4. Security. GPO produces passports and other secure documents. The current design for passports uses an RFID chip, which means that an American can be picked out of a crowd merely by having a passport in their pocket. If nominated and confirmed, I would ask security expert Bruce Schneier to form a Blue-Ribbon Commission to reexamine the design of passports and other secure documents so we can better protect the privacy and security of all Americans.
And we know what Schneier's stance is on those RFID chips: he has long opposed them. So does this mean that we will see a reversal of the policy on RFID tags in passports? Gods, I hope so.
No good. Likely, some guy who looks like that guy from Remington Steele would stop you with the assistance of one or more lovely ladies and some high-tech wizardry, all-the-while drinking martinis.
I'm just not quite sure what I could use it for. It's too underpowered for video encoding/decoding,
Actually, audio and standard-def video playback and recording and streaming would probably be quite acceptable on a 1.2GHz CPU as long as it wasn't doing anything else. Small flash-based PVR? Small flash-based VOD streaming server for one TV? Internet radio?
With the built-in gigabit Ethernet and USB, with some good software in place you could probably turn the thing into a 'smart' network adapter that includes a built-in packet filtering firewall. If you could add a NIC or two, it could become a router.
1.2Ghz is more than fast enough to run some of the older console and arcade games under mame/xmame/etc.
Do you care to expand on your argument, this time laying out your reasons for making it in clear, concise manner with appropriate references? Because I can.
All the more reason to use fetchmail. Since it stuffs things into your *nix mailbox, you have your choice of clients: Thunderbird, mutt, Squirrelmail, or all three at the same time.;)
And fetchmail also comes with just about every flavor of Linux.
I never understood why the[y] left in the first place.
They weren't making money in that area.
Most of the problems with desktop Linux at that time revolved around the fact that you need to need to break the law to in Red Hat's country of origin to distribute a useable system
They didn't want to compete head-to-head with Microsoft.
Things have improved somewhat since then: Other projects like Ubuntu and FreeDesktop.org have paved the way for desktop Linux; a lot of codecs have been re-implemented as open source and patents are expiring on some codecs; Microsoft doesn't quite have the teeth they used to have.
I do this myself. One thing I like though is to pull in other e-mail accounts and have everything just appear in my inbox without having to have Thunderbird open all the time to automatically check. So in addition, my setup uses fetchmail.
How long before we see multiple dedicated-purpose appliances packaged in a single box with the only thing different between multiple models is a license key that 'turns on' the proxy, static web server, router, firewall, e-mail server, etc.
Depends on the industry, type of company, and so forth. In the dog-eat-dog world of small automotive tier 1 engineering suppliers, his behavior might actually have been almost expected. Its a very small world, very competitive and its not uncommon for people to fly around from company to company and maybe even end up working for the same place a couple of different times.
Mafia bosses have money and can hire whatever talent he wants. Heck, he could even offshore it. It's not like these Indian offshoring companies are asking who their customers are how their work is going to be used. They're whores. They'll do anything for cash.
Um, at least two of those planes (probably all of them) were steered hundreds of miles off course by the terrorists.
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Oh, you are so right. If I had read that rant on the Gnome list, I know what the answer would be: "shut up, n00b, you don't know what you're talking about."
Here's what it boils down to: programmers are, in general, notoriously bad at taking criticism. Developers: think about it. How many times have you gotten ticked off become someone told you they didn't like the way you implemented X? Be honest.
You're kidding right? IF terrorists can learn to fly a jumbo jet, which, mind you, is a very complex beast that requires a lot of training, simulator, and real-world flying time to be able to fly one, or if they can become munitions experts, what's to stop terrorists from becoming IT experts?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Terrorists can take the same classes you took, take the same training you took, and learn as much about IT as you did.
Anyone determined enough to kill a bunch of people in order to achieve notoriety for their cause can learn just about anything if they think it will help them achieve their gol.
Not to mention that just about anything can be tunneled through SSH. And exactly what exists to stop terrorists or other criminals from simply creating their own protocols? Do they think that law-abiding citizens have some sort of monopoly on computer geeks? I think almost any decent network programmer with some sort of communications security background should be able to come up with an entirely new, secure protocol from scratch.
Probably they should just outlaw the whole Internet and all forms of encryption if their goal is to prevent criminals and terrorists from communicating in ways that can't be monitored.
No, we learn to love the colors our parents surround us with. Think about it: people paint their nursery blue when their having a boy, they paint their son's bedrooms blue and their daughter's bedrooms pink, etc. It's not just what our parents dress us in, but yeah, it's entirely environmental. Think about what colors they always saw as babies and then you'll see that we gravitate towards what we're familiar with.
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4. Security. GPO produces passports and other secure documents. The current design for passports uses an RFID chip, which means that an American can be picked out of a crowd merely by having a passport in their pocket. If nominated and confirmed, I would ask security expert Bruce Schneier to form a Blue-Ribbon Commission to reexamine the design of passports and other secure documents so we can better protect the privacy and security of all Americans.
And we know what Schneier's stance is on those RFID chips: he has long opposed them. So does this mean that we will see a reversal of the policy on RFID tags in passports? Gods, I hope so.
