Given that we are only allowed to have encryption that can be broken quickly by certain men in black, Why would you have faith that https and ssl would do any good at all to protect our private communications. As it happens, I don't say anything in email that I am ashamed of. But the principle bothers me nonetheless.
Now it would be a good idea to inspect, and store email to and from certain government offices, mainly the west wing of the whitehouse where we seem to be having trouble with email retention laws.
I do find it intriguing that web sites I visit for the first time know my town, even though my Internet provider's packets hit the Internet 200 miles away. It is not IP numbers. I suspect it is generic cookies. If people are going to do deep packet inspection though I think we should all have interesting signatures so "they" won;t be bored. By the way, with all these Nigerian scam spams in the traffic stream, how would the man identify email about terrorists moving large amounts of money from one country to another, when that seems to be the subject of about half the email I receive.
The people at Verisign that sell certs of course. Certs are used for several things though. Even a self signed cert can be used for encryption. Browsers though get upset if the cert name doesn;'t match the domain name to assure your are connected to who you think you are. Aside from Verisign (see authenticode fiasco) the other guy selling certs made so much money ho could take a ride into space.
I called the Jane Goodall Institute and offered them goodall.org for free and they didn't even call me back. The Goodall Rubber Company has an NT server with active directory and called it goodall.com and it has been polluting my DNS ever since. They never even considered offering me a fair price for it.
Douglas W. Goodall, goodall.com, goodall.org
P.S. People keep saying we are going to country based domain names, but then they have been saying that for years, and making a bunch of money on registration, then it doesn't really happen.
Maybe it would have been cheaper to trademark the name "PIZZA" then just grab the domain name. The brib at the trademark authority might have been cheaper (just kidding).
If the air force wants to cause the enemy harm. It seems to me they should buy Microsoft and promote the worldwide use of Microsoft software. This software is unreliable, filled with backdoors and trojans, and the use of it causes harm. It make people feel bad and causes depression. This sounds like a form of warfare to me.
I am a developer and have been porting to Mac OS X since Panther. I looked at the Carbon/Cocoa question and it was clear even then that carbon was there for legacy support of existing applications and that new software design work would benefit from being Cocoa oriented. I seem to remember something like if you wanted Aqua, you had to go Cocoa. Having just moved my development to the Mac, I had to decide learn Carbon and Cocoa for my new App, of learn Cocoa. It seems to me that focusing on the roadmap to the future is the efficient way to go when you have limited resources.
In the classic x86 architecture, there were only a few registers, and they had pre-determined uses. ds:si pointed to a source and es:di pointed to a destination and bx was often an offset, and cx was often a counter. These associations were important for the repeating opcodes for moving scanning... In comparison to other architectures with lots of general purpose registers, the Intel chips have placed a huge burden on the compiler code generators during optimization. Having a pile of extra general purpose registers allows for more efficient optimized code generated. My example is more about real mode x86 then x86_64, but the example does point out the value of having lots of general purpose registers, like the 68xxx processors did in the old Mac days.
I recently discovered that Adobe has dropped the ball on their support for the Apple platform. This is not about 16/32/64 bit issues. It is about support for case sensitive filenames.
The Photoshop Elements, and Creative Suite are both unable to install on an Apple with an extended, journaled, case-sensitive, file system.
I formatted by MacBook with case-sensitive filenames because I am a software engineer and I work with open source software. As you may know, when you untar a source archive, the extraction fails if the case sensitive file names collide. This open source software comes primarily from the Unix world where we have had case sensitivity for many years.
It is my opinion that if Adobe wants to have an Apple version of their software, they need to support the target environment. Since Mac OS X, the exctended, journaled, case-sensitive format is the best option because the journaled filesystem is hardened, and the case sensitive file system retains the most basic file attribute, it's name.
I have no statistics about how many people use the case-sensitive format, but I assume it is non trivial. Having Unix unde the hood was a major upgrade for the platform and has been responsible for many people switching there.
Again, when I write software for a platform, I bother to learn about the environment, and I do what it takes to support the target. If a client retained me to write software for a platform, I would be expected to have the software operate within the specifications and constraints of the target environment. It does not say on the Adobe requirements page, "Must be installed on a non-case-sensitive system drive. As far as I am concerned, Adobe has dropped the ball big time on this one, and I don't buy their excuses, or software in this case. It is a kick in the ass of the creatives to suggest they should wipe out their hard drives and reformat for one vendors application. I have a huge amount of licensed software loaded and it would takes days to reconfigure my notebook. I AM NOT WILLING TO BUY A SEPARATE COMPUTER JUST TO RUN PHOTSHOP.
