5) Someone gets a copy of your password file (or SAM or wherever your hashed passwords are kept). If you change your passwords occasionally then they only have a limited time to run brute force methods against the file. Once you change your passwords you are safe again. Don't change your passwords and eventually they will own your entire organization. You won't even know it happened until it's too late. It's a less likely scenario these days but it is still a valid attack vector. Once that file gets out ONLY changing your passwords will help.
First there was ARPAnet and it begat telnet and ftp. Then came Archie followed by Gopher (and it was good).
There was Simtel and WUarchive, the golden age of shareware, Apogee, id Software, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem, communication, dissemination and, of course, p0rn.
In the midst of this rose Mosaic and the Web was born. Web sites were created and they were good(ish).
But the net was a dark and lonely place with no one to guide the nubes and so pages of links sprung like manna from the hands of geeks.
The links were consolidated and organized into groups and the portal was born...Yahoo!!!
The problem we face is not so much the presence or absence of Global Warming as what "drastic measures" to take. The atmosphere is a very complex thing and the biosphere is even worse.
Ending the petroleum burning for transportation would be a good start and we would reap immediate benefits like cleaner air to breathe. Of course, I do not have a good alterative at this time.
Fission/fusion is my best guess. Maybe solar satellites as well. If I could I would put 100 new nuclear plants around the country and update the grid around/between them. Give the energy away for free. Give the public a choice: Free energy from the wall socket for your electric car/transpod/whatever or $2+ for a gallon gas. Wait...
I suspect manufacturing would come back to the states as well. It would be automated manufacturing and wouldn't produce as many jobs as the old plants did but that's still better than having them all in China. Says Me...
The enviro folks hate this plan of course. They don't just want us to reduce emissions, they want us to stop driving, period. They refuse to compromise or even take a staged phase out approach. It's all or nothing.
If fusion becomes viable China will be building these things as fast as they can. Even with "only" fission China will need every erg they can scrape up. There just isn't enough Oil for them and they know it. When this wave hits I would like the USA to be riding the crest with them instead of being swamped and rolled over.
I almost added "I just hope GWB doesn't decide to fire all his intell linguists based on this post" but it seemed kind of like bashing the Prez and i would never do that...
"The scary part is that there is/was a fair amount of evidence that HIV may not the sole cause of AIDS, as in many countries, the determination of who had AIDS wasn't based on the presense of HIV, but of the immune effects itself. "
I think you may have reversed cause and effect here. In many countries it is difficult to test each person for HIV so they go off the symptoms instead. Unfortunately, AIDS can manifest in many ways some of which look just like other diseases. If there is any incentive (not saying there is, I just don't know) then yellow fever or malaria can easily be interpreted as AIDS from just the symptoms.
As tests get cheaper and easier true numbers of HIV will tell us if this sort of misdiagnosis of AIDS is common or not.
Learning a foreign language is a net good and the only way to really understand another culture is to experience it. That said, there are a large number of languages and an even larger number of cultures. Do you intend to learn/experience them all?
Can you see no good in a rough translation for some purposes?
Calculators have largely eliminated the need (an in some cases the ability) for people to do basic math. Therefore we should eliminate calculators before these people start believing that they completely understand cube roots when they just know how to push buttons.
Oh yeah, that reminds me...Cartoons aren't real.
Good luck IBM and I hope this stuff becomes viable soon.
No affiliation, we just did an eval of the product.
Using good, sensible policies with such a product would stop the sort of misplaced data that TFA is talking about. It does require a client side driver/software and reduces the portablity of your data but that's how it solves the problem.
By default it treats your users like the enemy, which I hate, but that's corporate policy around here already so what's one more layer?
To you that data is static, but your harddrive/flashdrive logic controler can move that data around all it wants. Fragmentation won't be a big deal on a flash drive so this logic can function at the individual sector level. When one sector has been static too long it will just move the data to a well used sector and free it for more dynamic data. Not as straight forward as "randomize new writes to free sectors" but not that complcated I suspect.
No, that would be harder. It would be better and it would make more sense but we wouldn't want that to get in the way of the latest craze now would we?
Makes me wonder if 20|40|60 years from now some one will remake the whole works into something fantastic. By then the special effects should be old hat so the only thing to concentrate on will be the story. And, as you said, it's a good story.
You wouldn't use OpenOffice's word processor to write code, would you?
And, just to put an even finer point on it, I could use OpenOffice to write code if I wanted! Just save it as a text file. And OpenOffice doesn't force me to only open OO.o docs either!
