VNC's authentication is PLAINTEXT. It's just a little authentication thing to keep random people out, and is by no means secure. FTP is the same way, username/password are transmitted plaintext. The article is a short blurb about how they discovered a way to completely bypass authentication, so even random people have access to your desktop. IMO, if you are doing anything where security is atleast of moderate concern, you should close the port and do ssh tunneling. Otherwise you have to be willing to accept the risk that come with security holes like these, plaintext passwords, and even man in the middle attacks that allow the attacker to view the desktop during an active session. Basically, weak security has gotten even weaker.
P.S. They have a neat little prog that will test your computer to see if it is vulnerable, though it is currently disabled because "Slashdot is too much for it to handle."
From the article:
The first SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-Orient Experimental Satellites)
Ok. Yes it's cool sometimes to think of a clever name for something that just happens to spell out a nifty word, but this is crazy. Is "Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-Orient Experimental Satellites" really descriptive? Would you put that horrid name on a technical paper? Only GNU projects such as WINE (WINE is not an emulator) should use ridiculous acronyms.
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Ok, the article states that a "network of more than 50 electronics facotires" were chruning out these immitation products. I understand that this is probably larger and more damaging that a few fake sunglasses, but the issue is still the same. Until everyone (including China) adheres to trademark laws and such, these kinds of things should come of no surprise.
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How about I post a copy for you??
BEIJING At first it seemed to be nothing more than a routine, if damaging, case of counterfeiting in a country where faking it has become an industry.
Reports filtering back to the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese electronics giant NEC in mid-2004 alerted managers that pirated keyboards and recordable CD and DVD discs bearing the company's brand were on sale in retail outlets in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Like hundreds, if not thousands, of manufacturers now locked in a war of attrition with intellectual property thieves in China, the company hired an investigator to track down the pirates.
After two years and thousands of hours of investigation in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in China, Taiwan and Japan, the company said it had uncovered something far more ambitious than clandestine workshops turning out inferior copies of NEC products. The pirates were faking the entire company.
Evidence seized in raids on 18 factories and warehouses in China and Taiwan over the past year showed that the counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In the name of NEC, the pirates copied NEC products, and went as far as developing their own range of consumer electronic products - everything from home entertainment centers to MP3 players. They also coordinated manufacturing and distribution, collecting all the proceeds.
The Japanese company even received complaints about products - which were of generally good quality - that they did not make or provide with warranties.
NEC said it was unable to estimate the total value of the pirated goods from these factories, but the company believed the organizers had "profited substantially" from the operation.
"These entities are part of a sophisticated ring, coordinated by two key entities based in Taiwan and Japan, which has attempted to completely assume the NEC brand," said Fujio Okada, the NEC senior vice president and legal division general manager, in written answers to questions.
"Many of these entities are familiar with each other and cooperate with each other to develop, manufacture and sell products utilizing the NEC brand."
NEC declined to identify the companies for legal reasons.
Officials from branch offices of the Chinese State Administration of Industry and Commerce in southern China confirmed that counterfeit goods carrying the NEC brand had been seized in raids on a number of factories and that investigations were continuing.
Some technology companies have been criticized for piecemeal and half- hearted attempts to protect their intellectual property, but Okada said NEC was prepared to take proactive measures to defend its brand.
NEC had not previously made public the piracy in order not to compromise its investigation.
NEC said it would continue collecting evidence to support further criminal complaints. It was also planning to start civil lawsuits against some factories while negotiating with others.
Steve Vickers, president of International Risk, a Hong Kong-based company that NEC hired to investigate the piracy, said documents and computer records seized by the police during the factory and warehouse raids had revealed the scope of the piracy.
These records showed that the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
He said they also required factories to pay royalties for "licensed" products and issued official-looking warranty and service documents.
Some of the factories that were raided had erected bogus NEC signs and shipped their products packaged in authentic looking boxes and display cases.
NEC said about 50 products were counterfeited, including home entertainment systems, MP3 players, batteries, microphones and DVD players.
Many of these pirated items were not par
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Common, has anyone been to Washington DC lately? Areas outside of the US? I took a trip back in middle school to DC where people were selling "Oakley" sunglasses for 5 bucks. I think that faking a company name is done all the time. . . Oakleys, Rolexis, NEC electronics. ..the name of the game has been around for a while...
