In my experience during the last few dark years of the dotcom bust, too many of the people responsible for security were canned. I had to quit my last job after 6 months because my suggestions on security -- Simple things such as "Don't use Telnet. Use SSH." and "You really shouldn't 'chmod -R 777' everything", were seen as a barrier to progress.
I speak to too many technical managers who don't understand why opening non-anonymous FTP is a bad thing, when everything else is done over SSH or a secure VPN connection. When I discuss SFTP, they scratch their head and drool a little bit, and it's clear they don't understand the threat of cleartext passwords...
Mods: How is this flamebait. Choicepoint is a private company who collects your information without your consent.
The government and private companies collect and sell this information to Choicepoint. Some of it is public, but I consider much of the information to be private.
Can anyone tell me why ChoicePoint never did any deeper background checks on their clients knowing full well that identity theft is at an all time high?
What's really ironic about this statement is that Choicepoint does background checks for employeers.
Last several times I was accepted for a job, I had to submit myself to a background check provided by Choicepoint.
They could do a similar background check on their clients, but I bet that would be bad for Choicepoint's business.
Yeah, you can't force all development into a 3-week cycle, but it can work pretty well for some projects where pieces of the project can be postponed until the next development cycle.
A 3 week cycle could work pretty well in a web-environment (which is what I work in).
His scenario reflects 2/3 of the places that I've worked.
However, his solution might work well in many places where feature-creep happens, even when there isn't as much animosity between developers and management.
If I'm just looking for an SSL-encrypted connection to an Open-source site which is signed by openca, I can deal with popups (or add the OpenCA cert to Firefox), assuming that I already trust the site.
If I'm buying something over the internet, I'm not so sure that I'd trust my credit card to some entity that was verified through OpenCA.
Well, these ARE huge plasma TVs, which men buy to make up for the fact that they feel that their penis is too small. Gotta compensate somehow. Just like big trucks and crotch rocket motorcycles...
So after 30 years of never tansmitting a bit they found uses for some small bit and pieces while the TCP/IP ptotocol suite that the ITU fought hard against has changed the world?
The internet is composed of more then just TCP/IP.
The ITU is very influencial in many communications areas outside the internet.
Couldn't we let the ITU practice on, oh, Microsoft or Yahoo first? Something expendible?
The ITU standards, as well as standards like TCP/IP, are voluntary. This means anyone can practice on something expendible.
CRT HDTVs start at $700. $700 will be a crappy model.
Either way, $700 is way to much to pay for Television.
Eventually, the cost may come down to a reasonable level, but I doubt this will happen before the FCC's deadline. This whole process won't work without enough consumer support.
all the ITU's computer-related X.### standards, except for a few, have been replaced by much better ones.
The X.### standards are more influential then you are stating here.
Many of the newer standards are based on the X.### standards, they borrow concepts, strategies, sometimes even use the same text to describe a process, etc. They are the next version of the standard.
The X.### standards aren't great, but that is to be expected in the initial version of most standards.
This isn't about HDTV anyway. It's about switching from analog to digital.
Ok, I guess I confused the terms a bit. Not all digital TV is HDTV.
But still, if the FCC forces the broadcasters to switch from analog to digital, I'll need a converter for my old TV. I have no desire to buy a converter unless it's really cheap.
Is it really the job of the government to rip up an existing, heavily used infrastructure and force the providers and users onto a new infrastructure?
I don't think HDTV is worth the price. I'm not about to plunk down $1000 for a new TV $100 for a HDTV converter, when my existing TV works good enough. In the end, I would have the same basic product, but I'd have $100 or $1000 less in savings (or $100 or $1000 more in Credit Card debt). But OOOO there are more pixels on the screen now!
Basically, if the FCC shuts down the analog TV spectrum and insists that I spend money on a new thing, I'll stop watching TV. There are millions of people like me, and somehow I don't think the broadcasters want to lose the business.
What do you think happens once all of the TV stations convert to digital and stop broadcasting the analog stations?
Fewer people will watch TV. That's a good thing from many angles.
The TV stations will lose a signifigant portion of their consumer base.
Who's going to be the first station to say "Yes, I'll switch to HDTV and lose the 5-20% of my customers to the competing stations. Please! Me! Choose me!"
Right, but at some point I'll be able to store the broadcast with the bit onto my hard drive. Or, if I can receive a stream onto my computer, I'll be able to record it in some fashion.
It's only a matter of time before someone develops a program to remove the bit from the stream.
