You forgot #5. Social engineering. Getting the other guy to open things up for you is one of the most used methods out there for getting into systems.
And why has no one asked the simple question of why is a tanks network exposed to external sources? It seems to me that the only input a tank should need from outside are command channels such as radio for voice communications. And the tank commander should be trained to understand how to authenticate any commands that come in over the radio.
I don't even know if a tank should trust GPS for location info. As that would seem to be to be one of the best methods to make a tank ineffective, screw up its position info so it does not know where it is. But then they do have inertial navigation systems for back up don't they? In addition to the tank commander keeping track of where they are on a standard map.
This is not Hollywood where the starship Enterprise gets taken over every other week because they record the output of an alien probe that some how manages to run a program in the main data core and takes over the ship. This is real world stuff where if a system starts puking bad data the driver pounds on the side of the box until it shuts down and then drives on through the enemy.
Adapt or die. If/when the ice caps melt and the sea level rises we will either abandon what are currently coastal cities or build flood walls to protect them. Probably a combination of the two. This stuff will not happen so suddenly that we won't be able to do one or the other.
Longer term establishing self sustaining colonies off planet is the better solution. Not only will it most likely result in a way to get new resources that can be used here but we will learn a lot about environments and how we might be able to adjust them more to our liking. Currently we have a single model to work from. If we try something and it screws up even worse than the original problem we won't have a second chance.
I watched the first Moon landings. I hope to be around to see the next set of Moon landings.
Let's concentrate on getting off this planet. Establish self sufficient colonies on other worlds. Not only would we get the benefit of having built someplace else to go just in case the worst happens we might actually learn things about terraforming those other planets that can be applied here.
Then again, so what? We adapt or die. That is the way of things.
I do find it somewhat humorous that when there is good news for the environment it is downplayed by describing it
"is due to natural variations in temperature and atmospheric dynamics... and is not indicative of a long-term trend. 'Although the hole is somewhat smaller than usual, we cannot conclude from this that the ozone layer is recovering already,' "
When anyone else uses the natural variations or cycles to explain global warming or hurricanes they get shouted down (and modded down) for expressing an view that does not match the green movements idea.
This is just horrible! We have to get the U.N. to start massive programs to preserve all these different languages. We can't let them become extinct. What will future generations do? We have to keep things as diverse as possible. This is worse than global warming. I wonder if Al Gore knows about this!
Why are so many people worried about languages dying off? In the long run this may solve some of the major problems we have in this world. If there were better communications between people we might not have so many misunderstandings that seem to be the cause of so many of the conflicts that are going on now. Just imagine the difference if most of the world spoke the same language? This is something that would bring everyone closer together on issues instead of dividing us.
We have to strive to reach common ground. But if this goes like most things there will be groups that will push to preserve all these languages. I can see it now, there will be walls erected around certain sections in each country where only the local dialect can be spoken under penalty of law. How else to preserve the spoken language but to isolate groups of people that speak that particular dialect?
So if I buy a Ford Mustang and replace the engine with a hemi, Ford is responsible for making sure an update to the software on the original engine works on the replacement?
People are free to unlock their phones. Why do you think Apple has some responsibility to make updates of their software work with a phone that was unlocked in that manner?
"not legal as they are challenging a consumer's right to do with his personally owned property what he wishes."
Apple is not going to go out and force those users to install the update. Those users that have voided their warranties and unlocked their phones were given a warning. Apple was actually being nice instead of just putting out the update and then having a huge splash in the news when all those unlocked iPhones suddenly turned into bricks.
Once someone unlocked the phone Apple's no longer has an responsibility to make future updates work with that hack. The end user is responsible. The end user can do whatever they want with the product. Just don't go back to the company that sold it to you and complain if you can not get it to work outside of the network they told you it was designed for.
The reason they banned liquids was some idiot high up happened see a re-run of Die Hard with a vengeance where they used some kind of two part liquid explosive. After they saw this movie they noticed people carrying bottles of liquid through the check points and freaked out.
Either that or someone figured out that if they banned liquids over a certain size they could make a fortune selling the little travel size shampoos and other toiletries.
The it is still subject to the end user just clicking on through the dialogs to try and get to the file or picture they want to see. That system is just as useless as the others are today.
The problem with implementing a white list approach is that this ultimately is going to be a real pain to maintain. Not only that but it is going to require (as the article alludes to) cooperation between a lot of companies to get it implemented. Based on the article they are going to have to setup an authority that will blessed all the good programs.
I wonder just how much it is going to cost you to get your program blessed? And how long will it take?
From what I can tell they want a white list of approved programs that will be allowed to run on your system. Unless they go the extra step and sign each executable/script by a an approved signing authority anyone will be able to substitute their own code for one of the approved programs. Game over.
Then there is the whole issue of how do you handle the process of upgrades/updates and patches? All of those would have to be approved and signed as well.
