Exactly right. I had a customer that *really* wanted to get a specific WFW3.11 special machine control program to work on a later windows version, '98. There was no inexpensive or fast way to redo this, the original company who wrote the software was gone and they had no source. It was almost to the point of having it rewritten and killing an already fragile budget and deadline. This software was so vertical market it was dental floss.
I have no idea where I found it or what it was called. It's all forgotten but some kind soul who'd done all the dirty work and left it laying around on the net for someone to find came to the rescue.
It was I think shareware and it was hell finding them, eventually the company bought a license from them, several hundred actually.
That was one shocked programmer.;-)
They even took the original software and did some extensive testing and updated the old product.
It works like a charm, I don't have a clue how as I did not have the time to look at it other than to verify it worked.
It is a pity Microsoft is so closed off, it was a gradual process to convert me from really liking their product to now, it started with win95 and I see no end.
Offering their own Linux distribution stabilized and known is excellent.
I don't know the equipment that is used in Labs but a company could specifiy a Linux distribution and no other (period) or one they make as a choice for their equipment, better would be to just provide the proper, debugged, compliant PC/embed with a network interface and an open protocol to use it.
Hmm, anyone want to write an interoperability RFC for networked lab equipment? Is there such a beast?
Could a PC (any OS) with a browser or other machine independant program be used to control all the Linux machines ala Distributed computing?
Yes, but the user interface for all of this in Linux, etal is very difficult. I need a good, flexible, point and click with lots of twiddlies and blinking lights and hand holding or I CANNOT get this to the people/companies/etc who can benefit from it.
I'd like to know of an interface that is machine independant and can be operated FULLY within a browser and has the hand holding, help, diagnostics, etc.
Ok, you're statement really confused me, that's why the long winded post that follows this proper reply to your message.
In your method I think you're using a OTP derived chunk as a symetrical key. You can of course have only two devices, the bios and a device on the motherboard that needs authentication to run but all you'd need is just the device and a call in the bios to it. See below for a description of a bit more vicious device.
With either method there is still no protection for the goodies, who want's a corprate motherboard? Just pitch the computer out a window and go scavange the good stuff left. I've even seen PCs put in boxes for the 'trash man' and gutted right outside the business. This is why most companies crush stuff in a compactor. We won't discuss here the shipping of company property via FedEx, nope won't.
I've lumped the original posts bios scheme in with Snake Oil because I think it fits. Without reasonably uncrackable 'host-server' authentication, reasonably uncrackable user authentication, blah, I don't see any benefit and a lot of http://www.stupidsecurity.com
What I write below I leave, I think it's good but it isn't even close to what you were saying.
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OTPs are the simplest type of encryption to explain and use and most absolute bitch to do right and maintain right. What I think you're stating here is a one time authentication pad (not sure if this is the right phrase but similar) and is a different use of a one time encryption pad and has the same pros and cons. Timothy C. May wrote the difinitve, if strangely formatted, cyphernomicon http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/ar ticles/crypto/c ypherpunks/cyphernomicon/CP-FAQ This is one of the most daunting FAQs you'll ever read. I think I choked through part of it, way to much information. All of it good.
Examine the Snake Oil Faq on cryptography. http://www.interhack.net/people/cmc urtin/snake-oil -faq.html A much more readable and less intimidating guide to cryptography and how to spot the cheap and dangerous imitations. It is of deliberately limited depth but is a good foundation for future studies.
If you want to use an actual OTP, you would need one bit of OTP for 1 bit of real world data.
I had wrongly assumed you meant that the pad was internal to the computer and would only be used to authenticate that the computer was still in the hands of the gud and not the e-ville. What follows reflects that misassumption.
It would need to be:
A) big enough to outlast the life of the machine, now square this as computers never die they just get sealed up inside walls, ask Novell.
B) A large enough chunk would have to be used to avoid positive collisions which means 32bits, 64bits, 128bits, a dollar.
C) Every computer would need a totally unique OTAP, this includes unique 'chunks'. I wanna see the bill for those bits from the radioactive source.
D) No chunk can ever be used again, ever, period, never ever, repeat this till your jaw aches and you wanna puke from dehydration.
C) It can't be a readable e/eeprom/flash but a device that cannot be read from, only queried and it has to have enough storage to mark which bits have been used or to just erase them. It cannot query any outside source to know which key to use. It just refuses to boot the computer on a failure, all tracking needs to be performed by the authenticating companies host.
