I think you mean FireFox. Firebird is the Open Sourced (and enhanced) version of Borland Interbase.
As for the 503s - Glad to see that I was not the only one getting them. Like you, I initially saw them in Firefox only. Then, when I switched to IE, it, too, started exhibiting the same problem. For a while I thought work was blocking me from reaching/.
Actually, they can go as fast as they want as the Fedora Core is a proving ground and not a supported distribution. People have a tendency to forget this aspect of the project. If you want slower releases or support, buy the official RHEL package. FWIW, this release has been on the schedule for some time.
I, for one, am in the process of installing FC2 on an old Winbook XL (a real bite given that the machine only has a 2GB drive and 64MB RAM...but it works well as a network scanner). And, I finally convinced my brother (who's essentially computer illiterate) to leave Windows and go Linux via FC2, Firebird and Thunderbird. Aside from him getting used to working with files in Unix, his experience has been a good one. He's not longer worrying about Windows exploits. For me, that's a good thing as I don't get calls in the middle of the night of he worrying about the latest hole in IE. When FC3 is released (Oct 18th), I'll be on the Torrent getting the latest ISOs for sure.
Unfortunately, it still has an electrical system. An EMP would still affect your engine as it would ionize the metal in the wires (and probably fry your ignition coil).
What is needed is a diesel which doesn't depend on an electrical system to operate (except maybe for the glow plug to get it started).
I have nessus configured to use nmap. It is *supposed* to be doing UDP as well as FIN/SYN scans and such. I get no hits if I turn off remote administration.
However, I can see your point that they could, theoretically, have the device programmed to respond after receiving a certain sequence of packet with certain flags set. Without disassemblying the firmware, that would be a pretty tough thing to ferret out.
1. Turn OFF Remote Administration. 2. Run a thorough Nessus scan against it. 3. Pray
FWIW, having run Nessus against two FVS318 systems, I have yet to find an open port that I didn't specifically open.
The FVS318 has been on the market for several years. I have been unable to locate a security notice or vulnerbility report on this device that addresses a problem such as this (well, other than turning remote admin on and NOT changing your password). This isn't to say that there isn't one.
But, you can be damn sure that I'll run the scans again and checking more frequently for known vulnerabilities and exploits. I'll be making a new tinfoil helmet as well.
I don't think anybody is downplaying the loss of life nor dimishing their status as heros.
Simply, Pat Tillman was a public figure who gave up a promising NFL career to do something that he believed in. To him, the cause was sufficient enough that he gave up a $3.6 million dollar contract. And he, like the others, felt the cause sufficient enough to put their lives on the line.
The irony is that the announcement of "liquid armor" comes on the same day that he lost his life.
I have mixed views on the pictures of the flag drapped caskets on the plane. On one hand, they showed the price being paid for this war very vividly. Those individuals are no longer mere body counts but rather images that will stick in the minds of all Americans. On the other hand, the fallen and their families should be shown proper respect. But, I believe very few people would disagree that they were all heros who fought for what they believed in.
First, I served and participated in Desert Storm. At that time, I felt we were justified in that war. And, I'll admit I was a bit pissed that we didn't finish the job. The job, however, was finished in accordance with the UN resolutions.
However, this time around, we were led to believe that Saddam had "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and was intending to use them on us. We had just lost almost 3000 people in 9/11. Tempers and emotions ran high. When the "evidence" indicated that Saddam was involved, you can be damned right that the decision was unanimous to attack.
Now, a year later, we're still looking for those supposed WMDs. There is little, if any, definitive proof (at least not made publicly available) that the accusations of WMDs and such, were, in fact, accurate.
Granted, Saddam was a ruthless dictator who committed terrible acts. But, the UN, of which we are a charter member, didn't feel that we, or anyone, had the right to attack a Sovereign nation on the evidence presented.
A serviceman has the duty and obligation to carry out lawful orders issued by those appointed above them. Similarly, they have a duty and obligation to prevent unlawful acts and report those that commit them during combat. To not do so is also a criminal act - an argument often raised with regards to Mr. Kerry's participation in the Viet Nam War.