Hydrogen peroxide naturally breaks down into oxygen and water. Theres even a catalyst you can use to speed things up, whose name eludes me. ..Potassium Permagnate maybe?
Why did we switch to barcodes when you could just bring it up to the clerk and they would punch in the price? Didn't the old way work? It is definately possible to manipulate barcodes to do some nasty things. Put a barcode from an "IPOD headphone" on an "IPOD Mp3 Player". If the clerk doesnt notice, you just got an Ipod for 10 bux. Obviously I wouldn't advocate doing this, but it goes to show that barcodes are anything but secure. If anything they are easier to manipulate, all you need is a photocopier and some tape. Sounds to me you are just hesitant to change, which is understandable, but IMHO RFID's would give us all a lot of nifty possibilities, which would outweigh the risks. The only problem I see is that it would be harder to manipulate an RFID system, meaning that people would trust it more, meaning that those who do have the knowledge to manipulate it are more likely to get away with it and with larger pay-offs to:-/
Yay, would this mean outsourcing is going down, or that the industry is growing? Also, does this mean that it's actually worth it for me to continue my education and get a degree in Computer Engineering?
If you think it's worth it, you've never tried CS1721. . . intro to commenting
They are building an experimental fusion reactor, a Tokomak. While I suppose you could call it an artifical sun, I think a better choice of words would be tokomak or fusion reactor.
On another note, this is not a one of a kind device. Europe has one called JET, and is planning on making another, ITER.
I dont know for sure, but I am fairly certain it utilizes "Charge Pumps". Lets say you have 5 volts and want 10 volts, you simply put 5 volts across 2 capacitors in paralell, you then disconnect the power source,and wire them up in series. Voila, you doubled your voltage, a charge pump does this very quickly utilizing oscilators and transistors. To step down, you can use a microcontroller which will continuously read voltage from a capacitor, if it drops below 5 volts, you switch a charging circuit on that charges the capacitor. Other capacitors and/or inductors are used inbetween to smooth out the voltage when the charging current is turned on/off.
I strongly suggest looking through this article (Yes, I know this is Slashdot, how could I suggest such a thing) as I found the summary made me extremely skeptical. If the information is not falsified, I would say it is certainly worth investigating, even with a hefty grain of salt. . . or would that be grains? . ..anyway I digress. I found the electron microscope pictures quite intriguing, it certainly "looked" like a cell, though I understand this sort of observation is hardly irrefutable. I did not see any evidence of the particles replicating which would suggest life (they could replicate and still not be considered "life" ofcourse). I believe a good analog would be the potential bacteria found in a Martian meteor.
The article states that the Internet service is in response to hurricane Katrina, in an attempt to help speed recovery efforts. I can understand why BellSouth would be upset about this, being a taxpayer funded competition, but taking back your offer of a building to help rebuild the local law enforcement of a destroyed city. . . thats just a dick thing to do, shame on you BellSouth.
I would like to see where you came up with this number, if truckers could produce their fuel at 1/4 the cost, I'm sure we would see bio-deisel everywhere.
Especially with the new decreased costs, if anything PC's will get to the point where not just every house has one, but every person. Two PC households are very common.
This reminds me of something from Back to the Future. Remember when Marty went back to the past and visited his mom's house. They just got there very own "Television". At some point, Marty blurted out that he had a whopping TWO at his house. His "grandfather" didnt believe him, after all, tv's were so expensive, and you only needed one anyways right? My house has 5 people living there, 4 tv's, and 5 (working) computers (another dozen or so in parts thanks to me). My "theory" Whenever a new appliance comes out, it starts off really expensive, maybe 1 per household, then as costs come down, up to one per person, possibly more.
This is like saying TV's are "relics" because computers can do the same thing.
So, they're saying that the madder we are, the more we swear, possibly taking consequences (getting fired, a good ass-kicking) into account, rather than just letting fly with a random string of curses of indeterminate length? wow. once again I am blown away by professional researchers.
I think what the summary is referring to is how we adjust how we swear to whom/what we are swearing at. For instance, if I am upset with my girlfriend, I am more likely to call her a "bitch" than a "bastard". It isn't because "bitch" is worse/better than "bastard", only that it is more applicable given the context.
