``People from outside (of your organization) can get at your software,'' said Anne Gardner, general manager of desktop systems for IBM. ``People from the outside can't get to your hardware.''
The funny thing is, anyone _can_ get to my software, including me. It's open source. But only IBM, or their designated manufacturers, or people who send a signal to my computer to get my "digital signature", can get at my hardware, excluding me. I like systems I can control a bit more.
On another note. Isn't an embedded security device likely to go obsolete pretty rapidly? Then what, we have to buy a whole new motherboard instead of just installing the latest version of the software? That sucks.
Hmm, the article just says that the chip is embedded in the hardware, somewhere. I wonder where? How easy would it be to pry the sucker off?;) Or, I could just not buy an IBM. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college? Ohio State uses SSNs, but only internally, ie transactions between you and the college (fees, registration for classes). They're even bright enough to give you another number if you request it. The number on my student ID is totally different.
Corel doesn't want to give away the software. They want to sell it, and business/ clueless home users won't want software that is labeled as Beta and therefore unproven. ICQ can get away with it because it's free and mindless, so nobody cares if it never quite works right. So I don't think the indefinite beta thing is a problem: the people that might come up with it (legalese wizards) work for companies that wouldn't want to implement it, since it would hurt profits.
This person would not have left his computer running and camera pointing toward the storm if he didn't want people to see it. Soaked reporters standing on a pier spewing nonsense are cliche, and I don't watch much news except CNN anyway. If a webcam is what it takes to get Slashdotters to think about this storm and the people it is affecting, so be it.
All they have to do is convince one or two of the major backbones (MCI Worldcom, Sprint...) to require in their contract that any ISP signing on with them must enforce the rating system or risk being cut off from the internet. There are a couple of solutions to this. One is to say fuck DNS, privately distribute IPs around via email, usenet, and links on webpages so that we're impossible to keep track of.
Another is to go back to the older ways: local dialup BBSes, which link up with each other and not the rest of the internet, sidestepping all of this because they're not using the backbones.
The third is to build some strong encryption into webservers and browsers. Send the get command in the clear. The server checks your browser, and if it's good, sends you the real info, otherwise puts out a little fake page or just a 404 error.
We don't need to be richer than them, we're the ones that make the technologies they're trying to use.
There's even a simpler explanation for this than incompetance. Greed. Psychologists want to be able to diagnose everyone with some form of disorder. Charge them $200 an hour, plus the cut they get from recommending prozac to every patient, and they never have to have a sports car more than a year old. There's a book, published by the American psychologist's organization (I don't remember the name of either), in which every disorder is listed and numbered. They publish it every year. The reason every disorder must be enumerated is that without a number, the psychologist can't bill the insurance company for that disorder. Yet, they are the ones writing the list of disorders. Sound like a conflict of interest to anyone else?
Being in regular contact with the WotC/TSR guys (playtesting and whatnot), they are saying that for now it's business as usual, in web policy et al. I'm personally glad to hear that, having registered a domain relating to the new setting coming out for alternity, I would hate to lose it. More worrisome, though, is the Hasbro moral stance, as someone mentioned. If they start censoring D&D, Alternity, and other products based on the irate cries of ignorant parents, just because a product mentions a "devil", I'm going to be rather unhappy. According to the WotC website, Peter Adkison (founder, CEO) will be chatting on their chat server tomorrow at 11:00 AM Pacific time. I've never had much luck with their chat server, though:(
The secret service doesn't have jurisdiction over terrorism, I believe that's an FBI function. INS controls immigration. So exactly what kind of dumbass excuse is this? The USSS does have jurisdiction over treasury matters, like counterfeiting, and over matters relating to the security of the President (and other high gov't officials, cabinet rank mostly). So the only way they could legally justify something like this is to claim that they were doing it to protect the president, and I don't see how a database of pictures is going to do that. Not that the plutocrats in Congress are going to object strenuously, they are just as scared of a common man having freedom as the President is.
The article says last year they went to Alaska, and made the mistake of coming during hunting season when the men were nowhere to be found. Are there any Linux conferences in the valley we should warn them about?
It has been proven that homosexuality is caused by a hormonal difference (irregularity if that makes you more comfortable) in the brain. I'm not sure that this has been proven, there are too many conflicting studies with bad science out there for me to be sure. I'm not sure that gay people should _want_ this to be proven, either. Some moralist with too much money on his hands is going to proclaim that he has found a hormonal cure to homosexuality, and since these people were sick all along, they should be cured whether they need it or not. I wouldn't worry about the whys and wherefores too much, it's a person's own life, move on.
That's what debit cards are for. I don't use my credit cards anymore now that I'm out of college and make enough not to, but I still have the balances I ran up during college, and I'm working to pay them off. Why have a credit card at all during college? When I was a freshman, I knew other FRESHMEN who had run up 5000 dollars in debt! And we'd only been in school a month! Granted, I trust myself more than that, but since I didn't have a steady income during the school year, I didn't see the point in running up debt. The only possible use I could see for a credit card right now is to have in case of emergencies.
