I can't stand it when people give terrorists ideas like this... Remember right after 9/11 when news reporters where basically planning out how to blow up NFL events for the terrorists: "That sure would be easy... back to you Ted."
It is not obvious to anyone who doesn't live here what our vulnerabilities are until someone like you lays it out for them.
Oh, come on. They have soccer matches in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They have huge stadiums. Do you really think they are unaware of the NFL and MLB and MLS? Do you think they don't know how to use google maps? Do you think they don't know where every major refinery in the US is?
How long do they have to live here to figure out these things? 5 days?
The more it is mentioned, the less likely it will happen, because people will be aware.
The best encryption is the kind that even when they hand you the algorithm you can't break it. If we could just get government spooks out of the development chain and do it all in opensource we could prevent the backdoors they demand.
If we went to a plug-able encryption module web servers, mail servers, etc could support many of them, and the user could take their choice. There are a lot of methods we could improve, and every single one of them is easier than your recommended restructuring of government.
Never mind that. Imagine someone wheeling a wheelie-suitcase consisting of explosives, nails, and warfarin powder into the TSA checkpoint -- you know, the ones consisting of a thousand people milling around waiting in line to take off their shoes and get groped -- and blowing it up.
There are a lot of easier places to hit than airports, as the Boston Marathon bombers proved. Yes, they maybe could have hurt more people by crashing a plane, but they could have done far more damage at any random sports stadium in the country with far simpler tools. Should any putative terrorists get their hands on simple mortars they could do this from half a mile away.
I agree, the evidence is that al-Qaeda, and their wanna-bees are not trying very hard.
And its not due to the surveillance culture the federal government has dropped over the entire nation. Virtually every fool the feds have caught was lured into a trap that they probably didn't have the brains or the means to develop by themselves. Meanwhile the determined, but not terribly bright Boston Bombers walk right through the dragnet even after being fingered by the Russians.
In the meantime Air travel in this country is virtually unbearable, no-fly-lists are unconstitutional, and every federal agent knows ahead of time you are planning a trip anyway.
The whole privacy argument is nonsense. You could make a case for the anti-racial profiling causing mass fondlement, but not privacy.
Well not being owned by the US Government might be a good start, don't you think?
There is some (debated) evidence that NIST was compromised by directions from above, by external control of its budget, etc.
Lets face it, security and privacy were not designed into the protocols we use on the internet today, they were bolted on afterward, and the government played a big (and self serving) part of that effort. Any amount of data hardening would be welcome at this point. There will still be metadata that can be collected but content should be able to be kept private by default.
I would rather have a community of enraged engineers driving the design and management than a bunch of federal paper pushers with a police mentality.
Actually, no. Leaded glass does not have enough lead to make that much of a difference to xrays of the strength used to scan luggage. Its not the same high lead content glass you find in radiation shielding items.
Further, nobody wastes leaded glass on perfume bottles any more, which is why all of the old ones are becoming such collector's items.
Finally, anything you put in or on your body would/should not be stored in leaded glass. You might drink wine or bourbon from a leaded glass, but you should never store it in such.
You also have to wonder about the two month delay in sending the bug to mariaDB. Did that allow them to take advantage of some over the beer mug discussion with Oracle employees about who was going to release it first?
Though as I see it, if the reporter says nothing to incriminate him/herself the Fifth is being respected in technical interpretation. If the reporter does say something which may lead to charges (such as conspiracy to commit espionage) the spirit of the Fifth is being denied.
The problem here is the confabulation of the Fifth and the First amendment. The reporter had protection under both.
The whole story posted above seems to be a self congratulatory rant based on a total mis-understanding.
Well with this guy all but naming nanes, perhaps it's time to name names.
There was a call recently for those who put back doors in critical code, to come forward and speak up. While some may put themselves at seriously legal risk for doing so you wouldn't expect to see such risk in open source projects.
We could then review their work very carefully.
Should we look more closely at SELinux? Are we prepared to find which of our heros have been in the NSA's pocket?
