The idea that S&M play has a 'healthy and normal' standard is pretty funny. Even in this day of AIDS, human vampirism is still a hobby some engage in, as is lancing, corseting, and sewing beads onto human skin. Tastes vary, and blood is a turn-on for some. Even menstrual blood is exciting to some people I've met, who've described vividly the difference in its flavor among different lovers.
I agree that the stain was probably from the murder of Nina: I just don't think we can discard the S&M or menstrual possibilities without thinking about them or examining the stain for signs of being menstrual blood, as others note is possible to do.
State courts do. Federal courts that can manage to get the case in front of them, do, but they're having real problems getting past the Department of Justice and 'national security' to hear the worst of these cases.
And yes, it is your father's USA. If your parents are old enough, they lived through McCarthy-ism and the illegal harassment of Vietnam protesters and civil rights activists, and if they're really old or you have grandparent, they can tell you about what happened to the Japanese-Americans of World-War II. Every generation encounters this kind of abuse: some generations do better than others at stopping it.
This is utter nonsense. Such privilege is not absolute, and never has been: the circumstances under which it can be violated differ from state to state, but there are numerous cases of such privilege being overwhelmed by other needs.
It's a good question. I'd put the sensors in the ceilings near the common rooms, where wi-fi or network access is available to the prisoners. Then I'd buy one of these (http://www.sandstorm.net/products/netintercept/) to intercept and reconstruct all traffic, and pay attention to the non-encrypted traffic for email and web traffic. And I'd hack into the people's machines and steal their PGP keys, if I were willing to take the risks of discovery (which are pretty small, given that security attacks occur all the time against most publicly exposed systems).
You've never had sex during your wife's or lover's period, for birth control reasons if no other? I wouldn't want to do that in a sleeping bag, I'd lay a towel down that I could wash, because getting blood or other smelly stains out of sleeping bags is difficult. But it's certainly not uncommon.
Also, remember that Nina Reiser was a mail-order bride, and was clearly into S&M with her new lover. Sex with Hans at that point may not have been 'normal', although I wonder if Hans would have admitted to that on the stand lest he convince the jury he's an S&M 'pervert' as well as being a murderer. If I were his attorney, I wouldn't want him talking about that if I could avoid it.
Enough blood to remain in the sleeping bag, detectably and verifiably Nina's blood? That's probably quite a stain. I'd assume Hans accidentally wiped his hands on the bag while moving it, before he hosed down the car. The missing car seat with all the water in the car was, itself, pretty compelling.
Thank you for the correction on OST. I thought you were referring to yet another local storage technology, not a moral equivalent of server side 'mbox'-like technology. But it's still a single file per client, it just resides on the server, right? And someone has to go and convert all the existing PST based setups to OST, and make sure the clients stay setup htat way, right? For a 100 person company, that's a lot of very expensive engineering time, and it's going to keep happening with all new email setups.
That's why I suggest the cost for it would be so high: making all new users switch to it, and stay switched to it, is very expensive. And while it can centralize your storage, it's still an expensive incremental and proprietary backup storage issue with serious individual email message recovery issues, right?
I've had good success with maildir storage up to about 200 Gig for an entire mail server, with individual user's directories up to about 10 Gig, and had good success with 2.6 Linux kernels and some Solaris kernels with filesystems that dealt well with directories with thousands of files in them. It used to be much more painful, before the advent of the ext3 file system: I wouldn't use reiserfs now that Hans Reiser has been convicted of murder.
So, force everyone to use OST instead of PST? Great: go force every client to do things in a non-standard way. That's $20,000 of support costs in a mid-ize installation, right htere.
Buy an add-on commercial solution to provide incremental PST backups? That's another $5000 on a single server of both software and techincal time, $20,000 if you have to do it across a broad range of off-line clients in a mid-size site.
Upgrade from Outlook 2003, in a business environment where numerous desktops still run XP and haven't invested in the latest Office? That's another $20,0000 of upgrades.
Expensive client-based incremental backup solutions for the OST files you mentioned, coupled with the hideoous performance of Exchange for users with more than a few Gig of mail and the unreliable and unstable backup and restoration techniques asociated with it? One may as well join the White House 'we lost all the old email!' club today and save yourself the rush.
I'm being quite harsh about this, but I've had good incremental backup and robust failover with several mid-size IMAP/Maildir solutions. It just works, and it leaves people free to use a wide variety of clients. What it lacks is the calendar integration of MS Exchange, which does take thought to replace. But to say that Exchange is a good product seems unjustified in the face of its numerous flaws and the expensive and unreliable workarounds to cope with them.
