Is this new? If I was trading Acxiom stocks and reading the story (which seems to be announced by Reuters), I would rush to sell my positions in Acxiom. Additionally I would get some put options. AFAIU their records are not very clean, as well, but it seems that this is not reflected in their stock price.
As a matter of fact they are doing quite well. I wonder, how such news reflect in the price of company, the earnings of which depend very much on trust and security. Or are the market players so stupid that they do not see the threat. Then, Acxiom is overpriced - go sell!
A well-written game should be educational for the young generation as it seems to substitute quite much books nowadays... One can, for example, let the kid choose if he wants to be the cop or the mafia-bloke and if he is the cop, some bonus points should be added to his score and partiotic songs played.
Anyway, in case of future such laws, the shoot-all-cops games can always be exported abroad. I'm sure there will be plenty of market overseas. You just need to steer the police uniforms with 2-3 GIs to make the thing more recognizable...
Seriously, if you ask me all shoot-em-all games should be banned. Give'em incredible machines - that's a great one!
I can assure you that Zend as a company is very friendly to the open-source development and do their best to support it. They make their income from tooling around PHP, but why can IBM, Oracle make money from apache, and Zend not from PHP? Some time ago, they even changed their license (of the Zend engine) in a bow to the rest of the PHP developers. Open-source developers buy their food as well, right?
The Zendcompiler is quite complete and AFAIR for flat-fee. Do you mean that it does not produce binaries but byte-code? Then neither Java nor CMUCL have compilers...
The biggest issues developers have with the PHP compilation:
They don't want to sell their sources unobfuscated;
They want to gain some optimization speed eliminating the parsing (this can also be achieved by caching);
I wonder what is the power consumption of this gadget. Probably you have to switch-off one or two districts in the neighbour and it needs an additional water cooling. A Soviet refrigerator, for example, consumes probably 1Kw and most of the energy is converted to sound as it is louder than a truck...
Yet another self-appointed notary. I don't get the point of how the "registry" and the public CA scheme would work in tandem? Or is it just an interface?
The security of the whole thing seems extremely low. If you want to do something like that I suggest that you consider some zero-knowledge techniques.
Go, fetch a copy of Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography, but you've probably already done this. Just open the right page, then (503).
Hey, that was interesting! You shall consider teaching! Seriously. My law teacher from secondary school was lisping all the time and all I remember was that the "sanction in law crystallizes" from something and kill me I don't know why on Earth he was using the verb "crystallize" and what it has to do with law.
Seventh Amendment - Civil Trials:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Don't you think that you have relatively higher chance of explaining what is a "nanotube" to someone who is sufficiently educated, even in law, than to a group of housewives and computer technicians?
Online courses are something good for those who can not attend real classes. But school is not only to give you knowledge. It is also networking -- you meet teachers, fellow students, you eat in the canteen and discuss slashdot.
What is more important, real attendance to school teaches you discipline, something that I believe is difficult to get via Internet. I wonder if the last thing is good or not.
True. My initial statement, without additional context is shaky. Freenet, however, is implemented on top of an existing network - TCP/IP/Ethernet - you name it. And anonimity on top of this particular implementation is not theoretically achievable. There are authors discussing separately that, but I have to dig for their stuff...
BTW, it is much more difficult to show that something does not exist, than the opposite.
Logically, there are faults in what I am claiming, but this discussion is quite informal and I'm trying to summarize what I've heard/read/believe regarding the topic.
Right, practical anonymity should be quite achievable on the technical side, although let the experts here say their word (I just read from time to time on the subject). Now think about the anonymity in broader context.
So, you are the dissident (for short Bob) and you want to talk anonymously. The first problem is that if you are doing that periodically it should be possible to correlate (something) in your statements. I don't know what can be correlated, for example wording or referral to specific events/goals. Just to remind you - humans are much better in finding patterns than computers (for now and IMO). Second, what you are saying already reduces the amount of anonimity, but that I think I've already mentioned.
BTW, I find anonymity, one of the most difficult cryptography branches and I'm amazed how easily some people talk about it.
Also, I believe that the Big Brother invests in science, so should do his opponents.
Unfortunately, this scheme requires idealized network which does not exist, although many believe that approximation on top of existing techniques can be implemented without compromising much the security of the protocol.
The practical problem with the work of Chaum is that it requires a reliable broadcast network, which is unachievable.
Besides the above difficulty, this is the best work I've read discussing anonymity.
Besides, you can be playing Quake3 or IRCing on my own network an hour after talking to me. Even if those were possible on freenet, could you be up and running that quickly?
That's interesting. I take a mental note to look into your project once more, although I don't have much time for fun these days. Maybe you deserve a small credit for an efficient implementation of tunneling.
