I am well aware of the long term effects. I am well aware that it gives the gubment a tool to get at things it can't get at right now.
I want this to happen. Signatures suck right now and we are all vulnerable because the gubment hasn't mandated digital signatures.
I don't buy the conspiracy theories. Show me three people who can keep a secret, and only then will I believe in conspiracies. Federally mandated digital signatures will make my identity more secure. I will be able to PROVE that I didn't sign that credit card application, so I don't owe money for the bill.
Better yet, make that United Nations mandated digital signatures. Once our government is out of the way, my security will follow me around the world. (that last part was written for the conspiracy theorists out there)
More like oxygen. It's such a reactive material that to early life it was pure poison. It took a lot of evolution for life to be able to withstand the assault of oxygen, contantly combining with fragile chemicals needed for life processes. There are still a lot of organizms that cannot tolerate oxygen. There's probably places in our cells today that require careful segregation from oxygen or else it spoils the chemistry and the cell dies.
That's just crazy talk! It doesn't matter that the NSA holds the root certificate. You don't have to like them or hate them. They don't have to like you or hate you. In fact they could very well hate you. It wouldn't matter because you're going to be about 5 levels down from them.
All the certificate authorities do is say "YES YOU ARE THE PERSON YOU SAY YOU ARE." That's it.
And I'm not quite sure why you're so worred about a possible requirement that you might need a government certificate. You already need a government certificate to get a job. It's called a social security card. You need a government certificate to drive a car. It's call a registration. You need a government certificate to buy groceries with cash. It's called a dollar bill. You even need a government certificate to be born. It's called a birth certificate. It's about time that we had a government mandated digital certificate to prevent serious problems like identity theft and forgery. It scares the hell out of me that just because the government hasn't legislated cryptographic proof of identity into law that some punk kid can fake my signature, get a credit card, and then force me to spend literally *years* of my life working with companies who frankly put too much trust in a line of ink on a piece of paper to straighten out my credit rating.
Those people ARE NOT the ones who replied to get removed. Those people are antispammers who Rodona doesn't want to hit because they will complain excessively and she will lose her accounts much more quickly.
I was on the list marked as an anti-spammer, although it was under old accounts. All the accounts with pdrap in them are my old accounts that I used to spam hunt with. I still spam hunt every day.
This is absolutely REAL information. I checked out the list of anti-spammers that he got off her computer, and MY NAME WAS ON THE LIST.
You can see for yourself. pdrap@ctp.com, pdrap@concentric.net and pdrap@cris.com are all on the list. Those addresses are no longer active, but at one time I did a helluva lot of spammer killing with those addresses.
I was skeptical too, but after considering it all night, it makes much more sense that he snagged the info using Back Orifice than the notion that he made it all up. Particularly so since the data appears to be accurate.
Skylab was from the REAL MACHO days of NASA. They couldn't do anything wrong.
When Skylab was launched (check out this link) it lost a solar panel. The photo on that link is Skylab clearly missing a wing! What happened was during the launch vibration shook the missing solar panel until it deployed. It was ripped off the Saturn V/Skylab stack by *atmospheric drag* taking a meteorite shield and fouling up the other solar panel. The first people to live on Skylab had to clear the remaining solar panel so it could deploy, and rig a sunshade to bring temperatures in the laboratory down to bearable levels.
Cures for AIDS aren't monuments, they are drugs. After missing that basic fact, your note quickly rambled into nonsense.
It doesn't cost anything to name the Hubble Space Telescope after Hubble. We get to honor him without spending anything to do it. Furthermore, the purpose of the Hubble space telescope is to (drum roll please)
refine the value of Hubble's constant.
Duh. The name is even better, because it's functional AND it honors a man who contributed a lot to us.
You didn't get the contract because he thought you were lying, you didn't get it because your reply was less than respectful.
I run into that all the time. When I say that I've been on the internet since 1988, most people are amazed! Then all I have to do is explain that I was in college at that time, and the internet was mostly an academic domain at that time. It makes sense, and it's respectful.
