Heh, I hate biometrics. If it can be copied, it's worthless.
Those signature collectors for credit cards are not legally binding though I assume a jury would rule so if it came to trial. It would be real easy for an ailing company to slurp off pocket change and be protected by using such captured data, or slip the data out to someone who'll kick back some money.
Biometrics are hard to forge, but hacking whether hardware or wetware hacking is as easy as it always has been.
Shared secrets are the way I want to go, preferably with a third party moderating (not the grubermint).
See this for info about Fiasco!, I can't find it's author but he's Dr Ullrich Hafner now so this helped him pass. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid =4367 I cannot find his current web page, I've not received a response from his email. I was hoping Fiasco! had been released from IntProp limbo.
Quite a while ago I downloaded a program from student in germany that did fractal encoding of video streams. It was quite good but needed some code clean up, some standardised streaming file format with syncronization for and addition of audio.
! The author pulled the project due to a potential copyright conflict with the college he was a student and worked at. Be warned to keep your GNU stuff seperate. !
I've used this decoder to shrink several minutes of fair quality video to floppy. Since this needs serious processing power and I do not know if it can be paralleled due to the serial nature of a video stream but it needs something.
So you whip out your handy asspass and flash it at the camera, and it don't know you, your ass has sagged in the 20 years since your first flashed it and sag recognition was not implemented.
Anything physical that wasn't designed for LONG term stability is going to cause stupid frustrating problems. Hell even a mag strip card is near worthless for more than a few months.
I do know of an old, moldy, lower than low but still electronic tech locking system that the access device will last for decades can be immersed in salt water, partially erroded, bent and still access the device and unlock it. If the material were not laminated plastic but metal it would last much longer.
It's an optically read plastic card about three to four times as thick as a credit card with these little square holes punched in it. Amazing that it works with Radio Shack quality parts from ages ago. It was built for some untended fleet fueling company and they really don't DO much to the pumps electronically to keep them running either.
I don't need a scanner or such I can grind my encryption key onto a STONE of suitable durability and put it face down in my yard. Done correctly it will still be legible in 20 - 30 years.
This makes Linux users look like morons.
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We take the high road or we go away as anything meaningful.
SCO doesn't need us to shoot them in the foot, they are doing that themselves.
On a lighter note, aren't all those virus cluckers supposed to prevent this in windows?
Unless backed up by several million of your closest friends.
It's just a deterent, saber rattling if you will, it doesn't stop it just slows it down and makes 'em listen to and apply more cost effective solutions.
Lets see: Observing the polls. Spewing spin doctoring. Reviling opponents or undercutting their gripe with the solution. etc
The better way IMHO, less bloody when they feel the need to listen.
> besides the obvious *geek* factor this kind of >*experiments* and demonstrations should make us > >all stop to think a bit...
zzzzzzzz
>how do we prevent terrorist from using this kind of stuff ?
You don't, you kill them first as brutally and as publicly as possible.
Unfortunately it's not in a governments best interest to totally eradicate them, one terrorist is worth several cruise missles.
>limiting acces to knowledge (with DMCA style >laws)?
Then only terrorists, governments and other criminal types have the knowledge.
>creating a orwellian policial state where all are >suspect ans subject to vigilance (and who >controls the vigilantes) ?
What? We don't have that yet?
I'm of the opinion that the hardware to run the state's monitoring makes cool routers and stuff and putting a publicly addressable camera in the senators bedchamber is perfectly acceptable in a big brother society. Consider it accountability through pornography.
>limitating the publication of (now) public-domain > stuff ('cause it can be used to devilish ends) ?
I have this library....
>the RIAA/DMCA people already want to control what >could go on the net, and that is, maybe, only the >beggining (see China - although there 's hope >there - see the massive failure of the SARS >coverup) so maybe it is time to start thinking >about how to mantain the net free and at the same >time this planet a safe planet to stay...
Is the fact of SARS a cover up or the fact of what SARS really is a cover up.
The RIAA has become vicous because it's nearly insolvent.
>just my two uros,
And just how much gold will it buy today?[1]
Actually that's not disrespect, I don't know where to find it out. Gold rather than another currency is a good measure of how well it's doing. Better is the street value of the gold, a raw gold or coin dealer is a good choice, the people the little guy uses.
