This product: SuperStick does not trigger the metal detector. It stores 4GB of data that can be encrypted with TrueCrypt.
So if you're smuggling data the safest way to get it across the US border is to take a few of these and insert them in your 5Kg bricks of cocaine or bales of weed. They'll be fine.
It is also plausable for it to be done without any significant signal loss.
If you just nick 5% of the diameter of each fiber the repeaters you're between will make up for the degradation. It wouldn't look any more suspicious than normal deterioration.
I think I could design this device. The people with real skills probably wouldn't need anywhere near 5%. Signal injection is much more difficult.
Breaking the cable does nothing for signal intercept. Broken cable = no signals to intercept. Broken cable = very likely someone will come inspect your snooping operation = very bad outcome. OTOH, breaking the cable to drag away evidence you've been tampering with it when you have another much harder to snoop intercept = good way to cover your tracks.
I've been a Yahoo user for some years also. I've seen enough of what happens after Microsoft takes over a company to know better than to hope for good things from this.
If it looks like this deal is going to close I'll be moving all of my domains off of Yahoo.
Bluehost is looking pretty good these days. I found them recently and the hosting package is pretty sweet. Maybe that's my new base of operations.
If the true goal of a computer program for a school is to ready its students for the workplace, then is linux really the best method of doing so? Isn't the school in some way doing its students a dis-service my training them on a computing method that they will very likely never use again?
Yeah, these kids need to know a lot of stuff Windows will teach them:
Programming is not a normal task.
If there's no button, the feature is absent.
All document formats expire in less than eight years so forget everything.
Patch tuesday, debug wednesday and remove malware all the rest of the days of your life.
Don't click that! The Internet can break your computer with the slightest misstep.
Seriously, your assumption is not valid. Most of the people who administer Windows now did not grow up with Windows. By the time these kids get to the workplace Windows skills may be as obsolete as DOS skills are now.
Seriously, the problem might be you assuming I'm a 10yr old MS Faniboi when I'm actually an OS engineer/theorist and the chances are good that you are using an OS running code or modified code I wrote up to 25 years ago.
I think my current guess is closer to the truth than that. If what you say is true, I've read your work. There was some really elegant work in there. Continuing on the "if it's true" theme: you are in a position to know that in 1992 Windows NT 3.5 achieved usability and multitasking parity with the System V which had been released only nine years prior. Three notable differences being NT's impossibly complex security model, Unix's much higher price and the unambiguity of the licensing.
After Microsoft decided to recruit Unix and VMS wizards to emulate these platforms for their New Technology kernel, but two years before the release of NT 3.5 (about the same time they were knifing their IBM lovechild OS/2), USL sued BSDi and eventually the Regents of the University of California. You know all this -- I'm going over it for the crowd that isn't even going to go back to a thread this old. Just after the release of NT3.5 the Regents settled, agreeing to be paid a huge amount of money and being allowed to continue doing what they had always done with Unix. The only catch was that the terms of the settlement would remain secret essentially clouding ownership of Unix in a way that is eerily similar to many Microsoft tactics since then including the SCO case that brought light to this dark bit of history. If it had not been for this disastrous settlement I think by now there would be neither Windows nor Linux.
I'll bet playing on BSD back before the lawyers started peeing in the pool was a lot of fun -- afterward, not so much. I have wondered for many years if Microsoft pulled a BayStar here long before we had a name to stick to the tactic. You know the rest: Ransom Love's hubris drove him to buy Unix with the hope of releasing it as open source after his IPO went huge. Not only did he mangle the deal, but the deal he wanted didn't exist because the rights he wanted had already been licensed away in ways that could not be retrieved. Fast forward 15 years and Microsoft technology is now falling behind the fully vetted and totally open product of a Finnish college student who just wanted to create something for "just a hobby, won't be big and professional".
Don't get me wrong: although I dislike what Microsoft has done with their market dominance I am mindful that what IBM had planned for us with their Planar Boards and MCA was far worse. The pity is that they could do far better if their goal was only to release an excellent product.
This makes it very difficult to discuss Windows as credible, when most people here think of a different architecture design (Win9x) when they think Windows, let alone people that have virtually no understanding of OS architectures or why things are done specific ways.
No most people here prefer XP to Vista. Only a vocal minority prefer open source solutions and even they are schismatic. We know that when the issue is XP or Vista we already have tons of stuff for XP, we've learned to secure XP. We have learned to deploy, update and service XP. Our customers are used to XP and absent a compelling feature in Vista the cost benefit analysis comes down in favor of not re-architecting our entire environments just to suit Microsoft.
From a technical standpoint, Vista's kernel is the best in terms of general consumer based OSes. Vista also employs technologies that other designers are not even considering or realize are there yet, and this will give MS a serious advantage in a couple of years.
