No... if you trust web servers with access to everything, and the web server has a hole, you lose.
If you trust cat, more, less, or any other tool with access to everything, and it has a hole, you lose.
Only the kernel of the OS should be trusted, nothing more. Everything else should be run with only the capabilities it requires to do a specific task at run time, and the operating system shouldn't let it do anything else. The OS should NEVER trust an application.
After all, you don't had your wallet to the clerk at a gas station, and ask them to take what you owe them out of it, do you? You don't need to trust them with your wallet, so you don't. Why do you need to trust all these applications? Because the design of the OS is from a bygone era of simpler days, when you could trust code.
Go read up on capability based security, the confused deputy problem, and the principle of least privilege. If you're careful, you may change your mind.
The job of securing the resources of the computer is that of the Operating System, NOT application programmers. You should NEVER trust code outside of the OS. If you Linux fan boys could get your heads of out your collective ass and see that Linux isn't any better than Windows or Unix in terms of security because of the default permissive environment it's based on, we'd all get over this stupid meme of blaming users, Microsoft, capitalism, etc... and blame ourselves for having not seen the whole picture.
I hope and pray that Genode gets done enough to use in the next year or two.
I'd bet it was corroded feedline or antenna connection not protected against the salt air. If it formed a diode, it would set up a strong 3rd harmonic right next to the 315 Mhz band used by keyless remotes according to Wikipedia. Without that, they may have been able to stay on the air much longer.
I love how Wikipedia makes it easy to give a lot more context for these type of explanations. 8)
Amen to that.... I bought a WIndows 8 machine on Black Friday, it was sweet as far as the hardware goes... but I ended up returning it 6 hours later because it was totally unusable. I estimate that Windows 8 adds about -$600 of value to a PC. It took what should have been a $600 Windows 7 machine, and made it worthless.
Warning: Actual value subtraction of Windows 8 may vary, depending on user knowledge.
Capability Based Security can make our systems secure. The Unix security model was optimum for CS labs in the 1970s... but it clearly isn't suitable for mobile code in a network of 1,000,000,000+ hosts.
Only give a piece of code the resources it needs to do it's job, and it can't take the world with it.
Your intellectual inertia biases you against change... it's time to grow up and really think about this.
While I may have used a few terms in an inflammatory manner, I do know what they mean. Sorry about the strident tone.
Boom and bust are part of the system's way of cleaning out parasites, but it does suck. It sucks worse when the cycles are prevented from happening, or are artificially amplified to benefit the powerful.
Deflationary currency rewards you from just sitting there and doing nothing. And what's worse, the more people do that, the higher the reward becomes (because there's less money circulating), thus causing more people to do so and making the problem worse.
The aren't doing nothing... they already DID THE WORK to EARN the money. What's wrong with letting someone save the fruits of their labor?
You want me invest imoney, because you'll steal it if I "sit on it". I say that instead, you need to pay a fair return. Historically that's been somewhere between 5 and 8 percent annually.
You tell me that if everyone sits on their money, prices will fall, and that is somehow evil. What would then happen eventually, is that goods won't be worth making, and the supply will dry up, thus increasing prices, once again making them profitable.
When we get rid of central bankers, we end up with something called THE FREE MARKET. You should try it sometime instead of being against it, because it has a rich history of working for most people.
Mining IS a lottery, you have to compute a hash of the current transaction block (thus adding value to the existing coins by adding a new signature) in order to win.
Example: We used to make rare-earth magnets in Valporaiso, Indiana. The factory was sold and moved to China.
Without those components, you can't make the high-performance servos necessary to fit into our existing missile designs where they serve to move the control surfaces to steer.
Conclusion: Thus, if we want to fight a war, we now have to buy parts from China.
We haven't tested our nukes in ages, we'd forgotten how to make critical parts (fogbank, for example), and they all have a half-life. We import everything. We wouldn't last a year in a world war, and those tend to grind on, in spite of faster transport.
I for one, refuse to believe that we actually have any technology left which is advanced beyond that available in countries where they actually make things.
We let the republicrats job-jack all of our manufacturing overseas, and now we no longer have a manufacturing base left, which means nobody getting annoyed at problems in production, which means no innovation.
This story is pure propaganda as far as I can tell. We don't even make the best culture any more, as Gangnam style has proven. We just do knockoffs.
I had an idea back when I was in college (1981-82) about using an array of look up tables to do programmable logic. I've never really had a chance to get a chip made, as my work is nowhere near that field these days. I'm wondering if you think my idea has any merit.
I had a blog up at http://bitgrid.blogspot.com/ where I wrote about this subject, trying to get a chip made some day. But things happen, and it's been dormant.
The idea is simple, really... a grid of cells with 4 inputs, a look up table, and 4 outputs. The 64 bits determine the outputs for any possible input combination.
