Will the network have UNIX or Windows based OS's? I would think the better idea is to use a mixture of OS/platforms to simulate a real-world network, but it should've been mentioned.
It would also be interesting to see which OS allows the "red team" to infiltrate the network.
I discovered the power of Akamai last year during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. A company called Wisden and DD/NOW tied up to webcast around 50 eight-ten hour long cricket matches live last May.
I was amazed with the quality of the video - almost no latency (when compared to simultaneous TV broadcast) and very high resolution. Some investigation revealed that they were caching video off the local Akamai servers in the area. Akamai is underrated for sure - atleast compared to Google but they have the POWER!
I discovered the power of Akamai last year during the "a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/cwc2003/default.stm">2003 Cricket World Cup. A company called and the DD/NOW tied up to webcast around 50 eight-ten hour long cricket matches live last May.
I was amazed with the quality of the video - almost no latency (when compared to simultaneous TV broadcast) and very high resolution. Some investigation revealed that they were caching video off the local Akamai servers in the area. Akamai is underrated for sure - atleast compared to Google but they have the POWER!
When police officers found suspicious packages today in an airport or a train station, they destroyed them immediately, along with potential fingerprints on them.
This introductory sentence makes it sound like there was some *specific* event today at the airport or bus station involving suspicious packages and police officers.
Though gramatically correct, it is a matter of practice in written/spoken English to use the present tense when generalizing as in: "When police officers find suspicious packages today in an airport or a train station, they destroy them immediately, along with potential fingerprints on them."
I wouldn't even have bothered pointing this out, but that blurb made me scurry over to http://news.google.com for a look-see. Good story though.
Meter maids can cruise for violators using ruggedized Intermec handheld devices inside their vehicles. The devices have built-in city maps on which paid spots are green and unpaid spots are red.
I would like them to come up with a device (or a GPS plugin or whatever) which would show me the empty parking spots available in a radius around my current location.
I would think most people who work/commute downtown and don't want to pay monthly parking fees would be willing to shell out big bucks for such a feature.
Certainly beats crawling around the roadside for hours trying to find a parking spot.
Under section 512 of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a representative of a copyright holder can send a "takedown" notice to a university or ISP requesting that copyrighted material be removed. Universities may be obliged to comply with such requests from copyright holders.
Let's see what this means in minus-Internet terms:
Let's say a school receives a complaint from the copyright holders that students are videotaping movies off the screen during routine movie shows in student theaters.
Would it be right for the school to let the copyright holder send goons over to monitor the theaters with "anti-piracy" equipment and haul off offenders and slap him with a huge prison/fine sentence?
Or would it be more prudent for the school to tell the copyright holders to fsck off and let them handle the situation on their own - and suspend the student or dole out a more suitable sentence - according to the school policies?
This move by the MPAA stinks of highhandedness and interference with the school's internal matters - in this case - usage of the school network against Usage Policies.
AFAIK most schools have very formal and complete network (or general campus facilities) usage policies which detail the punishments for misusing them. Why do we need MPAA and other corporate entities to police the campus when the school and campus law enforcement have been doing it very efficiently for the past few decades? Assholes (*)
Talked to my folks...they voted yesterday (I reside in the US). They were happy and kinda proud about the new e-voting machines.
Their knowledge/usage of computers is limited, and I would put them in the same space as the average Joe/Jane American as far as computer/security knowledge is concerned.
I tried explaining that just a fancy GUI and interface doesn't make for a better voting process, and that the programs/algorithms need to be checked for correctness and security. I don't think the importance of it seeped through - and they still gushed about the fast/easy and hi-tech voting process.
That's about it...I guess the good part is that the machines are mostly firm/hardware and not the beefed up (down?) Windows machines like Diebold's ATM machines in the US. The machines are made by a company called Bharat Electronics. Unfortunately it looks like their server is ASP/IIS based.