A serviceman will carry out their orders. The question is whether or not we were justified in attacking Iraq. Did Saddam truly pose an immediate threat to the United States? Did Saddam have definitive links to al Quida? Was he responsible for 9/11? Or, was there another agenda being fullfilled?
These are the kind of questions that need to be answered. But, the serviceman is obliged to carry them out and not question them unless they truly are criminal acts (like intentionally killing non-combatants or raping and plundering).
As for Kerry - He's not in any trouble despite all the rhetoric. He supported the war just like everyone else given the information presented. However, a year later, we are still there with no definitive exit strategy. We have not found the damning evidence we were told was "absolutely" there (Even the White House thinks that is something to "joke" about). We've lost 500 soldiers (not counting the thousands of civilians that were probably lost as well). We lose, on the average, 2-4 soldiers a day. And, for what?
We are trying to bring democracy to a people with whom democracy is an alien concept. They see us as invaders - not liberators. We are fighting the wrong war - a misguided war no matter how good our intentions.
The fact that I "personally don't agree with it makes no difference whatsoever". The President may have acted within the War Powers Act. But, we, as a nation, are not vigilantes nor are we to be judge, jury and executioner. The international community will determine if we acted lawfully in accordance with International Law. Similarly, if it can be demonstrated that we (especially Congress and Senate) were intentionally misled...yeah it makes a big difference. All that has come of this is we've helped make the world an even more dangerous place for our children to grow up in.
Oh...and for what it's worth...I am still a registered Republican. This is not a partisan issue. Bush is campaigning on his record with regards to 9/11. If he wants to run on that platform, then we need to know the truth about what our intelligence community knew prior to 9/11 and whether or not that information was disseminated to those leading this country. And,finally, we need to know if those leading this country acted correctly with regards to the decisons made in light of that intelligence presented to them.
If they can retrieve and present the captchas in near real-time to a real user, it will negate the overall effectiveness of captchas.
We'll just have to derive a better mousetrap. Alas, the level of this ongoing SPAM war just went up another notch.
Personally, I think that digitally signed e-mail is the way to go. Rejecting unsigned e-mail or e-mail with bad signatures or should be a relatively easy task. Of course, the spammer's goal will be to compromise the certificate repositories or the revocation lists.
I would think that a proxy could be written to work as follows:
1) Spammer tries to send spam.
2) Get's catcha.
3) Presents the image to the next person requesting free porn.
4) Porn viewer responds.
5) Spammer uses the value and completes the e-mail transaction. They are now validated. They allow the new porn user to access their site.
6) If the user enters bogus info, the email transaction can't go through. The porn user is rejected and presented with the next one in queue.
Naturally, you'd have to time out the e-mail sessions...perhaps 10-15 seconds. If they don't get a user to solve the problem for them, the close the session and roll over to the next e-mail address.
If the work through the list enough times, they will validate themselves to many different spam targets.
LPH-7, USS Guadalcanal. Under what spot? My stateroom was directly beneath spot 3.
Of course, my stateroom was also adjacent to the asst air boss'. I think the flight deck crew enjoyed dropping (more likely throwing) chains and chocks down in the middle of the night. Of course, there's the lovely sound of a Harrier's jet blast as they shot down the flight deck (for those that don't know, LPH's don't have catapults and vertical take off's for harriers consumes a lot of fuel and water...so the built up air speed by running down the 600 ft deck. Landings were always done VTOL). Fortunately, they were relatively infrequent visitors.
I got so used to the noise that for months after getting out, it was silence that unnerved me (silence, as you know, on a ship is a BAD thing). How about you? I still miss the service at times, though.
I don't knock the enlisted (far from it) I started out enlisted myself (Nuclear power program) before being selected for an officer program. The military needs qualified enlisted personnel to function. And, I've met some enlisted personnel who's educational or professional or personal qualifications exceeded that of many senior officers. I learned quickly to trust the opinions of my enlisted personnel because, quite frankly, they are the domain experts in their area of expertise. People chose to enlist rather than pursuing the commissioned ranks for whatever reason or reasons they might have. That's their call and I respect it.
Life in the military is what you make of it and being disrespectful of those who were higher ranking or senior to you is a poor trait that should not be carried over to the civilian world if one wishes to be successful.