No good. Likely, some guy who looks like that guy from Remington Steele would stop you with the assistance of one or more lovely ladies and some high-tech wizardry, all-the-while drinking martinis.
If the answer seems obvious, you aren't thinking critically. A critical thinker knows good arguments for both sides.
Your signature line seems oddly appropriate here. ;)
I'm just not quite sure what I could use it for. It's too underpowered for video encoding/decoding,
Actually, audio and standard-def video playback and recording and streaming would probably be quite acceptable on a 1.2GHz CPU as long as it wasn't doing anything else. Small flash-based PVR? Small flash-based VOD streaming server for one TV? Internet radio?
With the built-in gigabit Ethernet and USB, with some good software in place you could probably turn the thing into a 'smart' network adapter that includes a built-in packet filtering firewall. If you could add a NIC or two, it could become a router.
1.2Ghz is more than fast enough to run some of the older console and arcade games under mame/xmame/etc.
... will it run Linux?
Do you care to expand on your argument, this time laying out your reasons for making it in clear, concise manner with appropriate references? Because I can.
OTOH, you have given us no reason to accept your argument.
All the more reason to use fetchmail. Since it stuffs things into your *nix mailbox, you have your choice of clients: Thunderbird, mutt, Squirrelmail, or all three at the same time. ;)
And fetchmail also comes with just about every flavor of Linux.
I never understood why the[y] left in the first place.
Things have improved somewhat since then: Other projects like Ubuntu and FreeDesktop.org have paved the way for desktop Linux; a lot of codecs have been re-implemented as open source and patents are expiring on some codecs; Microsoft doesn't quite have the teeth they used to have.
If Microsoft succeeds in putting out Windows 7 this year, 2009 may become the Year of Windows on the... Oh wait, nevermind.
Nah. I say fry him.
I do this myself. One thing I like though is to pull in other e-mail accounts and have everything just appear in my inbox without having to have Thunderbird open all the time to automatically check. So in addition, my setup uses fetchmail.
How long before we see multiple dedicated-purpose appliances packaged in a single box with the only thing different between multiple models is a license key that 'turns on' the proxy, static web server, router, firewall, e-mail server, etc.
Depends on the industry, type of company, and so forth. In the dog-eat-dog world of small automotive tier 1 engineering suppliers, his behavior might actually have been almost expected. Its a very small world, very competitive and its not uncommon for people to fly around from company to company and maybe even end up working for the same place a couple of different times.
Mafia bosses have money and can hire whatever talent he wants. Heck, he could even offshore it. It's not like these Indian offshoring companies are asking who their customers are how their work is going to be used. They're whores. They'll do anything for cash.
Normal:
You <-----HTTP-----> Bank
You <---HTTP---Bank Redirects to---> Bank SSL
You <--HTTP+SSL--->Bann
pwn3ed:
You <----HTTP---> MITM <----> Bank
You <----HTTP---> MITM <--Redirects to MITM fake SSL---> Bank
You <----HTTP ---> MITM
Um, at least two of those planes (probably all of them) were steered hundreds of miles off course by the terrorists.
Oh, you are so right. If I had read that rant on the Gnome list, I know what the answer would be: "shut up, n00b, you don't know what you're talking about."
Here's what it boils down to: programmers are, in general, notoriously bad at taking criticism. Developers: think about it. How many times have you gotten ticked off become someone told you they didn't like the way you implemented X? Be honest.
s/gol/goal
You're kidding right? IF terrorists can learn to fly a jumbo jet, which, mind you, is a very complex beast that requires a lot of training, simulator, and real-world flying time to be able to fly one, or if they can become munitions experts, what's to stop terrorists from becoming IT experts?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Terrorists can take the same classes you took, take the same training you took, and learn as much about IT as you did.
Anyone determined enough to kill a bunch of people in order to achieve notoriety for their cause can learn just about anything if they think it will help them achieve their gol.
Not to mention that just about anything can be tunneled through SSH. And exactly what exists to stop terrorists or other criminals from simply creating their own protocols? Do they think that law-abiding citizens have some sort of monopoly on computer geeks? I think almost any decent network programmer with some sort of communications security background should be able to come up with an entirely new, secure protocol from scratch.
Probably they should just outlaw the whole Internet and all forms of encryption if their goal is to prevent criminals and terrorists from communicating in ways that can't be monitored.
Nope. Originally Clearlooks (Breezy Badger), but somewhere around Dapper they changed it to Glossy, which is, itself, a fork of Clearlooks.
Nope. Florida. If you crawl the Ubuntu forums long enough, you'll see my plate. ;)
No, we learn to love the colors our parents surround us with. Think about it: people paint their nursery blue when their having a boy, they paint their son's bedrooms blue and their daughter's bedrooms pink, etc. It's not just what our parents dress us in, but yeah, it's entirely environmental. Think about what colors they always saw as babies and then you'll see that we gravitate towards what we're familiar with.
Well, I for one, welcome our new^H^H^Hold dupe posting editors.
Sorry PopeRatzo. but your post obviously started some flamewars.