I would suggest that this solution be implemented mainly by freebie "webmail" accounts rather than in the Corporate or other "trusted" environments. Most mailing lists would be sent out using academic or corporate accounts anyway - definitely not freebie accounts - atleast that's my assumption, though it's not too outstretched.
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I don't know if anybody has tried this yet....and if not, why not:
My suggestion is to present the user with those images containing a word (like the one used by Yahoo! etc during registration) everytime the user needs to send a mail (before clicking Send). This is a reasonably difficult Turing-type tests which could weed out a majority of automated scripts/spambots.
An immediate problem with this scheme that I see is that for the words to be sufficiently random and crack-proof, they would have to be served in real-time to the mail program, and could need tweaks in current mail programs. A static list coded into the program might be too easy to break.
This isn't too impractical, since an Internet connection is assumed during most email transactions.
Another problem, ofcourse is that it will not work with text-based mailers like PINE, but as long as it weeds out all the spam sent from all the freebie mail accounts we could see an improvement.
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I concur. Same problem with the sky
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Blue LEDs have a piercing clarity that draws the eye immediately, and which can mesmerize. They shimmer, they twinkle, and they can be incredibly intense for such tiny points of light -- they're really quite beautiful. The problem is they're suddenly everywhere.
It really pisses me off.
The Blue sky has a piercing clarity that draws the eye immediately, and which can mesmerize. And at night, the stars shimmer, they twinkle, and they can be incredibly intense for such tiny points of light -- they're really quite beautiful. The problem is they're suddenly everywhere.
Sorry...I must've rolled out of bed the wrong side too.
If you RTFA, you will observe that this was done by a private CORPORATION: namely AOL, which IMHO is a tad different from LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES (which I mention in my comment) like the FBI/etal.
But you're right, I don't watch enough trashy late-night TV...I consider my time too valuable to be wasted watching the trash that Fox/etc feed you day after night.
Okay, this isn't exactly a punishment meted out by law enforcement authorities, but even then, isn't it unusual for a corporation to "sieze" a person's (albeit a spammer's) car?
Maybe he got a better deal by giving away his car rather than an equivalent amount in money - but how'd they reach the settlement amount? Had the spammer's actions caused enough damage to AOL to justify the $1million settlement claim? My guess would be that the spammer's actions cost them bandwidth and diskspace - but are they justified in charging him the amount just because their users didn't delete the junk soon enough or their filters are lame?
Not I'm justifying spam or spammers...but if they reach an out of court settlement for a million dollars, on the grounds that they won't pursue a lawsuit against him - it sounds an awful lot like extortion to me. I would like to see the damages of $1million justified in public - otherwise every crook company (we have plenty of them - RIAA/SCO/etc) could go around threatening people with lawsuits (which the individuals couldn't afford) and demand out-of-court settlements and the people being sued would have no choice but to pay up unless they had resources to pursue their case in court.
rampant piracy, poor economic conditions and competition from video games and DVDs
Looks like the quality of music doesn't even enter their equation anywhere.
I, for one, haven't listened to new "popular(pop)" music from Brittany and Co for years now -- not from CDs, I don't even download music from these so called artists - not because I can't but because I don't think their music is any good.
A friend pointed out the difference between the new artists/music and the older ones - artists nowadays are "fabricated" by the music industry based on polls and trashy shows like the American Idol -- potential musicians are chosen based on their looks among other things, rather than on *innate* talent.
As a result, unlike the musicians of yore, the current breed of "artists" gain popularity not because of their talents/love for music BUT due to their "good looks" and ability to mobilize the audience. It's a sad world we live in.
For all the anger/abuse directed towards Michael Jackson, he became popular because of his musical talents and love for music...and that's a quality none of these "artists" possess.