D) Once the computer is reported stolen the OTAP that the authorizing company has on file would need to be deactivated. I assume it would be possible to just log the IP, sound an alert and refuse to process the request since a honey pot trap is/was/maybe/willbe illegal.
Lets see, JoeMoron reboots his computer every 30 minutes to 'clean out the poo poo'. If Joe lives at the office 24/7 with all his poo, this requires 137K per year. 1 meg or so for 10 years so i
Inside the country going to IPv6 should work well.
I think china is routing everything out through a proxy so it would not be difficult for them to do at all and put them one up on the rest of the world.
"That all depends, of course, on how you define "cleanly." To extract hydrogen from water--to get the H out of the H2O--you first have to make steam. The modular nuclear plants would do that without polluting the air, but would also leave behind radioactive waste."
I'd like to see them print up the amount of waste and the life expectancy of each. How much nuclear waste will there be? How much will there be if recycling of this waste is allowed? Yes, even nuclear waste can be recycled.
Compare this to coal and oil, how much waste is generated by these. How long does it remain? Since it's dumping is not as strictly controlled how long will it's effects last in the environment? Even if it's dumping is as strictly controlled how long can this waste have the potential to effect the environment?
This looks to be a good site for information on HTGR technology. http://www.iaea.or.at/inis/aws/htgr/
If you go to google and search for "coal waste" you won't find any numbers, but you will find page after page of information, most of it high signal to noise.
This is not a simple subject, to allow many countries to enjoy the lifestyle of 1st worlders a reasonably clean, reasonably non-polluting ENERGY SOURCE is needed. Hydrogen is not an energy source but a storage method that has some appeal. Current nuclear politics are geared to keeping the third world, third and subservient.
A form of nuclear power that is easy to control, cannot easily be converted for weapons use and is within the capabilities of third world countries to install and maintain (and eventually manufacture) would be one method of improving their relative wealth and all that comes with this.
It's cheep security, None of the peripherals seem to be protected and that's the meat of any system.
If you buy a used PC with that system in it you should have the ability to contact the maintainer of the system to work out ownership transfer. There should be no fee for this.
Prediction by MrPredicter:
One week after deployment a copy of the BIOS will be posted to usenet, Seventy Six Milliseconds after that it's cracked, patched and offered on WareZ sites with instructions on how to burn, unplug or desolder and install the new chip.
Fixing the above, off the top of my head:
Hardwired into the motherboard is a distributed encryption device that holds all of the motherboard chips, drives, ram and compatible installed cards in an inactive state until a USB or other device is insterted. The unlocking device needs to have been activated with a PIN prior to insertion so that the secret key inside can encrypt a challenge response with the devices in the computer. The device in the computer should also do realtime transparent encryption of the drives and offer network encryption as it would be trivial to add. Internal keys in the device would be the provence of the local IT security staff, they could not be changed by the user.
One nice feature of this method is that, with a well setup OS each users network presence (data, settings, drives ect) could be transparently encrypted, each PC would be generic with no user or company data stored on the PC just on the network. Other networkable protocols could be implemented. I think Linux is close to part of this done in software.
The device would need to be distributed, that way an attacker would have to compromise every device in the computer to make any use of the computer. Even the ram would not be of use.
It would be possible to do this in a compatible way to protect the addons use extenders/risers that contain the encryption receivers which would be epoxied to circuit cards, drives and ram would slightly reduce cost and void warranties but allow easier upgrades by just adding a riser. The other method is to order specially modified hardware and only the Motherboard needs this. Yes, there are all sorts of drawbacks mostly stability issues and the CPU is stil not protected from theft.
Isn't there some sort of specification for all this, this didn't just come to me a vacuum, well I vacuumed it up, most probably from the cypherpunks mailing list but can't remember.
Total added cost to the PC, too much:
Just hire a damned good degreed security specialist and a retain a good physical security consultantcy and let them work with a team of people to implement a reasonable security system and stick with it. Add to that good training for the security people and rigorous *reoccuring* background checks. Also a mid/upper level management that actually listens to the experts in this is needed, eviserate the dead weight as needed.
We could wrap that Wonka dollar in real gold or silver foil, dual value edible currency.;-)
Gold, silver, tobacco, bulk food goods, leather, fur and other items have all been used as money. Paper money has always been problematic both from the ability to deflate it remotely and the counterfeiting problem. Metal coins are harder and not immune, but there is an aura about gold and silver as coinage.