Governments so often believe they can wave a piece of paper and behavior stops. Just like gun control, this will never stop a scammer but will punish the honest.
No, Governments (read: elected officials) believe doing this will get them reelected. It seems to work...
blastard writes "Seems some students will be getting to use their Linux handhelds in school without getting into trouble."
This is what the GP was referring to but if you would rather just spout RTFA!!!111 be my guest:)
I do wish that we could change the structure of the eduation system to focus on something more important like say LEARNING rather than test scores or grades but then how would the politicians and bureaucrats prove they "Made a difference"?!
FWIW I didn't really consider what I was doing with my caclulator cheating as, by the time I had entered everything in, I knew more about the subject than I would have otherwise. Think of it as another form of studying. Of course, if I had be able to then pass this out to everyone in the class that might be different. If you could restrict the students to using only the supplied and approved device in class then you could incorporate that into the test itself.
I hate to say it but it would probably require a paradigm shift of incredible magnitude to fix our education system. Now I have to go take a shower to clean the paradigm off!
The main reason students have "handhelds" in American schools is to play games of one kind or another. Even if they are not loaded with any games they are often a distraction as the kids tend to fiddle with them instead of paying attention to the teacher.
And then there is the issue of cheating. You make crib sheets of the material that you are supposed to have memorized. During the test you just call up the info and write it down. I was doing this sort of thing with a graphing calculator in the early 90s in math class. Just think how useful my Zaurus would have been in History or Chemistry!
And wireless messaging must open up a whole new realm of collaboration when used in class. Pass notes? bah, you could pass whole books or complete test answers.
In order for the American school system to accept this kind of device they will need to either be highly restricted or change the school system entirely.
Public domain information should be free. Governments (both regional and national) should try to provide means to access information for the betterment of their constituencies. But someone always has to pay for the distribution mechanism (bandwidth and disk space, in this case).
I use Dictionary.com all the time (several times just in this post, actually). It is a public good and I hope they can keep it up with just ads but if they can't I sure am hope I can get to a spellchecker somewhere. Maybe it is time for the Library of Congress to be more than just a form of measure (I know they already are, backoff with that flame thrower).
Ask Slashdot...Could the United States government gain good will by hosting (or subsidizing others to independently host) online, FREE resources like dictionarys and encyclopedias? What about other public domain goodies like Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/?
It would only work with the existing model if they put adds around the articles. Would you trust an entry on, say Miami if there were travel company adds around it? Maybe, maybe not. It could work.
Or it could be just a PR based charity move. Think Walmart and local community charity. Walmart gives money away, no stings attached all the time. The only thing they ask in return is good will from the locals (i.e. more shoppers). Soon they have recouped the charity money and then some.
Google may be trying to buy back some of the good will they lost by going public by helping the "online community". I think they are just trying to wave that "Don't be evil" flag to ensure people don't leave just because they "sold out". Interesting that we immediately (and appropriately, IMHO) assume that there will be negative repercussions BECAUSE they are now a public company (must appease the shareholders).
If handled correctly this could be in Wikipedia's favor. Or, and this may be the first time I have ever agreed with Dvorak, they might just kill it accidentally.
I am not an alarmist and I do believe that nuclear power can be safe BUT does anyone else get that deja vu, creepy music in the background, the monster is RIGHT behind you feeling whenever any one says something is *-proof?
And if you are a big enough corp don't forget the _free_ WUS local server set up. Our clients don't get their updates from Microsoft, they get them from our server and we decide which updates to provide. I wonder how this might work for the home user? I haven't had time to think about it yet but surely I can set up a WUS inside my home lan and point my other boxs to it. Others could do the same on the internet at large and you would just have to trust them (and pay for the bandwidth?).
And they will still be called Centrino just with an updated chipset in them. You don't throw out millions in marketing just to make Linux use the old stuff.
Or... it will stagnate the industry just enough for people to become fed up with it and find alternate ways to get their music.
Music is art. People make art because they want to, not for the record execs. Real art will continue to be made and the people will find ways to get it.
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And...
5) Someone gets a copy of your password file (or SAM or wherever your hashed passwords are kept). If you change your passwords occasionally then they only have a limited time to run brute force methods against the file. Once you change your passwords you are safe again. Don't change your passwords and eventually they will own your entire organization. You won't even know it happened until it's too late. It's a less likely scenario these days but it is still a valid attack vector. Once that file gets out ONLY changing your passwords will help.
