Actually this reminds me of those Old machines that old astronomers used to try to explain how the heavens worked. Before we knew that we weren't the center of the universe... before the understanding of retrograde motion, they just kept adding gears to these things to make it work closer and closer to what they saw. They thought the answer to everything was "It must be more complex than what we understand". If I have learned anything in my life worth knowing is that the universe than we want to give it credit for.
A legal loophole that exploits school should not be allowed. Not only do our tax dollars go to school so that they can have.edu domain names, but they are being exploited. On the other side, this will make a lot of money!
So... life ISN'T fair?! Wait until I tell everyone!
Just make it mandatory that a government agency has to use NetBEUI as their network protocol, using MS Proxy Server as their gateway to the tubes. Hacking potential goes WAY down.
I took a research study doing tests like this at UPMC. A lot of it was horrible tests such as:
A green or red square will appear every 15 seconds, along with an arrow that points right or left. If the square is green, you press the mouse button that corresponds with the direction of the arrow (if it points left hit the left button. If it points right, click the right button). If the square is red, you press the button opposite the direction the arrow is pointing.
Now, imagine doing this for an hour or more straight, with wet electrodes attached to your head. After about 10 minutes (at most), you can't help but completely wander off mentally and stop paying attention to what you are doing. Maybe that is the intention. Your goal is to do your best, because this is a "worth while" study after all on how the brain operates. Things start to flash up and you consciously don't pick up what just flashed, so you spend a good part of those 15 seconds trying to dig up any memory of the past 15 seconds. Maybe you had to be there. You don't even want to know the torture of doing these kinds of tests for HOURS inside an MRI machine.
Some of us really ARE Engineers. Raise your hand if you ever had a solo project where you had to design/implement the server code, the client code, the servers machines themselves, the client machines themselves, the database it all ran on, and the protocols in which they all interacted. After all, which, since it is your baby, you get all of the bug reports and feature requests, the work to go with it, and all of the testing your brain can handle. I can't actually see any of you, but I would be a rotten banana that I am not the only one with my hand up.
No, we are on the balloon. The surface of the balloon is a 2D representation of our 3D space.
You are trying to oversimplifying it and it is getting in the way. The balloon is our universe. Drawing a grid on the outside would be akin to cubing up a block of cheese. Get past the fact that it is drawn on a 2d surface. This represents cubes of space/time within our universe.
In the end, the change in distance is offset by the change in time, which makes it a non-issue.
An unrelated, but equally technical postulation would be, imagine that everything in the universe was growing! Everything is also moving away from each other at a proportional ratio to how fast it is growing. Use any numbers you want. When it comes down to it, IT DOESN'T MATTER, because everything would be the same in our frame of reference. It would only be different to someone outside of our universe, who isn't affected.
To use your analogy, draw a grid on the balloon. When you inflate the balloon, the grid squares grow. But one unit is still one unit. If you had to measure around the balloon, it would be x squares, regardless the size. This is because we are IN the balloon so that is our frame of reference. You are measuring it outside of the universe, and it just doesn't work like that.
If space (and in effect time) stretched like that, it wouldn't even matter. It would be like stretching a gummy bear... sure, maybe you got a long gummy bear, but it is still ONE gummy bear. If space stretched, so would time, and one unit of space-time is one-unit of space-time, regardless.
I think the original reason for banning was being unsure whether it interfered with the operation of the plane. Sure, it PROBABLY won't, and on paper it shouldn't (just like needing to turn your cell phone off around explosive detonators), but no one was/is willing to take the chance until someone with authority could flat out say "It WON'T happen".
Now that we have finally gotten there, the majority still wants to keep the cell phone ban, but for more social reasons. They don't want to have to deal with jackasses all around them squawking like parrots, causing an already uncomfortable ride more uncomfortable. I honestly don't think anyone actually CARES who enforces it... just that it is enforced. So, sure, take it out of the FCC's/Uncle Sam's hands. I don't think anyone here would argue. They are just expressing, whoever's job it is to make this decision, be it the airline or whoever, WE STILL DON'T WANT CELL PHONES ON PLANES.
Quite easily. For instance, you scan the logs and find that my machine visits slashdot, say, 10x a day on average. Somewhere along the lines, we have a max on a day where I visited slashdot 20x. So to start with, the threashold is average + (max - average) essentially saying that if I visit slashdot more than you have ever seen before, flag it.
Obviously, there will be days that I go beyond this. It doesn't become an issue seeing it in the logs unless I see something akin to 40+ visits to slashdot have taken place that day. As time goes on, the averages and thresholds match better to my internet habits.
This also means, if you were to take such an approach, you have to have logs of some sort already exist. For me this was a no brainer. For others who just wake up one day and decide to take security seriously, then it will be more of an issue. I consider that to be the pain of stupidity though. Even on a retail, dedicated, linksys router for instance, there is no practical reason not to turn logging on.