Alas, this so-called "whiney-ass" managed to get the gov't to pay for his college education and provide a decent paying job upon graduation. I had better sleeping and eating accomodations than the enlisted. And, for these priveledges, I, as an officer of the line, was responsible for the ship, its crew, aircraft and marines everytime I took the deck. And, despite things like the "Tailhook" scandal (also known as "When Officer's Go Wild"), we are (supposedly) held to higher moral and ethical standards. I resigned my commission voluntarily after six years of commissioned service after having spent fourteen years in service to my country. With the education and experience this "whiney-ass" received, he is now making six figures a year and respected in his industry as an expert within his field.
Imagine yourself on a navy ship ( a really big metal box) in dry dock in Portsmouth, VA during middle of the summer. Barnacles and other sea life rotting on the hull while the sandblaster makes its way from bow to stern. You have to wear a hard hat, respirator and hearing protection because the noise of the sandblaster will drive you deaf in no time.
There's no ventilation (let alone AC), drinking water has traces of diesel fuel marine (DFM) that truly loosens you up inside (great with unsweeted tea). The doc tells you its within acceptable limits.
You have the priviledge of sleeping in a state room directly beneath the black fight deck with, maybe, an inch of insulation between your space and the deck. Temperatures are 100 degrees plus well into the night with dust comprising of lead paint, sand, pulvurized sea life and lord knows what else that got into everything. There is no water for showering. Working toilets are few and far between due to the repair work in progress.
During the day, you oversaw repair work to your spaces and equipment or did paperwork that was covered in drops of gritty sweat.
Your day started at 4:30am with Officer's call at 5:30. It ended at 6pm (unless you had duty).
Top it off, the enlisted guys had it worse.
Fortunately, when the work was done and we put out to sea, the work was worth it and life onboard wasn't so bad.
They decommissioned the ship two years later.
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"Actually they put the win32 development in the fridge, but octane will be win32 capable."
Is this a recent decision announced during BORCON this week? (I am not in attendence this year). Last week, a letter was sent out saying that Octane would not target the production of win32 executables.
As for rewriting...true. Unless your code is purely algorithmic, it will require a rewrite to be compatible with.NET. Once ported to.NET, it should be usable by other.NET languages with relative ease.
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"It was targeted at
- converting delphi source. (e.g. database clients) to create a corporate Delphi software market.
- Productivity while building new (GUI) linux apps."
Exactly. Despite Borland's decision to release an open version of Kylix, it was never truly targeted for the open source community. Instead, it was designed for shops, such as ours, who develop using Delphi (we're a vertical market company) who have realized the ROI on moving our code to Linux.
Of course, as we've all heard by now, Borland has also decided to stop producing WIN32 executables with Delphi. Instead, their latest tool, Octane, is designed to target the.NET environment exclusively
Given that so many corporations are MS clients, the migration to.NET is a logical one. There are advantages to going to the.NET platform for Windows shops as it allows developers to write in the language of their choice (assuming there's a.NET version of it) and share/reuse code written in those languages seemlessly.
I'm going to try to DX my network to a foreign land like I used to do with my old CB radio. Maybe, with a little luck, I'll find myself connected to some super porn network or be part of an international net party.
This bugger used to house his Cyber-Promo office in the same office complex as my old family doctor. I remember discovering his place quite by accident...a little non-descript sign on the door and all the windows covered with brown paper. He and his business were long gone, of course. This was right after his great server crash.
Monitoring sounds well and good. Parents can try their best to keep their kids safe. But, parents are fallible. Case in point - 13 year old girl is out with her friends last week. Parents tell explicitely to wait for them to pick her up. She gets into a car with three older teens she didn't know and ends up dead when their car crashed.
At some point, parents have to allow their children to grow and hope they make the right decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, deciding when that's a good time is getting harder every day.
Microsoft is simply putting accountability on those that use their system. In the US, our right to freedem on speech is protected right up until the point where you commit a crime. Pedofiles and sexual predators will not be able to hide quite as well...at least not within the MSN system. I'm certainly not a proponent of Microsoft. In this case, however, they may be making the right decision for, maybe, the right reasons.