It is not the writing style what I disliked. I'm simply old-fashioned and I like projects which are based on (scientific) papers, which have been published and lying around for several years and other papers citing them and so on. Then we have some idea what can we expect and only after that we run our XEmacs...
Does the icon on your site relates to the content in it or that's just what you had? A friendly advice - try to read a little bit/browse before you spend your evening in writing... There are many projects implementing ideas similar to yours and even more theory...
Yep, anonymity is a favourite topic of conversation of me and my colleagues. Frankly, I do not understand the concerns of the "Entropy" project leader. Here is why:
In practice it is a balance of resources. The trick is that it is much cheaper to publish contents anonymously, than to trace the origin of an information. Therefore projects like Hacktivismo - Six/Four, Crowds, Freedom-Net, Tarzan, Onion-Routing, etc. make sense.
Furthermore, it is often the content which speaks more about the authorship, than the chain of technical events that leads to the publishing of the information. In Slashdot, for example, I have chosen not to show my e-mail, etc., but by reading my comments even a 10-years old kid can make a deduction about my real identity. Does it make sense for me to use IP-tunneling then?
Finally, I do not understand the author. He just seems pissed. Maybe he will reconsider his opinion and revive the project. Is he sick from the lies (?) about the crypto-protocols used in the software which is written? IMHO the theory proves quite stable and if there is a room for attacks it is more in the implementations than in the protocols themselves. How many broken cryptosystems do you recollect (I know, I know "the knapsack", but it got broken on the conference on which it was presented).
Still, even with this project retreating, the subject remains interesting.
The distribution of magnetic waves is His business and thou who tampers with it art deeply sin. Instead of getting thee Ethernet frames in the coffee below, they (the frames) can end-up at the neighbour above.
So much work for a thousand bucks. Damn it, at least the guy can claim ownership of the domain - there are not so many five letter domains, he can sell it on eBay later for > $1000.
Sure, they have. But in combination with the Mao style banners they display, I wonder if all this is a combination of artistic interpretation and lack of technical topics or the "hackers" movement becomes yet another left-wing pseudo-technical pseudo-political organization. Because if the latter is true than it means that there are also some true hackers, who probably do not visit such events and I wonder if we can read more about the latter...
Cool, all the old geeks. I shall admit that I've always been sympathetic to the cause of the "good" hackers who fight for freedom of speach and all these liberties, many of your ancestors had died for...
But on the other side, I wonder where is now and for them the border of what is allowed and what is not. Is this "hackers" ethics they define something too murky or it is non-existing at all? How do we prevent the "proceedings" about the "Distributed Password Cracking API" from their conference not going to the hands of terrorists whose next attempt will be to log-on to an airtraffic server? So, where is the balance?
And last, I had a look at their schedule - they have a talk "How to talk to the press". Isn't this is the same old rotten smell of socialism (greenpeace)? Next is to teach them how to lay in front of trains...
Sounds great and I am quite impatient to see how it works (take a mental note to increase the priority of the Solaris upgrade on one of my toy SPARCs). I can see a growing need for a non-obtrusive profiling tool. As a matter of fact I started writing something which may be similar to dtrace for Linux and it is for a long time in my TODO to port it to Solaris and maybe IRIX.
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As a matter of fact they are doing quite well. I wonder, how such news reflect in the price of company, the earnings of which depend very much on trust and security. Or are the market players so stupid that they do not see the threat. Then, Acxiom is overpriced - go sell!
Anyway, in case of future such laws, the shoot-all-cops games can always be exported abroad. I'm sure there will be plenty of market overseas. You just need to steer the police uniforms with 2-3 GIs to make the thing more recognizable...
Seriously, if you ask me all shoot-em-all games should be banned. Give'em incredible machines - that's a great one!
I can assure you that Zend as a company is very friendly to the open-source development and do their best to support it. They make their income from tooling around PHP, but why can IBM, Oracle make money from apache, and Zend not from PHP? Some time ago, they even changed their license (of the Zend engine) in a bow to the rest of the PHP developers. Open-source developers buy their food as well, right?
What does it mean finally and complete?
The Zend compiler is quite complete and AFAIR for flat-fee. Do you mean that it does not produce binaries but byte-code? Then neither Java nor CMUCL have compilers...
The biggest issues developers have with the PHP compilation:
- They don't want to sell their sources unobfuscated;
- They want to gain some optimization speed eliminating the parsing (this can also be achieved by caching);
You have all this since 2000.I wonder what is the power consumption of this gadget. Probably you have to switch-off one or two districts in the neighbour and it needs an additional water cooling. A Soviet refrigerator, for example, consumes probably 1Kw and most of the energy is converted to sound as it is louder than a truck...
