Eben Moglen laid out a program at LinuxWorld this past week. Yes, he did.
Perens has laid into ONE aspect of the program... We agree up to this point.
..and ignored the rest - presumably just to start a flame war. That is where you went to the edge and lost me.
Can you see no possiblity that Mr. Perens had nothing to say, pro or con, about the rest of the proposal? Are you certain that the Bruce does not limit himself to either where his experience, training, or priorities guide him? Is there some reason that you can cite for us to believe the only motivation is 'just to start a flame war'.
Going with your martial arts analogy, would you always go for completely annihilation of an opponent, at all times, even in practice, even if it is a friend? Are you seriously claiming that the only reason one would not kill all opponents using all available techniques, is to score points?
The first cite in the summary is someone newly fascinated that the Human Genome project may have "revealed a gene for predisposition to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". Nothing more new there.
The second article is an Op-Ed piece calling for the US House of Representatives to pass a bill introduced by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, but with co-sponsors including Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, Democrats of Washington to "prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment". The writer of the Op-Ed piece is none other than Dr. Francis S. Collins the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the 27 institutes and centers making up the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md. And it is only the fact that he is throwing his support behind this bill that is new.
And I agree with that being praise worthy, maybe even newsworthy, however the Slashdot headline and summary would have you believe that the running of tests has been ongoing, or is recent.
..it's time for the US to join the 20th century...
US congress first adopted the Metric system in 1866. You would think that 139 years has been a long enough transition time. No?
I wonder how they are making the water conductive?
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Generally, it is quite difficult to pass current through distilled (and especially deionized) water. In fact, pure water is such a good insulator that it is used in the high voltage switches (for example at electric generating plants) to suppress arcing while contacts are being opened or closed.
If the question is:
what can be done to avoid giving ISPs and anti-spam companies extensive, fully automated censorship abilities?
Well.. I would have to say one of the services TFA complains about is actually an example of an acceptable way for an ISP to have balance. Postini does not 'delete' any spam, it only quarantines it. And not only that, but when you release a quarantined message, it asks if you wish to make the sender 'approved'. Not only that, but it correctly handles mailings lists because it will use the 'To:' address, rather than the from address to stop filtering approved messages when appropriate. In fact, you can put any approved addresses into Postini in advance of it ever seeing email from those addresses.
Standard disclaimer: I do not work for, or have any financial relationship with Postini.
But, I did work for an ISP and was part of the decision making process when we decided to use Postini as a solution to the complaints we had from some customers about spam.
You can argue whether it is for the better or for the worse, but the patent office stopped paying for law degrees because as soon as anybody got the degree a DC law firm would hire them away and pay the debt off.
The only thing worse than they get educated and leave would be they do not get educated and stay.
Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
how do you know that in 50 years we are not all going to be using some completely different kind of film that needs different chemicals to process it? Sure the chemical compounds may still be well known, but they are only as good as the specs to these RAW formats if you are unfamiliar with chemistry.
Well, actually, regardless of what film type is being dealt with, one can always process as if you had black and white film, and will get negatives that can be used to make positive prints. And that is because no matter whether you are dealing with B/W, color, slide, motion picture, etcetera, you have silver halide that can be reduced differentially to metallic silver in an emulsion with a latent image waiting to be developed. No matter what dyes and filter layers are there, you can develop any film as if it were black and white negatives and you will get black and white negatives.
Try it some time with any old film you have around, if you don't believe me. I have done this many times, especially with old exposed higher speed color film, that is going to have shifted color when processed normally.
Daisy Daisy,
Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet on the seat
Of a bicycle built for two !
And the point you are missing is that knowing who you are does not make it any more likely that I will know anything at all about what you are.
As such, I feel more safety if none of those in charge of securing an airline flight, a public event, a public building, etc assumes that since all identification checks out, we somehow have some level of trust in the people that are in posession of verfied "ID".
Audio generators in the 500's for (non-locked) horizontal and vertical oscillators. You are right about the video, inverted demod output of the HP as video to the z input of the scope.
