If being a respectably-paid techie means I can wear a Hawaiian shirt and shorts on a hot sticky summer day, I'll take that over some high-paid exec sweating bullets in his black suit when its 90+ degrees out. Hell, if it's 100+ I'll go Kilting because I can. That's the kind of freedom over stuffy board rooms and sweating suits, and plust the fact that I love the work I do I'll keep that "lower" position thankyouverymuch.
Darned if I can't find the link, but I remember reading about people being required to turn over their encryption keys to police in "routine" checks, even though there was no evidence of wrongdoing. If they refused to do so they were charged with something, and I think this was at the boarder or something similar.
By giving a grant to the largest library in the Land, they strongarm the LoC into remaking their website to be the next promo for Microsoft's proposed Flash-killer. And in the spirit of accessability, they force all visitors to download silverlight, because they couldn't use the currently-dominent Flash.
Personally, I would rather Software/internet giants interbreed than mix with the vapid likes of News Corp. At the very least, they don't have conniving schemes to influence public opinion like a Murdochsoft would do. They already have large amounts of influence with Myspace, etc. No, I am not fearing a conspiracy, I do not like the fact that you have a media owner-turned web giant.
You have a very valid point. Nonetheless, there are several other things you can do:
1)Every time a "P2P patch" is detected, Windows calculates the patch's MD5 Hash and sends it to Microsoft. If Windows recieves an OK message from Microsoft it's allowed in. And not just a standard "okay" packet, but an encrypted one. You could also have a whitelist on microsoft's site and Windows goes out to it and checks its hash against it.
2)Encrypt the patch, and require Windows to go out to microsoft's site to get a key for it.
That would be a lot more hoops to jump through then simply copying a certificate.
you don't give any credit to wind, solar, etc. in the next 15 years. I am NOT talking about generating hydrogen *today*, but the world is changing it's main source of energy, including the United States. Sure, be as cynical as you wish. But the future of electricity in America is changing to sustainable, renewable sources.
First off this wouldn't be some whitehat's haphazard cure worm like the Welchia worm. This worm would proabably be signed by microsoft, made by microsoft. from TFA:
Because no central server needs to provide and coordinate all the downloads, Software patches that spread like worms could be faster and easier to distribute because no central server must bear all the load. This is more P2P patch distribution, which is not a bad idea.
They'd be using Hydrogen as a fuel, which when burning is about as "green" as they come. Hydrogen generation aside (can use solar, hydroelectric, etc for green generation) you don't have to worry about eco impacts on it like you do with the fuel-guzzlin' Concorde. You could reduce the drag by pushing the thing up to near space altitudes, 100k+ feet altitudes or even higher.
that being said, to do a nonstop flight from sydney to london at that kind of speeds would require a new paradigm in aircraft design to be efficient and cost effective. My hunch is its certainly possible, but I'll do a "wait and see" til they do their ignaugural flight.
What I gather he's saying is the American government shouldn't worry about whether X country has a space program and instead just focus on our own space goals, including reducing private space red tape. I agree it cryptic.
I have a Nokia phone with Verizon and recently lost my battery charger. I went to their store and saw a rack of chargers that all were exactly the same. I bought my car charger for 25 bucks and decided to compare it to a friend of mine's charger which also powers a nokia. It runs power through the rectangular port at the bottom of the phone (not the plug type unfortunately). The only difference was a slight variation in the plastic head.
Am I seeing things here, or did they really just charge me 25 bucks for a charger that's no different between its siblings than a simple plastic variation?
I am an amateur radio operator and can attest to how easy working with VHF/UHF is on a small scale level. A 100watt VHF "repeater" on a tall hill can usually be reached 20-30 miles away with a 5 watt handheld radio and line-of-sight, and much less power for towers closer. Multipath is a problem, like anything else. Nonetheless, if the towers are properly placed so that line-of-sight is maximized (i.e. they do their homework), I have no doubt you would be able to work it with a PCMCIA laptop card and a small antenna off of it. Of course the wider the bandwidth signal the more power needed, however VHF is magnitudes better for long distance than 2.4GHz.
I doubt it will get to that, but I really am concerned. If you have not seen the movie Gattaca, check out the trailer.
With all of its advances, I sure hope a code of conduct is built into societies laws to help contain its tech to good uses. Of course there may be gene doping, etc. But antidiscrimination laws may need to be written at some point.
Imagine Diebold going to NASA/Air Force and trying to peddle their sub-standard hardware for mission-critical situations. I'm sure they would be given the boot faster than they can cry in pain. Why should our nation's most critiqued software/hardware (Think: Space shuttle computer, NORAD tracking software) work 99.99999% of the time, but our Elections hardware/software is bought only on the good faith of some business executive?
Why the hell do you need Windows CE to count votes? Can't you just flash a chip and use basic hardware? The developers of this stuff are too lazy. They just want to open Visual Studio, make some code and then be done with it. They don't see that if you go minimalist, work from the hardware up and just use the bare minimum software needed to count the votes you get even better security.
There are hundreds of packages you can download by simply typing
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Audacity downloads and is practically turnkey. GCC works out of the chute. People are even getting Free Doom to run on it. The limit isn't the tech but the experimentation of packages.
