Hm... I think the man who first had this idea has died a long time ago.
The one that created this type of thing... i.e. pressing buttons in different ways, to make different things happen, invented this probably unknowingly, but still with intention!;)
Who knows, who has invented the _first_ musical keyboard instrument?... we should credit this person for his invention, to make different things happen (polaying differnt sound), when a button is pressed in different ways!
Pressing a button in different ways will always imply that things happen differently in the real world!... no magic, nothing, just a natural thing, based on a simple pyhsical rule... every action implies a reaction... different series of actions imply different series of reactions... a natural law, someone at MS has "discovered"... wow, remarkable idea, if a computer receives different signals or series of signals, probably from a mouse(! mouse is important here, with other devices it was already done to often!) device it should trigger different actions?
Holy cow! Things inheritent in pysical laws are patentable, all you need to do, is to extend (and embrace) some more obscure bullshit around the law!?
They won't pass the increased costs to there customers...
They will start to _save_ as much energy in their production process as possible! (Of course, this will be at a price too, but they will surely only apply some "energy saving technology" where savings outweight investment! Real savings!)
If energy is more ecpensive, saving energy will play the key role, to compete against their competitors.
"You must listen to too much talk radio. They keep saying it was just humiliation. I've listened to the congressional hearings. I went way beyond humiliation. Congress is keeping the real scary pictures (and video) secret. Sure, not as far as beheading sure, but I'm not part of Al Qaeda. "
Seriously... 1 death compared to 37... and beheading is... probably is fast and less painfull.
"3: Our economy is going to shit and we're going farther and farther into that hole.
GDP is growing faster. Unemployment is going down. Manufacturing is strong. The stock markets are moving up. Now by what measure does this translate to "shit"? "
Be careful... not everything that shines is Gold!
Since the grandparent post talks a lot of Nazi-Germany, I just want to add, that after Hitlers election in 1932 the German GDP was growing fast, too. Unemplyment went down, too. Manufacturing was strong, too. Stock markets moved up, too.... and it translated to shit in 1939, when the economical breakdown was almost inevitable... but hey, the solution was quite simple... the germans just had to raid Poland... hm, can't remember or was it Poland or was it Iraq with all the oil?
"So, we've got our reichstag fire (9/11), we've got our Decree of the Reich president(Patriot act), now we're waiting for the enabling law (aka, the law that let the reichstag put people into concentration camps)."
You obviously have missed something... the US already has its concentration camps... and enabled the law... Guantanamo Bay (have I written it right, not sure?)
Wasn't there some patent, protecting the process to press some buttons on a device without wires and beeing comunicativly connected to some other persons device without wires, enabling both parties to talk with each other?
Although I think that Linux is more secure, I think the writer of the parent article is (almost) right.
How many Worms/Viruses/Spams we "see", is less related to the number of security hole that exist in a certain system, it is more related to the number of "attackers" and the number of targets!
Not every securityhole is exploited, typically a high number of securityholes means nothing more, than only a tiny fraction of them are exploited.
If the number of systems prone to an attack is the same and the number of attackers is the same, then the fraction of exploited securityholes just increases... and the total number of attacks stays nearly constant.
" Is there an open source email encryption protocol, which is implemented under a license which allows it to be linked in to all kinds of software? No, there's gpg, which is under GPL, which means it can only be used in other GPL software. Anyway, the author, Werner Koch, is so confused about security that he thinks that making it as a linkable library would somehow compromise security. D'ohh!
You put that in an awfully wrong light!
If you want to achieve a "confidental" datastream, it is neccessary to be able to review the whole code. Once such a library can be included in closed source, security is compromised, since you can't determine weather or not, backdoors or simple mistakes that compromise security in the closed source part.
Whenever you have to _trust_ someone (in that case, the one who has developed the close source part) you can talk about security, you can at best talk about trustworthiness. A big difference!
Mr. Koch is right about the compromised security! There is NEVER security in ANY closed source, only trustwothiness!
In Sovjet Russia... to trust people is a good thing, however to check what people are doing is better!