It was really quite crude.
Yeah, definitely not smart about the radio station, I suspect he would have had a major problem had he been caught. Last I heard he was doing on site test gear certification for avionics shops, working for Collins.
Working at a place that builds test gear gives lots of access to some incredible gear that has to be NIST (was NBS back then) traceable. And lots of leading edge circuitry and components. It was really one the most fun and educational jobs I ever had.
When I worked at IFR (when the AM-FM500 first came out) I used two of them to rebroadcast a TV stations audio over an AM stations frequency onto the coax that fed everyone in the building. Another time I used two of them plus an HP Spectrum analyzer and a Techtronics scope to make a $100,000+ TV to watch my wife on TV during lunch. A guy I worked with there, that used to work for a radio station elsewhere, borrowed some equipment and took over that radio stations Studio-to-Transmitter link with a different stations audio for most of a day.
The main problem with counting 'published' vulnerabilities, as done in all the cited studies, is that Microsoft has threatened, ignored, berated, disrespected, and denegrated anyone, anywhere, that has disclosed any vulnerability for which there is not yet a patch.
No matter how long ago, or how thoroughly, or from however many different sources they hear about the problem, Microsoft has managed to completely discourage any disclosure that fits their definition of 'premature' disclosure.
Open source, or free software projects tend to accumulate published bug reports, not because there are more bugs, but rather because they encourage the feedback.
Some of the points in the article are worth thinking about. But, citing published studies of numbers of disclosed vulnerabilites makes me less likely to care about the validity of the article, because there appears to have been little critical analysis of sources prior to citing them.
I only have ever had to mention that I do not watch television when some idiot has made the assumption that everyone knows what they are talking about, when they have nothing better to talk about than what the boob tube that they should see last night.
900 amperes may seem like a lot, but I have seen electrical systems in aircraft designed (with safety margins) for 1500 A, and have also seen ground equipment peg an ammeter past the 2500 A mark. Starter/generators in larger, general aviation, aircraft typically draw 750 A at room temperature with cooled down engine, to get the engines up to speed. More current when cold, and at altitude they have to be able to spin an engine that could easily be at ambient temperatures around -40 degrees.
Large bus bars, and multiple 00 or 000 guage wires can easily handle that much current with high temperature insulation. The common tables of ampacity for stationary use are very conservative, and you must take into account the assumptions of those tables.
Then, my understanding is that most hybrid and electrical cars use more like 250-400 volt battery systems, so current handling would only need to be in the 225 to 360 ampere range.
Probably you would want actually to stop from 60MPH in about 3.5 seconds, and also you would not likely need to dissipate all the energy as generated electricity. In any case the engineering is not as difficult as it might seem, and with good enough bumpers and airbags, who needs brakes anyway?
Well, in re:Do you realize just how many child abductions happen at schools?http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/648832.html, how would that incident have turned out differently with " tracking a minor's school-related movements "?
Answer: Could not have turned out better. Could, in fact have turned out worse.
The original article states "..a man walked into a classroom, and tried to grab a girl sitting close to the door. The girl screamed, and school employees chased the man out of the building. "
Instead of employees being near the girl, close to the door, suppose they had been in the office, monitoring the sensors?
Re:Not particularly difficult....
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Took me more than a year to read the Entire Brittanica. And I read about 60 pages per hour. You see, when you are reading the Encyclopedia, you don't just stop all your other reading.
The problem is that only the large corporations are able to pay the fines. The effect is that the small independent broadcasters suffer a complete chilling effect. CBS/Viacom, GE, NewsCorp, etc. continue whatever decadent drivel the market seems to demand, and pay whatever fines as if it is just a marketing expense. But any of the viewer supported, or purely local shows would be immediately bankrupted and so the back off from anything edgy.
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Yes, he did.
Perens has laid into ONE aspect of the program...
We agree up to this point.
That is where you went to the edge and lost me.
