Verizion PR is trying to figure out a way of making you want to spend an ADDITIONAL 30$ USD on the product. How's this. "Hell my bill is already 200+ a month. Why not 30 more." As an Additional service, they are trying to get ready your Chapter 11 forms to be distributed with the service. So when you do go broke. Verizon is already there helping you.
KDKA did this / does this with the steelers. If you're a god fearing 'stillers' fan you watch the game on TV but listen to Meyran and boys on the radio. A few months back, while doing this I realized that there was about a 20 second gap between what Meyran was screaming about and what was on tv. Needless to say the radio was ahead... So I kept the head phones on and was calling the plays left and right for my friends who were just watching the tv . (Sacrelig) They thought I was psychic. But anyhoo. Others noticed it too and I believe the station got in alot of trouble for that.
These laws need to be aimed at software vendors who are irresponsible with their handling of security issues. Everything has security issues. laws direccted at vendors with security holes would screw alot of people over. The handling and fixing of security holes should be somehow controlled. If there is a Root exploit in my box, and it takes the vendor 4 weeks to tell me and another 1 week to release a patch then they should be held accountable. However, if the vendor as soon as they find out send out an advisory and release a patch as quickly as possible (or a solution to remedy the problem) then they should be safe. Laws like these sound good. But im starting to get scared. The legislative body has shown an incredible ignorance towards computing thus far, what makes this case any different/
" I also don't agree that there IS a legitimate use for widescale monitoring of innocent, private people - one of the (theoretical) keystones of our legal system is that people are innocent until they are PROVED guilty, and that it's better to let 100 guilty people go than convict 1 innocent person."
Thats fine and dandy if the cops were dumb enough to send someone to jail becauuse they were mistaken on a monitoring device. Simple as this. Someone mistaken for someone else. Cops come in and detain the person. Worst case scenario they are in jail for 24 hours. Cops offer apology. Person sues state gets some money. ohh wow. Best case scenario. Cops show up find out they made a mistake no harm done.
You are also correct in making the statement that you are a private person. However the second you go out in public you are no longer a private person. Anything you do in public is no longer private. There is no guarentee of privacy in a public square, or a public park. Get over it .
It won't store the image longer than needed to identify it. It goes bye bye. IT can store the images if it really wanted too. But all those facees would take up lots of space. And they won't do that. Its one of those "Mis-use" Clauses.
Slashdotters are weird in that they have double standards. If Strong-Crypto can be misused by criminals thats ok because there is a legit reason for the existence of such a technology. If this camera system were misused by the government thats bad. Even though there is a legit reason for the technology. And in the event it was misused by storing your picture permanently (WHICH IT DOES NOT) then there would be a very very large public outcry and it would be political suicide to support such implementations.
Leftists always mean well but the cold hard facts of reality and the real world have yet to be realized by them.
The ACLU apparently isn't happy with the Idea, not the technology. They are using the primitive technology that is currently in place to discredit the "Idea" the Idea is superb. IF we can have monitoring stations around that can succesfully detect wanted criminals it would be very useful and an extremley powerful aide against crime. The technology doesn't store the faces anywhere, unless you're a criminal. The ACLU bitches b ecause our freedom and privacy is at risk. What Privacy? You're in a public area, an area which is under patrol by cops. If you do something illegal in this area you can be arrested. The lives of other citizens are also in this public area. Likewise you're freedom isn't hindered by this system, unless your a wanted criminal. This monitoring idea isn't bad and it doesn't infringe on your rights. You're in public. You're not in your house. The ACLU as with many other traditionally leftists organizations like to screw the betterment of mankind over with ramblings of Constituitional rights. When they know damn well that its simply not true. Its not like these things are being placed in your homes.
Pardon the bad grammar. And most likely spelling I just woke up and hung over
Hey... I thought I made this clear a few weeks ago. Its the "Linux Kernel" NOT "The Kernel" Dammit tack Linux infront of it.. Or if you're one of those PInko Commie Socialists GNU/Linux . Not all of us run Linux and sometimes freak when we are very tired and we see things like "Kernel 2.5" dammit... Once again im at 4.4!!!!!
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Since when is the Linux Kernel "The Kernel" "Kernel 2.4.14 is Out" is being highly biased towards Linux users... I thought Affirmitive Action was Illegal.. Isn't showing bias towards a Lesser Operating system in order to get it more accepted Affirmitive Action? Dammit. I run FreeBSD. My Kernel isn't at 2.4.14.... So I'm alienated.... Where's the ACLU?
I recently bought an Apple Powerbook G4. One day the DVD drive stoped working and I called apple tech support after they concluded that it was indeed a hardware issue. (Took 5 minutes) They told me it was still under warranty and that they will send me a box to ship it in.