Hm... repeat after me, an emty password is an default password.
I am not trolling here, but any default password is as secure as an emty default password is. Adding a default password does not increase security in any way!
One would have to force the user/adminstrator to enter a proper password to increase security!
"Being able to encrypt certain tables in MSSQL helps in the confidentiality side."
In the case of this topic, it is not even that, at all!
As long as noone can review the _whole_ source code for that database, the data stored cannot be considered to be confidential! (MS could even build backdoors in it, for whatever reason)
At best, the data stored is not accessible to everyone, but accessible by everyone the user and MS grants access! That's a big difference to confidential data, since with confidential data (if one sticks to the word!) you _must_ be able to exclude any doubt on who is able to access.
"And by free market, I mean a tiny group of collusionary, racketeering, megalomaniacal jerks who bribe Congress to stifle any form of competition so they won't get their comeuppance for the miserable job they do."
They do not need to bribe! THEY ARE MANIPULATING OPINIONS IN THE WAY THEY OTHERS LIKE.
The keyword is the "editing"... it aims towards adding advertises... more specifically, adding different advertisments for different groups of "customers" in real time.
What they can do and noone else is allowed to do with that patent is, to record a live event and add different advertisments for different "distribution channels". (Let's say, they record a rock-concert and transmit it through different radio-stations. For each station different advertisements can be added, according to the stations audience.
(You listen to a live concert in Denver and get advertisements specificaly for that area and anotherone listening the same concert near Seatle has advertisements for that are.... or age... or whatever specific flavour the adience of a radio (or TV) station has.
"Is Clear Channel also working on inventing that flashy thing from Men in Black, so after the show is over they can wipe the very memory of it from the brains of the concertgoers?"
This would be something that is worth a patent... however, such a development would cost some money and spending money on "real" development is not worth the effort, if you can patent and make big money with every bullshit, that comes to your mind.
If people always had followed the rules, we would live in a world not worth living in. I don't want to go to far back in history, but what about the right for black people to study in any university they want to? What was so difficult, to just follow the rules... maybe it was the rules, that are wrong in the first place.
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And of course, noone should be allowed to use any of their intelectual property, withought paying them lots of $ ...
Hm
The one that created this type of thing
Who knows, who has invented the _first_ musical keyboard instrument?
Pressing a button in different ways will always imply that things happen differently in the real world!
Holy cow! Things inheritent in pysical laws are patentable, all you need to do, is to extend (and embrace) some more obscure bullshit around the law!?
Incredible idea
hjm
And what do you think, Sun will concentrate on? The software?
They won't pass the increased costs to there customers
They will start to _save_ as much energy in their production process as possible! (Of course, this will be at a price too, but they will surely only apply some "energy saving technology" where savings outweight investment! Real savings!)
If energy is more ecpensive, saving energy will play the key role, to compete against their competitors.
"You must listen to too much talk radio. They keep saying it was just humiliation. I've listened to the congressional hearings. I went way beyond humiliation. Congress is keeping the real scary pictures (and video) secret. Sure, not as far as beheading sure, but I'm not part of Al Qaeda.
... 1 death compared to 37 ... and beheading is ... probably is fast and less painfull.
"
Seriously
"3: Our economy is going to shit and we're going farther and farther into that hole.
... not everything that shines is Gold!
... and it translated to shit in 1939, when the economical breakdown was almost inevitable ... but hey, the solution was quite simple ... the germans just had to raid Poland ... hm, can't remember or was it Poland or was it Iraq with all the oil?
GDP is growing faster. Unemployment is going down. Manufacturing is strong. The stock markets are moving up. Now by what measure does this translate to "shit"?
"
Be careful
Since the grandparent post talks a lot of Nazi-Germany, I just want to add, that after Hitlers election in 1932 the German GDP was growing fast, too. Unemplyment went down, too. Manufacturing was strong, too. Stock markets moved up, too.
"So, we've got our reichstag fire (9/11), we've got our Decree of the Reich president(Patriot act), now we're waiting for the enabling law (aka, the law that let the reichstag put people into concentration camps)."
