what if someone comes along and designs some spyware that actually functions quietly (without the random popup windows and other tell-tale signs of infection). And they are able to open a port and upload any sort of incriminating evidence they would like into your own home.
It's called a Trojan. And that has been used succesfully as a defense in court cases. Yes, someone actually claimed they were trojaned and thats why the evidence was on their machine and was found not guilty. If they were actually guilty or not, I don't know.
To add to your post about why the military generraly likes Republicans and not Democrats:
Democrat:
Lyndon B. Johnson: Got us into Vietnam after prommising not to (I have heard he was planning on going into Vietnam while campaigning to get elected in the first place). Nearly destroyed the entire Marine Corps.
Bill Clinton: Dodged the draft by claiming he was going to sign up for some program that would have kept him out of Vietnam and then didn't do it. Respectable thing to do would have been to go to Canada or Jail instead of lying.
Republican:
Ronald Regan: Gave the military its first decent pay raise in at least 10 years and got many soldiers off of welfare. (Yes, they were making that little).
The Republicans also seem to respect the military while Democrats seem to do nothing but insult them. Look up "Jane Fonda and Vietnam" and just read what John Kerry said about his fellow soldiers and you will understand why they don't usually like Democrats. The last Democratic president they respected was John F. Kennedy. Could add more, but no time right now.
but it's not at all inconceivable that someone overseas might not know how to vote and might need to find out how to vote.
Not necessarily, they are probably paying for a fixed pipe and not by the gigabyte (or in this case the terabyte). Knocking out anyone outside the US means that they can get by with a smaller pipe.
Show me proof by someone that isn't biased towards banning any video game that is more adult than barny and that shows a trend of people who play video games are more violent. People being idiots and doing stupid stuff does not count. I and many people I know have been playing First Person Shooters since before we were 10 and have turned out better adjusted than many "normal" people I know. When you get that proof let me know and in the mean time quite trying to take away something that I like to do.
Sure I know the difference betweent a frag and killing someone in real life. People who are fraged come back. You won't.
Yeah, well, as someone who grew up in the suburbs, I like this feature:
Fear of legal action has also stopped Toyota from offering its Intelligent Parking Assist feature, which is now available on the hybrid gas-electric Prius model sold in Japan.
This device automatically parks the car, maneuvering the Prius backward and into the space. To activate it, the driver first pulls alongside the forward vehicle, then drags a picture of a flag marker and parking triangle on the car's touchscreen display, until they are positioned where the vehicle should wind up.
While the system seems ideal for congested streets like New York's, "we have no plans for the U.S.," said Jon Bucci, corporate manager for advanced technology at Toyota Motor Sales. "This is a very litigious society."
Just cause some idiot gets himself killed doing something he shouldn't have been doing in the first place if he used an ounce of common sense and his family makes a rucus doesn't mean that I'm a moron thats going to do the same thing.
Then you have many options that will work for you besides cars.
A) Walk
B) Bike
C) Moped
You can also buy the bottom of the line models that the manufacturers sell without radio or anything else. I, however like to listen to music while driving as it helps me concentrate.
n the event of an explosion during liftoff, it would become the largest dirty bomb ever conceived.
WRONG! We have launched rockets and satelites using nuclear reactors that blew up during launch. We had the material safely contained in a case (ready to use without any modification at all for power) and it survived the explosion and impact when it hit the ocean/ground. It was re-used in a later satelite. We have ALREADY built containers that can survive explosions so THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM.
I don't think it will be very easy to hack this thing. The communication will probably be using a very good encryption algorithm changed regularly with key lengths of at least 4KBytes at a minimum. [Some passwords that the DoD used ten years ago had to be stored on flopies (essentialy used like a physical key).] Anything that doesn't get decrypted properly gets junked and not sent to the processor.
I do wonder though, who is to say that they are using an OS at all? You can do plenty of things without an OS and still run it properly as long as you know how to do your task switching properly. Just because we have Windows CE and Linux Embeded doesn't mean they have to be used in something like this.
Why does it takes so much money to make a remote control car? Don't we have those for kids like ages ago for less then $100? Scales it up, still doesn't justify the high price.