I am painfully watching my best friend go through hell because her husband thought that 13 year old girls were equal partners and able to distinguish a healthy relationship from an unhealthy one. Yes, he met the girl on the internet...in chat rooms. In the specific case where he got caught, the young lady didn't have any parental guidance (she lives with her brother..parents live overseas). And, yes, it seems he made attempts at other girls (supposedly unsuccessfully). The bugger is up for sentencing next month and will probably walk despite having plead guilty to a mere three of the hundreds of charges (the rest were dropped). Money talks. He will be probably be back on the street in 2 years at most. Will he be cured? Or, will he do it all over again? Scary thought.
Also, keep in mind, that MSN owns the facilities which run MSN. MSN is not a birth right. It is a commercial service meant to draw customers into their service. They are now marketing towards a safer environment (much like AOL's parental controls) and are seeking to attract AOL customers and regular internet users alike.
If MSN's strategy is flawed, they will lose customers and either change their plan or pricing structure. I think they realize that those who use and actually pay for the service want the perceived image of added security for their kids. People are sick of pedofiles and spammers (I lump them in the sentence because they are both scum of the earth) and welcome opportunities to curb them.
But, there's a dark side...MS has also been selected by the Dept. of Homeland security. I still have to wonder how much of this decision to provide accountability and tracking is based on the needs needs of this new client. George Orwell's "1984" was set to take place almost twenty years ago. You can only delay the inevitable.
I kicked the idea of digital signatures around as well. As somebody else mentioned, this will create a market for stolen private keys (and identities). One solution is the deem identity theft as a terroristic act (ala the Patriot Act) and bomb would be identity thieves into non-existence.
Taking a rather less extreme approach, why not require all e-mail senders to have their own digital identity (ala Verisign, Thawte, etc) and make those who issue those identities accountable for whom the issue them to (i.e check identity and background checks).
Then, have each would be receipient of e-mail also be their own certificate issue agency.
Now, if you want to send e-mail to me, you send an introduction message to my mail server. That message is signed by you and you provide your public key. My server creates a unique key that applies only to my server, encrypts and digitally signs the key and sends it back to you.
When you want to send me mail, you use that key to encrypt and sign the mail and then sign the whole thing with your own identity key.
I can now verify that YOU sent the message and that I already authorized you to send me mail. If you start sending mail, I revoke your certificate and the process has to start all over again. Naturally, a way would have to exist to notify your friends should you be compromised. Another issue.
Spammers would have to retain a lot of these user-issued certificates. And, as soon as one of them sends a spam, their certificate is revoked.
Now, imagine a web of these servers talking to each other. As soon as a SPAM hits (or on a periodic delay), all users in the web get notified. Those users now are on the lookout for spam from the offensive party and the user becomes black listed.
Eventually, this reaches the root certificate authoritity. It is now their job to either reissue a certificate to a legit user or revoke the cert in general.
Yes, there has to be a way to prevent fraudulent blacklisting, but it could work.
a) It requires minimal effort on each user to issue and store and verify certs for those they will do business with.
b) It requires extensive resources of the spammers to send to any particular user.
c) Combine the whole thing with a smart token to unlock you identity certificate to alleviate the possibility of someone stealing your private key. That is, of course, provided that you can prevent your machine from being infected by viruses and trojans.
Ah...I suspect you mean the Planck distance. I guess when it gets to this point, the photon will strike the mirrors at a different angle and richochette or it will be trapped. Where it goes from that point is subject to another debate of uncertaintly.
I once asked the very same question since, as a former naval officer, I'd see classified material that often cited public references. I asked the question during one of my training sessions and received a very direct answer.
It isn't the fact the material is publicly available; It's how this information is assembled and the determinations/conclusions that makes it classified.
The classification level, "confidential", "secret", "top secret", "top secret compartmented", etc, is determined based upon the impact this information could have on national interests or an ongoing operation.
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I think you mean FireFox. Firebird is the Open Sourced (and enhanced) version of Borland Interbase.
