Remember Space: 1999? Where's our moon base? What about the artificial intelligence we were supposed to have by now, according to 2001: A Space Odyssey? And what about George Orwell's 1984 first published in 1949? Who ever thought it would end up as a reality-TV show? And who ever could have predicted that porn would be so accessible and abundant because of the Internet? Star Trek (the original series) did kind of predict the cell phone technology, though, but off by a few... um... centuries.
During the early days of the Web, before Java, scripting languages, and Active X controls, people knew that running remote code on your computer was simply wrong. Now look at all the viruses and worms that propagate through the Internet simply because remote code can be loaded onto a computer and run so easily.
Any banking network must be completely physically separate from the Internet. And It must use an entirely different system, incompatible with the internet as well, using different hardware and protocols, just in case somewhere along the line some connection is inadvertently made. This would provide the same "security through obscurity" that Linux and Mac users enjoy in an internet full of Windows viruses.
Any attempt to somehow integrate banking with the existing Internet will eventually result in security breaches. No matter what kind of encryption or even hardware methods of security are implemented, there will constantly be new vulnerabilities discovered if there is any physical line of access from the public internet.
Hardware firewalls have already been proven to be succeptible to network attacks via DNS. Some people have a clue about this, given the example of a two headed hard drive previously mentioned on Slashdot, to physically separate the hard drive writing process from public access.
If they can't get "Gmail" registered, then they should just get "Gmail.com" registered. I'm sure that the fact they own the domain name would insure that nobody else can use it as a trademark, despite the Katie.com saga.
Can laser eye surgery actually be used to give someone 20/10 vision? I knew it could correct bad eyesight, but I didn't know it could make normal eyesight even better. I'll get it done at the same time as my next Botox appointment.
All kidding aside though, I really do want to know. That sounds interesting.
"Unlicensed spectrum is sounding like crack cocaine: the ultimate high that solves all your problems," says Brian Fontes, a lobbyist who works for Cingular, America's second-largest mobile-phone company (and the largest once its acquisition of AT&T Wireless, a rival, is complete).
I didn't know that about crack and I don't think it's common knowledge either. Sounds like he is a bit too familiar with it. I guess this is a little insight into why lobbyists are such whores for money, and what they spend it on.
I've never tried the Network Boot feature in the Startup Disk section of System Preferences in OS X. Does this still require OS X to be installed locally? I just presumed that it allows the firmware to load the whole OS from a LAN server and keep it off the local drive to optimise space, and I also presumed that this could be done just as well over AirPort as it could through the Ethernet port. And since LANs can be set up so that users can log on different machines with their files stored on the server, I presumed network booting computers could do without a local drive. If OS X can't do this, can Linux? If it can over Ethernet, can it do it over 802.11g? I'm just curious.
As for the speculated Mac tablet, if it were wireless device that didn't have a hard drive, could it still be a thin client that runs over 802.11g? Perhaps the Mac OS X System Architecture could allow a thin client for the GUI while the actual application runs on another computer, like a X Server, or Windows Thin Clients. The page on the OS X System Architecture says Quartz supports remote display, so I suppose it is the OS X equivalent of an X Server. Perhaps Quartz allows for the possibility of thin clients for Mac OS X networks.
If this is a tablet computer equipped to do a network boot of OS X through 802.11g, would it be possible to have the unit work as some sort of a thin client without a hard drive? Perhaps rather than a unit working independently of a computer, it would be a thin-client supplement for a desktop or laptop. I've always wondered if this could be done, because I presume that it would lengthen battery life and could be very thin in design. I would love to see a tablet computer that simply looked like a detached screen of a powerbook without all the buttons and extraneous shapes the Tablet PCs have. That may be possible by excluding a hard drive, CD/DVD drive, and keyboard from the unit.
I recall reading something that may have been a hint about this alleged product. Here's a quote from AppleInsider...
"When Jobs was demonstrating the new Airport Express, Walt Mossberg said that the biggest problem he saw was that users had to get up and walk to their computers to change play lists. Jobs joked that walking was good, but when pressed, he smiled a wry smile. AppleInsider correspondents took this to mean that Apple is developing in this area, and the Airport Express is just a step along the way."
I seem to remember reading that green was the brain's natural signal to stop
I don't recall hearing anything like that exactly, but I do recall learning in a psychology course that green was more visible to the eye- something to do with the rods and cones of the retina. Because of this, it is preferable to paint firetrucks green rather than red to make them more visible to drivers from a distance so they can get out of the way.
I heard that Botox can actually be used to treat Hyperhydrosis. In looking it up, I came up with this link that mentions it as well as a whole range of other treatment options.
