In Japan, it is not uncommon to get a phone call or post card from someone claiming to be, for instance, a family member in trouble and in need of quick cash.
It's surprising how many people don't check first, and to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars at times.
The problem is not unique to the 'net.
The solution is special purpose browsers that the financial institutions provide their customers, which browsers do one thing only. (Well, okay, one kind of thing.) Connect to the bank and manage the user side of the account.
Asymmetric keys that the bank provides to the browser or the browser just does not connect. And the user calls the bank on the phone to let them know there might be an attack in progress. (Well, most users will think they are just complaining that the "browser doesn't work", but the guys at the bank are instructed to call the sysadmin any time a customer has trouble connecting.
Okay, to make it solid the banks would need an auxiliary domain name confirmation system (with asymmetric keys, yes) and the customers would need their own sets of asymmetric keys and maybe one-time pads that the pick up directly from the branch office, stuff like that, but the custom browser enables that.
I've told them the solution is to get the account access off of the universal browser and onto special purpose browsers they build themselves, but no one listens.
Teachers in the public school system have to develop at least a teflon coating, if not kevlar skin. I have some students that insist on trying to give me the purple nurple. Other students (male and female) ape the masturbation act because they know it gets a reaction. (I've been trying to figure out how to let them know that masturbation is not public behavior without encouraging them to think they've figured out a way to get attention, no success yet. Ignoring it seems to work best at the moment, but some day it's going to require a (yeach) lecture.)
I'm not defending those who threaten on the net, by the way. I'm trying to talk about how to build that kevlar skin. Near as I can tell, anyone who puts themselves in the public eye has simply got to be prepared. It's one of the evils of false royalism, vis-a-vis hollywood. (We think, just because they don't actually hold some official position, it's okay to treat them like royalty. But the result is the same -- they become the object of all sorts of attention that people should not foist on each other.)
You don't even have to look as far as the bill of rights on this one. It's in the Constitution. Look it up on wikipedia or on the net itself. Or check out the text of the Constitution.
Could we say that the entertainment "industry" in the US has jumped the shark?
(The funny thing about Japan is that entertainers here regularly jump the shark and remain popular. At least, that's the way it looks to me. I'm an outsider, I know. Sharks here, are, like, different. We eat them here, for instance.)
But it's a server. Stores your e-mail, your voice messages, your personal website, all of that. Maybe even routes your TV, but that's really for next year, when the current quantum wall gets pierced by some new advances. Google runs your backups, should your server go off-line.
That all the hype in computers would drive the adoption of incomplete technologies in places where they'll do more harm than good.
It was a class called "Computers and Society".
We discussed the possibility that the government would establish a computer system to eavesdrop on telephone conversations. All of us students figured that level of voice recognition and the number of calls in process at any particular time made the concept preposterous. Somebody pointed out that such a system could at any rate be targeted, but none of us realized how cheap the required processing power would become. We figured it would remain cheaper to use human eavesdroppers.
We discussed a lot of issues like that, and the teacher tried to get us to consider the damage incompletely implemented systems could do, but we figured nobody would be stupid enough to risk so seriously embarassing themselves by making, much less selling, such things.
It was staring us in the face. We were all using MSC on MS-DOS machines and swearing at Microsoft for lying in their feature lists and hiding the reality deep in the smal print in the manuals. ("This feature only works under the following conditions:" with no apologies that the sacrifice of a live pigeon at midnight on the thirteenth Tuesday of the year seemed to have no relation to any know algorithms for memory allocation or string parsing.) Well, most of us were using MS-DOS. Some of us were using Macs. I was using a M6800 prototyping board and tape drive when I wasn't using the VAX. I just assumed the complaints about Microsoft's junk were due to lack of experience or excessive expectations, partly because I never bothered reading Microsoft advertisements or Microsoft breathless fanboy articles on the magnificence of MSWord and MS(doesn't)Excel. I didn't realize how much Microsoft were fudging under the 80% functionality banner. (Would have been more correct if they had said, "We sell it at the 80% functionality left to implement level.")
What does this have to do with trying to use RFD in drivers licenses to hold passport data when the government is finally (grudgingly) admitting that radio tagged passports need tin foil covers?
How much do I have to burlesque? (And why did my initial comment deserve to be labelled flamebait?)
