Is it all PHB/Marketing BS or am I missing something? Both:)
The article should educate you a lot more than the summary does. Role-based-access controls tasks, whereas group-based-access controls resource access. SELinux doesn't supplant groups, it augments them.
However, as usual, TFS is mostly PHP/Mareting BS aimed to get you to read the article and/or post in the comment thread.
It should be trivial to limit any end nodes to a maximum of, say, 8 encrypted connections with unique netblocks on the destination. Any new sessions negotiated after that will automatically be given very low priority.
Also, a TCP packet contains a lot more than just an encrypted payload: you can tell a lot about a packet from the other parts: source and destination ports, sequence and acknowledgement numbers, header length, reserved ID bits, urgent flag, ACK flag, push flag, RST flag, SYN flag, FIN flag, Window size, checksum, urgent pointer and even the options field. I'm sure that it wouldn't be very difficult to set up a bayesian detection ruleset using this data to identify what protocol is being used. The checksum and flags wouldn't be all that useful, but the port numbers, header length, window size, urgent pointer and seq/ack number progressions can be quite telling.
Actually, some houses are already framed by robots; there are already robotic log house framers -- robots shape logs to precise sizes, robots examine logs for stress points and faults. Other robots make join cuts in logs and robotic cranes move it all into place. Of course, they then generally take the house apart again and a framing crew reconstructs it on-site. But robots are already pretty heavily involved in many aspects of house building.
This raises an interesting point actually: in the original iMac, you had no floppy. You also had no CD-R drive; the only things you could write to were the internal HD and something connected by ethernet or phone cable.
I used to use a null-modem cable and ZTerm to save files to zip drive on my old mac (which didn't have ethernet) from my iMac. Eventually, I bought a CD-R drive and routinely took off the iMac case, unplugged the CD drive, and ran the mac upside down with the CD-R drive hanging off it to burn CDs. iMacs IIRC didn't ship with writeable media as an option until 2001 (by which point there were USB drives in all sorts of shapes and sizes).
2) He was arguing from a sardonic "government spin" perspective. What you say is true; he's trying to point out how the PR groups will avoid that fact.
I take it you didn't get the Dr. Strangelove reference.
Pretty hard to know exactly what gear will be placed where and what it will give you access to. Plus even with a back door, places with sensitive data are more likely to be monitoring the traffic which is harder to hide.
They can't just watch for network activity; these routers might be filtering and caching data waiting for the eventual physical removal of the router in the next upgrade cycle -- or, they might all have a kill switch built in, so someone can remotely take out ALL routers. There are an infinite number of possibilities to look for, and since Cisco doesn't manufacture everything in-house, they really don't have much hope of detecting that none of the infinite possible modifications have been made.
From what I understand, the counterfeit routers are made in the same factories by the same people who make the real routers; they just keep the assembly line running past the hours that Cisco is paying them for.
In this case, if Cisco is comparing the counterfeit routers to their legit ones, they should always be the same.
The question this doesn't answer is this: does the LEGIT Cisco equipment contain back doors? How can Cisco be sure it doesn't? Most of the components are manufactured offshore and the assembly is done offshore. Have they examined each part with an electron microscope to verify it doesn't do anything more than what the spec says it should do?
They can't just watch for network activity; these routers might be filtering and caching data waiting for the eventual physical removal of the router in the next upgrade cycle -- or, they might all have a kill switch built in, so someone can remotely take out ALL routers. There are an infinite number of possibilities to look for, and since Cisco doesn't manufacture everything in-house, they really don't have much hope of detecting that none of the infinite possible modifications have been made.
If I understand correctly, in the UK, copyright infringement deals with making unauthorized copies, and applies equally to downloading, uploading, ripping, and any other means of duplication.
Seems questionable to me that two entities could be sued for the same duplication however (downloader AND uploader).
This current suit looks more like someone's after a settlement however.
That argument will work when you can stumble across a Ferrari on the internet and download it out of curiosity.
A better comparison would be money itself. I don't really need any Pesos, so I don't buy any on the foreign exchange. If I come across an unsecured account online, I can't just transfer some of it over to my own name, no matter how worthless it is. I also can't launder my own (although money laundering another country's money is a bit of a legal grey area I guess).
Hard currency is one of those things that it is perfectly possible to duplicate (sometimes at low cost) but also completely illegal to duplicate.
In the future, let's switch from car analogies to currency analogies. They make more cents:)
Here's the missing piece of your argument:
The broadband market is becoming more competitive and net neutrality regulations could hamper investment in broadband networks, some Republicans said during a hearing this week. It's easy to argue the market is becoming more competitive when the starting point is 0. It's also true that net neutrality regulations could hamper investment in the 1 or 2 broadband networks currently in place -- because people would be investing in the alternative networks instead.
Talk about one-sided arguments. This is why unnecessary laws != net neutrality laws, and why net neutrality laws are necessary.