[1] No, BillG's is "This is how much gold will you send me today."
Gotta love this guy, build a cruise miskle and charge people to read about it, 'properly authorized' of course.
I think he can do it, hell IA weapons could have been this way LONG ago.
If cruise missles were built the way TV's are, they'd be $1,000 US and 80% would last almost long enough to reach the target. They'd be built with JITM and delivered in 30 days.
So, lets see 500 miskles and 350 hit the target with the same force as one.
Don't you just DROOL over CURRENT military procurement proceedures?
I better shut up or they might pay attention.
You ought to search for the proposed new procurement the military is trying to choke down and listen to them. It ain't a gonna happen in my lifetime I bet.
This is a good thing, really, war should be flashy, and extremly expensive. It's not something one should expect their government to do on a whim.
Some of the stuff in the PDF's on that site are hillarious. I just wonder if that's the founder, the ambience or the well crafted product of a better than average spin doctor.
I've interacted with hundreds of people hiding behind masks, cloaking their identity, who I can only know by what they say.
No, that's 'real' people.
My internet friends are more interesting in many ways. I've never met many of them face to face, I learned to accept a blind man as a master coder without knowing he was blind until much later. I know his code is good as I've seen the results, I don't think I would have been open to this idea if I'd met him in person and probably would not have had a good friend. I've met, via the internet, a lot of people that due to the way I was 'taught/abused/raised' I would not have been able to accept as *people* if I'd met them in the flesh.
I have many more friends via computer than I do face to face mainly because of the ease of it. There is no one to harm you except a limited text communication, and you can always turn them off.
In the flesh world I can only sample a limited [1] number of limited people and learn a limited number of limited viewpoints all of which limits me.
Via this medium I can interact with many times that. If you take comfort in physical interaction then do it, don't dump your limited and limiting choice on me.
I would far prefer my learning from home, the mall or whatever place I trusted and felt safe, with friends I've chosen and to chose how I interact with those friends.
I do not want force to be used to coerce me into dealing with a group of people who have no interest in my well being or success and some who would and have actively tried to damage both.
[1] The midwest is both politically and socially limited and limiting, without the internet I'd have to deal exclusively with my 'peers'. They are my 'peers' without my advise or consent, something I do not have to worry about via electronic means. Well except for the occasional hacker, but sometimes they are interesting to talk to as well.
The idea one person had about the cardboard box is very cost effective, I'd be concerned about a fire though.
If you use a large ionic air cleaner, even though the filter will collect some dirt, almost every thing else in the room will have dirt stick to it in the first two to three months operation.
Be prepaired to do some serious filter, room and equipment cleaning until it stabilizes.
It also helps to place wipe mats everywhere you can afford to and have them cleaned monthly or more depending on weather.
You may wish to look at this page, it shows a dirt trap type air filtration unit. They book covers build instruction.
http://www.build-stuff.com/011book.htm
You can purchase an air plenum with a filter slot or make one from flame resistant foil covered insulation. Use a good sharp box knife and foil heat duct tape to construct the device.
You would want some sort of high volume air mover larger and slower is better, faster is not always good if it's a noise problem. Variable speed is a plus.
For critical servers and such you can wall them off and put the air cleaner blowing into that small closet and make sure you do have an exhast opening. You may need to do some calculation to ensure cooling or just strap a 'home' air conditioner in seris as well. That foil tape is marvelous stuff. While the AC would do some dehumidification some extra dehumidifcation would not hurt and may be quite important.
Any hardware store can probably provide all you need. A new blower is very expensive, a furnace fan may be good but is usually noisy. You can try to find a used blower or furnace fan.
1) They aren't stupid. 2) Free pizza on the governments dime in peace time is cool, in time of conflict it gets cold too quick.
When the only thing viewing you are automated tools how can you call the witnesses to the crime?
Since it's in most written constitutions at the state level and it's in the federal one that you have a right to call your accuser, should we make these sensors have real time sentience or is 'just a recording' seen by a sentience enough?
I'm pretty sure that this has been glossed over in the name of expiediency. I'm also sure there is a nice legal site brushing this out of the way.
I was going to ask this to IBM, until I entered the morass of WestLaw , they don't seem to have public email in the brief time I looked.