Hilton said the site's operator, Christopher Lamparello, intended to divert people from the Jerry Falwell Ministries' Web site "with the direct intent to tarnish or disparage" Falwell.
You mean some guy who blames Americans for the September 11 terrorist attacks and condemns the Teletubbies needs help in tarnishing or disparaging his own image?
The toy images are non-holographic where there is what looks like a linear fresnel lens adhered to a specially printed paper. These are able to give multiple images if you move your head, and some are intended to simulate 3D, depending on the shape of the lensing and printing on the paper.
They are called Lenticular prints. They can either be used to portray 3d images, or 2D images that move when you shift positions. These guys do large format prints using that technology. They have even done work for Apple. They can make billboards by piecing together larger prints.
Gamers, what about reviewers of *ahem* adult entertainment material?
I came across a site that says it has 3D porn for use with shutter glasses, that you can use on a regular television. I've never actually seen one of them. Has anyone on/. seen it? Or rather, would anyone out there actually admit they have one and comment on it?
My ISP filters out spam, as well as the Mail application in OS X, which automatically deletes junk mail after a specified amount of time. I never actually see the stuff. I suppose corporate email systems can do the same thing. Only real emails would normally appear in inboxes in this case, so those would be the ones that this article warns about deleting. However, if anyone wants to go through your emails and you don't want them to, flooding them with all the spam you get would be a way to hinder their efforts.
It was in the Internet Connect application under VPN. Does this mean that it only applies to VPN and I can't use it to secure my internet connection for general web browsing and email through my ISP? I'm thinking this means I can use it only if I was hooked up to a server in a VPN configuration- is that right?
I just got an Airport Express recently and during the setup process it gave me the option of using WEP or WPA, which it said was more secure, so I chose the latter. Why hasn't anyone mentioned WPA in this discussion? I don't really know anything about it other than it is supposed to be a more secure alternative to WEP, yet I've never heard anyone mention it even from the store I bought the Airport Express from.
Also, is there IPSEC for OS X? It's not mentioned anywhere in the Airport Admin Utility. Is it built-in? I Googled for it, and some of the first few links mention vulnerabilities in Mac OS X IPSEC. What's this all about?
That's so odd- your comment is eerily similar to mine. I was composing mine as you were posting yours, but both manage to bring up the same points and even link to the same book.
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Remember Space: 1999? Where's our moon base? What about the artificial intelligence we were supposed to have by now, according to 2001: A Space Odyssey? And what about George Orwell's 1984 first published in 1949? Who ever thought it would end up as a reality-TV show? And who ever could have predicted that porn would be so accessible and abundant because of the Internet? Star Trek (the original series) did kind of predict the cell phone technology, though, but off by a few... um... centuries.
During the early days of the Web, before Java, scripting languages, and Active X controls, people knew that running remote code on your computer was simply wrong. Now look at all the viruses and worms that propagate through the Internet simply because remote code can be loaded onto a computer and run so easily.
Any banking network must be completely physically separate from the Internet. And It must use an entirely different system, incompatible with the internet as well, using different hardware and protocols, just in case somewhere along the line some connection is inadvertently made. This would provide the same "security through obscurity" that Linux and Mac users enjoy in an internet full of Windows viruses.
Any attempt to somehow integrate banking with the existing Internet will eventually result in security breaches. No matter what kind of encryption or even hardware methods of security are implemented, there will constantly be new vulnerabilities discovered if there is any physical line of access from the public internet.
Hardware firewalls have already been proven to be succeptible to network attacks via DNS. Some people have a clue about this, given the example of a two headed hard drive previously mentioned on Slashdot, to physically separate the hard drive writing process from public access.
If they can't get "Gmail" registered, then they should just get "Gmail.com" registered. I'm sure that the fact they own the domain name would insure that nobody else can use it as a trademark, despite the Katie.com saga.
Can laser eye surgery actually be used to give someone 20/10 vision? I knew it could correct bad eyesight, but I didn't know it could make normal eyesight even better. I'll get it done at the same time as my next Botox appointment.
All kidding aside though, I really do want to know. That sounds interesting.
From the article...
I didn't know that about crack and I don't think it's common knowledge either. Sounds like he is a bit too familiar with it. I guess this is a little insight into why lobbyists are such whores for money, and what they spend it on.
Because the French tax electronics for artists' royalties.
He just did.
I've never tried the Network Boot feature in the Startup Disk section of System Preferences in OS X. Does this still require OS X to be installed locally? I just presumed that it allows the firmware to load the whole OS from a LAN server and keep it off the local drive to optimise space, and I also presumed that this could be done just as well over AirPort as it could through the Ethernet port. And since LANs can be set up so that users can log on different machines with their files stored on the server, I presumed network booting computers could do without a local drive. If OS X can't do this, can Linux? If it can over Ethernet, can it do it over 802.11g? I'm just curious.
