You're right I forgot about the VMS stuff, but they also worked with IBM on OS/2. Bill Gates said it was going to be THE operating system of the 90's, right before he decided to pursue Win95.
Windows NT 3.51 was, if I understand it correctly, the last secure kernel version of Windows. The folks in Redmond had learned from their adult mentors at IBM the wisdom of leaving graphics outside of the privileged ring. This was during the era when Microsoft was pushing the possibilty of a C2 securty rating for the OS.
Windows NT 4.0 dumped the security and stability of this arrangement for the dubious goal of faster graphics. Things haven't been the same since.
Perhaps this is a step back to stability? I sure would like to go back to the years of uptime I had when my main servers were NT 3.51, and the only down time was for hardware upgrades.
Computer design is not an exact science. The current hardware and software development processes use the end user as a test fixture, and rely on the sheer quantity of end users to help fix bugs. A one-off bespoke solution is not an option.
Accept the things you can not change, This is one of them.
You're suggesting that Nikon, maker of the new F-6, arguably the Best 35mm Camera ever, doesn't know the standard filter ring sizes? Somehow I don't buy it.
If this law makes it, and my laptop happens to be stolen at some later point, and ANY of the my copyrighted pictures on it are copied to the internet, the thief gets 3 years, and $250,000 fines?
All I need to do is to get that dead-man timer script debugged...;-)
You've got all sorts of equipment, with all sorts of hidden assumptions about what ground means. In the best case scenario, you actually have no weird assumptions, or nasty surges when devices get turned on, and it all works.
I've learned, the hard way, that the coaxial power plugs used on most devices these days will temporarily SHORT when you plug them it, which means, at a minimum, a separate current limited regulator for each plug.
Accept the things you cannot change, this is one of them.
They'll go down in authority as less and less eyeballs see AP news stories. Given the short attention span of people, in 5 years nobody will have ever heard of AP, and mistake it for Access Point, or some other acronym.
Market forces correct a lot of stupidity, and they'll correct this as well. I for one welcome our new more diverse media, which will result.
I was an evangelist for them back when they made the 995, etc. It was a wickedly cool camera, and I got all the lenses for it, which now just sit. I've had it with them.... it just figures they'd try to milk some extra $$$ out of us for something that should be free.
Another example is with the current CoolPix 8800, the filter thread is 53.5 mm, which is frustratingly close to the 55 mm they could have made it, but oh no, they want to force me to buy their lame-ass filters. I can't even buy an ND8, or an ND64, or a conkin converter because of the wierd size.
I'm fed up, I'm going to get a Canon, or Sony next time. Nikon technology is great, but the company sucks, they need to get a clue.
You could do a ranged ring system, with a 1-2 mile wide warning ring, then another mile of almost blindingly bright visible light. Once you've gone past no mans land, the switch to kill mode would take over. The Hi Power Tracking radar, and the 1kw infared laser start up to attempt to disable the plane. If there is still inbound, then fire up the chemical laser and smite them.
Of course, the first crispy airplane that didn't know because of fog, etc... might put a dent in the plan.
If you want the data gone, but can't physically destroy the patters, you'll need more than the tape demagnetizer from Radio Shack to degauss it. You need a DC magnetic field, a damned strong one. The field at the surface of the disk platters must be at least 3000 Oersted (0.3 Tesla).
The drive housing may, in fact, shunt the field around the drive if it is ferromagnetic. (See if a magnet sticks to it)
If it were me, I'd make a nonmagnetic aluminum housing to screw the drive onto, pad the hell out of it (just incase I slipped), and head on over to Radiology, and use a 10 Tesla (or stronger) MRI to erase that bad boy. I'd rotate it in all 3 dimensions, more than once, just to make sure.
If the field you use demagnetizes to the servo and drive magnets, it'll probably be safe to return for replacement.
I agree that it's probably better to eat the cost of the drives than to risk the getting made the poster child for HIPAA. (You just know they'll looking for someone pull a Martha Stewart on.)
All "gag" orders should have an expiration date. Once the date is passed, the order, the reasons for the order, and all relevant data should be made public. The expiration date should be public, regardless.
I read it, understood it, and still replied to the wrong aspect of it. Take the above, and use RSA to SIGN the keystream. Leave the data stream encrypted, Don't just count on a hash. It'll force everyone to decode it, but then you don't have to worry about hash collisions.
Sounds like you need to use GNU Privacy Guard, or some streaming equivalent to encrypt the source stream. You need a few ingredients:
A source stream of data
A stream of random keys
Block encryption to secure the stream in transit
An RSA encoded stream of the above keys, encoded for each applicable user
Broadcast the block encoded data, and the RSA'd key streams on a shared channel
Decoding of the key stream at the user
Decoding of the data stream with the keys
This makes the same compromises Phil Zimmerman used in PGP back around 1990. You use a faster symmetric encryption to lock down the data, and the slower RSA algorithm to handle the need for secure key exchange.
