Post #43,234
6/23/02 10:07:02 AM
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Palladium?
This is the name for a new MS secure computing setup involving secure CPUs and improved security measures
Leaving aside the technical and other issues, wasn't palladium last heard from in the cold fusion scam?
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Post #43,235
6/23/02 10:47:04 AM
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Any science scam must include . .
. . a rare element so it sounds official, with a mysterious ingredient people are not familiar with and which must have mysterious, hereto unknown properties.
"I have invented a new ray" - Dr. Zarcov
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Post #43,239
6/23/02 12:40:34 PM
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Actually refers
Actually it refers to this [link|http://www.palladiumbooks.com/|Palladium Books].
It's an obvious allusion to the fact that security comming from MS is fiction.
Jay
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Post #43,255
6/23/02 5:02:13 PM
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Of course Odysseus stole the Palladium ...
...allowing for the fall of Troy. Who will be Microsoft's Odysseus? As was [link|http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=34707&cid=3753087|posted to /.] :
The word Palladium comes from an ancient Greek legend of a statue that stood in the city of Troy holding a shield and a spear. It was believed to have been hurled from Olympus by the god Zeus at the founding of the city, and it was thought that this statue protected the city. In the tenth year of the Trojan War the Greek heroes Diomedes and Odysseus stole the Palladium, thus facilitating the fall of Troy.
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Chris Altmann
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Post #43,259
6/23/02 5:35:28 PM
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However its connotations as a metallic element -
[link|http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Pd/key.html|Palladium] ..suggests other reasons for a Billy n' Bally to want to spin their scam into territory well beyond any demonstrated competence (so what else is new?) Palladium is a steel-white metal, does not tarnish in air, and is the least dense and lowest melting of the platinum group metals. When annealed, it is soft and ductile. Cold working increases its strength and hardness. It is used in some watch springs.
At room temperatures the metal has the unusual property of absorbing up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen. Hydrogen readily diffuses through heated palladium and this provides a means of purifying the gas. The opportunities for lampooning The Beast are just tooo numerous, no? .. does not tarnish in air
..the least dense and lowest melting
..Cold working increases its strength and hardness"" The most-dense Corp wants to - The most-tarnished Corp mates with - Cold-working the suckers is the method of spreading - Absorbs up to 900 times as much BS as any of our other press releases - "" :-\ufffd Ashton
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Post #43,701
6/27/02 7:53:25 PM
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'Pallad-ium' = "Statue of protective hero" - any relation...
...to 'Palad-in', "protective hero", yathink...?
Christian R. Conrad
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Post #43,263
6/23/02 6:47:47 PM
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I just read an article about the technology
...at [link|http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp|MSNBC].
My first thought was, Shit. This looks exactly like the SSSCA. Then I looked at the time frame, and figured that I would be willing to bet that work on the platform went ahead in October, but at a high level the design had been run through before that.
Then I read details, and got even more sure that that is exactly what this technology is. For instance the rewrite of the SSSCA, the CBPTA, had a term in there about open source. And here is a technology that does the same thing which..will have source code published so that people know they can trust it?
Either my paranoia is moving into an advanced phase, or I am getting confirmation of my earlier suspicions.
Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #43,301
6/24/02 10:36:07 AM
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That's an INCLUSIVE OR, isn't it...
Either my paranoia is moving into an advanced phase, or I am getting confirmation of my earlier suspicions. You're right...and so are you! ;-) jb4
"I remember Harry S. Truman's sign on his desk. 'The buck stops here.' Strange how those words, while still true, mean something completely different today." -- Brandioch
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Post #43,349
6/24/02 5:25:42 PM
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You + him?___Migawd - that makes SIX of us!
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Post #43,386
6/25/02 6:47:26 AM
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Erk, guilty as charged :-)
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #43,348
6/24/02 5:23:27 PM
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The Reg's delightful take
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25843.html|..on fanciful musings from the Insecure Company's wettest of dreams.]
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Post #44,307
7/3/02 1:49:52 AM
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Re: Levy's Palladium Poncing Printed in Newsweek yesterday
Just went to read the Reg article referenced in Ashton's link & realised they were talking about an item I read yesterday. I read the item when I bought Newsweek last night (2nd July here).
My first reaction was isn't it fascinating that the company mostly responsible for the mess steps forward as the great saviour. But the more I read I do feel that it is another of MS's opportunities to try & get control of business by claiming their goal is to fix security (bit like asking the burglar to guard your house).
Hmmmmm
Cheers
Doug
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Post #44,177
7/1/02 11:17:06 PM
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Cringely weighs in
[link|http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html|http://www.pbs.org/...0020627.html]
The average hunter gatherer works 20 hours a week.
The average farmer works 40 hours a week.
The average programmer works 60 hours a week.
What the hell are we thinking?
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Post #44,213
7/2/02 9:44:36 AM
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What's that they say about great minds?
From [link|http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html|your link]: Sometimes I'd rather be wrong. And from [link|http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=34967&cid=3780214|mine]: Sometimes I wish I was wrong ===
Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
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