Can you see no possiblity that Mr. Perens had nothing to say, pro or con, about the rest of the proposal?
Are you certain that the Bruce does not limit himself to either where his experience, training, or priorities guide him?
Is there some reason that you can cite for us to believe the only motivation is 'just to start a flame war'.
Going with your martial arts analogy, would you always go for completely annihilation of an opponent, at all times, even in practice, even if it is a friend?
Are you seriously claiming that the only reason one would not kill all opponents using all available techniques, is to score points?
The first cite in the summary is someone newly fascinated that the Human Genome project may have "revealed a gene for predisposition to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". Nothing more new there.
The second article is an Op-Ed piece calling for the US House of Representatives to pass a bill introduced by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, but with co-sponsors including Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, Democrats of Washington to "prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment". The writer of the Op-Ed piece is none other than Dr. Francis S. Collins the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the 27 institutes and centers making up the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md. And it is only the fact that he is throwing his support behind this bill that is new.
And I agree with that being praise worthy, maybe even newsworthy, however the Slashdot headline and summary would have you believe that the running of tests has been ongoing, or is recent.
US congress first adopted the Metric system in 1866. You would think that 139 years has been a long enough transition time. No?
Generally, it is quite difficult to pass current through distilled (and especially deionized) water. In fact, pure water is such a good insulator that it is used in the high voltage switches (for example at electric generating plants) to suppress arcing while contacts are being opened or closed.
Yes, actually. See 'Quick Service Guide 011 Private Express Statutes' at: http://pe.usps.gov/text/qsg/q011.htm for details.
what can be done to avoid giving ISPs and anti-spam companies extensive, fully automated censorship abilities?
Well.. I would have to say one of the services TFA complains about is actually an example of an acceptable way for an ISP to have balance. Postini does not 'delete' any spam, it only quarantines it. And not only that, but when you release a quarantined message, it asks if you wish to make the sender 'approved'. Not only that, but it correctly handles mailings lists because it will use the 'To:' address, rather than the from address to stop filtering approved messages when appropriate. In fact, you can put any approved addresses into Postini in advance of it ever seeing email from those addresses.
Standard disclaimer: I do not work for, or have any financial relationship with Postini.
But, I did work for an ISP and was part of the decision making process when we decided to use Postini as a solution to the complaints we had from some customers about spam.
1. Education
2. Education
and
3. Education
Without education, a junior sysadmin can open ports on your firewall, or run up their own harmless little p2p box in the DMZ.
Users will share their credentials, or choose weak ones.
Someone will find the false positives from the NIDS to be annoying, and route the output to /dev/nul
Removed code will be reinstalled. And so on...
All is in vain without education.
Novell does not, and did not ever claim to be entitled to only 95% of revenue on royalties.
Novell is entitled to 100% of royalties and remits 5% back to SCO as an admistrative fee.
See page 13 of Novell's answer and counterclaim.
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Novell-78.pdf
The only thing worse than they get educated and leave would be they do not get educated and stay.
Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
For a predator to survive multiple generations, it would not do to kill all the prey at once.
I did not recall Henry David Thoreau being 'some Indian guy'. http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
Well, actually, regardless of what film type is being dealt with, one can always process as if you had black and white film, and will get negatives that can be used to make positive prints. And that is because no matter whether you are dealing with B/W, color, slide, motion picture, etcetera, you have silver halide that can be reduced differentially to metallic silver in an emulsion with a latent image waiting to be developed. No matter what dyes and filter layers are there, you can develop any film as if it were black and white negatives and you will get black and white negatives.
Try it some time with any old film you have around, if you don't believe me. I have done this many times, especially with old exposed higher speed color film, that is going to have shifted color when processed normally.
Daisy Daisy, Give me your answer do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet on the seat Of a bicycle built for two !
Which had animal that were supposed to be cows. When IBM saw them they asked about the donkey game, so Micro-Soft changed the name.
