To check the integrity of transmitted files from a list of MD5 checksums provided by the software on the other end, that can only do MD5 checksums. Not critical but still pretty useful when we go live in 4 weeks. Validated system and all that so forget about patching it (unless you want to spend a lot of time+money).
You are confusing the story about the Flame malware with the LinkedIn breach.
Funny enough, in one case the FBI wants to know who told everyone the USA wrote Flame to hack sites, and in the other case the FBI wants to know who hacked LinkedIn. Perhaps the two teams should, you know, Link up?:)
Flame actually does use a (apparently previously unknown) cryptographic attack method on the MD5 hash itself (creating collisions in a novel way) to sign fake Microsoft certificates. This was already a known attack since last year, but that time it appeared to come from the Middle East and was aimed at Iranian dissidents (apparently). Funny how it was used against Iran then. Someone seems to have a well-developed sense of irony. UNfortunately the new method also opens new attack avenues at other cryptographic security systems. The stakes are high, but not every country or involved party in what looks like a covert war can afford this research (or do it with success), so RSA and certificate providers will be having a really bad time in the coming years: I predict physical breakins, kidnaps, and assault on people working for those companies.
If I was working for RSA or a similar company, I'd leave facebook and LinkedIn and other social media right now. Social media sites are about to become decidedly unhealthy pastimes for employees of those companies.
I can imagine them doing it this year. Employers are already demanding access to your facebook page, so this will probably be next. Time to create two new accounts for both.
"This account is empty" "Yeah, I use POP to pull the messages out to my own account and set everything to remove it from the server. I like a clean mailaccount".
"This facebook photo doesn't look like you, and you have no friends" "Yeah, it's so sad... After my disfiguring disease everyone left me":)
I noticed you mentioned Microsoft, Apple, and Google. What other company makes pocket computers (or operating systems for pocket computers) that are sold in the United States?
Get another driver version. I've rolled mine back to the one from 2011 and it's pretty stable. It took me 4 new installs to get the one that worked, though...
Note: I could choose between the one supplied by MS through Windows Update for my laptop, the one supplied by HP for my laptop (latest version had lower version than the MS version) and the ones from NVidia. Since the older HP one refused to remove the latest update, I ended up with the older NVidia one. Pretty happy with it, it works okay now.
But anyway: experiment a bit. You may find it helps.
10% is about the number going to university straight off high school where I live, so it's "smart kids" I think, and not geniuses. I'm pretty sure none in my yeargroup were geniuses, although there were some scary smart kids in the mix (and we were already a selection of less than 1%, doing a beta science study).
There isn't actually a ban on homeschooling in Germany: they just require the teacher doing said homeschooling to be certified. The German couple apparently was unable to achieve the teachers certification so they went elsewhere. You're welcome to have them.
The EU court decision was about a different item, dealing with the integration of minorities in society (assimilation). While this is certainly a hot debate, the US does not do it all that different. The bombing of MOVE in Chicago and the attack on the WACO campus being a case in point. The Black Panther party, the FBI's COINTELPRO operations against anyone suspected of not agreeing with the official POV, the Japanese internment camps during WW2... all point to a less than rosy picture about your freedoms in the USA as an unpopular minority. And I won't be mean and discuss the treatment of Mexicans and LBGT people over the past 20 years.
The EU decision basically said: a member state has the right to prevent a minority from setting up an alternative state (competition to their own power). Said right already existed because the member state has the military might to prevent it. The EU just confirmed that you can make laws preventing people from separating themselves from the rest of their country because they don't like the general consensus. Choices you have are: you participate in changing consensus, OR you conform to them, OR you leave. You don't get to retreat into a sulk and close the doors like some angry teenager.
In the EU people are more free for everything that matters in practice: free from hunger, free from extreme poverty, free from disease, free from persecution for having the wrong ideas, free to do whatever you want in private. In the USA you're free to pursue some theoretical freedoms but for everything that matters you're out of luck. Except when you're rich. The USA has more freedoms for rich people than the EU. But most people aren't rich.
I've never understood the reasoning behind not wanting to hire old guys. I can understand why you wouldn't want to hire a grumpy, inflexible old veteran who insists on recoding everything into COBOL because he has no other skills. But those are a minority as far as I can tell. I know several older DBA's, system architects, designers with even nation-wide fame: they get hired every day by the *smart* companies that want to ship product.
It's not herd mentality, it's the simple fact that a social network is only as useful as the number of people that are on it. If telephone networks could only call within the network, everyone would join the largest one they could find.
Actually, it's probably because IBM may be doing stuff like this themselves and so are aware of this happening, that they have this warning out. Philips sesearch employees are banned from using IBM's patent search applications for a good reason...
For clients demanding confidentiality, I have a public key on my website that I tell them to install and we exchange encrypted messages. I'm pretty sure GMail can't do much with those messages. But IBM uses Lotus Domino and they frown (big time) upon the use of unauthorized software. I would not want to be caught using Gmail by my boss if I were still working for IBM.