While leather is still used as a trade good, well to wrap a trade good, I want gold and silver coins again. Since a dollar coin would be microscopic if gold, silver does as well.
A 'US silver dollar' is worth around 5 - 8 paper dollars. It's still bulky but I can still spend them for the real value of the silver if not a bit more if the cashier is receptive, if the cashier is knowlegable it might be worth a paper dollar.;-)
The 1oz silver commemorative 'coins' don't work as well unless the cashier is knowledgable or if the design is cute, these are worth around 5 paper dollars. You're depending on the cashier to buy the coins and put paper money in the register so neither this or the US silver doller can be called an accurate currency but I can always spend them so they are widely accepted.
What a local coin dealer calls 'junk silver' mercury and rosevelt dimes, silver quaters, those 1oz.999 fine slugs with pretty pictures are very affordable.
I use them sometimes as tips, sometimes I try to get the value of them from a cashier, and I use them as gifts. The 1oz ones can be hammered into many silver rings and silver bells which increases their value. Though fake silver items and imported silver items have harmed this somewhat.
The dimes are locally 35cents for rosevelt and 45cents for mercury. 1 paper dollar gets one silver quater. 5-8 paper dollars gets a silver dollar and 5 paper dollars gets a 1oz.999 fine slug coin with various stampings. State sales tax not included. As with any moneychanger selling these back to them incurs a loss and explains some authors of old texts loathing of them. I like the fellow I do business with as he is quite fair on the sale price and the buy back. Caveat Emptor.
P.S. One thing I've noted, Mexican silver pesos from 1924 or so that say "Libertad Y Independencia" stamped in the smooth edge and are stamped 0.720 (72 percent) silver have a distinctive ring.
There are westerns where you will hear this ring, I know I've heard it on a western but do not remember the title. It was very odd as I bought these more as a favor than for value and did not suspect the ring to be recognizable.
Some motherboards had extremly nifty SPMS (switched mode power supply) circuits on board (non-isolated buck style). All of this stuff is expensive and/or difficult to get in small quantities.
An SMPS is an extremely efficient means of regulating a voltage and getting a voltage boost as well. While I think Maixm IC is a nifty parts maker, swiping the parts from a junk board is just easy and cheap and I'll keep doing it. I'd not hacked the board apart but may do so in the future, these parts are not easy to manipulate.
It wasn't a waste of time. My motherboards usually end up in friends computers but I have a few with those damned capacitors that had the defective electrolyte and have pulled numerous parts from them, mostly regulators and smaller surface mounts.
Here's why those caps are bulging and spewing. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/res ource/feb0 3/ncap.html
It wasn't worth the time to replace the capacitors and on some the leakage damaged part of the board.
If the part was damaged, so what, the author really is a hardware hacker and it's destruction would not have meant anything other than more trash to pitch. Wiring up to a board to use a single part is a part of hardware hacking, that's been done, usually by cutting traces, cutting out the whole section is a very good idea, especially on something the size of a motherboard.
This technique increases the usefulness of old, destined for the trash, motherboards as designing and etching a PCB for surface mounted devices is a bit of an investment in time. It also saves the landfill from getting as much toxic waste and garners the salvager a useful return on investment.
I have made custom PCBs or purchased 'generic' ones to mount SMD chips and such. It's slow, any relief is welcome and I do welcome this idea.
I've stuck with Matrox, mostly I don't do games and it's very stable.
I will not buy nvidia due to them not allowing specifications out about the cards so a Linux driver can be created. I won't run their binary only driver or any binary only driver.
In fact any binary only code allows for this sort of tweaking or worse.
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Speed news, all the news that's fit to blit for Monday April 2, 2025.
"Personal Protection with an edge, Don't Touch Me (tm) to protect wearer from any phyiscal contact."
"Touch me and puke you puke", proclaims Veronica of Oakland Ca. a test subject for the new product.
Pegasus protection products (DJnet: P^3) today announced a new personal protection product.....
Only a person authorized, temporarily or permanently by the wearer may touch....
"Genetically enhanced the wearer is protected by an excreted non-lethal toxin. The toxin is inactive if not in contact with the protected person." states Dever Monrose of Pegasus Protection Products.....
FDA approval is pending last stage human testing...
Has anyone thought of a slashbot? Some distributed thing where the URL goes out to volunteers and has a way to let US store off some poor sites stuff and retrieve it via one metaURL? Something on the order of a distributed Squid server so it's not too far out of date.