If you're a consultant, you should view yourself as a fancy teacher. There are no dumb questions.
I wouldn't use a compression program to make the data spread out to the whole value range. That might introduce regularities into the data that would be detectable.
Instead, I'd take the data and run it through another cryptographic function, like blowfish.
To check for 64 bit cleanness, you could probably get on Compaq's server farm. They have various 64-bit Linuxes running on Alpha processors, and they don't require your project to be open source. If you can compile and run on Alpha, chances are good it will work on the Itanium.
I agree with you 100%. I use vim and command line compilers/interpreters exclusively.
EXCEPT for some debugging that I do, that is.
ddd is a remarkable debugger, and I find it to be an almost perfect IDE for the purposes of debugging. It is all the debugger stuff, plus an "edit" button that opens the current file in vim so you can change it, and it has a "make" button to rebuild the program and automatically reload it into your debugger.
It's so minimal, yet it's incredibly powerful and quick. I find myself wondering "why didn't I think of that." But who cares...I am happy to be a ddd user.
If this island gets big enough we should give it to the people of Bikini Atoll. We nuked their island really well in the 1950's and as a result, those people have been displace from their home for all that time.
The name Hubble is indeed very inspiring to me. He contributed greatly to our understanding of our expanding universe. Honoring a great man is far more inspiring than honoring "The Charmin Space Telescope - don't squeeze the mirrors".
We're already stuck with such uninspiring names as the Banc One Ballpark (nicknamed BOB, in Phoenix) and the new uninspiringly named Comerica Park where the Tigers play in Detroit. Do we really need to have our monuments and public works named by marketing people?
I'd hate to think that the Sagan Memorial Station on Mars could have been called the "Donald and Goofy Mars House (C) 1997" or that we might have the "America Online/Time-Warner (all rights reserved) Docking Module" or even that the next space telescope might be called the "Tasco (TM) Space Telescope".
I want inspiring, meaningful names. I want the ability to filter the uninspiring, boring ones with Junkbuster.
Sure you could make a machine that cooks hamburgers, but could you make one that cooks hamburgers, then cleans the grill at the end of the night? It makes no sense to have a robot if you still have to have a human clean up after it. An articulated arm is versatile because restaurant work is sometimes difficult, and there are a wide variety of things to do in a restaurant. Even making different burgers would require different machines, but a single arm could be programmed to do it. You also forget that the operation of putting the mustard, ketchup, onion, pickle, and cheese on the toased sesame seed bun is something that requires a dexteritous arm to accomplish.
My experience qualifies me to talk about this: 3.1 years as a McDonald's grunt. Working for for the clown was OK for high school.
>while your theory is right, it can not be applied to age levels, and all problems.
Right. I wasn't allowed to use a calculator in 3rd and 4th grade to do my division problems. I had to write them out on paper.
When I got into algebra and calculus, it was expected that I would have and use a calculator, because I needed to learn other things. I could spend my time doing long division by hand, or I could spend my time learning how to do factoring, integration, and graphing.
Lots of calculators have different capabilities. The graphing calculators shouldn't be used for college level algebra courses, or for the early calculus courses. That's because learning how to graph a function is probably half the class! But if you get into predicate calculus or other even more advanced classes, a graphing calculator could save you a heck of a lot of time working through the busywork that you already understand.
Being able to read the source is a nice thing, but without the right to change and redistribute, we're all at the mercy of Sun to provide a fix. I don't see Sun being very responsive in fixing their other bugs, so why would they suddenly get with it for security issues?
And, it's often brought up that since Star Office doesn't run as root, it's less of a threat. Well, on my system, I have the operating system installed as root. EVERYTHING that is important on the system, my documents, my source code, is owned by my own personal user account. Sure, a virus would probably not be able to bring down my system, but it definitely would be able to destroy a lot of things that I need and use and work on every day. My personal loss would be just as large as if I were running a Windows machine.