While a reasonable idea on the surface there are many aspects of widely deploying such a scheme that make it impractical. The worst case is that people would manage to get just about everything approved by simply submitting it to a web site. Which defeats the purpose.
If you make it a local user configuration thing then users would simply do what they do now, click on through or approve any little application that asks to be approved. They don't know what they are letting on to their systems now. And we are back where we started.
I like that idea. Have the laptop take the perps picture and post it to a web site along with location information. Now we just need to get that built in face recognition software and have the system match against the owner. If it wakes up and does not recognize the user it asks you "Where is Dave?". If it does not get a valid response it self destructs using that simtek mentioned in an earlier post.
Wonder if there is anyway to have the batter go into overload and melt the system down?
Dissatisfied customers might decide to try something different like Mac OS X or Linux.
Uh, wait a minute, I forgot to take my meds this morning. People won't switch from Windows regardless of how bad the experience or poor the customer support becomes.
This is a great solution, until the sun goes down.
Now there is going to be no chance for a programmer to be exposed to the Sun. They won't be able to go outside until it gets dark and the network access is down...
If the coral polyps survive they will eventually re-form into reefs.
But if you embrace the changes they can be very beneficial! Just imagine all the beach side property that will be created! The opportunities abound for ice cream vendors and jet ski rental outfits! It is all good!
True, global temperature does tend to change naturally over time. But it doesn't usually happen so rapidly. And when it does, it tends to suck for all us organisms living here.
It only sucks for those who can not find opportunity in the change. Just think of all the A/C systems that will be sold in the next 100 years, assuming things get as bad as they want you to think. Or how about the companies that will make billions building flood control systems for coastal cities? This could be a boon to the economy!
As other parts of the discussion have pointed out, corals will survive, they have in the past during major temprature changes. Yes, some species of animals and plants will die off, but others will adapt and fill the niche that is vacated/created due to changes in temprature.
Man is unique in this respect, we can adapt our surroundings to suite us. If we really screw up and don't get people off the planet, then we will have to live underground or in domed cities. We are many centuries away from having to go that route. Or maybe it will be sooner.:) Hard to tell.
Those that think they can place the planet in stasis so we can continue to live as we have been need to get their heads out of the sand. Embrace the coming changes! They can be good for those that are still here!:)
This will result in a demonstration of applied evolution. After a generation, maybe less, there will only be "healthy" people working in jobs that do this.
If this is wide spread then eventually only skinny/anorexic people will exist. All those that don't conform to the "ideal" body standard will be pushed out of society and either will perish as a group or will be forced underground.
It's all part of the book publisher's and librarian conspiracy. For the last couple of decades fewer people spend time reading actual books. They sit and stare at the TV all day or listen to music in larger and larger quantities. To fight this the publishers and librarians have been helping develop P2P software and slowly infiltrating the TV, music, and movie industries and getting them to enact this kind of stuff to alienate users. If the plan succeeds the vast majority of people will no longer be able to afford any kind of media except for books.
Look how far they have come, in a few short years most TV sets will no longer be capable of receiving over the air broadcasts unless the user buys a new digital set or tuner. That will drive more people to cable if they can afford it. At which point the cable companies and the show producers will up the ante and start trying to charge for each viewing of a show.
The decline of theaters is on going. Fewer people go to the movies now, many wait for the DVD to come out because it is cheaper at the moment to buy a DVD than go to the theater. Now that they have people conditioned to that they will increase the price of DVDs so most can not afford them or put DRM systems in place that make it impossible to use a DVD.
Librarian's around the world are all working toward this end.
"The low end sun fires are something I could almost afford, but I don't really want to keep a 1u on my desk just to try out the technology."
No you would not be able to keep a Sunfire on your desk. It is way to noisy for that during normal operations. When they boot up there is a tremendous surge in noise which then settles down to a dull roar that would turn you brain to tapioca after a few hours.
If you have an equipment room to rack them in and you can get away from them they are not to bad.
How many people actually use a V-chip in existing TVs? Anyone.....anyone at all.....
OK, there were about five people that use them.
Why waste resources on a system that virtually no one uses. Actually, most people don't even know that it is there to start with.
Parents need to take responsibility and teach their kids right from wrong, what is real and not real. An other people need to let all the other parents make their own mistakes, they can not fix their own kids by forcing others to do as they should have done in the first place.
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Fallacy? Name one unknown threat that their system doesn't protect against? Can't name a single one can you! :)
No one else can either. Because they are all unknown!
You forgot #5. Social engineering. Getting the other guy to open things up for you is one of the most used methods out there for getting into systems.
And why has no one asked the simple question of why is a tanks network exposed to external sources? It seems to me that the only input a tank should need from outside are command channels such as radio for voice communications. And the tank commander should be trained to understand how to authenticate any commands that come in over the radio.
