The problem when rsh and ftp are removed, is that there is no way to transfer files at wire speed. ssh is too slow for 100Mbit networks, let alone gigabit. Is there any software that solves this problem, perhaps with secure authentication and protection against alteration of the data stream?
The silly attempt at a romance plot, perhaps just to create someone to be kidnapped, or perhaps because the powers that be required that this movie have romance in it. I'm all for a sweet romance story, even mixed in with my action movie, if it's not going to be so pathetic and forced. I'd like to see a cut of the movie with the uesless scenes removed.
By chasing after this silly goal of forcing Microsoft to release a modular Windows, instead of the much more rational goal of forcing Microsoft to release APIs, file formats, network protocols, and other such information, it shows that everyone involved is in Microsoft's pocket.
Children learn at a faster rate than
adults, especially it seems where technology is concerned.
Do children learn at a faster rate than adults because of some biological difference in their brain, or because of the conditioning in the education system that ultimately harms the ability to learn? I think more the latter than the former.
if you're going to monitor IMs, why not monitor email, phone usage, have searches upon arival and leaving, and so on?
This is pretty standard. Most large corporations monitor email, search people randomly (and sometimes always) on arrival and leaving. All monitor phonecalls if they feel like it, but rarely record every conversation simply because of the effort involved.
You've never worked for an employer that searched you upon arrival and leaving?
SEC regulations require that trading firms keep records of all email and instant messaging. There are severe fines for noncompliance. Any business that falls under these regs really has no choice but to spy on their employees.
When the police show up at an internet cafe and find out that it is indeed a business that lets random unidentified people use their net connection, it will be obvious what happened. What do you expect to say when they show up at your house? Do you expect to talk the police into just going away when they have in their hands documentation that points the trail directly to you? A large portion of the people the police deal with try a story along the lines of "it wasn't me!" You are going to need some kind of proof that it wasn't you, or you are screwed.
The security issues of allowing random anonymous people access to an internet connection that is in your name are quite overwhelming. Consider the wide range of things that could be done that would bring the full force of the law down upon you. From fraud to illegal images to death threats against well-known individuals. The police would not accept as a defense that you allow people who you don't know access to your network. You will surely be arrested, which means you will probably lose your job - depending on your employer and of course whether you are released on bail. You might get off on a trial, especially if the search of your home and your computers turns up no evidence against you. If you're lucky, you will get your eqipment back in a timely fashion after your acquital. This is if you get acquited - the details of the case, how much the police/FBI want to get you, and whether they find anything else suspicious on your machines will decide this. You don't have to be charged with anything they find for it to be used as evidence against you - something as simple as an archive of every Phrack - or even a single issue - would weigh heavily against you.
Until this issue is worked out, it does not make sense to make a wireless internet-connected network publicly accessible if you are just an individual.
I know I would feel safer if the air traffic control is on Linux rather than any version of Windows...
Considering the failure rate of most hardware - including expensive Sun or HP servers - I would hope that any truly mission critical system does not rely on a single system staying in operation. No matter how reliable the OS is, there is no hardware with redundant CPUs or RAM. You can reboot your E4500 with a system board disabled, but that doesn't stop it from crashing when a CPU fails or a SIMM has more than a single-bit error.
Sun servers do not report single-bit corrected ECC errors, unless they happen repeatedly on the same bit. RAM bits randomly get flipped (whatever the reason, be it cosmic rays or tiny aliens building their nests on the electrons, it does indeed happen). If a Sun machine crashes due to two bits in an ECC chunk getting flipped ("uncorrectable memory error"), and it only happens once, their first level support will not want you to have the RAM replaced. (They will of course do so if you insist.) That is, even with a perfect OS, and even in the absence of faulty hardware (which can and does happen all the time), machines will STILL crash!
As long as it is very reliable (causing a random crash on average once a year, say), the reliability of an OS isn't much at issue. Systems where lives or massive amounts of money (the same thing to a corporation!) are at risk - like trading systems - are built to withstand the failure of any one server, router, or massive multimillion dollar disk array - without a moment's downtime. Building a reliable air traffic control system should be simple compared to a reliable trading system. Especially when you consider that the reliability requirements for air traffic control are much less significant (look at the unreliability of our current ATC systems, and consider how rarely this causes death or destruction).
They weren't making laws. They were making rules. Congress makes laws, agencies enforce them.