UNIX security is very good for what it was meant for: protecting the machine from several different users, and protecting the users from each other. It's NOT as good for protecting a single user from himself. The solution to that is to use and build applications that are not wide open to virus exploits, and to make some good backups at regular intervals.
The GPL draws all of its power from the fact that the person who created a work owns strong copyrights to that work. The owner gets to determine how that work is used, and the owner has the right to put the GPL on that work.
I don't think anybody really knows what security issues exist with Star Office. It's a huge program, all of it closed source. It has a scripting language which may or may not be conducive for virus propagation. It crashes regularly, so it's very possible that it has some buffer overflow bugs lurking in the code. It's multi-platform, so if a Windows version of a Star Office script virus were released, it could possibly also damage Linux machines.
We're lucky so far in that almost nobody runs Star Office, so the environment for viruses is very poor. Just like a virus in the meat world, computer viruses require a certain density of their hosts before they can replicate quickly. Star Office doesn't really provide that density, and it may never provide that density.
These sorts of closed-source kitchen sink apps that are appearing for Linux are useful tools, no doubt. But they are also very dangerous. I hope that open source apps become dominant in the desktop categories, because peer reviewed security is far better than the completely unreviewed security of Star Office.
Anyone that claims that Star Office is secure should be immediately challenged to "Prove It". Without the source code, security cannot be proved.
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I am well aware of the long term effects. I am well aware that it gives the gubment a tool to get at things it can't get at right now.
I want this to happen. Signatures suck right now and we are all vulnerable because the gubment hasn't mandated digital signatures.
I don't buy the conspiracy theories. Show me three people who can keep a secret, and only then will I believe in conspiracies. Federally mandated digital signatures will make my identity more secure. I will be able to PROVE that I didn't sign that credit card application, so I don't owe money for the bill.
Better yet, make that United Nations mandated digital signatures. Once our government is out of the way, my security will follow me around the world. (that last part was written for the conspiracy theorists out there)
More like oxygen. It's such a reactive material that to early life it was pure poison. It took a lot of evolution for life to be able to withstand the assault of oxygen, contantly combining with fragile chemicals needed for life processes. There are still a lot of organizms that cannot tolerate oxygen. There's probably places in our cells today that require careful segregation from oxygen or else it spoils the chemistry and the cell dies.
That's just crazy talk! It doesn't matter that the NSA holds the root certificate. You don't have to like them or hate them. They don't have to like you or hate you. In fact they could very well hate you. It wouldn't matter because you're going to be about 5 levels down from them.
All the certificate authorities do is say "YES YOU ARE THE PERSON YOU SAY YOU ARE." That's it.
And I'm not quite sure why you're so worred about a possible requirement that you might need a government certificate. You already need a government certificate to get a job. It's called a social security card. You need a government certificate to drive a car. It's call a registration. You need a government certificate to buy groceries with cash. It's called a dollar bill. You even need a government certificate to be born. It's called a birth certificate. It's about time that we had a government mandated digital certificate to prevent serious problems like identity theft and forgery. It scares the hell out of me that just because the government hasn't legislated cryptographic proof of identity into law that some punk kid can fake my signature, get a credit card, and then force me to spend literally *years* of my life working with companies who frankly put too much trust in a line of ink on a piece of paper to straighten out my credit rating.
Who knows? All I know is that Texas doesn't have an income tax.
This works out very well for me. I eat just as much as a poor person, so I pay just about as much sales tax as a poor person.
I live modestly, so I can save a lot of money without paying taxes on it to Texas.
So, as a percentage of my income, I pay very very little to Texas compared to a poor person. But how good is this for society?
In Delaware it sounds like it is more difficult to build a little empire on some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class.
I'm on it too. I hunt spam every day for fun. I think the site is real. All the addresses with 'pdrap' in them are my old ones.
Those people ARE NOT the ones who replied to get removed. Those people are antispammers who Rodona doesn't want to hit because they will complain excessively and she will lose her accounts much more quickly.
