These are the points with barcodes, RFID and tomato seeds.
The more data you pack there, the faster you can access them and the smaller you make 'em, the more troubles you'll have and the more subtle the malicious actions can be.
For example, we all know that printing a brand new barcode to cover the ligitimate one is as easy as a snap.
I'd like to see what happens if I stick an adesive RFID right over the ligitimate one or if I shield it before covering.
And with access speeds like the ones shown by the tomato seeds, I'd wonder what happens if I move the good fast enough! What if I have more than one seed into the same good?
And, as far as privecy is concerned, why storing that much data in a "label"? Infos are to be stored in protected databases. The label should just contain the search key for those data.
Another way to defeat that firewall is to have everyone on both sides sending, say, ICMP/TCP/UDP pings through it.
Will it be able to deal with this enormous amount of traffic jamming into a "single point"?
All these technologies risk to become useless because they need time to enter the market in a stable way and time to stabilise and cheapen the technology itself.
Think about the notorious 3G and 4G: a lot of buzzing, but too far from the GSM (aka 2G) and GPRS (aka 2,5G) to be considered a real and useful techology advance, They should be bale to produce a mobile device able to operate and roam over three or four different network technologies (GSM/GPRS, UMTS, WiFi and 4G) with cost as low as a GSM phone. And it should be cheap enough to be adopted by more and more operators.
This sounds more like a dream than an actual business plan!
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out
And going to space should allow us to survive from ourselves?
I think it would be better to remain on the Earth to let the Universe survive!
China sending spam
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Spam from Taiwan
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· Score: 2, Interesting
China with only 3% of the servers who actually sends the spam.
I was pretty sure that there was no way for China spammers to send email outside their borders!
And they don't need to. With their billion+ population, one fifth of the world can be reached without passing the invisible borders!
... and claim the ownership of IP of the binary numeral system.
All those other claims would really shame in comparison and could allow SCO to battle in a much wider arena.
Is it that important to have a precise definition of what is a planet and what is not?
Unless you are going to precisely define every single astronomical object. from dust to galaxy filaments.
I suspect that someone is going to claim the possession over those planets (apply the definition here).
I think our technicians and scientists should focus on simple technology first.
Simple technology is, ehm, simple to implement with possibly fewer failure chances and also fewer environmental issues.
This is what the world really needs now.
This CPU is one of those technology jewels that never got a spread interest in the market.
It is power savvy while being powerful enough and x86 compatible.
It would be great if AMD could really revitalise it to avoid flops like Amiga: good ideas with no luck! at all
Just like any other Human activity and just like any other computer program, spreadsheets tend to have errors inside!
It's not news at all!
Of course I mean both raw data errors, due to copy/paste errors, and formulae, due to thinkos or distraction.
Humman erorrss in anny casse!
So it'd be quite hard to avoid spam, phishing and other nasty stuff.
Because it's not supposed to be based on invitations or similar constraints.
Better protocols and implementations are welcome, of course.
But changing the email system is quite likely to kill it.
I wonder whether such Government claims make any sense for an ISP.
Maybe for a phone company it can make some sense to record the details of every single phone call. If you place 10 calls a day and receive 10 a day, a 500K users company will have to record about 3.6 billion records. Doable but you still don't know the actual contents of those calls.
In an ISP things get worse because on a single connection you run email, IM, P2P, web browsing, IRC... etc. The number of records could be multiplied by 100 or even 1000, thus yelding a number of record betwen 360 billions and 3.6 trillions for a 500K users ISP.
The main isssue there would be how to search and browse among all those records. A secondary issue would also be the storage. Things are actually worse.
The really bad news come when you need to know the contents of conversations. While tough cryptograpy in phone calls is very rare, it is quite common on the Internet.
So if it's rather easy to wiretap on a phone network, it can be almost impossible on Internet, especially if the interesting conversation are done with a P2P model, thus not using an intermediate server, and with a fairly good cryptography.
And you can bet that the bad guys that want to avoid wiretapping have plenty of technologies to defy almost any attempts.
It is a deliberate action of stupidity to ask someone else to keep your (digital) identity safe when you can (and should) do it!
Are those guys really understanding their mistake? I guess no.
I understand that copying the data between the old and the new disk can be not trivial, so you ask the shop to do it. But please, ask your HD back or ask to have it still in the box as a second drive.
Apart of using one of those software tools called "safe eraser", there is a number of good technicques to make your old HD unreadable:
1. Hammer a nail or two straight into the HD unit.
2. Hammer the unit itself.
3. Send a 220VAC (or 100VAC where available) to the power socked of the HD.
4. Dissect the HD, and brush the disks with a small magnet.
5. Unleash your chainsaw.
All of these techniques need no more than 15 minutes. And you can use more than one of them.
In any case, as there are more embedded devices willing to run opensource software than PCs and servers, I'd say that those results are very good!
And maybe there will be a way to embed that technology into Linux!
Are those winning performances valid also outside the embedded world?
I fear that Linux running over a "normal" x86 CPU outperferms almost everything else.
I think that the whole L4 family smicrokernels hould deserve some more attention from IT professionals.
As far as I know L4 is one of the microkernels with more efforts for development. Along with MinixV3 of course.
Slashdot Mirror
There is already a company interested in buying that technology for their laptops.
For the fans and the curious ones, it has already been covered here.
It has been already published by New Scientist on 10 july 1999!