This article lists no primary sources of Negroponte's opinions, Bender's opinions, or in fact any other referneces to direct opinions. You may as well use a meta-analysis of psychiatric studies of psychiatric studies to validate cancer treatments.
I know it's a slow news day, but this is wasting time looking for flame wars.
You apparently use your email as an extensive way to store your information, and haven't learned to expect better from your addressbook or calendar system. For both casual users who trip over its complexities and mis-handled features, and for power users who run into its limitatons _hard_, Exchange is absolutely awful Its bare SMTP handling is awful, and a poorly done add-on to its internal messaging: this makes it an absolutely awful for an externally facing mail server. This effectively doubles the price of many corporate mail systems, because they have to buy and administer an entirely distinct outwards facing mail server, one which requires frequent massaging to continue communicating with MS Exchange after security updates.
Coupled with Outlook's habit of saving all your email in a single.PST file that can't be incrementally backed up and has a maximum isze of 2 GB, you have a ridiculously poor mail service that requires extensive client backup to protect email. It doesn't mirror well, it doesn't fail-over well, and it doesn't spread the load well with less than a $100,000 investment in hardware and server room and configuration time.
I've watched 3 major companies forced to install upstream SMTP servers because of the failures of MS Exchange under load, and in one case helped guide them through the requirements of an actual SMTP server, authentication system, and spam filter. It's quite a lot of expense and work to clean up after the mess left by an MS Exchange installation and a bunch of MS 'consultants'. SMTP rather than merely Exchange server. It was a real adventure.
Mostly, it doesn't get altered. You get some fascinating effects that retard electromagnetic effects, but the original quanta are usually travelling at C.
It gets even more interesting with gravitational effects, because there you have distortions between what a relativistically distinct observer sees with what is occurring in the frame of reference of the photon. It's fascinating stuff, and it's easy to confuse people with the math and get them thinking that you can break the speed of light by confusing these factors.
Tie-Dying classic nerd shirts, for example, would be good. And they could use their old shirts that have had ink leaks on them.
Making your own slide rules could be fun, with a box of wood slats, a few clips, and some permanent markers.
The biggest draw would probably be a bunch of bouncy friendly men and women from a beautician's college, doing scalp massages and stylish hair cuts, would be a big draw.
No. You can't. Pencils take quite a lot more force and aim to puncture a blood vessel or injure a critical organ than a razor blade, especially if the razor blade is in a decent handle of some sort. It takes real force to go through skin, even with a really sharp razor, but a pencil is a lot easier to block.
The utility knives used by the 9/11 attackers were a good choice of weapon: physicall robust, but extremely sharp and easy to cut flesh with.
Well, yes. There's no defense against *that*, it's equivalent to having a camera looking at everything you type But that's not what the original poster asked about: they asked about protecting their passwords.
They use a fascinating challenge/response system, requiring the synchronized and authenticated passkey. You need the passkey, as well, to log into these systems. This doesn't prevent other passwords you may type from being stolen, but it's very helpful to block that preliminary access without the specific SecurID passkey.
The synchronization, for good ones, is done by the successful logins. This allows the server to correct for client-side drift, without spending a lot of money on clock chips for what are basically throwaway devices.
Interestingly, Kerberos authentication (which is at the core of Microsoft's Active Directory authentication) relies on some very similar techniques, but doesn't have the clock drift correction: you're simply required to have a good clock setting. This is why Kerberos clients with no NTP set up and poor clock chips become unuable.
If you have the budget, there are useful RSA key generation widgets that are often used for VPN's and increaingly for online bank account acces, especially for business customers. I have several that work quite well for SSL, and others I've used for remote SSH acces succesfully.
Saying "You're paranoid, so I'll let you can have the last word" is not letting someone have the last word. It's pretending to, and acting holier-than-thou about it.
You've finally acknowledged it exists: you've made a claim about its frequency. How rare do you think it is? I'm estimating, from peer reports, that they get unjustifiably double-checked, even harassed, at least one in 10 trips at major airports. Based on LAPD's publicly exposed killings, beatings, and history of racism and harassment, I'm assuming that it's even more of an issue at LAX. The police don't do the casual gate inspections, but it's reasonable to assume that as the local police, they help set policy.