That was Monday. Tuesday Airborne Express shows up with a box. I signed for it. Opened it up and inside was foam packaging for my TiPB and a Return Airborne Express slip. So I put the PB in it and called Airborne Express. They were back an hour later and picked up the box and shipped it to apple. (This is all at apples Expense) So. I send it out Tuesday. On Thursday my Powerbook is back in my hands and in Primo condition.... How cool is that?
I said it once, I'll say it again. Apple Rocks. If you think otherwise... You most likely haven't used one.
They weren't dropped. They actually installed FreeBSD and were much happier because of the existance of decent MM. Im still baffled as to why Linus and Alan are developing with two completely different. MM's. This can only cause problems. Issues like that need to be resolved BEFORE it gets implemented.
Uhh. Didn't the nazi's have "Rocket Jets?"
Once again. Slashdot is behind on their news..... a good 50 years;)
And as I recall these jets flew fine. Except landing the damn things was next to impossible. I seem to recall that 90% of the deaths related to the Nazi Rocket Jet was due to landing incidents.
With 10.1 not only do I get dvd play back on a "Unix Based" os but MS is releasing a preview version of Word X. Now before you Anti-MS Dolts get your panties tied in a Knot. If you don't use Macs and haven't seen Microsoft's Mac software. You're missing out. MSIE:MAC Runs better than it does under windows. (There goes that whole its only "Faster" Cause its integrated into the OS Theory) And Microsoft Office for the Mac has consistently been the most useful Office Suite on the market. Star Office doesn't have anything on it. And Office:Mac has consistently blown the pants off of Office:windows For a long time.
But anyways. Check out the Microsoft mac stuff at www.microsoft.com/mac/ and just drool over screen shots of Office v X
And on a final Note. I love my TiPB I love OSX and I don't understand how I used anything other htan it for all those years.
The Government tried to implement Key Escrow A while ago.
Basically. When you generate your keys you must submit the key to the governement so they have a copy. Its kind of like your landlord.
You have a key for your apartment. So does he. If you get locked out he can come on in and let you back in. If you're growing a Pot Farm he can give it to the feds when they have the search warrant and let them in with out bustin no doors down.
Implementing a mechanical backdoor other than key escrow would suck. Short of the US Governement getting hacked your keys should be safe with them (unless of course you believe the US Governement's sole purpose in life is to get you) If you implement a mechanical back door just wait until it gets reverese engineered. All hell will break loose.
If Backdoors are implemented. Im a fan of Key Escrow.
However whats to stop a terrorist for writing their own version of a public cryptosystem such as RSA and not give anyone keys? Guess there will also have to be a law that says if your key isn't registerd and your communicating with it then the governement can arrest you.
If every known string would be found. They what about finding Pi with one digit off? Like Where we found Pi and every digit in pi is the same except say the trillionth digit. Now. Start your recursive looop engines and figure out the rest
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Well. If it did start on say the Trinllionth trillionth Digit of pi. Just store digits as powers. That way we can make em smaller. Then use LZW on that number. =) But for compression you'd have to store not only the starting digit but how many digits it needs. And doing all this fun math should be a snap on a 64-way Sun E10000 loaded with the 900mhz Ultra Sparc IIIs (not a configuration yet...)
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Here at the Univ. Of Pitt. We have a single CS honors class it is a robotic type class. we don't get to build robots, however We do get to write software for robots. We used these groovy little things called Pioneer 2's Thy rocked. We slapped laptops into their serial ports and could control the bot through the laptop. But it gets cooler. We installed X on the laptops and slapped Wireless cards into the lappys. We exported X-sessions over our wireless network and ran our GUI apps for the robots from far far away. Which was good. Cuase they were fast little boogers and there are still a few dents in the wall from when ours shot off at full spped and our PID control couldn't keep up =b
But X + Laptop or some form of box + Wireless == killer bots
Since NASA's Space Budget is so horribly underfunded. By the time we get the funding to develop technology to go to other galaxy's we wont need to bother!!! THey're Comming To US!!!!
Also... When the sun Goes Red giant.. Are we sure Any of the planets orbiting the sun won't be a million asteroids from collidinnng with some other foreign body in some other galaxy. Or even better. We get sucked into a bigger entities gravity well!!! Whee!!!!!!! I hope we get to orbit a really cool planet like that Roman Planet from the original Star trek. yea!!
You restrict access to VNC with passwords I assume. You can't restrict access with passwords through buffer overflow exploits or some stupid security hole. You still installed VNC as an administration program, which requires access to the box prior to installation.
Well.
Lets look at backorifice. It installes a daemon on the remote computer that allows someone to connect into it. That's Remote administration. Writing a Script that will take advantage of a buffer overflow in say MS IIS would be considered a Malicious tool. Who in their right mind would develop a remote administration tool (that would be used legitimately) that takes advantages in exploitable Security holes. Especially when you can't restrict access to such holes.