My roommate built a noise radar that is capable of detecting movement, heartbeats, etc, out to about 50 feet, for about 5000 dollars, as an EE project. Standardize the parts, put it into mass production, do a little bit of refinement, and it will be under a thousand, easily, with better range and signal strength. That is dirt cheap for the ability to find someone reliably and undetectably (you can't detect a noise radar, that's the point in having one).
They're not after drug dealers. It's all to protect the children, don't you understand? The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming!
The FBI and all the other police forces in this country are convinced that if they can just make us too scared to leave our homes, they can achieve control over the regular people. See, regular people scare government officials. They are so disconnected from reality that they think we're crazy. Witness Clinton, calling the average American "Joe Sixpack", as if the biggest concern of Americans was football and beer. These politicians are not normal people, but they think we're the abnormal ones, just because we don't devote our lives to getting campaign contributions. Sometimes I hear a quote from a politician and I'm scared at how crazy it sounded, yet it is accepted as normal!
If there was water, they wouldn't have to ship it all that way, and a base would be feasible much more rapidly. Especially since that water could be broken down into H and O and used for fuel, which was the main hope for this deposit as I understand it. If you have fuel, you're in good shape. You can always bring your own drinking water, or even just bring the H. Run it past some superheated oxygen-bearing rock, and you have water. But that's not efficient enough for a fuel source.
Ever notice how the government is always trying to scare us? "If we don't ban this movie producer, he'll corrupt the country with his communist ideals!" "If we don't perform this police action, this little country will turn communist!" "If we can't eavesdrop on everyone, the terrorists will get you all!" The use of crypto has been going up, not down, for several years. Yet they couldn't seem to stop the terrorists a few years ago. If terrorism is going to force us to change our society and lose our freedoms, then the terrorists have already won. Good thing this bill is really directed at domestic commercial traffic.
The section he quoted used email as an example, but it did not indicate only an email tax, but all bandwidth, including http and ftp. Other people worked out the figures, it's 1 cent a meg. For everything. Heck, I've been online 15 minutes now and I've received nearly a meg, and sent around 100k, though this is low for me. But assume this is an average for around the world. Figure I'm online 8 hours a day, that's: 8 hours* (.045 cents/hour) * 30 days/month is another $10.80 I have to spend a month on internet. No thanks.
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``People from outside (of your organization) can get at your software,'' said Anne Gardner, general manager of desktop systems for IBM. ``People from the outside can't get to your hardware.''
The funny thing is, anyone _can_ get to my software, including me. It's open source. But only IBM, or their designated manufacturers, or people who send a signal to my computer to get my "digital signature", can get at my hardware, excluding me. I like systems I can control a bit more.
On another note. Isn't an embedded security device likely to go obsolete pretty rapidly? Then what, we have to buy a whole new motherboard instead of just installing the latest version of the software? That sucks.
Hmm, the article just says that the chip is embedded in the hardware, somewhere. I wonder where? How easy would it be to pry the sucker off? ;) Or, I could just not buy an IBM. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Now, just out of curiosity, who out there DIDN'T have their SSN as their student ID in college?
Ohio State uses SSNs, but only internally, ie transactions between you and the college (fees, registration for classes). They're even bright enough to give you another number if you request it. The number on my student ID is totally different.
Corel doesn't want to give away the software. They want to sell it, and business/ clueless home users won't want software that is labeled as Beta and therefore unproven. ICQ can get away with it because it's free and mindless, so nobody cares if it never quite works right. So I don't think the indefinite beta thing is a problem: the people that might come up with it (legalese wizards) work for companies that wouldn't want to implement it, since it would hurt profits.
This person would not have left his computer running and camera pointing toward the storm if he didn't want people to see it. Soaked reporters standing on a pier spewing nonsense are cliche, and I don't watch much news except CNN anyway. If a webcam is what it takes to get Slashdotters to think about this storm and the people it is affecting, so be it.
There are a couple of solutions to this. One is to say fuck DNS, privately distribute IPs around via email, usenet, and links on webpages so that we're impossible to keep track of.
Another is to go back to the older ways: local dialup BBSes, which link up with each other and not the rest of the internet, sidestepping all of this because they're not using the backbones.
The third is to build some strong encryption into webservers and browsers. Send the get command in the clear. The server checks your browser, and if it's good, sends you the real info, otherwise puts out a little fake page or just a 404 error.
We don't need to be richer than them, we're the ones that make the technologies they're trying to use.
There's even a simpler explanation for this than incompetance. Greed. Psychologists want to be able to diagnose everyone with some form of disorder. Charge them $200 an hour, plus the cut they get from recommending prozac to every patient, and they never have to have a sports car more than a year old. There's a book, published by the American psychologist's organization (I don't remember the name of either), in which every disorder is listed and numbered. They publish it every year. The reason every disorder must be enumerated is that without a number, the psychologist can't bill the insurance company for that disorder. Yet, they are the ones writing the list of disorders. Sound like a conflict of interest to anyone else?