First there was ARPAnet and it begat telnet and ftp. Then came Archie followed by Gopher (and it was good).
There was Simtel and WUarchive, the golden age of shareware, Apogee, id Software, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem, communication, dissemination and, of course, p0rn.
In the midst of this rose Mosaic and the Web was born. Web sites were created and they were good(ish).
But the net was a dark and lonely place with no one to guide the nubes and so pages of links sprung like manna from the hands of geeks.
The links were consolidated and organized into groups and the portal was born...Yahoo!!!
Knee-jerk reactions are bad. Dirty air that's hard to breathe is also bad
These two views are not in conflict. So why do so many people think they are?
Critical thinking: Pass it on...if you can!
The problem we face is not so much the presence or absence of Global Warming as what "drastic measures" to take. The atmosphere is a very complex thing and the biosphere is even worse.
Ending the petroleum burning for transportation would be a good start and we would reap immediate benefits like cleaner air to breathe. Of course, I do not have a good alterative at this time.
Fission/fusion is my best guess. Maybe solar satellites as well. If I could I would put 100 new nuclear plants around the country and update the grid around/between them. Give the energy away for free. Give the public a choice: Free energy from the wall socket for your electric car/transpod/whatever or $2+ for a gallon gas. Wait...
I suspect manufacturing would come back to the states as well. It would be automated manufacturing and wouldn't produce as many jobs as the old plants did but that's still better than having them all in China. Says Me...
The enviro folks hate this plan of course. They don't just want us to reduce emissions, they want us to stop driving, period. They refuse to compromise or even take a staged phase out approach. It's all or nothing.
If fusion becomes viable China will be building these things as fast as they can. Even with "only" fission China will need every erg they can scrape up. There just isn't enough Oil for them and they know it. When this wave hits I would like the USA to be riding the crest with them instead of being swamped and rolled over.
I would also like a pony.
Ya, I got ya'.
I almost added "I just hope GWB doesn't decide to fire all his intell linguists based on this post" but it seemed kind of like bashing the Prez and i would never do that...
Cheers
"The scary part is that there is/was a fair amount of evidence that HIV may not the sole cause of AIDS, as in many countries, the determination of who had AIDS wasn't based on the presense of HIV, but of the immune effects itself. "
I think you may have reversed cause and effect here. In many countries it is difficult to test each person for HIV so they go off the symptoms instead. Unfortunately, AIDS can manifest in many ways some of which look just like other diseases. If there is any incentive (not saying there is, I just don't know) then yellow fever or malaria can easily be interpreted as AIDS from just the symptoms.
As tests get cheaper and easier true numbers of HIV will tell us if this sort of misdiagnosis of AIDS is common or not.
Learning a foreign language is a net good and the only way to really understand another culture is to experience it. That said, there are a large number of languages and an even larger number of cultures. Do you intend to learn/experience them all?
Can you see no good in a rough translation for some purposes?
Calculators have largely eliminated the need (an in some cases the ability) for people to do basic math. Therefore we should eliminate calculators before these people start believing that they completely understand cube roots when they just know how to push buttons.
Oh yeah, that reminds me...Cartoons aren't real.
Good luck IBM and I hope this stuff becomes viable soon.
Might I recommend Disk Net Pro:t pro/
http://www.reflex-magnetics.co.uk/products/diskne
No affiliation, we just did an eval of the product.
Using good, sensible policies with such a product would stop the sort of misplaced data that TFA is talking about. It does require a client side driver/software and reduces the portablity of your data but that's how it solves the problem.
By default it treats your users like the enemy, which I hate, but that's corporate policy around here already so what's one more layer?
To you that data is static, but your harddrive/flashdrive logic controler can move that data around all it wants. Fragmentation won't be a big deal on a flash drive so this logic can function at the individual sector level. When one sector has been static too long it will just move the data to a well used sector and free it for more dynamic data. Not as straight forward as "randomize new writes to free sectors" but not that complcated I suspect.
No, that would be harder. It would be better and it would make more sense but we wouldn't want that to get in the way of the latest craze now would we?
Sorry, we will be by to liberate you as soon as we have the time :)
Thanks for waiting, your call is very important to us.
Makes me wonder if 20|40|60 years from now some one will remake the whole works into something fantastic. By then the special effects should be old hat so the only thing to concentrate on will be the story. And, as you said, it's a good story.
A guy can dream right?
You wouldn't use OpenOffice's word processor to write code, would you?