The rules/regulations that agencies make have the force of law, however. That is, you can be imprisoned for not following them, with the full force of the US government behind them.
An important aspect that has been as of yet unmentioned, is what format were these documents sent in? If they were sent in a proprietary format, is the recipient required by law to purchase software to decode the document?
MD5 is *not* suitable for ensuring that two files are identical when a malicious user is involved. It *is* suitable for ensuring that a
malicious user may not hand you anything that passes but pure garbage (given what we know about MD5 today).
I challenge you to find me any two sets of data with the same md5.
The secret ballot is not an obscure issue. It is one of the most important aspects of the US voting system. Perhaps it would not be so important without our history of every manner of vote fraud imaginable. The secret ballot prevents coercion of voters by threat of force, losing their job, or any other means by which one person can inappropriately influence another. This must never be compromised, and would be a serious issue if it were. We need developments that decrease the chance for vote fraud, not increase the chance.
You lose your money when you pay for the thing, not when you throw it to the garbage can.
That is not how (big) businesses think. When wasting a large amount of money on something frivolous - especially software - the people responsible don't want anyone to realize it was a mistake. They do everything they can to keep people from using any software that competes with their solution (that they probably got a kickback for anyway).
Is it appropriate that we deliberately deceive our children? Does this make them more or less likely to trust us? Should we be talking about how cute this is, or about what we can do to change the brutally mistaken tradition of conspiring to trick young children?
Firewalls are a nice addon, but they're giving a false sense of
security if you still keep your systems behind these firewalls unpatched, out-of-the-box-installed and poorly
configured.
Of course security on an internal machine is important, but let's be realistic. Someone inside your network is likely in a position to sniff the unencrypted connection to Oracle. In that case, they have access to the only interesting thing on the box. And Oracle's logging is so poor (you can't log each query) that you will never know what they did.
But their intelligence does not touch our own, and the
prevailing scientific wisdom seems to be that it never will.
Is this indeed the prevailing scientific wisdom on the subject?
AI is just a software problem. If necessary, a scaled-down universe can be modeled to simulate the human brain. This is guaranteed to work, although it will require massive processing power. But not a theoretically impossible amount, simply one that we will take decades to develop.
Well, we don't, we get it (most likely) by running electricity through
water and collecting the H2 off the cathode (if memory serves).
Surprisingly, industrial hydrogen production does not make use of hydrolysis. It is actually not cost effective, when compared with other chemical reactions.
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The problem when rsh and ftp are removed, is that there is no way to transfer files at wire speed. ssh is too slow for 100Mbit networks, let alone gigabit. Is there any software that solves this problem, perhaps with secure authentication and protection against alteration of the data stream?
Doesn't Winamp run only on Windows? Surely there must be software for a free OS that does this.
The silly attempt at a romance plot, perhaps just to create someone to be kidnapped, or perhaps because the powers that be required that this movie have romance in it. I'm all for a sweet romance story, even mixed in with my action movie, if it's not going to be so pathetic and forced. I'd like to see a cut of the movie with the uesless scenes removed.
1) How did Ransom Love get a name like that?
2) If I change my name to a powerful name of that sort, will I be more successful in life?
By chasing after this silly goal of forcing Microsoft to release a modular Windows, instead of the much more rational goal of forcing Microsoft to release APIs, file formats, network protocols, and other such information, it shows that everyone involved is in Microsoft's pocket.
Thankfully, halon is not harmful to people, at least for the sort of brief exposure if you were to get caught in a halon dump. Read the MSDS.
Sounds like your network monitoring system is as cleverly designed as your Slashdot username.
Do children learn at a faster rate than adults because of some biological difference in their brain, or because of the conditioning in the education system that ultimately harms the ability to learn? I think more the latter than the former.
Subways are so ugly that spraypainting them is a public service.
This is pretty standard. Most large corporations monitor email, search people randomly (and sometimes always) on arrival and leaving. All monitor phonecalls if they feel like it, but rarely record every conversation simply because of the effort involved.
You've never worked for an employer that searched you upon arrival and leaving?
SEC regulations require that trading firms keep records of all email and instant messaging. There are severe fines for noncompliance. Any business that falls under these regs really has no choice but to spy on their employees.
When the police show up at an internet cafe and find out that it is indeed a business that lets random unidentified people use their net connection, it will be obvious what happened. What do you expect to say when they show up at your house? Do you expect to talk the police into just going away when they have in their hands documentation that points the trail directly to you? A large portion of the people the police deal with try a story along the lines of "it wasn't me!" You are going to need some kind of proof that it wasn't you, or you are screwed.