If you work under contract (as a principal or owner of a company that has employees, you give the contracting company your company's EIN, not your own SSN.
ItsATrap can always be used against 'the system' at hand. Like here, I can give them my name, but a different address and SS# and bam,
And BAM, you've confirmed your name, they see right through the Address lie, because your IP places you in a relatively small area, and you've probably ordered something on line and had it delivered to your real address. Plus they got any browser cookies that you might have had lingering around.
Unless you feed in entirely bogus stuff top to bottom, you help them in some way. And even when you do lie about every single thing on that form, you don't hurt them. (But it could come back to haunt you on a credit report or who knows what).
Or is it that Axial tilt tends to be more likely aligned perpendicular to the plane of the Galaxy due to small, but real gravitational influences on those stars as they orbit around the galaxy center?
Well, actually we don't know a whole hell of a lot about the revolution of stars that far away, but it sound to me like said dual-orifice ejections tend to protrude out of the poles of the stars.
That many of the poles of these stars tend to be aligned is not all that unexpected when the Galaxy itself is one huge gravitational system.
It makes sense that if all of the stars that formed the nebulae came from the same giant swirling cloud of gas, then the stars formed would tend to have angular momenta mostly aligned upon that same axis. When those stars explode later, the axis of the planetary nebula will be along this same axis.
Well first, you have to read the SUMMARY where you will find
a population of planetary nebula are all mysteriously pointing in the same direction.
(I will point out that "a population" is very vague, and could in fact refer to a very small subset.).
Then from TFA you see the actual quote:
However, a new study by astronomers from the University of Manchester, UK, now shows surprising similarities between some of these nebulae: many of them line up in the sky in the same way
So from SOME in the article, we get the implication of ALL (wrapped in weasel words) by the submitter, someone named "astroengine". An unfortunate level of HYPE that we've come to find all too often in Slashdot.
The makers I know locally have nothing to do with virtual machines or computers. They make physical devices, some simple, some complex, many without a electrical part in the whole assembly. Your focus is too narrow.
No, but I do blame the perverse incentives that create suburbs that will decay into a similar state of social disorder across a few decades, while generating other social costs along the way.
Yes, because that can be foreseen so easily....
People do what they want.
And generally they don't want to live in dense highrise housing complexes planned by urban planners such as your self. These places become crime ridden and run-down in short order. So people move out. They buy a house that they can manage themselves, rather than begging the building supervisor to fix the plumbing.
So you get suburbs. The alternative is a concrete ghetto. How many times does society have to relearn that lesson before people with a plan stop trying to impose their own ideas on how others should live.
Exactly, other than Shop classes have a curriculum, and are expected to follow it, but makerspaces would have none, and whim could be followed.
The problem is insurance, and staffing, and plant maintenance. No one is going to allow the use of a building owned by the city UNLESS all of those issues being addressed in dollars. Just not going to happen.
It would be easier, and more productive to just adjust or expand the curriculum to include self-directed projects class, for which there is already broad support in the sciences especially for gifted Sheldon Cooper types. Simply extend this to industrial education classes in the existing facilities currently in use.
Don't expect anyone to open a facility shut down due to budget, or population, or physical plant problems. If they had the money to do that they wouldn't have closed them in the first place.
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You might not do that, but your failing power supply might do it for you.
I can't stand it when people give terrorists ideas like this... Remember right after 9/11 when news reporters where basically planning out how to blow up NFL events for the terrorists: "That sure would be easy... back to you Ted."
It is not obvious to anyone who doesn't live here what our vulnerabilities are until someone like you lays it out for them.
Oh, come on. They have soccer matches in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They have huge stadiums.
Do you really think they are unaware of the NFL and MLB and MLS? Do you think they don't know how
to use google maps? Do you think they don't know where every major refinery in the US is?
How long do they have to live here to figure out these things? 5 days?
The more it is mentioned, the less likely it will happen, because people will be aware.
The best encryption is the kind that even when they hand you the algorithm you can't break it.
If we could just get government spooks out of the development chain and do it all in opensource we could prevent the backdoors they demand.
