Just one issue, and is related to my previous post (which summarize my bad experience with kids in the UK), the *real* problem are not the kids, the problem are their parents. Parents must be made directly responsible for their children crimes.
In these kinds of societies (where kids have high immunity) parents should pay the crimes committed by their kids. Only on this way will the parents start to get interest in whether they are raising their children correctly (for society).
Or when they get out around 5:00 with gotcha pellet guns shooting at people biking from their job. Or when they throw their dogs to people passing by a park. Or when they grab your cap/hat while passing at your side you while you wait for the bus Or when they steal your bike seat (that was the most puzzling thing that happened to me in the UK) Or when they put an old man in fire Or when they get guns and kill smaller kids that happen to be peacefully playing outside their home
I'm disappointed that you've assumed all kids in the UK are like some from a rough bit of Liverpool.
Unfortunately my subjective experience was not good; I was attacked two times, once, someone threw a fruit or something from their car, fortunately not hitting me; the second time, a motherf1!@$!@ kid threw a can with "vimto" from a double-story bus while it stopped at the bus stop where I was calmly waiting for my bus.
The UK suffers from two related problems that define the terrain within which youth crime is debated. First, evidence seems to show that we experience higher and more sustained levels of youth crime and anti-social behaviour than culturally similar countries. Second, the UK public experiences more fear of crime and concern about youth misbehaviour than citizens elsewhere.
In general, I enjoyed a lot my stay in the UK; almost everything was great. Liverpool itself is a great city with a lot of culture and places to go out nearby; and the fact that they have Manchester airport close is great. However, the children are a real treat. I remember one of the first things I was told in my first meeting with the "Mexican society" in Liverpool was "Beware of the kids, if you see a group of two or three kids walking in the street just walk into the other side of the road", and "do not dare to enter into a park when a bunch of kids/young guys are there".
You may have such a stance because you do not know what horror is the young generation in the United Kingdom.
I do, as I lived there, in one of the worst places regarding this (Liverpool) for about 4 years. Kids there do not care about anything, and as they know they have immunity, they will get into gangs just to do all sorts of vandalism.
As an example, I know that if a kid commits a crime, the most that can happen to them is to get an "Asbo" (anti social behaviour order). I know some of them get a bracelet "asbo" for each crime. What is the result? the kids brag about who has more bracelets, because he is more "evil" or whatnot.
In the time I lived there, a colleague of mine was hit by a paintball pellet in the eye while riding his bike from his Univ. office to his home; my flatmate was attacked by a van with kids shooting paintball pellets; another friend was thrown a car at him; another friend was walking at the street when some guys approached, took their glasses from his face and threw them (breaking them of course) to the ground. All this "just because". Oh yeah, and a Spanish friend was attacked and got his leg broken in 2 places.
You see, the problem with this is that if any of these friends tried to defend themselves, according to English law, they would be attacking/harassing minors. And, because in addition we are foreigners (mainly PhD students) we would in addition be thrown out of the country.
So yeah, in effect kids in the UK are pretty evil. But I agree with some of your posts in that the problem is not youths themselves but the general system who has forged them like that.
What I saw while living there is that parents do not care about their children and their education. The government should make parents directly accountable for their kids actions: If your kid killed another kid then it is YOU who pays for the crime. If a kid robbed, then it is YOU who pay for the crime, as an adult. That way parents can continue to have the "freedom" of raising their kids as they want, but if the kids mess up, they will get the consequences.
Sure, how would you like it I play a similar defense after raping your daughter?
It is not my fault for not putting a chastity belt to your daughter; moreover, the fact that you let her go out with suggestivie clothing reinforces my case.
I like your reply because it is one of the only to suggest a real sollution.
In a way, the provided answers show the current technically "watered down" slashdot community. I guess 10 years ago this questions would have given really interesting answers.
I myself had a similar question about 2 or 3 years ago. What I wanted to do was to use the LCD from an HP laptop for some DIY project. The problem was how to interface VGA RGB output with the propietary input of the LCD (made by samsung IIRC). I did a lot of research, got schematics/specs of the particular LCD I was working for and got into the point where I knew I had to create a RGB-to-something decoder/controller (I just let it go so now I dont remember). I even realized that creating the decoder/controller was a really challenging task (mostly time consuming, time I didn't had) or I could buy a 3rd party controller which was quite expensive.
Although I have very little knowledge of hard disks, I would suggest the OP to first focus on one specific type of drive, second, get the schematics of the drive controller and then depart from there.
I specially hate these post crying DRM or whatnot. Even though I "am new here" (see my/. ID) I really wish I could find a slashdot like page frequented by real tech geeks/nerds.
