There is no real feasible way to do the orwellian thing with RFID in consumer products without some ridiculously huge database and infrastructure as well as cooperation between millions of seperate stores, govt, competing producers etc etc.
I belive that IPv6 address space contains enough unique IPs to have something like a million per square metre of the earth's surface. IPv6 is going to be implemented.
It's simply a question of scaling. Consider the RFID tag to be like a unique IP. Can you locate that ID amid distruibuted databases? Potentially yes.
Marketers want this. The lust for it. If you tag it, they will find a way to grok it.
I have an alias set up that allows searching from the command line quite easily.... Then, to look for something like... libvorbis, I would just have to do this:... And it returns this:.... Easy as pie.
That was easy as ABC! I'm sure my Aunt Tillie can figure this one out all by herself.
An Air Force evaluation of Multics, and Ken Thompson's famous Turing award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust," showed that compilers can be subverted to insert malicious Trojan horses into critical software, including themselves......This paper describes the technique, justifies it, describes how to overcome practical challenges, and demonstrates it.
This paper is full of it.
The technique is possible, but so impractical as to be completely useless.
Modern compliers aren't actually that advanced. their optimisation capabilites only go so far due to their poor ability to interpret the application. As such, I seriously doubt that compiler trojans are in any way a serious threat. The threat from actual trojans in binaries if far, far, far greater.
How will Microsoft handle the differences between the security enviornment for Home PC's vs PC's in Business enviornments?
Business PC's usually live in live in administrated, controlled networks, which hopefully have someone in charge of security on those networks. They also live behind firewalls, proxies and have shrinkwrapped as well as in house answers to security threats. Users have much reduced privilages, security policies are in effect and companies backup data and can even use imaging to secure against vunerabilities.
Contrast with Home PCs which live in small, largely unadministored networks. Many are still directly connected to the internet. These PCs may have no anti-malware technology at all. On top of that, users are uneducated and often do not even realise they have been the victims of security breaches. Typically, security involves extensive suites of specialist software that gobble ever more resources.
There are also intermediate security enviornments. Small to medium sized businesses may have sizeable networks, but fail to implement any real security policy due to time and budget constraints. Home users can also have sizable networks, with a multitude of internet capable devices in the one home becoming more commonplace.
Typically, Microsoft has offered essentially the same software framework for both Home and Business computers. Will Microsoft offer a one size fits all security framework also?
I mean, who's complaining about your article formatting?
In short, the editor is, and if I want my submissions to have a better chance of being accepted, I need to know what he wants in his submissions.
Most "problems" on Slashdot, probably steam from the submission process. Feedback between the editors and the submitters will hopefully improve the process, and hence the stories, and hence the site. So goes the theory. At least we finally get feedback on why submissions are rejected, and can try to improve the chances of getting a submission accepted by means other than spamming stories.
You may not realise it, but this paticular story may turn out to be one of the most important "On the Matter of..." that 'Taco posts.
Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating....Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button.
I'm not quite sure exactly what you really want here. To be honest, I'm never quite sure how to anchor hypertext. It's always been up in the air for me. For example, take the following:
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
How should this be marked up? What's your preferred style?
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
The Geekery Times reports a decline in proper anchor texting.
Do you have trouble with any of them? How would you like it done? Should the article even be linked to in this sentence?
If you genuinely don't want to see dupes or want to see them handled better, just email the editors with your concerns or write something up in your journal -- it really doesn't help the *current* discussion to keep hammering on about how it's a dupe and the end of the/. world is nigh because it was already posted 24 hours ago.
Why email the editors? Their inboxes are already full enough. Better to call the dupe on the story page. It's more effective, and more appropriate. The *current* discussion is the dupe. The original story is the place for all so called ontopic comments.
I find it pretty absurd for someone to actively contribute to the amount of noise at/. and for them to have no problem with that, considering they are arguing against it.
Comments on duping are not noise. In the dupe, they are the signal. It's part of what this site is. In a sense, the entire dupe article is noise in the daily Slashdot signal, noise which dupe whistleblowers try to discourage, seemingly to no avail.
