Re:Bruce Schneier is one of the good guys
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I know he was a mathematician and cryptographer. And some of the stuff in Applied Cryptography was only to be found in journals, although some of it was on the net. And I know the State Department didn't like him doing that, he says so in his book.
But his books for the general public, well, just perform this test. Pick up a copy of Beyond Fear at the bookstore. Open it to a random page. Read a paragraph aloud to a friend. See if the friend says "hmmm" or "duh". I'm going to bet on the latter. Several review of the book have stated what I felt, it's more of the same. If you read Secrets and Lies, there was nothing new there.
Schnier seems to have made a career out of stating obvious truisms, like "all security is a tradeoff." I mean, I've read his books. Are these books really considered insightful?
I don't understand the appeal. The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus ranum is 100x the book that Schnier's is. Ranum actually worked in Washington, he not only shows where security breaks down, but the why of the politics behind it. In 100 years, professors who wish to study Computer Security at this stage of history will put Ranum's book on the syllabus and nobody will remember Bruce.
I guess this all goes back to "Applied Cryptography". A book full of code showing how to code the encryption algorithms widely known about. Compiled from the Internet. It may have made a stink when it was published, but what's worse is Schnier rode the publicity all the way.
The QoS is useless you know, right?
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If you wardrive and get on another network, the phone will send out packets tagged with 5 in the TOS field, but the network you got onto is almost certainly not going to honor the field, whether it be TOS in the packet or DSCP in the frame.
Also, QoS in wireless as a whole in an incomplete field. Cisco's AP still can't change the underlying "time on the air" algorithm of 802.11b and thus, you can get into a priority queue on the backside, but if there are too many people associated to the AP, you aren't getting any QoS over the airwaves. This problem is being worked on.
Well that's the wonderful thing about incredible amounts of data mining software and huge databases. You can make it that bad at much faster rate. Entire periods of historical precendent collapse under a compressed timeline. A single President can implement a police state and revoke 100 years of case law regarding privacy with a single sweep of the mouse, all in one term.
Yeah, it's so horrible to see the people here get to the heart of the matter. Secretly funding a campaign to discredit your largest threat might be something to be worried about. Nahhh, that's just mob mentality speaking.
Let me guess, you also hate PBS documentaries for revealing that Iraq was really about US Oil companies? You hate Woodward and Bernstein because they decided Gordon Liddy wasn't really the mastermind?
Boies is a partner in his firm. When SCO pulled up in a UHaul full of $1000 bills, and said, "hey - can we give this to you? It's really Billy G's money, but he said we could spend it." I'm sure that Mr. Boies didn't blink twice, or even take a moment to savor the irony. He immediately started calculating the compound interest and projected his firms profit for the quarter. He IS a lawyer, after all.
THe slippery slope here is the word "competitor". The competition here is not another company. It's an open source O/S. So, who is the plaintiff here, who has been wronged? Redhat? Suse? Novell? IBM?
Glenn has done more for the service of his country than Bush could ever dream of. He was a decorated Marine. In all physical tests, his scores were much better than any other of the Mercury astronauts. Bush had his daddy sent him to the country club squadron of the Air National Guard, and he couldn't even bother to show up for service in Alabama.
It doesn't suprise me that some GOP lackey boy would take a cheap shot at Glenn. Expect the same with Kerry. The Bushies have something to hide, so they go on the attack.
I'm probably quite a bit older than either of you. Maybe not, I am going back to grad school, but I am 35. I lived off the corner of Taylor and Loomis for 4 years, on Loomis between Taylor and Harrison.
You may know this area as the UIC west side, also known as the Italian Village. I'm not Italian, I was doing grad work there in the 1990s.
The gentrification you bemoan happened for years. In the late 70's, it used to be impossible to walk down Ashland at night. I have no idea what you mean when you say "gooey liberal BS" - I probably would disagree with you on most issues. This issue is somewhat sensitive for me, as I used to live across the street from the commander of the CPD, my family was in Chicago politics, I have been out of Chicago for a number of years now, but may be coming "home", and so I can't say what has happened to the police department. I have a hard time buying that you were stopped on Lake Shore Drive for being in a small pickup truck, and that the cops treated you as you say.
