Don't be silly! We've been using WordPerfect 5.0 for at least 3 years! Sheesh!
Back on-topic again, yes, I know that the Army (particularly) has been looking for micro-drones for platoon-level recon stuff. In principle, if you can scout ahead and see the bad guys before they can see you, you can kill them without risking the lives of your soldiers.
Never mind the obvious bit about missing the point of using the wrong material. I'm just boggled about the idea of a macro-scale monocrystalline lump of steel! (or iron). Last I dimly recall, wouldn't that require some pretty monstrous advances in metallurgical crystallography? (sp?)
Thanks for the link. The patent itself seems, to me, to be both interesting, and not novel. It doesn't seem to be a threat to using REs in most contexts, either, for all you awk/grep/perl freaks (my brothas!) out there.
But signature REs and logical expressions? Most signature-based stream matching works that way. Antivirus, pre-existing IDS, even (as many have pointed out) most perl log-analysis tools. I suspect that this should wither at the first touch of prior art. Assuming someone with more courage than money gets to be the lucky first victim.
Hmmm... I can't recall right away. What's Cisco's general history with repect to IP issues? Something about U-Cal-Berkeley copyrights comes to mind for some reason...
Reading the title of the submission, I thought for one mad minute that folks were using the mud pack to cover up the naughty bits on some of the (in)famous erotic art out there. ("Cleaning up"...)
Tell ya what. You do your part and don't visit the site in question. Feel free to post comments, though, since a critical part of/. culture is the posting of inane long offtopic diatribes without ever having read the base subject matter.
You cite some outstanding examples of ancient cultures with comparable "idiots" running them, in the form of Emperors or Pharaohs or whatever. But, there's a fundamental example between these and China:
"China has a long history of being run by idiots. A long series of emperors squandered China's treasures and people to build stupid things for themselves, like stone armies, terraced mountains, and The Great Wall."
As opposed to pyramids, emperal [sic] yards, and who-knows-what the Egptians/Greeks/Romans/Europeans/Whatever made.
You cite some outstanding examples of ancient cultures with comparable "idiots" running them, in the form of Emperors or Pharaohs or whatever. But,
there's a fundamental example between these and China: The others are extinct, whereas China's current culture and government style is a direct continuation of its ancient one.
Cultures change for many reasons, but the the other examples you cite changed mostly by conquest or decay and subsequent assimilation by their successors. (Egypt by Islam, Rome by the European "barbarians", Greeks by Rome, etc.)
China has been "conquered" in its past, but the conquerors (eg, Mongols) chose to adopt the culture already in place, rather than replace that culture with their own.
I think the argument being made by parent post is that China has always been run despotically, and is still being so, by a governmental culture which extends back millenia. Emperors and the imperial bureaucracy; Premiers and the Politburo. No difference to the commoner.
My current household IMAP/Appleshare/logging/SMB/dialup firewall machine is a P133, 96M. That's after 3 motherboard swap-ups, as other machines in the household got their MB upgrades. The box started out as a 486 DX/4 100 with 32M and VL-bus slots. (Old school!) And all of it in an old AT-style desktop case on edge and wedged tower-style under the corner connector in my computer desk. (Fits good into the narrow space between desk and printer stand; a real tower is too wide.)
Built out with RH 7.2 but no X. (It's a server; I don't even turn on the monitor most of the time.)
Works great, but the last 2.4.x recompile took over an hour. Anymore, I don't bother with source compiles and just let Red Hat Network update my stuff. (Lazy administrator!)
Twenty years as a software practitioner tells me that the answer, in a word, is:
NO.
The project management keeps moving the target. The customer still says "I don't know what I really want, but keep coding and I'll let you know when you get it." Analysts can't analyze, designers can't design, coders can't code, testers don't test (enough), ad nauseam.
Methodologies and philosophies of software development can only make up for so much. Sometimes, they are counterproductive. They "lower the bar", leading management to believe that the methodology can fill in for cheaping-out on hiring good developers. But we/.ers know the truth, don't we: Quality software comes only from quality developers--people, not methods or schools of thought or books by really smart people. Since quality developers are rare (like Leonardo DaVinci rare), quality software is correspondingly rare.
I don't know where your comment comes from. I guess if you don't get it, you don't get it.
"Edsel" is a crappy comparison. The PDP-8 actually worked, and broke a lot of ground in computing and electronics technology.
Maybe a '53 Corvette would be a more apt analogy in the car industry. But of course, no one would want one of those, since it's an idea whose time has passed.
"TEMPEST" was actually the name of the US military program for emissions security, not the actual insecure emissions themselves.
</pedantic>
RF and electromagnetic emissions from CRT monitors used to be a great way to sniff other people's displays. LCDs don't have that particular weakness, but if you feed the LCD with an insecure wireless protocol you're back in the same boat. Worse, actually, since CRT-emissions capture didn't show keystrokes if they didn't echo on screen, but the Wi-Fi stream will.
As to Wi-Fi keyboards, does anyone think it will be more secure than this?
This reminds me of the time when I sshed to one machine, then telneted back to the machine I was on, and kept on telneting and sshing to as many machines as I could to see what would happen. Th results weren't as exciting but it was still fun.
It make logging back out fun, though.
"exit". "Dammit, another session!" "exit". "Dammit, another session!" "exit". "Dammit, another session!" ad nausaeum
And it makes the network secret police very very curious. But I've said too much....
