold! It could exist.
It seems to me that there are a lot of people that, if their harddrive reformats, they will drop their machine in the trash and go and buy a new one. This would mean that MS will be selling more of their OS. Yes, this is a paranoid thought, and I am sure that our friends in Redmond wouldn't do this.
If script kiddies want to put a virus on a machine, then if they reformat that machine, they don't get to do this. As a matter of fact, it really ought to give them no satisfaction at all as the machine will be down and out and gone.
More dangerous would be if this was used as a way to attack our systems by our enemies.
In any case, we can keep hashing over this all day. Two weeks for such a serious bug doesn't seem that long to me. ..
As most people are still running Windoze, we can't just ignore the problem. If this is a real problem then of course I am concerned because I will get a call from my sister or my dad who don't have the money or the time to upgrade.
When I am on a roll and typing my ideas slower than I think them, yes I don't 'spell check' as I do this.
Did you not understand what I said?
Are you dumb?
The rules of spelling were set up by entrenched elites in England as a way to keep the comman folk down. When I have a word that I don't know the spelling of, I look it up if I think that it will confuse my readers. But this stuff is not 'published' in the sense that it is distributed to people other than slash/dot folks.
For example if I typed 'human orgasm' verses 'human organism', that would be confusing.
I agree that spelling is important for a lot of things, but this is a forum of ideas and not of grammer. So. . . Did you really not know what I was talking about? Don't you think that your pedantic comment was just a little bit spiteful.
Get a life.
I am smart enough to know that someone who can think circles around me doesn't necessarily dot all of his/her i's and cross all t's when doing documentation. That is why we have editors.
So. . .
you can spell, that is awesome. You learn a lot of arbitrary rules and that makes you better than everyone else.
Do you fire a hot Chinese programmer because he doen't know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'?
I think not.
So, do your prescriptive (regressive, fashistic) grammer and spelling and be better than me.
I am a wretch, a sinner, unworthy.
I will dress in sack-cloth and flatulate myself.
I can't spell.
I am a sinner, I can't spell.
Just so you know: I have at least five different dictionaries that I refer to regularly. I often go through them and find words that I don't know and write them in a note book for future study.
I read vorociously on all different topics.
But when I am on Slash/dot, this is my 'bliss time' I type slower than I think and if I don't get the spelling correct in every case, I am sure that I most always get my meaning accross.
And in the realm of ideas isn't that what is important? Not pendantic grammaritarians who throw away the idea because of a blemish.
I find it interesting that you comment on my spelling in a topic about how old code that is written in an old idiom, but still works, is still good because the ideas in that code are good.
Did you miss that?
PS: even if you use a spell checker you don't get all of the mistakes because a word can be spelled wrong, but it is the correct spelling of a different word.
Peace.
The idea is that the unused bits were not checked. Thus the IP software didn't have any way of knowing that the header was compromised. And the header was exactly the same as far as the IP software was concerned. If you start to mucky around in the bits and bytes that ARE used by the header, then you have changed the header and the packet will route somewhere else. So, that isn't going to help you if you are a malicious hacking bastard. ..
What this means is that for bits that are routed around the internet, there is never a "Don't Care" bit as there would be with a chip interface. Any bit that is "UNUSED" should be set as either a zero or a one so that it can not be used by hackers. If the bit is USED then if hackers change it, it will reroute the packet and the software will know this. IE: board design with interfaces has this slight difference from design with IP headers.
Another point: With programmable logic chips there really are no "Don't Care" inputs. You must tie the unused gates either HIGH or LOW or else your programmable chip may not work as designed. This is always a good idea for board design in that it prevents oscillation and power burning by unused gates.
Have you heard of a file called HOSTS that sits in your Windows system directory (or in some such place).
If you use this file you can redirect any URL to local host and PRESTO, nothing from that Address comes into your machine. Hence, I get no images from sites that are on the list. I get no popups.
Also, I have Spamanator from Earthlink and that work AWESOME and I get no spam. And if I get things that are SPAM I can give it to Earthlink and they put the Spammer on the list and NOONE with Earthlink then gets spam from these people (they, of course, review it). And if I want I can go to the spamanator and look at the email that I didn't get. If I don't transfer it over, then that offensive stuff is delete in a week.
