Won't solve their problems. All one has to do is look at how much they've thrown at Vista devolopment, and watch it get scaled back and pushed back anyway.
Niche status is essentially Security through Obscurity.
It may be a more obscure platform with different means and ways, but it still can be taken down like any other of man's creations. The goal is likely the same as anything targeting windows: Denial of Service, Information theft, etc. Just because it *only* has 12,000 systems like parent mentioned doesn't mean it can't be an attractive target.
Consider this: If something as important as the Fed used an obscure platform, don't you think people would be dying to get into it? While I think the whitepaper and TFA are no more than 'FUDvertising' there is a serious threat to leaving yourself with minimal security... no matter what you use.
Heck, lets chuck the PC metaphors all together. Condoms are only one layer of security (like security through obscurity) and if you have nothing to fall back on when that fails... you are screwed.
Not to mention that Triton all but forces the use of the AOL Browser. Ugh.
Color me unimpressed, especially since I've used Firefox since Phoenix 0.1
(Yes, I really am a die-hard user. I also liked the Phoenix name better)
I know one guy would be proud...
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"Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!"
~Auric Goldfinger, in the movie "Goldfinger" (1964)
Planesdragon: "So what you're saying is, regardless of the lack of evidence for harmful mutation that should be evident, there MUST be harm becase you KNOW that radiation causes it? Way to be scientific about this."
Um, pardon me, but being scientific about something is expressing skeceptism in the face of questionable 'journalistic sources'. Ask yourself this: A) Do you know who, if any, paid for this story to go out? B) Do you know the Author's sources, the Author's experience in this field, or any other pertient information thereof? C) Has the Author spent time abroad, in this case inside the Exclusion Zone, or in the town of Pryprat, Ukraine?
In response to the Parent, the Grand Parent, et al:
What the OP finds so sexy, I am confused by. OP: Do you fall in love with your toaster, as well? The Major is essentially that: a toaster. A very smart, fully-ambulatory toaster, with fully human sapience. But a toaster nonetheless. Do you find your Toaster sexy? Do you dress it up? See, in the universe in question people who have been cyberized don't feel cold, so why should they bundle up like their flesh and blood counterparts? The only reason they likely have to wear clothes at all is because of human sensibilities. Granted, I'd much prefer even the skimpy outfits of the Major to a naked robot, but you get my picture. Clothes to her are more of a statement than a method of keeping warm and protected, and the Anime reflects that IMHO. Your thought-milage may vary.
The biometric chip may be ultra-hard to forge, but the human element attached to it isn't. Remember the T-Mobile hacking incident with celeberties? It wasn't the hardware at fault, but the hardware's human masters. There will be a human making these passports, typing in the name, and writing the info to the chip. If the human is given bad information (Drivers License, Birth Cert, etc,) the information written to the chip will be bad, and voila - system failed: forged info on the chip. Even if the fingerprints and iris scans are correct, the name will be wrong and terror watch lists consist mosty of names and pictures - we all know how reliable that can be.
...is that the death toll is about 50...
I see someone has at least read the Wikipedia article. Problem is, the Wikipedia article essentially cuts a midline between the two competing idealogies to try and stay as factual as possible. Problem with that is, there is a 50% chance of that midline being wrong. Birds and squirrels live in the sarcophagus. So far we havn't seen too many 3 eyed squirrels or birds.
Unfortunatly, you can't look into the Sarco., and thus you can't see how many animal bones there are inside the structure. Granted, rats survived the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb tests, but it's estimated the attrition rate of rats dying to radiation was upwards of 80%. If there were a colony of Humans living in there, breeding constantly, with a gestation time measured in days we might have 2 generations if we were exceedingly lucky.
...is that the death toll is about 50...
Um, wrong? If you look within your own apparant source you see this:
"The so-called "Red Forest" of pine trees killed by heavy radioactive fallout lay within the 10 km zone, immediately behind the reactor complex."
Trees do not have the same properties as a human: they can live through a lot higher doses of radiation. Anything high enough to kill trees is powerful enough to kill a human miles away. Your own (apparent) source also lists it among such notable disasters as Bhopal, India; Banquio Dam, China; and the 1952 Great Smog of London. It didn't list it because of the notable-ness of it, either. It listed Chernobyl because of the number of deaths attributed. Also, your source links to another (better written) article on the 1957 Mayak, Russia event. This is a level 6 on the International Nuclear Events Scale with 200 confirmed deaths. Now, if Chernobyl supposedly only had 50 deaths, why is it a SEVEN, above Mayak?
...single documented case of leukemia...
Um. Thyroid Cancer? Thyroid Cancer anyone? I've not heard of anyone getting Leukemia from radiation exposure, but radiation seems to be a powerful carconegen.