I am already there. I no longer give any money to Microsoft, and I tell my friends to figure out other solutions. I am just tired of hearing about Windows problems. I need to focus on something else nowdays. Anything else. I am just tired to my bones of trying to help people avoid falling into the same old traps over and over. Its boring.
I have a really close friend who was a senior engineer and worked on the rambus technology. I am sure I remember that he took stock instead of a salary in hopes that the good technology he was crating would become a major mover. It is absolutely not his fault that things were handled the way they were, and if they were just a troll, they wouldn't have been smart enough to invent a key technology. To the best of my knowledge he is still alive, but not in the best of health and he could really use some payback at this point. IF you are listening, I miss you Jim H.
The good news it that I can use photoshop express on my macbook pro. The bad news is that because I opted for an Extended, Journaled, Case-sensitive format on my main hard disk, Photoshop Elements 6 CANNOT BE INSTALLED on my MacBook Pro. At all, FINI. The package refuses to install and complains that it does not support that format for the system drive. It doesn't even offer you the opportunity to install on a different drive. As a unix system programmer, case-sensitive file system is important to me because when I unpack a tar file of source code, it often fails on a case-insensitive file system.
If Adobe wanted to do a port of Photoshop to the Mac, they should have supported the file systems that the Mac does. It wasted my time and money to find this out. And nowhere on the box or on the web site is this mentioned. You would think that the world's most used photo editing software would install without error on my expensive Mac. I will think long and hard before raching for the Photoshop on the shelf again in the future. At least gimp installs on my Mac ok.
for proc = 86 ; proc 786 ; proc += 100
There seems to be a belief in a lot of software design that "computers are fast now so we don't need to be effecient" that's not true at all.
next proc
What I am trying to say is that if youj are browsing the web or sending and receiving email through a vpn connection, they still might want to filter for sites and keywords.
I think that if the Chinese ISP is providing VPN services, the government of China would only allow that if they could filter the connection despite the encryption.
I have noticed people tend to think of corporations as individuals. Network Solutions is a company of people, and someone somewhere made the decision about the movie and the domain hosting, but it is probably not anyone you or I will ever run into. If you decide to put up a web site that challenged their sensibilities, you can choose to litigate or move your site when the time comes. Network Solutions has made several wrong headed decisions in my memory but they have also made millions of good decisions in the history of their company. Did Network Solutions board of directors vote and are they somehow involved in the censoring decision, that you should make them responsible and blame the entire company to the point of boycotting their registration services?
In the old days of the Arpa network, you used to have to get the signature of a sponsor before you were allowed to get on the net. If the sponsor didn't like your behavior, you might be warned, or simple gone. If you embarrassed your sponsor, you might be warned or just out. Things are dramatically easier these days, and you really have to work at it to get kicked off the Internet.
I guess what I am saying is that Network Solutions only pissed me off once since 1991 and has been a good registrar and provider for me since then. Business people need reliable provider's so they can sleep at night. I would rather they make some decisions and err on the side of caution than behave as a mindless machine. Just my opinions...
I never violated their terms of service... What are you talking about? I am just a guy with a personal web site. You are just someone with a loaded gun I walked into.
They began their life as INTERNIC and I just stayed with them from the beginning. Who are you mad at exactly?
I spent my web hosting budget contracting for hosting services at Network Solutions. I do not set their policy, and while I do vote with my wallet most of the time, the next time I vote on them is several years out. I think it is rash and unfair to bash their clients for the provider's actions. I object strongly. They are a corporation and are subject to civil and criminal laws, as well as economic pressures in the marketplace. If you don;'t like them, don't use them, but get off my back.
So if someone found one of these links and posted it in a slashdot posting as a link, slashdot readers would click on it and we would all be in big trouble. If these links proliferate, this could be a big deal.
If someone can drive by my house and click the deadly link, resulting in huge trouble for me, that would be a bad thing. I would hope that if the FBI arrives, they would have to locate multiple physical copies of picture from their site on a person's equipment to consider prosecution.
Does this mean the FBI is hosting a web site with child porn on it?
The Motorola Razor has one led which blinks to tell you it is charged. To the best of my knowledge, that is it's only purpose. Since the led only lights when the phone is plugged into power, it seems to me that any low power aspects of the led are unimportant.