I know I read the faq but...I want to read the story NOW.
Well we'll need someone to install Neural Linux [*] which would probably be running a kernel variant neural-linux-8.2.0 created by "Linus in a Jar" [*] in a parallel array with several hundred thousand "Developers in a Jar". Yes, they will be eternal.
The SQL server would of course be "Bureaucrat in a Jar" and requires a virtual budget, virtual perks and a plentiful supply of virtural 3 hour lunches to install.
"Neural Linux" and "Linus in a Jar" are the properties of Linus Torvalds & Linus Torvalds & Linus Torvalds...
That's one but there was an even older one where some function of a starship was ran by a crewman linked to a dog brain modified to be telepathic. It wasn't a cute furry dog, just meat in a jar. This was *very* old, probably Perry Rhodan era, not to insult the era.;-)
I remember the movie, Harlan Ellison IS hard to take. Not a bad thing, just recommended in small doses as oil of vitriol is corrosive.
"It's not a paper. It's a lecture. i.e. it was written for students, in this case, first year undergraduate students, most of whom are as indifferent or hostile to the idea of feminism (not to mention feminist philosophy) as many of the correspondents here appear to be. I can confirm that as a lecture intended to command the attention of 250 usually bored and restless undergraduates, and to force them to think a bit more carefully about the subject, it had the desired effect."
I would not have thought that hostility would be a problem for todays young adults when feminism was the subject, but thinking on it 10 - 20 years ago I was hostile to the subject of feminism as it had been ground into me quite firmly. I'm not hostile to the concept now, but it is quite difficult to grind off what someone else has written on your soul. Please bear with me as I am working on it.
Intellegent self-confident women are a treasure, do not doubt this as they are rare in American society. If you have ever had the extreme pleasure of talking to a woman who is intellegent, self-confident and comfortable with both. Who knows what you know or more and can discuss it at length with friendship and good cheer, you will know just how precious they truly are.
Many women from birth are hammered into the barbie box and some even believe this is normal and proper.
I don't particularly care for self aggrandisement and find it suspect and mostly annoying from anyone.
I read the lecture and found the wording annoying mostly because what the author seemed to be trying to say had merit. After reading the anonymous posting I can see the reason for that wording. I misunderstood that documents purpose, it seems that the author was trying to get a point across by the only means that would work to a group indifferent or hostile to the concept. I can accept that, it was a from prudishness that I made a snap judgement.
The self aggrandisement is annoying and pathetic and not needed, her work might actually stand on it's own merit. The self aggrandisement will probably convince most that it's not worth even a look.
So I read that one paper and if you can seperate the childish assemblage of words most consider shocking, what is left while quite thin in substance is not too bad and not as annoying as some of the feminist diatribes.
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But I'd need to weld it to a bolt through a bone so as not to lose it.
I can live with that, it's the fanatical persecution of those that want to tinker with it even when that tinkering isn't profit motivated.
This would be the same as any other consumable product, watch it an pitch it. I would prefer a disk that disovled to biodegradable sludge as I have enough AOL frisbees to litterally make indestructable housing for the homeless or to pave roads.
BTW, does anyone have a device to press these disks into a fribee shape? Using a heat gun and pliers is tedious. (TIC);-)
Almost Good: Tagging violent convicted criminals. Bad: Tagging non-violent convicted criminals, tagging anyone arrested for any reason regardless of conviction or not. The US Justice system isn't.
Good: Voluntary tagging of kids to help track them down. Bad: Body parts are removed to remove the tag. Bad: It won't work in a farad cage. Bad: It allows abuse by those controlling the device.
For Your Own Good:Tagging all "Real Americans" to tell them from terrorists. Bad: It's got to have an ID along with the GPS and is subject to abuse. Bad: Hacking takes on a whole new meaning when a terrorist needs some quick ID. So what is the new and spiffy term for "Meat Hacking", "macking" sounds too appleish and smells fishy. Bad: False sense of security. http://stupidsecurity.com/ Bad: Old hat hacking will make you Bridgette Fonda! (Only good if you get the body to match.)
Really Bad: Farad cage clothing becomes all the rage. Good for them: An epidemic rash caused by the farad clothing causes a mass rekindling of public nudity.
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Exactly right. I had a customer that *really* wanted to get a specific WFW3.11 special machine control program to work on a later windows version, '98. There was no inexpensive or fast way to redo this, the original company who wrote the software was gone and they had no source. It was almost to the point of having it rewritten and killing an already fragile budget and deadline. This software was so vertical market it was dental floss.