First off, because a plastic toy that runs on batteries and an electic motor costs a whole lot less than something made of steel and a gas/diesel engine. Second, this thing can drive itself (computers, promamming costs). It probably has bullet proof armor, EM hardening around the electronics and a whole host of other things for the military version.
Also, we are talking something that will sell maybe 500 in a year if they are lucky and more than liekly 500 period. Mass production rules don't apply unless you are talking at least 10,000 or 100,000 products in a manufacturing run. So the $250,000 is justified.
Easy, the type of games that appeal to the Japanese are not the same type that appeal to the US or Europe. Also the extra cost to get the DVD playback in an X-BOX, the bulky controllers made for a steel worker, bad aestethic value of what it looks like, crapy case and that it weighs much more than a PS2 doesn't help either.
Refridgerators use a heat pump which has an efficiency of about 5%. Thats not acceptable for cooling processors which output 100W. You would need a power supply specifically for your cooler.
The paper trail would be used when the outcome is extremely close or unexpected. Independent exit polls, pre-election polling etc, all give a good indication of expectation. If the vote-counting system produces a result that goes against this then there needs to be a mechanism to check the result.
Ah yes, the ever accurate so called "independant" exit polls and pre ellection polling (keeps getting tied at 50-50 for some reason). I only have this to say. "Dewey defeats Truman"
Sure, it will take longer, but how hard is it to screw that up?
Umm... Lets se:.
A) Ballots get "switched" on the way to the counting place.
B) Ballots are put into the wrong piles for who the person voted for.
C) Ballots are "miscounted".
D) Ballots are "lost".
E) Ballots are erased and re-inked.
F) Your system forgot the write-in ballots which require someone to read anothers handwriting.
Paper ballots are actually much easier to screw around with than an electronic or mechanical system coded by an honest programer or designed by an honest engineer.
It should require that all electronic machines produce a voter-verified paper trail.
At what point would you trust the computer with out requiring a manual re-count of the paper ballots? The whole point of moving to an electronic system is to eliminate the entire hand count in the first place. With paper trails, people will sue to have them recounted at least once EVERY SINGLE TIME. And if you say that a machine can do the recount, then who is to say the machine that does the recount of the paper trail has not been rigged? The only way you can be sure beyond a shadow of a doubt would be to do a manual count of the paper trail every time, elimintating the entire point of electronic voting. Of course, we have done without paper trails on mechanical machines for years, yet no one seems to have mentioned that.
Get rid of the official ballots and let everyone bring their own ballot with them so that they can vote for whoever they want, not whoever the ruling government wants to let them choose from.
You can always take the paper ballot that exists at every polling place and do a write in. Hence how Mikey Mouse always gets a few votes every election.
Given the default restrictions in the modular nature of Linux; it is nearly impossible to send an email to a Linux user that will infect the entire machine with a virus. It doesn't matter how poorly the email client is designed or how badly it may behave - it only has the privileges to infect or damage the user's own files.
Apparently this guy forgot about the (repeated) Send Mail vulnerability of the pipe '|'. Or was that Unix only?
I don't know what this guy is talking about. Windows uses spheres for permisions to run stuff. On the inside, you have all Microsoft Programs and on the outside you have all Non-Microsoft programs. See? They use spheres just like Linux.
The guys ofer at Digital Foutnain have had something that does this for a year or two now. And thiers works over satelite too. Wonder if they will have any IP issues. (Intelectual Property, no pun intended).
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What they are really going to have problems with is that some rateless error codes are copyrighted/patened. And the company that did this have already made products (for a year or two now). So long as their code does not violate them they are fine. But if they do, I'm not sure they can GPL the code.
It also assumes that the countries are launching nukes from their own soil and care if there country gets turned into a glass parking lot (Hence, MAD[Mutually Assured Distruction]). This also does not work when you do not know where the nuke has come from.
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what if someone comes along and designs some spyware that actually functions quietly (without the random popup windows and other tell-tale signs of infection). And they are able to open a port and upload any sort of incriminating evidence they would like into your own home.
It's called a Trojan. And that has been used succesfully as a defense in court cases. Yes, someone actually claimed they were trojaned and thats why the evidence was on their machine and was found not guilty. If they were actually guilty or not, I don't know.
