I think TFA means SSAN's? Of course, exposing thousands of SSN's would be quite a trick - being as our Navy hasn't got nearly that many of 'em, and goes to great pains to hide 'em.
Okay . . . if the thing's geosynchroneous, that'll cover (nominally) two-thirds of a hemisphere - probably fifty percent with reasonable reliability (it gets harder to acquire a satellite as the elevation above the visible horizon approaches zero degrees - more atmosphere to get through, longer distances). Also, given the vastly larger distances involved, ping latency can be expected to be several seconds - a tremendous obstacle for streaming technologies, but not especially likely to impact on military network traffic. To fulfill the military mission, at least three (more like four or five) satellites in GS orbit will be required to complete the network.
If it's launched into a LEO, you'll need at least ten to twenty satellites to provide continuous coverage to any given point on Earth (although at that point, you'll have continuous coverage for every point on Earth). Cheaper to launch, lower lifespan - but much lower ping latency. Not as low as ground-based routing, but lower than trying to go +120,000km.
The satellite is set for launch . . .
My money say's they're gonna need more'n one o' those!
Give me a lock. Give me the key to that lock.
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The key can only be used by media; I can plainly see that the key is quite intricate and ornate, and clearly stamped "Do not duplicate".
Yup - no concievable way I can get a key for my own use to unlock the lock. Can't be done - not even gonna try! All those other cracks I've heard about - I know that none of them could possibly have worked, the *AA has seen to it that the deCSS debacle can't be repeated, right?
Tell ya what - I don't even pay attention to this - let me know when a movie worth watching comes out on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD and I'll start to pay attention - so far, the folks at *AA can just color me unimpressed!
On the brand new Acer Aspire T180 desktop I bought last weekend, the glorious Windows Vista Basic that came preinstalled managed to remain operable through four iterations of the "I've updated myself, I'm rebooting now" dance, at the end of which (almost exactly forty minutes after I first powered up my new toy) the system became unbootable.
Selling millions of copies is a testament to the skill and dedication of the sales staff at MicroSoft, not the quality of their product.
So all you know about IBM is that they make Lotus Notes, right (which I'll grant you, it's a pig)? And of course, you've never had any up-close time with MicroSoft's Outlook/Exhange product, so it's just peachy, right?
Let's see - MicroSoft took DOS (a perfectly great system which performed almost exactly as advertised) and turned it into Windows Vista. Hmmm . . . were you saying something about a track record for selling "crummy products"?
Let's see . . . MicroSoft Office . . . seems to me that no version of MicroSoft Office has ever shipped which didn't almost immediately require patching to correct some more-or-less egregious flaw.
As for MicroSoft's partners - I used to be a contractor working to install/configure/integrate MicroSoft products. I personally never saw MicroSoft products "work pretty well on their own" for businesses I went to . . . that's why in 1994 I was worth $5,000.00/week as a consultant - to make those MicroSoft products work "pretty well".
Somebody says "hey, this remarkable thing might be possible." DARPA says "Hey, we should investigate and see if that's useful."
Remember the inter-net? "Connect multiple computers with disparate architectures manufactured and designed by multiple manufacturers into a single integrated network architecture with seamless sharing of data, regardless of native format." I was vaguely associated with the development work DARPA did on this back in the early 80's - I was sure they were chasing a pipe-dream. DARPA often does, you know.
Yup - if only one pipe-dream in a hundred ever makes it, the internet sure shows that the other ninety-nine pipes weren't wasted; we can use 'em as tubes for the intarweb. So even if we don't come up with a Cyberdyne T-1000, let's see if something useful does come out of this research. Remember, the Nautilus, space travel, powered flight, even travel in excess of fifty to sixty miles per hour were all once ridiculous ideas - all theoretically impossible for many good scientific reasons. Now, we have nuclear submarines, (arguably) reusable spacecraft, jet travel and teenagers who can't seem to drive at less than seventy to eighty miles per hour!
I suppose a background in Computer Science would help . . .
This is a static buffer overflow exploit. Even Firefox and Opera under Windows are not vulnerable to this exploit - and I find it exceedingly unlikely that any Linux users are using IE6 or IE7 to surf the web from Linux:^)
But you're right to note that a browser vulnerability could easily be found on any operating system which supports the vulnerable browser. Does Linux support IE (more accurately - does MicroSoft support IE under Linux)?
Kaleidascope's device doesn't actively decrypt the content (or specifically enable decryption for other hardware/software) - it merely makes a faithful copy of the original content, as licensed to the end-user at time of purchase. Sounds like 'fair use' to me!
Without some external form of CSS decryption software (such as libdvdcss in the Linux world), the data are no more accessible from a hard disk than they were from the original DVD. If the capacity for decrypting CSS-scrambled exists, than the medium from which the content originates is inconsequential - viewing, copying, etc. will all work identically regardless of the source medium.
