The excessive desire for power (is there a medical term for it? Megalomania perhaps?) needs to be something for which politicians are regularly checked (much like high-end call-girls are regularly tested for disease), with not having it a prerequisite for holding public office. Dunno what country you live in, but the only countries which I know about that have mandatory health checks for prostitutes only apply them to the mid-level - the ones who work in brothels. Every one else at the bottom (streetwalkers) and the top (call girls) are either completely unregulated or outright illegal.
The only time a call girl gets checked is when she wants to be checked. Which really isn't a good model for regulating politicians.
I think it should be trivial to have a kernel switch activated on boot to set the preferred scheduler. This way, 3D gamers would be happy to set the -ks (I fail to remember its correct name) while the rest of us would be happy to leave it alone and get the CFS. Maybe by having a modular scheduler architecture would allow to have kernels with the -openvz or -oraclesbest or whatever other schedulers one may want (and could get support from the kernel developers). I don't know one thing about how PlugSched was implemented, but other unices like HPUX have the ability to designate that certain cpus will run under specific schedulers. So you can run straight FIFO scheduler on one pair of cpus, a real-time scheduler on another set of cpus and the normal unix scheduler on the rest. You need to combine that with a way to bind processes to those cpus to get the benefit of the different schedulers, but that almost goes without saying.
I'm kind of surprised that linux does not support that sort of thing already, with SGI's heavy use of linux on their NUMA altix systems, I would have thought that support for multiple simultaneous schedulers would already be in the mainline.
High - When I buy anything with a credit card - (requires ID, receive receipt) No, no id is required, unless you are confused and think that a credit card is some form of identification. Surely some cocksure dumbass will come along with an anecdote about how they were required to provide ID when they used a credit card, and if I really cared I would go cite the MC and Visa merchant rules that say a merchant can ask for but can not require id except when they have strong reason to believe there is fraud.
Worthless - When I vote - (no ID, no receipt, no confidence) Let me guess, you have never voted? It's pretty common for voters in the USA to show id when they vote so that the poll staff can verify that you are registered to vote and registered to vote at that polling location.
Just a quick browse of their "ITIF in the news" page and it looks like they are big fans of Real-ID and RFID tagging in general. On network neutrality they appear to be in favor of just leaving it up to the FCC to determine on a case-by-case basis what telecomm companies are abusive and which aren't - no legislation required, and their justification seems to be that some of the proposed legislation has been over-the-top (typical FUD about preventing telecomms from 'innovating').
However, it should be pointed out that the law was passed as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 at the behest of the wireless telephone companies who preferred that the government make interception (and then distribution of the intercepted information) illegal rather than spend the money to implement a sufficiently strong encryption protocol.
One of the strongest proponents of that cop-out was Newt Gingrich who himself paid the price for it a decade later in 1996 when, as speaker of the house, his own unencrypted cell phone calls were intercepted and the recordings given to a member of the house ethics committee, who passed them along to the New York Times. The people who did the recording were only fined $500 and the judge ruled that the contents of the tapes was a matter of "important public interest" and so 1st amendment rights trumped the ECPA regarding distribution to the press.
E.g. a google for [say] Pepsi brings links that *say* Pepsi but instead go to Coke when you click on them. Is this really the case? I just did a search for the trade-marked term "HP-UX" and the sponsored links section did not contain the word "HP-UX" anywhere in that portion of the results. Even when the results do contain the search term, it does not appear to misrepresent the link as being the official website for that term.
Seems to me that what Google is doing is returning search results that are related to the given search terms but are not misrepresented as being the official site. So, to continue with your analogy, searching for "Pepsi" brings up a list of links that say things like "Best Cola in the World" or "Better than Pepsi!" To the best of my knowledge, is perfectly legal in the USA to name your competition in your own advertisements, although it might not be in Australia.
Seriously, is suing google the newest business model in the US? Did Australia become part of the US when Bush was down there last week? No, they've been the 51st state since a little after 9/11.
Expensive in time too. If it takes 3 years to extract the information, it isn't going to be useful at trial (which is presumably why they are doing forensic analysis in the first place).
I read the article, and it sounds like its "marketing" - we all know that system memory can't be read the way they claim - by plugging into the hard drives. Sure, you'll pick up what was in swap, but if a person is smart and worried about security, they don't have swap - turn it off, and all memory goes bye-bye. They plug into the firewire port and use the PC's own firewire controller to DMA from host memory out across the firewire bus. That is a standard forensic operation nowadays.
However, some people have already postulated, if not actually implemented, protections against that sort of attack. The idea is that the host can reprogram the PCI bus controller to route all DMA requests from the firewire controller off into some user-specified range of memory. In theory the forensic tool could detect that the PCI controller has been programmed to do that, but it could not do anything about it.
Agreed, considering the NSA standard for data wipes is 7 random passes... The NSA has no such standard. Really, try to find an official source, you won't.
I have to wonder, after how many overwrites can this system detect data? The last I checked, the FBI can see data that has been overwritten 12 times. Possible, but highly unlikely and certainly expensive if they were able to pull it off.
