but the war is still to come. It's interesting to contrast this with their recent loss against Perfect 10. Compared to the lawsuits from the publishers and the US government, this one seems like an easy victory.
Check this out... a similar idea, already implemented and ready to go. An encrypted volume within an encrypted volume; its impossible to detect its existence without knowing its there and the relevant key.
I'm sure I'm butchering this, but the response goes something like:
the pen is mightier than the sword... BUT, when the pen is taken away, the sword is our only hope of getting it back.
I'm not a gun nut, but this makes some sense to me. OTOH, I don't know what chance a handful of civilians with handguns have against a military with long-range missiles, tear gas, sonic weapons, etc. I guess if you'd really rather be dead than have your freedom taken away, though, go for it.
In the forum, it was mentioned that there was in fact code in the installer to go back and remove the sensitive information from "questions.dat" after the installer finished. A bug was introduced somewhere in this code in the breezy release, so the password never got removed. So, the error was not nearly as obvious as fprintf (password) or even dump(questions); an attempt was made to do the right thing. Of course, the working condition of this code should definately have been verified before releasing breezy, but both the parent and grandparent make the developers seem more negligent than is actually the case.
thought they learned the last time not to band-aid these issues.
Well, a band-aid costs about $0.10, whereas surgery could easily run more than $10,000. Both have their place, and I'm sure Verizon has done the math to see which will be most profitable in the long run.
There are certain things that simply do not work on Dapper at the moment. Most important for me, I haven't found a single Lisp compiler that works. CLisp, CMUCL, and SBCL all worked fine on breezy; as soon as I upgraded to dapper, they started segfaulting on startup... I know very little about the internals of Linux, but I think its something to do with changes in the memory model that are messing with the garbage collectors.
Mod, meet sarcasm. My point was that the article is offtopic... what the fuck is the relation between the avian flu and the IT department... if the flu hits that bad, who the fuck cares if the web server goes down for the duration? Wouldn't the preparedness of, say, hospitals or other critical services, be much more important? And the likelihood of a bird flu pandemic is any more than any other world-shattering potential disaster, which we are equally unprepared for. TFA is just the media trying to find a way to extend the bird-flu hype past its prime.
And how many IT departments have nuclear bomb shelters, for when we the "the long war" produces an enemy pissed off enough to attack us? Or their own oil reserves and climate control systems, for when global warming makes the earth as we know it uninhabitable? Or for that matter, a God-shelter for when Jesus comes back and the Rapture happens? What about the fire and brimstone?????
Pure research like this and MS just do not go together.
Ummmm... I'm as fanatical as the next/.er, but come on. Microsoft has plenty of legitimate theoretical research projects going on, just look at research.microsoft.com. And an issue like this one is obviously relevant to them, if they want to get their act together and improve security (or at least the appearence thereof).
If you just stick to erasing with a stream of random data (not repeated), it shouldn't be possible to tell whether said data is random. If you use one of the other defauls (such as write all 0s, all 1s, all 0s again) then it is pretty clear what has been going on.
If you want to really learn how to be a good programmer, Scheme is a good place to start. It's extremely simple, and a great way to learn recursion, etc. If you just want to be a code monkey, maybe something else would be better though. I know learning Scheme substantially improved my programming abilities... The fact that Berkeley, etc. use it as an intro programming language is another good argument in favor.
I concur. I have chronic nasal congenstion and regular Sudaphed is one of the few things that helps. Now I go to the store and all I can buy is Sudaphed PE, which doesn't come in 12 hour form, and more importantly, doesn't work! Fuck that.
Google has a new generation of search technology coming out, which you can test out by going to http://66.249.93.104/. It's called Big Daddy, and it's supposed to be substantially better at filtering out the crap, among other things... I'm not sure when it's scheduled to go live on google.com though.
FTFA: whoever owns Amun could become 450 times as wealthy as Bill Gates . And exactly does one come to own an asteroid? Is planing a flag good enough? If so, I'm gonna start launching "ME" flags at all the nearest celestial bodies.