Good point. That's a subtlety of the particular technology, though. It's not a basic violation of the laws of physics to claim it's true for this approach, unlike the claims of infinite storage and no data loss from corrupting part of the media.
It's a good point, but not complete. You may not have a thumb drive at the moment, or access to a printer where the jobs are unobserved, or may not have the technical skills to transfer the data in a more subtle way. But web access is pretty common place, even inside allegedly 'secure' environments.
1. A small fragment of a hologram can reconstruct the entire data image. The fragment won't let you move as far around the image, but for 2D images, like a photograph, it means a scratch isn't fatal.
This is complete nonsense. A fragment provides a *reduced quality* duplicate of the data image. This is not so bad for photographs, but for digital data it's critical. Bit basic information theory says you can't recover the full image without actually storing the full image.
2. Data density is theoretically unlimited. By varying the angle between the reference and illumination beams - or the angle of the media - hundreds of holograms can be stored in the same physical area.
Again, complete horse hockey pucks. Storage of additional images on a physical medium is certainly possible, but the ability to control the aforesaid 'angle' and recover meaningful data is not infinite. It's limited by the theoretical factors like optical diffraction and resolution, and by the spatial resolution of normal matter made up of real molecules.
Are you saying that it doesn't happen? And that it's not a common problem that security staff's 'behavioral' observations are not often flat-out racist? Because there are a lot of successful lawsuits against police and security departments that I'd like to point you to as evidence otherwise.
Is it universal? No. There are plenty of good people holding the line in security and police work, trying to treat people fairly. But the idea that there are subtle masterminds using 'real behaviorism' to detect terrorists and smugglers, without their staff occasionally being racist pigs about it, is really funny.
From the fact that you 'travel a lot', I suspect you're yourself a white business traveler: exactly the sort who would not be harassed. Spend the time at a terminal, particularly at a notoriously bad one, to watch the staff. Wait for your next flight on the other side of the security gate, where you can see whom the security staff choose to search.
And bear in mindn that business travelers like yourself have learned, the hard way, what not to carry before you assume that there's any misbehavior in others having a few restricted items like soft drink bottles.
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The idea that S&M play has a 'healthy and normal' standard is pretty funny. Even in this day of AIDS, human vampirism is still a hobby some engage in, as is lancing, corseting, and sewing beads onto human skin. Tastes vary, and blood is a turn-on for some. Even menstrual blood is exciting to some people I've met, who've described vividly the difference in its flavor among different lovers.
I agree that the stain was probably from the murder of Nina: I just don't think we can discard the S&M or menstrual possibilities without thinking about them or examining the stain for signs of being menstrual blood, as others note is possible to do.
State courts do. Federal courts that can manage to get the case in front of them, do, but they're having real problems getting past the Department of Justice and 'national security' to hear the worst of these cases. And yes, it is your father's USA. If your parents are old enough, they lived through McCarthy-ism and the illegal harassment of Vietnam protesters and civil rights activists, and if they're really old or you have grandparent, they can tell you about what happened to the Japanese-Americans of World-War II. Every generation encounters this kind of abuse: some generations do better than others at stopping it.
This is utter nonsense. Such privilege is not absolute, and never has been: the circumstances under which it can be violated differ from state to state, but there are numerous cases of such privilege being overwhelmed by other needs.
Yes, we're in a lot of trouble. Please go read the un-classified parts of the Patriot Act, and be very, very frightened.
It's a good question. I'd put the sensors in the ceilings near the common rooms, where wi-fi or network access is available to the prisoners. Then I'd buy one of these (http://www.sandstorm.net/products/netintercept/) to intercept and reconstruct all traffic, and pay attention to the non-encrypted traffic for email and web traffic. And I'd hack into the people's machines and steal their PGP keys, if I were willing to take the risks of discovery (which are pretty small, given that security attacks occur all the time against most publicly exposed systems).
You've never had sex during your wife's or lover's period, for birth control reasons if no other? I wouldn't want to do that in a sleeping bag, I'd lay a towel down that I could wash, because getting blood or other smelly stains out of sleeping bags is difficult. But it's certainly not uncommon.
Also, remember that Nina Reiser was a mail-order bride, and was clearly into S&M with her new lover. Sex with Hans at that point may not have been 'normal', although I wonder if Hans would have admitted to that on the stand lest he convince the jury he's an S&M 'pervert' as well as being a murderer. If I were his attorney, I wouldn't want him talking about that if I could avoid it.