I did find that there is a whole huge business dedicated to storing legal paperwork. This is a disk based one. There are others dedicated to physical storage.
http://www.disc-storage.com/success/dri.htm
So just how many warehouses do they use to store this stuff? Will archeologists in the future scratch their heads and wonder what all the shiney disks and disintigrating paper is?
I would prefer Sony's option, and on this Sony it has all the bells and whistles you'd want.
Sony's Cam from the mentioned link:
The new system offers familiar optical disc benefits, including split-second random access, no physical head contact during record/playback, and cost efficiency associated with the media. A single disc holds 90 minutes of DVCAM material or 45 minutes of MPEG IMX material recorded at 50 Mbps, 55 minutes at 40 Mbps, and 75 minutes at 30 Mbps.
I have almost every other protocol to bypass the need for email. Messaging, IRC, Usenet, non-standard.
I even have an IRC bot that can deliver mail to my local machine bypassing my ISPs email.
I also have several non-internet disclosed email addresses for critical email.
And I have several honey pot emails, just cause when I get really bored, I have something to do.
Oddly enough, one of the providers I tried for the undisclosed email address, somehow managed to release that email address to spammers before I could even use it. Needless to say, the check didn't clear.
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Heh, I hate biometrics. If it can be copied, it's worthless.
Those signature collectors for credit cards are not legally binding though I assume a jury would rule so if it came to trial. It would be real easy for an ailing company to slurp off pocket change and be protected by using such captured data, or slip the data out to someone who'll kick back some money.
Biometrics are hard to forge, but hacking whether hardware or wetware hacking is as easy as it always has been.
Shared secrets are the way I want to go, preferably with a third party moderating (not the grubermint).
See this for info about Fiasco!, I can't find it's author but he's Dr Ullrich Hafner now so this helped him pass.d =4367
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?si
I cannot find his current web page, I've not received a response from his email. I was hoping Fiasco! had been released from IntProp limbo.
Quite a while ago I downloaded a program from student in germany that did fractal encoding of video streams. It was quite good but needed some code clean up, some standardised streaming file format with syncronization for and addition of audio.
!
The author pulled the project due to a potential copyright conflict with the college he was a student and worked at. Be warned to keep your GNU stuff seperate.
!
I've used this decoder to shrink several minutes of fair quality video to floppy. Since this needs serious processing power and I do not know if it can be paralleled due to the serial nature of a video stream but it needs something.
I can up load this crap by telephone, fax, various non-interet networks, fidonet (suitably hidden), rime or any phone only BBS.
They move bits too.
So you whip out your handy asspass and flash it at the camera, and it don't know you, your ass has sagged in the 20 years since your first flashed it and sag recognition was not implemented.
Anything physical that wasn't designed for LONG term stability is going to cause stupid frustrating problems. Hell even a mag strip card is near worthless for more than a few months.
I do know of an old, moldy, lower than low but still electronic tech locking system that the access device will last for decades can be immersed in salt water, partially erroded, bent and still access the device and unlock it. If the material were not laminated plastic but metal it would last much longer.
It's an optically read plastic card about three to four times as thick as a credit card with these little square holes punched in it. Amazing that it works with Radio Shack quality parts from ages ago. It was built for some untended fleet fueling company and they really don't DO much to the pumps electronically to keep them running either.
I don't need a scanner or such I can grind my encryption key onto a STONE of suitable durability and put it face down in my yard. Done correctly it will still be legible in 20 - 30 years.
We take the high road or we go away as anything meaningful.
SCO doesn't need us to shoot them in the foot, they are doing that themselves.
On a lighter note, aren't all those virus cluckers supposed to prevent this in windows?
Unless backed up by several million of your closest friends.
It's just a deterent, saber rattling if you will, it doesn't stop it just slows it down and makes 'em
listen to and apply more cost effective solutions.
Lets see:
Observing the polls.
Spewing spin doctoring.
Reviling opponents or undercutting their gripe with the solution.
etc
The better way IMHO, less bloody when they feel the need to listen.
Just mentioned on /. was a single board CPU system, but why skimp, just shove a surplus grid systems laptop in it.
Materials reduction or job reduction, not both.
And with some of the materials out ther I can't see why they have such problems.
> besides the obvious *geek* factor this kind of >*experiments* and demonstrations should make us > >all stop to think a bit ...