I don't even know if a tank should trust GPS for location info. As that would seem to be to be one of the best methods to make a tank ineffective, screw up its position info so it does not know where it is. But then they do have inertial navigation systems for back up don't they? In addition to the tank commander keeping track of where they are on a standard map.
This is not Hollywood where the starship Enterprise gets taken over every other week because they record the output of an alien probe that some how manages to run a program in the main data core and takes over the ship. This is real world stuff where if a system starts puking bad data the driver pounds on the side of the box until it shuts down and then drives on through the enemy.
Adapt or die. If/when the ice caps melt and the sea level rises we will either abandon what are currently coastal cities or build flood walls to protect them. Probably a combination of the two. This stuff will not happen so suddenly that we won't be able to do one or the other.
Longer term establishing self sustaining colonies off planet is the better solution. Not only will it most likely result in a way to get new resources that can be used here but we will learn a lot about environments and how we might be able to adjust them more to our liking. Currently we have a single model to work from. If we try something and it screws up even worse than the original problem we won't have a second chance.
I watched the first Moon landings. I hope to be around to see the next set of Moon landings.
Let's concentrate on getting off this planet. Establish self sufficient colonies on other worlds. Not only would we get the benefit of having built someplace else to go just in case the worst happens we might actually learn things about terraforming those other planets that can be applied here.
Then again, so what? We adapt or die. That is the way of things.
I do find it somewhat humorous that when there is good news for the environment it is downplayed by describing it
"is due to natural variations in temperature and atmospheric dynamics... and is not indicative of a long-term trend. 'Although the hole is somewhat smaller than usual, we cannot conclude from this that the ozone layer is recovering already,' "
When anyone else uses the natural variations or cycles to explain global warming or hurricanes they get shouted down (and modded down) for expressing an view that does not match the green movements idea.
This is just horrible! We have to get the U.N. to start massive programs to preserve all these different languages. We can't let them become extinct. What will future generations do? We have to keep things as diverse as possible. This is worse than global warming. I wonder if Al Gore knows about this!
Why are so many people worried about languages dying off? In the long run this may solve some of the major problems we have in this world. If there were better communications between people we might not have so many misunderstandings that seem to be the cause of so many of the conflicts that are going on now. Just imagine the difference if most of the world spoke the same language? This is something that would bring everyone closer together on issues instead of dividing us.
We have to strive to reach common ground. But if this goes like most things there will be groups that will push to preserve all these languages. I can see it now, there will be walls erected around certain sections in each country where only the local dialect can be spoken under penalty of law. How else to preserve the spoken language but to isolate groups of people that speak that particular dialect?
So if I buy a Ford Mustang and replace the engine with a hemi, Ford is responsible for making sure an update to the software on the original engine works on the replacement?
People are free to unlock their phones. Why do you think Apple has some responsibility to make updates of their software work with a phone that was unlocked in that manner?
"not legal as they are challenging a consumer's right to do with his personally owned property what he wishes."
Apple is not going to go out and force those users to install the update. Those users that have voided their warranties and unlocked their phones were given a warning. Apple was actually being nice instead of just putting out the update and then having a huge splash in the news when all those unlocked iPhones suddenly turned into bricks.
Once someone unlocked the phone Apple's no longer has an responsibility to make future updates work with that hack. The end user is responsible. The end user can do whatever they want with the product. Just don't go back to the company that sold it to you and complain if you can not get it to work outside of the network they told you it was designed for.
A number of small flash lights that have had their bulbs replaced with the laser diodes from DVD burners.....
The reason they banned liquids was some idiot high up happened see a re-run of Die Hard with a vengeance where they used some kind of two part liquid explosive. After they saw this movie they noticed people carrying bottles of liquid through the check points and freaked out.
Either that or someone figured out that if they banned liquids over a certain size they could make a fortune selling the little travel size shampoos and other toiletries.
The it is still subject to the end user just clicking on through the dialogs to try and get to the file or picture they want to see. That system is just as useless as the others are today.
The problem with implementing a white list approach is that this ultimately is going to be a real pain to maintain. Not only that but it is going to require (as the article alludes to) cooperation between a lot of companies to get it implemented. Based on the article they are going to have to setup an authority that will blessed all the good programs.
I wonder just how much it is going to cost you to get your program blessed? And how long will it take?
From what I can tell they want a white list of approved programs that will be allowed to run on your system. Unless they go the extra step and sign each executable/script by a an approved signing authority anyone will be able to substitute their own code for one of the approved programs. Game over.
Then there is the whole issue of how do you handle the process of upgrades/updates and patches? All of those would have to be approved and signed as well.
While a reasonable idea on the surface there are many aspects of widely deploying such a scheme that make it impractical. The worst case is that people would manage to get just about everything approved by simply submitting it to a web site. Which defeats the purpose.