And, just to put an even finer point on it, I could use OpenOffice to write code if I wanted! Just save it as a text file. And OpenOffice doesn't force me to only open OO.o docs either!
Governments so often believe they can wave a piece of paper and behavior stops. Just like gun control, this will never stop a scammer but will punish the honest.
No, Governments (read: elected officials) believe doing this will get them reelected. It seems to work...
I think what he meant to say was "Don't you wish our campaigns were none of your business?"
"We ain't going to Mars until we fix what we've done to this planet!"
Conversely, maybe we should get off this planet before we have destroyed it?
RTFS(ummary)
:)
blastard writes "Seems some students will be getting to use their Linux handhelds in school without getting into trouble."
This is what the GP was referring to but if you would rather just spout RTFA!!!111 be my guest
I do wish that we could change the structure of the eduation system to focus on something more important like say LEARNING rather than test scores or grades but then how would the politicians and bureaucrats prove they "Made a difference"?!
FWIW I didn't really consider what I was doing with my caclulator cheating as, by the time I had entered everything in, I knew more about the subject than I would have otherwise. Think of it as another form of studying. Of course, if I had be able to then pass this out to everyone in the class that might be different. If you could restrict the students to using only the supplied and approved device in class then you could incorporate that into the test itself.
I hate to say it but it would probably require a paradigm shift of incredible magnitude to fix our education system. Now I have to go take a shower to clean the paradigm off!
cheers
The main reason students have "handhelds" in American schools is to play games of one kind or another. Even if they are not loaded with any games they are often a distraction as the kids tend to fiddle with them instead of paying attention to the teacher.
And then there is the issue of cheating. You make crib sheets of the material that you are supposed to have memorized. During the test you just call up the info and write it down. I was doing this sort of thing with a graphing calculator in the early 90s in math class. Just think how useful my Zaurus would have been in History or Chemistry!
And wireless messaging must open up a whole new realm of collaboration when used in class. Pass notes? bah, you could pass whole books or complete test answers.
In order for the American school system to accept this kind of device they will need to either be highly restricted or change the school system entirely.
wait
Where are the mod points when I need them...
Public domain information should be free. Governments (both regional and national) should try to provide means to access information for the betterment of their constituencies. But someone always has to pay for the distribution mechanism (bandwidth and disk space, in this case).
I use Dictionary.com all the time (several times just in this post, actually). It is a public good and I hope they can keep it up with just ads but if they can't I sure am hope I can get to a spellchecker somewhere. Maybe it is time for the Library of Congress to be more than just a form of measure (I know they already are, backoff with that flame thrower).
Ask Slashdot...Could the United States government gain good will by hosting (or subsidizing others to independently host) online, FREE resources like dictionarys and encyclopedias? What about other public domain goodies like Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/?
It would only work with the existing model if they put adds around the articles. Would you trust an entry on, say Miami if there were travel company adds around it? Maybe, maybe not. It could work.
Or it could be just a PR based charity move. Think Walmart and local community charity. Walmart gives money away, no stings attached all the time. The only thing they ask in return is good will from the locals (i.e. more shoppers). Soon they have recouped the charity money and then some.
Google may be trying to buy back some of the good will they lost by going public by helping the "online community". I think they are just trying to wave that "Don't be evil" flag to ensure people don't leave just because they "sold out". Interesting that we immediately (and appropriately, IMHO) assume that there will be negative repercussions BECAUSE they are now a public company (must appease the shareholders).
If handled correctly this could be in Wikipedia's favor. Or, and this may be the first time I have ever agreed with Dvorak, they might just kill it accidentally.
I am not an alarmist and I do believe that nuclear power can be safe BUT does anyone else get that deja vu, creepy music in the background, the monster is RIGHT behind you feeling whenever any one says something is *-proof?
Just me then? OK.
And if you are a big enough corp don't forget the _free_ WUS local server set up. Our clients don't get their updates from Microsoft, they get them from our server and we decide which updates to provide. I wonder how this might work for the home user? I haven't had time to think about it yet but surely I can set up a WUS inside my home lan and point my other boxs to it. Others could do the same on the internet at large and you would just have to trust them (and pay for the bandwidth?).
And they will still be called Centrino just with an updated chipset in them. You don't throw out millions in marketing just to make Linux use the old stuff.
Or... it will stagnate the industry just enough for people to become fed up with it and find alternate ways to get their music.
Music is art. People make art because they want to, not for the record execs. Real art will continue to be made and the people will find ways to get it.
???
Profit!!!