P.S. as a side note, I like using words/phrases such as "fiddlesticks", "golly gosh darn it", or "thats poopy". I find that humor quickly dispells anger.
I thought that stomach enzymes broke down prions(and other protiens) and also in the small intestine. I suppose one rouge molecule that didnt react would get through to your bloodstream and start replicating?
i have to deal with people over seas all the time and it has gotten to the point were i have 5 clocks on my wall - one for each place.. so i don't wake them up.. ijust can't kep track of how many hours ahead are they and what time is it there
Actually, it would be more confusing, because now even though everyone is on the same time zone, you would now have the responsibility of remember when sunrise and sunset occurs for each timezone. If it is 10AM in greenwich(sp?), and therefore also "10AM" in the midwest, is it ok to call a business executive in the midwest?
If we all ran on GMT or some other common time zone, our watches and everything, then traveling would be VERY confusing. Imagine getting up at 07:00 hours, eating at 12:00 hours, going to sleep at 23:00 hours, etc. Now travel to europe, suddenly the sun won't come up at 07:00 hours, but instead 12:00 hours, those 12:00 lunch appointments? over here they are at 17:00. Just after you set your watch to wake you up in the morning, you have to travel to the west coast, wake up at 04:00. . ..
Savings time is only in existance to make sunrise and sunset coincide with our daily lives. In Michigan's upper peninsula, sunset can be anywhere from about 5:00pm to 10:00 pm. Personally, I think we can survive without DST, but ditching timezones would be pandemonium.
Its even funnier to watch my download rate max out at 400kb/sec (my cable modems max) minutes after the article making slashdot. . . finished without uploading a single byte.
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VNC's authentication is PLAINTEXT. It's just a little authentication thing to keep random people out, and is by no means secure. FTP is the same way, username/password are transmitted plaintext. The article is a short blurb about how they discovered a way to completely bypass authentication, so even random people have access to your desktop. IMO, if you are doing anything where security is atleast of moderate concern, you should close the port and do ssh tunneling. Otherwise you have to be willing to accept the risk that come with security holes like these, plaintext passwords, and even man in the middle attacks that allow the attacker to view the desktop during an active session. Basically, weak security has gotten even weaker.
P.S. They have a neat little prog that will test your computer to see if it is vulnerable, though it is currently disabled because "Slashdot is too much for it to handle."
"Hey, how about we call them Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-Orient Experimental Satellites?"
"That's a great idea Johnson, it's descriptive, uses buzz words. I can't think of a better name. Sheer genius!"
"Thank you sir, oh hey, that spells out SPHERES!!"
"My God, you're right! What an amzing coincidence!!"
I pray to God it didn't happen like that, hopefully they came up with the name first for PR reasons. . .
From the article:
The first SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-Orient Experimental Satellites)
Ok. Yes it's cool sometimes to think of a clever name for something that just happens to spell out a nifty word, but this is crazy. Is "Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-Orient Experimental Satellites" really descriptive? Would you put that horrid name on a technical paper? Only GNU projects such as WINE (WINE is not an emulator) should use ridiculous acronyms.
Ok, the article states that a "network of more than 50 electronics facotires" were chruning out these immitation products. I understand that this is probably larger and more damaging that a few fake sunglasses, but the issue is still the same. Until everyone (including China) adheres to trademark laws and such, these kinds of things should come of no surprise.
How about I post a copy for you??
BEIJING At first it seemed to be nothing more than a routine, if damaging, case of counterfeiting in a country where faking it has become an industry.
Reports filtering back to the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese electronics giant NEC in mid-2004 alerted managers that pirated keyboards and recordable CD and DVD discs bearing the company's brand were on sale in retail outlets in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Like hundreds, if not thousands, of manufacturers now locked in a war of attrition with intellectual property thieves in China, the company hired an investigator to track down the pirates.
After two years and thousands of hours of investigation in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in China, Taiwan and Japan, the company said it had uncovered something far more ambitious than clandestine workshops turning out inferior copies of NEC products. The pirates were faking the entire company.
Evidence seized in raids on 18 factories and warehouses in China and Taiwan over the past year showed that the counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In the name of NEC, the pirates copied NEC products, and went as far as developing their own range of consumer electronic products - everything from home entertainment centers to MP3 players. They also coordinated manufacturing and distribution, collecting all the proceeds.
