We are looking at this from different perspectives. A pretty good notion of truth or deception is not good enough of a legal standard for guilt or innocense. It has to be as absolute and unequivocal as possible. This is why the brain scan and "lie detector" tests are just plain no good. Would you like to be convicted of a crime (that could potentially carry the penalty of death) based on a pretty good notion? What happens when DNA evidence suggests otherwise and you discover that you were locked away (potentially on death row) for 10+ years of your life? What happens if you had been killed? Do we then say, "Sorry, we've made a mistake." That is time not easily recouped. I challenge you to consider this before you go touting any accuracy of this method of attempting to uncover deception. It is a slippery road being traveled down.
It would need its own defensive and offensive systems. Basically this floating data center is also a floating target. I could imagine a well placed "torpedo" accidently being discharged and watch the floating gold mine bubble its way down to the depths of the ocean
IT Professionals are not treated with respect. Yes, there are those that are dishonest but for the most part we are a hard working, long suffering bunch that do not get the respected salaries or even workable budgets. When we keep the infrastructure going and are crucial, we are treated as second class citizens by the business. I'd say this is a ripe point for an IT Professionals union.
Strongly disagree! There is no way to reliably detect lies. Each person's brain is different... especially if they have a history of brain injury. The EEG and fMRI will show different brain wave patterns. I for one feel it is junk science: much like handwriting and bite mark analysis. There is no such thing as a "lie detector." The polygraph machine just measures stress and could indicate deception but not necessrily because we all react differently stress. Just strapping someone to a polygraph causes stress whether nor not the person is being deceptive. Indeed, with sufficient control of our bodies, we can beat these tests. This is just a sad example of conviction of someone on the flimsiest of evidence. Unfortunately, this happens all of the time. Anyone whom thinks the Criminal Justice system is fair should read An Innocent Man by John Grisham.
I wholeheartedly wish victory on Monticello. The good citizens of this town decided to take action to deliver a high speed broadband solution when the local Telco was sitting on its ass eating twinkies because it saw no financial merit. Sometimes it takes a grass roots effort for change. Now, the telco is suing because it is concerned about lost revenue. Hell, boys, you had the chance and you blew it! Now the citizens get to take action.
Good sysadmins know how to properly employ intruders. I have a friend that is a sysadmin for a high school. If he caught a student in an attempt or successful intrusion, he instantly had a new apprentice. It was either the intruder ow would-be intruder accept the role as apprentice or face possible expulsion. This is a great idea because the benefits are two fold: (1) the student gains practical experience and tutillage that is good for future employment, (2) my friend gets a much-needed assistant to lighten his work load and enable him to spend time on additional projects. Why turn a wrong into a super right?
This story is intriguing but, as many have pointed out, has its obvious limitations. I thought slashdot had an article once about using plastics instead of glass for fibre optics. Why not invest more time and energy in this way? That would take the cost of fibre networking down significantly. I think, since a large cost savings could be realized, telcos would have a better chance of upgrading aging infrastructure and we might have broadband speeds that are more favorably compared in Japan.
If possible, make an image of the production LAMP server at work and deploy it at home. Putz around with it, try to break it and fix it. I think you might be able to use g4u to clone that LAMP server so that you could make a lab environment. CentOS is a good environment for learning that kind of thing. It is pretty easy to setup and you could also do some virtualization too.
Japan is still light years ahead of us. Why? No incentive for US Telecoms to upgrade the infrastructure. Instead of quality/speed improvements, we get locked into contracts. You want broadband and you face the veritable monopolies like Comcast, Cox, or Verizon. I'll be willing to bet that in Japan, unlimited broadband is really unlimited and that they do not port block. Heck, the only reason for port blocking is so that US Telecoms can make more money by requiring a business tier connection. The stated reason for port blocking is spam control. Come on, spam control could be done at the server level. I thought unlimited means just that.... unlimited. Well, maybe with a change in presidential administrations will come change in the telecom industry. Then again, maybe not.
Yeah dude, I think I smell wire fraud. He didn't even greet you by your name. Presumably, the guy should have done a whois. Smells like a nigerian scam.