If a low power x86 will do, so will a low power arm or coldfire or PPC or SPARC or whatever. We even have open source Java interpreters working on several non-x86.
Comcast blocks mail from my ISP. I can't contact my sister from that mail address to her comcast address. I told them about that, and they said _I_ have to access their blacklist page and tell them through that that my ISP is legit after all. No, I can't tell them by e-mail, even if I use google mail to contact them. So my sister doesn't use comcast mail, and will soon not use comcast at all.
So there were Linux boxen and Firefox browsers on the inside as well, and they were effected by the attack in the third or fourth wave.
Did you miss that part about there having to be a box (still) pwned on the inside? Yeah, once there's a bot on the inside, no standard browser is safe, but how did that bot get in?
Sure, it _might_ have been a Linux box poorly administered, but then again it might have been just about _any_ MSWindows box.
Odds? Come on, be serious.
The culprit is Bill Gates for insisting on selling OSses and office applications that are unsafe at any speed.
The other culprit is us for buying his hacktrap. We couldn't wait for a safer pace of development, so we drank the koolaid.
Sure, the average user who sees the claim doesn't really fully appreciate the meaning, but _every_ OS is in the same race. So sometimes it's okay to let some of the semantics slide.
Perhaps it would be more forthright to say "Only two known remote holes found before we patched them." or something like that, but that would also lead to a miscommunication.
The point is that it is that much better than anything else available in this way. That part is not a miscommunication.
has never been as bad as Microsoft. IBM was the big elephant in the small pond, back when computers were things people didn't deal with every day. Microsoft made itself the pathologically overstuffed elephant in the general pond, bragging about the 80/20 solutions for people's problem, but it's always actually more like 20/80 solutions of problems Microsoft defines. That's what has polluted the market and sucked the economy dry.
I work with teachers. They use strictly Microsoft's junk. They are intelligent. They know something is not right with the OS or the apps. Not knowing Unix, they can't see what things could be, but they know things shouldn't be the way Microsoft makes them.
And they are also aware that Microsoft is behaving like a monopoly out of control.
One, I'm a moderate, I've read this thread, I don't think it's twitter whos's taking things too seriously.
Two, I used to think Microsoft deserved a fair shake, just like anyone else. Then I tried using their tools to do useful work. What they build is the software equivalent of a Big Mac, full of chemicals that are engineered to get you to buy again without actually giving you anything that costs the man too much. Let the workers push the pretty buttons and fatten their minds.
"Can't ya hear the cows? Can't you hear the cows." (Turtles, sometime in the '60s.)
Probably an unnecessary question, but are you aware of wapuro? (waado puroosessa == word processor)
I realize just now that I haven't noticed them in the stores in the last several years, but they used to be quite common in Japan. Small word processing dedicated portable with a built-in (usually thermal) printer. Releatively heavy beasts in most cases, however. Hitachi or Toshiba, about ten years ago, was selling a model without the printer, but ultra-lights of course wiped out the market for those.
I think the problem with maintaining the market is the pricing.
In the same vein, I attempted last December to use Ubuntu's LVM tools to do something that is not yet supported in Linux LVM. I should have read the LVM FAQ first, yeah. But Ubuntu's tools lost my data and couldn't bring them back. Fedora's tools brought them back.
So Ubuntu's evil, right?
Well, even though it's not, I'm not going to play with Ubuntu again until I get a chance to undo the non-optimal physical organization of my disks, and I may not play with it then. I did play with the live CDs enough to wonder why everyone gets so excited about Ubuntu. For my hardware and software, Fedora works fine.
But I will say this, accepting closed drivers is not really a strategy informed by the long view.
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In Japan, it is not uncommon to get a phone call or post card from someone claiming to be, for instance, a family member in trouble and in need of quick cash.
It's surprising how many people don't check first, and to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars at times.
The problem is not unique to the 'net.
The solution is special purpose browsers that the financial institutions provide their customers, which browsers do one thing only. (Well, okay, one kind of thing.) Connect to the bank and manage the user side of the account.
Asymmetric keys that the bank provides to the browser or the browser just does not connect. And the user calls the bank on the phone to let them know there might be an attack in progress. (Well, most users will think they are just complaining that the "browser doesn't work", but the guys at the bank are instructed to call the sysadmin any time a customer has trouble connecting.