The Chornobyl area is becoming a beautiful wildlife preserve if for no other reason than humans for the most part are staying away and leaving it alone
Humans are restricted from entering the Exclusion Zone, by other humans. Animals do not have this restriction, and some species like deer, can jump even the tall human fences. Also: "People 'grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown... diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies.' (Pollock 1978: 9)" (From the Mayak article, natch.) If Radiation Sickness is this bad, and the public has little knowledge of the symptoms other than the seemingly random Hand-of-God/Finger-of-Death effect, you bet your sweet arse people would avoid the area.
I would have moderated you down, but sadly there was no "Badly-researched/factoid spewing/apologist/or 'Just Plain Wrong" choices.
(Any spelling errors are due to the time of posting, 1 AM. Anything refrenced can be found on Wikipedia, and Google is your friend. I'm too lazy in the middle of the morning to hyperlink-up-the-wazoo Wiki style.)
Remember the two races of evolved 'humans' in H.G Well's book, The Time Machine? The Eloi and the Morlocks? The Eloi are pretty analgous to Consumers. As long as the meals are coming, the stuff works, etc, they are mindlessly happy. The Morlocks are dumb as Sony and yet keep everythig working for the Eloi.
We aren't there (yet,) but can't one already see this type of thing happening?
All this is, is a chance to get NASA back up and functional. You see, Katrina hit Nasa while it was down, destroying the infrastructre to support the Space Center/Fuel Tank/Repair Facility in NOLA. Just as they were working on fixing the Shuttle Foam problem. So, what can Nasa do: Support the Shuttle, flogging the dead horse mercilessly, to support the ISS at great cost? Or offload the mission to Private Industry, and give NASA a chance to invest in the Crew Exploration Vechile? I think the choice is easy, but the problem is I'm not sure that the CEV design is the way to go.
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What appendage on the human body does a Elephant trunk most resemble? One very few male Slashdot readers have a use for, anyway...
Won't solve their problems. All one has to do is look at how much they've thrown at Vista devolopment, and watch it get scaled back and pushed back anyway.
Niche status is essentially Security through Obscurity. It may be a more obscure platform with different means and ways, but it still can be taken down like any other of man's creations. The goal is likely the same as anything targeting windows: Denial of Service, Information theft, etc. Just because it *only* has 12,000 systems like parent mentioned doesn't mean it can't be an attractive target.
Consider this: If something as important as the Fed used an obscure platform, don't you think people would be dying to get into it? While I think the whitepaper and TFA are no more than 'FUDvertising' there is a serious threat to leaving yourself with minimal security... no matter what you use.
Heck, lets chuck the PC metaphors all together. Condoms are only one layer of security (like security through obscurity) and if you have nothing to fall back on when that fails... you are screwed.
Not to mention that Triton all but forces the use of the AOL Browser. Ugh. Color me unimpressed, especially since I've used Firefox since Phoenix 0.1 (Yes, I really am a die-hard user. I also liked the Phoenix name better)
"Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!" ~Auric Goldfinger, in the movie "Goldfinger" (1964)
Where should I send my three ring binder to? It's already got the keys on it!
People still use 640x480? I know when my Win98 box got fubar'd and I had to reboot in safe mode, 640x480 wouldn't even display half my desktop. =(
Planesdragon: "So what you're saying is, regardless of the lack of evidence for harmful mutation that should be evident, there MUST be harm becase you KNOW that radiation causes it? Way to be scientific about this."
Um, pardon me, but being scientific about something is expressing skeceptism in the face of questionable 'journalistic sources'. Ask yourself this: A) Do you know who, if any, paid for this story to go out? B) Do you know the Author's sources, the Author's experience in this field, or any other pertient information thereof? C) Has the Author spent time abroad, in this case inside the Exclusion Zone, or in the town of Pryprat, Ukraine?
What? Don't tell me Planesdragon doesn't know! Way to be Scientific about this, moran. Assuming the author is correct is NOT what science is about. Here's some EVIDENCE for you, since you seem to be so firm in your convictions that radiogenic damage can't occur.
Louis Slotin, dead. Exposed to 2100 rems.
History about the accident, on the hours after the explosion.
Estimates on the number dead, from those emergerncy workers that responded to the scene. Given that this happened in the USSR, numbers are likely too low. Now, would you like to change your tune? Thanks.
It wouldn't happen to be a Lexmark Z51, would it by any chance? I've always had problem with CUPS and the Z51, on a couple of Distros...
"[+] uranus, science, space, astronomy, anal (tagging beta)"
Because back then Saturn remembered to put the seat down.
Next Story: New Line Cinema sues Microsoft for copyright infringment, related to the 'Strider URL Tracer'. /grin
If your windows also displayed your Windows?
(or your Mac or Linux, for that matter?)
And yet it has 1024x768, and no HDCP support?
Slashdotters seem to have a short memory anyhow. Here's a jogger.
And here I thought "Frustrated Internal Reflection" was something different entirely... something that a lot of womanless Slashdotters do.
Happy Birthday Joshi!
There, darnit. Now to get on with my life.