I was on the list marked as an anti-spammer, although it was under old accounts. All the accounts with pdrap in them are my old accounts that I used to spam hunt with. I still spam hunt every day.
This is absolutely REAL information. I checked out the list of anti-spammers that he got off her computer, and MY NAME WAS ON THE LIST.
You can see for yourself. pdrap@ctp.com, pdrap@concentric.net and pdrap@cris.com are all on the list. Those addresses are no longer active, but at one time I did a helluva lot of spammer killing with those addresses.
I was skeptical too, but after considering it all night, it makes much more sense that he snagged the info using Back Orifice than the notion that he made it all up. Particularly so since the data appears to be accurate.
>No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM - Bill Gates
Bill didn't say this. It's a fabrication. An urban legend. A folklore. A tall tale. A myth. A stretch of the truth. A twisting of the facts.
Skylab was from the REAL MACHO days of NASA. They couldn't do anything wrong.
When Skylab was launched (check out this link) it lost a solar panel. The photo on that link is Skylab clearly missing a wing! What happened was during the launch vibration shook the missing solar panel until it deployed. It was ripped off the Saturn V/Skylab stack by *atmospheric drag* taking a meteorite shield and fouling up the other solar panel. The first people to live on Skylab had to clear the remaining solar panel so it could deploy, and rig a sunshade to bring temperatures in the laboratory down to bearable levels.
And, not to be completely offtopic, today's Astronomy Picture of the Day has a good page about the Compton re-entry.
Cures for AIDS aren't monuments, they are drugs. After missing that basic fact, your note quickly rambled into nonsense.
It doesn't cost anything to name the Hubble Space Telescope after Hubble. We get to honor him without spending anything to do it. Furthermore, the purpose of the Hubble space telescope is to (drum roll please)
refine the value of Hubble's constant.
Duh. The name is even better, because it's functional AND it honors a man who contributed a lot to us.
So what were you rambling about again?
You didn't get the contract because he thought you were lying, you didn't get it because your reply was less than respectful.
I run into that all the time. When I say that I've been on the internet since 1988, most people are amazed! Then all I have to do is explain that I was in college at that time, and the internet was mostly an academic domain at that time. It makes sense, and it's respectful.
If you're a consultant, you should view yourself as a fancy teacher. There are no dumb questions.
I wouldn't use a compression program to make the data spread out to the whole value range. That might introduce regularities into the data that would be detectable.
Instead, I'd take the data and run it through another cryptographic function, like blowfish.
To check for 64 bit cleanness, you could probably get on Compaq's server farm. They have various 64-bit Linuxes running on Alpha processors, and they don't require your project to be open source. If you can compile and run on Alpha, chances are good it will work on the Itanium.
I agree with you 100%. I use vim and command line compilers/interpreters exclusively.
EXCEPT for some debugging that I do, that is.
ddd is a remarkable debugger, and I find it to be an almost perfect IDE for the purposes of debugging. It is all the debugger stuff, plus an "edit" button that opens the current file in vim so you can change it, and it has a "make" button to rebuild the program and automatically reload it into your debugger.
It's so minimal, yet it's incredibly powerful and quick. I find myself wondering "why didn't I think of that." But who cares...I am happy to be a ddd user.
If this island gets big enough we should give it to the people of Bikini Atoll. We nuked their island really well in the 1950's and as a result, those people have been displace from their home for all that time.
Check out the website here
The name Hubble is indeed very inspiring to me. He contributed greatly to our understanding of our expanding universe. Honoring a great man is far more inspiring than honoring "The Charmin Space Telescope - don't squeeze the mirrors".
We're already stuck with such uninspiring names as the Banc One Ballpark (nicknamed BOB, in Phoenix) and the new uninspiringly named Comerica Park where the Tigers play in Detroit. Do we really need to have our monuments and public works named by marketing people?
