"DieHard is a piece of software which helps programs to run correctly and protects them from a range of security vulnerabilities." Isn't that what the operating system is for? Why is there such a huge market for third-party products that compensate for the shortcomings of unstable and insecure software. If you paid once for the OS and the software, why should you have to pay again for third-party applications to secure them? Doesn't make sense to me.
TODO: Slashdot sidebar for retired bits.... It will prevent you from having to read every post to know what punchlines have already been done and done. The sidebar for this story might read....
1. Slashdotters don't actually have girlfriends..7 posts...RETIRED
2. Exploding Sony batteries...10 posts...RETIRED
3. Laptop in bed == pr0n 6 posts...RETIRED
I know the moderation system should fix this problem, but I never seem to have mod points when I really need them.
If you can, boot a knoppix CD in the cybercafe machine. That way you're sure that there's no software keylogging. Check the keyboard cable to make sure that it goes directly into the back of the machine and doesn't pass through any intermediary device. There are keyloggers that fit between your keyboard and the back of your PC. You may want to bring your own keyboard. Next, follow all of the rules previously discussed about SSL certificates. Don't transmit anything unencrypted. Of course any self-respecting cybercafe isn't going to give you access to the bios to boot from CD, but you never know until you check.
Lighten up man. It was a joke, but the funny thing about it is that the worlds most powerful telescopes DO have lenses. Check your facts before you insult my intelligence.
Even with RFID, you're still gonna have to count your sponges and instruments. Even if every thing in the OR has an embedded RFID chip there's still gonna be a failure rate (low but not negligible). Nurses will still need to do multiple counts as who knows what may have made its way on to the tray in the heat of the moment. I'm not familiar with RFID chips, but can they withstand sterilization? Can you autoclave RFID chips? Is there any possibility of the chip falling off? It sounds like a great idea on the surface, but it is just another failsafe. The thing about medicine is that if such a product exists and it could reduce error and mortality, then there is a moral obligation to use it and bill for it. Thereby fattening the pockets of whoever makes it.
"All your mines are belong to us." which becomes "All your tanks are belong to us" when they program the mines to relocate the GPS location where your tanks are parked.
The centralized windows style architecture isn't going to work as well for robotics as it has for PCs. (not that I think it works all that well anyway) After reading K. Kelly's Out of Control, I am convinced that decentralized command is the way to go. A bunch of small dumb parts make basic decisions with influence from other parts around them. MS will create an API to capture the mindshare of robotics developers, and it will work, but when they try to port their OS to robots, its going to fail miserably. It will be interesting to see how they try to price it also. If the robots will have multiple processors, do you have to license each arm, leg, and digit controller separately?
You wouldn't want to use up all of your hours in one sitting. The meter is built into the hardware itself, so if your machine is running, you're getting charged for it whether its computing anything useful or not. So much for p2p/server apps which require you to leave your pc running. You'll never be able to download anything substantial unless you opt for one of those Pay-as-You-Go broadband services as well.
Well hell, if the rootkit can copy DVDs too and not make coasters, I'd be glad to have it! Actually, if I were super paranoid about it, I'd compare the hashes of the ISO and burned CD to the one posted on the web/ftp server where I downloaded the security CD in the first place. If the friggin security companies are infected, then we're pretty much screwed all the way around.
I guess the rootkit could somehow infect md5sum to compute the hash of the CD while ignoring itself. However, if I compute the hash on a machine other than the one I used to download the ISO, I should get the actual hash of the CD whether it is infected or not. If both machines are infected, how does the rootkit on the second machine know what the md5 hash of the security CD is supposed to be?
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I'm sure all robots will be 3 laws compliant.
Water? Isn't that used to make Meth?
Its always time for Trojans!
"DieHard is a piece of software which helps programs to run correctly and protects them from a range of security vulnerabilities." Isn't that what the operating system is for? Why is there such a huge market for third-party products that compensate for the shortcomings of unstable and insecure software. If you paid once for the OS and the software, why should you have to pay again for third-party applications to secure them? Doesn't make sense to me.