Even in Europe, it seems the risk is small. I was in East-Berlin at the time, watching the May 1st parade (study trip). We all got checked at the border when returning 2 days later, but to our dismay none of the classmates were glowing in the dark.
Such a statement would imply that you're a rapist just because you're a heterosexual male. Yeah, that would be a sexist remark. And so was her behaviour. It happened to me once, by someone with similar weird ideas about men and women, and I felt rather insulted by someone assuming that just because I'm male and in the same room, I'm a probable rapist.
However, if said person has a background with extreme Christian groups like "The Family" (or certain Roman Catholic priests) then I can totally understand her: everyone around her *is* a probable rapist. But I'd still feel insulted.
It's also pretty weird that for some reason or another colleges don't give their students privacy. I know this is the case in China because students are dirt poor (or used to be). However, in the US I would have thought the situation to be a bit better. We had a national debate in The Netherlands about forcing two prisoners in a cell (bad idea btw). Forcing students to give up their privacy for years seems... 3rd worldish. Or was this done specifically to make sure there's no privacy and thus no sex amongst students? Does anyone need insight in how stupid that would be?
In The Netherlands there was a contest on one of the radioshows for this, and the gesture that won was a hand, with all fingers stretched out (open hand) in the air. It's actually quite common to see it.
The German government holds the copyright to Mein Kampf and enforces it strictly. While mileage in the US may be different, governments can (and do) hold patents and copyrights. Or rather, their constituent parts can.
While you can certainly try this, it is also usually the case that the judge has to weigh the interests of the public (defending) against the interest of the holder of the copyright. And in this case I would expect that there *is* a public interest in the documents being known. Otherwise newspapers could never publish anything. Now, you could argue that in the US, the US government has to decide this. So in the US this might be different. But outside it, it would be much harder to argue that foreign nationals would be bound to the decisions of the US government, especially when such decisions could arguably impact their lives. So while this is nice in theory, I have my doubts about this ever being tried in a real court. The precedent if they lost, could be embarrassing. Although most EU countries have lawforms descended from Romal law, where precedents don't really matter *that* much.
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To check the integrity of transmitted files from a list of MD5 checksums provided by the software on the other end, that can only do MD5 checksums. Not critical but still pretty useful when we go live in 4 weeks. Validated system and all that so forget about patching it (unless you want to spend a lot of time+money).
You are confusing the story about the Flame malware with the LinkedIn breach.
Funny enough, in one case the FBI wants to know who told everyone the USA wrote Flame to hack sites, and in the other case the FBI wants to know who hacked LinkedIn. Perhaps the two teams should, you know, Link up? :)
Flame actually does use a (apparently previously unknown) cryptographic attack method on the MD5 hash itself (creating collisions in a novel way) to sign fake Microsoft certificates. This was already a known attack since last year, but that time it appeared to come from the Middle East and was aimed at Iranian dissidents (apparently). Funny how it was used against Iran then. Someone seems to have a well-developed sense of irony. UNfortunately the new method also opens new attack avenues at other cryptographic security systems. The stakes are high, but not every country or involved party in what looks like a covert war can afford this research (or do it with success), so RSA and certificate providers will be having a really bad time in the coming years: I predict physical breakins, kidnaps, and assault on people working for those companies.
If I was working for RSA or a similar company, I'd leave facebook and LinkedIn and other social media right now. Social media sites are about to become decidedly unhealthy pastimes for employees of those companies.
I can imagine them doing it this year. Employers are already demanding access to your facebook page, so this will probably be next. Time to create two new accounts for both.
"This account is empty"
"Yeah, I use POP to pull the messages out to my own account and set everything to remove it from the server. I like a clean mailaccount".
"This facebook photo doesn't look like you, and you have no friends" :)
"Yeah, it's so sad... After my disfiguring disease everyone left me"
I noticed you mentioned Microsoft, Apple, and Google. What other company makes pocket computers (or operating systems for pocket computers) that are sold in the United States?
RIM :)
Get another driver version. I've rolled mine back to the one from 2011 and it's pretty stable. It took me 4 new installs to get the one that worked, though...
Note: I could choose between the one supplied by MS through Windows Update for my laptop, the one supplied by HP for my laptop (latest version had lower version than the MS version) and the ones from NVidia. Since the older HP one refused to remove the latest update, I ended up with the older NVidia one. Pretty happy with it, it works okay now.
But anyway: experiment a bit. You may find it helps.
Number one cured cancer AND solved the world's energy problem. That's hard to top. :)
Yes, a link hidden by a redirector posted by an anonymous account... what could possibly go wrong if I clicked it?
10% is about the number going to university straight off high school where I live, so it's "smart kids" I think, and not geniuses. I'm pretty sure none in my yeargroup were geniuses, although there were some scary smart kids in the mix (and we were already a selection of less than 1%, doing a beta science study).
There isn't actually a ban on homeschooling in Germany: they just require the teacher doing said homeschooling to be certified. The German couple apparently was unable to achieve the teachers certification so they went elsewhere. You're welcome to have them.