Okay, to make it solid the banks would need an auxiliary domain name confirmation system (with asymmetric keys, yes) and the customers would need their own sets of asymmetric keys and maybe one-time pads that the pick up directly from the branch office, stuff like that, but the custom browser enables that.
I've told them the solution is to get the account access off of the universal browser and onto special purpose browsers they build themselves, but no one listens.
Think twice about what you do. Someday you have to account at least to yourself.
Fortunately, not all the religious wackos are that kind of wacko.
but is that authentication system your sales cr3w says is going to make the company a million really okay?
joudanzuki
wedgies, purple nurples, ...
Teachers in the public school system have to develop at least a teflon coating, if not kevlar skin. I have some students that insist on trying to give me the purple nurple. Other students (male and female) ape the masturbation act because they know it gets a reaction. (I've been trying to figure out how to let them know that masturbation is not public behavior without encouraging them to think they've figured out a way to get attention, no success yet. Ignoring it seems to work best at the moment, but some day it's going to require a (yeach) lecture.)
I'm not defending those who threaten on the net, by the way. I'm trying to talk about how to build that kevlar skin. Near as I can tell, anyone who puts themselves in the public eye has simply got to be prepared. It's one of the evils of false royalism, vis-a-vis hollywood. (We think, just because they don't actually hold some official position, it's okay to treat them like royalty. But the result is the same -- they become the object of all sorts of attention that people should not foist on each other.)
You don't even have to look as far as the bill of rights on this one. It's in the Constitution. Look it up on wikipedia or on the net itself. Or check out the text of the Constitution.
Hanging by a thread yet? Still?
Could we say that the entertainment "industry" in the US has jumped the shark?
(The funny thing about Japan is that entertainers here regularly jump the shark and remain popular. At least, that's the way it looks to me. I'm an outsider, I know. Sharks here, are, like, different. We eat them here, for instance.)
as some people said.
But it's a server. Stores your e-mail, your voice messages, your personal website, all of that. Maybe even routes your TV, but that's really for next year, when the current quantum wall gets pierced by some new advances. Google runs your backups, should your server go off-line.
Power.
.... True? And they were under contract to a label when they preached to us.
Cow the masses into believing that the RIAA has the right to tax their entertainment. They become the priests of the next generation.
Think about it -- who have we turned to for our ethics and morals lessons over the last half century?
Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Ian Anderson, Janis Joplin, Yusuf Islam,
Connect the dots, man. Oil is peanuts.
but then there is also that old saw about a samaritan
That all the hype in computers would drive the adoption of incomplete technologies in places where they'll do more harm than good.
It was a class called "Computers and Society".
We discussed the possibility that the government would establish a computer system to eavesdrop on telephone conversations. All of us students figured that level of voice recognition and the number of calls in process at any particular time made the concept preposterous. Somebody pointed out that such a system could at any rate be targeted, but none of us realized how cheap the required processing power would become. We figured it would remain cheaper to use human eavesdroppers.
We discussed a lot of issues like that, and the teacher tried to get us to consider the damage incompletely implemented systems could do, but we figured nobody would be stupid enough to risk so seriously embarassing themselves by making, much less selling, such things.
It was staring us in the face. We were all using MSC on MS-DOS machines and swearing at Microsoft for lying in their feature lists and hiding the reality deep in the smal print in the manuals. ("This feature only works under the following conditions:" with no apologies that the sacrifice of a live pigeon at midnight on the thirteenth Tuesday of the year seemed to have no relation to any know algorithms for memory allocation or string parsing.) Well, most of us were using MS-DOS. Some of us were using Macs. I was using a M6800 prototyping board and tape drive when I wasn't using the VAX. I just assumed the complaints about Microsoft's junk were due to lack of experience or excessive expectations, partly because I never bothered reading Microsoft advertisements or Microsoft breathless fanboy articles on the magnificence of MSWord and MS(doesn't)Excel. I didn't realize how much Microsoft were fudging under the 80% functionality banner. (Would have been more correct if they had said, "We sell it at the 80% functionality left to implement level.")
What does this have to do with trying to use RFD in drivers licenses to hold passport data when the government is finally (grudgingly) admitting that radio tagged passports need tin foil covers?
How much do I have to burlesque? (And why did my initial comment deserve to be labelled flamebait?)
first indication you're in fantasy land.
Why x86?