He can have a contest of his own now...The first lawyers to sit in these three chairs can have the case. Hahaha
wootz.com is already taken.
I always wonder the same thing about psychics. Damn the hotline. Let's go to the casino!
TODO: Slashdot sidebar for retired bits.... It will prevent you from having to read every post to know what punchlines have already been done and done. The sidebar for this story might read.... 1. Slashdotters don't actually have girlfriends..7 posts...RETIRED 2. Exploding Sony batteries...10 posts...RETIRED 3. Laptop in bed == pr0n 6 posts...RETIRED I know the moderation system should fix this problem, but I never seem to have mod points when I really need them.
If you can, boot a knoppix CD in the cybercafe machine. That way you're sure that there's no software keylogging. Check the keyboard cable to make sure that it goes directly into the back of the machine and doesn't pass through any intermediary device. There are keyloggers that fit between your keyboard and the back of your PC. You may want to bring your own keyboard. Next, follow all of the rules previously discussed about SSL certificates. Don't transmit anything unencrypted. Of course any self-respecting cybercafe isn't going to give you access to the bios to boot from CD, but you never know until you check.
Lighten up man. It was a joke, but the funny thing about it is that the worlds most powerful telescopes DO have lenses. Check your facts before you insult my intelligence.
Stuck to the lens of the telescope.
Most of them are ridiculously lame. If you don't have anything interesting to say.....move along.
Even with RFID, you're still gonna have to count your sponges and instruments. Even if every thing in the OR has an embedded RFID chip there's still gonna be a failure rate (low but not negligible). Nurses will still need to do multiple counts as who knows what may have made its way on to the tray in the heat of the moment. I'm not familiar with RFID chips, but can they withstand sterilization? Can you autoclave RFID chips? Is there any possibility of the chip falling off? It sounds like a great idea on the surface, but it is just another failsafe. The thing about medicine is that if such a product exists and it could reduce error and mortality, then there is a moral obligation to use it and bill for it. Thereby fattening the pockets of whoever makes it.
I hope there's a butterfly in there somewhere.
"All your mines are belong to us." which becomes "All your tanks are belong to us" when they program the mines to relocate the GPS location where your tanks are parked.
Which computer company do you work for? A major one.
The centralized windows style architecture isn't going to work as well for robotics as it has for PCs. (not that I think it works all that well anyway) After reading K. Kelly's Out of Control, I am convinced that decentralized command is the way to go. A bunch of small dumb parts make basic decisions with influence from other parts around them. MS will create an API to capture the mindshare of robotics developers, and it will work, but when they try to port their OS to robots, its going to fail miserably. It will be interesting to see how they try to price it also. If the robots will have multiple processors, do you have to license each arm, leg, and digit controller separately?
Think in terms of how much energy is wasted globally by slashdotters.
Disconnect! Disconnect! The Gig is up!
and the other one is in -- let me guess -- Philadelphia?
True the dead can vote in Florida, but can they win? http://www2.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/spot08 s1110800.asp
You wouldn't want to use up all of your hours in one sitting. The meter is built into the hardware itself, so if your machine is running, you're getting charged for it whether its computing anything useful or not. So much for p2p/server apps which require you to leave your pc running. You'll never be able to download anything substantial unless you opt for one of those Pay-as-You-Go broadband services as well.
Pay-as-You-Go rates force you to shutdown/reboot long before the computer crashes on its own.
Well hell, if the rootkit can copy DVDs too and not make coasters, I'd be glad to have it! Actually, if I were super paranoid about it, I'd compare the hashes of the ISO and burned CD to the one posted on the web/ftp server where I downloaded the security CD in the first place. If the friggin security companies are infected, then we're pretty much screwed all the way around.
I guess the rootkit could somehow infect md5sum to compute the hash of the CD while ignoring itself. However, if I compute the hash on a machine other than the one I used to download the ISO, I should get the actual hash of the CD whether it is infected or not. If both machines are infected, how does the rootkit on the second machine know what the md5 hash of the security CD is supposed to be?
Take the security software off of the hard drive. Put it on a bootable Knoppix CD.