From someone that has copied several drives, I how it works. I would like to ask how he managed to recover deleted e-mails if this was a copy of the original computer files? When you copy something, in general only files not marked with the 'deleted' or 'removed' tag are copied (To speed things up). So unless he used some kind of low level copying function and based on his technical know-how, I'm not sure that he did, it seems unlikely this could be done.
First off there are no secondary sources of this information. This means he can say whatever he wants was on the computers, nobody can argue because the CIA will not talk about it one way or another.
Also, he said that 9/11 was referenced but showed no big evidence of this, just some vague feeling he had, this is not proof. He also seems to accept that they did carry out the 9/11 attacks and thus has no real motive to try and prove anything, all he could accomplish is to disprove his belief.
Everyone who has ever owned or worked in business knows that a promise is nothing... Business is all about contracts, IBM might have well not said anything at all. What they need to do is sign a contract with FSF or some other big open source software org.
On the other hand if you leave the * account on, you don't need to creat a new account eact time you need one. I for instance only have one account on my mail server and that is the postmaster this allows me to invent e-mail addresses on the fly.
With this ability you can make an e-mail address for each use of your e-mail for sites and forums like Slashdot@Domain.com and if you start getting spam at that address you can quiet happily block it via the filter.
It worries me that the patent office assumes that wrong patents will be over-turned however makes it so difficult to do. They can't have it both ways, they either need to start doing their job correctly OR make reviews easier.
It isn't that complicated to find the part of a code that causes a break in execution (end-point). So when it detects the debugger and breaks execution couldn't you reverse engineer it from that point and maybe write a mod (like a game crack) to avoid the debugger detection?
This would allow the rest of the program to work as normal just without the self-defence code.
Does anyone else get the feeling that they are adding this just for the sake of it or so they can say they have it? I mean when you have the technology before any useful uses for it then clearly there is something wrong.
I think that creating a good browser though gimmicks is a poor long term strategy and seriously doubt this route will turn up anything useful. Ideas should be so simple and obvious and inspire us to say 'who dont we have that already?!' not something we search for!
This is what happens when politics get in the way of good technology. No doubt you have people at the bottom of this mess saying how wrong it all is and non-technical people at the top saying how it will all work without any clue.
Personally I would like to see qualified people certifying that the solution is valid and actually has the power and willingness to throw out the solution.
This could also be achieved by, instead of hiring someone to build it, make it an open contract and let the companies compete to win the contract.
They have also talked about a paper-trail but personally I would prefer to see a PGP trail, that shows conclusively it was sent from X machine and not created in the database.
If the US blocks companies from selling there, companies might stop trying to sell anything and could push the US economy into economic decline. I mean if you thought as a company that you had to jump though hoops in order to sell something in a supposedly free market would you still bother? Or would you just sell it in Europe?
I mean the patent laws are anti-business anyway but when you start blocking products from the country, haven't we moved to an all new level of problems? How will small businesses and internationals compete against US businesses when all international products are up for review.
You will never get the job you want right after you leave University, you need to look for lower-position that do not require experience and then get your self moved up internally.
Once you get promoted you can then use that as leverage for external promotion. Remember all promotion is essentially internal in one way or another, it just seems like it is external because people change jobs so often.
I want to know why these people have such trouble building a voting machine and the occupying software? I'm sure I speak for many many/. readers when I say that we could nock up the client and server in about an hour to forkful all the specifications and then spend the next hour bug fixing and then in the third hour get a cup of hot coffee! Morons
Your confused. Nobody is suggesting that shutting down these sites is wrong. All we are saying is ISPs should NOT be doing the censorship, it is not their place and can lead to other things being blocked.
There is this lobby of concerned citizens in the UK at the moment trying to get 'Violent Porn' made illegal. Just makes you think, that someone play-acting violent scenes (like matrix, and hundreds of other films) but with any adult content could be made illegal. They want to see everything from rape to whips banned.
What worries me is this could be a foot in the door situation.. It is hard to justify the first ones but then easier for future blocks. P0rn, Warz, Hax all could be disappearing from a website near you!
I don't think anyone will win this time around. The problem is that the current technology can't deal with unknown situations/objects, maybe in a controlled enviroment with selected things added and removed but in a desert there is very little chance. If someone does win it will be more down to luck than actual computing power.
You are mixing up humans and computers.. Humans find it easier to remember meaningful things rather than short things. For instance if I assign everyone an understandable name - 'ConfigFiles' 'BinaryFiles', although it is harder to type (more likely to make a mistake), it is fare easier to remember because you know what is in there because your looking for it.
Why don't highly important OSS projects use second level protection, like only allowing X user to modify files N Y P at a file system level? If such measures where taken the worst that could happen is a DOS attack. This also helps to sell managed code for mission critical systems.
You know he's going to be doing some wining later;)
Luckily the rest of the worlds police force can barely use word let alone catch people doing crimes online or even understand what the crime committed was.
Thing is, shots such as these can be faked in a number of ways.. there was nobody there actually watching this and no real-time video. I am not very impressed. Even if it is real it will not be open source so nobody will use it anyway.:)
If you think about it, giving them our encryption keys is kind of like guilty until proven innocent isn't it, if they assume we are all criminals and ask us to prove we are not (by showing them our cards). I don't really understand how any country can justify this...
The net is like the wild-west.. with no laws or very little.. I think we are coming to an end of that time, soon we will need corp authorization to write e-mail and have to pay to put any content only.. sad day. Also, how.. realistically could we even provide them with our encryption keys? Also couldn't they be used for political gain??
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From someone that has copied several drives, I how it works. I would like to ask how he managed to recover deleted e-mails if this was a copy of the original computer files? When you copy something, in general only files not marked with the 'deleted' or 'removed' tag are copied (To speed things up). So unless he used some kind of low level copying function and based on his technical know-how, I'm not sure that he did, it seems unlikely this could be done.
