Don't be so quick to shoot them. I'd rather have them singing first. It's not the small fries you need, they're just the "base". (To paraphrase GWB ~) Much more interesting would be to find out *who* made sure the Diebold guys got the contract for the voting boxen.
I agree. Encryption without complete control, transparency, and understanding is suspect.
You might want to look at Utimaco for drive encryption, I know they have something like what you describe. Found this on their website : "Complete encryption of the entire hard disk and a user authentication procedure that runs before the operating system boots provide secure protection."
Now if only we had an open-source version of this technology. (...for the transparency part of course, not because I'm a cheap bastard. *cough*)
It's already possible with TPM chips in pc hardware. My HP laptop has drive encryption based on that. I wouldn't want that shite on my personal machines, though.
It's not just the dev teams responsibility. Management has to enable and support this as well, not in the least by kicking some non-dev butt when needed. With a mature methodology, consequently applied, and management buy-in; there is little reason why working smarter AND better wouldn't work.
In theory, you're right.
In practice, you should note the difference between the promises made during the election campaign and the actual behavior once elected.
If there is no electoral backlash, democracy breaks down.
"We have no idea if drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work at all on Windows 7; in fact, they didn't work on Vista either. We're going to introduce additional incompatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about perverting those things. We are going to build on the relatively lack of bad publicity of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you've been complaining about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an incompatible fork of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further incompatibly forked up fork of that kernel as well."
>it explains to us that when it reached its level of sentience, nothing else that was living could think for itself. >The question then becomes, what have we found?
Apparently, a being that exhibits logical fallacies, just as we do : How would it have known for sure it was the first sentient being ever, anywhere ? (That's about as preposterous as believing in some sort of God.:)
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I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
But does it run xenserver ?
>it is quite possible that the universe "knows" everything
Except for the answer to that same question?
Why not ask a quantum state machine ?
(Somebody had to say it)
Good management
I keep those stored next to the flying pigs.
"They're so vain... they probably think this post is about them."
Agreed. I'm a criminal too under these arbitrary 'laws'. Yet nothing of value was lost by my actions. What gives ?
I've gone through the whole comic, just for the hell of it.
If this isn't propaganda, i don't know what is.
You forgot the evil Belgians.
Don't be so quick to shoot them.
I'd rather have them singing first.
It's not the small fries you need, they're just the "base". (To paraphrase GWB ~)
Much more interesting would be to find out *who* made sure the Diebold guys got the contract for the voting boxen.
Also, since this is Tufts University, can it be used to log MAC and IP addresses ?
</cheap shot>
I agree. Encryption without complete control, transparency, and understanding is suspect.
You might want to look at Utimaco for drive encryption, I know they have something like what you describe.
Found this on their website : "Complete encryption of the entire hard disk and a user authentication procedure that runs before the operating system boots provide secure protection."
Now if only we had an open-source version of this technology.
(...for the transparency part of course, not because I'm a cheap bastard. *cough*)
Not to diminish the importance of the work done at Fermilab, but the headline is very misleading.
It's already possible with TPM chips in pc hardware. My HP laptop has drive encryption based on that.
I wouldn't want that shite on my personal machines, though.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
In that vein, what good is property if you are somebody else's property ?
Liberty > Property
"mmacx writes ..."
Is that you, Charles Stross ?
It's not just the dev teams responsibility.
Management has to enable and support this as well, not in the least by kicking some non-dev butt when needed.
With a mature methodology, consequently applied, and management buy-in; there is little reason why working smarter AND better wouldn't work.
In theory, you're right. In practice, you should note the difference between the promises made during the election campaign and the actual behavior once elected. If there is no electoral backlash, democracy breaks down.
While you're at it, delete all his files, dude ;-)
Expect the same level of support for the next 15 years.
"We have no idea if drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work at all on Windows 7; in fact, they didn't work on Vista either. We're going to introduce additional incompatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about perverting those things. We are going to build on the relatively lack of bad publicity of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you've been complaining about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an incompatible fork of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further incompatibly forked up fork of that kernel as well."
(I'm sorry)
Thank you, now I'll have Paul Simon stuck in my head all week :-)
>it explains to us that when it reached its level of sentience, nothing else that was living could think for itself.
:)
>The question then becomes, what have we found?
Apparently, a being that exhibits logical fallacies, just as we do : How would it have known for sure it was the first sentient being ever, anywhere ?
(That's about as preposterous as believing in some sort of God.
Looks like Creative needs a thorough retuning...
Grab your torches and pitch forks !
I'm big-boned, you insensitive clod !