If clicking on a button = signing a contract, we are in serious f*'in trouble.
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Hereby I nominate Microsoft as my sole hier. OK
..that's why American's have no privacy. They pass bills that limit their freedoms. Land of the free? Pah... come to Africa. All freedom, all the time (don't mind the crime)
Disclaimer: I don't work for Gartner, but like their research papers.
The wireless mesh tech is now falling into the through of disallusionment of the hype cycle, after inflated expectations.
Maybe it'll end up being practical when it helps the city to read electricity and water meters?
If you run a low voltage circuit next to mains cable, you can potentially (in the case of a loop) create dangerous inductive heating in the low voltage cable - Not to mention the problems of the induced voltage in whatever equipment is connected to it.
Technical nitpick, but aren't most cables twisted in some for in order to limit this effect anyways? For DC power cabling, this is not a problem, and for signalling cable the filters usually cut of the 60Hz, so AFAIK it is not an issue?
Personally, I find it repugnant that banks report "suspicious" activities on their customers in many countries. For example, in the past, if you played with more than $10K at a time, US bank drones filed a report on you. Some years ago, that threshold changed to $3K -- loan to family member, car downpayment, any reasonable major purchase (PS3 plus games?!) - now requires reporting YOU to federal authorities as being suspicious. Interestingly, many banks file a report for any amount $1K in cash.
It's called anti-money laundering (AML).
You can thank the fraud action task force for that. This plugs in nicely with things like the war against drugs and the war against terror, promoted by the Bush administration(s).
This is just one way that AML can be done. Software exists to corrolate on more factors than just a transaction limit.
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes. And this guy forgot the latter.
Anyone interested in the possibilities of a world without faith could so worse than read the book "End of Faith" by Sam Harris. This book puts forward a powerful argument against all religions whilst putting forward insightful ideas for an alternative way to add value to our lives. It also has interesting views on radicalism within religion, primarily that the only true believers of any religion are the fanatics as they take the entire bible/koran/whatever at face value and live it whereas more moderates cherry pick the bits they like and ignore the bits they don't (stoning the neighbour for eating fish on a tuesday, nah, ignore that one. Hate gays? yup, tick) resulting in the vast majority of any given religions followers as basically failing that religons requirements.
The fact that you promote an atheist book that points to all the wrongs in religious books is a circular argument. Alternative way to add value? Does existentialism ring a bell?
I believe (Christian), but that does not have anything to do with matters of state or Utopia. What does it matter what faith politicians proclaim? Their will is guided by money and votes, and not by values.
As for moral values, it is more of a political issue than a religious issue. To put it in simpler terms: Does being an Atheist prevent you from being homophobic or a racist?
A true believer is a relative concept. The concept as described in that book sounds a bit far-right to me. Not everybody believes like that.
Read EMV.
The big credit card companies are well aware of the risks. After all, its the main determinator of their income.
What some people don't realise: It's not about the risk of theft, its about the risk of liability.
With the new EMV system, the credit card companies will firstly start to roll out Smart card based credit cards, and to force credit card merchants to use the new machines, they will change contracts so that merchants are fully liable for chargebacks on magstipe transactions, and a lot less liable for smart card / card present transactions.
Note that the paranoia mongering of Smart cards versus Magstripe is pointless: Smart cards are a lot better than magstripe to begin with. If the company that controls the information is up to scratch, I'd rather go for smart cards.
Remember: Magstripe credit cards do not provide full 3 factor authentication. At best, it provides 2. Smart cards on the other hand can provide full 3 factor authentication.
As for the whole RFID thing: I call BS. If the information is encrypted and the PKI is implemented, it does not matter how far the information travels, it is still safe. The private key on the smart card cannot be compromised, unless you have a very expensive piece of machinery with micro probes to detect the internal chip state.
Why hasn't anybody created a "good" trojan that uses as many common exploits as possible to infect these already infected machines with a port-80 restrictive firewall? I think for every somewhat bright for-profit trojan creator, there are thousands of brighter people that can come up with an intelligent plan to do this effectively. Use all spreading techniques that the best of the worst use, but minimize the wasted & bloated traffic, while fixing as many computers as possible. Should be simple!!
Only issue I see is legality. Technically however, I see this as very feasible.
The considerations:
1. Money from plugging holes manually > Money from plugging holes automatically
2. Payload with every possible exploit > Payload with 0day
3. Port 80 is the most common source for infections
4. Legality is a huge issue, and this technique was proposed in the past. If something isn't legal, you cannot be paid for it.