Along with the same piece of news announced one month ago,two months ago, three months ago ...
These are the points with barcodes, RFID and tomato seeds. The more data you pack there, the faster you can access them and the smaller you make 'em, the more troubles you'll have and the more subtle the malicious actions can be.
For example, we all know that printing a brand new barcode to cover the ligitimate one is as easy as a snap.
I'd like to see what happens if I stick an adesive RFID right over the ligitimate one or if I shield it before covering.
And with access speeds like the ones shown by the tomato seeds, I'd wonder what happens if I move the good fast enough!
What if I have more than one seed into the same good?
And, as far as privecy is concerned, why storing that much data in a "label"?
Infos are to be stored in protected databases. The label should just contain the search key for those data.
Another way to defeat that firewall is to have everyone on both sides sending, say, ICMP/TCP/UDP pings through it.
Will it be able to deal with this enormous amount of traffic jamming into a "single point"?
All these technologies risk to become useless because they need time to enter the market in a stable way and time to stabilise and cheapen the technology itself.
Think about the notorious 3G and 4G: a lot of buzzing, but too far from the GSM (aka 2G) and GPRS (aka 2,5G) to be considered a real and useful techology advance,
They should be bale to produce a mobile device able to operate and roam over three or four different network technologies (GSM/GPRS, UMTS, WiFi and 4G) with cost as low as a GSM phone. And it should be cheap enough to be adopted by more and more operators.
This sounds more like a dream than an actual business plan!
Is here while images are here
In any case, you have to be at least 14 in order to get closer to that cloud.
I think it would be better to remain on the Earth to let the Universe survive!
And they don't need to. With their billion+ population, one fifth of the world can be reached without passing the invisible borders!
... and claim the ownership of IP of the binary numeral system.
All those other claims would really shame in comparison and could allow SCO to battle in a much wider arena.
Is it that important to have a precise definition of what is a planet and what is not?
Unless you are going to precisely define every single astronomical object. from dust to galaxy filaments.
I suspect that someone is going to claim the possession over those planets (apply the definition here).
This article actually says: if you need to steal a sidekick, please follow a good procedure not to be tracked!
Very, very smart!
And what about security?
Are all those WiFi security technologies (WPA, WEP etc.) really strong?
I think our technicians and scientists should focus on simple technology first.
Simple technology is, ehm, simple to implement with possibly fewer failure chances and also fewer environmental issues.
This is what the world really needs now.
This CPU is one of those technology jewels that never got a spread interest in the market.
It is power savvy while being powerful enough and x86 compatible.
It would be great if AMD could really revitalise it to avoid flops like Amiga: good ideas with no luck! at all
Just like any other Human activity and just like any other computer program, spreadsheets tend to have errors inside!
It's not news at all!
Of course I mean both raw data errors, due to copy/paste errors, and formulae, due to thinkos or distraction.
Humman erorrss in anny casse!
So it'd be quite hard to avoid spam, phishing and other nasty stuff.
Because it's not supposed to be based on invitations or similar constraints.
Better protocols and implementations are welcome, of course.
But changing the email system is quite likely to kill it.
I wonder whether such Government claims make any sense for an ISP. ... etc. The number of records could be multiplied by 100 or even 1000, thus yelding a number of record betwen 360 billions and 3.6 trillions for a 500K users ISP.
Maybe for a phone company it can make some sense to record the details of every single phone call. If you place 10 calls a day and receive 10 a day, a 500K users company will have to record about 3.6 billion records. Doable but you still don't know the actual contents of those calls.
In an ISP things get worse because on a single connection you run email, IM, P2P, web browsing, IRC
The main isssue there would be how to search and browse among all those records. A secondary issue would also be the storage.
Things are actually worse.
The really bad news come when you need to know the contents of conversations. While tough cryptograpy in phone calls is very rare, it is quite common on the Internet.
So if it's rather easy to wiretap on a phone network, it can be almost impossible on Internet, especially if the interesting conversation are done with a P2P model, thus not using an intermediate server, and with a fairly good cryptography.
And you can bet that the bad guys that want to avoid wiretapping have plenty of technologies to defy almost any attempts.
So, why bothering ISPs with data retention?
It is a deliberate action of stupidity to ask someone else to keep your (digital) identity safe when you can (and should) do it!
Are those guys really understanding their mistake? I guess no.
I understand that copying the data between the old and the new disk can be not trivial, so you ask the shop to do it. But please, ask your HD back or ask to have it still in the box as a second drive.
Apart of using one of those software tools called "safe eraser", there is a number of good technicques to make your old HD unreadable:
1. Hammer a nail or two straight into the HD unit.
2. Hammer the unit itself.
3. Send a 220VAC (or 100VAC where available) to the power socked of the HD.
4. Dissect the HD, and brush the disks with a small magnet.
5. Unleash your chainsaw.
All of these techniques need no more than 15 minutes. And you can use more than one of them.
In any case, as there are more embedded devices willing to run opensource software than PCs and servers, I'd say that those results are very good!
And maybe there will be a way to embed that technology into Linux!
Are those winning performances valid also outside the embedded world?
I fear that Linux running over a "normal" x86 CPU outperferms almost everything else.
I think that the whole L4 family smicrokernels hould deserve some more attention from IT professionals.
As far as I know L4 is one of the microkernels with more efforts for development. Along with MinixV3 of course.