The security issues of allowing random anonymous people access to an internet connection that is in your name are quite overwhelming. Consider the wide range of things that could be done that would bring the full force of the law down upon you. From fraud to illegal images to death threats against well-known individuals. The police would not accept as a defense that you allow people who you don't know access to your network. You will surely be arrested, which means you will probably lose your job - depending on your employer and of course whether you are released on bail. You might get off on a trial, especially if the search of your home and your computers turns up no evidence against you. If you're lucky, you will get your eqipment back in a timely fashion after your acquital. This is if you get acquited - the details of the case, how much the police/FBI want to get you, and whether they find anything else suspicious on your machines will decide this. You don't have to be charged with anything they find for it to be used as evidence against you - something as simple as an archive of every Phrack - or even a single issue - would weigh heavily against you.
Until this issue is worked out, it does not make sense to make a wireless internet-connected network publicly accessible if you are just an individual.
Considering the failure rate of most hardware - including expensive Sun or HP servers - I would hope that any truly mission critical system does not rely on a single system staying in operation. No matter how reliable the OS is, there is no hardware with redundant CPUs or RAM. You can reboot your E4500 with a system board disabled, but that doesn't stop it from crashing when a CPU fails or a SIMM has more than a single-bit error.
Sun servers do not report single-bit corrected ECC errors, unless they happen repeatedly on the same bit. RAM bits randomly get flipped (whatever the reason, be it cosmic rays or tiny aliens building their nests on the electrons, it does indeed happen). If a Sun machine crashes due to two bits in an ECC chunk getting flipped ("uncorrectable memory error"), and it only happens once, their first level support will not want you to have the RAM replaced. (They will of course do so if you insist.) That is, even with a perfect OS, and even in the absence of faulty hardware (which can and does happen all the time), machines will STILL crash!
As long as it is very reliable (causing a random crash on average once a year, say), the reliability of an OS isn't much at issue. Systems where lives or massive amounts of money (the same thing to a corporation!) are at risk - like trading systems - are built to withstand the failure of any one server, router, or massive multimillion dollar disk array - without a moment's downtime. Building a reliable air traffic control system should be simple compared to a reliable trading system. Especially when you consider that the reliability requirements for air traffic control are much less significant (look at the unreliability of our current ATC systems, and consider how rarely this causes death or destruction).
The rules/regulations that agencies make have the force of law, however. That is, you can be imprisoned for not following them, with the full force of the US government behind them.
An important aspect that has been as of yet unmentioned, is what format were these documents sent in? If they were sent in a proprietary format, is the recipient required by law to purchase software to decode the document?
I challenge you to find me any two sets of data with the same md5.
The original German "99 Luftballons" is a much better song.
The secret ballot is not an obscure issue. It is one of the most important aspects of the US voting system. Perhaps it would not be so important without our history of every manner of vote fraud imaginable. The secret ballot prevents coercion of voters by threat of force, losing their job, or any other means by which one person can inappropriately influence another. This must never be compromised, and would be a serious issue if it were. We need developments that decrease the chance for vote fraud, not increase the chance.
That is not how (big) businesses think. When wasting a large amount of money on something frivolous - especially software - the people responsible don't want anyone to realize it was a mistake. They do everything they can to keep people from using any software that competes with their solution (that they probably got a kickback for anyway).
Is it appropriate that we deliberately deceive our children? Does this make them more or less likely to trust us? Should we be talking about how cute this is, or about what we can do to change the brutally mistaken tradition of conspiring to trick young children?
Of course security on an internal machine is important, but let's be realistic. Someone inside your network is likely in a position to sniff the unencrypted connection to Oracle. In that case, they have access to the only interesting thing on the box. And Oracle's logging is so poor (you can't log each query) that you will never know what they did.
But their intelligence does not touch our own, and the prevailing scientific wisdom seems to be that it never will.
Is this indeed the prevailing scientific wisdom on the subject?
AI is just a software problem. If necessary, a scaled-down universe can be modeled to simulate the human brain. This is guaranteed to work, although it will require massive processing power. But not a theoretically impossible amount, simply one that we will take decades to develop.
Does the license allow for giving CDs as gifts?
Surprisingly, industrial hydrogen production does not make use of hydrolysis. It is actually not cost effective, when compared with other chemical reactions.