Fortunately, a judge or jury somewhere got the point.
DNS is a three-decade old kludge. A good one, mind, but a kludge nonetheless.
Looked at the way DNS handles reverse lookups lately? Not horrible, but a kludge.
As long as the world will soon render IPv4 obsolete (despite tremendous opposition), I can't see DNS lasting too much longer. A decade, tops - probably less.
I don't even see DNS living too long within private IPv4 networks after (if) IPv6 becomes the standard. Who wants to preserve an obsolete kludge like DNS? It'll end up going the way of sendmail and uucp, IMHO. Still there, still operational, still usable - but who (except for some COBOL programmers) would want to maintain it?
Y'know, if you'd told me that M$ rolled out their new WindowsFS and it had a vulnerability or two, I'd be amused. Not surprised, not shocked, amused. New and exciting technologies rarely work correctly the first time they're tried.
If you told me it was in the Aero "glass" interface, I'd be more amused. Not that the eye-candy is worth exposing a machine to security risks, but the new interface could improve user efficiency, or be a step in that direction - I'll accept the risk presented as a step along the way to a better interface.
If it was something in the kernel or one of the system utilities, I'd accept that. Hundreds of executables, thousands of source files, millions of lines of code - sure, I can see somebody missing a bug in "ipconfig" or something like that - happens to every OS eventually.
The vulnerability has to do with handling animated mouse cursors?!? Uh, how the )$(*% do you screw up mouse event handling badly enough to permit an OS exploit? Just how important are animated mouse cursors to the end-user experience? Important enough to risk OS/system stability and integrity to have a spinning hourglass?
I'll say this for Redmond - this vulnerability certainly has a huge "Wow" factor in my opinion. It's all about the "Wow", you know . . .
I'm going to keep my eye on that little slice of Earth for awhile - frankly, they may want to hire a lot of I.T., and I find it unlikely at best that they'll settle for not having somebody around with more than five to six years of experience, tops.
You go right on the way you're going - you'll have lots of swell fun playing with the *AA if they ever make the mistake of going after you.
That said, I really hope you like the thought of indentured servitude, 'cuz you can't file bankruptcy against the *AA when they take you to court and their battery of lawyers manages a victory against the lawyer who has himself for a client! With longer life expectancies, you might manage to repay over half of what the *AA will win if their highly-paid and highly-trained legal team can beat you, college boy!
Uh, what do you mean, this isn't a good thing? We're finally number one at something in IT again (other than outsourcing, that is) and it's a bad thing? That sucks . . .
That said . . . in your face, China, Russia and the other developing countries - in your face!
Oh, and a slight aside to the/. eds - I suspect that both the Chinese and the Russian people would be *ahem* amused at having their respective countries referred to as "developing countries". Just sayin'
When a black hole forms, the matter trapped within the event horizon has (for all intents and purposes) left our universe. Perhaps GRB's are merely the thermodynamic return on all that lost mass?
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I think TFA means SSAN's? Of course, exposing thousands of SSN's would be quite a trick - being as our Navy hasn't got nearly that many of 'em, and goes to great pains to hide 'em.
That's because average citizens don't throw people in jail for making them look bad. Judges have been known to do that.
*infuriated beeping from Mr. Haselton*
If it's launched into a LEO, you'll need at least ten to twenty satellites to provide continuous coverage to any given point on Earth (although at that point, you'll have continuous coverage for every point on Earth). Cheaper to launch, lower lifespan - but much lower ping latency. Not as low as ground-based routing, but lower than trying to go +120,000km.
My money say's they're gonna need more'n one o' those!
Yup - no concievable way I can get a key for my own use to unlock the lock. Can't be done - not even gonna try! All those other cracks I've heard about - I know that none of them could possibly have worked, the *AA has seen to it that the deCSS debacle can't be repeated, right?
Tell ya what - I don't even pay attention to this - let me know when a movie worth watching comes out on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD and I'll start to pay attention - so far, the folks at *AA can just color me unimpressed!
Selling millions of copies is a testament to the skill and dedication of the sales staff at MicroSoft, not the quality of their product.
Malodorous troll.
So all you know about IBM is that they make Lotus Notes, right (which I'll grant you, it's a pig)? And of course, you've never had any up-close time with MicroSoft's Outlook/Exhange product, so it's just peachy, right?
Let's see - MicroSoft took DOS (a perfectly great system which performed almost exactly as advertised) and turned it into Windows Vista. Hmmm . . . were you saying something about a track record for selling "crummy products"?
Let's see . . . MicroSoft Office . . . seems to me that no version of MicroSoft Office has ever shipped which didn't almost immediately require patching to correct some more-or-less egregious flaw.
As for MicroSoft's partners - I used to be a contractor working to install/configure/integrate MicroSoft products. I personally never saw MicroSoft products "work pretty well on their own" for businesses I went to . . . that's why in 1994 I was worth $5,000.00/week as a consultant - to make those MicroSoft products work "pretty well".