Awesome.
If you have popups, may I suggest a firewall. I run the Norton one, and while I have issues with it it was worth the thrity bucks.
As far as the HOSTS files goes: whenever I have something I don't like I open the file and add the URL to it. You can get a HOSTS file on line. DO a web search.
You do not need to be a victum if you learn the tricks. . .
Given the fact that most American business these days seems quasi-criminal, I don't know why anyone would use email for any real communications. Email seems to be a way to say: 'hey, call me.' Other than that, don't use it for real information.
Look to Wall Street, Mr Grub (I mean Grubman) and his twins getting into the elite preschool. If he wasn't a braggart in his email he wouldn't have to face the music of his seemingly eggregious behaviour.
Anyone who puts real information into email is a fool. I stopped using it for anything real on the day when my boss sat me down and was casually going over all of my emails while I sat there. I stopped working there that day.
Yes, email is good for simple hello, or for transferring an attachment, but forget about using it to communicate or it will come back and bite you.
I remember when the US determined that the embassy in Moscow was bugged. . . they went to a very secure way to transfer ideas between employees: one of those pads with a sticky black tablet and a clear piece of plastic over the top. When you use a pointed device on it, you can draw whatever you want. And when you are done, you pull the plastic up and the message is errased. These things are very secure and cost only a few dollars. Imagine that, and it doesn't even have a plug.
Here is another point (because I used to be in goverenment procurement for computer purchases):
Most computers in use in offices do not need to be of a high security type. They are not used for things that are classified. And most users are not doing this kind of work.
Thus, for the ones that do, you can provide a single place where they go to get their secure stuff.
The best type of security is in process. I have always felt that if you snow-storm the information and provide a way for the user to know which is the correct information, then the enemy doesn't know what message is the right message. And then they are lost in a blizzard of mis-information.
But, in the world of 'secure computing' no one wants someone who says that we need less and not more. And someone like me who is thrifty and not foolish in my spending on government computers was not popular. They had a budget, damn it, and they needed to spend it as fast as they could.
It wasn't not wise. For example there is the story of the guy who "HAD TO HAVE" the 4 thousand dollar CD burner (in the early 1990s) because he HAD TO record his voice for his presentations (thus he could sleep during the meeting after he started his slide show). My suggestion of purchasing a $40.00 tape recorder with a $5.00 microphone didn't make him like me. He was important, damnit and needed that $4000.00 CD burner.
And while I am on the topic of war stories: There was the division of a gov lab where they had a HUGE budget (was it an SDIO office?) and they went out and bought the newest and best of everything. They had wax based color printers and they did all of their transparnecies in color at the cost of at least 5 dollars a print. When a certain general sat through their pretty color presentation his comment at the end of it all was that they seemed to have too much budget and that they waste their money on appearance. I was very happy to know that a general would understand the difference of form over function and want the thrift of function verses the waste of form.
I have a lot of these kinds of war stories.
I am off topic.
If we define security as financial security, it is clear that running the dominant operating system, no matter how spoof-proof and bug free it is, contributes to a LACK of SECURITY.
If we define security as a system where we know what is going on and how it does what it does and who has open sockets and who is listening, then the most secure computer is one that is TURNED OFF, no matter what the operating system would be if turned on. Obviously that is rediculous and meant to be humourous.
Throwing money down the IT rathole is not the answer if people feel insequire. No appliance can ever give one total feeling of security.
Untill I can run the Windows 'System INformation' utility and know what every 16 bit, 32 bit driver and every Exe program listed is and who makes it and how to verify it, then I will never feel that Windows is secure. But that won't stop me from using it. I simply won't hook it onto my other machines if it is exposed to the internet.
The Microsoft operating system allows for hooking up new drivers and processes far too easily. And there is no way to know what all of the crap is that gets loaded on.
And so, my advice is. . . if you need to feel secure, then go to the lonely place of meditation and turn off your computer. Because if you are looking for a government certification for security, then you are a fool.
But if you want to sell software and you need that piece of paper that claims that your stuff is secure, then by all means vainly chase after the wind of a government certification.