;-)
I have no idea where I found it or what it was called. It's all forgotten but some kind soul who'd done all the dirty work and left it laying around on the net for someone to find came to the rescue.
It was I think shareware and it was hell finding them, eventually the company bought a license from them, several hundred actually.
That was one shocked programmer.
They even took the original software and did some extensive testing and updated the old product.
It works like a charm, I don't have a clue how as I did not have the time to look at it other than to verify it worked.
It is a pity Microsoft is so closed off, it was a gradual process to convert me from really liking their product to now, it started with win95 and
I see no end.
Offering their own Linux distribution stabilized and known is excellent.
I don't know the equipment that is used in Labs but a company could specifiy a Linux distribution and no other (period) or one they make as a choice for their equipment, better would be to just provide the proper, debugged, compliant PC/embed with a network interface and an open protocol to use it.
Hmm, anyone want to write an interoperability RFC for networked lab equipment? Is there such a beast?
Could a PC (any OS) with a browser or other machine independant program be used to control all the Linux machines ala Distributed computing?
Yes, but the user interface for all of this in Linux, etal is very difficult. I need a good, flexible, point and click with lots of twiddlies and blinking lights and hand holding or I CANNOT get this to the people/companies/etc who can benefit from it.
I'd like to know of an interface that is machine independant and can be operated FULLY within a browser and has the hand holding, help, diagnostics, etc.
It's even worse when it's splattered all over the net.
Take all of this TIC, I mean no disrespect.
Ok, you're statement really confused me, that's why the long winded post that follows this proper reply to your message.
In your method I think you're using a OTP derived chunk as a symetrical key. You can of course have only two devices, the bios and a device on the motherboard that needs authentication to run but all you'd need is just the device and a call in the bios to it. See below for a description of a bit more vicious device.
With either method there is still no protection for the goodies, who want's a corprate motherboard? Just pitch the computer out a window and go scavange the good stuff left. I've even seen PCs put in boxes for the 'trash man' and gutted right outside the business. This is why most companies crush stuff in a compactor. We won't discuss here the shipping of company property via FedEx, nope won't.
I've lumped the original posts bios scheme in with Snake Oil because I think it fits. Without reasonably uncrackable 'host-server' authentication, reasonably uncrackable user authentication, blah, I don't see any benefit and a lot of http://www.stupidsecurity.com
What I write below I leave, I think it's good but it isn't even close to what you were saying.
---beging long winded part---
OTPs are the simplest type of encryption to explain and use and most absolute bitch to do right and maintain right. What I think you're stating here is a one time authentication pad (not sure if this is the right phrase but similar) and is a different use of a one time encryption pad and has the same pros and cons. Timothy C. May wrote the difinitve, if strangely formatted, cyphernomicon
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/ar ticles/crypto/c ypherpunks/cyphernomicon/CP-FAQ
This is one of the most daunting FAQs you'll ever read. I think I choked through part of it, way to much information. All of it good.
Examine the Snake Oil Faq on cryptography.
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmc urtin/snake-oil -faq.html
A much more readable and less intimidating guide to cryptography and how to spot the cheap and dangerous imitations. It is of deliberately limited depth but is a good foundation for future studies.
If you want to use an actual OTP, you would need one bit of OTP for 1 bit of real world data.
I had wrongly assumed you meant that the pad was internal to the computer and would only be used to authenticate that the computer was still in the hands of the gud and not the e-ville. What follows
reflects that misassumption.
It would need to be:
A) big enough to outlast the life of the machine, now square this as computers never die they just get sealed up inside walls, ask Novell.
B) A large enough chunk would have to be used to avoid positive collisions which means 32bits,
64bits, 128bits, a dollar.
C) Every computer would need a totally unique OTAP, this includes unique 'chunks'. I wanna see the bill for those bits from the radioactive source.
D) No chunk can ever be used again, ever, period, never ever, repeat this till your jaw aches and you wanna puke from dehydration.
C) It can't be a readable e/eeprom/flash but a device that cannot be read from, only queried and it has to have enough storage to mark which bits have been used or to just erase them. It cannot query any outside source to know which key to use. It just refuses to boot the computer on a failure, all tracking needs to be performed by the authenticating companies host.
D) Once the computer is reported stolen the OTAP that the authorizing company has on file would need to be deactivated. I assume it would be possible to just log the IP, sound an alert and refuse to process the request since a honey pot trap is/was/maybe/willbe illegal.