If you make it a local user configuration thing then users would simply do what they do now, click on through or approve any little application that asks to be approved. They don't know what they are letting on to their systems now. And we are back where we started.
I like that idea. Have the laptop take the perps picture and post it to a web site along with location information. Now we just need to get that built in face recognition software and have the system match against the owner. If it wakes up and does not recognize the user it asks you "Where is Dave?". If it does not get a valid response it self destructs using that simtek mentioned in an earlier post.
Wonder if there is anyway to have the batter go into overload and melt the system down?
Dissatisfied customers might decide to try something different like Mac OS X or Linux.
Uh, wait a minute, I forgot to take my meds this morning. People won't switch from Windows regardless of how bad the experience or poor the customer support becomes.
This is a great solution, until the sun goes down.
Now there is going to be no chance for a programmer to be exposed to the Sun. They won't be able to go outside until it gets dark and the network access is down...
The other issue is that we finally get to experience the punch line to that old joke, stopping the car every 100 miles to reboot it.
And just think of all the accidents when the blue screen of death obscures the entire windshield...
Why invest in anonymous cowards?
This was rated insightful?? Why?
Why so worried about the biodiversity?
If the coral polyps survive they will eventually re-form into reefs.
But if you embrace the changes they can be very beneficial! Just imagine all the beach side property that will be created! The opportunities abound for ice cream vendors and jet ski rental outfits! It is all good!
And it starts yet again! Another thread debating global climate change!
Adapt or die! That is the solution!
Profit by investing in the A/C and flood control industries!
True, global temperature does tend to change naturally over time. But it doesn't usually happen so rapidly. And when it does, it tends to suck for all us organisms living here.
:) Hard to tell.
:)
It only sucks for those who can not find opportunity in the change. Just think of all the A/C systems that will be sold in the next 100 years, assuming things get as bad as they want you to think. Or how about the companies that will make billions building flood control systems for coastal cities? This could be a boon to the economy!
As other parts of the discussion have pointed out, corals will survive, they have in the past during major temprature changes. Yes, some species of animals and plants will die off, but others will adapt and fill the niche that is vacated/created due to changes in temprature.
Man is unique in this respect, we can adapt our surroundings to suite us. If we really screw up and don't get people off the planet, then we will have to live underground or in domed cities. We are many centuries away from having to go that route. Or maybe it will be sooner.
Those that think they can place the planet in stasis so we can continue to live as we have been need to get their heads out of the sand. Embrace the coming changes! They can be good for those that are still here!
This will result in a demonstration of applied evolution. After a generation, maybe less, there will only be "healthy" people working in jobs that do this.
If this is wide spread then eventually only skinny/anorexic people will exist. All those that don't conform to the "ideal" body standard will be pushed out of society and either will perish as a group or will be forced underground.
I welcome our new Morlock overlords!
It's all part of the book publisher's and librarian conspiracy. For the last couple of decades fewer people spend time reading actual books. They sit and stare at the TV all day or listen to music in larger and larger quantities. To fight this the publishers and librarians have been helping develop P2P software and slowly infiltrating the TV, music, and movie industries and getting them to enact this kind of stuff to alienate users. If the plan succeeds the vast majority of people will no longer be able to afford any kind of media except for books.
Look how far they have come, in a few short years most TV sets will no longer be capable of receiving over the air broadcasts unless the user buys a new digital set or tuner. That will drive more people to cable if they can afford it. At which point the cable companies and the show producers will up the ante and start trying to charge for each viewing of a show.
The decline of theaters is on going. Fewer people go to the movies now, many wait for the DVD to come out because it is cheaper at the moment to buy a DVD than go to the theater. Now that they have people conditioned to that they will increase the price of DVDs so most can not afford them or put DRM systems in place that make it impossible to use a DVD.
Librarian's around the world are all working toward this end.
"The low end sun fires are something I could almost afford, but I don't really want to keep a 1u on my desk just to try out the technology."
No you would not be able to keep a Sunfire on your desk. It is way to noisy for that during normal operations. When they boot up there is a tremendous surge in noise which then settles down to a dull roar that would turn you brain to tapioca after a few hours.
If you have an equipment room to rack them in and you can get away from them they are not to bad.
How many people actually use a V-chip in existing TVs? Anyone.....anyone at all.....
OK, there were about five people that use them.
Why waste resources on a system that virtually no one uses. Actually, most people don't even know that it is there to start with.
Parents need to take responsibility and teach their kids right from wrong, what is real and not real. An other people need to let all the other parents make their own mistakes, they can not fix their own kids by forcing others to do as they should have done in the first place.
Only if you leave it to the government to figure out space flight.
20 seconds here, 20 seconds there, pretty soon you have the whole movie taped. Just have to put all the pieces together after that.