To the topic at hand, I would be somewhat wary of the 16% drop in crime, this is Chicago you are talking about. Operation Greylord anyone? besides New Jersey, the place where ghost payrolls are an art form? Those numbers are probably bogus. I'd see to see some detailed reporting of exactly how cross-refercing and having millions of criminal records at the fingertips has ACTUALLY done a damn thing.
Here are the things that WR ships when you go to use VxWorks for your embedded system project:
Components Included
Development tools:
TORNADO Integrated Development Environment
GNU and DIAB C/C++ Compilers
WIND VIEW system analyzer
SNiFF+ PRO code visualization tool
Full VxSim
TORNADO BSP DEVELOPER'S KIT
There was no civillian application for such a copter, it's weapons payload was dwarfed by the Longbow, which can carry racks of hellfires. What purpose did it have? It's operational radius is tiny compared to the unmanned recon vehicles, and with lo radar signature X projects being developed, the future was in remote control surveillance.
The lesson here is that design to deployment windows have to become shorter, when platforms take time measured in decades, that's just too long. Smaller, quicker, faster, cheaper.
As evidenced by the fact that many NASCAR drivers get ringers to drive at Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway for them. It's hard to consider Tony Stewart or Ryan Newman as world class race drivers when they would get their asses handed to them in F1, while Schumacher could easily do well in NASCAR, once he grokked all the bullshit rules and bumping.
Yes, get those offtopic and flamebait points rolling. Just to get somewhat back on topic, there has never been a good female race driver, and that woman who drag raced in the pink car doesn't count.
Here's the great truth - the Net has done more in 10 years to advance English as the dominant language than 500 years of foreign occupations did by the British. And, as the article mentions, English and Spanish are incorporating idiomatic elements of other languages as slang and new vocabulary.
The 2nd truth, languages like C and perl and visual basic have constructs based in English (for...foreach...if/then, print, exit, need I go on..) and understanding these key words also helps push English as the dominant language.
One can debate the merits of this, but I disagree with the slashdot premise that it cuts off avenues of finding better heuristics, because any attempt at a dominant language will and must evolve, even if it were the sole language of the entire planet.
Re:Wilst reducing the chances of life on Europa,..
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I'd still like to shoot Roy Schieder into space, if it's all the same to you.
You are a good man. Wavicle was clearly trolling you, with his backhanded slaps at UM. I am a UM grad as well ('90, B.S.) and I would have ignored his troll completely.
You say you don't want fancy things like video editing. Let me postulate that what seems "fancy" is, in fact, part of a future that you will want to take part in.
The one thing, in my opinion, that is most important in a new camcorder, is MPEG. You do NOT want to have a bunch of Hi-8 tapes in 5 years, that you will end up wanting to move to a native digital format, and have to buy a MPEG encoder card and move them in that way. How do I know? Because that is what I do. Why do I do it? Because nothing, I mean nothing, beats having your videos in a true digital format. In 5 years, your iPod will play these videos like watching them with the Divx player on your PC. People will move videos around the way they move music.
DVD burners are cheap. Hi end editing software like Adobe is pricey, but stuff like the Nero 6 package can do it for much less. You can make a DVD of your vacation footage, you can put in titles and a menu with software that comes with your burner, like the stuff from Ulead. In 5 years, IP multicast under IPv6 may allow you a better method of streaming videos, or you can compress them into MPEG-4 and get Windows Media Server to stream them, so your buddies can see them and all you need is a cable modem or DSL today.
Get to know and love the rtsp:// link!
Seriously, the next gen of cameras bypass ALL of it and ONLY use MPEG as the storage in flash. That is the future. Saying what you said, is tantamount to saying "hey I just want a Sony walkman that plays CDs without skipping when I run, nevermind that fancy pants MP3 stuff" 2 years ago. Sounded reasonable at the time. Now, that walkman gathers dust.
Here are some of the MEPG only cameras: http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/MPEG4_camcord ers_boom_bust_04_28_03.htm
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I know he was a mathematician and cryptographer. And some of the stuff in Applied Cryptography was only to be found in journals, although some of it was on the net. And I know the State Department didn't like him doing that, he says so in his book.
But his books for the general public, well, just perform this test. Pick up a copy of Beyond Fear at the bookstore. Open it to a random page. Read a paragraph aloud to a friend. See if the friend says "hmmm" or "duh". I'm going to bet on the latter. Several review of the book have stated what I felt, it's more of the same. If you read Secrets and Lies, there was nothing new there.