This isn't some kind of hackneyed drama or soap opera, conjured to drive the thread offtopic. This is valid critisism, with an intent to make this site better. If you think that somehow ignoring dupes will make this site better you're sorely mistaken.
You know, despite opinion to the contrary, modern toilets are probably one of the cleanest surfaces in the average house.
Though used daily, surfaces are usually cleaned regularly by flushing, and potentially by individual users. Powerful disinfectants are also standard far in nearly every bathroom, whereas less toxic, but weaker disinfectants may be used in the kitchen and elsewhere.
To those disgusted by the potential health hazard present on their toilet seat's, my advice is do not google dust mites before you go to bed.
I don't think I'm alone in saying: "I don't give a flying crap about your Dupes/Links/Beatles/Scuttle drama." When the discussion that gets modded to the top has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, I find *that* more of a reason to avoid/. than any number of dupes.
So you care more about the symptoms than the disease? People are posting these comments for a reason.
Realise: The Dupe Is The Topic.
I just want to read the good posts by the informed readers who haven't seen the story yet, and just one or two links to the original discussions if it is a dupe.
The previous story was posted yesterday. If people want to comment about it, then they can do that in that story's page. Not this one's. This story page is for comments about the dupe, otherwise we'll all just be repeating everything that was said in the other story.
I for one, will be more interested in fresher comments concerning the dupe than stale repeats of what I read yesterday.
Clinton had the FBI physically search peopls homes and businesses without a warrant.
Source please.
I am sure that if they published the names of the people they evesdropped on, why they did it and what they heard, those folks would look a LOT worse in the court of public opinion than the NSA.
Like all those people McCarthy denounced or something?
Mod parent redundant. Taco has already addressed this:
Mod Grandparent Up. Taco posted a story on story selection. No one has actually gotten around to doing anything about it yet. This is the second virtual dupe by ScuttleMonkey in under 48 hours.
Please stay on-topic.:) With dupes this blantant, the dupe is the topic. Anyone who mods "dupe" posts as offtopic, clearly doesn't understand how this site functions.
To be fair, yesterday's story linked to press reports on Google's purchase. Today's links are to Google's own press release on the story.
Nonetheless, a simple "following up on yesterday's story", would do a lot to increase confidence in the editors. However, doing that would require ScuttleMonkey to actually read the front page.
Sorry if that sounds a little snide but I am seriously trying to hold back the flames of fury here. I wish 'Taco would hurry up with the next Slashback.
Is anyone else getting Star Trek 5 flashbacks here?
I've been looking for a text of Kirk's speech on the issue of "forgetting" your pain. Perhaps a lone Slashdotter can recite it from memory. If it was good enough for Bones, then it's good enough for me.
I would have no problem with this if they charged for guaranteed speed above and beyond what's normally available, which would invovle building more infrastructure and then using it as a 'premium channel' so to speak,
That is exactly what they will do. You'll pony up or your site will be stuck in the 2005 speed doldrums while rivals stream HD porn content to eager sheeple customers.
Is this how democracy dies? Amid rapturous... erm.. never mind.
Slashdot Mirror
So do you recommend for Aunt Tillie instead of Debian?
TiVo.
This is why Ubuntu is the new number one distro. The Debian kids just don't get it. Even Fedora has a (poor) graphical installer.
Where now is the industry that entertained many's the geek as a lad?
Is it reduced to this? A trenchcoated toilet trader passing out favours for nine pence an hour?
Is this evolution, or devolution? Only one thing is certain. The game will suck....Oh wait.
It wouldn't work. By then, Orwell would be spinning around so fast that the EM field from his gravesite would jam all radio frequency bands.
There is no real feasible way to do the orwellian thing with RFID in consumer products without some ridiculously huge database and infrastructure as well as cooperation between millions of seperate stores, govt, competing producers etc etc.
I belive that IPv6 address space contains enough unique IPs to have something like a million per square metre of the earth's surface. IPv6 is going to be implemented.