We aren't talking rocket science here. If a website is being visited above a certain threshold of what is seen previously in the logs, flag it. If a number of new websites above a certain threshold are being visited, flag it. Do the same for FTP/SSH/InsertYourFavoriteProtocolHere. Obviously, there are cases where something is flagged that isn't meanie activity... so you go "Meh. I was spidering a lot of porn that day". In these cases, false positives aren't necessarily a bad thing. It is just one more line on the report.
I simply wrote a script that scans through traffic logs on the router and gives me a nice report of questionable (not typical) traffic patterns. I've caught some baddies on a buddies machine that was on my network.
It simply isn't permissible in the US legal system to prevent a plaintiff with a legitimate claim from discovering the identity of the person they have that claim against.
That's just it! Prove to me you HAVE a legitimate claim, THEN you can have the name. Else, bringing up any bogus lawsuit would be easy means of finding anyone's identity.
Yes and no. I mean, the problem that you point out is only exists because a quantum computer is cracking an encryption that had to run in reasonable time on today's computers. But quantum computers don't have to be just one way like that... now you would have at your disposal a computer that can run encryption that would take thousands or millions of years on todays machines, on your data.
Actually, they might be wise to take a page from the whole New Coke book. You know... have a New Windows, but bring back a "Windows Classic" for all of those who complain they can't run their Win9x and such software. Only in this iteration, don't eliminate the "New" when you bring back "Classic". Just maintain them as different needs for different people.
But terrorists? Only if the engineers are lonely, disgruntled people in-general. I think most engineers would be more Constructive than Destructive by nature
You see... that is the problem. The term "Terrorist" has been so deluded that most people will fall into that category anymore. Smoke pot? Terrorist. Downloaded a song? Terrorist. Using SSH? Terrorist.
And it is thrown around even more, if you show an average intelligence larger than those who would label you a terrorist... and how many people do you think fall into that category?
I don't know. To me, the outer shell is the least important/interesting thing about these creatures. I would think the key would be more to look at how the insides worked, and how they have evolved since then... what made the grade and what was cast aside.
Slashdot Mirror
You are correct. I have no idea where those words went :(((((((((
Actually this reminds me of those Old machines that old astronomers used to try to explain how the heavens worked. Before we knew that we weren't the center of the universe... before the understanding of retrograde motion, they just kept adding gears to these things to make it work closer and closer to what they saw. They thought the answer to everything was "It must be more complex than what we understand". If I have learned anything in my life worth knowing is that the universe than we want to give it credit for.
A legal loophole that exploits school should not be allowed. Not only do our tax dollars go to school so that they can have .edu domain names, but they are being exploited. On the other side, this will make a lot of money!
So... life ISN'T fair?! Wait until I tell everyone!
Just make it mandatory that a government agency has to use NetBEUI as their network protocol, using MS Proxy Server as their gateway to the tubes. Hacking potential goes WAY down.
I took a research study doing tests like this at UPMC. A lot of it was horrible tests such as:
A green or red square will appear every 15 seconds, along with an arrow that points right or left. If the square is green, you press the mouse button that corresponds with the direction of the arrow (if it points left hit the left button. If it points right, click the right button). If the square is red, you press the button opposite the direction the arrow is pointing.
Now, imagine doing this for an hour or more straight, with wet electrodes attached to your head. After about 10 minutes (at most), you can't help but completely wander off mentally and stop paying attention to what you are doing. Maybe that is the intention. Your goal is to do your best, because this is a "worth while" study after all on how the brain operates. Things start to flash up and you consciously don't pick up what just flashed, so you spend a good part of those 15 seconds trying to dig up any memory of the past 15 seconds. Maybe you had to be there. You don't even want to know the torture of doing these kinds of tests for HOURS inside an MRI machine.
Some of us really ARE Engineers. Raise your hand if you ever had a solo project where you had to design/implement the server code, the client code, the servers machines themselves, the client machines themselves, the database it all ran on, and the protocols in which they all interacted. After all, which, since it is your baby, you get all of the bug reports and feature requests, the work to go with it, and all of the testing your brain can handle. I can't actually see any of you, but I would be a rotten banana that I am not the only one with my hand up.
Don't hate brotha! I know this other guy who couldn't beat Contra either, even with the 30 lives!
I had a botnet once... didn't catch very many bots, but I got a shitload of dolphins :(
No, we are on the balloon. The surface of the balloon is a 2D representation of our 3D space.
You are trying to oversimplifying it and it is getting in the way. The balloon is our universe. Drawing a grid on the outside would be akin to cubing up a block of cheese. Get past the fact that it is drawn on a 2d surface. This represents cubes of space/time within our universe.
In the end, the change in distance is offset by the change in time, which makes it a non-issue.