Remember the inter-net? "Connect multiple computers with disparate architectures manufactured and designed by multiple manufacturers into a single integrated network architecture with seamless sharing of data, regardless of native format." I was vaguely associated with the development work DARPA did on this back in the early 80's - I was sure they were chasing a pipe-dream. DARPA often does, you know.
Yup - if only one pipe-dream in a hundred ever makes it, the internet sure shows that the other ninety-nine pipes weren't wasted; we can use 'em as tubes for the intarweb. So even if we don't come up with a Cyberdyne T-1000, let's see if something useful does come out of this research. Remember, the Nautilus, space travel, powered flight, even travel in excess of fifty to sixty miles per hour were all once ridiculous ideas - all theoretically impossible for many good scientific reasons. Now, we have nuclear submarines, (arguably) reusable spacecraft, jet travel and teenagers who can't seem to drive at less than seventy to eighty miles per hour!
You're right - it's intentional, the result of a design decision.
*removes head from fourth point-of-contact*
A related "bug" is the ability to boot Linux "fail safe" with the notation 'initrd=/bin/sh' on the boot line. As MVS would say, "Thou art God!"
Innovative, yesno?
Napster. Gnutella. Gnutella-2. e-Donkey. BitTorrent. All innovative technologies.
This is a static buffer overflow exploit. Even Firefox and Opera under Windows are not vulnerable to this exploit - and I find it exceedingly unlikely that any Linux users are using IE6 or IE7 to surf the web from Linux :^)
But you're right to note that a browser vulnerability could easily be found on any operating system which supports the vulnerable browser. Does Linux support IE (more accurately - does MicroSoft support IE under Linux)?
Without some external form of CSS decryption software (such as libdvdcss in the Linux world), the data are no more accessible from a hard disk than they were from the original DVD. If the capacity for decrypting CSS-scrambled exists, than the medium from which the content originates is inconsequential - viewing, copying, etc. will all work identically regardless of the source medium.
Fortunately, a judge or jury somewhere got the point.
Looked at the way DNS handles reverse lookups lately? Not horrible, but a kludge.
As long as the world will soon render IPv4 obsolete (despite tremendous opposition), I can't see DNS lasting too much longer. A decade, tops - probably less.
I don't even see DNS living too long within private IPv4 networks after (if) IPv6 becomes the standard. Who wants to preserve an obsolete kludge like DNS? It'll end up going the way of sendmail and uucp, IMHO. Still there, still operational, still usable - but who (except for some COBOL programmers) would want to maintain it?
If you told me it was in the Aero "glass" interface, I'd be more amused. Not that the eye-candy is worth exposing a machine to security risks, but the new interface could improve user efficiency, or be a step in that direction - I'll accept the risk presented as a step along the way to a better interface.
If it was something in the kernel or one of the system utilities, I'd accept that. Hundreds of executables, thousands of source files, millions of lines of code - sure, I can see somebody missing a bug in "ipconfig" or something like that - happens to every OS eventually.
The vulnerability has to do with handling animated mouse cursors?!? Uh, how the )$(*% do you screw up mouse event handling badly enough to permit an OS exploit? Just how important are animated mouse cursors to the end-user experience? Important enough to risk OS/system stability and integrity to have a spinning hourglass?
I'll say this for Redmond - this vulnerability certainly has a huge "Wow" factor in my opinion. It's all about the "Wow", you know . . .
SuperGerm, the result of an accident in the enemy's bio-warfare division results in the loss of 25 million of the enemy's population.
I'm going to keep my eye on that little slice of Earth for awhile - frankly, they may want to hire a lot of I.T., and I find it unlikely at best that they'll settle for not having somebody around with more than five to six years of experience, tops.
These two are almost, but not quite completely unlike identical twins?
That said, I really hope you like the thought of indentured servitude, 'cuz you can't file bankruptcy against the *AA when they take you to court and their battery of lawyers manages a victory against the lawyer who has himself for a client! With longer life expectancies, you might manage to repay over half of what the *AA will win if their highly-paid and highly-trained legal team can beat you, college boy!
What a choice - give us all yer money now, or we'll grind you into poverty for the next x years of your life.
Yeah - I'm sure I'd be ready to sell out quick for a few grand - beats the hell out of working for the RIAA for the next twenty years of my life!
I thought that was just Vonage's marketing hype, not their business model!
"Why shouldn't he be on my phone - he's on everybody else's!"
That said . . . in your face, China, Russia and the other developing countries - in your face!
Oh, and a slight aside to the /. eds - I suspect that both the Chinese and the Russian people would be *ahem* amused at having their respective countries referred to as "developing countries". Just sayin'
When a black hole forms, the matter trapped within the event horizon has (for all intents and purposes) left our universe. Perhaps GRB's are merely the thermodynamic return on all that lost mass?