And this is not any different than the people that purchased new Macs and had to have 10.4 installed because of the application compatibility problems with Leopard. (Which ironically has more compatibilty and application problems than Vista, and yet only supports 1/1000th the software or hardware.) (Geesh Again)
This is how Microsoft does security: Microsoft confirms Office for Mac 2008 snafu. C'mon guys, it's 2008. These rules for how you handle security on a Unix software install haven't changed in 30 years. I don't trust these people to write software for my PC.
How soft have we become? Where space travel was born they don't even have cars yet. But we need them to get to the space station? Come on, America! Let's go!
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
I'm getting a lot of miles out of that speech. Going to Mars is hard. Going to the asteroids is hard. The treasure we might find there is nothing compared to the wealth in knowledge we earn along the way if we're bold enough to make the journey. We got far more value out of the moon effort than it cost.
One day children will be conceived and born in microgravity. They'll learn and live and love far from the planet we call home. They'll live out their lives and ultimately die having never set foot on any planet at all. We can't prevent this -- it is man's destiny. They'll think nothing of it because for them it will be the way things have always been. The question is: Will they be our children or someone else's?
Because most vertical web apps are so poorly written that they rely on the bugs and problems in IE6 to function. Almost every single app I had to manage at my last job was IE6 specific and written by a bunch of blathering idiots, I regularly went into the asp code to fix something they said cant be fixed.
Most companies buy the low grade dog food webapp suites as they have no other choice and then they are stuck having to support it's quirks until that company actually hires competent programmers or someone else comes along and makes something different.
And in four years when the upgrades to these webapps rely on the bugs and problems in IE7 to function we'll have this discussion again. At that time try not to treat them like idiots. They're not stupid. They're just crazy.
Crazy = doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result each time.
Some links may not be safe for work, essentially because of the nature of this topic. If you work in such a place, don't click the links.
The interest in the sexual habits of another culture is a very human interest. If you give people from other cultures access to the Internet they of course are going to search for it.
You seem to have a problem with physical expression. Is there something I can do to help? Can I refer a professional for you?
How sad. I thought this was an International effort. They might as well wrap the thing in the stars and stripes.
It's not an international effort. It's a Human effort. That Negroponte had the vision and the will to do it gives me hope for mankind.
I imagine Americans will pay all that the market will bear, and that the rest of the world will benefit both with the profits and the economies of scale.
They need to reprise give-one-get-one. I didn't get mine yet. My bad, but I hope they give me another chance.
It's $200, for an extremely low power laptop with an innovative daylight readable screen and mesh networking built in. It costs the governments little or nothing. It costs the kids themselves nothing. Come on. You can do better than that.
... isn't being used in anyway that it keeps being promoted as being.
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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This product: SuperStick does not trigger the metal detector. It stores 4GB of data that can be encrypted with TrueCrypt.
So if you're smuggling data the safest way to get it across the US border is to take a few of these and insert them in your 5Kg bricks of cocaine or bales of weed. They'll be fine.
This thread needs a John Titor reference.
What I get from Google is the answer I'm looking for with the least time and trouble.
In my view that's why Google is winning in search. It's not any more complicated than that.
If you just nick 5% of the diameter of each fiber the repeaters you're between will make up for the degradation. It wouldn't look any more suspicious than normal deterioration.
I think I could design this device. The people with real skills probably wouldn't need anywhere near 5%. Signal injection is much more difficult.
Breaking the cable does nothing for signal intercept. Broken cable = no signals to intercept. Broken cable = very likely someone will come inspect your snooping operation = very bad outcome. OTOH, breaking the cable to drag away evidence you've been tampering with it when you have another much harder to snoop intercept = good way to cover your tracks.
I've been a Yahoo user for some years also. I've seen enough of what happens after Microsoft takes over a company to know better than to hope for good things from this.
If it looks like this deal is going to close I'll be moving all of my domains off of Yahoo.
Bluehost is looking pretty good these days. I found them recently and the hosting package is pretty sweet. Maybe that's my new base of operations.
It's hard to type all of that with one of these on your lap.
They quote d'Idiot. Wasted click.
RA and Wildcat both did this.
You are looking for an "upload door".
Yeah, these kids need to know a lot of stuff Windows will teach them:
Seriously, your assumption is not valid. Most of the people who administer Windows now did not grow up with Windows. By the time these kids get to the workplace Windows skills may be as obsolete as DOS skills are now.
I have. Still working on the patent application for the method, though. More later.
I think my current guess is closer to the truth than that. If what you say is true, I've read your work. There was some really elegant work in there. Continuing on the "if it's true" theme: you are in a position to know that in 1992 Windows NT 3.5 achieved usability and multitasking parity with the System V which had been released only nine years prior. Three notable differences being NT's impossibly complex security model, Unix's much higher price and the unambiguity of the licensing.