An unrelated, but equally technical postulation would be, imagine that everything in the universe was growing! Everything is also moving away from each other at a proportional ratio to how fast it is growing. Use any numbers you want. When it comes down to it, IT DOESN'T MATTER, because everything would be the same in our frame of reference. It would only be different to someone outside of our universe, who isn't affected.
To use your analogy, draw a grid on the balloon. When you inflate the balloon, the grid squares grow. But one unit is still one unit. If you had to measure around the balloon, it would be x squares, regardless the size. This is because we are IN the balloon so that is our frame of reference. You are measuring it outside of the universe, and it just doesn't work like that.
If space (and in effect time) stretched like that, it wouldn't even matter. It would be like stretching a gummy bear... sure, maybe you got a long gummy bear, but it is still ONE gummy bear. If space stretched, so would time, and one unit of space-time is one-unit of space-time, regardless.
I think the original reason for banning was being unsure whether it interfered with the operation of the plane. Sure, it PROBABLY won't, and on paper it shouldn't (just like needing to turn your cell phone off around explosive detonators), but no one was/is willing to take the chance until someone with authority could flat out say "It WON'T happen".
Now that we have finally gotten there, the majority still wants to keep the cell phone ban, but for more social reasons. They don't want to have to deal with jackasses all around them squawking like parrots, causing an already uncomfortable ride more uncomfortable. I honestly don't think anyone actually CARES who enforces it... just that it is enforced. So, sure, take it out of the FCC's/Uncle Sam's hands. I don't think anyone here would argue. They are just expressing, whoever's job it is to make this decision, be it the airline or whoever, WE STILL DON'T WANT CELL PHONES ON PLANES.
Quite easily. For instance, you scan the logs and find that my machine visits slashdot, say, 10x a day on average. Somewhere along the lines, we have a max on a day where I visited slashdot 20x. So to start with, the threashold is average + (max - average) essentially saying that if I visit slashdot more than you have ever seen before, flag it.
Obviously, there will be days that I go beyond this. It doesn't become an issue seeing it in the logs unless I see something akin to 40+ visits to slashdot have taken place that day. As time goes on, the averages and thresholds match better to my internet habits.
This also means, if you were to take such an approach, you have to have logs of some sort already exist. For me this was a no brainer. For others who just wake up one day and decide to take security seriously, then it will be more of an issue. I consider that to be the pain of stupidity though. Even on a retail, dedicated, linksys router for instance, there is no practical reason not to turn logging on.
We aren't talking rocket science here. If a website is being visited above a certain threshold of what is seen previously in the logs, flag it. If a number of new websites above a certain threshold are being visited, flag it. Do the same for FTP/SSH/InsertYourFavoriteProtocolHere. Obviously, there are cases where something is flagged that isn't meanie activity... so you go "Meh. I was spidering a lot of porn that day". In these cases, false positives aren't necessarily a bad thing. It is just one more line on the report.
They call this karaoke.
I simply wrote a script that scans through traffic logs on the router and gives me a nice report of questionable (not typical) traffic patterns. I've caught some baddies on a buddies machine that was on my network.
Thanks for completely ripping me off, asshole. Probably why you posted as an Anonymous Coward.
It simply isn't permissible in the US legal system to prevent a plaintiff with a legitimate claim from discovering the identity of the person they have that claim against.
That's just it! Prove to me you HAVE a legitimate claim, THEN you can have the name. Else, bringing up any bogus lawsuit would be easy means of finding anyone's identity.
I think this Muppet Show sketch pretty much puts it all in perspective:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw
Yes and no. I mean, the problem that you point out is only exists because a quantum computer is cracking an encryption that had to run in reasonable time on today's computers. But quantum computers don't have to be just one way like that... now you would have at your disposal a computer that can run encryption that would take thousands or millions of years on todays machines, on your data.
Actually, they might be wise to take a page from the whole New Coke book. You know... have a New Windows, but bring back a "Windows Classic" for all of those who complain they can't run their Win9x and such software. Only in this iteration, don't eliminate the "New" when you bring back "Classic". Just maintain them as different needs for different people.
I blame firefox. I right-clicked on my terrible spelling error, and that was the only choice it gave me... seemed good enough.
But terrorists? Only if the engineers are lonely, disgruntled people in-general. I think most engineers would be more Constructive than Destructive by nature
You see... that is the problem. The term "Terrorist" has been so deluded that most people will fall into that category anymore. Smoke pot? Terrorist. Downloaded a song? Terrorist. Using SSH? Terrorist.
And it is thrown around even more, if you show an average intelligence larger than those who would label you a terrorist... and how many people do you think fall into that category?
I don't know. To me, the outer shell is the least important/interesting thing about these creatures. I would think the key would be more to look at how the insides worked, and how they have evolved since then... what made the grade and what was cast aside.
Wait... you mean to tell me life ISN'T fair. foooooooooook