Perhaps we should put them in a free speech cage like at the DNC.
Could you expand on what you mean by this? Or at least a google search or knews article? This is not a Troll and I am honestly curious.
Are those registrations for voting at the polls or absentee voting. Cause absentee voting is all I'm talkin about.
Clarification: Registration for Absentee voting has passed. Not deadline for sending in the absentee votes.
This is just a wild guess, but maybe they want to learn more about Bush's policies?
Then go to whitehouse.gov. It lists Bush's policies just liek it listed Clintons when he was in office.
To add to your post about why the military generraly likes Republicans and not Democrats:
Democrat:
Lyndon B. Johnson: Got us into Vietnam after prommising not to (I have heard he was planning on going into Vietnam while campaigning to get elected in the first place). Nearly destroyed the entire Marine Corps.
Bill Clinton: Dodged the draft by claiming he was going to sign up for some program that would have kept him out of Vietnam and then didn't do it. Respectable thing to do would have been to go to Canada or Jail instead of lying.
Republican:
Ronald Regan: Gave the military its first decent pay raise in at least 10 years and got many soldiers off of welfare. (Yes, they were making that little).
The Republicans also seem to respect the military while Democrats seem to do nothing but insult them. Look up "Jane Fonda and Vietnam" and just read what John Kerry said about his fellow soldiers and you will understand why they don't usually like Democrats. The last Democratic president they respected was John F. Kennedy. Could add more, but no time right now.
but it's not at all inconceivable that someone overseas might not know how to vote and might need to find out how to vote.
Not necessarily, they are probably paying for a fixed pipe and not by the gigabyte (or in this case the terabyte). Knocking out anyone outside the US means that they can get by with a smaller pipe.
Absentee ballot deadline was several weeks ago. If you aint registered already, ya aint votin.
Show me proof by someone that isn't biased towards banning any video game that is more adult than barny and that shows a trend of people who play video games are more violent. People being idiots and doing stupid stuff does not count. I and many people I know have been playing First Person Shooters since before we were 10 and have turned out better adjusted than many "normal" people I know. When you get that proof let me know and in the mean time quite trying to take away something that I like to do.
Sure I know the difference betweent a frag and killing someone in real life. People who are fraged come back. You won't.
Yeah, well, as someone who grew up in the suburbs, I like this feature:
Fear of legal action has also stopped Toyota from offering its Intelligent Parking Assist feature, which is now available on the hybrid gas-electric Prius model sold in Japan.
This device automatically parks the car, maneuvering the Prius backward and into the space. To activate it, the driver first pulls alongside the forward vehicle, then drags a picture of a flag marker and parking triangle on the car's touchscreen display, until they are positioned where the vehicle should wind up.
While the system seems ideal for congested streets like New York's, "we have no plans for the U.S.," said Jon Bucci, corporate manager for advanced technology at Toyota Motor Sales. "This is a very litigious society."
Just cause some idiot gets himself killed doing something he shouldn't have been doing in the first place if he used an ounce of common sense and his family makes a rucus doesn't mean that I'm a moron thats going to do the same thing.
Then you have many options that will work for you besides cars.
A) Walk
B) Bike
C) Moped
You can also buy the bottom of the line models that the manufacturers sell without radio or anything else. I, however like to listen to music while driving as it helps me concentrate.
n the event of an explosion during liftoff, it would become the largest dirty bomb ever conceived.
WRONG! We have launched rockets and satelites using nuclear reactors that blew up during launch. We had the material safely contained in a case (ready to use without any modification at all for power) and it survived the explosion and impact when it hit the ocean/ground. It was re-used in a later satelite. We have ALREADY built containers that can survive explosions so THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM.
I don't think it will be very easy to hack this thing. The communication will probably be using a very good encryption algorithm changed regularly with key lengths of at least 4KBytes at a minimum. [Some passwords that the DoD used ten years ago had to be stored on flopies (essentialy used like a physical key).] Anything that doesn't get decrypted properly gets junked and not sent to the processor.