I'm almost positive that intercepting and recording cellular communications without permission of all parties is illegal in most states unless you belong to one of several three-letter-agencies of the US Government.
But, IANAL.
With 32 M of ram and a 400MHz processor, I wonder how long it would take to compile a new kernel from source? (Assuming you had enough CF/SD storage to hold it)
I guess the novelty is "self-organization" of the data flow over the network itself, but that just feels like buzzword-compliance and military contractor snake-oil to me. And I'm in the military, and recognize snake oil at 30 paces.
But yes, the network traffic will have strong mil-grade encryption, and also have tamper-prevention doohickeys which will destroy all the sensitive and expensive bits if Joe Badguy tries to pull an "all your keys are belong to us".
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Back on-topic again, yes, I know that the Army (particularly) has been looking for micro-drones for platoon-level recon stuff. In principle, if you can scout ahead and see the bad guys before they can see you, you can kill them without risking the lives of your soldiers.
Fair? Fair means I win and you die.
I find his concern for my well-being so touching.
Never mind the obvious bit about missing the point of using the wrong material. I'm just boggled about the idea of a macro-scale monocrystalline lump of steel! (or iron). Last I dimly recall, wouldn't that require some pretty monstrous advances in metallurgical crystallography? (sp?)
But signature REs and logical expressions? Most signature-based stream matching works that way. Antivirus, pre-existing IDS, even (as many have pointed out) most perl log-analysis tools. I suspect that this should wither at the first touch of prior art. Assuming someone with more courage than money gets to be the lucky first victim.
Hmmm... I can't recall right away. What's Cisco's general history with repect to IP issues? Something about U-Cal-Berkeley copyrights comes to mind for some reason...
Just silly, I guess.
Fundamental Rule #1 of Understanding Conspiracy Theories:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh, never mind, you already are.
D'oh!
s/fundamental example/fundamental difference/
As opposed to pyramids, emperal [sic] yards, and who-knows-what the Egptians/Greeks/Romans/Europeans/Whatever made.
You cite some outstanding examples of ancient cultures with comparable "idiots" running them, in the form of Emperors or Pharaohs or whatever. But, there's a fundamental example between these and China: The others are extinct, whereas China's current culture and government style is a direct continuation of its ancient one.
Cultures change for many reasons, but the the other examples you cite changed mostly by conquest or decay and subsequent assimilation by their successors. (Egypt by Islam, Rome by the European "barbarians", Greeks by Rome, etc.) China has been "conquered" in its past, but the conquerors (eg, Mongols) chose to adopt the culture already in place, rather than replace that culture with their own.
I think the argument being made by parent post is that China has always been run despotically, and is still being so, by a governmental culture which extends back millenia. Emperors and the imperial bureaucracy; Premiers and the Politburo. No difference to the commoner.
Built out with RH 7.2 but no X. (It's a server; I don't even turn on the monitor most of the time.)
Works great, but the last 2.4.x recompile took over an hour. Anymore, I don't bother with source compiles and just let Red Hat Network update my stuff. (Lazy administrator!)
NO.
The project management keeps moving the target. The customer still says "I don't know what I really want, but keep coding and I'll let you know when you get it." Analysts can't analyze, designers can't design, coders can't code, testers don't test (enough), ad nauseam.
Methodologies and philosophies of software development can only make up for so much. Sometimes, they are counterproductive. They "lower the bar", leading management to believe that the methodology can fill in for cheaping-out on hiring good developers. But we /.ers know the truth, don't we: Quality software comes only from quality developers--people, not methods or schools of thought or books by really smart people. Since quality developers are rare (like Leonardo DaVinci rare), quality software is correspondingly rare.
"Edsel" is a crappy comparison. The PDP-8 actually worked, and broke a lot of ground in computing and electronics technology.
Maybe a '53 Corvette would be a more apt analogy in the car industry. But of course, no one would want one of those, since it's an idea whose time has passed.
I just wanted a frickin' laser, or maybe some grep(1) hooks. A regex API, for God's sake. Geez.
"TEMPEST" was actually the name of the US military program for emissions security, not the actual insecure emissions themselves.
</pedantic>
RF and electromagnetic emissions from CRT monitors used to be a great way to sniff other people's displays. LCDs don't have that particular weakness, but if you feed the LCD with an insecure wireless protocol you're back in the same boat. Worse, actually, since CRT-emissions capture didn't show keystrokes if they didn't echo on screen, but the Wi-Fi stream will.
As to Wi-Fi keyboards, does anyone think it will be more secure than this?
It make logging back out fun, though.
"exit". "Dammit, another session!"
"exit". "Dammit, another session!"
"exit". "Dammit, another session!"
ad nausaeum
And it makes the network secret police very very curious. But I've said too much....
I'm almost positive that intercepting and recording cellular communications without permission of all parties is illegal in most states unless you belong to one of several three-letter-agencies of the US Government. But, IANAL.
With 32 M of ram and a 400MHz processor, I wonder how long it would take to compile a new kernel from source? (Assuming you had enough CF/SD storage to hold it)
Dan Quayle reads?
Check this.
I guess the novelty is "self-organization" of the data flow over the network itself, but that just feels like buzzword-compliance and military contractor snake-oil to me. And I'm in the military, and recognize snake oil at 30 paces.
But yes, the network traffic will have strong mil-grade encryption, and also have tamper-prevention doohickeys which will destroy all the sensitive and expensive bits if Joe Badguy tries to pull an "all your keys are belong to us".