Here is a question: is there a website or database somewhere that has lists of various modules that get loaded by Windoze and what their checksums should be? Does any database of DLL's and drivers exist where I can look up the processes that show up in the 'Windows Information' utility? Doesn't it seem that if people load these drivers and modules, that they should have to register and provide a way of verifying them? Doesn't it seem that the UNDO or UNINSTALL feature should provide a better way of know what modules are legitimate and which are viruses?
Until Windows makes things clearer and not less-clearer, then I will always think of it as a toy operating system. It is not secure in the sense that you can really know what processes are running and what should and shouldn't be there. I rate it a good toy, and fun to serf with, but I wouldn't bet my government or my company on it.
Coax or RCA connectors are so expensive.
I have to have this thing because I want to expose myself to even more radiation than now.
Seriously. . .
why do we need this stuff?
Just because it is wireless?
Given the non-secure nature of such a system, one wonders what prompts people to need this device.
I guess some people just have too much money to burn.
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NASA wants FUNDING.
They don't really care about science or astronomy at all.
Don't put it past them to fake something.
If it proven that the moon landings were phoney, then NASA will LOOSE FUNDING.
But, just because NASA is a currupt beaurocracy doesn't mean that the moon landings were fake.
But what about those cross-hairs?
What did HAM radio operators hear back then? Any thing from them? They were the ones who determined that MIR was F'd when it was spinning out of control (because of the modulation of the signals from MIR due to the antennas spining.)
Did HAM radio operators ever say that they thought the moon landing was fake? They would have been listening. . .
I remember looking at some of the doubters material a while ago. I remember the whole face on mars thing. Everyone was like "why can't they just take a picture of the cybernia site?". And then I decided to look into the satellite a little closer to see what kind of orbit it was in. I know a bit about this as I was in Aerospace for a while.
Most sattelites that are used to photograph the ground have extreme orbits. They zoom in very close for a very short time and most of the time they are too far away to get a good picture. The physics of satellite requires this.
And so all of these people are thinking that it is no big deal to redirect a satellite.
The whole cybernia thing is of the same vein. And then I remember reading that there were letters in Arabic on the picture. Arabic was not invented until the 6th century AD. And thus the whole face on Mars thing was a fabrication too, it seems.
As far as the crosshairs on the pictures, that doesn't make sense to me.
As far as the shawdows in some of the pictures not lining up, that could be because of a wide angle lens.
Some of the lighting seems wrong. The radiation issue is real.
Because of Solar Flares the whole idea of sending someone to Mars, to me, seems like sending someone to their death.
A solar flare will release such huge amounts of radiation that if one happens when people are on the moon they will most likely die of radiation poisoning.
And these flares happen with a frequency that there is little to no chance that a manned mission to Mars would be less than a death mission.
I would not put it past the people at NASA to fake things. They are all about spending money as fast as they can, I don't trust them. Did they fake the moon landings? I don't know.
Those crosshairs sure seem strange to me.
PS: NASA wastes so much money, you can't even imagine.
If they 'fall in love' with a rock star, then that might be a bad thing as it is idol worship, I guess. But they can admire one and want to be like him/her and that is not necessarily a problem, is it?
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Music is a good career. Muscians and rock stars can be very positive role models.
Einstein, from what I have heard, had a very hard time with relationships with women. I wouldn't want kids to grow up to be like that. I guess ballance is very important in everything. I suppose parents have a hard time letting their children be who they are. My parents discouraged me from doing music, and that is one of the things that I am best at now. .
If I could have gotten more of it as a child I might have been able to make it in that world. But then, given the culture of it, maybe I would have died of a heroin overdose at an early age then. .
I just can't know the answer to this.
Even people who are very talented and flame out at an early age can be a good example. You see all of the good things that they can do, their ideas. And then you see how they died far too young (from our point of view). And the child can deduce from that which ideas were good and which were bad.
I see a lot of parents who try to make their children into extensions of themselves. They are in some ways, but not in others.
I hear people say things like: "He's just a five year old, he can't possibly understand" and I remember being five and understanding. The adults would walk around like I didn't matter and I would think that was normal. It wasn't until later in life that I realized that the nurturing wasn't there. My dad was like: you can be whatever you want. But it if wasn't what he is (an engineer), he wasn't interested. I would get high grades in everything but all he cared about was math and science. He had a lot of hang ups.