Let the script kiddies rot in jail.
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Verizion PR is trying to figure out a way of making you want to spend an ADDITIONAL 30$ USD on the product. How's this. "Hell my bill is already 200+ a month. Why not 30 more." As an Additional service, they are trying to get ready your Chapter 11 forms to be distributed with the service. So when you do go broke. Verizon is already there helping you.
115 Frames per second.... Must... Have...Now... Powerbook... too... sloww...
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KDKA did this / does this with the steelers. If you're a god fearing 'stillers' fan you watch the game on TV but listen to Meyran and boys on the radio. A few months back, while doing this I realized that there was about a 20 second gap between what Meyran was screaming about and what was on tv. Needless to say the radio was ahead... So I kept the head phones on and was calling the plays left and right for my friends who were just watching the tv . (Sacrelig) They thought I was psychic. But anyhoo. Others noticed it too and I believe the station got in alot of trouble for that.
These laws need to be aimed at software vendors who are irresponsible with their handling of security issues. Everything has security issues. laws direccted at vendors with security holes would screw alot of people over. The handling and fixing of security holes should be somehow controlled. If there is a Root exploit in my box, and it takes the vendor 4 weeks to tell me and another 1 week to release a patch then they should be held accountable. However, if the vendor as soon as they find out send out an advisory and release a patch as quickly as possible (or a solution to remedy the problem) then they should be safe. Laws like these sound good. But im starting to get scared. The legislative body has shown an incredible ignorance towards computing thus far, what makes this case any different/
I guess now I can finally convince my boss to let me upgrade our IT Department
" I also don't agree that there IS a legitimate use for widescale monitoring of innocent, private people - one of the (theoretical) keystones of our legal system is that people are innocent until they are PROVED guilty, and that it's better to let 100 guilty people go than convict 1 innocent person."
Thats fine and dandy if the cops were dumb enough to send someone to jail becauuse they were mistaken on a monitoring device. Simple as this. Someone mistaken for someone else. Cops come in and detain the person. Worst case scenario they are in jail for 24 hours. Cops offer apology. Person sues state gets some money. ohh wow. Best case scenario. Cops show up find out they made a mistake no harm done.
You are also correct in making the statement that you are a private person. However the second you go out in public you are no longer a private person. Anything you do in public is no longer private. There is no guarentee of privacy in a public square, or a public park. Get over it .
Slashdotters are weird in that they have double standards. If Strong-Crypto can be misused by criminals thats ok because there is a legit reason for the existence of such a technology. If this camera system were misused by the government thats bad. Even though there is a legit reason for the technology. And in the event it was misused by storing your picture permanently (WHICH IT DOES NOT) then there would be a very very large public outcry and it would be political suicide to support such implementations.
Leftists always mean well but the cold hard facts of reality and the real world have yet to be realized by them.
The ACLU apparently isn't happy with the Idea, not the technology. They are using the primitive technology that is currently in place to discredit the "Idea" the Idea is superb. IF we can have monitoring stations around that can succesfully detect wanted criminals it would be very useful and an extremley powerful aide against crime. The technology doesn't store the faces anywhere, unless you're a criminal. The ACLU bitches b ecause our freedom and privacy is at risk. What Privacy? You're in a public area, an area which is under patrol by cops. If you do something illegal in this area you can be arrested. The lives of other citizens are also in this public area. Likewise you're freedom isn't hindered by this system, unless your a wanted criminal. This monitoring idea isn't bad and it doesn't infringe on your rights. You're in public. You're not in your house. The ACLU as with many other traditionally leftists organizations like to screw the betterment of mankind over with ramblings of Constituitional rights. When they know damn well that its simply not true. Its not like these things are being placed in your homes.
Pardon the bad grammar. And most likely spelling I just woke up and hung over
Hey... I thought I made this clear a few weeks ago. Its the "Linux Kernel" NOT "The Kernel" Dammit tack Linux infront of it.. Or if you're one of those PInko Commie Socialists GNU/Linux . Not all of us run Linux and sometimes freak when we are very tired and we see things like "Kernel 2.5" dammit... Once again im at 4.4!!!!!
Since when is the Linux Kernel "The Kernel" "Kernel 2.4.14 is Out" is being highly biased towards Linux users... I thought Affirmitive Action was Illegal.. Isn't showing bias towards a Lesser Operating system in order to get it more accepted Affirmitive Action? Dammit. I run FreeBSD. My Kernel isn't at 2.4.14.... So I'm alienated.... Where's the ACLU?
That was Monday. Tuesday Airborne Express shows up with a box. I signed for it. Opened it up and inside was foam packaging for my TiPB and a Return Airborne Express slip. So I put the PB in it and called Airborne Express. They were back an hour later and picked up the box and shipped it to apple. (This is all at apples Expense) So. I send it out Tuesday. On Thursday my Powerbook is back in my hands and in Primo condition.... How cool is that?