It seems to me that Motorola can change the color of the led in future manufacturing and life can go on. The blue led has nothing to do with the Razor's appeal as a cell phone. I bought mine for its quality and size and functionality. Every other device I own that has a blue led, is plugged into power and is not a low power issue either. If she makes enough of a stink about this, we can all just discontinue use of these (with the exception of the bluray) and choose another color.
She should go after the blkuray people and leave the rest alone. A simple licens ing agreement can solve his and life can go on.
I would like to share my experience as a consultant working hourly for a small local company. I was living in Sonoma County and a local company retained me to put them on the internet. Of course they wanted web and email. I installed an inexpensive FreeBSD server and registered them a domain. At the time I hosted my own domains and DNS so I acted as secondary for their domain as a courtesy. I communicated with the DSL provider and configured and maintained the server for years. Occasionally, their ISP would fail, and I had redundant services hosted at my location to support them. I had a backup MX record pointed at my server, and a mirrot of their FTP and WEB content. Many times I saved their butt when things got dicey.
The company was owned by a a Taiwan company, but was operated by local American staff. I had a very good relationship with the IT manager and the management. They were not very happy about the length of my hair, but I always showed up on time and problems got solved very quickly. I got a reputation for being one step ahead because I thought things out in advance. Eventually Infortrend opened an office in Silicon Valley and someone from Taiwan moved there to manage the office. A struggle ensued about who should manage the Internet presence. The Sonoma County branch that had done a great job, or the Silicon Valley office.
The day came that my contact in Sonoma County demanded that I replace the highly reliable FreeBSD server with a copy of Windows NT and start using Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. I had two reasons to resist. The first reason was that the open source solutions had worked for years with approximately 99.9% uptime. The second reason was that I was unqualified to install or administer these Microsoft products. I had never learned them because they were notorious for being troublesome. When I refused to install and support the Microsoft solution, my manager turned against me. He said I was disloyal to him personally. He refused to give me a good reference after years of excellent service. I had invested many hours of unpaid work to assure the trouble free operation and redundant failover of their critical services . What I was depending on in return was that reference. Needless to say, the loyalty to my manager and the company did not pay off in the end, and all I can do at this point is pray for their karma to come to them. I do own the feeling of having done an excellent job for them, and their subsequent success is due in some part to their Internet presence which I had a hand in.
Another client lost to Microsoft I guess. There is no denying which way the wind blows. I still believe in open software solutions supported by paid consultants.
I have been writing assembler code for x86 since the beginning. It has always been the coder's responsibility to assure the direction flag is set appropriately before using a repeating instruction.
My favorite was "rene scasb". In the old days, we would, pushf ! cli........ popf to assure the direction flag and place it back where it was before. This used to work in the 8086 time. When reviewing
assembler code, I often ask, where is the direction flag set, when I see a repeating instruction. Not setting it explicitly is risky coding.
To the best of my knowledge, when the DOD paid UCB to implement the TCP/IP suite on Unix, the FTP protocol was included in the sample implementation. Virtually all TCP code in the world was derived from that code and therefore the most common file transfer functionality on the Internet is FTP. After all these years it still works, and sometimes ftp over slip is the best you can do to bootstrap a new firmware device. It is true that there are newer and more efficient protocols, but like "vi", it's one of the things that you are glad to have there when everything else is messing up.
Slashdot Mirror
Now it would be a good idea to inspect, and store email to and from certain government offices, mainly the west wing of the whitehouse where we seem to be having trouble with email retention laws.
Regards, Doug
--- Iran, uranium, rail gun, bomb, spies, scientists,
The people at Verisign that sell certs of course. Certs are used for several things though. Even a self signed cert can be used for encryption. Browsers though get upset if the cert name doesn;'t match the domain name to assure your are connected to who you think you are. Aside from Verisign (see authenticode fiasco) the other guy selling certs made so much money ho could take a ride into space.
Douglas W. Goodall, goodall.com, goodall.org
P.S. People keep saying we are going to country based domain names, but then they have been saying that for years, and making a bunch of money on registration, then it doesn't really happen.
Maybe it would have been cheaper to trademark the name "PIZZA" then just grab the domain name. The brib at the trademark authority might have been cheaper (just kidding).
If the air force wants to cause the enemy harm. It seems to me they should buy Microsoft and promote the worldwide use of Microsoft software. This software is unreliable, filled with backdoors and trojans, and the use of it causes harm. It make people feel bad and causes depression. This sounds like a form of warfare to me.