Good luck with your kids!
There is NO WAY that you could EVER store your life into a database. The DHS (department of homeland security) idea of doing this for everyone is obviously just a big joke.
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It would require such huge databases just to store one person's life. .
and to do it on a single DVD is just rediculous.
Someone is going to sell a lot of storage equipment. People will get rich. But the idea will not work.
If you think you should save your life on a DVD you don't have a life (mixed methaphors).
I have boxes of tapes from the past that are practice sessions of me on the quitar. They will not fit on a single DVD. I have software that will generate animated sequences of bitmaps based upon complex mathematics (liquid fractals). The problem is that when I run it it very quickly fills up my harddrive. SO. .
With a DVD I could get, maybe, a few hours of this at 30 frames a second. So how could it all be stored if I run it all day everyday on my LINUX box and throw away the frames. IT CAN'T BE.
If anyone feels paranoid about the DHS plans, then get over it. It is more about laundering tax money into storage vendors pockets before the level-heads in congress realize that the whole idea is one big stack overrun. They will get a couple billion out of the treasury before the concept gets shot down.
Seriously, the essence of your life on a DVD!
What a joke.
I'm watching you watching me. . . IT is one big hall of mirrors.
Quick, let us get a close up of the hair as it falls to the floor during his haircut when he was three years old. . . It might be a SECRET MESSAGE to Al Qaida.
Security comes in many forms. None of them have to do with over-bearing paranoia. Over-bearing paranoia is INSECURITY as ACTION.
Kids are much smarter than a lot of people think. I built my first switching network when I was in 4th grade (no kidding). It was for an HO train that we had in the basement. The switches were all wired to the electric track switches so that I could route the train where ever I wanted on the 8'x4' plywood based track.
I learned all about groud loops too.
If you had not STOLEN the software, my guess is that you would never have bought it.
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so, did you really save money?
And what you admit to. . . I hope it is a joke.
Because if you are a thief. .
Hey, from a religous mythology perspective (Christians will not take this as mythology but truth) the FIRST person who JESUS said would be in heaven with him (that day) was the thief who was on the cross next to his. .
So maybe stealing isn't a reason for you to be cast into hell.
If it is then the Redmond crowd is going down hard.
How about this as an article topic then:
We avoided being traded off as slaves to a money-mongering corporate culture by switching to LINUX.
It makes it sound more biblical.
The battle for free software is about free people.
Slavery has taken a new form: indentureship.
indenture: A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term ( from the American Heritiage Ditionary).
Sound like the contract that come out of Redmond?
The LINUX and OPEN SOURCE community are like the Israelites who sought freedom through the very scarey idea of following a leader out into the desert. Who do you think Pharaoh is?
Yes, in many ways LINUX is barren and like a desert, but the promise is there and we know that it is a better choice then an operating system where we have to spend half of our time worrying that a malicious web-page is going to reformat our harddrive.
So. . . Let us tell the story in BIBLICAL terms if need be.
Pharaoh can be redeemed if he would just believe. Instead Pharaoh wants more and more and more.
So, is anyone in Redmond listening?
If they work for you.
Life isn't just about money, anyway.
How do you know what they will do?
They said the same thing about my Dad when he was in Highscholl. Why? Because he wasn't in the dominent ethnic group in his city. He ended up making a very lot of money.
We just don't know what kids will do later in life, do we. If we expect them to be poor and give them a poverty additude then they will take that in like food.
Most of them will be happy and make a lot of money. That's what I say.
Give a child a LINUX distribution, have them repartition their harddrive to allow for a LINUX as well as a WINDOZE boot.
They will learn a lot.
And they can choose chemistry software and astronomy software that comes in the distribution. They get all kinds of stuff like philosophy and mathematics for free, right in the distribution if they choose to install it.
And if they want to boot to WINDOZE, they still can.
OR if you have one of those five year old machines that isn't good for anything anymore, they can reformat the harddrive with the LINUX and have something that they can use as a firewall.
They can stick the thing in the trunk of their car and have it play MP3's for them. They will learn about electronics and about computers and software. VERY EDUCATIONAL.