...
zzzzzzzz
>how do we prevent terrorist from using this kind of stuff ?
You don't, you kill them first as brutally and as publicly as possible.
Unfortunately it's not in a governments best interest to totally eradicate them, one terrorist is worth several cruise missles.
>limiting acces to knowledge (with DMCA style
>laws)?
Then only terrorists, governments and other criminal types have the knowledge.
>creating a orwellian policial state where all are >suspect ans subject to vigilance (and who >controls the vigilantes) ?
What? We don't have that yet?
I'm of the opinion that the hardware to run the state's monitoring makes cool routers and stuff and putting a publicly addressable camera in the senators bedchamber is perfectly acceptable in a big brother society. Consider it accountability through pornography.
>limitating the publication of (now) public-domain > stuff ('cause it can be used to devilish ends) ?
I have this library....
>the RIAA/DMCA people already want to control what
>could go on the net, and that is, maybe, only the
>beggining (see China - although there 's hope
>there - see the massive failure of the SARS
>coverup) so maybe it is time to start thinking
>about how to mantain the net free and at the same
>time this planet a safe planet to stay
Is the fact of SARS a cover up or the fact of what SARS really is a cover up.
The RIAA has become vicous because it's nearly insolvent.
>just my two uros,
And just how much gold will it buy today?[1]
Actually that's not disrespect, I don't know where to find it out. Gold rather than another currency is a good measure of how well it's doing. Better is the street value of the gold, a raw gold or coin dealer is a good choice, the people the little guy uses.
[1] No, BillG's is "This is how much gold will you send me today."
>The Silkworm is basically a Mig-17 airframe with the pilot replaced by a guidance system.
Damn, even considering the item that's a cool idea. A hardware hack if ever there was one.
Hmm, if we expend all our cruise missles can we chop up our aircraft to make more?
Gotta love this guy, build a cruise miskle and charge people to read about it, 'properly authorized' of course.
I think he can do it, hell IA weapons could have been this way LONG ago.
If cruise missles were built the way TV's are, they'd be $1,000 US and 80% would last almost long enough to reach the target. They'd be built with JITM and delivered in 30 days.
So, lets see 500 miskles and 350 hit the target with the same force as one.
Don't you just DROOL over CURRENT military procurement proceedures?
I better shut up or they might pay attention.
You ought to search for the proposed new procurement the military is trying to choke down and listen to them. It ain't a gonna happen in my lifetime I bet.
This is a good thing, really, war should be flashy, and extremly expensive. It's not something one should expect their government to do on a whim.
http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/CAQ56brother2.html
Nothing affirmed in this, looks like supposition or rumor but the FBI can call on ANY Federal agency for almost any item or process.
An older but fully mature technology that does not allow a lot of the crap that usenet does.
Prior to being allowed to post, you must subscribe.
Your telephone number and or other documentation are required as per the sysops discretion.
There is a fee in some cases depending on how wealthy and eccentric the sysop is.
I'm not sure if fidonet does PGP authentication of a valid server but RIME did so.
Most groups are moderated, the unmoderated groups tend to get shut off a lot due to funding issues.
A spammer, virus uploader, etal can be quickly tracked down in most cases.
Some of the stuff in the PDF's on that site are hillarious. I just wonder if that's the founder, the ambience or the well crafted product of a better than average spin doctor.
I've interacted with hundreds of people hiding behind masks, cloaking their identity, who I can only know by what they say.
No, that's 'real' people.
My internet friends are more interesting in many ways. I've never met many of them face to face, I learned to accept a blind man as a master coder without knowing he was blind until much later. I know his code is good as I've seen the results, I don't think I would have been open to this idea if I'd met him in person and probably would not have had a good friend. I've met, via the internet, a lot of people that due to the way I was 'taught/abused/raised' I would not have been able to accept as *people* if I'd met them in the flesh.
I have many more friends via computer than I do face to face mainly because of the ease of it. There is no one to harm you except a limited text communication, and you can always turn them off.
In the flesh world I can only sample a limited [1] number of limited people and learn a limited number of limited viewpoints all of which limits me.
Via this medium I can interact with many times that. If you take comfort in physical interaction then do it, don't dump your limited and limiting choice on me.
I would far prefer my learning from home, the mall or whatever place I trusted and felt safe, with friends I've chosen and to chose how I interact with those friends.