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As for the 503s - Glad to see that I was not the only one getting them. Like you, I initially saw them in Firefox only. Then, when I switched to IE, it, too, started exhibiting the same problem. For a while I thought work was blocking me from reaching
Actually, they can go as fast as they want as the Fedora Core is a proving ground and not a supported distribution. People have a tendency to forget this aspect of the project. If you want slower releases or support, buy the official RHEL package. FWIW, this release has been on the schedule for some time.
I, for one, am in the process of installing FC2 on an old Winbook XL (a real bite given that the machine only has a 2GB drive and 64MB RAM...but it works well as a network scanner). And, I finally convinced my brother (who's essentially computer illiterate) to leave Windows and go Linux via FC2, Firebird and Thunderbird. Aside from him getting used to working with files in Unix, his experience has been a good one. He's not longer worrying about Windows exploits. For me, that's a good thing as I don't get calls in the middle of the night of he worrying about the latest hole in IE. When FC3 is released (Oct 18th), I'll be on the Torrent getting the latest ISOs for sure.
Unfortunately, it still has an electrical system. An EMP would still affect your engine as it would ionize the metal in the wires (and probably fry your ignition coil).
What is needed is a diesel which doesn't depend on an electrical system to operate (except maybe for the glow plug to get it started).
Sheesh...Who's this guy trying to fool?
EVERYBODY knows that PHASERS rely on the rapid-Nadion effect and are not electrical discharge weapons.
RD
I have nessus configured to use nmap. It is *supposed* to be doing UDP as well as FIN/SYN scans and such. I get no hits if I turn off remote administration.
However, I can see your point that they could, theoretically, have the device programmed to respond after receiving a certain sequence of packet with certain flags set. Without disassemblying the firmware, that would be a pretty tough thing to ferret out.
RD
1. Turn OFF Remote Administration.
2. Run a thorough Nessus scan against it.
3. Pray
FWIW, having run Nessus against two FVS318 systems, I have yet to find an open port that I didn't specifically open.
The FVS318 has been on the market for several years. I have been unable to locate a security notice or vulnerbility report on this device that addresses a problem such as this (well, other than turning remote admin on and NOT changing your password). This isn't to say that there isn't one.
But, you can be damn sure that I'll run the scans again and checking more frequently for known vulnerabilities and exploits. I'll be making a new tinfoil helmet as well.
I'm not sure how many people would believe a story involving a jackel and a virgin.
Perhaps, one should start with the port of Basic to the PC...
I don't think anybody is downplaying the loss of life nor dimishing their status as heros.
Simply, Pat Tillman was a public figure who gave up a promising NFL career to do something that he believed in. To him, the cause was sufficient enough that he gave up a $3.6 million dollar contract. And he, like the others, felt the cause sufficient enough to put their lives on the line.
The irony is that the announcement of "liquid armor" comes on the same day that he lost his life.
I have mixed views on the pictures of the flag drapped caskets on the plane. On one hand, they showed the price being paid for this war very vividly. Those individuals are no longer mere body counts but rather images that will stick in the minds of all Americans. On the other hand, the fallen and their families should be shown proper respect. But, I believe very few people would disagree that they were all heros who fought for what they believed in.
First, I served and participated in Desert Storm. At that time, I felt we were justified in that war. And, I'll admit I was a bit pissed that we didn't finish the job. The job, however, was finished in accordance with the UN resolutions.
However, this time around, we were led to believe that Saddam had "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and was intending to use them on us. We had just lost almost 3000 people in 9/11. Tempers and emotions ran high. When the "evidence" indicated that Saddam was involved, you can be damned right that the decision was unanimous to attack.
Now, a year later, we're still looking for those supposed WMDs. There is little, if any, definitive proof (at least not made publicly available) that the accusations of WMDs and such, were, in fact, accurate.
Granted, Saddam was a ruthless dictator who committed terrible acts. But, the UN, of which we are a charter member, didn't feel that we, or anyone, had the right to attack a Sovereign nation on the evidence presented.
A serviceman has the duty and obligation to carry out lawful orders issued by those appointed above them. Similarly, they have a duty and obligation to prevent unlawful acts and report those that commit them during combat. To not do so is also a criminal act - an argument often raised with regards to Mr. Kerry's participation in the Viet Nam War.