Lets see, JoeMoron reboots his computer every 30 minutes to 'clean out the poo poo'. If Joe lives at the office 24/7 with all his poo, this requires 137K per year. 1 meg or so for 10 years so i
Inside the country going to IPv6 should work well.
I think china is routing everything out through a proxy so it would not be difficult for them to do at all and put them one up on the rest of the world.
"That all depends, of course, on how you define "cleanly." To extract hydrogen from water--to get the H out of the H2O--you first have to make steam. The modular nuclear plants would do that without polluting the air, but would also leave behind radioactive waste."
I'd like to see them print up the amount of waste and the life expectancy of each. How much nuclear waste will there be? How much will there be if recycling of this waste is allowed? Yes, even nuclear waste can be recycled.
Compare this to coal and oil, how much waste is generated by these. How long does it remain? Since it's dumping is not as strictly controlled how long will it's effects last in the environment? Even if it's dumping is as strictly controlled how long can this waste have the potential to effect the environment?
This looks to be a good site for information on HTGR technology.
http://www.iaea.or.at/inis/aws/htgr/
If you go to google and search for "coal waste" you won't find any numbers, but you will find page after page of information, most of it high signal to noise.
This is not a simple subject, to allow many countries to enjoy the lifestyle of 1st worlders a
reasonably clean, reasonably non-polluting ENERGY SOURCE is needed. Hydrogen is not an energy source but a storage method that has some appeal. Current nuclear politics are geared to keeping the third world, third and subservient.
A form of nuclear power that is easy to control, cannot easily be converted for weapons use and is within the capabilities of third world countries to install and maintain (and eventually manufacture) would be one method of improving their relative wealth and all that comes with this.
It's cheep security, None of the peripherals seem to be protected and that's the meat of any system.
If you buy a used PC with that system in it you should have the ability to contact the maintainer of the system to work out ownership transfer. There should be no fee for this.
Prediction by MrPredicter:
One week after deployment a copy of the BIOS will be posted to usenet, Seventy Six Milliseconds after that it's cracked, patched and offered on WareZ sites with instructions on how to burn, unplug or desolder and install the new chip.
Fixing the above, off the top of my head:
Hardwired into the motherboard is a distributed encryption device that holds all of the motherboard chips, drives, ram and compatible installed cards in an inactive state until a USB or other device is insterted. The unlocking device needs to have been activated with a PIN prior to insertion so that the secret key inside can encrypt a challenge response with the devices in the computer. The device in the computer should also do realtime transparent encryption of the drives and offer network encryption as it would be trivial to add. Internal keys in the device would be the provence of the local IT security staff, they could not be changed by the user.
One nice feature of this method is that, with a well setup OS each users network presence (data, settings, drives ect) could be transparently encrypted, each PC would be generic with no user or company data stored on the PC just on the network. Other networkable protocols could be implemented. I think Linux is close to part of this done in software.
The device would need to be distributed, that way an attacker would have to compromise every device in the computer to make any use of the computer. Even the ram would not be of use.
It would be possible to do this in a compatible way to protect the addons use extenders/risers that contain the encryption receivers which would be epoxied to circuit cards, drives and ram would slightly reduce cost and void warranties but allow easier upgrades by just adding a riser. The other method is to order specially modified hardware and only the Motherboard needs this. Yes, there are all sorts of drawbacks mostly stability issues and the CPU is stil not protected from theft.
Isn't there some sort of specification for all this, this didn't just come to me a vacuum, well I vacuumed it up, most probably from the cypherpunks mailing list but can't remember.
Total added cost to the PC, too much:
Just hire a damned good degreed security specialist and a retain a good physical security consultantcy and let them work with a team of people to implement a reasonable security system and stick with it. Add to that good training for the security people and rigorous *reoccuring* background checks. Also a mid/upper level management that actually listens to the experts in this is needed, eviserate the dead weight as needed.
Now you see the fact of this old saying!
We could wrap that Wonka dollar in real gold or silver foil, dual value edible currency. ;-)
;-)
.999 fine slugs with pretty pictures are very affordable .
.999 fine slug coin with various stampings. State sales tax not included. As with any moneychanger selling these back to them incurs a loss and explains some authors of old texts loathing of them. I like the fellow I do business with as he is quite fair on the sale price and the buy back.