What you don't know is that his project is the implementation of an übersecret disk-writing algorithm to millionuple the speed of access to your hard drive.
. Unfortunately (for me I guess) it seems state of the current work is highly theoretical and the only available applications are in MatLab.
It would be interesting to get a concrete implementation for audio or picture processing. I tried playing with SLEP but the MatLab examples do not process concrete pictures (only pseudo randomly generated data).
Let's hope we get some more concrete software in a short time
sudo apt-get install build-essential tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.51.tar.tar cd ndiswrapper-1.51 make distclean make sudo make install ndiswrapper -v sudo make uninstall cd.. tar -zxvf win-drivers.tar.gz sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf ndiswrapper -l sudo ndiswrapper -r netwpn11 sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf sudo depmod -a sudo ndiswrapper -m sudo modprobe ndiswrapper nano/etc/modules
He instead is provided with a ndisconfig.sh script that does all that including gksudo. In this way you just have to tell them "to download this configuration file" and right-click + run with the file explorer.
Yes, 25 million USD is easy to make legitimately, that's why everyone is doing it!
guess you can break any system like CAPTCHA if you want it badly enough."
Moreover, this shows that the used security mechanism is worth at least 25 million USD.
The problem is that the CAPTCHA approach is flawed. Any similar type of challenge-response system can be abused for illegal activity. At the very end, the only thing an attacker has to ensure is that the cost of obtaining enough challenge-responses is less than the outcome of the illegal activity.
Say, if they pay a group of Chinnese guys USD $0.39 an hour, you can get a fair amount of human identifying challenge-response answers.
and let out a big screech followed by the sound of glass breaking and it saying "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
You may be kidding, but back around 1990 or so, when MS-DOS was still the mainstream operating system (at least in Mexico), my father (a computer enthusiast himself, Prof. in Biology) used to battle with his students when using some program (Microstat, Statistica, QPro or the like) because students did not read the messages. When something that they did not expect happened (say, a message telling them that they should append an = sign to process the equation), they would just block. He was also bothered that students did not read the programs instructions (RTFM!).
Partly kidding, my father told me I should do a program that dictates the instructions or messages aloud. Now, back at the time I thought it was a good idea, unfortunately I was only 9 years old and was doing my first C / Assembler/hex-edit tests.
Nowadays, I think it would be a good idea that each time a "modal" message box is presented in a focused window, all the screen is opaqued (as with Windows UAC) and whatever is in the messagebox is read to the user.
Another option would be to make them write the exact text that is presented in the error, as a sort of Captcha.
I hope I love in about 50 years, when some random USA military official who was serving around 2001 comes out and states that in that time they were doing some minor "RC-flying" tests with commercial airlines.
Oh, and they needed to start a war to get oil.
It does not sounds as "conspiracy theorehtical" when you put it in perspective with... you know, stuff that your government has already done:(
Then what needs to be done is make the libraries have this security implemented *by design*.
That is, the only possible way to get or insert data from a database should be the correct one. Security should be an enforced feature of the library (PHP, Java, etc).
It is kind of like "accessibility", it is available there (at least say, in Java and Flash) but *because* it is not compulsory, very few programmers implement it.
Well gee! part of what makes movies interesting is that they are a dramatization. I am sure any lawyer will tell you that the average case is not as interesting as the ones in the movies (and chicks don't usually go dancing like in Chicago).
Think for a moment about a very successful and known hacker like Gary McKinnon; imagine a movie depicting his hacking:
- Well let's see, nasa.gov has an ip of 74.203.241.33, so I will run an app to look for computers in 74.203.241.xxx and see which have RDP access....
- Gee wiz! there are like 20 computers with RDP open, lets try to connect to one and use this bruteforce warez I downloaded to enter..
- nice, the windows computer didn't have password.. lets just install PC Anywhere and download some pron they have here.
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Tell that to Autodesk's 3d studio max. I worked soooooo well for them.
Just one issue, and is related to my previous post (which summarize my bad experience with kids in the UK), the *real* problem are not the kids, the problem are their parents. Parents must be made directly responsible for their children crimes.
In these kinds of societies (where kids have high immunity) parents should pay the crimes committed by their kids. Only on this way will the parents start to get interest in whether they are raising their children correctly (for society).
Or when they get out around 5:00 with gotcha pellet guns shooting at people biking from their job.
Or when they throw their dogs to people passing by a park.
Or when they grab your cap/hat while passing at your side you while you wait for the bus
Or when they steal your bike seat (that was the most puzzling thing that happened to me in the UK)
Or when they put an old man in fire
Or when they get guns and kill smaller kids that happen to be peacefully playing outside their home
Oh well shit... I could continue for hours
I'm disappointed that you've assumed all kids in the UK are like some from a rough bit of Liverpool.