The hardware can't prevent me from viewing all content which does not have a flag. I need some way to view my home movies or other unprotected content on my own TV.
If I can't view unflagged content, I won't buy the hardware.
The Broadcast Flag doens't apply to analog TV, it only applies to HDTV.
I have an old analog TV which I bought in 1994. It works fine. Along with a decent Audio/Video Receiver, I can watch DVDs, video tapes, streams from the computer or 10 broadcast channels with some rabbit-ears. I can watch PBS, Lost and the local news (not sure why I bother with the local news).
Personally, I don't think that HDTV is worth it. The sets are still way too expensive, and I'm not going to spend $100 on a HDTV tuner just so I can watch the same program that I currently get for free. Why spend $1000 on a HDTV when you can get a perfectly fine analog TV for $150? Hello Credit Card society!
At some point, the FCC wants to shut off all analog TV transmission, and then auction off the analog TV spectrum to make a few bucks for the government.
If the FCC does shut down analog broadcasts, I'll simply stop watching broadcast TV. I'm not alone, and the TV broadcasters know this.
Although, I kind of doubt this will happen anytime soon--- there isn't enough demand for the HDTV sets yet, which means that the broadcasters must continue to broadcast in old-fashioned analog TV. I doubt that HDTV will make it into 90% of homes anytime soon.
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American citizens cannot be held accountable to any other law or tried in any other legal system than their own.
Are you dense?
If you murder someone in just about any country, you'll probably end up in a court in that country.
Non-Americans who commit serious crimes in America frequently appear in an American court.
"on old technology, performs poorly and is insecure"
Honestly now, are they talking about wireless technology, or are they talking about the Chinese government?
Because really, the Chinese government is anything except new, efficient and secure with itself.\
(international in the same way as the UN, which is run by the arabs)
Well, thanks for being honest with your opinion. At least we know you're a crackpot, and can discount the rest of your conspiracy theory.
or not taking the security concerns seriously.
...
In my experience during the last few dark years of the dotcom bust, too many of the people responsible for security were canned. I had to quit my last job after 6 months because my suggestions on security -- Simple things such as "Don't use Telnet. Use SSH." and "You really shouldn't 'chmod -R 777' everything", were seen as a barrier to progress.
I speak to too many technical managers who don't understand why opening non-anonymous FTP is a bad thing, when everything else is done over SSH or a secure VPN connection. When I discuss SFTP, they scratch their head and drool a little bit, and it's clear they don't understand the threat of cleartext passwords
Scary...
Mods: How is this flamebait. Choicepoint is a private company who collects your information without your consent.
The government and private companies collect and sell this information to Choicepoint. Some of it is public, but I consider much of the information to be private.
I'll back you up there.
I just checked, and Firefox was using over 60M of RAM. It's been running for 12 hours, but I was away for 10 of those hours.
I just restarted Firefox, and upon startup it uses about 25M of RAM. I quickly visited about 50 sites, and now it's using about 68M of RAM.
Is this the browser memory cache perhaps?
I've got the Tabbrowser Preferences, ChatZilla and the Yahoo Toolbar (Official Beta) loaded.
WinXP SP2, 1.4Ghz, 512M of RAM.
Come on guys, have some sympathy.
...
I mean, once Mandrake aquired Connectiva, they had to reboot to load the new kernel. It's only natural that you'd see the message twice.
Shessh
Can anyone tell me why ChoicePoint never did any deeper background checks on their clients knowing full well that identity theft is at an all time high?
What's really ironic about this statement is that Choicepoint does background checks for employeers.
Last several times I was accepted for a job, I had to submit myself to a background check provided by Choicepoint.
They could do a similar background check on their clients, but I bet that would be bad for Choicepoint's business.
I'm from a private company, and I'm here to help myself without your consent.
But ebay is not the beneficiary, the seller is, so...
Ebay is a beneficiary.
Ebay takes a percentage of the earnings. If the final bid is inflated, then Ebay makes more money.
Yeah, you can't force all development into a 3-week cycle, but it can work pretty well for some projects where pieces of the project can be postponed until the next development cycle.
A 3 week cycle could work pretty well in a web-environment (which is what I work in).
His scenario reflects 2/3 of the places that I've worked.
However, his solution might work well in many places where feature-creep happens, even when there isn't as much animosity between developers and management.
Well it depends on what you want to do.
If I'm just looking for an SSL-encrypted connection to an Open-source site which is signed by openca, I can deal with popups (or add the OpenCA cert to Firefox), assuming that I already trust the site.