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If being a respectably-paid techie means I can wear a Hawaiian shirt and shorts on a hot sticky summer day, I'll take that over some high-paid exec sweating bullets in his black suit when its 90+ degrees out. Hell, if it's 100+ I'll go Kilting because I can. That's the kind of freedom over stuffy board rooms and sweating suits, and plust the fact that I love the work I do I'll keep that "lower" position thankyouverymuch.
Darned if I can't find the link, but I remember reading about people being required to turn over their encryption keys to police in "routine" checks, even though there was no evidence of wrongdoing. If they refused to do so they were charged with something, and I think this was at the boarder or something similar.
Go figure :/
They aren't "hosting" it by any means, but they are just a place to find it.
Personally, I would rather Software/internet giants interbreed than mix with the vapid likes of News Corp. At the very least, they don't have conniving schemes to influence public opinion like a Murdochsoft would do. They already have large amounts of influence with Myspace, etc. No, I am not fearing a conspiracy, I do not like the fact that you have a media owner-turned web giant.
Even with a fully patched Windows, it's still full of holes. If security is your top priority, don't even touch windows.
1)Every time a "P2P patch" is detected, Windows calculates the patch's MD5 Hash and sends it to Microsoft. If Windows recieves an OK message from Microsoft it's allowed in. And not just a standard "okay" packet, but an encrypted one. You could also have a whitelist on microsoft's site and Windows goes out to it and checks its hash against it.
2)Encrypt the patch, and require Windows to go out to microsoft's site to get a key for it.
That would be a lot more hoops to jump through then simply copying a certificate.
you don't give any credit to wind, solar, etc. in the next 15 years. I am NOT talking about generating hydrogen *today*, but the world is changing it's main source of energy, including the United States. Sure, be as cynical as you wish. But the future of electricity in America is changing to sustainable, renewable sources.
They'd be using Hydrogen as a fuel, which when burning is about as "green" as they come. Hydrogen generation aside (can use solar, hydroelectric, etc for green generation) you don't have to worry about eco impacts on it like you do with the fuel-guzzlin' Concorde. You could reduce the drag by pushing the thing up to near space altitudes, 100k+ feet altitudes or even higher.
that being said, to do a nonstop flight from sydney to london at that kind of speeds would require a new paradigm in aircraft design to be efficient and cost effective. My hunch is its certainly possible, but I'll do a "wait and see" til they do their ignaugural flight.
What I gather he's saying is the American government shouldn't worry about whether X country has a space program and instead just focus on our own space goals, including reducing private space red tape. I agree it cryptic.
I have a Nokia phone with Verizon and recently lost my battery charger. I went to their store and saw a rack of chargers that all were exactly the same. I bought my car charger for 25 bucks and decided to compare it to a friend of mine's charger which also powers a nokia. It runs power through the rectangular port at the bottom of the phone (not the plug type unfortunately). The only difference was a slight variation in the plastic head.
Am I seeing things here, or did they really just charge me 25 bucks for a charger that's no different between its siblings than a simple plastic variation?
I am an amateur radio operator and can attest to how easy working with VHF/UHF is on a small scale level. A 100watt VHF "repeater" on a tall hill can usually be reached 20-30 miles away with a 5 watt handheld radio and line-of-sight, and much less power for towers closer. Multipath is a problem, like anything else. Nonetheless, if the towers are properly placed so that line-of-sight is maximized (i.e. they do their homework), I have no doubt you would be able to work it with a PCMCIA laptop card and a small antenna off of it. Of course the wider the bandwidth signal the more power needed, however VHF is magnitudes better for long distance than 2.4GHz.
With all of its advances, I sure hope a code of conduct is built into societies laws to help contain its tech to good uses. Of course there may be gene doping, etc. But antidiscrimination laws may need to be written at some point.
Executive Privilege? EPA needs its bottle changed, they're scared of reality.
That sentence is just dripping with oozy goozy Microsoft sales sauce.
for pointing out the man's website and giving him direct credit. Its sad to see something placed without naming the inventor.
This guy isn't just a tinkerer, but an artist as well. This kind of thing is an art as much as it is a science.
Make Magazine sucks? How dare you!
Imagine Diebold going to NASA/Air Force and trying to peddle their sub-standard hardware for mission-critical situations. I'm sure they would be given the boot faster than they can cry in pain. Why should our nation's most critiqued software/hardware (Think: Space shuttle computer, NORAD tracking software) work 99.99999% of the time, but our Elections hardware/software is bought only on the good faith of some business executive?
Why the hell do you need Windows CE to count votes? Can't you just flash a chip and use basic hardware? The developers of this stuff are too lazy. They just want to open Visual Studio, make some code and then be done with it. They don't see that if you go minimalist, work from the hardware up and just use the bare minimum software needed to count the votes you get even better security.
Or is slashdot look like it just got blended?: Screenshot of slashdot from my browser
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Audacity downloads and is practically turnkey. GCC works out of the chute. People are even getting Free Doom to run on it. The limit isn't the tech but the experimentation of packages.
IANAL but WWFSMD? TMI! TMI!