Unfortunately my subjective experience was not good; I was attacked two times, once, someone threw a fruit or something from their car, fortunately not hitting me; the second time, a motherf1!@$!@ kid threw a can with "vimto" from a double-story bus while it stopped at the bus stop where I was calmly waiting for my bus.
However if you look around you will see that my subjective views and assumptions are not so far from the objective truth. You can take a look at this: What is wrong with British youth? or a more scientific report: Make Me a Criminal:Preventing youth crime
The UK suffers from two related problems that define the terrain within which youth crime is debated. First, evidence seems to show that we experience higher and more sustained levels of youth crime and anti-social behaviour than culturally similar countries. Second, the UK public experiences more fear of crime and concern about youth misbehaviour than citizens elsewhere.
In general, I enjoyed a lot my stay in the UK; almost everything was great. Liverpool itself is a great city with a lot of culture and places to go out nearby; and the fact that they have Manchester airport close is great. However, the children are a real treat. I remember one of the first things I was told in my first meeting with the "Mexican society" in Liverpool was "Beware of the kids, if you see a group of two or three kids walking in the street just walk into the other side of the road", and "do not dare to enter into a park when a bunch of kids/young guys are there".
You may have such a stance because you do not know what horror is the young generation in the United Kingdom.
I do, as I lived there, in one of the worst places regarding this (Liverpool) for about 4 years. Kids there do not care about anything, and as they know they have immunity, they will get into gangs just to do all sorts of vandalism.
As an example, I know that if a kid commits a crime, the most that can happen to them is to get an "Asbo" (anti social behaviour order). I know some of them get a bracelet "asbo" for each crime. What is the result? the kids brag about who has more bracelets, because he is more "evil" or whatnot.
In the time I lived there, a colleague of mine was hit by a paintball pellet in the eye while riding his bike from his Univ. office to his home; my flatmate was attacked by a van with kids shooting paintball pellets; another friend was thrown a car at him; another friend was walking at the street when some guys approached, took their glasses from his face and threw them (breaking them of course) to the ground. All this "just because". Oh yeah, and a Spanish friend was attacked and got his leg broken in 2 places.
You see, the problem with this is that if any of these friends tried to defend themselves, according to English law, they would be attacking/harassing minors. And, because in addition we are foreigners (mainly PhD students) we would in addition be thrown out of the country.
So yeah, in effect kids in the UK are pretty evil. But I agree with some of your posts in that the problem is not youths themselves but the general system who has forged them like that.
What I saw while living there is that parents do not care about their children and their education. The government should make parents directly accountable for their kids actions: If your kid killed another kid then it is YOU who pays for the crime. If a kid robbed, then it is YOU who pay for the crime, as an adult. That way parents can continue to have the "freedom" of raising their kids as they want, but if the kids mess up, they will get the consequences.
Yup, if you want something that looks like Windows XP, there is an easy to install theme around (gnome looks I think) that achieves that.
(who actually uses the CD that comes with hardcover textbooks?)
In this day and age it is just a matter of providing whatever digital media available for download in the book's webpage.
Don't try and get fancy just compress and store data sets over multiple volumes. Don't use RAID.
That, and as someone else already said, add redundancy (like par2).
Not even the CocaCola formula is stored that way!
Sure, how would you like it I play a similar defense after raping your daughter?
It is not my fault for not putting a chastity belt to your daughter; moreover, the fact that you let her go out with suggestivie clothing reinforces my case.
I like your reply because it is one of the only to suggest a real sollution.
In a way, the provided answers show the current technically "watered down" slashdot community. I guess 10 years ago this questions would have given really interesting answers.
I myself had a similar question about 2 or 3 years ago. What I wanted to do was to use the LCD from an HP laptop for some DIY project. The problem was how to interface VGA RGB output with the propietary input of the LCD (made by samsung IIRC). I did a lot of research, got schematics/specs of the particular LCD I was working for and got into the point where I knew I had to create a RGB-to-something decoder/controller (I just let it go so now I dont remember). I even realized that creating the decoder/controller was a really challenging task (mostly time consuming, time I didn't had) or I could buy a 3rd party controller which was quite expensive.
Although I have very little knowledge of hard disks, I would suggest the OP to first focus on one specific type of drive, second, get the schematics of the drive controller and then depart from there.
I specially hate these post crying DRM or whatnot. Even though I "am new here" (see my /. ID) I really wish I could find a slashdot like page frequented by real tech geeks /nerds.