Financial organizations are very conservative but even Deutsche Bank are migrating to Linux some of their less important processes.
In all the cases the future of the financial industry is in cheap linux clusters.
"Pankkiyhdistys" is going to be my next password.
The security of the whole thing seems extremely low. If you want to do something like that I suggest that you consider some zero-knowledge techniques.
Go, fetch a copy of Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography, but you've probably already done this. Just open the right page, then (503).
Hey, that was interesting! You shall consider teaching! Seriously. My law teacher from secondary school was lisping all the time and all I remember was that the "sanction in law crystallizes" from something and kill me I don't know why on Earth he was using the verb "crystallize" and what it has to do with law.
Seventh Amendment - Civil Trials: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Don't you think that you have relatively higher chance of explaining what is a "nanotube" to someone who is sufficiently educated, even in law, than to a group of housewives and computer technicians?
What is more important, real attendance to school teaches you discipline, something that I believe is difficult to get via Internet. I wonder if the last thing is good or not.
BTW, it is much more difficult to show that something does not exist, than the opposite.
Logically, there are faults in what I am claiming, but this discussion is quite informal and I'm trying to summarize what I've heard/read/believe regarding the topic.
So, you are the dissident (for short Bob) and you want to talk anonymously. The first problem is that if you are doing that periodically it should be possible to correlate (something) in your statements. I don't know what can be correlated, for example wording or referral to specific events/goals. Just to remind you - humans are much better in finding patterns than computers (for now and IMO). Second, what you are saying already reduces the amount of anonimity, but that I think I've already mentioned.
BTW, I find anonymity, one of the most difficult cryptography branches and I'm amazed how easily some people talk about it.
Also, I believe that the Big Brother invests in science, so should do his opponents.
The practical problem with the work of Chaum is that it requires a reliable broadcast network, which is unachievable.
Besides the above difficulty, this is the best work I've read discussing anonymity.
That's interesting. I take a mental note to look into your project once more, although I don't have much time for fun these days. Maybe you deserve a small credit for an efficient implementation of tunneling.
It is not the writing style what I disliked. I'm simply old-fashioned and I like projects which are based on (scientific) papers, which have been published and lying around for several years and other papers citing them and so on. Then we have some idea what can we expect and only after that we run our XEmacs...
In short, what you've written sucks.
Furthermore, it is often the content which speaks more about the authorship, than the chain of technical events that leads to the publishing of the information. In Slashdot, for example, I have chosen not to show my e-mail, etc., but by reading my comments even a 10-years old kid can make a deduction about my real identity. Does it make sense for me to use IP-tunneling then?
Finally, I do not understand the author. He just seems pissed. Maybe he will reconsider his opinion and revive the project. Is he sick from the lies (?) about the crypto-protocols used in the software which is written? IMHO the theory proves quite stable and if there is a room for attacks it is more in the implementations than in the protocols themselves. How many broken cryptosystems do you recollect (I know, I know "the knapsack", but it got broken on the conference on which it was presented).
Still, even with this project retreating, the subject remains interesting.
The distribution of magnetic waves is His business and thou who tampers with it art deeply sin. Instead of getting thee Ethernet frames in the coffee below, they (the frames) can end-up at the neighbour above.
And 52,131,889 web sites.
Drugs?
So much work for a thousand bucks. Damn it, at least the guy can claim ownership of the domain - there are not so many five letter domains, he can sell it on eBay later for > $1000.
Sure, they have. But in combination with the Mao style banners they display, I wonder if all this is a combination of artistic interpretation and lack of technical topics or the "hackers" movement becomes yet another left-wing pseudo-technical pseudo-political organization. Because if the latter is true than it means that there are also some true hackers, who probably do not visit such events and I wonder if we can read more about the latter...
But on the other side, I wonder where is now and for them the border of what is allowed and what is not. Is this "hackers" ethics they define something too murky or it is non-existing at all? How do we prevent the "proceedings" about the "Distributed Password Cracking API" from their conference not going to the hands of terrorists whose next attempt will be to log-on to an airtraffic server? So, where is the balance?
And last, I had a look at their schedule - they have a talk "How to talk to the press". Isn't this is the same old rotten smell of socialism (greenpeace)? Next is to teach them how to lay in front of trains...
Sounds great and I am quite impatient to see how it works (take a mental note to increase the priority of the Solaris upgrade on one of my toy SPARCs). I can see a growing need for a non-obtrusive profiling tool. As a matter of fact I started writing something which may be similar to dtrace for Linux and it is for a long time in my TODO to port it to Solaris and maybe IRIX.