In response to the Parent, the Grand Parent, et al: What the OP finds so sexy, I am confused by. OP: Do you fall in love with your toaster, as well? The Major is essentially that: a toaster. A very smart, fully-ambulatory toaster, with fully human sapience. But a toaster nonetheless. Do you find your Toaster sexy? Do you dress it up? See, in the universe in question people who have been cyberized don't feel cold, so why should they bundle up like their flesh and blood counterparts? The only reason they likely have to wear clothes at all is because of human sensibilities. Granted, I'd much prefer even the skimpy outfits of the Major to a naked robot, but you get my picture. Clothes to her are more of a statement than a method of keeping warm and protected, and the Anime reflects that IMHO. Your thought-milage may vary.
The biometric chip may be ultra-hard to forge, but the human element attached to it isn't. Remember the T-Mobile hacking incident with celeberties? It wasn't the hardware at fault, but the hardware's human masters. There will be a human making these passports, typing in the name, and writing the info to the chip. If the human is given bad information (Drivers License, Birth Cert, etc,) the information written to the chip will be bad, and voila - system failed: forged info on the chip. Even if the fingerprints and iris scans are correct, the name will be wrong and terror watch lists consist mosty of names and pictures - we all know how reliable that can be.
Oh, cool. Thanks! My apologies for the semi-irate midnight rant. I'm sure we all have done it.
...is that the death toll is about 50...
...is that the death toll is about 50...
...single documented case of leukemia... ... diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies.' (Pollock 1978: 9)" (From the Mayak article, natch.) If Radiation Sickness is this bad, and the public has little knowledge of the symptoms other than the seemingly random Hand-of-God/Finger-of-Death effect, you bet your sweet arse people would avoid the area.
I see someone has at least read the Wikipedia article. Problem is, the Wikipedia article essentially cuts a midline between the two competing idealogies to try and stay as factual as possible. Problem with that is, there is a 50% chance of that midline being wrong.
Birds and squirrels live in the sarcophagus. So far we havn't seen too many 3 eyed squirrels or birds.
Unfortunatly, you can't look into the Sarco., and thus you can't see how many animal bones there are inside the structure. Granted, rats survived the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb tests, but it's estimated the attrition rate of rats dying to radiation was upwards of 80%. If there were a colony of Humans living in there, breeding constantly, with a gestation time measured in days we might have 2 generations if we were exceedingly lucky.
Um, wrong? If you look within your own apparant source you see this: "The so-called "Red Forest" of pine trees killed by heavy radioactive fallout lay within the 10 km zone, immediately behind the reactor complex." Trees do not have the same properties as a human: they can live through a lot higher doses of radiation. Anything high enough to kill trees is powerful enough to kill a human miles away. Your own (apparent) source also lists it among such notable disasters as Bhopal, India; Banquio Dam, China; and the 1952 Great Smog of London. It didn't list it because of the notable-ness of it, either. It listed Chernobyl because of the number of deaths attributed. Also, your source links to another (better written) article on the 1957 Mayak, Russia event. This is a level 6 on the International Nuclear Events Scale with 200 confirmed deaths. Now, if Chernobyl supposedly only had 50 deaths, why is it a SEVEN, above Mayak?
Um. Thyroid Cancer? Thyroid Cancer anyone? I've not heard of anyone getting Leukemia from radiation exposure, but radiation seems to be a powerful carconegen.
The Chornobyl area is becoming a beautiful wildlife preserve if for no other reason than humans for the most part are staying away and leaving it alone
Humans are restricted from entering the Exclusion Zone, by other humans. Animals do not have this restriction, and some species like deer, can jump even the tall human fences. Also: "People 'grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown
I would have moderated you down, but sadly there was no "Badly-researched/factoid spewing/apologist/or 'Just Plain Wrong" choices. (Any spelling errors are due to the time of posting, 1 AM. Anything refrenced can be found on Wikipedia, and Google is your friend. I'm too lazy in the middle of the morning to hyperlink-up-the-wazoo Wiki style.)
Remember the two races of evolved 'humans' in H.G Well's book, The Time Machine? The Eloi and the Morlocks? The Eloi are pretty analgous to Consumers. As long as the meals are coming, the stuff works, etc, they are mindlessly happy. The Morlocks are dumb as Sony and yet keep everythig working for the Eloi.
We aren't there (yet,) but can't one already see this type of thing happening?
All this is, is a chance to get NASA back up and functional. You see, Katrina hit Nasa while it was down, destroying the infrastructre to support the Space Center/Fuel Tank/Repair Facility in NOLA. Just as they were working on fixing the Shuttle Foam problem. So, what can Nasa do: Support the Shuttle, flogging the dead horse mercilessly, to support the ISS at great cost? Or offload the mission to Private Industry, and give NASA a chance to invest in the Crew Exploration Vechile? I think the choice is easy, but the problem is I'm not sure that the CEV design is the way to go.
What, besides a name spiffier than anything Microsoft can come up with?
" If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em. ;P I'm such a kidder."
My first reaction to this article was
"If you can't beat them, waste money and buy them!"
Uhura's metal earpiece? Image here. Note Earpiece in left ear.