I am a developer and have been porting to Mac OS X since Panther. I looked at the Carbon/Cocoa question and it was clear even then that carbon was there for legacy support of existing applications and that new software design work would benefit from being Cocoa oriented. I seem to remember something like if you wanted Aqua, you had to go Cocoa. Having just moved my development to the Mac, I had to decide learn Carbon and Cocoa for my new App, of learn Cocoa. It seems to me that focusing on the roadmap to the future is the efficient way to go when you have limited resources.
In the classic x86 architecture, there were only a few registers, and they had pre-determined uses. ds:si pointed to a source and es:di pointed to a destination and bx was often an offset, and cx was often a counter. These associations were important for the repeating opcodes for moving scanning... In comparison to other architectures with lots of general purpose registers, the Intel chips have placed a huge burden on the compiler code generators during optimization. Having a pile of extra general purpose registers allows for more efficient optimized code generated. My example is more about real mode x86 then x86_64, but the example does point out the value of having lots of general purpose registers, like the 68xxx processors did in the old Mac days.
The Photoshop Elements, and Creative Suite are both unable to install on an Apple with an extended, journaled, case-sensitive, file system.
I formatted by MacBook with case-sensitive filenames because I am a software engineer and I work with open source software. As you may know, when you untar a source archive, the extraction fails if the case sensitive file names collide. This open source software comes primarily from the Unix world where we have had case sensitivity for many years.
It is my opinion that if Adobe wants to have an Apple version of their software, they need to support the target environment. Since Mac OS X, the exctended, journaled, case-sensitive format is the best option because the journaled filesystem is hardened, and the case sensitive file system retains the most basic file attribute, it's name.
I have no statistics about how many people use the case-sensitive format, but I assume it is non trivial. Having Unix unde the hood was a major upgrade for the platform and has been responsible for many people switching there.
Again, when I write software for a platform, I bother to learn about the environment, and I do what it takes to support the target. If a client retained me to write software for a platform, I would be expected to have the software operate within the specifications and constraints of the target environment. It does not say on the Adobe requirements page, "Must be installed on a non-case-sensitive system drive. As far as I am concerned, Adobe has dropped the ball big time on this one, and I don't buy their excuses, or software in this case. It is a kick in the ass of the creatives to suggest they should wipe out their hard drives and reformat for one vendors application. I have a huge amount of licensed software loaded and it would takes days to reconfigure my notebook. I AM NOT WILLING TO BUY A SEPARATE COMPUTER JUST TO RUN PHOTSHOP.
Adobe can kiss my ass.
I am already there. I no longer give any money to Microsoft, and I tell my friends to figure out other solutions. I am just tired of hearing about Windows problems. I need to focus on something else nowdays. Anything else. I am just tired to my bones of trying to help people avoid falling into the same old traps over and over. Its boring.
I have a really close friend who was a senior engineer and worked on the rambus technology. I am sure I remember that he took stock instead of a salary in hopes that the good technology he was crating would become a major mover. It is absolutely not his fault that things were handled the way they were, and if they were just a troll, they wouldn't have been smart enough to invent a key technology. To the best of my knowledge he is still alive, but not in the best of health and he could really use some payback at this point. IF you are listening, I miss you Jim H.
If Adobe wanted to do a port of Photoshop to the Mac, they should have supported the file systems that the Mac does. It wasted my time and money to find this out. And nowhere on the box or on the web site is this mentioned. You would think that the world's most used photo editing software would install without error on my expensive Mac. I will think long and hard before raching for the Photoshop on the shelf again in the future. At least gimp installs on my Mac ok.
for proc = 86 ; proc 786 ; proc += 100 There seems to be a belief in a lot of software design that "computers are fast now so we don't need to be effecient" that's not true at all. next proc
What I am trying to say is that if youj are browsing the web or sending and receiving email through a vpn connection, they still might want to filter for sites and keywords.
I think that if the Chinese ISP is providing VPN services, the government of China would only allow that if they could filter the connection despite the encryption.