As such, I feel more safety if none of those in charge of securing an airline flight, a public event, a public building, etc assumes that since all identification checks out, we somehow have some level of trust in the people that are in posession of verfied "ID".
Viruses? Mark them spam.
Mailing list you subscribed to, but can't be bothered to use a web or email based tool to unsubscribe? Mark it spam.
But the problem is that all the other email coming from the same ISP no longer gets to any AOL recipients.
I supposed you advocate buldozing all the houses on the block that has an alleged gang or drug house?
How about incarcerating everyone with the same last name as each and every convicted felon?
Drive by shooting from a blue Pontiac? Impound all blue Generals Motor vehicles, that will take care of it.
It was really quite crude.
Yeah, definitely not smart about the radio station, I suspect he would have had a major problem had he been caught. Last I heard he was doing on site test gear certification for avionics shops, working for Collins.
Working at a place that builds test gear gives lots of access to some incredible gear that has to be NIST (was NBS back then) traceable. And lots of leading edge circuitry and components. It was really one the most fun and educational jobs I ever had.
When I worked at IFR (when the AM-FM500 first came out) I used two of them to rebroadcast a TV stations audio over an AM stations frequency onto the coax that fed everyone in the building. Another time I used two of them plus an HP Spectrum analyzer and a Techtronics scope to make a $100,000+ TV to watch my wife on TV during lunch. A guy I worked with there, that used to work for a radio station elsewhere, borrowed some equipment and took over that radio stations Studio-to-Transmitter link with a different stations audio for most of a day.
No matter how long ago, or how thoroughly, or from however many different sources they hear about the problem, Microsoft has managed to completely discourage any disclosure that fits their definition of 'premature' disclosure.
Open source, or free software projects tend to accumulate published bug reports, not because there are more bugs, but rather because they encourage the feedback.
Some of the points in the article are worth thinking about. But, citing published studies of numbers of disclosed vulnerabilites makes me less likely to care about the validity of the article, because there appears to have been little critical analysis of sources prior to citing them.
I only have ever had to mention that I do not watch television when some idiot has made the assumption that everyone knows what they are talking about, when they have nothing better to talk about than what the boob tube that they should see last night.
900 amperes may seem like a lot, but I have seen electrical systems in aircraft designed (with safety margins) for 1500 A, and have also seen ground equipment peg an ammeter past the 2500 A mark. Starter/generators in larger, general aviation, aircraft typically draw 750 A at room temperature with cooled down engine, to get the engines up to speed. More current when cold, and at altitude they have to be able to spin an engine that could easily be at ambient temperatures around -40 degrees.
Large bus bars, and multiple 00 or 000 guage wires can easily handle that much current with high temperature insulation. The common tables of ampacity for stationary use are very conservative, and you must take into account the assumptions of those tables.
Then, my understanding is that most hybrid and electrical cars use more like 250-400 volt battery systems, so current handling would only need to be in the 225 to 360 ampere range.
Probably you would want actually to stop from 60MPH in about 3.5 seconds, and also you would not likely need to dissipate all the energy as generated electricity. In any case the engineering is not as difficult as it might seem, and with good enough bumpers and airbags, who needs brakes anyway?
Answer: Could not have turned out better. Could, in fact have turned out worse.
The original article states "..a man walked into a classroom, and tried to grab a girl sitting close to the door. The girl screamed, and school employees chased the man out of the building. "
Instead of employees being near the girl, close to the door, suppose they had been in the office, monitoring the sensors?
Took me more than a year to read the Entire Brittanica. And I read about 60 pages per hour. You see, when you are reading the Encyclopedia, you don't just stop all your other reading.
The problem is that only the large corporations are able to pay the fines. The effect is that the small independent broadcasters suffer a complete chilling effect. CBS/Viacom, GE, NewsCorp, etc. continue whatever decadent drivel the market seems to demand, and pay whatever fines as if it is just a marketing expense. But any of the viewer supported, or purely local shows would be immediately bankrupted and so the back off from anything edgy.