If we went to a plug-able encryption module web servers, mail servers, etc could support many of them, and the user could take their choice.
There are a lot of methods we could improve, and every single one of them is easier than your recommended restructuring of government.
Never mind that. Imagine someone wheeling a wheelie-suitcase consisting of explosives, nails, and warfarin powder into the TSA checkpoint -- you know, the ones consisting of a thousand people milling around waiting in line to take off their shoes and get groped -- and blowing it up.
There are a lot of easier places to hit than airports, as the Boston Marathon bombers proved. Yes, they maybe could have hurt more people by crashing a plane, but they could have done far more damage at any random sports stadium in the country with far simpler tools. Should any putative terrorists get their hands on simple mortars they could do this from half a mile away.
I agree, the evidence is that al-Qaeda, and their wanna-bees are not trying very hard.
And its not due to the surveillance culture the federal government has dropped over the entire nation. Virtually every fool the feds have caught was lured into a trap that they probably didn't have the brains or the means to develop by themselves. Meanwhile the determined, but not terribly bright Boston Bombers walk right through the dragnet even after being fingered by the Russians.
In the meantime Air travel in this country is virtually unbearable, no-fly-lists are unconstitutional, and every federal agent knows ahead of time you are planning a trip anyway.
The whole privacy argument is nonsense. You could make a case for the anti-racial profiling causing mass fondlement, but not privacy.
I can't imagine what difference it would make.
Well not being owned by the US Government might be a good start, don't you think?
There is some (debated) evidence that NIST was compromised by directions from above, by external control of its budget, etc.
Lets face it, security and privacy were not designed into the protocols we use on the internet today, they were bolted on afterward, and the government played a big (and self serving) part of that effort. Any amount of data hardening would be welcome at this point. There will still be metadata that can be collected but content should be able to be kept private by default.
I would rather have a community of enraged engineers driving the design and management than a bunch of federal paper pushers with a police mentality.
Actually, no.
Leaded glass does not have enough lead to make that much of a difference to xrays of the strength used to scan luggage.
Its not the same high lead content glass you find in radiation shielding items.
Further, nobody wastes leaded glass on perfume bottles any more, which is why all of the
old ones are becoming such collector's items.
Finally, anything you put in or on your body would/should not be stored in leaded glass.
You might drink wine or bourbon from a leaded glass, but you should never store it in such.
Glass. You can see through it. Scanner Xrays pass right through it.
Just not a problem.
You also have to wonder about the two month delay in sending the bug to mariaDB. Did that allow them to take advantage of some over the beer mug discussion with Oracle employees about who was going to release it first?
Though as I see it, if the reporter says nothing to incriminate him/herself the Fifth is being respected in technical interpretation. If the reporter does say something which may lead to charges (such as conspiracy to commit espionage) the spirit of the Fifth is being denied.
The problem here is the confabulation of the Fifth and the First amendment. The reporter had protection under both.
The whole story posted above seems to be a self congratulatory rant based on a total mis-understanding.
What, they kill your wife and frame you, is that what you are claiming?
Mod parent Plus 1 Swoosh.
He was just a package maintainer, not a kernel Dev. That problem never found its way into the kernel tree.
Well with this guy all but naming nanes, perhaps it's time to name names.
There was a call recently for those who put back doors in critical code, to come forward and speak up.
While some may put themselves at seriously legal risk for doing so you wouldn't expect to see such risk in open source projects.
We could then review their work very carefully.
Should we look more closely at SELinux? Are we prepared to find which of our heros have been in the NSA's pocket?
Zimmerman should of laid down and taken his beating - cause that's what "keeping it real" means.
(I donated to zimmerman, because that could of been me)
That happened. Another couple brave black boys beat an 88 year old WWII vet to death. Laying down and taking it is for the infirm or foolish.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/died-soldier-world-war-ii-vet-killed-beating-fend-attackers-cops-article-1.1438024
Oddly, Obama did't jump on TV and claim these punks looked like him.