BUT: Life in Redmond, I guess, is shrink-wrapped. Don't want to teach the kids to do it for themselves.
YES, all around, LINUX is educational software.
Ever notice how the brainiacs at school were never the leaders? That is because they lack emotional and physical qualities that other (better suited to lead) children have. The problem with intellectuals who worship knowledge is that they don't take care of their emotional and physical well-being which is equally as important as intellect.
And so, when you home school, you don't socialize your children in a way where they understand the differences in other people. This is a good reason to at least let them be part of something than over-bearing mommy and daddy dealing with them 15 hours a day.
Home-school, yes, but let the kids be their own people too. If your don't let your children do art, music, literature at home school then you cripple them in these areas. It is rediculous to think that there are not valuble lessons to be learned in these areas. For example MUSIC is based upon the mathematics of the human ear. So if they study this they will eventually get into human physiology and also frequency domain mathematics. HISTORY is important because it allows children to learn from the mistakes of the past. Literature is important because it teaches children about other people.
If you only emphasize the math and science then you are denying your children what they need to grow into full-fledge adults.
But, typical to those who think that only intellect is important, you seem to also be self-rightous in your point of view. (why else would you type in a long winded diseration about why what you do is so good).
Your children are yours in one sense, but they are their own people too. Don't cripple them by denying them a ballanced education. They will only hate you for it later.
Is this not about software for schools? Are not schools all about learning? And also schools often promote service to the community. At some time in the (near) future children will learn how to do software at an earlier age. And by the time there are juniors in highschool there will be some who will be damn good at software.
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Simply put any 'problems' with the system are 'learning opportunities' for the teenagers and young adults in the community to give back.
Giving back might seem strange to some folks, especially folks who work for huge money-mongering corporations based in Redmond, Washington. Imagine a school that gets it right can then do a distribution of the software that they have that works. And they can burn the OS onto a CD ROM so that it can boot virus free. .
But that cuts into the growth plans for Bill Gates next pallace, doesn't it. So he hires neigh-sayers to try and argue that saving 27 thousand dollars (per student, I assume) is not worth it.
The real costs of running Microsoft software (because that what will be run if not open-source) is serf-dom for the subsequenct generations. So. . . damn the costs. Our children will not be slaves to the Redmond grubs.
If we get to the point where we can do manufacturing in space, then an asteroid that is headed towards us is found money. All of those heavy metals that are in the asteroid can be used to create all kinds of things like new space stations. It could be modified into giant capacators and oriented to capture the sun's energy.
And if it is heading right at us we can divert it just a little and have ourselves another moon.
This sounds like an awesome opportunity.
Directing nuclear explosions on it is not a good idea. All of that radiation might come raining down on our heads.
The opportunity is so vast that it boggles the mind. All we need is to develop the technology to start harvasting these goldmines in space.
What if we find one that is made out of gold!
It could exist.
It seems to me that there are a lot of people that, if their harddrive reformats, they will drop their machine in the trash and go and buy a new one. This would mean that MS will be selling more of their OS. Yes, this is a paranoid thought, and I am sure that our friends in Redmond wouldn't do this.
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If script kiddies want to put a virus on a machine, then if they reformat that machine, they don't get to do this. As a matter of fact, it really ought to give them no satisfaction at all as the machine will be down and out and gone.
More dangerous would be if this was used as a way to attack our systems by our enemies.
In any case, we can keep hashing over this all day. Two weeks for such a serious bug doesn't seem that long to me. .
As most people are still running Windoze, we can't just ignore the problem. If this is a real problem then of course I am concerned because I will get a call from my sister or my dad who don't have the money or the time to upgrade.
Did they solve it yet?
If not, then give them a break.
It is November now, did they know this since last November?