I do wonder though, who is to say that they are using an OS at all? You can do plenty of things without an OS and still run it properly as long as you know how to do your task switching properly. Just because we have Windows CE and Linux Embeded doesn't mean they have to be used in something like this.
Why does it takes so much money to make a remote control car? Don't we have those for kids like ages ago for less then $100? Scales it up, still doesn't justify the high price.
First off, because a plastic toy that runs on batteries and an electic motor costs a whole lot less than something made of steel and a gas/diesel engine. Second, this thing can drive itself (computers, promamming costs). It probably has bullet proof armor, EM hardening around the electronics and a whole host of other things for the military version.
Also, we are talking something that will sell maybe 500 in a year if they are lucky and more than liekly 500 period. Mass production rules don't apply unless you are talking at least 10,000 or 100,000 products in a manufacturing run. So the $250,000 is justified.
Easy, the type of games that appeal to the Japanese are not the same type that appeal to the US or Europe. Also the extra cost to get the DVD playback in an X-BOX, the bulky controllers made for a steel worker, bad aestethic value of what it looks like, crapy case and that it weighs much more than a PS2 doesn't help either.
Refridgerators use a heat pump which has an efficiency of about 5%. Thats not acceptable for cooling processors which output 100W. You would need a power supply specifically for your cooler.
The paper trail would be used when the outcome is extremely close or unexpected. Independent exit polls, pre-election polling etc, all give a good indication of expectation. If the vote-counting system produces a result that goes against this then there needs to be a mechanism to check the result.
Ah yes, the ever accurate so called "independant" exit polls and pre ellection polling (keeps getting tied at 50-50 for some reason). I only have this to say. "Dewey defeats Truman"
Sure, it will take longer, but how hard is it to screw that up?
Umm... Lets se:.
A) Ballots get "switched" on the way to the counting place.
B) Ballots are put into the wrong piles for who the person voted for.
C) Ballots are "miscounted".
D) Ballots are "lost".
E) Ballots are erased and re-inked.
F) Your system forgot the write-in ballots which require someone to read anothers handwriting.
Paper ballots are actually much easier to screw around with than an electronic or mechanical system coded by an honest programer or designed by an honest engineer.
It should require that all electronic machines produce a voter-verified paper trail.
At what point would you trust the computer with out requiring a manual re-count of the paper ballots? The whole point of moving to an electronic system is to eliminate the entire hand count in the first place. With paper trails, people will sue to have them recounted at least once EVERY SINGLE TIME. And if you say that a machine can do the recount, then who is to say the machine that does the recount of the paper trail has not been rigged? The only way you can be sure beyond a shadow of a doubt would be to do a manual count of the paper trail every time, elimintating the entire point of electronic voting. Of course, we have done without paper trails on mechanical machines for years, yet no one seems to have mentioned that.
Get rid of the official ballots and let everyone bring their own ballot with them so that they can vote for whoever they want, not whoever the ruling government wants to let them choose from.
You can always take the paper ballot that exists at every polling place and do a write in. Hence how Mikey Mouse always gets a few votes every election.
Given the default restrictions in the modular nature of Linux; it is nearly impossible to send an email to a Linux user that will infect the entire machine with a virus. It doesn't matter how poorly the email client is designed or how badly it may behave - it only has the privileges to infect or damage the user's own files.
Apparently this guy forgot about the (repeated) Send Mail vulnerability of the pipe '|'. Or was that Unix only?
I don't know what this guy is talking about. Windows uses spheres for permisions to run stuff. On the inside, you have all Microsoft Programs and on the outside you have all Non-Microsoft programs. See? They use spheres just like Linux.
The guys ofer at Digital Foutnain have had something that does this for a year or two now. And thiers works over satelite too. Wonder if they will have any IP issues. (Intelectual Property, no pun intended).
What they are really going to have problems with is that some rateless error codes are copyrighted/patened. And the company that did this have already made products (for a year or two now). So long as their code does not violate them they are fine. But if they do, I'm not sure they can GPL the code.
It also assumes that the countries are launching nukes from their own soil and care if there country gets turned into a glass parking lot (Hence, MAD[Mutually Assured Distruction]). This also does not work when you do not know where the nuke has come from.