Enough blood to remain in the sleeping bag, detectably and verifiably Nina's blood? That's probably quite a stain. I'd assume Hans accidentally wiped his hands on the bag while moving it, before he hosed down the car. The missing car seat with all the water in the car was, itself, pretty compelling.
Thank you for the correction on OST. I thought you were referring to yet another local storage technology, not a moral equivalent of server side 'mbox'-like technology. But it's still a single file per client, it just resides on the server, right? And someone has to go and convert all the existing PST based setups to OST, and make sure the clients stay setup htat way, right? For a 100 person company, that's a lot of very expensive engineering time, and it's going to keep happening with all new email setups.
That's why I suggest the cost for it would be so high: making all new users switch to it, and stay switched to it, is very expensive. And while it can centralize your storage, it's still an expensive incremental and proprietary backup storage issue with serious individual email message recovery issues, right?
I've had good success with maildir storage up to about 200 Gig for an entire mail server, with individual user's directories up to about 10 Gig, and had good success with 2.6 Linux kernels and some Solaris kernels with filesystems that dealt well with directories with thousands of files in them. It used to be much more painful, before the advent of the ext3 file system: I wouldn't use reiserfs now that Hans Reiser has been convicted of murder.
So, force everyone to use OST instead of PST? Great: go force every client to do things in a non-standard way. That's $20,000 of support costs in a mid-ize installation, right htere.
Buy an add-on commercial solution to provide incremental PST backups? That's another $5000 on a single server of both software and techincal time, $20,000 if you have to do it across a broad range of off-line clients in a mid-size site.
Upgrade from Outlook 2003, in a business environment where numerous desktops still run XP and haven't invested in the latest Office? That's another $20,0000 of upgrades.
Expensive client-based incremental backup solutions for the OST files you mentioned, coupled with the hideoous performance of Exchange for users with more than a few Gig of mail and the unreliable and unstable backup and restoration techniques asociated with it? One may as well join the White House 'we lost all the old email!' club today and save yourself the rush.
I'm being quite harsh about this, but I've had good incremental backup and robust failover with several mid-size IMAP/Maildir solutions. It just works, and it leaves people free to use a wide variety of clients. What it lacks is the calendar integration of MS Exchange, which does take thought to replace. But to say that Exchange is a good product seems unjustified in the face of its numerous flaws and the expensive and unreliable workarounds to cope with them.
This article lists no primary sources of Negroponte's opinions, Bender's opinions, or in fact any other referneces to direct opinions. You may as well use a meta-analysis of psychiatric studies of psychiatric studies to validate cancer treatments.
I know it's a slow news day, but this is wasting time looking for flame wars.
You apparently use your email as an extensive way to store your information, and haven't learned to expect better from your addressbook or calendar system. For both casual users who trip over its complexities and mis-handled features, and for power users who run into its limitatons _hard_, Exchange is absolutely awful Its bare SMTP handling is awful, and a poorly done add-on to its internal messaging: this makes it an absolutely awful for an externally facing mail server. This effectively doubles the price of many corporate mail systems, because they have to buy and administer an entirely distinct outwards facing mail server, one which requires frequent massaging to continue communicating with MS Exchange after security updates.
.PST file that can't be incrementally backed up and has a maximum isze of 2 GB, you have a ridiculously poor mail service that requires extensive client backup to protect email. It doesn't mirror well, it doesn't fail-over well, and it doesn't spread the load well with less than a $100,000 investment in hardware and server room and configuration time.
Coupled with Outlook's habit of saving all your email in a single
I've watched 3 major companies forced to install upstream SMTP servers because of the failures of MS Exchange under load, and in one case helped guide them through the requirements of an actual SMTP server, authentication system, and spam filter. It's quite a lot of expense and work to clean up after the mess left by an MS Exchange installation and a bunch of MS 'consultants'.
SMTP rather than merely Exchange server. It was a real adventure.
Mostly, it doesn't get altered. You get some fascinating effects that retard electromagnetic effects, but the original quanta are usually travelling at C. It gets even more interesting with gravitational effects, because there you have distortions between what a relativistically distinct observer sees with what is occurring in the frame of reference of the photon. It's fascinating stuff, and it's easy to confuse people with the math and get them thinking that you can break the speed of light by confusing these factors.
Tie-Dying classic nerd shirts, for example, would be good. And they could use their old shirts that have had ink leaks on them.
Making your own slide rules could be fun, with a box of wood slats, a few clips, and some permanent markers.