I bet there are more than $100 quadrillion dollars of precious metals in the earth... the problem is that most of this stuff is too expensive and difficult to get at. Same deal here, at least until we get a space elevator going. We need damn cheap travel to make it worth going to space to get IRON of all things... for now, it's what, $20,000 per pound going up, and mining equipment / transports back down are heavy.
Apparently the mods have insightfully given this thread up to the "laser beam" jokes. After almost 90 comments and 1.5 hours, it looks like only 2 mod points have been expended so far.
Tell that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians we've killed in the middle east fighting for "freedom". And do you really think these actions have made further terrorist attacks against us less likely?
Given what raw materials? If you could build a robot that could build a replica of itself from anything, you'd have to be damn careful they didn't replace you and the rest of the world with copies of themselves (search for "gray dust"). And yes, someone has constructed a self-replicating fabricator, although it needs some help in the form of assembly, screws, bushings, etc. See here.
i think converting your library from one format to another (eg. ogg) is pretty damn easy... high quality is the only real issue here. It might take some computer time, but i bet i could have a conversion of my entire media library going within 5 minutesof hitting google if i didn't mind taking the quality hit.
I was talking about the Java syntax. Obviously porting the libraries would be a gargantuan task (so maybe I exaggerated there a bit). As far as speed, take a look at this before you start calling me an ignorant fanboy. The CMUCL LISP compiler produces code that is between 1.3 times slower and 90 times faster than Java, with LISP being about 3x faster than Java on average (although obviously your mileage may vary). Who's ignorant now, punk?
I think the main reason Lisp isn't popular is it isn't perfectly standardized, and doesn't play well with others. If someone would just fix up the foreign function interface, and add a bad-ass selection of packages (like for Python), all other languages could go suck it. Hell, if you don't like Lisp, you could implement Java in Lisp using a few handfuls of macros, and the end result might even be faster than the JRM (seriously).
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but the war is still to come. It's interesting to contrast this with their recent loss against Perfect 10. Compared to the lawsuits from the publishers and the US government, this one seems like an easy victory.
Check this out ... a similar idea, already implemented and ready to go. An encrypted volume within an encrypted volume; its impossible to detect its existence without knowing its there and the relevant key.
Coral Cache
I'm sure I'm butchering this, but the response goes something like:
... BUT, when the pen is taken away, the sword is our only hope of getting it back.
the pen is mightier than the sword
I'm not a gun nut, but this makes some sense to me. OTOH, I don't know what chance a handful of civilians with handguns have against a military with long-range missiles, tear gas, sonic weapons, etc. I guess if you'd really rather be dead than have your freedom taken away, though, go for it.
In the forum, it was mentioned that there was in fact code in the installer to go back and remove the sensitive information from "questions.dat" after the installer finished. A bug was introduced somewhere in this code in the breezy release, so the password never got removed. So, the error was not nearly as obvious as fprintf (password) or even dump(questions); an attempt was made to do the right thing. Of course, the working condition of this code should definately have been verified before releasing breezy, but both the parent and grandparent make the developers seem more negligent than is actually the case.
thought they learned the last time not to band-aid these issues.
Well, a band-aid costs about $0.10, whereas surgery could easily run more than $10,000. Both have their place, and I'm sure Verizon has done the math to see which will be most profitable in the long run.
There are certain things that simply do not work on Dapper at the moment. Most important for me, I haven't found a single Lisp compiler that works. CLisp, CMUCL, and SBCL all worked fine on breezy; as soon as I upgraded to dapper, they started segfaulting on startup... I know very little about the internals of Linux, but I think its something to do with changes in the memory model that are messing with the garbage collectors.
Mod, meet sarcasm. My point was that the article is offtopic ... what the fuck is the relation between the avian flu and the IT department ... if the flu hits that bad, who the fuck cares if the web server goes down for the duration? Wouldn't the preparedness of, say, hospitals or other critical services, be much more important? And the likelihood of a bird flu pandemic is any more than any other world-shattering potential disaster, which we are equally unprepared for. TFA is just the media trying to find a way to extend the bird-flu hype past its prime.