It's sad that his security book is "market-focused" -- as in it focusses on security from a product (read Windows) point of view rather than providing a strong theoretical base for the subject matter. I think the CS gurus (read Stallman, Tanenbaum, Stevens, Djikstra) would tend to differ
This quote is pretty telling:
Up-to-Date Market-Focused Coverage
As discussed below, some security certifications, such as CompTIA's Security+, pride themselves in being vendor neutral. Although this has some theoretical benefits, it is pretty useless in practice. In corporations today, over 90% of all clients are Windows computers. Any security course that fails to reflect that reality is pretty unrealistic. In all areas, this book attempts to focus on the state of the market in technology today.
In addition, this book focuses on today's and tomorrow's issues--not on things that used to be important but are not today. There is an enormous amount of material to cover; so covering irrelevant issues is an expensive luxury that we cannot afford.
that only small-time pr0n businesses and the ones who'll most likely suffer the most from this crackdown.
Apparently, if you're rich/famous (Janet Jackson) or a Warner or some large movie studio, you can get around the law by showing anything *but* the nipple on national TV. I have seen programs on "family" channels, which I couldn't watch with my family without a certain amount of awkwardness. And it's not just visuals...highly suggestive but just-under-the-legal-limit dialogs are okay too - if you are a large company.
I read in the article that they're planning to strike against some HBO programs too - and I hope they either go ALL the way, and get over their hypocrisy and sue everybody including their "pocket liners" in the industry OR even better, leave normal pr0n alone, and go after child-pr0n etc as is more logical/practical.
JS:Now, the problem is that if you decide to put liability upon software authors, you destroy open source--because those people can't tolerate any liability. So, if I were king, I would rule that if you're selling software then you bear a certain liability; but if you're giving it away in open source, then you don't.
But, I fear that the commercial interests in this game, if they felt that Congress was backing them into a situation where they would have to accept liability, my guess is they would strenuously lobby that liability applies to everything, including open source, in an attempt to kill off open source. So that's the conundrum.
That was a very insightful quotes regarding the worry I've been having off late. Given their way, lawyers, lobbyists, anti-opensource corporations and their political puppets will all rally to impose liability for software on the end-developer.
If such a development happens, we could very well see software developers forced to buy "malpractice insurance" like doctors/medical professionals - that alone will be enough to kill opensource software, not to mention the plethora of lawsuits and ugly frivoulous lawsuits which've plagued the US medical system and escalated medical costs.
And ust to play devil's advocate to his suggestion that free software developers not be held liable - since they're "giving away" their stuff: somebody could turn my anology around and make outrageous claims like "exempting voluntary software developers from liability is like encouraging quacks to pursue their medical endeavours".
I would think that Real's main income comes from selling RealServer software to content providers. The other two major players competing with them are ofcourse Microsoft (Windows Media) and Apple (QT) - both of which treat streaming media as a sideshow (Apple even has an opensource streaming server - Darwin).
On the other hand, Real's reason to exist is streaming media....and admittedly, they had a headstart over the others. But is it really feasible for them to survive based solely on RealServer software sales? I don't think any reasonably sane/not abnoxiously rich person would subscibe to their "Real Gold Superpass" etc.
I think that's why they were pushing on advertising, popups and spyware with such fervor - that's about the only means of income and existence they have left - without a reliable business plan.
Homer: Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
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100% on the second paragraph.
It would also be interesting to see which OS allows the "red team" to infiltrate the network.
I was amazed with the quality of the video - almost no latency (when compared to simultaneous TV broadcast) and very high resolution. Some investigation revealed that they were caching video off the local Akamai servers in the area. Akamai is underrated for sure - atleast compared to Google but they have the POWER!
I was amazed with the quality of the video - almost no latency (when compared to simultaneous TV broadcast) and very high resolution. Some investigation revealed that they were caching video off the local Akamai servers in the area. Akamai is underrated for sure - atleast compared to Google but they have the POWER!
This introductory sentence makes it sound like there was some *specific* event today at the airport or bus station involving suspicious packages and police officers.
Though gramatically correct, it is a matter of practice in written/spoken English to use the present tense when generalizing as in: "When police officers find suspicious packages today in an airport or a train station, they destroy them immediately, along with potential fingerprints on them."