The only option that remains is to profit illegaly from 0day exploits.
Damn. Wanted to say the same thing... which led me to thinking: How long is this joke going to be stretched, and how long will it still be funny? Don't get me wrong, I think there is something inherently funny about it.
First quote: "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords." - Kent Brockman, Simpsons Deep Space Homer.
Other clues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/000403.html
update tools: slapt-get? swaret?
paahhh.... does not come close to emerge, yum, apt-get or synaptic.
Better keep a close watch on those vulnerability bulletins....also don't forget dependency hell.
The moment you have to worry about package updates is the moment you lose your night life.
Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Ubuntu!
-- I'm a fan.
Seriously though, there are some things whose design has absolutely been optimized to a point where it would take a revolution in technology to make any changes worth while.
Think like a programmer! You can always improve the interface to be more user friendly.
A 'chipped' passport would be susceptible to drive-by scanning,
Not if the PKI on Javacard applet access is configured correctly, and the sleeves are covered in foil.
adds nothing a mag-stripe couldn't,
A variety of biometric capabilities, on card information storage, the ability to fill in forms with a swipe of a booklet....
and will likely be more expensive to implement.
RFID and contact cards are sold for a fraction of a dollar...
What's the point?
Increased security, non-repudiation, inter-country systems operability, anti-terrorism, curbing of drug smuggling, gun-running, customs evasion, 3-factor authentication, digital signatures, auto-form filling....
See, we don't really have evidence that humans evolved from apes.
Not true. A lot of fossil records points to this fact.
What we don't have is ANY emperical evidence to the contrary.
As for science vs. religion: They can co-exist very happily if science stays out of belief and religion stays out of proof and theory.
The only reason that A+, N+, MCSE, CCNA books are so large is that they use 1 1/2 line spacing and 18 size fonts, plus extra "question" pages that tend to repeat the whole chapter in a cut and paste fastion.
Rather just buy / download Dive into Python and tinker around with motherboards for the heck of it.
As for the "there is a whole lot to learn" thing, how difficult is it to type up a google/wikipedia search or to follow howto's?
Stop learning and start living.
Voice of experience.. I spent years at an ISP that tried to sell wireless and man, it just never ever works right for this type of thing (others in the industry will probably confirm this) without spending a whole lot of cash.
Confirmed.
Wi-Fi was designed from the ground up as a short range physical layer protocol. With longer ranges, you have to take a lot of different extras in account, such as automatic power adjustment depending on the distance of a connection from a tower etc, which protocols like 3G has.
The idea seems nice, but also note that IP was not designed to route over such a network using older protocols such as RIP and OSPF. Add in interference and nodes going up and down intermittently due to bad maintenance and you get a very unreliable network. You have to get your money somewhere to pay people to do maintenance 24/7, otherwise some good natured WUG person will have to do it on a Saturday.
so if you slip up once in taking them, will you forget to take them indefinately?
call me when these pills remind you that they have to be taken with wailing sirens & flashing lights on the pill bottle.
Slashdot Mirror
If clicking on a button = signing a contract, we are in serious f*'in trouble.
Compare:
Do you want to buy this house? Yes No Cancel
Hereby I nominate Microsoft as my sole hier. OK
For those who are of the "old skool": Ctrl-Alt-+
..that's why American's have no privacy. They pass bills that limit their freedoms. Land of the free? Pah... come to Africa. All freedom, all the time (don't mind the crime)
"Creationism is Evolution's way of seperating the dumb from the lesser-dumb."
Disclaimer: I don't work for Gartner, but like their research papers.
The wireless mesh tech is now falling into the through of disallusionment of the hype cycle, after inflated expectations.
Maybe it'll end up being practical when it helps the city to read electricity and water meters?
Uri Geller should get bent
Technical nitpick, but aren't most cables twisted in some for in order to limit this effect anyways? For DC power cabling, this is not a problem, and for signalling cable the filters usually cut of the 60Hz, so AFAIK it is not an issue?
Is RMS still alive? I thought Linus killed him a long time ago.
It's called anti-money laundering (AML).
You can thank the fraud action task force for that. This plugs in nicely with things like the war against drugs and the war against terror, promoted by the Bush administration(s).
This is just one way that AML can be done. Software exists to corrolate on more factors than just a transaction limit.
Two things in life are certain: Death and taxes. And this guy forgot the latter.