First off there are no secondary sources of this information. This means he can say whatever he wants was on the computers, nobody can argue because the CIA will not talk about it one way or another.
Also, he said that 9/11 was referenced but showed no big evidence of this, just some vague feeling he had, this is not proof. He also seems to accept that they did carry out the 9/11 attacks and thus has no real motive to try and prove anything, all he could accomplish is to disprove his belief.
Everyone who has ever owned or worked in business knows that a promise is nothing... Business is all about contracts, IBM might have well not said anything at all. What they need to do is sign a contract with FSF or some other big open source software org.
On the other hand if you leave the * account on, you don't need to creat a new account eact time you need one. I for instance only have one account on my mail server and that is the postmaster this allows me to invent e-mail addresses on the fly.
With this ability you can make an e-mail address for each use of your e-mail for sites and forums like Slashdot@Domain.com and if you start getting spam at that address you can quiet happily block it via the filter.
It worries me that the patent office assumes that wrong patents will be over-turned however makes it so difficult to do. They can't have it both ways, they either need to start doing their job correctly OR make reviews easier.
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It isn't that complicated to find the part of a code that causes a break in execution (end-point). So when it detects the debugger and breaks execution couldn't you reverse engineer it from that point and maybe write a mod (like a game crack) to avoid the debugger detection?
This would allow the rest of the program to work as normal just without the self-defence code.
Does anyone else get the feeling that they are adding this just for the sake of it or so they can say they have it? I mean when you have the technology before any useful uses for it then clearly there is something wrong.
I think that creating a good browser though gimmicks is a poor long term strategy and seriously doubt this route will turn up anything useful. Ideas should be so simple and obvious and inspire us to say 'who dont we have that already?!' not something we search for!
Actually cisco was voted the best place to work in the UK. Microsoft was in the top 20 but not top 10 in the UK.
This is what happens when politics get in the way of good technology. No doubt you have people at the bottom of this mess saying how wrong it all is and non-technical people at the top saying how it will all work without any clue.
Personally I would like to see qualified people certifying that the solution is valid and actually has the power and willingness to throw out the solution.
This could also be achieved by, instead of hiring someone to build it, make it an open contract and let the companies compete to win the contract.
They have also talked about a paper-trail but personally I would prefer to see a PGP trail, that shows conclusively it was sent from X machine and not created in the database.
True. But keep in mind you don't need to crack the encryption, just reverse engineer the player.
If the US blocks companies from selling there, companies might stop trying to sell anything and could push the US economy into economic decline. I mean if you thought as a company that you had to jump though hoops in order to sell something in a supposedly free market would you still bother? Or would you just sell it in Europe?
I mean the patent laws are anti-business anyway but when you start blocking products from the country, haven't we moved to an all new level of problems? How will small businesses and internationals compete against US businesses when all international products are up for review.
You will never get the job you want right after you leave University, you need to look for lower-position that do not require experience and then get your self moved up internally.
Once you get promoted you can then use that as leverage for external promotion. Remember all promotion is essentially internal in one way or another, it just seems like it is external because people change jobs so often.
Has /. been hacked (again) because I can see no other reason why this rubbish got onto the front page... :-/
I want to know why these people have such trouble building a voting machine and the occupying software? I'm sure I speak for many many /. readers when I say that we could nock up the client and server in about an hour to forkful all the specifications and then spend the next hour bug fixing and then in the third hour get a cup of hot coffee! Morons
Your confused. Nobody is suggesting that shutting down these sites is wrong. All we are saying is ISPs should NOT be doing the censorship, it is not their place and can lead to other things being blocked.
There is this lobby of concerned citizens in the UK at the moment trying to get 'Violent Porn' made illegal. Just makes you think, that someone play-acting violent scenes (like matrix, and hundreds of other films) but with any adult content could be made illegal. They want to see everything from rape to whips banned.
What worries me is this could be a foot in the door situation.. It is hard to justify the first ones but then easier for future blocks. P0rn, Warz, Hax all could be disappearing from a website near you!
No.
I don't think anyone will win this time around. The problem is that the current technology can't deal with unknown situations/objects, maybe in a controlled enviroment with selected things added and removed but in a desert there is very little chance. If someone does win it will be more down to luck than actual computing power.
You are mixing up humans and computers.. Humans find it easier to remember meaningful things rather than short things. For instance if I assign everyone an understandable name - 'ConfigFiles' 'BinaryFiles', although it is harder to type (more likely to make a mistake), it is fare easier to remember because you know what is in there because your looking for it.
Why don't highly important OSS projects use second level protection, like only allowing X user to modify files N Y P at a file system level? If such measures where taken the worst that could happen is a DOS attack.
This also helps to sell managed code for mission critical systems.
You know he's going to be doing some wining later ;)
Luckily the rest of the worlds police force can barely use word let alone catch people doing crimes online or even understand what the crime committed was.
Thing is, shots such as these can be faked in a number of ways.. there was nobody there actually watching this and no real-time video. I am not very impressed. Even if it is real it will not be open source so nobody will use it anyway. :)
If your seeing this post then it is working... for now ;)
If you think about it, giving them our encryption keys is kind of like guilty until proven innocent isn't it, if they assume we are all criminals and ask us to prove we are not (by showing them our cards). I don't really understand how any country can justify this...
The net is like the wild-west.. with no laws or very little.. I think we are coming to an end of that time, soon we will need corp authorization to write e-mail and have to pay to put any content only.. sad day. Also, how.. realistically could we even provide them with our encryption keys? Also couldn't they be used for political gain??
How is this off-topic, the new protocol uses XML, we are discussing that protocol... it couldn't be MORE on-topic! Do you even know what the topic is?