Just my opinion.
Schnier seems to have made a career out of stating obvious truisms, like "all security is a tradeoff." I mean, I've read his books. Are these books really considered insightful?
I don't understand the appeal. The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus ranum is 100x the book that Schnier's is. Ranum actually worked in Washington, he not only shows where security breaks down, but the why of the politics behind it. In 100 years, professors who wish to study Computer Security at this stage of history will put Ranum's book on the syllabus and nobody will remember Bruce.
I guess this all goes back to "Applied Cryptography". A book full of code showing how to code the encryption algorithms widely known about. Compiled from the Internet. It may have made a stink when it was published, but what's worse is Schnier rode the publicity all the way.
If you wardrive and get on another network, the phone will send out packets tagged with 5 in the TOS field, but the network you got onto is almost certainly not going to honor the field, whether it be TOS in the packet or DSCP in the frame.
Also, QoS in wireless as a whole in an incomplete field. Cisco's AP still can't change the underlying "time on the air" algorithm of 802.11b and thus, you can get into a priority queue on the backside, but if there are too many people associated to the AP, you aren't getting any QoS over the airwaves. This problem is being worked on.
Well that's the wonderful thing about incredible amounts of data mining software and huge databases. You can make it that bad at much faster rate. Entire periods of historical precendent collapse under a compressed timeline. A single President can implement a police state and revoke 100 years of case law regarding privacy with a single sweep of the mouse, all in one term.
He meant this article, which was posted on Slashdot a few days ago. Quit being such a troll.
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Mod this post up. McCarthy would be spooging himself if he were alive today.
Gates was always an ugly man, but as he gets old, with that bowl haircut, he looks like Billy Bob Thornton's cousin in Sling Blade.
I guess Melissa dreams of the pool boy and all those zeros in her bank account.
Yeah, it's so horrible to see the people here get to the heart of the matter. Secretly funding a campaign to discredit your largest threat might be something to be worried about. Nahhh, that's just mob mentality speaking. Let me guess, you also hate PBS documentaries for revealing that Iraq was really about US Oil companies? You hate Woodward and Bernstein because they decided Gordon Liddy wasn't really the mastermind?
In Utah, a couple mill should set you up for life, maybe help you buy a few more wives.
Boies is a partner in his firm. When SCO pulled up in a UHaul full of $1000 bills, and said, "hey - can we give this to you? It's really Billy G's money, but he said we could spend it." I'm sure that Mr. Boies didn't blink twice, or even take a moment to savor the irony. He immediately started calculating the compound interest and projected his firms profit for the quarter. He IS a lawyer, after all.
THe slippery slope here is the word "competitor". The competition here is not another company. It's an open source O/S. So, who is the plaintiff here, who has been wronged? Redhat? Suse? Novell? IBM?
Glenn has done more for the service of his country than Bush could ever dream of. He was a decorated Marine. In all physical tests, his scores were much better than any other of the Mercury astronauts. Bush had his daddy sent him to the country club squadron of the Air National Guard, and he couldn't even bother to show up for service in Alabama.
It doesn't suprise me that some GOP lackey boy would take a cheap shot at Glenn. Expect the same with Kerry. The Bushies have something to hide, so they go on the attack.
A much better actor? Fred Ward is a better actor than Ed Harris? Are you joking? What are you, 12 years old?
Why don't you actually articulate an argument rather than restate definitions?
I'm probably quite a bit older than either of you. Maybe not, I am going back to grad school, but I am 35. I lived off the corner of Taylor and Loomis for 4 years, on Loomis between Taylor and Harrison.
You may know this area as the UIC west side, also known as the Italian Village. I'm not Italian, I was doing grad work there in the 1990s.
The gentrification you bemoan happened for years. In the late 70's, it used to be impossible to walk down Ashland at night. I have no idea what you mean when you say "gooey liberal BS" - I probably would disagree with you on most issues. This issue is somewhat sensitive for me, as I used to live across the street from the commander of the CPD, my family was in Chicago politics, I have been out of Chicago for a number of years now, but may be coming "home", and so I can't say what has happened to the police department. I have a hard time buying that you were stopped on Lake Shore Drive for being in a small pickup truck, and that the cops treated you as you say.