I said it once, I'll say it again. Apple Rocks. If you think otherwise... You most likely haven't used one.
They weren't dropped. They actually installed FreeBSD and were much happier because of the existance of decent MM. Im still baffled as to why Linus and Alan are developing with two completely different. MM's. This can only cause problems. Issues like that need to be resolved BEFORE it gets implemented.
Uhh. Didn't the nazi's have "Rocket Jets?" ;)
Once again. Slashdot is behind on their news..... a good 50 years
And as I recall these jets flew fine. Except landing the damn things was next to impossible. I seem to recall that 90% of the deaths related to the Nazi Rocket Jet was due to landing incidents.
With 10.1 not only do I get dvd play back on a "Unix Based" os but MS is releasing a preview version of Word X. Now before you Anti-MS Dolts get your panties tied in a Knot. If you don't use Macs and haven't seen Microsoft's Mac software. You're missing out. MSIE:MAC Runs better than it does under windows. (There goes that whole its only "Faster" Cause its integrated into the OS Theory) And Microsoft Office for the Mac has consistently been the most useful Office Suite on the market. Star Office doesn't have anything on it. And Office:Mac has consistently blown the pants off of Office:windows For a long time.
But anyways. Check out the Microsoft mac stuff at www.microsoft.com/mac/ and just drool over screen shots of Office v X
And on a final Note. I love my TiPB I love OSX and I don't understand how I used anything other htan it for all those years.
The Government tried to implement Key Escrow A while ago.
Basically. When you generate your keys you must submit the key to the governement so they have a copy. Its kind of like your landlord.
You have a key for your apartment. So does he. If you get locked out he can come on in and let you back in. If you're growing a Pot Farm he can give it to the feds when they have the search warrant and let them in with out bustin no doors down.
Implementing a mechanical backdoor other than key escrow would suck. Short of the US Governement getting hacked your keys should be safe with them (unless of course you believe the US Governement's sole purpose in life is to get you) If you implement a mechanical back door just wait until it gets reverese engineered. All hell will break loose.
If Backdoors are implemented. Im a fan of Key Escrow.
However whats to stop a terrorist for writing their own version of a public cryptosystem such as RSA and not give anyone keys? Guess there will also have to be a law that says if your key isn't registerd and your communicating with it then the governement can arrest you.
If every known string would be found. They what about finding Pi with one digit off? Like Where we found Pi and every digit in pi is the same except say the trillionth digit. Now. Start your recursive looop engines and figure out the rest
Well. If it did start on say the Trinllionth trillionth Digit of pi. Just store digits as powers. That way we can make em smaller. Then use LZW on that number. =) But for compression you'd have to store not only the starting digit but how many digits it needs. And doing all this fun math should be a snap on a 64-way Sun E10000 loaded with the 900mhz Ultra Sparc IIIs (not a configuration yet...)
How do you pronounce this? Tualatin? Towel a Tin?
Intel is getting ridiculous. At least i can pronounce my processor. Power PC G4 "GEEE FOUR" Easy =)
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nambla.kids
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And....
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Here at the Univ. Of Pitt. We have a single CS honors class it is a robotic type class. we don't get to build robots, however We do get to write software for robots. We used these groovy little things called Pioneer 2's Thy rocked. We slapped laptops into their serial ports and could control the bot through the laptop. But it gets cooler. We installed X on the laptops and slapped Wireless cards into the lappys. We exported X-sessions over our wireless network and ran our GUI apps for the robots from far far away. Which was good. Cuase they were fast little boogers and there are still a few dents in the wall from when ours shot off at full spped and our PID control couldn't keep up =b But X + Laptop or some form of box + Wireless == killer bots
Also... When the sun Goes Red giant.. Are we sure Any of the planets orbiting the sun won't be a million asteroids from collidinnng with some other foreign body in some other galaxy. Or even better. We get sucked into a bigger entities gravity well!!! Whee!!!!!!! I hope we get to orbit a really cool planet like that Roman Planet from the original Star trek. yea!!
You restrict access to VNC with passwords I assume. You can't restrict access with passwords through buffer overflow exploits or some stupid security hole. You still installed VNC as an administration program, which requires access to the box prior to installation.
Heh. A few microsoft products notifies its creator who installed it =) I guess you could call it seamless integration
Well. Lets look at backorifice. It installes a daemon on the remote computer that allows someone to connect into it. That's Remote administration. Writing a Script that will take advantage of a buffer overflow in say MS IIS would be considered a Malicious tool. Who in their right mind would develop a remote administration tool (that would be used legitimately) that takes advantages in exploitable Security holes. Especially when you can't restrict access to such holes.
Let the script kiddies rot in jail.
You da man. Thanks. I didn't not know that site existed.