I'm fairly confident some variant of this scheme is being used by all of the major satellite systems.
You should be able to extract most of the code you need for thi from the GnuPG source.
Think of what would be lost if all of our >25 year old media went away. All of the wax cylinders, vynil records, photographs, negatives, microfiche, etc. would be lost, unless it had an active archivist. Public domain works wouldn't exist at all.
Clearly, this is not acceptable. There must be a long term storage media for data. I worry less about the format of the data on the media than the actual stability of the media itself. You can always get someone (or a program) to render an obsolete arraingment of bits into something useful, assuming you haven't lost the bits.
I know that eternal storage impossible, but wouldn't it be nice to force someone way down the line to look at my quaint 4 digit folder years?;)
NAT doesn't solve the problem, it merely hides the symptoms of the bigger picture:
The users expect an appliance, and don't want to be sysadmins
The company that likely created the OS is driven by marketing, and the need for features over stability
The programmers that wrote the code were under pressure to meet deadlines, and just get it shipped.
The language chosen to write the OS and applications in is weakly typed, and prone to holes.
The security model of the OS based on access control lists, which are insufficient to meet the challenges of mobile code
The internet service providers are under economic pressure, and have insufficient resources to track down and take offline all of the compromised machines
Hardware has gotten so fast that sometimes its just not perceptable that a machine is a zombie, until it gets quite overt
The globally distributed nature of the treat makes it almost impossible to isolate and address with the court system
The economic incentives to take over your machine increase daily, as more creative (profitable) uses are found for it.
The barriers to entry that do exist are constantly being lowered as new tools become available to script kiddies, etc.
When you go with NAT, you fundamentally break the end to end nature of the InterNet, and you don't solve any of the above problems.
NAT is a band aid at best, and the end of the InterNet at worst.
If you return an error, make it unique for each actually error source. Resist the temptation to group all the errors together. NEVER us a "general error"... your code knows why it failed, its criminal not to return that information to the calling program.
There's nothing worse that some of the BDE errors from Borland. They're misleading at best, and they lie sometimes.
Remember - The true measure of character is what you do when things go wrong.
I'm done caring about it... we're now firmly in the shoes of the Germans circa 1935, we're not stopping the cult that siezed power. Protesting on a weekend doesn't count, nor to buttons. (I've done both, too).
If we really cared, we'd march to the Capital Mall, in DC... and stay, until we got our troops home, and had an honest election, for a change.
It fits in with some of my own views of the world, with the concept of Rich Source, etc. As long is this is a two-way tool, and can be used to offer another view of the source, as opposed to being only graphical, you've got a great tool idea going here.
Keep going, and don't let the nattering neybobs of negativism here at/. get you down.
If you're making a "cutscene", you don't have to use the same character that appears in the game. Make a high-resolution throwaway just for that scene, or just digitize an actress, and MPEG it. Sheeesh...
Sounds like someone had a bad hire. Toss the guy out on the street, and get someone who understands the business.
It's not a connection machine. There is no program counter to be found anywhere. Its orthogonal, and that's it. A single bit to and from each neighbor in a simple 2d grid.
I went to the Chicago Apple store on the Thursday after the announcement of the Mac Mini, having given them a few days, I was quite surprised and annoyed to learn they didn't have one for display!
Apple needs to get their act together before the go around calling kettles black.
I can hardly wait. This will mean I don't have to run a virus scanner any more! I can get rid of that pesky firewall box, and save some power. I also can stop worring about spyware, worms, spam, phishing, or any other nasty things that happen to Windows PCs on the internet!
It's going to be so nice, knowing that my data in my PC can't be taken away, erased, trashed, or otherwise caused to be lost. This will keep my stuff secure, for me.
Slashdot Mirror
--Mike--
Windows NT 4.0 dumped the security and stability of this arrangement for the dubious goal of faster graphics. Things haven't been the same since.
Perhaps this is a step back to stability? I sure would like to go back to the years of uptime I had when my main servers were NT 3.51, and the only down time was for hardware upgrades.
--Mike--
--Mike--
Computer design is not an exact science. The current hardware and software development processes use the end user as a test fixture, and rely on the sheer quantity of end users to help fix bugs. A one-off bespoke solution is not an option.
Accept the things you can not change, This is one of them.
--Mike--
--Mike--
All I need to do is to get that dead-man timer script debugged... ;-)
--Mike--
I've learned, the hard way, that the coaxial power plugs used on most devices these days will temporarily SHORT when you plug them it, which means, at a minimum, a separate current limited regulator for each plug.