She looked down... and saw that her husband was holding a battery-operated pleasure device -- a vibrator -- softer and larger than a real penis. Softer?
Hollywood limousine liberal idiots are exceeding my patience. I can handle their unabashed socialism, even their global warming insanity, but when they attack G.I. Joe, enough is enough. If GI Joe can't fight off a bunch of 'limousine liberals' then he is already a pussy.
If someone writes and records a song and you then sell that song to others, do you think it is your natural right? Yes.
You clearly do not understand the definition of "natural right." Under the apparent influence of strong emotion you have made the critical error of confusing "natural right" with "legal right."
Learn the definitions of the words you use before you start ranting.
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are as much socially-granted rights as fair use. No they are not. In the sense that "inalienable" means a "natural right" the natural state is freedom of religion and freedom of expression. In other words, those rights are the default condition if nobody comes along and tries to fuck with you. The same thing goes for real property - because real property is rivalrous (only one person can use and/or occupy any particular place at a time) private ownership of real property is also a natural right. Just because people have been fucking with each other for time immemorium doesn't mean the fucked-with-state is the natural state.
Actually 'fair use' falls under the heading of "natural rights" too because copyright is not a natural right. Unless someone fucks with you, you can make as many copies of something as you want. So 'fair use' is actually just one aspect of the natural right that is freedom of expression.
The problem with that is you are then left with uncompressed video, which must be recompressed, a lossy procedure. However, once done it need never be repeated. Most people can't tell the difference between video at 1920x1080 and at 1440x1080, they will never notice a single, well tuned, recompression step.
I used to use eudora back in the 90s. Then they incorporated the IE engine for mail rendering and a lot of their security lead over MS Lookout was lost so I moved on. But I had no idea that Qualcomm donated it to Mozilla last year. Kinda gives me pangs of nostalgia.
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The only time a call girl gets checked is when she wants to be checked. Which really isn't a good model for regulating politicians.
I'm kind of surprised that linux does not support that sort of thing already, with SGI's heavy use of linux on their NUMA altix systems, I would have thought that support for multiple simultaneous schedulers would already be in the mainline.
Just a quick browse of their "ITIF in the news" page and it looks like they are big fans of Real-ID and RFID tagging in general. On network neutrality they appear to be in favor of just leaving it up to the FCC to determine on a case-by-case basis what telecomm companies are abusive and which aren't - no legislation required, and their justification seems to be that some of the proposed legislation has been over-the-top (typical FUD about preventing telecomms from 'innovating').
Who funds these people?
Didn't mozilla/firefox get their add for around $65k? I'm too lazy to check...
How to tell the difference between a programmer and a software engineer?
A programmer can't do much more than code
A software engineer reads and understands comp.risks.
However, it should be pointed out that the law was passed as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 at the behest of the wireless telephone companies who preferred that the government make interception (and then distribution of the intercepted information) illegal rather than spend the money to implement a sufficiently strong encryption protocol.
One of the strongest proponents of that cop-out was Newt Gingrich who himself paid the price for it a decade later in 1996 when, as speaker of the house, his own unencrypted cell phone calls were intercepted and the recordings given to a member of the house ethics committee, who passed them along to the New York Times. The people who did the recording were only fined $500 and the judge ruled that the contents of the tapes was a matter of "important public interest" and so 1st amendment rights trumped the ECPA regarding distribution to the press.
Seems to me that what Google is doing is returning search results that are related to the given search terms but are not misrepresented as being the official site. So, to continue with your analogy, searching for "Pepsi" brings up a list of links that say things like "Best Cola in the World" or "Better than Pepsi!" To the best of my knowledge, is perfectly legal in the USA to name your competition in your own advertisements, although it might not be in Australia.
Expensive in time too. If it takes 3 years to extract the information, it isn't going to be useful at trial (which is presumably why they are doing forensic analysis in the first place).
That is a standard forensic operation nowadays.
However, some people have already postulated, if not actually implemented, protections against that sort of attack. The idea is that the host can reprogram the PCI bus controller to route all DMA requests from the firewire controller off into some user-specified range of memory. In theory the forensic tool could detect that the PCI controller has been programmed to do that, but it could not do anything about it.
Really, try to find an official source, you won't.
Read this, including the epilogue:
Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory
Hasn't it been common practice to inject pets with RFIDs for many years now?
Have these implants been causing cancer too?
You clearly do not understand the definition of "natural right." Under the apparent influence of strong emotion you have made the critical error of confusing "natural right" with "legal right."
Learn the definitions of the words you use before you start ranting.
Actually 'fair use' falls under the heading of "natural rights" too because copyright is not a natural right. Unless someone fucks with you, you can make as many copies of something as you want. So 'fair use' is actually just one aspect of the natural right that is freedom of expression.
Burn me twice, I'm going ubuntu!
So how is pushing for this one inconsistency to be made consistent NOT pointing out the inconsistency?
I used to use eudora back in the 90s. Then they incorporated the IE engine for mail rendering and a lot of their security lead over MS Lookout was lost so I moved on. But I had no idea that Qualcomm donated it to Mozilla last year. Kinda gives me pangs of nostalgia.
No, seriously, name them.