Rob, post next item in FINNISH. I volunteer to translate it for you if you can't find anyone else. That'd make you guys think. NO BABELFISH SUPPORT! Ha!
Today's cryptography is based on the theory that factoring large numbers is so slow, that the information in the message would be redundant by the time decrypting it would be complete.
What to do next is to find what Quantum Computers are not so good at. I understood the main advantage of Quantum technology was its ability to perform parallel calculations. How could we outdo that advantage? Suggestions?
I've been hearing stories on how quantum computers will do this and do that and all.. Being a curious person (and having not taken my advanced physics lessons yet) I'd like to get some kind of background information.. popularization, if you like. Any pointers to sites with good information?
The goal shouldn't be to "beat Microsoft" in this market.
I must say I agree. While M$ is doing it's best to beat others, I think we should try to be better. Offer a hand instead of spitting on them. If we could offer nice interoperability between Windows and UNIX machines, it wouldn't perhaps be as big a step to go from Win32 to UNIX...
Just yesterday, the school I was at had a stack of service request forms and nearly half of them were because one idiot teacher saw that some kids had deleted an alias from the desktop and thought that the computers were broken.
Just this kind of misuse linux (or whatever UNIX. I'm not going to repeat this again, so s/linux/whatever UNIX/) would stand up to. Have every user an account of their own (or instead, one for every teacher and kids'd share one read-only account). And a nice, pre-configured configs should any of the teachers mess their GUI up.
They've struggled long and hard to be able to turn on and turn off Windows and MacOS machines
How well do X terminals stand just cutting the power?
What we need as an atmosphere of healthy and honest competition.
I don't think I'll need to give grounds as I claim that linux (or whatever free OS, mind you, so better get to it:) is The Choice of Schools. Inexpensive, yet powerful, robust agains misuse (damned script-kiddies) etc, I could carry on for hours. The thing that is keeping linux from schools is the lack of experience with them.
Now, if every (most) schools would get a chance to get a linux server running locally, even if it was maintained by an outsider, it just might be enough to wake up the teachers' interest in it. When there's already one, it's not quite as hard to get another one.
As kids study how to use computers (what's the correct term for this?) and eventually learn it (linux), it'll be a lot easier to get a linux computer home as well.
There's always a downside. The one in this might be that if the teachers aren't skilled enough, the dream could turn into a nightmare: kids knowing the OS better (they already do, but FAR better) than the system administrators. That could turn up a new generation of script kiddies. This time they had the chance to practice their skills full time and on real systems with real (= dumb) users. Prevent that.
Look at (almost) any UNIX software distribution. The installation is simple: for 99% of software it's./configure && make && make install and that's it. That's easy.
Now, look at (almost) any Win32 software distribution. It's InstallShield. That's easy.
Then, look at (almost) any UNIX (linux mostly) game installation. Uh.
Like it or not, but people like installations to be all the same (or very much the same, as in InstallShield: Hit Next a couple of times, reboot it, play it). The average user has probably seen someone else (probably the kid nextdoors) do it and therefore it's not so tough trying to do it yourself. But if every install is a different kind of a battle, what common do you have to relate to?
IMHO, linux is easy to use. It's the configuration / installation that's being so difficult. Improve that and you'll make it much better.
DMCA is an US law and it applies to US citizens (naturally), but can it apply to non-US citizens / corporations? What about the E-mail not being very private-thing?
To an outsider like me (I'm from Finland) this starts to seem like your government was something you can't get a grip on. It does what it wants and that's pretty much it. No matter what you say or do. It feels like the US government was something big, dark.. not something you can point a finger at. A faceless organization with all the power they could want / need. It's spooky. Makes me think if Mulder & Scully were right after all. But then again, I'm an outsider. What do I really know?
I used to look up to the States and it's citizens, but now I'm not so sure anymore. I used to think I'd leave Finland for USA, but I think that'd be a bad idea. The land of the free seems to be far from free.
Hell, If my computer was that badly messed up, I'd reinstall it.
I understood this was the case in the States, but what about the rest of the world? Do we here in Europe for instance have similar laws?
If not, what if the suing company is from the States? Or what if my company's mail server happens to sit in there? It's my property but it's your country, so my rules or your rules?
Giving out foolish statements for us gurus to laugh our asses off at!
Having the verifier local helps a lot
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You're now forgetting something:
If/When the proxy/exe loader whatever is local, it can count checksums ITSELF. It's local, it has all (normal user) rights to the filesystem etc. Why not to use this method?