What is this, my other machine is reformatting. . . LOL
When I am on a roll and typing my ideas slower than I think them, yes I don't 'spell check' as I do this. Did you not understand what I said? Are you dumb? The rules of spelling were set up by entrenched elites in England as a way to keep the comman folk down. When I have a word that I don't know the spelling of, I look it up if I think that it will confuse my readers. But this stuff is not 'published' in the sense that it is distributed to people other than slash/dot folks. For example if I typed 'human orgasm' verses 'human organism', that would be confusing. I agree that spelling is important for a lot of things, but this is a forum of ideas and not of grammer. So. . . Did you really not know what I was talking about? Don't you think that your pedantic comment was just a little bit spiteful. Get a life. I am smart enough to know that someone who can think circles around me doesn't necessarily dot all of his/her i's and cross all t's when doing documentation. That is why we have editors. So. . . you can spell, that is awesome. You learn a lot of arbitrary rules and that makes you better than everyone else. Do you fire a hot Chinese programmer because he doen't know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'? I think not. So, do your prescriptive (regressive, fashistic) grammer and spelling and be better than me. I am a wretch, a sinner, unworthy. I will dress in sack-cloth and flatulate myself. I can't spell. I am a sinner, I can't spell. Just so you know: I have at least five different dictionaries that I refer to regularly. I often go through them and find words that I don't know and write them in a note book for future study. I read vorociously on all different topics. But when I am on Slash/dot, this is my 'bliss time' I type slower than I think and if I don't get the spelling correct in every case, I am sure that I most always get my meaning accross. And in the realm of ideas isn't that what is important? Not pendantic grammaritarians who throw away the idea because of a blemish. I find it interesting that you comment on my spelling in a topic about how old code that is written in an old idiom, but still works, is still good because the ideas in that code are good. Did you miss that? PS: even if you use a spell checker you don't get all of the mistakes because a word can be spelled wrong, but it is the correct spelling of a different word. Peace.
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The idea is that the unused bits were not checked. Thus the IP software didn't have any way of knowing that the header was compromised. And the header was exactly the same as far as the IP software was concerned. If you start to mucky around in the bits and bytes that ARE used by the header, then you have changed the header and the packet will route somewhere else. So, that isn't going to help you if you are a malicious hacking bastard. . .
What this means is that for bits that are routed around the internet, there is never a "Don't Care" bit as there would be with a chip interface. Any bit that is "UNUSED" should be set as either a zero or a one so that it can not be used by hackers. If the bit is USED then if hackers change it, it will reroute the packet and the software will know this. IE: board design with interfaces has this slight difference from design with IP headers.
Another point: With programmable logic chips there really are no "Don't Care" inputs. You must tie the unused gates either HIGH or LOW or else your programmable chip may not work as designed. This is always a good idea for board design in that it prevents oscillation and power burning by unused gates.
Have you heard of a file called HOSTS that sits in your Windows system directory (or in some such place).
If you use this file you can redirect any URL to local host and PRESTO, nothing from that Address comes into your machine. Hence, I get no images from sites that are on the list. I get no popups.
Also, I have Spamanator from Earthlink and that work AWESOME and I get no spam. And if I get things that are SPAM I can give it to Earthlink and they put the Spammer on the list and NOONE with Earthlink then gets spam from these people (they, of course, review it). And if I want I can go to the spamanator and look at the email that I didn't get. If I don't transfer it over, then that offensive stuff is delete in a week.
Awesome.
If you have popups, may I suggest a firewall. I run the Norton one, and while I have issues with it it was worth the thrity bucks.
As far as the HOSTS files goes: whenever I have something I don't like I open the file and add the URL to it. You can get a HOSTS file on line. DO a web search.
You do not need to be a victum if you learn the tricks. . .
If you don't send them a paper letter that you date and sign, I am pretty sure that most congresspeople don't bother to read the stuff.
If you have real business with your congressional delegation, you need to dust off the printer and use stamps.
Best is to go and press their flesh and look them in the eye. Then send a letter. That is the most effective way to get them to respond to your needs.
And when the SEC shows up with a warrent for the emails. . . do you go to jail or give them the key?
Given the fact that most American business these days seems quasi-criminal, I don't know why anyone would use email for any real communications. Email seems to be a way to say: 'hey, call me.' Other than that, don't use it for real information. Look to Wall Street, Mr Grub (I mean Grubman) and his twins getting into the elite preschool. If he wasn't a braggart in his email he wouldn't have to face the music of his seemingly eggregious behaviour. Anyone who puts real information into email is a fool. I stopped using it for anything real on the day when my boss sat me down and was casually going over all of my emails while I sat there. I stopped working there that day. Yes, email is good for simple hello, or for transferring an attachment, but forget about using it to communicate or it will come back and bite you.