To the topic at hand, I would be somewhat wary of the 16% drop in crime, this is Chicago you are talking about. Operation Greylord anyone? besides New Jersey, the place where ghost payrolls are an art form? Those numbers are probably bogus. I'd see to see some detailed reporting of exactly how cross-refercing and having millions of criminal records at the fingertips has ACTUALLY done a damn thing.
What is up is that DJB has his own ideas about everything, and isn't really the kind of personality suited for open source projects. Just my opinion.
Acceleration is the integral of velocity. Check it out sometime.
Here are the things that WR ships when you go to use VxWorks for your embedded system project:
Components Included
Development tools:
TORNADO Integrated Development Environment
GNU and DIAB C/C++ Compilers
WIND VIEW system analyzer
SNiFF+ PRO code visualization tool
Full VxSim
TORNADO BSP DEVELOPER'S KIT
Runtime Components:
VxWorks embedded RTOS
TrueFFS flash file system
VxFusion
VxVMI
VxMP
So, how far does Linux have to come to match these tools?
There was no civillian application for such a copter, it's weapons payload was dwarfed by the Longbow, which can carry racks of hellfires. What purpose did it have? It's operational radius is tiny compared to the unmanned recon vehicles, and with lo radar signature X projects being developed, the future was in remote control surveillance.
The lesson here is that design to deployment windows have to become shorter, when platforms take time measured in decades, that's just too long. Smaller, quicker, faster, cheaper.
Anyone have a scan of that poster with Bill Budge and the other founders?
What EA did better than most game companies in the genesis days was manage money.
As evidenced by the fact that many NASCAR drivers get ringers to drive at Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway for them. It's hard to consider Tony Stewart or Ryan Newman as world class race drivers when they would get their asses handed to them in F1, while Schumacher could easily do well in NASCAR, once he grokked all the bullshit rules and bumping.
Yes, get those offtopic and flamebait points rolling. Just to get somewhat back on topic, there has never been a good female race driver, and that woman who drag raced in the pink car doesn't count.
Which is ridiculous.
Here's the great truth - the Net has done more in 10 years to advance English as the dominant language than 500 years of foreign occupations did by the British. And, as the article mentions, English and Spanish are incorporating idiomatic elements of other languages as slang and new vocabulary.
The 2nd truth, languages like C and perl and visual basic have constructs based in English (for...foreach...if/then, print, exit, need I go on..) and understanding these key words also helps push English as the dominant language.
One can debate the merits of this, but I disagree with the slashdot premise that it cuts off avenues of finding better heuristics, because any attempt at a dominant language will and must evolve, even if it were the sole language of the entire planet.
I'd still like to shoot Roy Schieder into space, if it's all the same to you.
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You are a good man. Wavicle was clearly trolling you, with his backhanded slaps at UM. I am a UM grad as well ('90, B.S.) and I would have ignored his troll completely.
You say you don't want fancy things like video editing. Let me postulate that what seems "fancy" is, in fact, part of a future that you will want to take part in.
d ers_boom_bust_04_28_03.htm
The one thing, in my opinion, that is most important in a new camcorder, is MPEG. You do NOT want to have a bunch of Hi-8 tapes in 5 years, that you will end up wanting to move to a native digital format, and have to buy a MPEG encoder card and move them in that way. How do I know? Because that is what I do. Why do I do it? Because nothing, I mean nothing, beats having your videos in a true digital format. In 5 years, your iPod will play these videos like watching them with the Divx player on your PC. People will move videos around the way they move music.
DVD burners are cheap. Hi end editing software like Adobe is pricey, but stuff like the Nero 6 package can do it for much less. You can make a DVD of your vacation footage, you can put in titles and a menu with software that comes with your burner, like the stuff from Ulead. In 5 years, IP multicast under IPv6 may allow you a better method of streaming videos, or you can compress them into MPEG-4 and get Windows Media Server to stream them, so your buddies can see them and all you need is a cable modem or DSL today.
Get to know and love the rtsp:// link!
Seriously, the next gen of cameras bypass ALL of it and ONLY use MPEG as the storage in flash. That is the future. Saying what you said, is tantamount to saying "hey I just want a Sony walkman that plays CDs without skipping when I run, nevermind that fancy pants MP3 stuff" 2 years ago. Sounded reasonable at the time. Now, that walkman gathers dust.
Here are some of the MEPG only cameras: http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/MPEG4_camcor