Routing logic is even simpler... there is none. If you want to route through a cell, you have to program the cell to do it.
Thus any cell can be routing or computation, or both.
An unsigned n bit adder takes n cells
An unsigned n bit multiply takes n*(n-1) cells
A divider takes (n+1)*n cells, unless you want to divide by zero...then it's (n+1)^2 cells
That was my second thought... right after "how are they going to keep the helium from leaking out?"
Yes, we all know the data is stored magnetically, but the amount of lift required to keep a head spaced off a spinning disk shouldn't require much in terms of field strength, especially if things are fairly well balanced. It would be distributed over a large enough area that you wouldn't have to worry about erasing domains.
Carbon fiber reinforced disks, in a vacuum, floating on a magnetic bearing, in a stack of 30 or so platters spinning at 1million rpm would be able to store a hell of a lot of power and data at the same time.
Secure erase would be easy... just let the bearing crash.;-)
Most people think the fall is the cause of broken bones, etc... when in fact it's usually the other way around.
I expect that this carpet could in fact help, in some cases, which makes it work doing. I think that there are many other ways to approach this which might be fruitful as well.
So, I just get done reading this, and come across this story on Gizmodo about a successful social engineering attack on Apple Tech Support that killed things he had in the cloud, in less than 5 minutes for journalist Mat Honan.
My wife used to have a FaceBook account, and she gave it up two years ago. Am I about to end up on the 11 O'clock news saying "she's not that kind of person", "she would never do such a thing", or "I just can't see her doing that" ?
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No... if you trust web servers with access to everything, and the web server has a hole, you lose.
If you trust cat, more, less, or any other tool with access to everything, and it has a hole, you lose.
Only the kernel of the OS should be trusted, nothing more. Everything else should be run with only the capabilities it requires to do a specific task at run time, and the operating system shouldn't let it do anything else. The OS should NEVER trust an application.
After all, you don't had your wallet to the clerk at a gas station, and ask them to take what you owe them out of it, do you? You don't need to trust them with your wallet, so you don't. Why do you need to trust all these applications? Because the design of the OS is from a bygone era of simpler days, when you could trust code.
Go read up on capability based security, the confused deputy problem, and the principle of least privilege. If you're careful, you may change your mind.
The job of securing the resources of the computer is that of the Operating System, NOT application programmers. You should NEVER trust code outside of the OS. If you Linux fan boys could get your heads of out your collective ass and see that Linux isn't any better than Windows or Unix in terms of security because of the default permissive environment it's based on, we'd all get over this stupid meme of blaming users, Microsoft, capitalism, etc... and blame ourselves for having not seen the whole picture.
I hope and pray that Genode gets done enough to use in the next year or two.
We need tech jury's and better jury's pay.
Yes, we need technicians on the juries... but we also need for the jury to KNOW that they also decide if the law being broken was just or not.
If a law is unjust, the jury has the power nullify it. We need to cut off this behavior (out of control prosecution) ourselves, in the jury box.
Windows 8 sucks so bad...
It sucks so bad, it can lift matter out of a black hole. /snark
I'd bet it was corroded feedline or antenna connection not protected against the salt air. If it formed a diode, it would set up a strong 3rd harmonic right next to the 315 Mhz band used by keyless remotes according to Wikipedia. Without that, they may have been able to stay on the air much longer.
I love how Wikipedia makes it easy to give a lot more context for these type of explanations. 8)
Amen to that.... I bought a WIndows 8 machine on Black Friday, it was sweet as far as the hardware goes... but I ended up returning it 6 hours later because it was totally unusable. I estimate that Windows 8 adds about -$600 of value to a PC. It took what should have been a $600 Windows 7 machine, and made it worthless.
Warning: Actual value subtraction of Windows 8 may vary, depending on user knowledge.
Capability Based Security can make our systems secure. The Unix security model was optimum for CS labs in the 1970s... but it clearly isn't suitable for mobile code in a network of 1,000,000,000+ hosts.
Only give a piece of code the resources it needs to do it's job, and it can't take the world with it.
Your intellectual inertia biases you against change... it's time to grow up and really think about this.
I'd put some big conduit and wiring ducts across the house, with drops in every room. This way you can pull whatever cables, fiber, etc. you need.
Why are you remodeling someone elses house?
While I may have used a few terms in an inflammatory manner, I do know what they mean. Sorry about the strident tone.
Boom and bust are part of the system's way of cleaning out parasites, but it does suck. It sucks worse when the cycles are prevented from happening, or are artificially amplified to benefit the powerful.
Deflationary currency rewards you from just sitting there and doing nothing. And what's worse, the more people do that, the higher the reward becomes (because there's less money circulating), thus causing more people to do so and making the problem worse.