It's simply a question of scaling. Consider the RFID tag to be like a unique IP. Can you locate that ID amid distruibuted databases? Potentially yes.
Marketers want this. The lust for it. If you tag it, they will find a way to grok it.
Try Debian with a 2.6 series kernel? Sarge can use either. Testing and Unstable install 2.6 by default (though, iirc, so does Sarge)
However, if you really want a 2.6 kernel, you should probably go with a distro whos stable branch supports it.
I have an alias set up that allows searching from the command line quite easily .... ... ....
Then, to look for something like... libvorbis, I would just have to do this:
And it returns this:
Easy as pie.
That was easy as ABC! I'm sure my Aunt Tillie can figure this one out all by herself.
An Air Force evaluation of Multics, and Ken Thompson's famous Turing award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust," showed that compilers can be subverted to insert malicious Trojan horses into critical software, including themselves......This paper describes the technique, justifies it, describes how to overcome practical challenges, and demonstrates it.
This paper is full of it.
The technique is possible, but so impractical as to be completely useless.
Modern compliers aren't actually that advanced. their optimisation capabilites only go so far due to their poor ability to interpret the application. As such, I seriously doubt that compiler trojans are in any way a serious threat. The threat from actual trojans in binaries if far, far, far greater.
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-client cupsys-pt
...why do I need to know all of this stuff just to get the printer working in Debian?
What's apt-get?
What's cupsys?
What's cupsys-driver-gimpprint?
What's cupsys-client?
What's cupsys-pt?
And most importantly....
Yes, I'd have that entire sentence hyperlinked. While you rarely see it done, I can't think of any good reason that it would be a no-no.
Because there's a certain limit to how much text you can hyperlink-ify before you make it less readable.
The way I see it, Hyperlinks have to be succint. To some this means terse. To some not. But they should not dominate the text they are placed within.
How will Microsoft handle the differences between the security enviornment for Home PC's vs PC's in Business enviornments?
Business PC's usually live in live in administrated, controlled networks, which hopefully have someone in charge of security on those networks. They also live behind firewalls, proxies and have shrinkwrapped as well as in house answers to security threats. Users have much reduced privilages, security policies are in effect and companies backup data and can even use imaging to secure against vunerabilities.
Contrast with Home PCs which live in small, largely unadministored networks. Many are still directly connected to the internet. These PCs may have no anti-malware technology at all. On top of that, users are uneducated and often do not even realise they have been the victims of security breaches. Typically, security involves extensive suites of specialist software that gobble ever more resources.
There are also intermediate security enviornments. Small to medium sized businesses may have sizeable networks, but fail to implement any real security policy due to time and budget constraints. Home users can also have sizable networks, with a multitude of internet capable devices in the one home becoming more commonplace.
Typically, Microsoft has offered essentially the same software framework for both Home and Business computers. Will Microsoft offer a one size fits all security framework also?
I mean, who's complaining about your article formatting?
In short, the editor is, and if I want my submissions to have a better chance of being accepted, I need to know what he wants in his submissions.
Most "problems" on Slashdot, probably steam from the submission process. Feedback between the editors and the submitters will hopefully improve the process, and hence the stories, and hence the site. So goes the theory. At least we finally get feedback on why submissions are rejected, and can try to improve the chances of getting a submission accepted by means other than spamming stories.
You may not realise it, but this paticular story may turn out to be one of the most important "On the Matter of..." that 'Taco posts.
I'm not quite sure exactly what you really want here. To be honest, I'm never quite sure how to anchor hypertext. It's always been up in the air for me. For example, take the following:
How should this be marked up? What's your preferred style?
Do you have trouble with any of them? How would you like it done? Should the article even be linked to in this sentence?
If you genuinely don't want to see dupes or want to see them handled better, just email the editors with your concerns or write something up in your journal -- it really doesn't help the *current* discussion to keep hammering on about how it's a dupe and the end of the /. world is nigh because it was already posted 24 hours ago.
/. and for them to have no problem with that, considering they are arguing against it.