Gold, silver, tobacco, bulk food goods, leather, fur and other items have all been used as money. Paper money has always been problematic both from the ability to deflate it remotely and the counterfeiting problem. Metal coins are harder and not immune, but there is an aura about gold and silver as coinage.
While leather is still used as a trade good, well to wrap a trade good, I want gold and silver coins again. Since a dollar coin would be microscopic if gold, silver does as well.
A 'US silver dollar' is worth around 5 - 8 paper dollars. It's still bulky but I can still spend them for the real value of the silver if not a bit more if the cashier is receptive, if the cashier is knowlegable it might be worth a paper dollar.
The 1oz silver commemorative 'coins' don't work as well unless the cashier is knowledgable or if the design is cute, these are worth around 5 paper dollars. You're depending on the cashier to buy the coins and put paper money in the register so neither this or the US silver doller can be called an accurate currency but I can always spend them so they are widely accepted.
What a local coin dealer calls 'junk silver' mercury and rosevelt dimes, silver quaters, those 1oz
I use them sometimes as tips, sometimes I try to get the value of them from a cashier, and I use them as gifts. The 1oz ones can be hammered into many silver rings and silver bells which increases their value. Though fake silver items and imported silver items have harmed this somewhat.
The dimes are locally 35cents for rosevelt and 45cents for mercury. 1 paper dollar gets one silver quater. 5-8 paper dollars gets a silver dollar and 5 paper dollars gets a 1oz
Caveat Emptor.
P.S. One thing I've noted, Mexican silver pesos from 1924 or so that say "Libertad Y Independencia" stamped in the smooth edge and are stamped 0.720 (72 percent) silver have a distinctive ring.
There are westerns where you will hear this ring, I know I've heard it on a western but do not remember the title. It was very odd as I bought these more as a favor than for value and did not suspect the ring to be recognizable.
Some motherboards had extremly nifty SPMS (switched mode power supply) circuits on board (non-isolated buck style). All of this stuff is expensive and/or difficult to get in small quantities.
An SMPS is an extremely efficient means of regulating a voltage and getting a voltage boost as well. While I think Maixm IC is a nifty parts maker, swiping the parts from a junk board is just easy and cheap and I'll keep doing it. I'd not hacked the board apart but may do so in the future, these parts are not easy to manipulate.
It wasn't a waste of time. My motherboards usually end up in friends computers but I have a few with those damned capacitors that had the defective electrolyte and have pulled numerous parts from them, mostly regulators and smaller surface mounts.
s ource/feb0 3/ncap.html
Here's why those caps are bulging and spewing.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/re
It wasn't worth the time to replace the capacitors and on some the leakage damaged part of the board.
If the part was damaged, so what, the author really is a hardware hacker and it's destruction would not have meant anything other than more trash to pitch. Wiring up to a board to use a single part is a part of hardware hacking, that's been done, usually by cutting traces, cutting out the whole section is a very good idea, especially on something the size of a motherboard.
This technique increases the usefulness of old, destined for the trash, motherboards as designing and etching a PCB for surface mounted devices is a bit of an investment in time. It also saves the landfill from getting as much toxic waste and garners the salvager a useful return on investment.
I have made custom PCBs or purchased 'generic' ones to mount SMD chips and such. It's slow, any relief is welcome and I do welcome this idea.
I've stuck with Matrox, mostly I don't do games and it's very stable.
I will not buy nvidia due to them not allowing specifications out about the cards so a Linux driver can be created. I won't run their binary only driver or any binary only driver.
In fact any binary only code allows for this sort of tweaking or worse.
Does the DMCA make this type of exposure illegal?
Speed news, all the news that's fit to blit for
Monday April 2, 2025.
"Personal Protection with an edge, Don't Touch Me (tm) to protect wearer from any phyiscal contact."
"Touch me and puke you puke", proclaims Veronica of Oakland Ca. a test subject for the new product.
Pegasus protection products (DJnet: P^3) today announced a new personal protection product.....
Only a person authorized, temporarily or permanently by the wearer may touch....
"Genetically enhanced the wearer is protected by an excreted non-lethal toxin. The toxin is inactive if not in contact with the protected person." states Dever Monrose of Pegasus Protection Products.....
FDA approval is pending last stage human testing...
Has anyone thought of a slashbot? Some distributed thing where the URL goes out to volunteers and has a way to let US store off some poor sites stuff and retrieve it via one metaURL? Something on the order of a distributed Squid server so it's not too far out of date.