Being in regular contact with the WotC/TSR guys (playtesting and whatnot), they are saying that for now it's business as usual, in web policy et al. I'm personally glad to hear that, having registered a domain relating to the new setting coming out for alternity, I would hate to lose it. More worrisome, though, is the Hasbro moral stance, as someone mentioned. If they start censoring D&D, Alternity, and other products based on the irate cries of ignorant parents, just because a product mentions a "devil", I'm going to be rather unhappy. According to the WotC website, Peter Adkison (founder, CEO) will be chatting on their chat server tomorrow at 11:00 AM Pacific time. I've never had much luck with their chat server, though :(
I'm sure I've seen this on the web before. Next time just post a link, eh?
The secret service doesn't have jurisdiction over terrorism, I believe that's an FBI function. INS controls immigration. So exactly what kind of dumbass excuse is this?
The USSS does have jurisdiction over treasury matters, like counterfeiting, and over matters relating to the security of the President (and other high gov't officials, cabinet rank mostly). So the only way they could legally justify something like this is to claim that they were doing it to protect the president, and I don't see how a database of pictures is going to do that. Not that the plutocrats in Congress are going to object strenuously, they are just as scared of a common man having freedom as the President is.
The article says last year they went to Alaska, and made the mistake of coming during hunting season when the men were nowhere to be found. Are there any Linux conferences in the valley we should warn them about?
It has been proven that homosexuality is caused by a hormonal difference (irregularity if that makes you more comfortable) in the brain.
I'm not sure that this has been proven, there are too many conflicting studies with bad science out there for me to be sure. I'm not sure that gay people should _want_ this to be proven, either. Some moralist with too much money on his hands is going to proclaim that he has found a hormonal cure to homosexuality, and since these people were sick all along, they should be cured whether they need it or not. I wouldn't worry about the whys and wherefores too much, it's a person's own life, move on.
That's what debit cards are for. I don't use my credit cards anymore now that I'm out of college and make enough not to, but I still have the balances I ran up during college, and I'm working to pay them off.
Why have a credit card at all during college? When I was a freshman, I knew other FRESHMEN who had run up 5000 dollars in debt! And we'd only been in school a month!
Granted, I trust myself more than that, but since I didn't have a steady income during the school year, I didn't see the point in running up debt. The only possible use I could see for a credit card right now is to have in case of emergencies.
My roommate built a noise radar that is capable of detecting movement, heartbeats, etc, out to about 50 feet, for about 5000 dollars, as an EE project. Standardize the parts, put it into mass production, do a little bit of refinement, and it will be under a thousand, easily, with better range and signal strength. That is dirt cheap for the ability to find someone reliably and undetectably (you can't detect a noise radar, that's the point in having one).
They're not after drug dealers. It's all to protect the children, don't you understand? The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming!
The FBI and all the other police forces in this country are convinced that if they can just make us too scared to leave our homes, they can achieve control over the regular people. See, regular people scare government officials. They are so disconnected from reality that they think we're crazy. Witness Clinton, calling the average American "Joe Sixpack", as if the biggest concern of Americans was football and beer. These politicians are not normal people, but they think we're the abnormal ones, just because we don't devote our lives to getting campaign contributions. Sometimes I hear a quote from a politician and I'm scared at how crazy it sounded, yet it is accepted as normal!
If there was water, they wouldn't have to ship it all that way, and a base would be feasible much more rapidly. Especially since that water could be broken down into H and O and used for fuel, which was the main hope for this deposit as I understand it. If you have fuel, you're in good shape. You can always bring your own drinking water, or even just bring the H. Run it past some superheated oxygen-bearing rock, and you have water. But that's not efficient enough for a fuel source.
Ever notice how the government is always trying to scare us? "If we don't ban this movie producer, he'll corrupt the country with his communist ideals!" "If we don't perform this police action, this little country will turn communist!" "If we can't eavesdrop on everyone, the terrorists will get you all!"
The use of crypto has been going up, not down, for several years. Yet they couldn't seem to stop the terrorists a few years ago.
If terrorism is going to force us to change our society and lose our freedoms, then the terrorists have already won. Good thing this bill is really directed at domestic commercial traffic.
The section he quoted used email as an example, but it did not indicate only an email tax, but all bandwidth, including http and ftp. Other people worked out the figures, it's 1 cent a meg. For everything. Heck, I've been online 15 minutes now and I've received nearly a meg, and sent around 100k, though this is low for me. But assume this is an average for around the world. Figure I'm online 8 hours a day, that's:
8 hours* (.045 cents/hour) * 30 days/month is another $10.80 I have to spend a month on internet. No thanks.