And how many IT departments have nuclear bomb shelters, for when we the "the long war" produces an enemy pissed off enough to attack us? Or their own oil reserves and climate control systems, for when global warming makes the earth as we know it uninhabitable? Or for that matter, a God-shelter for when Jesus comes back and the Rapture happens? What about the fire and brimstone?????
Pure research like this and MS just do not go together.
... I'm as fanatical as the next /.er, but come on. Microsoft has plenty of legitimate theoretical research projects going on, just look at research.microsoft.com. And an issue like this one is obviously relevant to them, if they want to get their act together and improve security (or at least the appearence thereof).
Ummmm
If you just stick to erasing with a stream of random data (not repeated), it shouldn't be possible to tell whether said data is random. If you use one of the other defauls (such as write all 0s, all 1s, all 0s again) then it is pretty clear what has been going on.
If the company wanted evidence against their employee then they should have attained it before accusing him.
... if they accused him first, he would be destroying evidence by deleting the data, right ?
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weed dealers must be smarter than we thought
If you want to really learn how to be a good programmer, Scheme is a good place to start. It's extremely simple, and a great way to learn recursion, etc. If you just want to be a code monkey, maybe something else would be better though. I know learning Scheme substantially improved my programming abilities... The fact that Berkeley, etc. use it as an intro programming language is another good argument in favor.
I concur. I have chronic nasal congenstion and regular Sudaphed is one of the few things that helps. Now I go to the store and all I can buy is Sudaphed PE, which doesn't come in 12 hour form, and more importantly, doesn't work! Fuck that.
Google has a new generation of search technology coming out, which you can test out by going to http://66.249.93.104/. It's called Big Daddy, and it's supposed to be substantially better at filtering out the crap, among other things ... I'm not sure when it's scheduled to go live on google.com though.
FTFA: whoever owns Amun could become 450 times as wealthy as Bill Gates . And exactly does one come to own an asteroid? Is planing a flag good enough? If so, I'm gonna start launching "ME" flags at all the nearest celestial bodies.
I bet there are more than $100 quadrillion dollars of precious metals in the earth ... the problem is that most of this stuff is too expensive and difficult to get at. Same deal here, at least until we get a space elevator going. We need damn cheap travel to make it worth going to space to get IRON of all things ... for now, it's what, $20,000 per pound going up, and mining equipment / transports back down are heavy.
Apparently the mods have insightfully given this thread up to the "laser beam" jokes. After almost 90 comments and 1.5 hours, it looks like only 2 mod points have been expended so far.
from now on I'm going to have to worry if my new puppy is secretly reporting back to the NSA. No wonder the little bastard is so inquisitive ...
Tell that to the 2948 people that died on 9/11.
Tell that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians we've killed in the middle east fighting for "freedom". And do you really think these actions have made further terrorist attacks against us less likely?
Given what raw materials? If you could build a robot that could build a replica of itself from anything, you'd have to be damn careful they didn't replace you and the rest of the world with copies of themselves (search for "gray dust"). And yes, someone has constructed a self-replicating fabricator, although it needs some help in the form of assembly, screws, bushings, etc. See here.
i think converting your library from one format to another (eg. ogg) is pretty damn easy... high quality is the only real issue here. It might take some computer time, but i bet i could have a conversion of my entire media library going within 5 minutesof hitting google if i didn't mind taking the quality hit.
I was talking about the Java syntax. Obviously porting the libraries would be a gargantuan task (so maybe I exaggerated there a bit). As far as speed, take a look at this before you start calling me an ignorant fanboy. The CMUCL LISP compiler produces code that is between 1.3 times slower and 90 times faster than Java, with LISP being about 3x faster than Java on average (although obviously your mileage may vary). Who's ignorant now, punk?
I think the main reason Lisp isn't popular is it isn't perfectly standardized, and doesn't play well with others. If someone would just fix up the foreign function interface, and add a bad-ass selection of packages (like for Python), all other languages could go suck it. Hell, if you don't like Lisp, you could implement Java in Lisp using a few handfuls of macros, and the end result might even be faster than the JRM (seriously).