I wouldn't even have bothered pointing this out, but that blurb made me scurry over to http://news.google.com for a look-see. Good story though.
I would like them to come up with a device (or a GPS plugin or whatever) which would show me the empty parking spots available in a radius around my current location.
I would think most people who work/commute downtown and don't want to pay monthly parking fees would be willing to shell out big bucks for such a feature.
Certainly beats crawling around the roadside for hours trying to find a parking spot.
Let's see what this means in minus-Internet terms:
Let's say a school receives a complaint from the copyright holders that students are videotaping movies off the screen during routine movie shows in student theaters.
Would it be right for the school to let the copyright holder send goons over to monitor the theaters with "anti-piracy" equipment and haul off offenders and slap him with a huge prison/fine sentence?
Or would it be more prudent for the school to tell the copyright holders to fsck off and let them handle the situation on their own - and suspend the student or dole out a more suitable sentence - according to the school policies?
This move by the MPAA stinks of highhandedness and interference with the school's internal matters - in this case - usage of the school network against Usage Policies.
AFAIK most schools have very formal and complete network (or general campus facilities) usage policies which detail the punishments for misusing them. Why do we need MPAA and other corporate entities to police the campus when the school and campus law enforcement have been doing it very efficiently for the past few decades? Assholes (*)
Their knowledge/usage of computers is limited, and I would put them in the same space as the average Joe/Jane American as far as computer/security knowledge is concerned.
I tried explaining that just a fancy GUI and interface doesn't make for a better voting process, and that the programs/algorithms need to be checked for correctness and security. I don't think the importance of it seeped through - and they still gushed about the fast/easy and hi-tech voting process.
That's about it...I guess the good part is that the machines are mostly firm/hardware and not the beefed up (down?) Windows machines like Diebold's ATM machines in the US. The machines are made by a company called Bharat Electronics. Unfortunately it looks like their server is ASP/IIS based.
I would suggest that this solution be implemented mainly by freebie "webmail" accounts rather than in the Corporate or other "trusted" environments. Most mailing lists would be sent out using academic or corporate accounts anyway - definitely not freebie accounts - atleast that's my assumption, though it's not too outstretched.
I metamoded the Troll moderation of your AC reply to this comment "Unfair" - you weren't trolling. Eliminating unfair moderators one metamod at a time.
My suggestion is to present the user with those images containing a word (like the one used by Yahoo! etc during registration) everytime the user needs to send a mail (before clicking Send). This is a reasonably difficult Turing-type tests which could weed out a majority of automated scripts/spambots.
An immediate problem with this scheme that I see is that for the words to be sufficiently random and crack-proof, they would have to be served in real-time to the mail program, and could need tweaks in current mail programs. A static list coded into the program might be too easy to break. This isn't too impractical, since an Internet connection is assumed during most email transactions.
Another problem, ofcourse is that it will not work with text-based mailers like PINE, but as long as it weeds out all the spam sent from all the freebie mail accounts we could see an improvement.
Comments/Suggestions?
It really pisses me off.
The Blue sky has a piercing clarity that draws the eye immediately, and which can mesmerize. And at night, the stars shimmer, they twinkle, and they can be incredibly intense for such tiny points of light -- they're really quite beautiful. The problem is they're suddenly everywhere.
Sorry...I must've rolled out of bed the wrong side too.
But you're right, I don't watch enough trashy late-night TV...I consider my time too valuable to be wasted watching the trash that Fox/etc feed you day after night.
Maybe he got a better deal by giving away his car rather than an equivalent amount in money - but how'd they reach the settlement amount? Had the spammer's actions caused enough damage to AOL to justify the $1million settlement claim? My guess would be that the spammer's actions cost them bandwidth and diskspace - but are they justified in charging him the amount just because their users didn't delete the junk soon enough or their filters are lame?