Well, Linus Torvalds unfortunately takes his arguments and puts them in a trash can with such references as "masturbating monkeys." We are all adults. Let's be this way. Torvalds has a point that security is one aspect of an operating system. But, he needs to understand that open source should be working together. Because there is such avarice between BSD and Linux camps, the Microsofts of the world continue to win out. I have a preference for BSD but UNIX-like operating systems are the way to go so I wouldn't bad mouth Linux. In fact, Linux and the BSDs compliment each other well. Linux makes a much better desktop OS and desktop management platform than the BSDs. I've found the BSDs excel as servers/network appliances. Why not use their relative strengths as a power against proprietary operating systems? Does it matter if it is Puffy, the Daemon, or the Penguin? No, they all play very well together. Much better than MS and UNIX-like.
This whole list is a damn abomination to the constitution. I hope King George W. Bush is proud of the way he tore our freedoms up like one would a piece of paper. What next, national gun ownership registration lists?
This is a good ruling and interpretation of the 5th Amendment. That said, there is a first amendment issue, The right for a person to be secure in his person and effects shall not be violated. Given that he is the established owner of the computer, he has the requisite heightened expectation of privacy. And, given that the material in question resides on the computer locally, there is a heightened expectation of privacy. If the material were merely links, then the first amendment issue is less applicable. As much as I despise the aforementioned activity, our rights as guarranteed by the consitution outweigh what I find morally despicable.
I am proud of you for sticking to what you believe in. In theory, it depends a lot upon what state you live in. Some states are more employee-friendly than others. Arizona, where I live, is very much employer friendly and is a voluntary work state. Basically, in a voluntary work state, their is no contract between employer and employee and employment is at will and can be terminated for any reason. You might consider asking yourself the following: "Ss a company that does not live up to what I consider moral standards worth working for?" This may be the chance to take your innovations and run with them.
Basically Japan is ahead because telecom companies are too busy squabbling over net neutrality and locking its customers into spartan agreements. US Telecom companies have very little incentive to innovate because they are all members of virtual cartel where there is no need to spend money to improve technology because they control the marketplace. You've only got a select few number of companies that you can use and, for all intents and purposes, they are one and the same. The only possible exception is Verizon FiOS. But, when compared to Japan, Verizon FiOS doesn't really stand a chance. In summary, the telecom cartel is really holding us technologically back.
I personally would welcome this open source collaboration client. But, IBM is going to make money by selling the server side. I'd be more on the band wagon if Domino were open sourced and made available. I'll bet if Domino and Notes were free, Microsoft would be sweating bullets.
I really do like your idealism. No sarcasm. Since, King George W. Bush whittled our freedoms away, a government official need only invoke a security clause. It's easy when we blindly let a tyrant go unchecked because of our fears of another 9/11
It is a sad day when the last bastian of free speech and free thought, the library, decides to trample on what little freedom is left in our country and hand over computers to the FBI without court order. And this was done in the name of security or law enforcement?? I am reminded of the very astute saying on the part of Thomas Jefferson: "Those that would sacrifice liberty to gain security get none and deserve neither." One could only hope that a higher level official in the Maryland Public Library System will challenge this. But, I wouldn't hold my breath
I am shocked because Sandvine is a frequent supporter of Open Source Operating Systems and has contributed to BSD Conferences. I would have thought that they would support the openness of the internet too. Apparently, their monetary sponsorship of open source conferences are just a PR Stunt.
It is really good to see open source growing every year. That said, if very low latency and security are the current issues facing Wall Street CIOs, Linux would not be my first choice of operating system. After all, data transactions are only as reliable as the network and routing. I would implement a solution using OpenBSD as OpenBSD is arguably the most secure operating system with regular and thorough code reviews. OpenBSD also excels as a routing platform with a lean, highly efficient OSPF and BGP implementation. Some claim that OpenBSD's routing implementation is able to achieve lower latencies than the top Cisco and Big Iron routers. The only possible exception being Juniper because Juniper uses BSD.
A coded language is but an English (or albeit, other recognizeable language) form of encryption. To some degree, an expert analyst would still be able to pick this apart because most exchanges have key cultural, socio-political, ethnic, or religious overtones. One tactic is to even hide coded messages within pictures.