No room in that rainbow for the 80 year old War Veteran beat to death by black punks who look like Obama?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/died-soldier-world-war-ii-vet-killed-beating-fend-attackers-cops-article-1.1438024
Howbout Asteroid Belton, a guy who actually did something for his country?
Or are Asteroids only named for juvenile delinquents.?
If you work under contract (as a principal or owner of a company that has employees, you give the contracting company your company's EIN, not your own SSN.
Not an uncommon situation for the self employed.
ItsATrap can always be used against 'the system' at hand. Like here, I can give them my name, but a different address and SS# and bam,
And BAM, you've confirmed your name, they see right through the Address lie, because your IP places you in a relatively small area, and you've probably ordered something on line and had it delivered to your real address. Plus they got any browser cookies that you might have had lingering around.
Unless you feed in entirely bogus stuff top to bottom, you help them in some way.
And even when you do lie about every single thing on that form, you don't hurt them.
(But it could come back to haunt you on a credit report or who knows what).
ItsATrap. Just don't even go to that page.
Exactly.
I looked at what they were asking for and realized I would be giving them things
they don't know already. Why would I do that.
ItsATrap.
Or is it that Axial tilt tends to be more likely aligned perpendicular to the plane of the Galaxy due to small, but real gravitational influences on those stars as they orbit around the galaxy center?
(Galaxy Rotation period is about 225 million earth years).
Would whirling a fully gimbled gyroscope around your head on a string have any effect on the orientation of the gyroscope's axis?
Well, actually we don't know a whole hell of a lot about the revolution of stars that far away, but it sound to me like said dual-orifice ejections tend to protrude out of the poles of the stars.
That many of the poles of these stars tend to be aligned is not all that unexpected when the Galaxy itself is one huge gravitational system.
Why is this surprising?
It makes sense that if all of the stars that formed the nebulae came from the same giant swirling cloud of gas, then the stars formed would tend to have angular momenta mostly aligned upon that same axis. When those stars explode later, the axis of the planetary nebula will be along this same axis.
Well first, you have to read the SUMMARY where you will find
a population of planetary nebula are all mysteriously pointing in the same direction.
(I will point out that "a population" is very vague, and could in fact refer to a very small subset.).
Then from TFA you see the actual quote:
However, a new study by astronomers from the University of Manchester, UK, now shows surprising similarities between some of these nebulae: many of them line up in the sky in the same way
So from SOME in the article, we get the implication of ALL (wrapped in weasel words) by the submitter, someone named "astroengine".
An unfortunate level of HYPE that we've come to find all too often in Slashdot.
The tragedy of the commons ring any bells?
Really?
The makers I know locally have nothing to do with virtual machines or computers. They make physical devices, some simple, some complex, many without a electrical part in the whole assembly. Your focus is too narrow.
No, but I do blame the perverse incentives that create suburbs that will decay into a similar state of social disorder across a few decades, while generating other social costs along the way.
Yes, because that can be foreseen so easily....
People do what they want.
And generally they don't want to live in dense highrise housing complexes planned by urban planners such as your self. These places become crime ridden and run-down in short order. So people move out. They buy a house that they can manage themselves, rather than begging the building supervisor to fix the plumbing.
So you get suburbs. The alternative is a concrete ghetto. How many times does society have to relearn that lesson before people with a plan stop trying to impose their own ideas on how others should live.
Exactly, other than Shop classes have a curriculum, and are expected to follow it, but makerspaces would have none, and whim could be followed.
The problem is insurance, and staffing, and plant maintenance.
No one is going to allow the use of a building owned by the city UNLESS all of those issues being addressed in dollars.
Just not going to happen.
It would be easier, and more productive to just adjust or expand the curriculum to include self-directed projects class, for which there is already broad support in the sciences especially for gifted Sheldon Cooper types. Simply extend this to industrial education classes in the existing facilities currently in use.
Don't expect anyone to open a facility shut down due to budget, or population, or physical plant problems. If they had the money to do that they wouldn't have closed them in the first place.