The Japanese company even received complaints about products - which were of generally good quality - that they did not make or provide with warranties.
NEC said it was unable to estimate the total value of the pirated goods from these factories, but the company believed the organizers had "profited substantially" from the operation.
"These entities are part of a sophisticated ring, coordinated by two key entities based in Taiwan and Japan, which has attempted to completely assume the NEC brand," said Fujio Okada, the NEC senior vice president and legal division general manager, in written answers to questions.
"Many of these entities are familiar with each other and cooperate with each other to develop, manufacture and sell products utilizing the NEC brand."
NEC declined to identify the companies for legal reasons.
Officials from branch offices of the Chinese State Administration of Industry and Commerce in southern China confirmed that counterfeit goods carrying the NEC brand had been seized in raids on a number of factories and that investigations were continuing.
Some technology companies have been criticized for piecemeal and half- hearted attempts to protect their intellectual property, but Okada said NEC was prepared to take proactive measures to defend its brand.
NEC had not previously made public the piracy in order not to compromise its investigation.
NEC said it would continue collecting evidence to support further criminal complaints. It was also planning to start civil lawsuits against some factories while negotiating with others.
Steve Vickers, president of International Risk, a Hong Kong-based company that NEC hired to investigate the piracy, said documents and computer records seized by the police during the factory and warehouse raids had revealed the scope of the piracy.
These records showed that the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
He said they also required factories to pay royalties for "licensed" products and issued official-looking warranty and service documents.
Some of the factories that were raided had erected bogus NEC signs and shipped their products packaged in authentic looking boxes and display cases.
NEC said about 50 products were counterfeited, including home entertainment systems, MP3 players, batteries, microphones and DVD players.
Many of these pirated items were not par
Common, has anyone been to Washington DC lately? Areas outside of the US? I took a trip back in middle school to DC where people were selling "Oakley" sunglasses for 5 bucks. I think that faking a company name is done all the time. . . Oakleys, Rolexis, NEC electronics. . .the name of the game has been around for a while...
Hydrogen peroxide naturally breaks down into oxygen and water. Theres even a catalyst you can use to speed things up, whose name eludes me. . .Potassium Permagnate maybe?
Why did we switch to barcodes when you could just bring it up to the clerk and they would punch in the price? Didn't the old way work? It is definately possible to manipulate barcodes to do some nasty things. Put a barcode from an "IPOD headphone" on an "IPOD Mp3 Player". If the clerk doesnt notice, you just got an Ipod for 10 bux. Obviously I wouldn't advocate doing this, but it goes to show that barcodes are anything but secure. If anything they are easier to manipulate, all you need is a photocopier and some tape. Sounds to me you are just hesitant to change, which is understandable, but IMHO RFID's would give us all a lot of nifty possibilities, which would outweigh the risks. The only problem I see is that it would be harder to manipulate an RFID system, meaning that people would trust it more, meaning that those who do have the knowledge to manipulate it are more likely to get away with it and with larger pay-offs to :-/
Perhaps your post was merely the end of the first of the beginning of the last posts.
So what the hell does that make this post? Post-armageddon?
Yay, would this mean outsourcing is going down, or that the industry is growing? Also, does this mean that it's actually worth it for me to continue my education and get a degree in Computer Engineering?
If you think it's worth it, you've never tried CS1721. . . intro to commenting
They are building an experimental fusion reactor, a Tokomak. While I suppose you could call it an artifical sun, I think a better choice of words would be tokomak or fusion reactor.
On another note, this is not a one of a kind device. Europe has one called JET, and is planning on making another, ITER.
Did you also know that 98% of Slashdot summaries have errors??
Seriously though, I doubt there are many legal documents that are 100% "perfect".
I dont know for sure, but I am fairly certain it utilizes "Charge Pumps". Lets say you have 5 volts and want 10 volts, you simply put 5 volts across 2 capacitors in paralell, you then disconnect the power source,and wire them up in series. Voila, you doubled your voltage, a charge pump does this very quickly utilizing oscilators and transistors. To step down, you can use a microcontroller which will continuously read voltage from a capacitor, if it drops below 5 volts, you switch a charging circuit on that charges the capacitor. Other capacitors and/or inductors are used inbetween to smooth out the voltage when the charging current is turned on/off.