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We are looking at this from different perspectives. A pretty good notion of truth or deception is not good enough of a legal standard for guilt or innocense. It has to be as absolute and unequivocal as possible. This is why the brain scan and "lie detector" tests are just plain no good. Would you like to be convicted of a crime (that could potentially carry the penalty of death) based on a pretty good notion? What happens when DNA evidence suggests otherwise and you discover that you were locked away (potentially on death row) for 10+ years of your life? What happens if you had been killed? Do we then say, "Sorry, we've made a mistake." That is time not easily recouped. I challenge you to consider this before you go touting any accuracy of this method of attempting to uncover deception. It is a slippery road being traveled down.
It would need its own defensive and offensive systems. Basically this floating data center is also a floating target. I could imagine a well placed "torpedo" accidently being discharged and watch the floating gold mine bubble its way down to the depths of the ocean
IT Professionals are not treated with respect. Yes, there are those that are dishonest but for the most part we are a hard working, long suffering bunch that do not get the respected salaries or even workable budgets. When we keep the infrastructure going and are crucial, we are treated as second class citizens by the business. I'd say this is a ripe point for an IT Professionals union.
Strongly disagree! There is no way to reliably detect lies. Each person's brain is different ... especially if they have a history of brain injury. The EEG and fMRI will show different brain wave patterns. I for one feel it is junk science: much like handwriting and bite mark analysis. There is no such thing as a "lie detector." The polygraph machine just measures stress and could indicate deception but not necessrily because we all react differently stress. Just strapping someone to a polygraph causes stress whether nor not the person is being deceptive. Indeed, with sufficient control of our bodies, we can beat these tests. This is just a sad example of conviction of someone on the flimsiest of evidence. Unfortunately, this happens all of the time. Anyone whom thinks the Criminal Justice system is fair should read An Innocent Man by John Grisham.
More like Dewie, Cheatham, & Howe ....
I wholeheartedly wish victory on Monticello. The good citizens of this town decided to take action to deliver a high speed broadband solution when the local Telco was sitting on its ass eating twinkies because it saw no financial merit. Sometimes it takes a grass roots effort for change. Now, the telco is suing because it is concerned about lost revenue. Hell, boys, you had the chance and you blew it! Now the citizens get to take action.
Good sysadmins know how to properly employ intruders. I have a friend that is a sysadmin for a high school. If he caught a student in an attempt or successful intrusion, he instantly had a new apprentice. It was either the intruder ow would-be intruder accept the role as apprentice or face possible expulsion. This is a great idea because the benefits are two fold: (1) the student gains practical experience and tutillage that is good for future employment, (2) my friend gets a much-needed assistant to lighten his work load and enable him to spend time on additional projects. Why turn a wrong into a super right?
This story is intriguing but, as many have pointed out, has its obvious limitations. I thought slashdot had an article once about using plastics instead of glass for fibre optics. Why not invest more time and energy in this way? That would take the cost of fibre networking down significantly. I think, since a large cost savings could be realized, telcos would have a better chance of upgrading aging infrastructure and we might have broadband speeds that are more favorably compared in Japan.
If possible, make an image of the production LAMP server at work and deploy it at home. Putz around with it, try to break it and fix it. I think you might be able to use g4u to clone that LAMP server so that you could make a lab environment. CentOS is a good environment for learning that kind of thing. It is pretty easy to setup and you could also do some virtualization too.
Japan is still light years ahead of us. Why? No incentive for US Telecoms to upgrade the infrastructure. Instead of quality/speed improvements, we get locked into contracts. You want broadband and you face the veritable monopolies like Comcast, Cox, or Verizon. I'll be willing to bet that in Japan, unlimited broadband is really unlimited and that they do not port block. Heck, the only reason for port blocking is so that US Telecoms can make more money by requiring a business tier connection. The stated reason for port blocking is spam control. Come on, spam control could be done at the server level. I thought unlimited means just that .... unlimited. Well, maybe with a change in presidential administrations will come change in the telecom industry. Then again, maybe not.
Don't even need to crack it. Just use tunebite! Tunebite removes DRM without cracking it.
Yeah dude, I think I smell wire fraud. He didn't even greet you by your name. Presumably, the guy should have done a whois. Smells like a nigerian scam.