The aren't doing nothing... they already DID THE WORK to EARN the money. What's wrong with letting someone save the fruits of their labor?
You want me invest imoney, because you'll steal it if I "sit on it". I say that instead, you need to pay a fair return. Historically that's been somewhere between 5 and 8 percent annually.
You tell me that if everyone sits on their money, prices will fall, and that is somehow evil. What would then happen eventually, is that goods won't be worth making, and the supply will dry up, thus increasing prices, once again making them profitable.
When we get rid of central bankers, we end up with something called THE FREE MARKET. You should try it sometime instead of being against it, because it has a rich history of working for most people.
Mining IS a lottery, you have to compute a hash of the current transaction block (thus adding value to the existing coins by adding a new signature) in order to win.
At this point you are too late in the game. You will be spending more on the electric bill that you get out of bitcoins.
The Dollar is sinking in value
Bitcoins are rising in value
Why would you not leave something sinking to avoid zero future value? Any haircut will eventually be washed out over time.
I have 5BTC, somewhere.... I think....
If you could redo it all over again, but use a Microkernel instead, would you?
With the widespread use of Linux in mission critical hardware everywhere, what would you go back in time and change to make everything safer?
I personally would have pushed hard on authentication of email (thus preventing spam, and the evil that it enables), and capability based security.
Example: We used to make rare-earth magnets in Valporaiso, Indiana. The factory was sold and moved to China.
Without those components, you can't make the high-performance servos necessary to fit into our existing missile designs where they serve to move the control surfaces to steer.
Conclusion: Thus, if we want to fight a war, we now have to buy parts from China.
We haven't tested our nukes in ages, we'd forgotten how to make critical parts (fogbank, for example), and they all have a half-life. We import everything. We wouldn't last a year in a world war, and those tend to grind on, in spite of faster transport.
I for one, refuse to believe that we actually have any technology left which is advanced beyond that available in countries where they actually make things.
We let the republicrats job-jack all of our manufacturing overseas, and now we no longer have a manufacturing base left, which means nobody getting annoyed at problems in production, which means no innovation.
This story is pure propaganda as far as I can tell. We don't even make the best culture any more, as Gangnam style has proven. We just do knockoffs.
I had an idea back when I was in college (1981-82) about using an array of look up tables to do programmable logic. I've never really had a chance to get a chip made, as my work is nowhere near that field these days. I'm wondering if you think my idea has any merit.
I had a blog up at http://bitgrid.blogspot.com/ where I wrote about this subject, trying to get a chip made some day. But things happen, and it's been dormant.
The idea is simple, really... a grid of cells with 4 inputs, a look up table, and 4 outputs. The 64 bits determine the outputs for any possible input combination.
Routing logic is even simpler... there is none. If you want to route through a cell, you have to program the cell to do it.
Thus any cell can be routing or computation, or both.
An unsigned n bit adder takes n cells
An unsigned n bit multiply takes n*(n-1) cells
A divider takes (n+1)*n cells, unless you want to divide by zero...then it's (n+1)^2 cells
Sound interesting? Waste of time?
I'd like to know what you think.
That was my second thought... right after "how are they going to keep the helium from leaking out?"
Yes, we all know the data is stored magnetically, but the amount of lift required to keep a head spaced off a spinning disk shouldn't require much in terms of field strength, especially if things are fairly well balanced. It would be distributed over a large enough area that you wouldn't have to worry about erasing domains.
Carbon fiber reinforced disks, in a vacuum, floating on a magnetic bearing, in a stack of 30 or so platters spinning at 1million rpm would be able to store a hell of a lot of power and data at the same time.
Secure erase would be easy... just let the bearing crash. ;-)
Most people think the fall is the cause of broken bones, etc... when in fact it's usually the other way around.
I expect that this carpet could in fact help, in some cases, which makes it work doing. I think that there are many other ways to approach this which might be fruitful as well.
Why should Facebook get to use my picture to promote things I've never heard of? They get to display ads, isn't that enough?
So, I just get done reading this, and come across this story on Gizmodo about a successful social engineering attack on Apple Tech Support that killed things he had in the cloud, in less than 5 minutes for journalist Mat Honan.
My wife used to have a FaceBook account, and she gave it up two years ago. Am I about to end up on the 11 O'clock news saying "she's not that kind of person", "she would never do such a thing", or "I just can't see her doing that" ?
If only there were a way to use a microkernel to run Linux.... ;-)
These people don't know what Anarchy really means, and they're just using it as cover for their own ends.
If they would just describe themselves as Republican, they'd be a lot more accurate.
Think of all the grief we hackers have taken over the past 30 years because of self-described "hackers"
Cyberwar - When the "elite" consider security a matter of disciplining users, and the rest of the world goes along with it.
Security - when you don't trust things more than you have to... a feature not available in Windows, Mac OSX, nor Linux.