If I'm buying something over the internet, I'm not so sure that I'd trust my credit card to some entity that was verified through OpenCA.
Well, these ARE huge plasma TVs, which men buy to make up for the fact that they feel that their penis is too small. Gotta compensate somehow. Just like big trucks and crotch rocket motorcycles...
"RAR! BIG TV! small penis".
So after 30 years of never tansmitting a bit they found uses for some small bit and pieces while the TCP/IP ptotocol suite that the ITU fought hard against has changed the world?
The internet is composed of more then just TCP/IP.
The ITU is very influencial in many communications areas outside the internet.
Couldn't we let the ITU practice on, oh, Microsoft or Yahoo first? Something expendible?
The ITU standards, as well as standards like TCP/IP, are voluntary. This means anyone can practice on something expendible.
CRT HDTVs start at $700. $700 will be a crappy model.
Either way, $700 is way to much to pay for Television.
Eventually, the cost may come down to a reasonable level, but I doubt this will happen before the FCC's deadline. This whole process won't work without enough consumer support.
all the ITU's computer-related X.### standards, except for a few, have been replaced by much better ones.
The X.### standards are more influential then you are stating here.
Many of the newer standards are based on the X.### standards, they borrow concepts, strategies, sometimes even use the same text to describe a process, etc. They are the next version of the standard.
The X.### standards aren't great, but that is to be expected in the initial version of most standards.
They are accountable to no one, and know it.
Who is ICANN accountable to?
This isn't about HDTV anyway. It's about switching from analog to digital.
Ok, I guess I confused the terms a bit. Not all digital TV is HDTV.
But still, if the FCC forces the broadcasters to switch from analog to digital, I'll need a converter for my old TV. I have no desire to buy a converter unless it's really cheap.
Yeah, it's perfectly cromulent, ESTONIAN. Embiggined indeed!
Is it really the job of the government to rip up an existing, heavily used infrastructure and force the providers and users onto a new infrastructure?
I don't think HDTV is worth the price. I'm not about to plunk down $1000 for a new TV $100 for a HDTV converter, when my existing TV works good enough. In the end, I would have the same basic product, but I'd have $100 or $1000 less in savings (or $100 or $1000 more in Credit Card debt). But OOOO there are more pixels on the screen now!
Basically, if the FCC shuts down the analog TV spectrum and insists that I spend money on a new thing, I'll stop watching TV. There are millions of people like me, and somehow I don't think the broadcasters want to lose the business.
What do you think happens once all of the TV stations convert to digital and stop broadcasting the analog stations?
Fewer people will watch TV. That's a good thing from many angles.
The TV stations will lose a signifigant portion of their consumer base.
Who's going to be the first station to say "Yes, I'll switch to HDTV and lose the 5-20% of my customers to the competing stations. Please! Me! Choose me!"
Right, but at some point I'll be able to store the broadcast with the bit onto my hard drive. Or, if I can receive a stream onto my computer, I'll be able to record it in some fashion.
It's only a matter of time before someone develops a program to remove the bit from the stream.
The hardware can't prevent me from viewing all content which does not have a flag. I need some way to view my home movies or other unprotected content on my own TV.
If I can't view unflagged content, I won't buy the hardware.
The Broadcast Flag doens't apply to analog TV, it only applies to HDTV.
I have an old analog TV which I bought in 1994. It works fine. Along with a decent Audio/Video Receiver, I can watch DVDs, video tapes, streams from the computer or 10 broadcast channels with some rabbit-ears. I can watch PBS, Lost and the local news (not sure why I bother with the local news).
Personally, I don't think that HDTV is worth it. The sets are still way too expensive, and I'm not going to spend $100 on a HDTV tuner just so I can watch the same program that I currently get for free. Why spend $1000 on a HDTV when you can get a perfectly fine analog TV for $150? Hello Credit Card society!
At some point, the FCC wants to shut off all analog TV transmission, and then auction off the analog TV spectrum to make a few bucks for the government.
If the FCC does shut down analog broadcasts, I'll simply stop watching broadcast TV. I'm not alone, and the TV broadcasters know this.
Although, I kind of doubt this will happen anytime soon--- there isn't enough demand for the HDTV sets yet, which means that the broadcasters must continue to broadcast in old-fashioned analog TV. I doubt that HDTV will make it into 90% of homes anytime soon.
If you can receive a broadcast onto your computer, what's to stop you from removing the broadcast flag?
This is the flaw with just about any DRM scheme... eventually someone will develop a tool to remove the DRM. It's just a matter of time.