I do not want force to be used to coerce me into dealing with a group of people who have no interest in my well being or success and some who would and have actively tried to damage both.
[1]
The midwest is both politically and socially limited and limiting, without the internet I'd have to deal exclusively with my 'peers'. They are my 'peers' without my advise or consent, something I do not have to worry about via electronic means.
Well except for the occasional hacker, but sometimes they are interesting to talk to as well.
Ah, they are beating AMD, it's just perfermance-per-dollar that AMD is winning.
I believe it's because of that white crap that would cause many different processors to blow, the older Cyrix and early AMD's were victims.
I know Cyrix is old but is 24 watts dissipation not such a big deal anymore?
Oh, via's remake of the Cyrix runs almost cold, but slow compared to shrieking new ones.
The idea one person had about the cardboard box is very cost effective, I'd be concerned about a fire though.
If you use a large ionic air cleaner, even though the filter will collect some dirt, almost every thing else in the room will have dirt stick to it in the first two to three months operation.
Be prepaired to do some serious filter, room and equipment cleaning until it stabilizes.
It also helps to place wipe mats everywhere you can afford to and have them cleaned monthly or more depending on weather.
You may wish to look at this page, it shows a dirt trap type air filtration unit. They book covers build instruction.
http://www.build-stuff.com/011book.htm
You can purchase an air plenum with a filter slot or make one from flame resistant foil covered insulation. Use a good sharp box knife and foil heat duct tape to construct the device.
You would want some sort of high volume air mover larger and slower is better, faster is not always good if it's a noise problem. Variable speed is a plus.
For critical servers and such you can wall them off and put the air cleaner blowing into that small closet and make sure you do have an exhast opening. You may need to do some calculation to ensure cooling or just strap a 'home' air conditioner in seris as well. That foil tape is marvelous stuff. While the AC would do some dehumidification some extra dehumidifcation would not hurt and may be quite important.
Any hardware store can probably provide all you need. A new blower is very expensive, a furnace fan may be good but is usually noisy. You can try to find a used blower or furnace fan.
Ah, yes, divination by pizza.
1) They aren't stupid.
2) Free pizza on the governments dime in peace time is cool, in time of conflict it gets cold too quick.
When the only thing viewing you are automated tools how can you call the witnesses to the crime?
Since it's in most written constitutions at the state level and it's in the federal one that you have a right to call your accuser, should we make these sensors have real time sentience or is 'just a recording' seen by a sentience enough?
I'm pretty sure that this has been glossed over in the name of expiediency. I'm also sure there is a nice legal site brushing this out of the way.
I was going to ask this to IBM, until I entered the morass of WestLaw , they don't seem to have public email in the brief time I looked.
I did find that there is a whole huge business dedicated to storing legal paperwork. This is a disk based one. There are others dedicated to physical storage.
http://www.disc-storage.com/success/dri.htm
So just how many warehouses do they use to store this stuff? Will archeologists in the future scratch their heads and wonder what all the shiney disks and disintigrating paper is?
I would prefer Sony's option, and on this Sony it has all the bells and whistles you'd want.
Sony's Cam from the mentioned link:
The new system offers familiar optical disc benefits, including split-second random access, no physical head contact during record/playback, and cost efficiency associated with the media. A single disc holds 90 minutes of DVCAM material or 45 minutes of MPEG IMX material recorded at 50 Mbps, 55 minutes at 40 Mbps, and 75 minutes at 30 Mbps.
My error, I should have said my state.
If that is the case then the state is benefiting...hmm, probably won't be a law to fix it anytime soon.
That comes from being near an attorney that's more radical than the ACLU, they even quit that org because they were too 'wimpy'.
;-}
Glad you caught it, I hope the term catches on.
Are there spam free email protocol options?
I have almost every other protocol to bypass the need for email. Messaging, IRC, Usenet, non-standard.
I even have an IRC bot that can deliver mail to my local machine bypassing my ISPs email.
I also have several non-internet disclosed email addresses for critical email.
And I have several honey pot emails, just cause when I get really bored, I have something to do.
Oddly enough, one of the providers I tried for the undisclosed email address, somehow managed to release that email address to spammers before I could even use it. Needless to say, the check didn't clear.
Ok, how do you do a recursive limited fork of something that opens a web page?