Accept the things you cannot change, this is one of them.
--Mike--
Market forces correct a lot of stupidity, and they'll correct this as well. I for one welcome our new more diverse media, which will result.
--Mike--
Another example is with the current CoolPix 8800, the filter thread is 53.5 mm, which is frustratingly close to the 55 mm they could have made it, but oh no, they want to force me to buy their lame-ass filters. I can't even buy an ND8, or an ND64, or a conkin converter because of the wierd size.
I'm fed up, I'm going to get a Canon, or Sony next time. Nikon technology is great, but the company sucks, they need to get a clue.
--Mike--
Of course, the first crispy airplane that didn't know because of fog, etc... might put a dent in the plan.
--Mike--
The drive housing may, in fact, shunt the field around the drive if it is ferromagnetic. (See if a magnet sticks to it)
If it were me, I'd make a nonmagnetic aluminum housing to screw the drive onto, pad the hell out of it (just incase I slipped), and head on over to Radiology, and use a 10 Tesla (or stronger) MRI to erase that bad boy. I'd rotate it in all 3 dimensions, more than once, just to make sure.
If the field you use demagnetizes to the servo and drive magnets, it'll probably be safe to return for replacement.
I agree that it's probably better to eat the cost of the drives than to risk the getting made the poster child for HIPAA. (You just know they'll looking for someone pull a Martha Stewart on.)
--Mike--
--Mike--
That's my armchair proposal for a better America.
--Mike--
--Mike--
- A source stream of data
- A stream of random keys
- Block encryption to secure the stream in transit
- An RSA encoded stream of the above keys, encoded for each applicable user
- Broadcast the block encoded data, and the RSA'd key streams on a shared channel
- Decoding of the key stream at the user
- Decoding of the data stream with the keys
This makes the same compromises Phil Zimmerman used in PGP back around 1990. You use a faster symmetric encryption to lock down the data, and the slower RSA algorithm to handle the need for secure key exchange.I'm fairly confident some variant of this scheme is being used by all of the major satellite systems.
You should be able to extract most of the code you need for thi from the GnuPG source.
--Mike--
Clearly, this is not acceptable. There must be a long term storage media for data. I worry less about the format of the data on the media than the actual stability of the media itself. You can always get someone (or a program) to render an obsolete arraingment of bits into something useful, assuming you haven't lost the bits.
I know that eternal storage impossible, but wouldn't it be nice to force someone way down the line to look at my quaint 4 digit folder years? ;)
--Mike--
- The users expect an appliance, and don't want to be sysadmins
- The company that likely created the OS is driven by marketing, and the need for features over stability
- The programmers that wrote the code were under pressure to meet deadlines, and just get it shipped.
- The language chosen to write the OS and applications in is weakly typed, and prone to holes.
- The security model of the OS based on access control lists, which are insufficient to meet the challenges of mobile code
- The internet service providers are under economic pressure, and have insufficient resources to track down and take offline all of the compromised machines
- Hardware has gotten so fast that sometimes its just not perceptable that a machine is a zombie, until it gets quite overt
- The globally distributed nature of the treat makes it almost impossible to isolate and address with the court system
- The economic incentives to take over your machine increase daily, as more creative (profitable) uses are found for it.
- The barriers to entry that do exist are constantly being lowered as new tools become available to script kiddies, etc.
When you go with NAT, you fundamentally break the end to end nature of the InterNet, and you don't solve any of the above problems.NAT is a band aid at best, and the end of the InterNet at worst.
--Mike--
There's nothing worse that some of the BDE errors from Borland. They're misleading at best, and they lie sometimes.
Remember - The true measure of character is what you do when things go wrong.
--Mike--
I'm done caring about it... we're now firmly in the shoes of the Germans circa 1935, we're not stopping the cult that siezed power. Protesting on a weekend doesn't count, nor to buttons. (I've done both, too).
If we really cared, we'd march to the Capital Mall, in DC... and stay, until we got our troops home, and had an honest election, for a change.
--Mike--
Keep going, and don't let the nattering neybobs of negativism here at /. get you down.
--Mike--
Sounds like someone had a bad hire. Toss the guy out on the street, and get someone who understands the business.
--Mike--
I agree, we need a format that keeps us safe from new versions of Star Wars... stop Lucas now, before he strikes again!
--Mike--
--Mike--
Apple needs to get their act together before the go around calling kettles black.
--Mike--
It's going to be so nice, knowing that my data in my PC can't be taken away, erased, trashed, or otherwise caused to be lost. This will keep my stuff secure, for me.
Finally, I'll be able to trust my computer.