The biggest draw would probably be a bunch of bouncy friendly men and women from a beautician's college, doing scalp massages and stylish hair cuts, would be a big draw.
No. You can't. Pencils take quite a lot more force and aim to puncture a blood vessel or injure a critical organ than a razor blade, especially if the razor blade is in a decent handle of some sort. It takes real force to go through skin, even with a really sharp razor, but a pencil is a lot easier to block.
The utility knives used by the 9/11 attackers were a good choice of weapon: physicall robust, but extremely sharp and easy to cut flesh with.
Well, yes. There's no defense against *that*, it's equivalent to having a camera looking at everything you type But that's not what the original poster asked about: they asked about protecting their passwords.
You've never actually used one, have you?
They use a fascinating challenge/response system, requiring the synchronized and authenticated passkey. You need the passkey, as well, to log into these systems. This doesn't prevent other passwords you may type from being stolen, but it's very helpful to block that preliminary access without the specific SecurID passkey.
The synchronization, for good ones, is done by the successful logins. This allows the server to correct for client-side drift, without spending a lot of money on clock chips for what are basically throwaway devices.
Interestingly, Kerberos authentication (which is at the core of Microsoft's Active Directory authentication) relies on some very similar techniques, but doesn't have the clock drift correction: you're simply required to have a good clock setting. This is why Kerberos clients with no NTP set up and poor clock chips become unuable.
If you have the budget, there are useful RSA key generation widgets that are often used for VPN's and increaingly for online bank account acces, especially for business customers. I have several that work quite well for SSL, and others I've used for remote SSH acces succesfully.
Saying "You're paranoid, so I'll let you can have the last word" is not letting someone have the last word. It's pretending to, and acting holier-than-thou about it.
You've finally acknowledged it exists: you've made a claim about its frequency. How rare do you think it is? I'm estimating, from peer reports, that they get unjustifiably double-checked, even harassed, at least one in 10 trips at major airports. Based on LAPD's publicly exposed killings, beatings, and history of racism and harassment, I'm assuming that it's even more of an issue at LAX. The police don't do the casual gate inspections, but it's reasonable to assume that as the local police, they help set policy.
Good point. That's a subtlety of the particular technology, though. It's not a basic violation of the laws of physics to claim it's true for this approach, unlike the claims of infinite storage and no data loss from corrupting part of the media.
It's a good point, but not complete. You may not have a thumb drive at the moment, or access to a printer where the jobs are unobserved, or may not have the technical skills to transfer the data in a more subtle way. But web access is pretty common place, even inside allegedly 'secure' environments.
And the year after that, full DirectX compatibility for Vista!
Oh, wait, that'll never happen.
It's really embarassingly bad. It makes 2 claims:
1. A small fragment of a hologram can reconstruct the entire data image. The fragment won't let you move as far around the image, but for 2D images, like a photograph, it means a scratch isn't fatal.
This is complete nonsense. A fragment provides a *reduced quality* duplicate of the data image. This is not so bad for photographs, but for digital data it's critical. Bit basic information theory says you can't recover the full image without actually storing the full image.
2. Data density is theoretically unlimited. By varying the angle between the reference and illumination beams - or the angle of the media - hundreds of holograms can be stored in the same physical area.
Again, complete horse hockey pucks. Storage of additional images on a physical medium is certainly possible, but the ability to control the aforesaid 'angle' and recover meaningful data is not infinite. It's limited by the theoretical factors like optical diffraction and resolution, and by the spatial resolution of normal matter made up of real molecules.
Would you like my old Bernoulli drives, or shall I find a friend with a laserdisc player?
Are you saying that it doesn't happen? And that it's not a common problem that security staff's 'behavioral' observations are not often flat-out racist? Because there are a lot of successful lawsuits against police and security departments that I'd like to point you to as evidence otherwise. Is it universal? No. There are plenty of good people holding the line in security and police work, trying to treat people fairly. But the idea that there are subtle masterminds using 'real behaviorism' to detect terrorists and smugglers, without their staff occasionally being racist pigs about it, is really funny. From the fact that you 'travel a lot', I suspect you're yourself a white business traveler: exactly the sort who would not be harassed. Spend the time at a terminal, particularly at a notoriously bad one, to watch the staff. Wait for your next flight on the other side of the security gate, where you can see whom the security staff choose to search. And bear in mindn that business travelers like yourself have learned, the hard way, what not to carry before you assume that there's any misbehavior in others having a few restricted items like soft drink bottles.