Re:Just a proposal, hopefully...
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Dutch Pass iPod Tax
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Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. You pay twice, once for the songs you buy and once with the levy. Paying the levy has no legal implications in the sense that you can now download whatever you like. On the other hand downloading is legal as it stands now in the Netherlands. You are allowed to make copies for study etc. Hosting and offering copyrighted content without consent of the copyright holder is not allowed, downloading without consent is.
But seriously, I could rephrase your questions much more specifically
Nice background info, but not very helpful. The human brain excels in pattern recognition. The type of software he's looking for is therefore software aimed at training pattern recognition. Memory games for example. Since his mother is or used to be a accountant any memory games dealing with numbers would probably be go good place to start with, since that will be a familiar domain. Start with that, then find other memory games include that other knowledge domains.
ITIL is an extremely valuable set of practices for IT Service Management. It is not however a Project Management Methodology. Prince2, mentioned by others already, is. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, it can be scaled down to suit small projects too.
Since I saw this article in a MS Security newsletter I've started using passphrases. Here is an example of my Windows Server 2003 administrator login (local only, not going to help you). "Rent is due on the 5th".
I did something similar after reading this reseach document:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/tr500.pdf
I don't use passphrases, but passwords constructed from a phrase by using the first characters of the words, subsituting words with numerals (i.e. "twelve" becomes "12") and Capitalizing either verbs or nouns. A phrase like "Yesterday I had six beers before breakfast at Tiffany's" becomes "YIh6BbB@T". Fairly short, easy to remember, fairly hard to crack.
Plus some totally bizarro bullshit about "hackers tak[ing] bad advantage of raw hardware interfaces."
Actually it's not all that bizarro. DMA allows hardware devices to access memory without the cpu knowing about it. So a malicious user that can get a graphic card (or a nic or any other DMA device) to manipulate memory through the DMA mechanism could circumvent mechanisms like pax and other security mechanisms to some degree. And with GPU's getting more accessible to programmers that risk is increasing. Imho mr. Kirk has a point.
For my part, I disagree with the implicit notion that companies should not be responsible for their own risk assessments, but that they need governance from high and above.
Quite possibly some traffic ought not travel through the Internet. However, the party responsible for that communication should be responsible for the risk assesment and the following business decision(s), and face the consequences of these (possibly wrong) decisions (such as economic damage incurred as a result from unintended disclosure of information or loss of availability of information systems).
Only in the cases where more than mere business interests are involved, like public safety in the case of nuclear industry, should also governance play a role, since in such cases the information flows touch upon governemental responsibility.
Mind you, the first responsibility still lies with the party primarily responsible for the datacommunication. But they should be held accountable for their risk assesments and relevant decision making.
All other cases should be left to market mechanisms. If your bank would screw up bad enough, you would find another bank. If your machine gets hacked and consequently your credit card account gets abused, you wise up and improve your systems security. Some smart folks will have already made a personal risk assesment and have already taken action to minimize damage as a result of information loss. Those who haven't will follow when the losses they incur are no longer acceptable to them. No need for governance and control. No better motive these days than an economic one.
I envision this gentoo user having a dozen of these things all over the house (and neighbourhood) doing the distcc dance. If it moves, compile it. Yay!
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Ah, well, latency in the TOR network caused the news to arrive a bit later
Be thankful it isn't 1984
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. You pay twice, once for the songs you buy and once with the levy. Paying the levy has no legal implications in the sense that you can now download whatever you like. On the other hand downloading is legal as it stands now in the Netherlands. You are allowed to make copies for study etc. Hosting and offering copyrighted content without consent of the copyright holder is not allowed, downloading without consent is.
Nice background info, but not very helpful. The human brain excels in pattern recognition. The type of software he's looking for is therefore software aimed at training pattern recognition. Memory games for example. Since his mother is or used to be a accountant any memory games dealing with numbers would probably be go good place to start with, since that will be a familiar domain. Start with that, then find other memory games include that other knowledge domains.
Sums it up nicely.
Can't comment right now. I'm busy compiling.
ITIL is an extremely valuable set of practices for IT Service Management. It is not however a Project Management Methodology. Prince2, mentioned by others already, is. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, it can be scaled down to suit small projects too.
I did something similar after reading this reseach document: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/tr500.pdf
I don't use passphrases, but passwords constructed from a phrase by using the first characters of the words, subsituting words with numerals (i.e. "twelve" becomes "12") and Capitalizing either verbs or nouns. A phrase like "Yesterday I had six beers before breakfast at Tiffany's" becomes "YIh6BbB@T". Fairly short, easy to remember, fairly hard to crack.
Well, fortunately a beating of the odds of one million to one crops up nine times out of ten. Well known fact in fact.
Actually it's not all that bizarro. DMA allows hardware devices to access memory without the cpu knowing about it. So a malicious user that can get a graphic card (or a nic or any other DMA device) to manipulate memory through the DMA mechanism could circumvent mechanisms like pax and other security mechanisms to some degree. And with GPU's getting more accessible to programmers that risk is increasing. Imho mr. Kirk has a point.
Well, 5000 patents shouldn't be too hard. They probably have tons of really really useful stuff like the infamous loo patent
Ruby talking about Python and Parrot.
I'm confused already...
Pornography actually, but how that translates to mysql being more popular than postgres is your problem :)
Quite possibly some traffic ought not travel through the Internet. However, the party responsible for that communication should be responsible for the risk assesment and the following business decision(s), and face the consequences of these (possibly wrong) decisions (such as economic damage incurred as a result from unintended disclosure of information or loss of availability of information systems).
Only in the cases where more than mere business interests are involved, like public safety in the case of nuclear industry, should also governance play a role, since in such cases the information flows touch upon governemental responsibility. Mind you, the first responsibility still lies with the party primarily responsible for the datacommunication. But they should be held accountable for their risk assesments and relevant decision making.
All other cases should be left to market mechanisms. If your bank would screw up bad enough, you would find another bank. If your machine gets hacked and consequently your credit card account gets abused, you wise up and improve your systems security. Some smart folks will have already made a personal risk assesment and have already taken action to minimize damage as a result of information loss. Those who haven't will follow when the losses they incur are no longer acceptable to them. No need for governance and control. No better motive these days than an economic one.
And yes, I am a huge fan of the hippocampus. Me too!. I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
I envision this gentoo user having a dozen of these things all over the house (and neighbourhood) doing the distcc dance. If it moves, compile it. Yay!
Firebird 0% Yeah, that database is a bugger for browsing the web.
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Interesting. Wonder if it works on rooted boxes too.
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Meanwhile I'll go have a chat with Occam about his bloody razor.
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Or a covert communication channel. But will you ever know?
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