A serviceman will carry out their orders. The question is whether or not we were justified in attacking Iraq. Did Saddam truly pose an immediate threat to the United States? Did Saddam have definitive links to al Quida? Was he responsible for 9/11? Or, was there another agenda being fullfilled?
These are the kind of questions that need to be answered. But, the serviceman is obliged to carry them out and not question them unless they truly are criminal acts (like intentionally killing non-combatants or raping and plundering).
As for Kerry - He's not in any trouble despite all the rhetoric. He supported the war just like everyone else given the information presented. However, a year later, we are still there with no definitive exit strategy. We have not found the damning evidence we were told was "absolutely" there (Even the White House thinks that is something to "joke" about). We've lost 500 soldiers (not counting the thousands of civilians that were probably lost as well). We lose, on the average, 2-4 soldiers a day. And, for what?
We are trying to bring democracy to a people with whom democracy is an alien concept. They see us as invaders - not liberators. We are fighting the wrong war - a misguided war no matter how good our intentions.
The fact that I "personally don't agree with it makes no difference whatsoever". The President may have acted within the War Powers Act. But, we, as a nation, are not vigilantes nor are we to be judge, jury and executioner. The international community will determine if we acted lawfully in accordance with International Law. Similarly, if it can be demonstrated that we (especially Congress and Senate) were intentionally misled...yeah it makes a big difference. All that has come of this is we've helped make the world an even more dangerous place for our children to grow up in.
Oh...and for what it's worth...I am still a registered Republican. This is not a partisan issue. Bush is campaigning on his record with regards to 9/11. If he wants to run on that platform, then we need to know the truth about what our intelligence community knew prior to 9/11 and whether or not that information was disseminated to those leading this country. And,finally, we need to know if those leading this country acted correctly with regards to the decisons made in light of that intelligence presented to them.
So, like I said, "We'll see".
The question is, were the orders to attack Iraq and Afghanistan lawful? We'll see.
Ah...but it conjures up a better than image than a cluster of compromised gnomes serving beofwulf.
If they can retrieve and present the captchas in near real-time to a real user, it will negate the overall effectiveness of captchas.
We'll just have to derive a better mousetrap. Alas, the level of this ongoing SPAM war just went up another notch.
Personally, I think that digitally signed e-mail is the way to go. Rejecting unsigned e-mail or e-mail with bad signatures or should be a relatively easy task. Of course, the spammer's goal will be to compromise the certificate repositories or the revocation lists.
RD
I would think that a proxy could be written to work as follows:
1) Spammer tries to send spam.
2) Get's catcha.
3) Presents the image to the next person requesting free porn.
4) Porn viewer responds.
5) Spammer uses the value and completes the e-mail transaction. They are now validated. They allow the new porn user to access their site.
6) If the user enters bogus info, the email transaction can't go through. The porn user is rejected and presented with the next one in queue.
Naturally, you'd have to time out the e-mail sessions...perhaps 10-15 seconds. If they don't get a user to solve the problem for them, the close the session and roll over to the next e-mail address.
If the work through the list enough times, they will validate themselves to many different spam targets.
Thoughts?
RD
LPH-7, USS Guadalcanal. Under what spot? My stateroom was directly beneath spot 3.
Of course, my stateroom was also adjacent to the asst air boss'. I think the flight deck crew enjoyed dropping (more likely throwing) chains and chocks down in the middle of the night. Of course, there's the lovely sound of a Harrier's jet blast as they shot down the flight deck (for those that don't know, LPH's don't have catapults and vertical take off's for harriers consumes a lot of fuel and water...so the built up air speed by running down the 600 ft deck. Landings were always done VTOL). Fortunately, they were relatively infrequent visitors.
I got so used to the noise that for months after getting out, it was silence that unnerved me (silence, as you know, on a ship is a BAD thing). How about you? I still miss the service at times, though.
RD
I don't knock the enlisted (far from it) I started out enlisted myself (Nuclear power program) before being selected for an officer program. The military needs qualified enlisted personnel to function. And, I've met some enlisted personnel who's educational or professional or personal qualifications exceeded that of many senior officers. I learned quickly to trust the opinions of my enlisted personnel because, quite frankly, they are the domain experts in their area of expertise. People chose to enlist rather than pursuing the commissioned ranks for whatever reason or reasons they might have. That's their call and I respect it.