I have noticed people tend to think of corporations as individuals. Network Solutions is a company of people, and someone somewhere made the decision about the movie and the domain hosting, but it is probably not anyone you or I will ever run into. If you decide to put up a web site that challenged their sensibilities, you can choose to litigate or move your site when the time comes. Network Solutions has made several wrong headed decisions in my memory but they have also made millions of good decisions in the history of their company. Did Network Solutions board of directors vote and are they somehow involved in the censoring decision, that you should make them responsible and blame the entire company to the point of boycotting their registration services? In the old days of the Arpa network, you used to have to get the signature of a sponsor before you were allowed to get on the net. If the sponsor didn't like your behavior, you might be warned, or simple gone. If you embarrassed your sponsor, you might be warned or just out. Things are dramatically easier these days, and you really have to work at it to get kicked off the Internet. I guess what I am saying is that Network Solutions only pissed me off once since 1991 and has been a good registrar and provider for me since then. Business people need reliable provider's so they can sleep at night. I would rather they make some decisions and err on the side of caution than behave as a mindless machine. Just my opinions...
I never violated their terms of service... What are you talking about? I am just a guy with a personal web site. You are just someone with a loaded gun I walked into. They began their life as INTERNIC and I just stayed with them from the beginning. Who are you mad at exactly?
I spent my web hosting budget contracting for hosting services at Network Solutions. I do not set their policy, and while I do vote with my wallet most of the time, the next time I vote on them is several years out. I think it is rash and unfair to bash their clients for the provider's actions. I object strongly. They are a corporation and are subject to civil and criminal laws, as well as economic pressures in the marketplace. If you don;'t like them, don't use them, but get off my back.
Now that is really funny, GOOD ONE. :-)
So if someone found one of these links and posted it in a slashdot posting as a link, slashdot readers would click on it and we would all be in big trouble. If these links proliferate, this could be a big deal.
Does this mean the FBI is hosting a web site with child porn on it?
It seems to me that Motorola can change the color of the led in future manufacturing and life can go on. The blue led has nothing to do with the Razor's appeal as a cell phone. I bought mine for its quality and size and functionality. Every other device I own that has a blue led, is plugged into power and is not a low power issue either. If she makes enough of a stink about this, we can all just discontinue use of these (with the exception of the bluray) and choose another color.
She should go after the blkuray people and leave the rest alone. A simple licens ing agreement can solve his and life can go on.
The company was owned by a a Taiwan company, but was operated by local American staff. I had a very good relationship with the IT manager and the management. They were not very happy about the length of my hair, but I always showed up on time and problems got solved very quickly. I got a reputation for being one step ahead because I thought things out in advance. Eventually Infortrend opened an office in Silicon Valley and someone from Taiwan moved there to manage the office. A struggle ensued about who should manage the Internet presence. The Sonoma County branch that had done a great job, or the Silicon Valley office.
The day came that my contact in Sonoma County demanded that I replace the highly reliable FreeBSD server with a copy of Windows NT and start using Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. I had two reasons to resist. The first reason was that the open source solutions had worked for years with approximately 99.9% uptime. The second reason was that I was unqualified to install or administer these Microsoft products. I had never learned them because they were notorious for being troublesome. When I refused to install and support the Microsoft solution, my manager turned against me. He said I was disloyal to him personally. He refused to give me a good reference after years of excellent service. I had invested many hours of unpaid work to assure the trouble free operation and redundant failover of their critical services . What I was depending on in return was that reference. Needless to say, the loyalty to my manager and the company did not pay off in the end, and all I can do at this point is pray for their karma to come to them. I do own the feeling of having done an excellent job for them, and their subsequent success is due in some part to their Internet presence which I had a hand in.
Another client lost to Microsoft I guess. There is no denying which way the wind blows. I still believe in open software solutions supported by paid consultants.
"May I have another grilled cheese sandwich please?"
I have been writing assembler code for x86 since the beginning. It has always been the coder's responsibility to assure the direction flag is set appropriately before using a repeating instruction. My favorite was "rene scasb". In the old days, we would, pushf ! cli ........ popf to assure the direction flag and place it back where it was before. This used to work in the 8086 time. When reviewing
assembler code, I often ask, where is the direction flag set, when I see a repeating instruction. Not setting it explicitly is risky coding.
To the best of my knowledge, when the DOD paid UCB to implement the TCP/IP suite on Unix, the FTP protocol was included in the sample implementation. Virtually all TCP code in the world was derived from that code and therefore the most common file transfer functionality on the Internet is FTP. After all these years it still works, and sometimes ftp over slip is the best you can do to bootstrap a new firmware device. It is true that there are newer and more efficient protocols, but like "vi", it's one of the things that you are glad to have there when everything else is messing up.