The EU court decision was about a different item, dealing with the integration of minorities in society (assimilation). While this is certainly a hot debate, the US does not do it all that different. The bombing of MOVE in Chicago and the attack on the WACO campus being a case in point. The Black Panther party, the FBI's COINTELPRO operations against anyone suspected of not agreeing with the official POV, the Japanese internment camps during WW2... all point to a less than rosy picture about your freedoms in the USA as an unpopular minority. And I won't be mean and discuss the treatment of Mexicans and LBGT people over the past 20 years.
The EU decision basically said: a member state has the right to prevent a minority from setting up an alternative state (competition to their own power). Said right already existed because the member state has the military might to prevent it. The EU just confirmed that you can make laws preventing people from separating themselves from the rest of their country because they don't like the general consensus. Choices you have are: you participate in changing consensus, OR you conform to them, OR you leave. You don't get to retreat into a sulk and close the doors like some angry teenager.
In the EU people are more free for everything that matters in practice: free from hunger, free from extreme poverty, free from disease, free from persecution for having the wrong ideas, free to do whatever you want in private. In the USA you're free to pursue some theoretical freedoms but for everything that matters you're out of luck. Except when you're rich. The USA has more freedoms for rich people than the EU. But most people aren't rich.
I've never understood the reasoning behind not wanting to hire old guys. I can understand why you wouldn't want to hire a grumpy, inflexible old veteran who insists on recoding everything into COBOL because he has no other skills. But those are a minority as far as I can tell. I know several older DBA's, system architects, designers with even nation-wide fame: they get hired every day by the *smart* companies that want to ship product.
Actually, I think the only people left are sanctimoniousness jerks who live in an echo chamber.
This one's just too easy :)
You give it a kick and then it starts. Crowdfunding does the same for projects.
Did you know the codename for the research? They're still trying to decide between "Screamer" and "Skynet" :)
It's not herd mentality, it's the simple fact that a social network is only as useful as the number of people that are on it. If telephone networks could only call within the network, everyone would join the largest one they could find.
Actually, it's probably because IBM may be doing stuff like this themselves and so are aware of this happening, that they have this warning out. Philips sesearch employees are banned from using IBM's patent search applications for a good reason...
For clients demanding confidentiality, I have a public key on my website that I tell them to install and we exchange encrypted messages. I'm pretty sure GMail can't do much with those messages. But IBM uses Lotus Domino and they frown (big time) upon the use of unauthorized software. I would not want to be caught using Gmail by my boss if I were still working for IBM.
Even in Europe, it seems the risk is small. I was in East-Berlin at the time, watching the May 1st parade (study trip). We all got checked at the border when returning 2 days later, but to our dismay none of the classmates were glowing in the dark.
Such a statement would imply that you're a rapist just because you're a heterosexual male. Yeah, that would be a sexist remark. And so was her behaviour. It happened to me once, by someone with similar weird ideas about men and women, and I felt rather insulted by someone assuming that just because I'm male and in the same room, I'm a probable rapist.
However, if said person has a background with extreme Christian groups like "The Family" (or certain Roman Catholic priests) then I can totally understand her: everyone around her *is* a probable rapist. But I'd still feel insulted.
90 days?? Where is that? Singapore? And did he have the magistrates daughter suck his dick while DUI? Djeez...
However, having someone sentenced to insane lengths does not make it proper to sentence someone else to a sentence just as inane.
It's also pretty weird that for some reason or another colleges don't give their students privacy. I know this is the case in China because students are dirt poor (or used to be). However, in the US I would have thought the situation to be a bit better. We had a national debate in The Netherlands about forcing two prisoners in a cell (bad idea btw). Forcing students to give up their privacy for years seems... 3rd worldish. Or was this done specifically to make sure there's no privacy and thus no sex amongst students? Does anyone need insight in how stupid that would be?
In The Netherlands there was a contest on one of the radioshows for this, and the gesture that won was a hand, with all fingers stretched out (open hand) in the air. It's actually quite common to see it.
The German government holds the copyright to Mein Kampf and enforces it strictly. While mileage in the US may be different, governments can (and do) hold patents and copyrights. Or rather, their constituent parts can.
While you can certainly try this, it is also usually the case that the judge has to weigh the interests of the public (defending) against the interest of the holder of the copyright. And in this case I would expect that there *is* a public interest in the documents being known. Otherwise newspapers could never publish anything. Now, you could argue that in the US, the US government has to decide this. So in the US this might be different. But outside it, it would be much harder to argue that foreign nationals would be bound to the decisions of the US government, especially when such decisions could arguably impact their lives. So while this is nice in theory, I have my doubts about this ever being tried in a real court. The precedent if they lost, could be embarrassing. Although most EU countries have lawforms descended from Romal law, where precedents don't really matter *that* much.
On the other hand it is kind of a weird " invasion of the body snatchers" feel, isn't it?
Don't worry - we at Scientology have a cure for that weird feel!
There is no commercial endeavor that ever would have invented Perl.
But there are loads that would have *patented* it :)