Why email the editors? Their inboxes are already full enough. Better to call the dupe on the story page. It's more effective, and more appropriate. The *current* discussion is the dupe. The original story is the place for all so called ontopic comments.
I find it pretty absurd for someone to actively contribute to the amount of noise at
Comments on duping are not noise. In the dupe, they are the signal. It's part of what this site is. In a sense, the entire dupe article is noise in the daily Slashdot signal, noise which dupe whistleblowers try to discourage, seemingly to no avail.
This isn't some kind of hackneyed drama or soap opera, conjured to drive the thread offtopic. This is valid critisism, with an intent to make this site better. If you think that somehow ignoring dupes will make this site better you're sorely mistaken.
I heard about this quite a while ago.
Now, now. Leave Taco alone. After all, we haven't heard it in sweedish before!
You know, despite opinion to the contrary, modern toilets are probably one of the cleanest surfaces in the average house.
Though used daily, surfaces are usually cleaned regularly by flushing, and potentially by individual users. Powerful disinfectants are also standard far in nearly every bathroom, whereas less toxic, but weaker disinfectants may be used in the kitchen and elsewhere.
To those disgusted by the potential health hazard present on their toilet seat's, my advice is do not google dust mites before you go to bed.
I don't think I'm alone in saying: "I don't give a flying crap about your Dupes/Links/Beatles/Scuttle drama." When the discussion that gets modded to the top has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, I find *that* more of a reason to avoid /. than any number of dupes.
So you care more about the symptoms than the disease? People are posting these comments for a reason.
Realise: The Dupe Is The Topic.
I just want to read the good posts by the informed readers who haven't seen the story yet, and just one or two links to the original discussions if it is a dupe.
The previous story was posted yesterday. If people want to comment about it, then they can do that in that story's page. Not this one's. This story page is for comments about the dupe, otherwise we'll all just be repeating everything that was said in the other story.
I for one, will be more interested in fresher comments concerning the dupe than stale repeats of what I read yesterday.
Clinton had the FBI physically search peopls homes and businesses without a warrant.
Source please.
I am sure that if they published the names of the people they evesdropped on, why they did it and what they heard, those folks would look a LOT worse in the court of public opinion than the NSA.
Like all those people McCarthy denounced or something?
One post letting everyone know this is a duplicate is enough.
The complete failure of the editors to address this problem, despite dozens of such posts every time it happens, would seem to indicate otherwise.
Mod parent redundant. Taco has already addressed this:
:)
Mod Grandparent Up. Taco posted a story on story selection. No one has actually gotten around to doing anything about it yet. This is the second virtual dupe by ScuttleMonkey in under 48 hours.
Please stay on-topic.
With dupes this blantant, the dupe is the topic. Anyone who mods "dupe" posts as offtopic, clearly doesn't understand how this site functions.
To be fair, yesterday's story linked to press reports on Google's purchase. Today's links are to Google's own press release on the story.
Nonetheless, a simple "following up on yesterday's story", would do a lot to increase confidence in the editors. However, doing that would require ScuttleMonkey to actually read the front page.
Sorry if that sounds a little snide but I am seriously trying to hold back the flames of fury here. I wish 'Taco would hurry up with the next Slashback.
Such claims should be taken with a grain of salt until they reveal what fonts and point sizes they use.
It's a moot point anyway. You're never going to be able to open the whole file in Word to begin with.
Is anyone else getting Star Trek 5 flashbacks here?
I've been looking for a text of Kirk's speech on the issue of "forgetting" your pain. Perhaps a lone Slashdotter can recite it from memory. If it was good enough for Bones, then it's good enough for me.
Insightful? Funny.... maaayyybe (but not +3)
LobbyMan! and InternBoy shall smite thee with their affidavit-ray guns!
I would have no problem with this if they charged for guaranteed speed above and beyond what's normally available, which would invovle building more infrastructure and then using it as a 'premium channel' so to speak,
... erm.. never mind.
That is exactly what they will do. You'll pony up or your site will be stuck in the 2005 speed doldrums while rivals stream HD porn content to eager sheeple customers.
Is this how democracy dies? Amid rapturous