My 250cc motorcycle can move two people and gets 70MPG using 1960's technology not tuned at all for efficiency. Seems like a trivial challenge for $10mil.
Fucked as in the bad guy installs a key logger or plays man-in-the-middle and drains your bank account regardless of other measures taken, which is the context we were using.
The SMS message mentioned in another comment might prevent man-in-the-middle if it contained transaction details (and the receiver made sure the message was coming from their bank...). But if the client's only point of interaction with the bank is through a single computer, that computer must be trusted. I don't see how you could have a secure system if that only point of interaction is compromised.
Require an X509 client side certificates. That should make access to the account practically impossible unless an attacker can get access to the certificate.
The only way to access the certificate would be to compromise the client machine, and if that happens your probably fucked regardless, right?
As someone who used X11 on Linux and Solaris every day, my biggest complaint is it's sensitivity to latency. Apps are essentially unusable across a WAN while Citrix on the MS side and even VNC perform significantly better for that case.
Supposedly NoMachine's NX fixes that problem. It would be nice to get something like that rolled into the standard.
If you want a menu driven interface, everybody's already said ncurses is the best game in town.
If you're looking for a command-driven interface, it might be cool to embed guile (GNU's scheme interpreter) in the program and use that for the front-end. Guile works with readline, and it would give you the added benefit of making the application scriptable (with a sane, elegant, and un-hacked-together-over-6-different-versions language), basically for free.
defining subjective: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
You can't bias physics. Obviously the experiment is not completely understood or there wouldn't be such trouble with repeatability. They are producing a reaction. It's hard, not fake.
He's said the the experiments are incredibly touchy, and there are some days when it just won't work. Given that, it's not surprising others have had trouble duplicating the results.
Plus you don't have to pass around public keys to make it work.
Then how does it work? If you don't have a public key to do your AES key exchange, seems like it's nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Or maybe you just have to trust RIM not to play man-in-the-middle. But if it pleases the executives...
It seems to me that election software is pretty simple. It's basically a list of candidates and the number of votes each one got. Or you could have a log file of the candidate that people voted for. How on earth can you make a proprietary format out of this? It's just a simple list! I don't get it.
Voting is simple until you start thinking about security.
One example... How do you protect the anonymity of the voters? No one should be able to figure out who someone voted for, and voters shouldn't be able to prove to someone else who they voted for so as to prevent selling of votes.
Why? are words from the dictionary trademarkable? If I were to make an Apple Grinder would I be busted (a. if it were a physical apple grinder b. if it were a piece of software for macs that say, made deleted files non-retrievable).
I'm well aware that Nvidia's drivers are free in that you don't have to pay for them. I want a card that has drivers that are Free. If you're unsure of the difference, the FSF's site explains it nicely.
Also, the best way for them to drop the memory usage would be to stop bundling every library known to man and just use the shared versions already on the system.
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Have you tried vobcopy or dvdbackup?
Also, dd will skip bad sectors with `dd conv=noerror'. Useful option for reading those 10 year old floppies you find in a drawer.
My 250cc motorcycle can move two people and gets 70MPG using 1960's technology not tuned at all for efficiency. Seems like a trivial challenge for $10mil.
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The real criminal masterminds use whatever the Feds and the military are using, which we don't know about because it's classified information.
The military probably uses whatever is FIPS-140 certified. At least that's what was being mandated at the DoD contractor I worked for.
A specialized, embedded device with a private key sounds much more trustworthy
Agreed, but do the losses due to fraud exceed the costs of issuing an embedded cryptographic device to every customer?
Fucked as in the bad guy installs a key logger or plays man-in-the-middle and drains your bank account regardless of other measures taken, which is the context we were using.
The SMS message mentioned in another comment might prevent man-in-the-middle if it contained transaction details (and the receiver made sure the message was coming from their bank...). But if the client's only point of interaction with the bank is through a single computer, that computer must be trusted. I don't see how you could have a secure system if that only point of interaction is compromised.
Require an X509 client side certificates. That should make access to the account practically impossible unless an attacker can get access to the certificate.
The only way to access the certificate would be to compromise the client machine, and if that happens your probably fucked regardless, right?
As someone who used X11 on Linux and Solaris every day, my biggest complaint is it's sensitivity to latency. Apps are essentially unusable across a WAN while Citrix on the MS side and even VNC perform significantly better for that case.
Supposedly NoMachine's NX fixes that problem. It would be nice to get something like that rolled into the standard.
If you want a menu driven interface, everybody's already said ncurses is the best game in town.
If you're looking for a command-driven interface, it might be cool to embed guile (GNU's scheme interpreter) in the program and use that for the front-end. Guile works with readline, and it would give you the added benefit of making the application scriptable (with a sane, elegant, and un-hacked-together-over-6-different-versions language), basically for free.
Tom Brookes, a Microsoft spokesman in Brussels, said the software maker had created open-source versions of Office and...
Malice, or an incompetent journalist?
defining subjective: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
You can't bias physics. Obviously the experiment is not completely understood or there wouldn't be such trouble with repeatability. They are producing a reaction. It's hard, not fake.
He's said the the experiments are incredibly touchy, and there are some days when it just won't work. Given that, it's not surprising others have had trouble duplicating the results.
Hmm, watch your acronyms...
Didn't trolltech release QT for win32, and why would apple be using QT in the first place?
Oh, QuickTime...
Plus you don't have to pass around public keys to make it work.
Then how does it work? If you don't have a public key to do your AES key exchange, seems like it's nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Or maybe you just have to trust RIM not to play man-in-the-middle. But if it pleases the executives...
You still need some way to verify the accuracy of the vote. A simple counter won't do that.
It seems to me that election software is pretty simple. It's basically a list of candidates and the number of votes each one got. Or you could have a log file of the candidate that people voted for. How on earth can you make a proprietary format out of this? It's just a simple list! I don't get it.
Voting is simple until you start thinking about security.
One example... How do you protect the anonymity of the voters? No one should be able to figure out who someone voted for, and voters shouldn't be able to prove to someone else who they voted for so as to prevent selling of votes.
M-x viper
They're called the NSA. They're the crazy spooks that do this kind of stuff.
Try fluxbox.
Why? are words from the dictionary trademarkable? If I were to make an Apple Grinder would I be busted (a. if it were a physical apple grinder b. if it were a piece of software for macs that say, made deleted files non-retrievable).
Apple is not a generic computing term.
I'm well aware that Nvidia's drivers are free in that you don't have to pay for them. I want a card that has drivers that are Free. If you're unsure of the difference, the FSF's site explains it nicely.
If they're only offering binary drivers and locking up the specs, I'll be sticking with my aging, but still quite capable, Radeon.
an initrd. It shouldn't be any harder than booting off of raid or lvm.
That's what Tim Berners Lee would do.
Because open OOo is sponsored primarily by Sun.
Also, the best way for them to drop the memory usage would be to stop bundling every library known to man and just use the shared versions already on the system.