No, its only that his writing algorithm a word.
Try Googling "why can't i tow an automatic car" or something like that
I did... and as a result I found only your post :(
Maybe you should start a blog :)
What you don't know is that his project is the implementation of an übersecret disk-writing algorithm to millionuple the speed of access to your hard drive.
Yup, I will join the "old news" shouting wagon. I saw this on the Discovery Channel series 2057 (IIRC the Episode was "The Body").
Nevertheless, it will be really news when the method gets approved by the FDA and starts being used in a common basis :)
whoops... that should have been Bibliography references
I checked several of the
bibliography references
. Unfortunately (for me I guess) it seems state of the current work is highly theoretical and the only available applications are in MatLab.
It would be interesting to get a concrete implementation for audio or picture processing. I tried playing with SLEP but the MatLab examples do not process concrete pictures (only pseudo randomly generated data).
Let's hope we get some more concrete software in a short time
I agree with you on this. However I think a good compromise would be just creating a shell script that calls gksudo and does whatever they need to do.
so, for example if the guy has to copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install build-essential .. /etc/modules
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.51.tar.tar
cd ndiswrapper-1.51
make distclean
make
sudo make install
ndiswrapper -v
sudo make uninstall
cd
tar -zxvf win-drivers.tar.gz
sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf
ndiswrapper -l
sudo ndiswrapper -r netwpn11
sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf
sudo depmod -a
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
nano
He instead is provided with a ndisconfig.sh script that does all that including gksudo. In this way you just have to tell them "to download this configuration file" and right-click + run with the file explorer.
Why? because I used Chinnese low minimum wage as an example?
I would have used Mexican minimum wage (as low as USD $0.5360087 according to current exchange rate) but it is higher than what you can get in China.
Yes, 25 million USD is easy to make legitimately, that's why everyone is doing it!
guess you can break any system like CAPTCHA if you want it badly enough."
Moreover, this shows that the used security mechanism is worth at least 25 million USD.
The problem is that the CAPTCHA approach is flawed. Any similar type of challenge-response system can be abused for illegal activity. At the very end, the only thing an attacker has to ensure is that the cost of obtaining enough challenge-responses is less than the outcome of the illegal activity.
Say, if they pay a group of Chinnese guys USD $0.39 an hour, you can get a fair amount of human identifying challenge-response answers.
and let out a big screech followed by the sound of glass breaking and it saying "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
You may be kidding, but back around 1990 or so, when MS-DOS was still the mainstream operating system (at least in Mexico), my father (a computer enthusiast himself, Prof. in Biology) used to battle with his students when using some program (Microstat, Statistica, QPro or the like) because students did not read the messages.
When something that they did not expect happened (say, a message telling them that they should append an = sign to process the equation), they would just block. He was also bothered that students did not read the programs instructions (RTFM!).
Partly kidding, my father told me I should do a program that dictates the instructions or messages aloud. Now, back at the time I thought it was a good idea, unfortunately I was only 9 years old and was doing my first C / Assembler /hex-edit tests.
Nowadays, I think it would be a good idea that each time a "modal" message box is presented in a focused window, all the screen is opaqued (as with Windows UAC) and whatever is in the messagebox is read to the user.
Another option would be to make them write the exact text that is presented in the error, as a sort of Captcha.
Haha... America!
I hope I love in about 50 years, when some random USA military official who was serving around 2001 comes out and states that in that time they were doing some minor "RC-flying" tests with commercial airlines.
Oh, and they needed to start a war to get oil.
It does not sounds as "conspiracy theorehtical" when you put it in perspective with... you know, stuff that your government has already done :(
Then what needs to be done is make the libraries have this security implemented *by design*.
That is, the only possible way to get or insert data from a database should be the correct one. Security should be an enforced feature of the library (PHP, Java, etc).
It is kind of like "accessibility", it is available there (at least say, in Java and Flash) but *because* it is not compulsory, very few programmers implement it.
Well gee! part of what makes movies interesting is that they are a dramatization. I am sure any lawyer will tell you that the average case is not as interesting as the ones in the movies (and chicks don't usually go dancing like in Chicago).
Think for a moment about a very successful and known hacker like Gary McKinnon; imagine a movie depicting his hacking:
- Well let's see, nasa.gov has an ip of 74.203.241.33, so I will run an app to look for computers in 74.203.241.xxx and see which have RDP access....
- Gee wiz! there are like 20 computers with RDP open, lets try to connect to one and use this bruteforce warez I downloaded to enter..
- nice, the windows computer didn't have password.. lets just install PC Anywhere and download some pron they have here.
Agreed. Hackers is *the* hacker movie IMO too.