... the US already has its concentration camps ... and enabled the law ... Guantanamo Bay (have I written it right, not sure?)
You obviously have missed something
Wasn't there some patent, protecting the process to press some buttons on a device without wires and beeing comunicativly connected to some other persons device without wires, enabling both parties to talk with each other?
Although I think that Linux is more secure, I think the writer of the parent article is (almost) right.
How many Worms/Viruses/Spams we "see", is less related to the number of security hole that exist in a certain system, it is more related to the number of "attackers" and the number of targets!
Not every securityhole is exploited, typically a high number of securityholes means nothing more, than only a tiny fraction of them are exploited.
If the number of systems prone to an attack is the same and the number of attackers is the same, then the fraction of exploited securityholes just increases
Not realy
To make a forecast, Linux will be at 1.5 in Q1/05 and at 2,2 in Q1/06
" Is there an open source email encryption protocol, which is implemented under a license which allows it to be linked in to all kinds of software? No, there's gpg, which is under GPL, which means it can only be used in other GPL software. Anyway, the author, Werner Koch, is so confused about security that he thinks that making it as a linkable library would somehow compromise security. D'ohh!
... to trust people is a good thing, however to check what people are doing is better!
You put that in an awfully wrong light!
If you want to achieve a "confidental" datastream, it is neccessary to be able to review the whole code. Once such a library can be included in closed source, security is compromised, since you can't determine weather or not, backdoors or simple mistakes that compromise security in the closed source part.
Whenever you have to _trust_ someone (in that case, the one who has developed the close source part) you can talk about security, you can at best talk about trustworthiness. A big difference!
Mr. Koch is right about the compromised security! There is NEVER security in ANY closed source, only trustwothiness!
In Sovjet Russia
Hm
I am not trolling here, but any default password is as secure as an emty default password is. Adding a default password does not increase security in any way!
One would have to force the user/adminstrator to enter a proper password to increase security!
"Being able to encrypt certain tables in MSSQL helps in the confidentiality side."
In the case of this topic, it is not even that, at all!
As long as noone can review the _whole_ source code for that database, the data stored cannot be considered to be confidential!
(MS could even build backdoors in it, for whatever reason)
At best, the data stored is not accessible to everyone, but accessible by everyone the user and MS grants access!
That's a big difference to confidential data, since with confidential data (if one sticks to the word!) you _must_ be able to exclude any doubt on who is able to access.
"And by free market, I mean a tiny group of collusionary, racketeering, megalomaniacal jerks who bribe Congress to stifle any form of competition so they won't get their comeuppance for the miserable job they do."
They do not need to bribe! THEY ARE MANIPULATING OPINIONS IN THE WAY THEY OTHERS LIKE.
1. Create an virtual "Authority"
2. ???
3. Profit
OF course, it is an absolute must, that M$ is part of that game.
The keyword is the "editing"
What they can do and noone else is allowed to do with that patent is, to record a live event and add different advertisments for different "distribution channels". (Let's say, they record a rock-concert and transmit it through different radio-stations. For each station different advertisements can be added, according to the stations audience.
(You listen to a live concert in Denver and get advertisements specificaly for that area and anotherone listening the same concert near Seatle has advertisements for that are.
"Is Clear Channel also working on inventing that flashy thing from Men in Black, so after the show is over they can wipe the very memory of it from the brains of the concertgoers?"
... however, such a development would cost some money and spending money on "real" development is not worth the effort, if you can patent and make big money with every bullshit, that comes to your mind.
This would be something that is worth a patent
The "innovative" thing about that patent is, that it is realtime
That's cleaver
1. Patent the process to patent every bullshit and profit!!!
Nothing more to say
What about a rebel song:
Stand up an fight for your right!
If people always had followed the rules, we would live in a world not worth living in. I don't want to go to far back in history, but what about the right for black people to study in any university they want to? What was so difficult, to just follow the rules
China is going to isolate patent holders
They are welcome, to join the club!