After Microsoft decided to recruit Unix and VMS wizards to emulate these platforms for their New Technology kernel, but two years before the release of NT 3.5 (about the same time they were knifing their IBM lovechild OS/2), USL sued BSDi and eventually the Regents of the University of California. You know all this -- I'm going over it for the crowd that isn't even going to go back to a thread this old. Just after the release of NT3.5 the Regents settled, agreeing to be paid a huge amount of money and being allowed to continue doing what they had always done with Unix. The only catch was that the terms of the settlement would remain secret essentially clouding ownership of Unix in a way that is eerily similar to many Microsoft tactics since then including the SCO case that brought light to this dark bit of history. If it had not been for this disastrous settlement I think by now there would be neither Windows nor Linux.
I'll bet playing on BSD back before the lawyers started peeing in the pool was a lot of fun -- afterward, not so much. I have wondered for many years if Microsoft pulled a BayStar here long before we had a name to stick to the tactic. You know the rest: Ransom Love's hubris drove him to buy Unix with the hope of releasing it as open source after his IPO went huge. Not only did he mangle the deal, but the deal he wanted didn't exist because the rights he wanted had already been licensed away in ways that could not be retrieved. Fast forward 15 years and Microsoft technology is now falling behind the fully vetted and totally open product of a Finnish college student who just wanted to create something for "just a hobby, won't be big and professional".
Don't get me wrong: although I dislike what Microsoft has done with their market dominance I am mindful that what IBM had planned for us with their Planar Boards and MCA was far worse. The pity is that they could do far better if their goal was only to release an excellent product.
No most people here prefer XP to Vista. Only a vocal minority prefer open source solutions and even they are schismatic. We know that when the issue is XP or Vista we already have tons of stuff for XP, we've learned to secure XP. We have learned to deploy, update and service XP. Our customers are used to XP and absent a compelling feature in Vista the cost benefit analysis comes down in favor of not re-architecting our entire environments just to suit Microsoft.
We get it -- you love Vista. You think it's the most secure and reliable operating system ever. You think it runs great on your 1GHz test system.
The problem you're having is there aren't that many newbies here. Most of these people have tried Vista. Which brings me to the cupholder problem.
I won't go over the apocryphal broken cupholder issue we've all read online a hundred times.
Are you sure this isn't the Vista you've been running all along? That would explain a lot.
It's possible to install software on a Linux webserver that exploits vulnerabilities in Windows clients. This is news?
Here's a shocker: it's possible to exploit Windows boxes with services hosted on a Commodore64.
Windows has more malware packages than legitimate software packages. They've really solved that ease of installation problem.
For less than the cost of one stadium.
How soft have we become? Where space travel was born they don't even have cars yet. But we need them to get to the space station? Come on, America! Let's go!
John F. Kennedy, 9/12/1962
I'm getting a lot of miles out of that speech. Going to Mars is hard. Going to the asteroids is hard. The treasure we might find there is nothing compared to the wealth in knowledge we earn along the way if we're bold enough to make the journey. We got far more value out of the moon effort than it cost.
One day children will be conceived and born in microgravity. They'll learn and live and love far from the planet we call home. They'll live out their lives and ultimately die having never set foot on any planet at all. We can't prevent this -- it is man's destiny. They'll think nothing of it because for them it will be the way things have always been. The question is: Will they be our children or someone else's?
And in four years when the upgrades to these webapps rely on the bugs and problems in IE7 to function we'll have this discussion again. At that time try not to treat them like idiots. They're not stupid. They're just crazy.
Crazy = doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result each time.
Wow, I missed your point too. Whoosh.
Do you want to try again?
And apparently some of the kids that got these laptops were better than some.
Some links may not be safe for work, essentially because of the nature of this topic. If you work in such a place, don't click the links.
The interest in the sexual habits of another culture is a very human interest. If you give people from other cultures access to the Internet they of course are going to search for it.
You seem to have a problem with physical expression. Is there something I can do to help? Can I refer a professional for you?
It's not an international effort. It's a Human effort. That Negroponte had the vision and the will to do it gives me hope for mankind.
I imagine Americans will pay all that the market will bear, and that the rest of the world will benefit both with the profits and the economies of scale.
They need to reprise give-one-get-one. I didn't get mine yet. My bad, but I hope they give me another chance.
Cmdr Taco will choose to block IPs rather than let this astroturfing problem ruin the economic viability of slashdot.
It's $200, for an extremely low power laptop with an innovative daylight readable screen and mesh networking built in. It costs the governments little or nothing. It costs the kids themselves nothing. Come on. You can do better than that.
oh really? These examples aren't enough(PDF) for you? They're barely started so there will be more.Motivation? What could be the motivation here? I just don't get it.
Computers for kids. This is so obvious I'm having trouble seeing what the OLPC griefer's problem is. Somebody please explain this to me.
John F. Kennedy, 9/12/1962 mp3
We will go. The only question is: will we be first to climb this mountain, or will we be shown the way by better men?
John F. Kennedy, 9/12/1962