I think exe loader would work better on this. Read the binary, count checksums and execute only if it's what it's supposed to be.
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Rob, post next item in FINNISH. I volunteer to translate it for you if you can't find anyone else. That'd make you guys think. NO BABELFISH SUPPORT! Ha!
Today's cryptography is based on the theory that factoring large numbers is so slow, that the information in the message would be redundant by the time decrypting it would be complete.
What to do next is to find what Quantum Computers are not so good at. I understood the main advantage of Quantum technology was its ability to perform parallel calculations. How could we outdo that advantage? Suggestions?
I've been hearing stories on how quantum computers will do this and do that and all.. Being a curious person (and having not taken my advanced physics lessons yet) I'd like to get some kind of background information .. popularization, if you like. Any pointers to sites with good information?
I must say I agree. While M$ is doing it's best to beat others, I think we should try to be better. Offer a hand instead of spitting on them. If we could offer nice interoperability between Windows and UNIX machines, it wouldn't perhaps be as big a step to go from Win32 to UNIX...
Just this kind of misuse linux (or whatever UNIX. I'm not going to repeat this again, so s/linux/whatever UNIX/) would stand up to. Have every user an account of their own (or instead, one for every teacher and kids'd share one read-only account). And a nice, pre-configured configs should any of the teachers mess their GUI up.
How well do X terminals stand just cutting the power?
You stole my line...
I don't think I'll need to give grounds as I claim that linux (or whatever free OS, mind you, so better get to it :) is The Choice of Schools. Inexpensive, yet powerful, robust agains misuse (damned script-kiddies) etc, I could carry on for hours. The thing that is keeping linux from schools is the lack of experience with them.
Now, if every (most) schools would get a chance to get a linux server running locally, even if it was maintained by an outsider, it just might be enough to wake up the teachers' interest in it. When there's already one, it's not quite as hard to get another one.
As kids study how to use computers (what's the correct term for this?) and eventually learn it (linux), it'll be a lot easier to get a linux computer home as well.
There's always a downside. The one in this might be that if the teachers aren't skilled enough, the dream could turn into a nightmare: kids knowing the OS better (they already do, but FAR better) than the system administrators. That could turn up a new generation of script kiddies. This time they had the chance to practice their skills full time and on real systems with real (= dumb) users. Prevent that.
Look at (almost) any UNIX software distribution. The installation is simple: for 99% of software it's ./configure && make && make install and that's it. That's easy.
Now, look at (almost) any Win32 software distribution. It's InstallShield. That's easy.
Then, look at (almost) any UNIX (linux mostly) game installation. Uh.
Like it or not, but people like installations to be all the same (or very much the same, as in InstallShield: Hit Next a couple of times, reboot it, play it). The average user has probably seen someone else (probably the kid nextdoors) do it and therefore it's not so tough trying to do it yourself. But if every install is a different kind of a battle, what common do you have to relate to?
IMHO, linux is easy to use . It's the configuration / installation that's being so difficult. Improve that and you'll make it much better.
DMCA is an US law and it applies to US citizens (naturally), but can it apply to non-US citizens / corporations? What about the E-mail not being very private-thing?
To an outsider like me (I'm from Finland) this starts to seem like your government was something you can't get a grip on. It does what it wants and that's pretty much it. No matter what you say or do. It feels like the US government was something big, dark.. not something you can point a finger at. A faceless organization with all the power they could want / need. It's spooky. Makes me think if Mulder & Scully were right after all. But then again, I'm an outsider. What do I really know?
I used to look up to the States and it's citizens, but now I'm not so sure anymore. I used to think I'd leave Finland for USA, but I think that'd be a bad idea. The land of the free seems to be far from free.
Hell, If my computer was that badly messed up, I'd reinstall it.
I understood this was the case in the States, but what about the rest of the world? Do we here in Europe for instance have similar laws?
If not, what if the suing company is from the States? Or what if my company's mail server happens to sit in there? It's my property but it's your country, so my rules or your rules?
Giving out foolish statements for us gurus to laugh our asses off at!
You're now forgetting something:
If/When the proxy/exe loader whatever is local, it can count checksums ITSELF. It's local, it has all (normal user) rights to the filesystem etc. Why not to use this method?
I think exe loader would work better on this. Read the binary, count checksums and execute only if it's what it's supposed to be.