As for the speculated Mac tablet, if it were wireless device that didn't have a hard drive, could it still be a thin client that runs over 802.11g? Perhaps the Mac OS X System Architecture could allow a thin client for the GUI while the actual application runs on another computer, like a X Server, or Windows Thin Clients. The page on the OS X System Architecture says Quartz supports remote display, so I suppose it is the OS X equivalent of an X Server. Perhaps Quartz allows for the possibility of thin clients for Mac OS X networks.
Specs. that I'm pulling out of my backside;
That's a lot of specs. Is that you, goatse man?
If this is a tablet computer equipped to do a network boot of OS X through 802.11g, would it be possible to have the unit work as some sort of a thin client without a hard drive? Perhaps rather than a unit working independently of a computer, it would be a thin-client supplement for a desktop or laptop. I've always wondered if this could be done, because I presume that it would lengthen battery life and could be very thin in design. I would love to see a tablet computer that simply looked like a detached screen of a powerbook without all the buttons and extraneous shapes the Tablet PCs have. That may be possible by excluding a hard drive, CD/DVD drive, and keyboard from the unit.
I recall reading something that may have been a hint about this alleged product. Here's a quote from AppleInsider...
Microsoft Admits Monopoly Battle Hurting Image... in Japan!
You forgot to mention that little issue of being convicted of breaking anti-monopoly laws in the US.
I seem to remember reading that green was the brain's natural signal to stop
I don't recall hearing anything like that exactly, but I do recall learning in a psychology course that green was more visible to the eye- something to do with the rods and cones of the retina. Because of this, it is preferable to paint firetrucks green rather than red to make them more visible to drivers from a distance so they can get out of the way.
I heard that Botox can actually be used to treat Hyperhydrosis. In looking it up, I came up with this link that mentions it as well as a whole range of other treatment options.
Hell, I've seen geeks who have forearm imbalances like a tennis player!
Not to mention Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tennis Elbow.
Hilton said the site's operator, Christopher Lamparello, intended to divert people from the Jerry Falwell Ministries' Web site "with the direct intent to tarnish or disparage" Falwell.
You mean some guy who blames Americans for the September 11 terrorist attacks and condemns the Teletubbies needs help in tarnishing or disparaging his own image?
Researchers have come up with tiles that move in concert with a user's pace... in Japan!
The toy images are non-holographic where there is what looks like a linear fresnel lens adhered to a specially printed paper. These are able to give multiple images if you move your head, and some are intended to simulate 3D, depending on the shape of the lensing and printing on the paper.
They are called Lenticular prints. They can either be used to portray 3d images, or 2D images that move when you shift positions. These guys do large format prints using that technology. They have even done work for Apple. They can make billboards by piecing together larger prints.
Gamers, what about reviewers of *ahem* adult entertainment material?
I came across a site that says it has 3D porn for use with shutter glasses, that you can use on a regular television. I've never actually seen one of them. Has anyone on /. seen it? Or rather, would anyone out there actually admit they have one and comment on it?
My ISP filters out spam, as well as the Mail application in OS X, which automatically deletes junk mail after a specified amount of time. I never actually see the stuff. I suppose corporate email systems can do the same thing. Only real emails would normally appear in inboxes in this case, so those would be the ones that this article warns about deleting. However, if anyone wants to go through your emails and you don't want them to, flooding them with all the spam you get would be a way to hinder their efforts.
It was in the Internet Connect application under VPN. Does this mean that it only applies to VPN and I can't use it to secure my internet connection for general web browsing and email through my ISP? I'm thinking this means I can use it only if I was hooked up to a server in a VPN configuration- is that right?
I just got an Airport Express recently and during the setup process it gave me the option of using WEP or WPA, which it said was more secure, so I chose the latter. Why hasn't anyone mentioned WPA in this discussion? I don't really know anything about it other than it is supposed to be a more secure alternative to WEP, yet I've never heard anyone mention it even from the store I bought the Airport Express from.
Also, is there IPSEC for OS X? It's not mentioned anywhere in the Airport Admin Utility. Is it built-in? I Googled for it, and some of the first few links mention vulnerabilities in Mac OS X IPSEC. What's this all about?
That's so odd- your comment is eerily similar to mine. I was composing mine as you were posting yours, but both manage to bring up the same points and even link to the same book.
The writer isn't even admitting it's her lawyer.
Tarbox claims that Aftab doesn't represent her (link corrected)