I know I read the faq but...I want to read the story NOW.
"X10-style (no link, u know why)."
No I don't, guessing it was a spat sometime back I did search the archives. Other than the sheer obviousness, why no link?
Well we'll need someone to install Neural Linux [*] which would probably be running a kernel variant neural-linux-8.2.0 created by "Linus in a Jar" [*] in a parallel array with several hundred thousand "Developers in a Jar". Yes, they will be eternal.
The SQL server would of course be "Bureaucrat in a Jar" and requires a virtual budget, virtual perks and a plentiful supply of virtural 3 hour lunches to install.
"Neural Linux" and "Linus in a Jar" are the properties of Linus Torvalds & Linus Torvalds & Linus Torvalds...
That's one but there was an even older one where some function of a starship was ran by a crewman linked to a dog brain modified to be telepathic. ;-)
It wasn't a cute furry dog, just meat in a jar.
This was *very* old, probably Perry Rhodan era, not to insult the era.
I remember the movie, Harlan Ellison IS hard to take. Not a bad thing, just recommended in small doses as oil of vitriol is corrosive.
"It's not a paper. It's a lecture. i.e. it was written for students, in this case, first year undergraduate students, most of whom are as indifferent or hostile to the idea of feminism (not to mention feminist philosophy) as many of the correspondents here appear to be. I can confirm that as a lecture intended to command the attention of 250 usually bored and restless undergraduates, and to force them to think a bit more carefully about the subject, it had the desired effect."
I would not have thought that hostility would be a problem for todays young adults when feminism was the subject, but thinking on it 10 - 20 years ago I was hostile to the subject of feminism as it had been ground into me quite firmly. I'm not hostile to the concept now, but it is quite difficult to grind off what someone else has written on your soul. Please bear with me as I am working on it.
Intellegent self-confident women are a treasure, do not doubt this as they are rare in American society. If you have ever had the extreme pleasure of talking to a woman who is intellegent, self-confident and comfortable with both. Who knows what you know or more and can discuss it at length with friendship and good cheer, you will know just how precious they truly are.
Many women from birth are hammered into the barbie box and some even believe this is normal and proper.
I don't particularly care for self aggrandisement and find it suspect and mostly annoying from anyone.
I read the lecture and found the wording annoying mostly because what the author seemed to be trying to say had merit. After reading the anonymous posting I can see the reason for that wording. I misunderstood that documents purpose, it seems that the author was trying to get a point across by the only means that would work to a group indifferent or hostile to the concept. I can accept that, it was a from prudishness that I made a snap judgement.
The self aggrandisement is annoying and pathetic and not needed, her work might actually stand on it's own merit. The self aggrandisement will probably convince most that it's not worth even a look.
So I read that one paper and if you can seperate the childish assemblage of words most consider shocking, what is left while quite thin in substance is not too bad and not as annoying as some of the feminist diatribes.
But I'd need to weld it to a bolt through a bone so as not to lose it.
http://www.byrum.org/aol/101disks.htm
;-)
I can live with that, it's the fanatical persecution of those that want to tinker with it even when that tinkering isn't profit motivated.
This would be the same as any other consumable product, watch it an pitch it. I would prefer a disk that disovled to biodegradable sludge as I have enough AOL frisbees to litterally make indestructable housing for the homeless or to pave roads.
BTW, does anyone have a device to press these disks into a fribee shape? Using a heat gun and pliers is tedious. (TIC)
Almost Good: Tagging violent convicted criminals.
Bad: Tagging non-violent convicted criminals, tagging anyone arrested for any reason regardless of conviction or not. The US Justice system isn't.
Good: Voluntary tagging of kids to help track them down.
Bad: Body parts are removed to remove the tag.
Bad: It won't work in a farad cage.
Bad: It allows abuse by those controlling the device.
For Your Own Good:Tagging all "Real Americans" to tell them from terrorists.
Bad: It's got to have an ID along with the GPS and is subject to abuse.
Bad: Hacking takes on a whole new meaning when a terrorist needs some quick ID. So what is the new and spiffy term for "Meat Hacking", "macking" sounds too appleish and smells fishy.
Bad: False sense of security. http://stupidsecurity.com/
Bad: Old hat hacking will make you Bridgette Fonda! (Only good if you get the body to match.)
Really Bad: Farad cage clothing becomes all the rage.
Good for them: An epidemic rash caused by the farad clothing causes a mass rekindling of public nudity.