"I have a 5 1/4 floppy drive and some disks set aside for the exact same reason.....someday I'll want that info and then I'll be all set."
If bit-rot doesn't do you in first. That's why, over the years, I've always migrated my data. I've got AppleBasic code that was transferred from printed sheets to 5 1/4" floppies to single sided 3.5" floppies, to double sided 3.5" floppies to DSHD 3.5" floppies to a 20MB HDD to a Zip disk to a 350MB HD to a CD to a DVD. I've still got the original media in all cases except the zip disks as well, but the data keeps moving with me. Since all my stuff from pre-2000 fits on one DVD, I have multiple copies of it. I can still pull it out to use under emulation and it all works just fine. Same goes for my old documents:)
And of course, that also leave the question of what to build the genome from. Generally, when new genomes are built, other genomes are used for scaffolding, as a sort of guide for where genes might fall, how large they might be, etc... But then what organisms should be used for scaffolding when assembling the genome of an egg-laying mammal? Look at it this way... they could use just about any organisms available and have some base sequences to build from:)
This actually emphasizes two points: 1) instead of replacing the mouse, this could be another separate input device. 2) You could use it for glance movements in FPS, or in other ways in other scenarios -- such as applying the OS X bubble dock effect to your screen; wherever you look on-screen is magnified. You could even add in a time element and have focus-follows-focus, with magnification kicking in if you rested your eyes in one place for longer than 2 seconds (unlikely unless you actually want to trigger such an effect).
What they need to add to this effect is the ability to track your depth of focus, so you can have your screen adjust focus based on your eyes' current focus. Look through the screen to expand it and bring elements "further away" into focus. This technology might also allow those "3-D goggles" to work without causing some of the disorienting side effects they currently cause.
Last I checked, Hitler never played Grand Theft Auto or listened to Marilyn Manson.
Yes. Instead, he listened to Wagner, was a vegetarian, a non-smoker, and a teetotaler. You could say that mass murder and warmongering were his only real vices. Jack should really be going after the tea cartels I guess, since it is obvious that drinking tea results in despotic activity.
No sensible parent would buy little Timmy such a game, any more than they would sit them down in front of a DVD of 'Scarface'. Right? Unfortunately, this is the USA you're talking about...
Truely. A lot of parents give their kid $49 and let them go out and buy the entertainment of their choice. In most cases, sales clerks making $7/hr plus commission have no problems selling little Timmy R rated merchandise, be it a PS2 game or a DVD set. Kids know enough not to go to the stores that WILL refuse them -- or they get their frinds' older brother to pick it up for them. The first the parents know about it is when they come home from work early some day and see what Timmy's really up to after school. Of course, even then many parents wouldn't care as it's "just a game".
Note that this is a country-based stereotype and by no means reflects the purchasing habits of any individual such as Jack Thompson or his children.
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The article should educate you a lot more than the summary does. Role-based-access controls tasks, whereas group-based-access controls resource access. SELinux doesn't supplant groups, it augments them.
However, as usual, TFS is mostly PHP/Mareting BS aimed to get you to read the article and/or post in the comment thread.
It should be trivial to limit any end nodes to a maximum of, say, 8 encrypted connections with unique netblocks on the destination. Any new sessions negotiated after that will automatically be given very low priority.
Also, a TCP packet contains a lot more than just an encrypted payload: you can tell a lot about a packet from the other parts: source and destination ports, sequence and acknowledgement numbers, header length, reserved ID bits, urgent flag, ACK flag, push flag, RST flag, SYN flag, FIN flag, Window size, checksum, urgent pointer and even the options field. I'm sure that it wouldn't be very difficult to set up a bayesian detection ruleset using this data to identify what protocol is being used. The checksum and flags wouldn't be all that useful, but the port numbers, header length, window size, urgent pointer and seq/ack number progressions can be quite telling.
Just remember to tell their GPS units they're in India; that way it might take them a while to realize there's an entire continent to the north ;)
Actually, some houses are already framed by robots; there are already robotic log house framers -- robots shape logs to precise sizes, robots examine logs for stress points and faults. Other robots make join cuts in logs and robotic cranes move it all into place. Of course, they then generally take the house apart again and a framing crew reconstructs it on-site. But robots are already pretty heavily involved in many aspects of house building.
On the other hand, this would make remodeling MUCH easier :) Just hope your house doesn't get a virus while you're taking a shower.
This raises an interesting point actually: in the original iMac, you had no floppy. You also had no CD-R drive; the only things you could write to were the internal HD and something connected by ethernet or phone cable.
I used to use a null-modem cable and ZTerm to save files to zip drive on my old mac (which didn't have ethernet) from my iMac. Eventually, I bought a CD-R drive and routinely took off the iMac case, unplugged the CD drive, and ran the mac upside down with the CD-R drive hanging off it to burn CDs. iMacs IIRC didn't ship with writeable media as an option until 2001 (by which point there were USB drives in all sorts of shapes and sizes).