I strongly suggest looking through this article (Yes, I know this is Slashdot, how could I suggest such a thing) as I found the summary made me extremely skeptical. If the information is not falsified, I would say it is certainly worth investigating, even with a hefty grain of salt. . . or would that be grains? . . .anyway I digress. I found the electron microscope pictures quite intriguing, it certainly "looked" like a cell, though I understand this sort of observation is hardly irrefutable. I did not see any evidence of the particles replicating which would suggest life (they could replicate and still not be considered "life" ofcourse). I believe a good analog would be the potential bacteria found in a Martian meteor.
10 bux says he will appeal. Or, one Iowa origonating spam email says he will appeal. . .
The article states that the Internet service is in response to hurricane Katrina, in an attempt to help speed recovery efforts. I can understand why BellSouth would be upset about this, being a taxpayer funded competition, but taking back your offer of a building to help rebuild the local law enforcement of a destroyed city. . . thats just a dick thing to do, shame on you BellSouth.
about $.50us/gal to produce yourself
I would like to see where you came up with this number, if truckers could produce their fuel at 1/4 the cost, I'm sure we would see bio-deisel everywhere.
Especially with the new decreased costs, if anything PC's will get to the point where not just every house has one, but every person. Two PC households are very common.
This reminds me of something from Back to the Future. Remember when Marty went back to the past and visited his mom's house. They just got there very own "Television". At some point, Marty blurted out that he had a whopping TWO at his house. His "grandfather" didnt believe him, after all, tv's were so expensive, and you only needed one anyways right? My house has 5 people living there, 4 tv's, and 5 (working) computers (another dozen or so in parts thanks to me). My "theory" Whenever a new appliance comes out, it starts off really expensive, maybe 1 per household, then as costs come down, up to one per person, possibly more.
This is like saying TV's are "relics" because computers can do the same thing.
So, they're saying that the madder we are, the more we swear, possibly taking consequences (getting fired, a good ass-kicking) into account, rather than just letting fly with a random string of curses of indeterminate length? wow. once again I am blown away by professional researchers.
I think what the summary is referring to is how we adjust how we swear to whom/what we are swearing at. For instance, if I am upset with my girlfriend, I am more likely to call her a "bitch" than a "bastard". It isn't because "bitch" is worse/better than "bastard", only that it is more applicable given the context.
P.S. as a side note, I like using words/phrases such as "fiddlesticks", "golly gosh darn it", or "thats poopy". I find that humor quickly dispells anger.
I thought that stomach enzymes broke down prions(and other protiens) and also in the small intestine. I suppose one rouge molecule that didnt react would get through to your bloodstream and start replicating?
Plus, then it would be multi-platform! A virii/trojan/worm first. . . it would also be sandboxed, making the author's job a bit more difficult.
i have to deal with people over seas all the time and it has gotten to the point were i have 5 clocks on my wall - one for each place.. so i don't wake them up.. ijust can't kep track of how many hours ahead are they and what time is it there
Actually, it would be more confusing, because now even though everyone is on the same time zone, you would now have the responsibility of remember when sunrise and sunset occurs for each timezone. If it is 10AM in greenwich(sp?), and therefore also "10AM" in the midwest, is it ok to call a business executive in the midwest?
If we all ran on GMT or some other common time zone, our watches and everything, then traveling would be VERY confusing. Imagine getting up at 07:00 hours, eating at 12:00 hours, going to sleep at 23:00 hours, etc. Now travel to europe, suddenly the sun won't come up at 07:00 hours, but instead 12:00 hours, those 12:00 lunch appointments? over here they are at 17:00. Just after you set your watch to wake you up in the morning, you have to travel to the west coast, wake up at 04:00. . . .
Savings time is only in existance to make sunrise and sunset coincide with our daily lives. In Michigan's upper peninsula, sunset can be anywhere from about 5:00pm to 10:00 pm. Personally, I think we can survive without DST, but ditching timezones would be pandemonium.
Its even funnier to watch my download rate max out at 400kb/sec (my cable modems max) minutes after the article making slashdot. . . finished without uploading a single byte.