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Comment That's not called a VPN (Score 1) 174

You're not asking for a VPN. You're asking for a new routing protocol.

Once you have written a new routing protocol just submit it to the IEEE. Then you have to convince the large router manufacturers to use your standard.

You might want to get a job at CISCO. You would have better luck there.

Comment Re:I have the answer. (Score 1) 410

Not a fan of public works projects?

I'll bet you don't need things like the interstate highway system or railroads. The backbone of our society. The reason you have food at the supermarket.

"How it that relevant?" you might ask. Right now, Amtrak is collecting bids from manufacturers to build a high speed rail system in America. It's been talked about for decades.

How is it that we are finally getting a high speed rail project? Obama authorized funding. That's right. Taxpayers are buying a huge public works project that will benefit everyone. It will create countless jobs not only to build but to operate and maintain. In the future people will be able to look back and say "I'm sure glad we have this nice rail system". People like you will forget how it got there.

Check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment A Real Solution (Score 1) 410

Corporations should handle 100% of tax liability. Stick with me here and I'll explain how it will be similar to what happens today. When income tax is withheld from your check what you have is the corporation paying it's money, that was set aside for wages, directly to the federal government. Except currently we have each individual do a separate tax form. Imagine there was only one tax form for the whole company. The company would still be paying it's money to the federal government instead of putting it in your paycheck except there wouldn't be this lie that it was ever owed to employees.

The result is a hyperbolic reduction in paperwork. Less paperwork, less burden on the IRS. Less overhead for the IRS would result in slightly lower taxes. Processing everything would be easier for everyone.

The amount of your take home salary could be the same but the corporation wouldn't have to lie about how much you were actually earning. There wouldn't be the silly tax bracket game for wage earners.

We could be honest about how much money it takes to run this country and we could be honest about who pays that burden.

Keep a stiff luxury tax for those who write their own paychecks.

Tax imports to encourage goods that are MADE IN THE USA. An extra tax could be applied to American companies that manufacture their goods overseas. This could lower the profit margin of outsourcing. That would create jobs and more tax money in America instead of paying the taxes of a foreign government.

Comment Re:It Depends (Score 1) 348

You have obviously never used the Metasploit Meterpreter. It can pivot off any running process and run commands with that privilege level. It can also traverse your network creating tunnels as it goes along. This is why you want to prevent privilege escalation and the tunnel creation. If they can't escalate or create a tunnel then they are stuck on the first box that is exploited. It's damage control. It also buys you time to respond. If you can detect the activity you want to be able to stop it before the threat spreads.

In an eCommerce environment this is the difference between losing your user database and losing customer information. There have been many breaches in recent history where user data was leaked but no customer information was compromised. The bank is able to reset all passwords before damage is done. I imagine there was some form of internal security that kept the intruder away from sensitive data on another server deeper in the network.

A layered security approach has benefits. Is it overkill? That depends on a changing threat landscape. Tomorrow we may all be vulnerable again.

Check the exploit DB for APACHE exploits and come back a paranoid security advocate:

http://www.exploit-db.com/sear...

Comment Server Cluster (Score 2) 98

Easy solution:

Put all of your systems in to one big active/active server cluster. Then everyone is sharing all the resources evenly by default.

Here is a Fedora resource:
http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-...

If you really want to have some fun you should try to create a Plan9 cluster. This is a transparent cluster OS that was designed for the purpose of resource sharing.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/pla...

Comment Kinda sounds like Java (Score 1) 88

or a centrally managed JVM. It's a little run-time environment that works on any OS. This is not a new idea but a different language. They don't specify what the app in the container is. A better platform independent solution would be very useful.

Submission + - Virtual Reality: Purpose Beyond Gaming (develop-online.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Virtual reality tech is getting a ton of attention for what it can do to video games. But the technology itself isn't limited to games — just as Kinect was hijacked and used for myriad other purposes, so will VR be broadly adapted. This article goes into some of the applications: 'An elderly woman in a retirement home recently used an Oculus to explore a garden and walk stairs again. This simple environment brought her to tears. Work is also being done to help PTSD sufferers deal with their trauma by replicating the scene within virtual reality and there is great interest in using a similar approach for other conditions like amnesia, Alzheimer’s and dementia. ... An elderly woman in a retirement home recently used an Oculus to explore a garden and walk stairs again. This simple environment brought her to tears. Work is also being done to help PTSD sufferers deal with their trauma by replicating the scene within virtual reality and there is great interest in using a similar approach for other conditions like amnesia, Alzheimer’s and dementia. ... It’s now possible for museum spaces and schools to teleport students to specific moments in history, to allow them to experience being executed by a guillotine, take tours of space or even explore the depths of the ocean.' What other VR uses can you foresee?

Comment Re:"Fully Half Doubt the Big Bang"? (Score 2, Interesting) 600

Thank you for making some sense today.

Although it is easy to prove that the Earth is older than 6,000 years I don't think we actually know how old the universe is. There is a new estimate that came out in 2013 so many people may not be aware of it. Before 2013 we estimated "that the Big Bang occurred between 12 and 14 billion years ago." that's uncertainty of over %16? Doesn't sound very confident to me. The good news is that the new measurement lands in the middle of the old estimate which is encouraging.

NASA says:
"How does WMAP data enable us to determine the age of the universe is 13.77 billion years, with an uncertainty of only 0.4%? The key to this is that by knowing the composition of matter and energy density in the universe, we can use Einstein's General Relativity to compute how fast the universe has been expanding in the past. "

Unfortunately, Einstein's General Relativity is not a bulletproof model and these estimates will have to be revised as our understanding of physics changes.

From my layman understanding; I think it's safe to say that the universe is at least 13 billion years old but it could be much older. It's the best guess we have.

SOURCE:
http://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/univ...

Comment This is not a simple question (Score 4, Insightful) 631

BitCoin, by nature, is as trustworthy as SHA256 which is used by TLS, SSL, PGP, SSH, S/MIME, and IPsec. So the math behind BitCoin is trusted by most of the world whether or not you are aware of that fact.

As a currency it is just as trustworthy as any other imaginary money system. It's value is highly speculative, like the NYSE. Nobody really trusts the NYSE just as you shouldn't trust the value of BitCoin.

That being said, cryptocurrencies have the potential to be more stable than fiat currencies. BitCoin may not be the final solution but behold as we are watching the future of money unfold. History is in the making.

Comment Re:How about (Score 1) 528

No, I directly disagreed with all the points made. None of the statements made by AC have any relevance to the real world in which I live. The fact that Slashdot is moderated by a bunch of prudes who couldn't see the value in a person who is comfortable naked is shocking to me.

You could say that I missed the point but I would have to reflect that sentiment. It's fairly clear to me that AC thinks taking nude pictures of someone diminishes their self-worth and their societal value. That I can't agree with, my original stance stands.

Comment The truth comes out (Score 1) 105

This proves it to me. The NSA is really only concerned with collecting all the titties. They have the nude scanners at the airport to catch anyone who travels. Systematically they have infiltrated every possible way people use to share nude photos. Snapchat is a goldmine. All their dreams come true. Tits with every warrant. Now, with their unrivaled collection of nudie pictures they will rule the world with a strong masturbation hand.

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