We can call it Ahabswhale's Law :)
That would be CloudFormation@hand wouldn't it?
So... they're trying to solve the problem while being as small a contributor to the problem as possible. Makes sense to me.
Shakespeare, you insensitive clod.
For some reason, I misread that as: ..will be devoted to RMS?
1) ...yet.
2) He was arguing from a sardonic "government spin" perspective. What you say is true; he's trying to point out how the PR groups will avoid that fact.
I take it you didn't get the Dr. Strangelove reference.
From what I understand, the counterfeit routers are made in the same factories by the same people who make the real routers; they just keep the assembly line running past the hours that Cisco is paying them for.
In this case, if Cisco is comparing the counterfeit routers to their legit ones, they should always be the same.
The question this doesn't answer is this: does the LEGIT Cisco equipment contain back doors? How can Cisco be sure it doesn't? Most of the components are manufactured offshore and the assembly is done offshore. Have they examined each part with an electron microscope to verify it doesn't do anything more than what the spec says it should do?
They can't just watch for network activity; these routers might be filtering and caching data waiting for the eventual physical removal of the router in the next upgrade cycle -- or, they might all have a kill switch built in, so someone can remotely take out ALL routers. There are an infinite number of possibilities to look for, and since Cisco doesn't manufacture everything in-house, they really don't have much hope of detecting that none of the infinite possible modifications have been made.
If I understand correctly, in the UK, copyright infringement deals with making unauthorized copies, and applies equally to downloading, uploading, ripping, and any other means of duplication.
Seems questionable to me that two entities could be sued for the same duplication however (downloader AND uploader).
This current suit looks more like someone's after a settlement however.
That argument will work when you can stumble across a Ferrari on the internet and download it out of curiosity.
:)
A better comparison would be money itself. I don't really need any Pesos, so I don't buy any on the foreign exchange. If I come across an unsecured account online, I can't just transfer some of it over to my own name, no matter how worthless it is. I also can't launder my own (although money laundering another country's money is a bit of a legal grey area I guess).
Hard currency is one of those things that it is perfectly possible to duplicate (sometimes at low cost) but also completely illegal to duplicate.
In the future, let's switch from car analogies to currency analogies. They make more cents
Remember that this is in the UK, not the US, so laws are different. Would anyone from the UK like to weigh in on this?
Talk about one-sided arguments. This is why unnecessary laws != net neutrality laws, and why net neutrality laws are necessary.
If bit-rot doesn't do you in first. That's why, over the years, I've always migrated my data. I've got AppleBasic code that was transferred from printed sheets to 5 1/4" floppies to single sided 3.5" floppies, to double sided 3.5" floppies to DSHD 3.5" floppies to a 20MB HDD to a Zip disk to a 350MB HD to a CD to a DVD. I've still got the original media in all cases except the zip disks as well, but the data keeps moving with me. Since all my stuff from pre-2000 fits on one DVD, I have multiple copies of it. I can still pull it out to use under emulation and it all works just fine. Same goes for my old documents
Then again, the same thing could be said for natural selection. I know *I* would naturally select something like that but....
Sounds like Fox's next reality TV show. Wait... that would enable them to pay off the debt in 3 seasons!
This actually emphasizes two points:
1) instead of replacing the mouse, this could be another separate input device.
2) You could use it for glance movements in FPS, or in other ways in other scenarios -- such as applying the OS X bubble dock effect to your screen; wherever you look on-screen is magnified. You could even add in a time element and have focus-follows-focus, with magnification kicking in if you rested your eyes in one place for longer than 2 seconds (unlikely unless you actually want to trigger such an effect).
What they need to add to this effect is the ability to track your depth of focus, so you can have your screen adjust focus based on your eyes' current focus. Look through the screen to expand it and bring elements "further away" into focus. This technology might also allow those "3-D goggles" to work without causing some of the disorienting side effects they currently cause.
Yes. Instead, he listened to Wagner, was a vegetarian, a non-smoker, and a teetotaler. You could say that mass murder and warmongering were his only real vices. Jack should really be going after the tea cartels I guess, since it is obvious that drinking tea results in despotic activity.
Truely. A lot of parents give their kid $49 and let them go out and buy the entertainment of their choice. In most cases, sales clerks making $7/hr plus commission have no problems selling little Timmy R rated merchandise, be it a PS2 game or a DVD set. Kids know enough not to go to the stores that WILL refuse them -- or they get their frinds' older brother to pick it up for them. The first the parents know about it is when they come home from work early some day and see what Timmy's really up to after school. Of course, even then many parents wouldn't care as it's "just a game".
Note that this is a country-based stereotype and by no means reflects the purchasing habits of any individual such as Jack Thompson or his children.