Well, Linus Torvalds unfortunately takes his arguments and puts them in a trash can with such references as "masturbating monkeys." We are all adults. Let's be this way. Torvalds has a point that security is one aspect of an operating system. But, he needs to understand that open source should be working together. Because there is such avarice between BSD and Linux camps, the Microsofts of the world continue to win out. I have a preference for BSD but UNIX-like operating systems are the way to go so I wouldn't bad mouth Linux. In fact, Linux and the BSDs compliment each other well. Linux makes a much better desktop OS and desktop management platform than the BSDs. I've found the BSDs excel as servers/network appliances. Why not use their relative strengths as a power against proprietary operating systems? Does it matter if it is Puffy, the Daemon, or the Penguin? No, they all play very well together. Much better than MS and UNIX-like.
This whole list is a damn abomination to the constitution. I hope King George W. Bush is proud of the way he tore our freedoms up like one would a piece of paper. What next, national gun ownership registration lists?
Targetted advertising based on deep packet inspection is a very, very bad idea. As a business owner, I don't want my traffic inspected like that.
This is a good ruling and interpretation of the 5th Amendment. That said, there is a first amendment issue, The right for a person to be secure in his person and effects shall not be violated. Given that he is the established owner of the computer, he has the requisite heightened expectation of privacy. And, given that the material in question resides on the computer locally, there is a heightened expectation of privacy. If the material were merely links, then the first amendment issue is less applicable. As much as I despise the aforementioned activity, our rights as guarranteed by the consitution outweigh what I find morally despicable.
I am proud of you for sticking to what you believe in. In theory, it depends a lot upon what state you live in. Some states are more employee-friendly than others. Arizona, where I live, is very much employer friendly and is a voluntary work state. Basically, in a voluntary work state, their is no contract between employer and employee and employment is at will and can be terminated for any reason. You might consider asking yourself the following: "Ss a company that does not live up to what I consider moral standards worth working for?" This may be the chance to take your innovations and run with them.
Somewhere down the line someone implemented OpenBSD's spamd on a large scale. That'll teach the spammers but good.
Basically Japan is ahead because telecom companies are too busy squabbling over net neutrality and locking its customers into spartan agreements. US Telecom companies have very little incentive to innovate because they are all members of virtual cartel where there is no need to spend money to improve technology because they control the marketplace. You've only got a select few number of companies that you can use and, for all intents and purposes, they are one and the same. The only possible exception is Verizon FiOS. But, when compared to Japan, Verizon FiOS doesn't really stand a chance. In summary, the telecom cartel is really holding us technologically back.
I personally would welcome this open source collaboration client. But, IBM is going to make money by selling the server side. I'd be more on the band wagon if Domino were open sourced and made available. I'll bet if Domino and Notes were free, Microsoft would be sweating bullets.
I really do like your idealism. No sarcasm. Since, King George W. Bush whittled our freedoms away, a government official need only invoke a security clause. It's easy when we blindly let a tyrant go unchecked because of our fears of another 9/11
It is a sad day when the last bastian of free speech and free thought, the library, decides to trample on what little freedom is left in our country and hand over computers to the FBI without court order. And this was done in the name of security or law enforcement?? I am reminded of the very astute saying on the part of Thomas Jefferson: "Those that would sacrifice liberty to gain security get none and deserve neither." One could only hope that a higher level official in the Maryland Public Library System will challenge this. But, I wouldn't hold my breath
I am shocked because Sandvine is a frequent supporter of Open Source Operating Systems and has contributed to BSD Conferences. I would have thought that they would support the openness of the internet too. Apparently, their monetary sponsorship of open source conferences are just a PR Stunt.
It is really good to see open source growing every year. That said, if very low latency and security are the current issues facing Wall Street CIOs, Linux would not be my first choice of operating system. After all, data transactions are only as reliable as the network and routing. I would implement a solution using OpenBSD as OpenBSD is arguably the most secure operating system with regular and thorough code reviews. OpenBSD also excels as a routing platform with a lean, highly efficient OSPF and BGP implementation. Some claim that OpenBSD's routing implementation is able to achieve lower latencies than the top Cisco and Big Iron routers. The only possible exception being Juniper because Juniper uses BSD.
A coded language is but an English (or albeit, other recognizeable language) form of encryption. To some degree, an expert analyst would still be able to pick this apart because most exchanges have key cultural, socio-political, ethnic, or religious overtones. One tactic is to even hide coded messages within pictures.