I'd hate to think that the Sagan Memorial Station on Mars could have been called the "Donald and Goofy Mars House (C) 1997" or that we might have the "America Online/Time-Warner (all rights reserved) Docking Module" or even that the next space telescope might be called the "Tasco (TM) Space Telescope".
I want inspiring, meaningful names. I want the ability to filter the uninspiring, boring ones with Junkbuster.
Alternatively we could force them to sell off Visual Basic to someone else and require them to develop and market "Visual APL".
Imagine Microsoft Excel 2002, with an integrated APL compiler built in! It'll sell like hotcakes!
Sure you could make a machine that cooks hamburgers, but could you make one that cooks hamburgers, then cleans the grill at the end of the night? It makes no sense to have a robot if you still have to have a human clean up after it. An articulated arm is versatile because restaurant work is sometimes difficult, and there are a wide variety of things to do in a restaurant. Even making different burgers would require different machines, but a single arm could be programmed to do it. You also forget that the operation of putting the mustard, ketchup, onion, pickle, and cheese on the toased sesame seed bun is something that requires a dexteritous arm to accomplish.
My experience qualifies me to talk about this: 3.1 years as a McDonald's grunt. Working for for the clown was OK for high school.
I'm sure that they named the server barsoom in honor of the Edgar Rice Burrows story. It's not a joke.
>while your theory is right, it can not be applied to age levels, and all problems.
Right. I wasn't allowed to use a calculator in 3rd and 4th grade to do my division problems. I had to write them out on paper.
When I got into algebra and calculus, it was expected that I would have and use a calculator, because I needed to learn other things. I could spend my time doing long division by hand, or I could spend my time learning how to do factoring, integration, and graphing.
Lots of calculators have different capabilities. The graphing calculators shouldn't be used for college level algebra courses, or for the early calculus courses. That's because learning how to graph a function is probably half the class! But if you get into predicate calculus or other even more advanced classes, a graphing calculator could save you a heck of a lot of time working through the busywork that you already understand.
Being able to read the source is a nice thing, but without the right to change and redistribute, we're all at the mercy of Sun to provide a fix. I don't see Sun being very responsive in fixing their other bugs, so why would they suddenly get with it for security issues?
And, it's often brought up that since Star Office doesn't run as root, it's less of a threat. Well, on my system, I have the operating system installed as root. EVERYTHING that is important on the system, my documents, my source code, is owned by my own personal user account. Sure, a virus would probably not be able to bring down my system, but it definitely would be able to destroy a lot of things that I need and use and work on every day. My personal loss would be just as large as if I were running a Windows machine.
UNIX security is very good for what it was meant for: protecting the machine from several different users, and protecting the users from each other. It's NOT as good for protecting a single user from himself. The solution to that is to use and build applications that are not wide open to virus exploits, and to make some good backups at regular intervals.
The GPL draws all of its power from the fact that the person who created a work owns strong copyrights to that work. The owner gets to determine how that work is used, and the owner has the right to put the GPL on that work.
If we weaken copyright law, we hurt ourselves.
I don't think anybody really knows what security issues exist with Star Office. It's a huge program, all of it closed source. It has a scripting language which may or may not be conducive for virus propagation. It crashes regularly, so it's very possible that it has some buffer overflow bugs lurking in the code. It's multi-platform, so if a Windows version of a Star Office script virus were released, it could possibly also damage Linux machines.
We're lucky so far in that almost nobody runs Star Office, so the environment for viruses is very poor. Just like a virus in the meat world, computer viruses require a certain density of their hosts before they can replicate quickly. Star Office doesn't really provide that density, and it may never provide that density.
These sorts of closed-source kitchen sink apps that are appearing for Linux are useful tools, no doubt. But they are also very dangerous. I hope that open source apps become dominant in the desktop categories, because peer reviewed security is far better than the completely unreviewed security of Star Office.
Anyone that claims that Star Office is secure should be immediately challenged to "Prove It". Without the source code, security cannot be proved.