The fact that you promote an atheist book that points to all the wrongs in religious books is a circular argument. Alternative way to add value? Does existentialism ring a bell?
I believe (Christian), but that does not have anything to do with matters of state or Utopia. What does it matter what faith politicians proclaim? Their will is guided by money and votes, and not by values. As for moral values, it is more of a political issue than a religious issue. To put it in simpler terms: Does being an Atheist prevent you from being homophobic or a racist?
A true believer is a relative concept. The concept as described in that book sounds a bit far-right to me. Not everybody believes like that.
(chirp, chirp, chirp)
Read EMV.
The big credit card companies are well aware of the risks. After all, its the main determinator of their income.
What some people don't realise: It's not about the risk of theft, its about the risk of liability.
With the new EMV system, the credit card companies will firstly start to roll out Smart card based credit cards, and to force credit card merchants to use the new machines, they will change contracts so that merchants are fully liable for chargebacks on magstipe transactions, and a lot less liable for smart card / card present transactions.
Note that the paranoia mongering of Smart cards versus Magstripe is pointless: Smart cards are a lot better than magstripe to begin with. If the company that controls the information is up to scratch, I'd rather go for smart cards.
Remember: Magstripe credit cards do not provide full 3 factor authentication. At best, it provides 2. Smart cards on the other hand can provide full 3 factor authentication.
As for the whole RFID thing: I call BS. If the information is encrypted and the PKI is implemented, it does not matter how far the information travels, it is still safe. The private key on the smart card cannot be compromised, unless you have a very expensive piece of machinery with micro probes to detect the internal chip state.
The considerations:
1. Money from plugging holes manually > Money from plugging holes automatically
2. Payload with every possible exploit > Payload with 0day
3. Port 80 is the most common source for infections
4. Legality is a huge issue, and this technique was proposed in the past. If something isn't legal, you cannot be paid for it.
The only option that remains is to profit illegaly from 0day exploits.
Damn. Wanted to say the same thing... which led me to thinking: How long is this joke going to be stretched, and how long will it still be funny? Don't get me wrong, I think there is something inherently funny about it.e s/000403.html
First quote: "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords." - Kent Brockman, Simpsons Deep Space Homer.
Other clues:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archiv
update tools: slapt-get? swaret?
paahhh.... does not come close to emerge, yum, apt-get or synaptic.
Better keep a close watch on those vulnerability bulletins....also don't forget dependency hell.
The moment you have to worry about package updates is the moment you lose your night life.
Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Ubuntu!
-- I'm a fan.
I for one welcome our new genetically mapped mouse overlords.
ReAl MeN DoN'T UsE BaCkUpS!!!
(touch wood)
Think like a programmer! You can always improve the interface to be more user friendly.
A variety of biometric capabilities, on card information storage, the ability to fill in forms with a swipe of a booklet....
RFID and contact cards are sold for a fraction of a dollar...
Increased security, non-repudiation, inter-country systems operability, anti-terrorism, curbing of drug smuggling, gun-running, customs evasion, 3-factor authentication, digital signatures, auto-form filling....
link please?
The only reason that A+, N+, MCSE, CCNA books are so large is that they use 1 1/2 line spacing and 18 size fonts, plus extra "question" pages that tend to repeat the whole chapter in a cut and paste fastion.
Rather just buy / download Dive into Python and tinker around with motherboards for the heck of it.
As for the "there is a whole lot to learn" thing, how difficult is it to type up a google/wikipedia search or to follow howto's?
Stop learning and start living.
Wi-Fi was designed from the ground up as a short range physical layer protocol. With longer ranges, you have to take a lot of different extras in account, such as automatic power adjustment depending on the distance of a connection from a tower etc, which protocols like 3G has.
The idea seems nice, but also note that IP was not designed to route over such a network using older protocols such as RIP and OSPF. Add in interference and nodes going up and down intermittently due to bad maintenance and you get a very unreliable network. You have to get your money somewhere to pay people to do maintenance 24/7, otherwise some good natured WUG person will have to do it on a Saturday.
so if you slip up once in taking them, will you forget to take them indefinately? call me when these pills remind you that they have to be taken with wailing sirens & flashing lights on the pill bottle.
... why does there have to be a news story about every one?o .rss
if you are really concerned, rather try these rss feeds:
http://www.us-cert.gov/channels/techalerts.rdf
http://secunia.com/information_partner/anonymous/