Life in the military is what you make of it and being disrespectful of those who were higher ranking or senior to you is a poor trait that should not be carried over to the civilian world if one wishes to be successful.
Alas, this so-called "whiney-ass" managed to get the gov't to pay for his college education and provide a decent paying job upon graduation. I had better sleeping and eating accomodations than the enlisted. And, for these priveledges, I, as an officer of the line, was responsible for the ship, its crew, aircraft and marines everytime I took the deck. And, despite things like the "Tailhook" scandal (also known as "When Officer's Go Wild"), we are (supposedly) held to higher moral and ethical standards. I resigned my commission voluntarily after six years of commissioned service after having spent fourteen years in service to my country. With the education and experience this "whiney-ass" received, he is now making six figures a year and respected in his industry as an expert within his field.
Not too bad for a "whiney-ass", eh?
What ship? I was on LPH-7
As I said, the enlisted guys had it worse...and my accomodations sucked.
Imagine yourself on a navy ship ( a really big metal box) in dry dock in Portsmouth, VA during middle of the summer. Barnacles and other sea life rotting on the hull while the sandblaster makes its way from bow to stern. You have to wear a hard hat, respirator and hearing protection because the noise of the sandblaster will drive you deaf in no time.
There's no ventilation (let alone AC), drinking water has traces of diesel fuel marine (DFM) that truly loosens you up inside (great with unsweeted tea). The doc tells you its within acceptable limits.
You have the priviledge of sleeping in a state room directly beneath the black fight deck with, maybe, an inch of insulation between your space and the deck. Temperatures are 100 degrees plus well into the night with dust comprising of lead paint, sand, pulvurized sea life and lord knows what else that got into everything. There is no water for showering. Working toilets are few and far between due to the repair work in progress.
During the day, you oversaw repair work to your spaces and equipment or did paperwork that was covered in drops of gritty sweat.
Your day started at 4:30am with Officer's call at 5:30. It ended at 6pm (unless you had duty).
Top it off, the enlisted guys had it worse.
Fortunately, when the work was done and we put out to sea, the work was worth it and life onboard wasn't so bad.
They decommissioned the ship two years later.
Is this a recent decision announced during BORCON this week? (I am not in attendence this year). Last week, a letter was sent out saying that Octane would not target the production of win32 executables.
As for rewriting...true. Unless your code is purely algorithmic, it will require a rewrite to be compatible with .NET. Once ported to .NET, it should be usable by other .NET languages with relative ease.
Exactly. Despite Borland's decision to release an open version of Kylix, it was never truly targeted for the open source community. Instead, it was designed for shops, such as ours, who develop using Delphi (we're a vertical market company) who have realized the ROI on moving our code to Linux.
Of course, as we've all heard by now, Borland has also decided to stop producing WIN32 executables with Delphi. Instead, their latest tool, Octane, is designed to target the .NET environment exclusively
Given that so many corporations are MS clients, the migration to .NET is a logical one. There are advantages to going to the .NET platform for Windows shops as it allows developers to write in the language of their choice (assuming there's a .NET version of it) and share/reuse code written in those languages seemlessly.
Not me, Dude!
I'm going to try to DX my network to a foreign land like I used to do with my old CB radio. Maybe, with a little luck, I'll find myself connected to some super porn network or be part of an international net party.
RD
This bugger used to house his Cyber-Promo office in the same office complex as my old family doctor. I remember discovering his place quite by accident...a little non-descript sign on the door and all the windows covered with brown paper. He and his business were long gone, of course. This was right after his great server crash.
RD
Monitoring sounds well and good. Parents can try their best to keep their kids safe. But, parents are fallible. Case in point - 13 year old girl is out with her friends last week. Parents tell explicitely to wait for them to pick her up. She gets into a car with three older teens she didn't know and ends up dead when their car crashed.
At some point, parents have to allow their children to grow and hope they make the right decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, deciding when that's a good time is getting harder every day.