If a low power x86 will do, so will a low power arm or coldfire or PPC or SPARC or whatever. We even have open source Java interpreters working on several non-x86.
One of my teachers in college. lo, these twenty years ago, warned me this would happen.
Of course, we already had seen it in Micro$oft's say 80/20 to excuse any level of functionality.
that you paint russia and china with probably picks up my provider in the swath, too
so, if there is some reason you need me to send you e-mail, i have no way to tell you that you have me blocked
Comcast blocks mail from my ISP. I can't contact my sister from that mail address to her comcast address. I told them about that, and they said _I_ have to access their blacklist page and tell them through that that my ISP is legit after all. No, I can't tell them by e-mail, even if I use google mail to contact them. So my sister doesn't use comcast mail, and will soon not use comcast at all.
So there were Linux boxen and Firefox browsers on the inside as well, and they were effected by the attack in the third or fourth wave.
Did you miss that part about there having to be a box (still) pwned on the inside? Yeah, once there's a bot on the inside, no standard browser is safe, but how did that bot get in?
Sure, it _might_ have been a Linux box poorly administered, but then again it might have been just about _any_ MSWindows box.
Odds? Come on, be serious.
The culprit is Bill Gates for insisting on selling OSses and office applications that are unsafe at any speed.
The other culprit is us for buying his hacktrap. We couldn't wait for a safer pace of development, so we drank the koolaid.
by anyone who doesn't know the hole. It's a race.
Sure, the average user who sees the claim doesn't really fully appreciate the meaning, but _every_ OS is in the same race. So sometimes it's okay to let some of the semantics slide.
Perhaps it would be more forthright to say "Only two known remote holes found before we patched them." or something like that, but that would also lead to a miscommunication.
The point is that it is that much better than anything else available in this way. That part is not a miscommunication.
joudanzuki
has never been as bad as Microsoft. IBM was the big elephant in the small pond, back when computers were things people didn't deal with every day. Microsoft made itself the pathologically overstuffed elephant in the general pond, bragging about the 80/20 solutions for people's problem, but it's always actually more like 20/80 solutions of problems Microsoft defines. That's what has polluted the market and sucked the economy dry.
Where strange part of the world do you live in?
I work with teachers. They use strictly Microsoft's junk. They are intelligent. They know something is not right with the OS or the apps. Not knowing Unix, they can't see what things could be, but they know things shouldn't be the way Microsoft makes them.
And they are also aware that Microsoft is behaving like a monopoly out of control.
Microsoft goes well beyond the necessary.
We'd have plenty to compete with without them, and we'll have more resources to do it with.
One, I'm a moderate, I've read this thread, I don't think it's twitter whos's taking things too seriously.
Two, I used to think Microsoft deserved a fair shake, just like anyone else. Then I tried using their tools to do useful work. What they build is the software equivalent of a Big Mac, full of chemicals that are engineered to get you to buy again without actually giving you anything that costs the man too much. Let the workers push the pretty buttons and fatten their minds.
"Can't ya hear the cows? Can't you hear the cows." (Turtles, sometime in the '60s.)
Probably an unnecessary question, but are you aware of wapuro? (waado puroosessa == word processor)
I realize just now that I haven't noticed them in the stores in the last several years, but they used to be quite common in Japan. Small word processing dedicated portable with a built-in (usually thermal) printer. Releatively heavy beasts in most cases, however. Hitachi or Toshiba, about ten years ago, was selling a model without the printer, but ultra-lights of course wiped out the market for those.
I think the problem with maintaining the market is the pricing.
is another way to not vote for any candidate. To make it really count, you need to write in someone who would be a valid potential candidate, though.
In the same vein, I attempted last December to use Ubuntu's LVM tools to do something that is not yet supported in Linux LVM. I should have read the LVM FAQ first, yeah. But Ubuntu's tools lost my data and couldn't bring them back. Fedora's tools brought them back.
So Ubuntu's evil, right?
Well, even though it's not, I'm not going to play with Ubuntu again until I get a chance to undo the non-optimal physical organization of my disks, and I may not play with it then. I did play with the live CDs enough to wonder why everyone gets so excited about Ubuntu. For my hardware and software, Fedora works fine.
But I will say this, accepting closed drivers is not really a strategy informed by the long view.
He who deceives himself deceives a fool.
Of course, football is a kind of religion, I think.