Not I'm justifying spam or spammers...but if they reach an out of court settlement for a million dollars, on the grounds that they won't pursue a lawsuit against him - it sounds an awful lot like extortion to me. I would like to see the damages of $1million justified in public - otherwise every crook company (we have plenty of them - RIAA/SCO/etc) could go around threatening people with lawsuits (which the individuals couldn't afford) and demand out-of-court settlements and the people being sued would have no choice but to pay up unless they had resources to pursue their case in court.
Looks like the quality of music doesn't even enter their equation anywhere.
I, for one, haven't listened to new "popular(pop)" music from Brittany and Co for years now -- not from CDs, I don't even download music from these so called artists - not because I can't but because I don't think their music is any good.
A friend pointed out the difference between the new artists/music and the older ones - artists nowadays are "fabricated" by the music industry based on polls and trashy shows like the American Idol -- potential musicians are chosen based on their looks among other things, rather than on *innate* talent.
As a result, unlike the musicians of yore, the current breed of "artists" gain popularity not because of their talents/love for music BUT due to their "good looks" and ability to mobilize the audience. It's a sad world we live in.
For all the anger/abuse directed towards Michael Jackson, he became popular because of his musical talents and love for music...and that's a quality none of these "artists" possess.
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Up-to-Date Market-Focused Coverage
As discussed below, some security certifications, such as CompTIA's Security+, pride themselves in being vendor neutral. Although this has some theoretical benefits, it is pretty useless in practice. In corporations today, over 90% of all clients are Windows computers. Any security course that fails to reflect that reality is pretty unrealistic. In all areas, this book attempts to focus on the state of the market in technology today.
In addition, this book focuses on today's and tomorrow's issues--not on things that used to be important but are not today. There is an enormous amount of material to cover; so covering irrelevant issues is an expensive luxury that we cannot afford.
Apparently, if you're rich/famous (Janet Jackson) or a Warner or some large movie studio, you can get around the law by showing anything *but* the nipple on national TV. I have seen programs on "family" channels, which I couldn't watch with my family without a certain amount of awkwardness. And it's not just visuals...highly suggestive but just-under-the-legal-limit dialogs are okay too - if you are a large company.
I read in the article that they're planning to strike against some HBO programs too - and I hope they either go ALL the way, and get over their hypocrisy and sue everybody including their "pocket liners" in the industry OR even better, leave normal pr0n alone, and go after child-pr0n etc as is more logical/practical.
'turds.
But, I fear that the commercial interests in this game, if they felt that Congress was backing them into a situation where they would have to accept liability, my guess is they would strenuously lobby that liability applies to everything, including open source, in an attempt to kill off open source. So that's the conundrum.
That was a very insightful quotes regarding the worry I've been having off late. Given their way, lawyers, lobbyists, anti-opensource corporations and their political puppets will all rally to impose liability for software on the end-developer.
If such a development happens, we could very well see software developers forced to buy "malpractice insurance" like doctors/medical professionals - that alone will be enough to kill opensource software, not to mention the plethora of lawsuits and ugly frivoulous lawsuits which've plagued the US medical system and escalated medical costs.
And ust to play devil's advocate to his suggestion that free software developers not be held liable - since they're "giving away" their stuff: somebody could turn my anology around and make outrageous claims like "exempting voluntary software developers from liability is like encouraging quacks to pursue their medical endeavours".
On the other hand, Real's reason to exist is streaming media....and admittedly, they had a headstart over the others. But is it really feasible for them to survive based solely on RealServer software sales? I don't think any reasonably sane/not abnoxiously rich person would subscibe to their "Real Gold Superpass" etc.
I think that's why they were pushing on advertising, popups and spyware with such fervor - that's about the only means of income and existence they have left - without a reliable business plan.
literally
It wasn't a scam, it was just a bad April Fool joke...and we all know we had a blast with bad jokes on Slashdot. Everybody deserves a little fun.
Doom as a tool for system administration
Homer: Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
I like to call them "eyes".