Microsoft is simply putting accountability on those that use their system. In the US, our right to freedem on speech is protected right up until the point where you commit a crime. Pedofiles and sexual predators will not be able to hide quite as well...at least not within the MSN system. I'm certainly not a proponent of Microsoft. In this case, however, they may be making the right decision for, maybe, the right reasons.
I am painfully watching my best friend go through hell because her husband thought that 13 year old girls were equal partners and able to distinguish a healthy relationship from an unhealthy one. Yes, he met the girl on the internet...in chat rooms. In the specific case where he got caught, the young lady didn't have any parental guidance (she lives with her brother..parents live overseas). And, yes, it seems he made attempts at other girls (supposedly unsuccessfully). The bugger is up for sentencing next month and will probably walk despite having plead guilty to a mere three of the hundreds of charges (the rest were dropped). Money talks. He will be probably be back on the street in 2 years at most. Will he be cured? Or, will he do it all over again? Scary thought.
Also, keep in mind, that MSN owns the facilities which run MSN. MSN is not a birth right. It is a commercial service meant to draw customers into their service. They are now marketing towards a safer environment (much like AOL's parental controls) and are seeking to attract AOL customers and regular internet users alike.
If MSN's strategy is flawed, they will lose customers and either change their plan or pricing structure. I think they realize that those who use and actually pay for the service want the perceived image of added security for their kids. People are sick of pedofiles and spammers (I lump them in the sentence because they are both scum of the earth) and welcome opportunities to curb them.
But, there's a dark side...MS has also been selected by the Dept. of Homeland security. I still have to wonder how much of this decision to provide accountability and tracking is based on the needs needs of this new client. George Orwell's "1984" was set to take place almost twenty years ago. You can only delay the inevitable.
RD
I kicked the idea of digital signatures around as well. As somebody else mentioned, this will create a market for stolen private keys (and identities). One solution is the deem identity theft as a terroristic act (ala the Patriot Act) and bomb would be identity thieves into non-existence.
Taking a rather less extreme approach, why not require all e-mail senders to have their own digital identity (ala Verisign, Thawte, etc) and make those who issue those identities accountable for whom the issue them to (i.e check identity and background checks).
Then, have each would be receipient of e-mail also be their own certificate issue agency.
Now, if you want to send e-mail to me, you send an introduction message to my mail server. That message is signed by you and you provide your public key. My server creates a unique key that applies only to my server, encrypts and digitally signs the key and sends it back to you.
When you want to send me mail, you use that key to encrypt and sign the mail and then sign the whole thing with your own identity key.
I can now verify that YOU sent the message and that I already authorized you to send me mail. If you start sending mail, I revoke your certificate and the process has to start all over again. Naturally, a way would have to exist to notify your friends should you be compromised. Another issue.
Spammers would have to retain a lot of these user-issued certificates. And, as soon as one of them sends a spam, their certificate is revoked.
Now, imagine a web of these servers talking to each other. As soon as a SPAM hits (or on a periodic delay), all users in the web get notified. Those users now are on the lookout for spam from the offensive party and the user becomes black listed.
Eventually, this reaches the root certificate authoritity. It is now their job to either reissue a certificate to a legit user or revoke the cert in general.
Yes, there has to be a way to prevent fraudulent blacklisting, but it could work.
a) It requires minimal effort on each user to issue and store and verify certs for those they will do business with.
b) It requires extensive resources of the spammers to send to any particular user.
c) Combine the whole thing with a smart token to unlock you identity certificate to alleviate the possibility of someone stealing your private key. That is, of course, provided that you can prevent your machine from being infected by viruses and trojans.
Thoughts?
RD
Ah...I suspect you mean the Planck distance. I guess when it gets to this point, the photon will strike the mirrors at a different angle and richochette or it will be trapped. Where it goes from that point is subject to another debate of uncertaintly.
I once asked the very same question since, as a former naval officer, I'd see classified material that often cited public references. I asked the question during one of my training sessions and received a very direct answer.
It isn't the fact the material is publicly available; It's how this information is assembled and the determinations/conclusions that makes it classified.
The classification level, "confidential", "secret", "top secret", "top secret compartmented", etc, is determined based upon the impact this information could have on national interests or an ongoing operation.