I remember when the US determined that the embassy in Moscow was bugged. . . they went to a very secure way to transfer ideas between employees: one of those pads with a sticky black tablet and a clear piece of plastic over the top. When you use a pointed device on it, you can draw whatever you want. And when you are done, you pull the plastic up and the message is errased. These things are very secure and cost only a few dollars. Imagine that, and it doesn't even have a plug. Here is another point (because I used to be in goverenment procurement for computer purchases): Most computers in use in offices do not need to be of a high security type. They are not used for things that are classified. And most users are not doing this kind of work. Thus, for the ones that do, you can provide a single place where they go to get their secure stuff. The best type of security is in process. I have always felt that if you snow-storm the information and provide a way for the user to know which is the correct information, then the enemy doesn't know what message is the right message. And then they are lost in a blizzard of mis-information. But, in the world of 'secure computing' no one wants someone who says that we need less and not more. And someone like me who is thrifty and not foolish in my spending on government computers was not popular. They had a budget, damn it, and they needed to spend it as fast as they could. It wasn't not wise. For example there is the story of the guy who "HAD TO HAVE" the 4 thousand dollar CD burner (in the early 1990s) because he HAD TO record his voice for his presentations (thus he could sleep during the meeting after he started his slide show). My suggestion of purchasing a $40.00 tape recorder with a $5.00 microphone didn't make him like me. He was important, damnit and needed that $4000.00 CD burner. And while I am on the topic of war stories: There was the division of a gov lab where they had a HUGE budget (was it an SDIO office?) and they went out and bought the newest and best of everything. They had wax based color printers and they did all of their transparnecies in color at the cost of at least 5 dollars a print. When a certain general sat through their pretty color presentation his comment at the end of it all was that they seemed to have too much budget and that they waste their money on appearance. I was very happy to know that a general would understand the difference of form over function and want the thrift of function verses the waste of form. I have a lot of these kinds of war stories. I am off topic.
If we define security as financial security, it is clear that running the dominant operating system, no matter how spoof-proof and bug free it is, contributes to a LACK of SECURITY.
If we define security as a system where we know what is going on and how it does what it does and who has open sockets and who is listening, then the most secure computer is one that is TURNED OFF, no matter what the operating system would be if turned on. Obviously that is rediculous and meant to be humourous.
Throwing money down the IT rathole is not the answer if people feel insequire. No appliance can ever give one total feeling of security.
Untill I can run the Windows 'System INformation' utility and know what every 16 bit, 32 bit driver and every Exe program listed is and who makes it and how to verify it, then I will never feel that Windows is secure. But that won't stop me from using it. I simply won't hook it onto my other machines if it is exposed to the internet.
The Microsoft operating system allows for hooking up new drivers and processes far too easily. And there is no way to know what all of the crap is that gets loaded on.
And so, my advice is. . . if you need to feel secure, then go to the lonely place of meditation and turn off your computer. Because if you are looking for a government certification for security, then you are a fool.
But if you want to sell software and you need that piece of paper that claims that your stuff is secure, then by all means vainly chase after the wind of a government certification.
Here is a question: is there a website or database somewhere that has lists of various modules that get loaded by Windoze and what their checksums should be? Does any database of DLL's and drivers exist where I can look up the processes that show up in the 'Windows Information' utility? Doesn't it seem that if people load these drivers and modules, that they should have to register and provide a way of verifying them? Doesn't it seem that the UNDO or UNINSTALL feature should provide a better way of know what modules are legitimate and which are viruses?
Until Windows makes things clearer and not less-clearer, then I will always think of it as a toy operating system. It is not secure in the sense that you can really know what processes are running and what should and shouldn't be there. I rate it a good toy, and fun to serf with, but I wouldn't bet my government or my company on it.
Coax or RCA connectors are so expensive. I have to have this thing because I want to expose myself to even more radiation than now. Seriously. . . why do we need this stuff? Just because it is wireless? Given the non-secure nature of such a system, one wonders what prompts people to need this device. I guess some people just have too much money to burn.